to celebrate the 21st anniversary of their debut release, blur's classic follow-up album 'modern life is rubbish' has now been remastered from the original tapes by frank arkwright (the smiths, arcade ...

America didn’t welcome Blur with open arms, yet that distance between the country and the band inspired Albarn to write Modern Life Is Rubbish, an album instrumental in launching the Britpop era ...

Rowntree compares it to the environment that produced Modern Life Is Rubbish, the 1993 breakthrough that put Blur at the vanguard of that decade’s Britpop movement. “It was a different kind of ...

‘Obviously, we’ve been waiting for this moment all of our lives,’ Blur’s jubilant frontman Damon Albarn declared shortly after kicking off their first night at Wembley. These weren’t ...

Before that, a pause is called for to consider a time before their entrance and the codification of Britpop, to when their future chart rivals, Blur, were grappling with the concept of Englishness ...

Only two Blur albums are not represented here, and for different reasons: “Modern Life Is Rubbish,” the sophomore effort from 1993, because I find most songs from its follow-up, “Parklife ...

Blur’s ninth album, The Ballad of Darren, is out today, and the band’s landmark sophomore album Modern Life Is Rubbish turned 30 earlier this year. Where do those albums rank in the band’s ...

That experience informed Blur’s 1993 breakthrough, Modern Life Is Rubbish, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. In a new conversation as part of the Bose x SPIN‘s “Decades of ...

This 21st century version of Blur won't be as easy to pinpoint ... And, of course, modern life is rubbish — but if you ask Albarn, it can also be pretty good. "It feels great.

Although Blur are not generally considered a prog rock band, Prog magazine recently hailed the band's second album, Modern ...

Brexit is rubbish.” Blur’s second album – from 1993 – is called Modern Life os Rubbish. The band are promoting their eighth LP, The Ballad of Darren. “Brexit was a travesty and people ...

A bit of a controversial ranking for the band’s second album, as most would place ‘Modern Life is Rubbish’ higher up in Blur’s output. Written after a disappointing US tour that left the ...