Album Of The Day

So many better Brit bands, if they didn't do song 2 this band would have fall of to the waste side. WOO-HOO!!

I am looking for background music with these 1001 albums, I found this album to be background noise. Perhaps if I was in a different mind set at the time of listening my evaluation would be different.

You can tell the roots of what Blur would become are here, but the songs seem to really drag on - sometimes for an unnaturally and awkwardly long time - and very little of their later lyrical wit seems present. This is the sort of album that makes yanks think all of the UK's musical output is "alright guv'ner freshen yer wahter, stuff it down the chimney" I think this is one of those albums that's a lot more historically important for doing something new than actually a Good Album

As I understand, it's a classic of it's genre, which would pave the way for future british music, and I can kinda respect that. But it's not music that I usually enjoy and I felt that it kinda droned on, especially in the beginning. Most interesting songs for me were probably Chemical World, Villa Rosie and Resigned, which probably says more about my music taste than the album lol

Don't care for Blur, don't care for Oasis. Simple as. 4/10 Favourite track: N/A

Modern life is rubbish is rubbish

This is alright, but drags on a bit. The weird noise track halfway through is pretty off-putting. I feel like Britpop in general is just not really my jam

Tenk å lage et album på nesten to og en halv time, og likevel kommer ingen av låtene med som topp 10 på spotify. Det er imponerende det. Forsåvidt også at jeg hørte igjennom hele.

Completely boring album from a guy who has obviously done much better

rubbish

Detta var inte min grej, alldeles för "krånglig" musik för min smak. Vissa låtar hade ett gött sväng men detta var för långt ifrån musik som jag kan uppskatta. Dock är det roligt att de sjunger på brittiska.

Aggressively British. I think I mean that in a bad way. I mean, I do because I don't like it. It's not that it's actively bad, it's just not my style. Very repetitive. I like the weird circus like interlude in the middle of Chemical World. That's fun. Most songs are too long, bordering on jam-y for me. I would maybe like some of the songs if there were 2 mins long. I was kind of just waiting for it to be over.

Another selection that reveals a British bias for the nineties. I presume this because so many albums on this list seem to come from that time and place, highlighting (I suppose) the author's background as far as seminal musical influences. This is fine, but it leaves out my own biases for what is largely defined as Americana music. There are three albums by Blur on the list, NONE by Warren Zevon. That makes no sense to me.

I didn’t need this album to have a smash hit like “Song 2”, but the whole time I was begging for it to give me something, but it was just so uneventful. I guess given the title maybe they set out to make the album equivalent of your morning commute…

Boring and lame. This album is rubbish.

Guys... I don't think I like Blur. This is the second album that has left me to realise I just really like the ~6 songs I'd heard before. Both them and Oasis gave birth to the big indie rock/Britpop style that dominated in the 90's/00's that I never connected with.

Not quite

This album is a bit rubbish-ish

This album is rubbish 1.5/5

#726. About 2 hours of uninteresting moaning. 2/5: meh

Too British

I think I'm an Oasis guy.

Lame

A couple of good songs. But this was far too long, and much of it was very forgettable.

nope.

Careful and crafty, smarty and arty. But as per usual with BritPop (and this is like the sixth Blur we've had--what gives?) I just don't find the songs compelling. I want to want to make an effort, but it's just not happening.

Day614 - make it better or make it shorter. this hopefully will be the last blur album

Very British. From first impression of track one, I can definitely see where future project came from. 100% not for me. Was kinda painful to listen to

I do not understand the appeal of Britpop. Gave it an extra star for not being Oasis.

Blur the second. It’s more than a little self-aggrandising to categorise Britpop as a “must-hear” genre, but I’ll bite. I don’t recall liking their self-titled album all that much, which is unfortunate as I like Albarn for his work on Gorillaz. Maybe this one will be the one to win me over. Hmm. I like Albarn’s quirky vocal style, as always, but there’s a whole lotta nothing spliced between the better cuts of this album. The stylistic approach is pretty restrictive – there’s only so far you can go with these kinds of guitar riffs and sounds. However, on a more optimistic note these lyrics seem to be right up my alley. I may give this album a closer listen sometime in the future. “For Tomorrow” ain’t bad. I like Albarn’s vocals, and the guitar riffs near the middle of the song are pretty sweet. “Colin Zeal” has a good rhythm, and I enjoy the lyrics. I like the layabout energy of “Blue Jeans” - the weary instrumental sounds quite nice. No way! I knew the outro to “Chemical World” was a Blur song, but I wasn’t entirely sure. I like that bit of the track, though I don’t care much for the main song, admittedly. Gonna check the book. Considered Blur’s best by many. A time capsule of England during the 90s. Laid the groundwork for where Blur would go. Yeah, this seems to be a decent pick. It’s nuts to me that only the first Gorillaz album landed on the list (before being subsequently removed from later editions of the book). I can cosign this inclusion on the basis that the list can do with more Albarn representation.

