Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
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 than on Blur: The Best Of, in addition to material from 2003's ''Think Tank.''Track listing
All songs written by Blur, 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"
- 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