Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur is a two-disc compilation album by Blur, released by EMI Records on 15 June 2009 (2009-06-15). Designed as a sampler for casual listeners, and with a greater focus on the band's career highlights rather than their hit singles, it is Blur's second retrospective collection, succeeding 2000's Blur: The Best Of and coincides with the band's 2009 reunion performances.
Video Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
Background
Spanning the breadth of Blur's recorded history from its inception, Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur features a larger sampling of material from 1993's Modern Life Is Rubbish (including the single-only "Popscene" from the same era) than on Blur: The Best Of, in addition to material from 2003's Think Tank, Blur's second most recent studio release, coming out before 2015's The Magic Whip.
Maps Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
Track listing
All songs written by Blur (Albarn/Coxon/James/Rowntree), except for "Out of Time" and "Good Song", which were written by Albarn/James/Rowntree.
Personnel
Musicians
- Damon Albarn - vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
- Graham Coxon - guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Coffee & TV", co-lead vocals on "Tender".
- Alex James - bass
- Dave Rowntree - drums
Other personnel
- Blur - Producer
- Jack Clark - Mixing Assistant
- Al Clay - Mixing
- Jason Cox - Engineer
- Tom Girling - Assistant Producer
- Stephen Hague - Producer, Engineer
- Ben Hillier - Producer, Mixing
- Jeff Knowler - Assistant Engineer
- Damian leGassick - Programming
- Steve Lovell - Producer
- Gerard Navarro - Assistant Engineer
- William Orbit - Producer, Engineer
- James Oliver - Design
- Steve Power - Producer
- Iain Roberton - Assistant Engineer
- Andy Ross - Engineer
- John Smith - Producer, Engineer
- Sean Spuehler - Programming
- Stephen Street - Producer, Engineer
Charts and certifications
References
External links
- Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
- Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur at Metacritic
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