Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
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| Greatest hits album by Blur | |||||
| Released | 15 June 2009 (UK) 28 July 2009 (US) |
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| Recorded | 1990 – 1998; 2002 | ||||
| Genre | Britpop, alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 107:46 | ||||
| Label | EMI | ||||
| Producer | Stephen Street, William Orbit, Ben Hillier, Steve Lovell, Steve Power | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (86/100) |
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| Pitchfork Media | (9.4/10) |
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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. 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.
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.
All songs written by Blur, except for "Out of Time" and "Good Song", which were written by Albarn/James/Rowntree.
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