Detailed item info | Track listing | 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
| | Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording type: | Studio | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording mode: | Stereo |
| | Album notes | Blur: Damon Albarn (vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Graham Coxon (acoustic & electric guitars, Moog synthesizer, percussion, tambourine, background vocals); Alex James (bass, hand claps); Dave Rowntree (drums, timpani, handclaps).Additional personnel: Kate St. John (oboe, cor anglais, soprano saxophone); Stephen Street (keyboards, drumbox, percussion); The Duke String Quartet, The Kick Horns.Producers: Steve Lovell, Blur, John Smith, Stephen Street.
| | Editorial reviews | Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - ...tears into a rough-and-tumble Kinksian landscape with gusto...a watertight package....
Q (01/01/1994)
Ranked #7 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993'
NME (12/25/1993)
(7) - Very Good - ...[MODERN LIFE] looks great...it's a London odyssey crammed full of strange commuters, Peeping Thomases and lost dreams...you can put those idiot Suede comparisons away now...
NME (05/08/1993)
...[MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH] is pleasant, non-threatening, and an awful lot of fun...
Alternative Press (11/01/1993)
...Blur brings some elan to this rite of passage, with riveting guitar work and more variety than on their 1991 debut, LEISURE....
Audio Magazine (02/01/1994)
Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - ...tears into a rough-and-tumble Kinksian landscape with gusto...a watertight package....NME (12/25/93, p.66) - Ranked #7 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993'NME (5/8/93, p.31) - (7) - Very Good - ...[MODERN LIFE] looks great...it's a London odyssey crammed full of strange commuters, Peeping Thomases and lost dreams...you can put those idiot Suede comparisons away now...Alternative Press (11/93, p.64) - ...[MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH] is pleasant, non-threatening, and an awful lot of fun...Audio Magazine (2/94, p.82) - ...Blur brings some elan to this rite of passage, with riveting guitar work and more variety than on their 1991 debut, LEISURE....
Q (01/01/1994)
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