Modern Life Is Rubbish

Modern Life Is Rubbish

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Blur's second album saw them finding their feet just before they suddenly went supernova. In songs like "Chemical World", they started developing the themes of everyday British life that would follow them to their Parklife era. "Sunday Sunday" provided its own blueprint for the Britpop scene, showing the traditional Sunday dinner with the family for what it really is ("You gather the family round the table and eat enough to sleep"), while "Advert" follows in the spirit of Blur's musical ancestors (art school punks and mods). "Blue Jeans", meanwhile, demonstrates that Damon Albarn has always had a talent for writing delicate, sad ballads. Modern Life Is Rubbish deserves to be heard, not only to show how much Blur changed over the years, but because it still stands up and holds its own against anything they came up with later in their career. --Emma Johnston

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Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish - CD

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When listening to Blur’s exploration and celebration of Englishness set against the perils of modernity and the McDonaldisation of our culture, try as one might it’s impossible not to think of The Kinks as people (amongst others) who’ve not only covered this ground before but made it so much their own. It rather feels as though Blur are trespassing on the property belonging to The Village Green Preservation Society. “Sunday Sunday” moves methodically down the checklist of quintessential English imagery; Sunday papers, roast lunch, dozing in front of the tele, a walk in the park, old soldiers, a brass band cameo and Songs of Praise. All very English to be sure but all very much done before. More worryingly perhaps, in this tour of Merrie England, the guide has a voice that sounds like Anthony Newley permanently pepped-up on helium. That said, there’s much to admire; strong grooves (Dave Rowntree’s Mooning about on “Oily Water” is especially effective) and Graham Coxon’s inventive chord work ambushes expectations. Their true metier though is on the likes of “Turn It Up”, an upbeat slice of lightweight but nevertheless joyous pop brimming with nonsense lyrics, neat hooks all coated with a gloopy dollop of blissed-out glee. Perhaps this was what the record company had in mind after they sent Albarn and co back to the writing room in order to conjure up something for the singles market. What they got was the fairground roustabout of “Chemical World” and “For Tomorrow” which cleverly reworks the exquisitely skewed melody line of “Villa Rosie” whilst scrounging Tony Visconti’s generic string textures, and the thudding motif from “Be My Wife” from Bowie’s Low. A bunch of diamond dog geezers to be sure. Such associations are not to accuse Blur of plagiarism. After all, pop music has always churned out facsimiles of itself, and in this respect Blur are no better or worse than most of the bands bobbing up and down at the time. Though it didn’t do half as well as 1991’s Leisure, it was the perfect set-up for Parklife. --Sid Smith Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window

Autor:Blur

Nośnik:Audio CD

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Język: English: Original Language; English

Data wydania: 1993-05-10

Waga: 0.22 gram

Wysokość: 0.5 cm

Szerokość: 4.9 cm

Długość: 5.6 cm

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