Blur
Modern Life is Rubbish - Food 1993
Tracks: 1. For Tomorrow/ 2. Advert/ 3. Colin Zeal / 4. Pressure On Julian / 5. Star Shaped / 6. Blue Jeans / 7. Chemical World / 8. Intermission / 9. Sunday Sunday / 10. Oily Water / 11. Miss America / 12. Villa Rosie / 13. Coping / 14. Turn It Up / 15. Resigned / 16. Commercial Break / 17. Popscene* / 18. Mace* / 19. Badgeman Brown* / 20. I'm Fine* / 21. Garden Central * / For Tomorrow* / 22. Into Another* / 23. Peach* / 24. Bone Bag* / 25. Hanging Over* / 26. When the Cows Come Home* / 27. Beachcoma* / 28. Chemical World (Reworked)* / 29. Es Schmecht* / 30. Young and Lovely* / 31. Maggie May* / 32. My Ark* / 33. Daisy Bell* / 34. Let's All Go Down the Strand*
Comments:
If you only know Blur from albums like "Parklife" and "The Great Escape", it is not impossible that at the first meeting with "Modern Life is Rubbish" you will find this album somewhat messy and incoherent – to a large extent this was my personal experience.
There are, of course, immediate similarities with the successor "Parklife", but somehow I get the feelng that the group does not want to conform to a classic songwriting formula; so that when pleasantly listening to a fine melodic stanza, this mood may immediately be broken with a new musical piece marked by distortion and quirky harmonies.
Most songs, though, will win at closer acquaintance, and you’ll realize that "Modern Life is Rubbish" is actually a great exciting album with many fine songs.
"For Tomorrow" can, for several reasons, be the number you first appreciate; partly because it is the opening track and partly being a catchy melodic song that could have fit in easily on "Parklife"
"Blue Jeans" is a fine subdued number - very melodic and a personal favorite.
Most of the other numbers may require a bit more listening before you can really take them in - unfortunately, for me, some are a bit too long. Eg. "Oily Water" and "Resigned", both of which start really well, end up being longwinded and annoying.
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