Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur is a two-disc compilation album by Blur, released by EMI Records on . It is Blur's second retrospective collection, succeeding 2000's Blur: The Best Of and coincides with the band's 2009 reunion performances.
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.
Track listing All songs written by Blur (Albarn/Coxon/James/Rowntree), except for "Out of Time" and "Good Song", which were written by Albarn/James/Rowntree.
Personnel Musicians Damon Albarn – vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar Graham Coxon – guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Coffee & TV", co-lead vocals on "Tender" (not featured on "Out of Time" or "Good Song") 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
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts ChartPositionJapanese Oricon Albums Chart66UK Albums Chart20
Certifications
References
External links
Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)