Happy 30th Blur-day Modern Life Is Rubbish!

On May 10^th 1993 Blur’s second (and make or break) album, Modern Life Is Rubbish was released in turn helping to kick start arguably one of the most fertile and fun musical movements of my brief lifetime, ‘Britpop’. I've heard Modern Life Is Rubbish being referred to as a bit twee before now but some of the stuff on there, like Advert, clearly points to Blur's post Britpop anthem Song 2. 

And then there's the instrumental pub piano insanity of Intermission...cor blimey...

The album's title strikes a chord too, even more so these days. As a recently turned 53 year old the world I grew up in seems like a different but infinitely better planet. Sure it was harder to access music, film, literature etc etc but that made it more special. And don't get me started on 'smart' phones. Is there a sadder sight than watching couples sitting in a pub totally ignoring each other and glued to whatever the hell they watch or read on the internet? Or people walking down a country lane ignoring the beauty of nature in favour of a bloody video of it? Or rows and rows of boarded up shops, each one representing the loss of dozens of jobs, not to mention the opportunity to, you know, actually talk to someone in the REAL world? Nope. I don't think there is. But then again I'm ancient. Anyway...happy Blur-day Modern Life Is Rubbish!