Modern Life ain’t anywhere near as bad as this album

Blur have always gave me Thomas Skinner vibes. I’m just glad Thomas Skinner has come out of the woodwork to give me a fitting description of Blur.

At the time I was definitely more of an Oasis fan than a Blur one, but looking back, I can clearly see that I was wrong. Blur were the far more varied and interesting band. That said, this album seems a strange one to include on the list. Perhaps it's because it was at the very start of what became britpop, but it's mostly pretty poor with only For Tomorrow being any good. Popscene, Blur's best early song, isn't on the album, only the deluxe extended edition. Which again, is mostly filled with very average songs.

No real standouts for me…solid album

One of the most sarcasm baiting titles. ‘It’s not just modern life’. One blur album is enough and as song 2 isn’t on this, this isn’t it.

doesnt hit me as extraoridnary. I like some of their songs. ... but this album felt "brown"

... and so is this album. I'm sorry, that is a bit harsh, but these headlines just write themselves. I never really understood the cult of Blur. Some great singles, but over-rated albums. It's a British thing, isn't it? But it really is just an updated Kinks. Maybe you had to be doing coke in Camden in the 90s with the Britpop crew to really _get_ it. In fairness, I'm not British, and so the specific concerns of such an Anglocentric album don't really speak to me. I just want Damon Albarn to stop bleating and go away. (I do like the cover art, though. That's a cool train.)

Que pereza me ha dado

3/10 album is 10 songs too long, really stretching recording on a CD, it's good for 3/4 songs and then it drags with the same britpop style, second disc is arguably better with its variety

A nice listening of an 90's rock album but nothing more

Niet voor mij

Why does Robert Dimnery have such a hard on for Damon Albarn ffs?!? Favorite songs: Advert, Coping, Colin Zeal, For Tomorrow Least favorite songs: Pressure on Julian, Miss America 2/5

Eh!

Too long. C’mon guys.

This album is rubbish

I appreciate this, genuinely, for what it is. Honest, authentic 90s music in an era when there was so much bad music. This isn't bad, but it's also not very good. 2/5.

Modern life isn't rubbish, this album pretty much is though. Was expecting more and was left disappointed.

A bit boring. All the ingredients are there, just can’t bring myself to like how it’s all assembled.

After the first two songs, I don't think I can make it through an entire hour plus. I think Advert might be the best so far, but I don't care for the frizzy noise in production, would prefer it to be cleaner. Gotta admit for BritPop, not my thing, not bad. Wanted to like it but just didn't overall. They do have their own sound. If the remaster is this muddy, I hate to think what the original recording sounded like.

Two Blur albums in 1001 is maybe a little too much

I’ll admit to being biased from the get go because everyone I know who actually uses the term rubbish is a putz, but this tracked with my expectations on that front.

Rubbish

1. Fuck u for the siren sounds 2. it's whatever, but in a respectful way

Amateurish and repetitive at times. Like a combination of Oasis and The Cure but not really as good as either or doing their own thing.

bleh

Average 90’s Brit pop/tock. Not bad, but pretty forgettable and definitely not essential listening.

britpop is a hit or miss for me

I'd rather listen to Gorillaz

I listened to part of this before having to drive somewhere with my partner who refuses to be tormented by this list. Came back to it today at approximately where I remember leaving off? I don't hate Blur and the album was pretty catchy.

Prima

I just found this boring. I think I’d have a different take on this if I had been around to enjoy it the first time around, but I don’t think it’s aged that well and a few tracks in I was done with it all. I’ve never really listened to Blur beyond the obvious hits and on this listening I won’t be rushing back!

I do like Blur. This is not their best album. It feels a bit like an experiment. They clearly had not nailed it here. Some elements of the fun, energy and britishness are there but just badly composed. I would describe this as the most listenable bad album I have reviewed so far.

