Description
blurs are one of the most successful bands and influence in the united kingdom having in their career 20 singles that reached the top 20 and 5 albums that reached the 1st place of the top sales of their home country. now spend 21 years on the edition of their first album of leisure title that the group celebrates with the re-editing of all their remastered and expanded discography with unpublished material in editions in cd, vinyl and digital. to complete the re-edition plan is also edited a box that brings together all your albums in vinyl and another box that joins the integral of your work, a dvd and abundant unpublished material and rarities.
Modern life is rubish edition in the double cd format that includes the original remastered cd and an extra cd that includes, among others, popscene, a theme recorded in the same sessions of the album but never came to be included in its alignment. also includes the b sides of the singles for tomorrow and the chemical world, several expanded and re-recorded versions and a cover of? Maggie may, the classic of rod stewart. complete the extra cd the b side of the sunday popular sunday community song (official title of the single ?the sunday sunday,) the version of daisy bell and Let?s all go down the strand.
available in a luxury box that includes 4 postcards with unique blur designs, an expanded booklet with unreleased photos and texts based on a recent interview given by the band.
Artist
Alternative Rock (Modern Rock) band from London (England).
Blur formed in 1989 as Seymour in Colchester, composed of Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon (1989-2002, 2009- ), Alex James (2), and Dave Rowntree.
Blur's early releases (the singles "There's No Other Way", "Bang", "She's So High", "I Know", and the album "Leisure") were considered indie or alternative rock, heavily influenced by the danceable rhythms of "baggy" bands like The Stone Roses and noisepop bands like My Bloody Valentine, with strains of weirder ideas running throughout, like Syd Barrett (this was often more readily apparent on several single B-sides, where the group let loose its more atavistic, dark side). By 1992, the group was keen on reinventing themselves with a newer, smarter sound and sense of purpose, eschewing the sounds that were coming out of the U.S. specifically, and returning to a retro spectrum of British rock and pop music: British Invasion groups, Mod groups, Psychedelic Rock, even nostalgic music from World War II. They released their second album, "Modern Life Is Rubbish", in 1993, to moderate success and began attracting attention for their stubborn determination to lead Britain out of the miasma that was the grunge years.
Building on the qualified success of "Modern Life Is Rubbish" and its accompanying singles, and aided by groups like Suede, Blur rolled out the carpet for the Britpop cultural movement that would all but engulf the UK for two years, releasing in 1994 what was essentially seen by the general public as the Britpop flagship album, "Parklife". Everything changed culturally, and Blur was riding the crest of that cultural wave. Following rapidly on the heels of the tipping point that was "Parklife", the group's 1995 album "The Great Escape" was a vividly nervy and somewhat cartoonish version of the same formula. It left the group with a hangover that it determined it could only cure by taking several steps back from the Britpop sound and culture. The group re-embraced America, digging into influences like Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., The Pixies.
By the time Blur's fifth studio album, "Blur", came out in 1997, the group had all but severed ties from Britpop and were returning to the same noisy, somewhat spastic experimentalism that was a hallmark of their pre-Blur early days in the late 1980s as a indie artrock group Seymour, only this time the music informed by a broader range of influences. Subsequent albums "13" and "Think Tank" further increased the group's distance from Britpop, eventually encompassing a great diversity of sounds and influences from all over the globe. On February 19, 2015, Blur made a surprise announcement that they'd finished a new album, "The Magic Whip", to be made available to the public on April 25, 2015, and also released a new song, "Go Out".
Noteworthy live & session members:
Wayne Hernandez: lead vocalist with backing choirs since 1997
Simon Tong: guitarist; replaced Coxon for 2003–04 tour
When marked as a copyright holder, use Blur (2).
Tracks
1-1
For Tomorrow
04:18
1-2
Advert
03:43
1-3
Colin Zeal
03:14
1-4
Pressure On Julian
03:30
1-5
Star Shaped
03:25
1-6
Blue Jeans
03:53
1-7a
Chemical World
04:02
1-7b
Intermission
02:27
1-8
Sunday Sunday
02:36
1-9
Oily Water
04:59
1-10
Miss America
05:34
1-11
Villa Rosie
03:54
1-12
Coping
03:23
1-13
Turn It Up
03:21
1-14a
Resigned
05:13
1-14b
Commercial Break
00:56
2-1
Popscene
03:15
2-2
Mace
03:26
2-3
Badgeman Brown
04:48
2-4
I'm Fine
03:01
2-5
Garden Central
05:58
2-6
For Tomorrow (Visit To Primrose Hill Extended)
06:01
2-7
Into Another
03:57
2-8
Peach
03:57
2-9
Bone Bag
04:03
2-10
Hanging Over
04:30
2-11
When The Cows Come Home
03:50
2-12
Beachcoma
03:38
2-13
Chemical World (Reworked)
03:44
2-14
Es Schmecht
03:35
2-15
Young And Lovely
05:04
2-16
Maggie May
04:08
2-17
My Ark
05:57
2-18
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Made For Two)
02:49
2-19
Let's All Go Down The Strand
03:43
Releases
Formats
CD, CDr, Cassette, Vinyl
Labels
EMI, Parlophone, Music World , Food, Food , EMI Music Canada, SBK Records, Not On Label (Blur), ERG, Rock Music Records Co.
Countries
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Republic of, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Russian Federation, Thailand, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe, Taiwan, UK & Europe
years
1993, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2012, 2013
Members
Damon Albarn,Graham Coxon,Dave Rowntree,Alex James (2)
