Modern Life Is Rubbish

Cassette Kids Uprising Reviews

View Author

jason-cobb

A decent bridge between Blur's debut and Parklife. Modern Life is the sound of the band in transition. They managed to ditch the baggy sound they had been lumped in with, and started to develop as songwriters. The comparisons with The Kinks are obvious, both in subject matter and style. The singles of course stand out. For Tomorrow, Chemical World and Sunday Sunday are Student Indie Disco defined. A great album to drink pints of cherry brandy and cider to.

4

View Author

boombox-generation

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.

2