The sound of this album puts me in mind of an early 90's optimism, the start of Brit pop and "Cool Britannia". I was interested to find the vocals in the first half of the album sounded almost like pop-punk. The second half was more laconic. My issue with Blur is that they are just a bit bland. By halfway through the album I felt like I'd heard all it had to give.

it could be worse

I really want to like Blur, but I just don't. Almost like a less artsy but more experimental REM. And, oh my, this album is super long. The second disc is a bit better, but, by then, I am Blurred out.

Not fan

British alt-rock as it sounds in my head when I imagine any band from the 90s in the genre. It has a good feel to it but to me its more something that I leave on if it comes on the radio or on a random playlist than something I would actively listen to.

hmmm... ik heb al betere Britpop gehoord... zelfs van Blur zelve...

Forgettable

Just not very memorable

Being an American child (apologies for that given...everything now) at the time this came out, I was never really exposed to Blur much until they had already faded away. I knew Oasis, but Song 2 was literally the only Blur song I knew growing up. Even now, I can only name a handful. I guess that's all to say that as a kid growing up in the desert in the US, Blur didn't really make it that far, though I know they were much more popular elsewhere. This album? It's just kinda plain. I feel like this could have been any number of British pop rock bands in the early 90s. And I'm sure it was. Maybe it's just looking back 30 years later but nothing really sticks out for me. I've heard sooo much music that sounds just like this, there's nothing that makes me want to keep listening. Villa Rosie is kind of a weird high point for me, I liked that one. The rest? Meh. I can think of a lot of albums missing from this list that would have been a better pick than this one. I was going to round up because the album name is great, but it's now the next day and I can't even remember how any of the songs went. 2.5/5.

Screamo? Meh

I won't go for the low hanging fruit and call the album "rubbish;" however, at one point I wondered how far into the album I had gotten since it had been playing for quite some time, only to see that I was not quite done with the second song on the play list. It just got worse from there. . .

I grew up with Blur playing somewhere all the time and I never really got into it. However, I have never heard this album, Its giving me David Bowie vibes.

I gotta be honest: I listened to this and I cannot recall a single thing about it. Which I guess means it also wasn't terrible, but still.

Didn’t really grab me… never been that keen on early Blur

I knew what to expect from Blur. I was at the time this released pretty up-to-date on my Britpop/rock care of Bob. He was into Blur, and Oasis, and the rivalry between them. That said, I definitely am not a fan myself. I got into Pulp a bit around this time, but never found the love for Blur, even if I like some of the later stuff Damon did (Gorillaz)> This just felt like generic Britrock. There was nothing at all that stood out about this album, and having listened to it yesterday, I don't really have any of the songs still bouncing around in my head.

I didn't really know what to expect from Blur. I know them for 1 song, "Song 2" and I've tried to listen to some of their other stuff and I wasn't a huge fan. Basically, that's how I felt about this album too. It's just not exciting, it's not innovative, it just kind of exists. I think if someone said they liked this album, I'd understand, but I'd just disagree.

It's OK. It's Blur. It's arch and angular and a little bit too knowing for my palate.

A few good tracks

It was good in the 90s

Pretty good. Didn't blow me away and may not listen again.

Decent, all I can say really

Nah, this is really bland. Certainly their weakest

Thank god this guy started Gorillaz and turned this all around...

I can see how this would have been cool in 1993, but Blur has put out better stuff since this

Mitäs se tämä oli, ei innostanut kuin ehkä yksi kappale vähän enemmän?

prat < wanker < tosser < twat < knobhead

Not so interesting

they have better albums, got tired of this halfway through

Very meh for me. I guess I'm not really a fan of blur, at least when they are making brit-pop like this

Tried greatest hirs of blur cos i forgot what i ws suppossed to be listening to. Still don’t love them

It’s Britpop with shitty Albarn vocals, complete with intonated ‘o’s and a vague, cringy air of the popular side of British culture that I’m particularly averse to. There’s a general collection of interesting instrumentation, which never even attempts to stray into the far-reaching lands of above average, save for maybe the uncharacteristic drawn-out Oily Water. For Tomorrow is fun, if you can of course ignore Albarn’s ‘I’m definitely British, and this accent is for the ketamine-induced, bucket hat-wearing, football-brained 90s British crowd!’ accent. It’s not nearly as bad as the Mancunian counterparts with their senseless wailing. But it is still not any good. Keep it to yourselves, aforementioned 90s crowd. I don’t want any part of it.

