Chemical World
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| Single by Blur | ||||
| from the album Modern Life Is Rubbish | ||||
| B-side | "Maggie May" (7") "Es Schmecht", "Young & Lovely", "My Ark" (12") "Never Clever" (live), "Pressure On Julian" (live), "Come Together" (live) (CD1) "Young & Lovely", "Es Schmecht", "My Ark" (CD2) |
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| Released | 28 June 1993 | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, CD | |||
| Recorded | Feb 1993 | |||
| Genre | Britpop, neo-psychedelia | |||
| Length |
4:02 (UK album version) 3:53 (Radio edit) 3:45 (Reworked/US album version) |
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| Label | Food | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree | |||
| Producer(s) | Stephen Street, Blur, Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley, Steve Lovell | |||
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| "Chemical World" on YouTube | ||||
"Chemical World" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur, featured on their second album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993).
The single was released in the UK on 7" and 12" vinyl and two CDs. CD1 and the 12" featured the reworked demo version while CD2 and the 7" featured the Stephen Street version (in edited form on the 7").
The 12" and CD2 feature three exclusive tracks "Young & Lovely", "Es Schmecht" and "My Ark". "Young & Lovely" was hailed as one of the greatest "lost tracks" by Q in 2007.
CD1 features three tracks recorded live at Glastonbury Festival 1992. The song "Never Clever" had not been previously released. It was originally intended as the follow-up to Blur's fourth single, "Popscene". However, the commercial death of "Popscene" prompted those plans to be abandoned. The studio version of "Never Clever" was eventually released on a promo CD to celebrate Food Records' 100th release in 1997.
The 7" vinyl has a cover version of Rod Stewart's "Maggie May", which had been recorded for and was first released on Ruby Trax, a 1992 triple album compilation of cover versions issued by the NME on its 40th birthday. It was also featured on Blur's The Special Collectors Edition in 1994 along with "Es Schmecht".
It was released on 28 June 1993 as the second single from that album, equalling their previous release "For Tomorrow" at number 28 in the UK Singles Charts. In the United States, the song reached number 27 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming the only single from Modern Life Is Rubbish to chart there.
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