Blur - Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
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Artist: BlurEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Published: 2009-06-12
CD Release Date: 2009-07-28
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Beetlebum
- Girls And Boys (7'' Mix)
- For Tomorrow (Visit To Primrose Hill Extended)
- Coffee And TV (Radio Edit)
- Out Of Time
- Blue Jeans
- Song 2
- Bugman
- He Thought Of Cars
- Death Of A Party
- The Universal
- Sing
- This Is A Low
- Tender
- She's So High (Single Version)
- Chemical World
- Good Song
- Parklife
- Advert
- Popscene
- Stereotypes
- Trimm Trabb
- Bad Head
- Strange News From Another Star
- Battery In Your Leg
Music reviews of Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
Music Review: THERE'S NO OTHER WAY
Rating: 4 Stars
Howdy Ya'll--
Cousin Bobby here to tell ya 'bout Blur.
This 2 cd collection contains most of Blur's best songs, as I said
most--the set does not contain "There's No Other Way", "Country House" (no loss)
"Charmless Man" and "End Of The Century".So you'll have to pony up
some more dough to get those songs.
Better yet you're better off with the "Best Of Blur"--
a 2 cd set that came out ages ago. It's probably alot
more cheaper than this set. But more about Blur.
Blur are one of the better Brit-Pop bands of the early-mid 1990's.
Big enough they had a "war" of singles with Oasis that made the newspapers.
For a time, Blur actually outsold Oasis in their home country
but never made it big over in America, unlike Oasis.
Bands like Blur are a throw back to the
Mod bands of the 60's and their songs don't always translate well across the Atlantic.
Mod bands from the 60's like The Small Faces barely made a dent over here,
the Kinks faded away for awhile when they did their Mod music
and the Who didn't really make it big until the album
"Tommy" and by then they sounded like a totally different band than the one that
recorded "Magic Bus" and "Pictures Of Lily".
Sure it's nice these bands sing about Englands problems, like Blur does on a
trio of classic albums-"Modern Life Is Rubbish", "Parklife", and "The Great Escape",
but outside of England does anyone care ?
Don't get me wrong, I like Blurs music very much but it's easy to see why
they didn't make it over here in America.
In one of the more ironic moments in music, Blurs most
popular song over in America is "Song 2; which in itself
was a satire of the American grunge movement and a big departure of their
signature sound. Of course the Brit-Pop movement was an answer/rebuttal
to the American Grunge movement and Blurs big American movement
was essentially doing a grunge like song.
I would recommend the Best of Blur over this set as that
2 cd set seems more complete. If your interested in the best single cd then go for
"Parklife" which captures Englands mood at the time probably better than
any cd, or at least as good as Pulp's "Different Class"
Blur may have won the battle with Oasis but eventually lost the war.
Just goes to show ya, people don't want to hear about Englands problems
they want to hear about sex, drugs and rock and roll- so it should be no surprise
that Oasis became bigger.
Cousin Bobby
Description of Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
2009 two CD collection from the Britpop legends, released to coincide with their 20th Anniversary and reunion tour. Midlife: A Beginners Guide To Blur is a unique collection of the best songs from the band's career to date. Standing separate from Blur's previous Best Of, Midlife represents a comprehensive collection of their biggest hits and favorite album tracks. The tracklist has been hand-picked by the band and offers a deeper look into the group's entire musical output, across two discs. 25 tracks including 'Song 2', 'Girls & Boys', 'Sing', 'Parklife', 'The Universal', 'Beetlebum' and 'Popscene', which was originally released in 1992 as a non-album single and unavailable since. EMI.Alternative Rock CDs
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