Definitely is British pop rock

Listenable Brit pop. I liked the Suede record better. 2.5 stars

Meh. Swas'o.k.

Fairly uninteresting.

Blur isn't my thing. Bands that try to be too lyrically clever, sometimes at the expense of musicality simply don't do it for me. The drumming is particularly poor. 2/5.

Sounds like Blur with no good Blur songs.

OK album, but felt very long. Didn't listen to the whole second disc that Spotify had as part of the album as it was just extras and I didn't really enjoy this enough to continue listening to more. 2.5/5

I've already heard 3 or is it 4 Blur albums and have a hard time differentiating this from them. Goes without saying but too much BritPop

Mundane

Modern Life is Rubbish is... not rubbish ... but a lil' shrill. Blue Jeans was solid, but the pleasure was short-lived —the double-time piano in Chemical World was so irritating.

Fair to middling 90’s pop. There was so much better out there.

I feel like I had their other big album in this albums thing already, it's definitely that classic brit pop sound like Oasis and stuff. I don't hate Brit Pop but it gets kinda samey to me. I think I'm just crabby listening this morning because the British accents are really bothering me. TALK NORMAL. The harmonies and melodies are actually pretty cool, but like I said, so much of this brit pop stuff sounds so similar.

I guess I can see enjoying this until 1994 came around

The type of listen that really does *feel* it's length, which in this case is over two hours. You feel bored in the first 30 minutes, so the whole thing is just a total slog

2/5 A bit too much brit-rock without memorable tracks.

Too long, nowhere near as interesting as their other albums.

I feel bad because I love them but this is just not it man, they have better albums.

Uuuuh…di solito apprezzo o almeno tollero gli album dei Blur o il britpop in generale ma questo…è proprio fastidioso

due stracazzo di ore. non esiste.

Not my thing, unfortunately. Some songs were okay; some were very annoying. 2.5

I was not familiar with this album before listening. I really did not care for it. The vocals were somehow grating despite not really being able to put my finger on why. The instrumentation was fine, but not particularly noteworthy for the most part. I wouldn't come back to this one.

I didn't really care for it. BritPop is a struggle for me to enjoy.

A double album that really didnt need to be a double album, and the Maggie May cover was awful

So long.. I lost patience for this album before I even got halfway through.

Nothing engaging here.

This album is rubbish

Blur just doesn't do it for me.

There are FIVE fucking Damon Albarn albums across all editions of this list. The only one I enjoyed has been Gorillaz, and even that was hit or miss. He also managed to make Tony Allen sound like shit. There's no way he's equally as worthy of a listen as Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, nor indeed more worthy of a listen than The Kinks or Talking Heads, for fuck sake!

A blur.. nothing stood out

Meh. Trying to sound very much like The Clash but...eh. Miss America is good, due to the Gorillaz vibe. 2/5.

As I near a 75% completion of this project, I am just tired of all the very similar Britpop. And...a third Blur album on this project? Seems unnecessary and further lends to the assumption that many make about the creator of this list being overly horny for Britpop, but whatever. Turns out, yes, I liked this at least okay -- like I do most of the Britpop on here. But still. The album didn't really have any memorable moments, though. It was all just very mid. I'd give this about a 2.5.

Pretty bland.

Sorprendentemente no me gustó

Blur. Beim reinhören wurde mir sofort klar wieso ich ihren Stil mag aber Blur noch besonders. Zu gleichmässig sind die Songs

I think this band's sound is somewhere between Black Crows and Beatles. But the bad versions. That I couldn't tell if I liked them is telling and due to a lack of focus on their part. I have to say that some songs had that cool vibe. But the others lacked confidence.

It's not terrible.

Very inconsistently medium

**I thought a very repetitive album, most tracks sounded alike. I didn’t enjoy

Modern life may be rubbish, but this album was a bit rubbish as well.

bland and mids at best

Listened to the first CD and most of the second.. it was hard for me to enjoy this one, not my type of music. 2hrs of grungy jams is a lot to get through in one day.. they should have gave us this album on a Friday.

Meh

I'm still Team Oasis 30 years later, Modern Life Is Rubbish? Well, yeah, and so is this album...

