Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur

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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.

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

• Damon Albarn – Vocals, keyboards, guitar.
• Graham Coxon – Guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on Coffee and TV and Tender.
• Alex James – Bass
• Dave Rowntree – Drums

Other personnel

• Blur – Producer
• Jack Clark – Mixing Assistant
• Al Clay – Mixing
• Jason Cox – Engineer
• Tom Girling – Assistant Producer
• Stephen Hague – Producer, Engineer
• Ben Hillier – Producer, Mixing
• Jeff Knowler – Assistant Engineer
• Damian leGassick – Programming
• Steve Lovell – Producer
• Gerard Navarro – Assistant Engineer
• William Orbit – Producer, Engineer
• Jeremy Plumb – Art Direction, Design
• Steve Power – Producer
• Iain Roberton – Assistant Engineer
• Andy Ross – Engineer
• John Smith – Producer, Engineer
• Sean Spuehler – Programming
• Stephen Street – Producer, Engineer
• Greg Williams – Photography