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'''''Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur''''' is a two-disc [[compilation album]] by [[Blur (band)|Blur]], released by EMI Records {{start date|2009|06|15}}. Designed as a sampler for casual listeners, and with a greater focus on the band's career highlights rather than their hit singles, it is Blur's second retrospective collection, succeeding [[2000]]'s ''[[Blur: The Best Of]]'' and coincides with the band's 2009 reunion performances.<ref>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-26-2009/0005032407&EDATE=</ref>
'''''Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur''''' is a two-disc [[compilation album]] by [[Blur (band)|Blur]], released by EMI Records {{start date|2009|06|15}}. Designed as a sampler for casual listeners, and with a greater focus on the band's career highlights rather than their hit singles, it is Blur's second retrospective collection, succeeding [[2000]]'s ''[[Blur: The Best Of]]'' and coincides with the band's 2009 reunion performances.<ref>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-26-2009/0005032407&EDATE=</ref>. It charted #20 at UK Albuns.


==Background==
==Background==

Revision as of 22:33, 23 June 2009

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Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur is a two-disc compilation album by Blur, released by EMI Records June 15, 2009 (2009-06-15). Designed as a sampler for casual listeners, and with a greater focus on the band's career highlights rather than their hit singles, it is Blur's second retrospective collection, succeeding 2000's Blur: The Best Of and coincides with the band's 2009 reunion performances.[3]. It charted #20 at UK Albuns.

Background

Spanning the breadth of Blur's recorded history from its inception, Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur features a larger sampling of material from 1993's Modern Life is Rubbish (including the single-only "Popscene" from the same era) than on Blur: The Best Of, in addition to material from 2003's Think Tank, Blur's most recent studio release.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Beetlebum" - 5:04
  2. "Girls & Boys" - 4:19
    • Edit
  3. "For Tomorrow" - 6:00
    • Visit to Primrose Hill Extended
  4. "Coffee & TV" - 5:19
    • Radio Edit
  5. "Out of Time" - 3:52
  6. "Blue Jeans" - 3:53
  7. "Song 2" - 2:01
  8. "Bugman" - 4:51
  9. "He Thought of Cars" - 4:16
  10. "Death of a Party" - 4:15
    • 7" Remix
  11. "The Universal" - 3:59
  12. "Sing" - 6:01
  13. "This Is a Low"- 5:00

Disc two

  1. "Tender" - 7:42
  2. "She's So High" - 3:50
    • Edit
  3. "Chemical World" - 3:53
  4. "Good Song" - 3:06
  5. "Parklife" - 3:07
  6. "Advert" - 3:44
  7. "Popscene" - 3:15
  8. "Stereotypes" - 3:11
  9. "Trimm Trabb" - 5:37
  10. "Badhead" - 3:28
  11. "Strange News From Another Star" - 4:03
  12. "Battery In Your Leg" - 3:20

Personnel

Musicians

Other personnel

References

  1. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/21/blur-release-comeback-compilation
  2. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/05/27/news-ticker-james-brown-meg-white-steven-tyler-blur/
  3. ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-26-2009/0005032407&EDATE=


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