So the first song was indeed, rubbish. I'd like to say I enjoyed what came next, but... Just not to my liking.

Not sure why more than one blue album is on this list yet here we are. If modern life is rubbish and this album was modern when it came out then that must mean this album is rubbish. Well it’s not completely rubbish but for Brit alt rock it’s not good enough. 5.1/10

Ei mitenkään erikoista. Mä odotin taas enemmän, mutta missään kappaleessa ei ollut oikein minkäänlaista tarttumapintaa. Kuin Oasis, mutta vähemmän iskevät kappaleet. Parhaat: For Tomorrow, Peach

Is this the one that beat Oasis? Who is this even for? Boooo.

This might be the most British sounding band of all time. Pretty boring album to be honest, there were no real parts that stood out to me. Nothing wrong with it but I was just waiting for it to be over pretty much from the start.

I want to make a rubbish joke because of the album title, but it’s not that bad. I do find it a little boring, although some of the tracks towards the end of the second disc are a little better.

Eh, nothing grabbed me on this one. It’s fine I guess. Made me appreciate the first Oasis album more.

Смотрел историю блюр, как они пытались перевернуть рок-сцену в юкей и ворваться в чарты us и в итоге совершенно не были поняты. Пора оценить самому как оно и чего. Ну я оценил. Rubbish как по мне, зачем оно здесь?

meh.

This is the album that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends. Some people started playing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue playing it forever, just because...2.4.

This album is rubbish

Hmmm, I guess I don't really like Blur. It was terrible, but it also really didn't give me any joy.

Blur after Suede is funny because same era and genre but this was rubbish compared to suede.

I base everything I know about Blur off of "Song 2" but now realize that song was an anomaly for the band. I can't put my finger on what specifically I can't stand about this band, but there is something.

Not that interesting. Found it hard to follow along and there were no songs that grabbed my attention. 2/5 Won’t listen again

This is a very British album that does not really do it for me. There were a few songs that stood out to me as being good though.

It was OK. Nothing really jumped out.

This album felt like it was really run-of-the-mill music without much depth. Hate to say it but it was just background music. I didn't hear anything that said play me again because I'm astonishing.

hear a little Madness influence maybe even REM. This album and band may have been playing all around me in the 90’s but I didn’t notice, their sound is bland and mundane.

Britpop. I am left very uncertain of this genre after hearing this album. I think it is supposed to be a thematic, concept album but most of the lyrics are, well, I am not sure what they are about..."Kazoo, kazoo"??? The last song, "Resigned", had sparse lyrics but the mood actually seems to tie into the concept. Just not a must listen for me....

Cool album cover and decent musicianship. But Damon Albarn is extremely irritating on this one. He's so punchable. Guess I'm not British enough to appreciate it.

Doesn’t excite me. For me, the listening experience switches between monotone and stressful. I think over the last weeks I realized that not everybody likes everything. It comes down to personal taste and preference. There might be some very influential albums but today we have the privilege to choose from a wide catalogue of records that not only includes all the 'classics' but everything that came after. I also think that if we limit ourselves to records that had the chance to evolve into pop culture (supported by the industry) we miss out on so many great artists and records. Going in the future I'll always be open and curious not only about music from the past but also about contemporary art. I think we have phenomenal upcoming artists (that did not break the surface yet). While I think it is important to expose yourself to all kinds of musical expression you should not force yourself to like something if you can't connect to it (atm). Ultimately, I want to stick to records that not only satisfy me for the moment or have reached high critical acclaim but records that fulfill me and make living on planet Earth even more exciting.

Having bought their first album some 35 years ago, I did have some hope that this might be a decent album. However, by a few songs in, those hopes were dashed. It seems they set out to make a power pop album, some 15 years after that was a thing. However, this album doesn’t seem to have a lot of power… or pop. The 14 turgid tunes go on far too long, rarely threatening to become interesting. Allegedly they were listening to and inspired by “Something Else“-era Kinks when they were writing/recording this album. Nope, don’t hear that either. I thought I might be giving it three stars after the first few songs; however, after this continued to drone on, the grade dropped to its current two stars. Wanted to dock it even further after having to watch the two videos on YouTube accompanying the albums singlesat the end of side one and beginning of side two. Really silly and terrible videos, the antithesis of what one should be doing with the format.

Decent, but no hits or hooks and super long album with a lot of filler.

