Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur

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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.

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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.

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Track listing

All songs written by Blur, except for "Out of Time" and "Good Song", which were written by Albarn/James/Rowntree.

Disc one

1. "Beetlebum" (from Blur) - 5:04
2. "Girls & Boys" [Single Edit] (from Parklife) - 4:19
3. "For Tomorrow" [Visit to Primrose Hill Extended Version] (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) - 6:00
4. "Coffee & TV" [Single Edit] (from 13) - 5:19
5. "Out of Time" (from Think Tank) - 3:52
6. "Blue Jeans" (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) - 3:53
7. "Song 2" (from Blur) - 2:02
8. "Bugman" (from 13) - 4:51
9. "He Thought of Cars" (from The Great Escape) - 4:16
10. "Death of a Party" [7" Remix] (from Blur) - 4:15
11. "The Universal" (from The Great Escape) - 3:59
12. "Sing" (from Leisure) - 6:01
13. "This Is a Low" (From Parklife) - 5:00

Disc two

1. "Tender" (from 13) - 7:42
2. "She's So High" [7" Edit] (from Leisure) - 3:50
3. "Chemical World" [Single Edit] (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) - 3:53
4. "Good Song" (from Think Tank) - 3:06
5. "Parklife" (From Parklife) - 3:07
6. "Advert" (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) - 3:44
7. "Popscene" (from Popscene single) - 3:15
8. "Stereotypes" (from The Great Escape) - 3:11
9. "Trimm Trabb" (from 13) - 5:37
10. "Badhead" (From Parklife) - 3:28
11. "Strange News from Another Star" (from Blur) - 4:03
12. "Battery in Your Leg" (from Think Tank) - 3:20

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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

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Charts and certifications

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References

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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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