At a glance
- Artist
- Blur
- Released
- 10 May 1993
- Label
- Parlophone
- Catalogue number
- 0777 7 89442 2 5
- Format
- CD
- Country
- UK
- Tracks
- 14, 58:55
In the issue
Britpop
Go deeper · 1992-1997
Made under threat of being dropped by Food Records, this was Blur's turn toward British guitar pop in the line of the Kinks and the Small Faces, with brass, woodwind and backing vocalists. It only reached number 15, but the music press applauded its Anglocentric stance, and it opened the run that continued with Parklife and The Great Escape.
Listen
Find a copy
The original cd: Parlophone 0777 7 89442 2 5, 1993.
Track list
- 1For Tomorrow4:20
- 2Advert3:45
- 3Colin Zeal3:16
- 4Pressure on Julian3:32
- 5Star Shaped3:27
- 6Blue Jeans3:55
- 7Chemical World / Intermission6:34
- 8Sunday Sunday2:38
- 9Oily Water5:01
- 10Miss America5:35
- 11Villa Rosie3:55
- 12Coping3:25
- 13Turn It Up3:22
- 14Resigned / Commercial Break6:11
The label
Parlophone
London · Tony Wadsworth · Britpop
Released Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish and Supergrass's I Should Coco, the latter the label's best-selling debut album since the Beatles' Please Please Me. Parlophone's Tony Wadsworth was involved in the decision, alongside Food and Blur's camp, to release 'Country House' on the same day as Oasis's 'Roll with It'.
More by Blur in the issues
- Parklife1994
- The Great Escape1995