Blur are rubbish

Nja. Aldrig hatat blur, men aldrig riktigt gillat. Skivan känns för experimentellt. Sången är inte bra. Musiken är inte melodisk. Vad finns kvar? Meh ..

Blur...pronounced bleuh.

slow and hard listen. being a double album made it worse. I enjopy some of the songs but as a whole this album as not a good listen.

Blue Jeans // Miss America // Resigned 2.5/5

2/5

Ég fílaði aldrei Blur neitt sérstaklega og þeir hafa ekker unnið á undanfarna áratugi. Þeir eiga einhver lög sem ég myndi hlusta á og ég myndi ekki slökkva á þeim í útvarpinu en þessa plötu myndi ég ekki setja aftur á í eyrna minna návist af því að mér fannst hún ekki skemmtileg

It's so weird that the singer is the singer in the Gorillaz. I'll always say that about Blur. This isn't a trainwreck but it doesn't really do anything in any direction. Some slightly interesting noise work and instrumental but not much going on. I don't know what's going on during Chemical World. I may be giving this 2 vs 1 largely due to the train on the cover.

Couple of goodish tracks but was surprised at how nothing this album was.

Blur have made better songs, better albums and Damon has gone on to do so much better, so listening to this was quite disappointing.

Some songs were OK, but overall very underwhelming.

Not their best. I very much enjoyed Park Life so I was hoping for more of the same but it didn't hit the same to me. F.Song: Advert

The singer makes my ears bleed for more than one song at a time.

A couple songs with interesting sounds but this is skipable

Blur has some good songs but this album was pretty boring.

I love Blur. Damon is a legend. This is not the one. There are a few great songs (For Tomorrow / Blue Jeans / Miss America) but it just sounds like 4 mid-20 year olds sat in a room trying to write a follow up album and not getting anywhere. They just sound so bored (which given the title of the album, might’ve been clever but it wears thin quickly)

Gear: Aür Audio Aurora Mische: naja Mugge: Modern Life Is Rubbish Is Rubbish Wertung: 1-2/5

Meh. Not a jangly pop kind of gal.

No. This album is rubbish.

Meh. OK, but kind of boring.

Super 90s British alternative pop. I didn’t hate it bit most songs sound similar and have odd progressions that just don’t jive with what my ear was hoping for. Vocals are not what I would call pleasant.

It's ok. I was not in to Blur back in the day. Still seems a bit boring to me.

Another britpop album that has no emotion or real depth to it. Drags on and doesn't really know when then the song. Definitely does not feel essential.

It’s ok

I strongly dislike Blur.

Hey, can you sound more British? Blur? More like Blah. 2 stars

Begynne å konkludera med at Blur ikke e for meg

They definitely have specific sounds but it makes every song sounds the same. I got fatigue from listening to this album. Forgot what day, time, year it is since every second of album sounds alike.

love blur, gonna be harsh, couple ok songs, overall one dimensional and a little uninteresting

L'aclamat segon treball discogràfic de Blur sempre m'ha semblat força sobrevalorat. 'For Tomorrow' és un gran tema... però per la resta és més l'ambient que s'aconsegueix amb el concepte que envolta el disc, des de la mateixa portada i títol, que el que cada una de les cançons aporta per si mateixa. No acostuma a ser gaire habitual que les bandes comencin editant treballs molt irregulars i millorin amb els anys, però aquest va ser exactament el cas de Blur. I aquí encara estaven en plena progressió

very meh i can see why this album is influential but its not my thing

Begynne å konkludera med at Blur ikke e for meg

Not for me, Clive.

Meh. Not even in the top 3 Blur albums

A decent alternative album. Nothing special or notable about it. Tracks I like: For Tomorrow Advert

Album is ok. Not my cup of tea buts fine as backround.

Aggressively ok. Boring like a lot of 90s rock. This is like the middle road of the era. A bit noisy and snarky with no real feelings apart from dejection and cynicism. I much prefer the romanticism and pop sensibility of the eighties (cure, smiths etc) or the more dynamic, fun and danceable rock of the aughts. This got some good lyrics though and I completely agree with the title and the thesis Damon Alburn delivers here.

Some tracks kinda hit, but some don't hit at all. Not my vibe. 2.5/5.

It's fine! I would never be mad if it came on, but I'm not having a lot of fun lol.

Ok album, this is my second or third Blur album, and I’ve found that the music and singing don’t click with me.

33 songs. 2hr18mins.... fuck. Way to overstay your welcome by about 28 songs.

This ain’t a bad album, but Blur have better albums on this list, I don’t think this one needs to be here. Although this does mean they get one over on Oasis with their 3 albums vs Oasis’s 2 albums on the list. But a 2-2 draw would of be a fairer result, in-line with their other Brit pop contemporaries Pulp, Suede and the Verve.

Not the limp-dicked whinefest I feared this was going to be. So for exceeding my exceedingly low expectations, I award them two participation trophies. 🏆🏆

some 90s pop rock that really.... blurred on by. ha ha ha. there isn't much I wanted to explore here. when the ending zinger came on I was viscerally worried that I'd have to listen to another tune. 2/5, with extra demerits for its length

I do like a few blur songs, but I don't think I can listen to an hour of it. It doesn't have any of their best bops on it either

A little samey in places, but every time I was starting to get a bit bored, it would start to move in a different direction. Dreamy pop with a nice mix of different styles taken from older musicians and also contemporaries. Hints of everyone from Bowie to Ray Davies. Probably somewhere between a 2 and 4 for me for the first disc. Then it seemed to get more rambling and boring the longer I listened and was actually horrified to find I was still in the first third of the second disc when I was hoping to be near the end. As the last disc rolled on things started to get worse and worse, awful covers, horrible filler, I wish they had just stopped at the end of the first disc to be honest. Two stars I guess.

So is a lot of this album

Can't stand Damon Albarn's whiny, sarcastic voice - like Graham Fellows'Jilted John, but without the humour. Also the odd/jerky timings and guitar and general dischordance gets on my nerves. It's just irritating.

Sounds like an early Bowie parody album. Thought I’d enjoy this as I love Albarns work both solo and Gorillaz but this album ain’t it

Rather boring. Not much to say about this to be honest. Will revisit possibly.

This double album wasn't not for me. It felt like I was listening to the same song on repeat for the 2 hours.

you know what ELSE is rubbish??

Listened twice, nothing stuck

The only Blur song I know is the “Wooo Whooo” song. This album is a little better but I’m surprised Blur has more than one album on the list.

This is very Anglocentric Britpop that just failed to resonate with me. No Woohoo here.

We’ve had blur albums before but I didn’t really remember them so this was kind of a clean slate and I didn’t really like it. The voice was obnoxious and I think it just made the rest of the album disappointing.

Med en titel som denna gör de recensionen alltför lätt...

Second album on this list by Blur and a doubling down for me that me and Blur don’t vibe. Maybe third time’s a charm at some point?

Ihan ok, ysärisoundi puree mutta jätti aika väliinpitämättömästi. Hitit Blurilla pelittää (For tomorrow oikein hyvä), muu menee yllättävän hitaaksi grungeksi.

Ajankuvaa: ysärillä rockin ja popin perinteiset sointuvaihdokset eivät ole tuntuneet tavallisista rock/pop-bändeistäkään riittäviltä. Mikä on ihan "ok" - mutta ei kannata odottaa yhdenmukaisen loisteliasta lopputulosta.

My immediate thought was “this is just The Kinks”. Sure, it’s not an exact replica, call them the modern (1993) version. My suspicions confirmed when reading about the album and learning how heavy an influence The Kinks were. To put it simply, five songs in, I was bored. There was nothing this album really had to offer. I was initially somewhat on board with a few songs sounding like The Kinks at first. I jumped ship when it became apparent this was the entire album. After reading they were threatened to be dropped by their label after their first release, I had to give it a listen. I cannot put myself into a label’s shoes to decide what makes a band droppable, but at least Leisure was something different. Still influenced by Brit pop, but not a complete Kinks ripoff to my ears. A friend pointed out they have that “WOOHOO!” song, and that’s a jam, so hopefully that album comes up later and I hear the good stuff. This is rubbish. Go listen to The Kinks.

Pretty average from Blur and this version is way too long at over 2hrs. They’ve done much better albums than this.

This album was "what if David Bowie was not as good?"

There are songs from blur that I really love, but this album is not for me. I can see the appeal, but I can't say that I enjoyed it

OK - nothing special here, didn't even recognise the singles

I like Blur well enough. This isn’t my favourite. I much prefer Parklife. This is a bit meh for my liking. For Tomorrow is the only takeaway from this album from me. And I do love a picture of a steam train. Which is about all I have to say on the matter. Pretend this is a 2.5.

man i just didnt vibe with it

Everything about this is so English sounding. I appreciated that it was more adventurous than some of the other stuff we listen to in a way that worked. It really do anything for me though when I listened. 2.5

More interesting than I thought it would be. Still not very interesting.

Wasn't into this one. Didn't hate it or anything, just didn't connect with it. I didn't like the production - it all sounded the same to me.

It was fine. Nothing stood out.

This is a decent album. Initially I didn't really like what I was hearing and didn't think I'd enjoy this album at all as it seemed that the first two tracks were supposed to be the more popular ones. The first track in general felt like a mediocre Kinks ripoff right from the opening chords. As the album went on I enjoyed it more but still not one that I'll probably come back to. I've never really gotten into Blur. I don't think they're bad, I just don't hear them doing anything that unique or groundbreaking. I actually think Damon Albarn has become a more interesting songwriter in Gorillaz and even by the later Blur album 1997 ST album. Standout Tracks: Star Shaped, Blue Jeans, Oily Water, Miss America, Turn It Up

I love that Blur is willing to go with whatever sound they feel like performing. This album just didn't do it for me.

Not really into this. It sounds pretty generic. There is just something about this album that makes it sounds low effort.

Boring

The thing we should all ask ourselves is how did the british successfully convince the entire world that they were the ones to emulate? This is an OK album, but nothing about it other than its british-ness stands out at all. 2/5

"Chemical World" is pretty interesting. Blur has just always been the less-interesting Gorillaz to me. I'm hoping I can leave that thought in the dirt somewhere, but this album doesen't really help much. I'm looking forward to listening to Parklife for sure though. 2

Not for me

Первая часть альбома понравилась, вторая уже надоедала, долго! но при этом первую часть альбома я может еще даже переслушаю! лучший трек:For tomorrow долгие треки такого жанра иногда слушать невыносимо тяжело.

I guess it’s okay? I liked some of their songs when I was younger. This album just didn’t do it for me right now.

Never really been a Blur fan

Sad without excitement

I stand by my previous comment that I don’t understand why Oasis and Blur are the Britpop bands to make it big when literally every other one I’ve heard is better. Mehtastic. D

The one before they got great and put their mark on the decade.

Found this instantly forgettable, much preferred the previous album on the list

A tad long and bit on the nose, innit bruv.

First half of this album was really good. Totally surprising. Then the horrible piano interlude happens and it turns into the Blur I hate. Oh well, half a fun experience.

Perustylsä. Mielenkiinto loppui kolmannen biisin jälkeen.

I sort of forgot I was listening to music during the record.

I am sick of blur already I cannot stand them. There are good songs on this album but I hate them and there stupid voices.

I love Blur, but I don't see any particular reason to include this particular album here.

The vocals just drag. I just dont like blur.

It was just okay.

Rubbish

Unfortunately, this album is rubbish.

The “meh” album I have ever heard.

I like Blur but did not like this album. Waaaay too long with loads of filler.

Another Blur album

From my relatively limited experience of Blur, the weakest album of theirs seems to have been the one to make this list. None of the songs grabbed me particularly and this passed me by in a bit of a - ahem - blur. Supposedly an epiphany, this was just a bit like modern life, as far as I was concerned.

Not my thing. Standard British Pop. Found myself getting bored and looking forward to it finishing.

A little too British for this Englishman

Fa fuck is this

Kinda bland and droaning. Currently a 3/5 Didn't desire much to go back to it. It's fine. I think I'm ending on a 2.5/5

... and so is this album. I'm sorry, that is a bit harsh, but these headlines just write themselves. I never really understood the cult of Blur. Some great singles, but over-rated albums. It's a British thing, isn't it? But it really is just an updated Kinks, Maybe you had to be doing coke in Camden in the 90s with the Britpop crew to really _get_ it.. And in fairness, I'm not British, and so the specific concerns of such and Anglocentric album don't really speak to me. (I do like the cover art, though. That's a cool train.)

Meh.

Very tempting to make a cheap joke referring to the album title, but I really don't care much for this record.

excellent title

For tomorrow and blue jeans are good. Not sure about the rest.

mais où sont les bons albums de Blur?

I wasn't into it 30 years ago and I'm still not into it now.

Pretty friggin meh

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

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