Blur To Release New Career Spanning Compilation

Blur have announced details of a new 'Greatest Hits' compilation that will be released in the US laster this year.

The album, entitled 'Midlife: A Beginners Guide To Blur', is set to be released via Capitol/EMI on July 28.

It will coincide with the band's return to live duties which begin with a intimate show at the East Anglian Railway Museum on June 13.

Encompassing 25 of the bands most well known tracks across two CDs, the album will also contain the track 'Popscene' – a single from 1992 which has long been deleted.

The track listing is:

CD 1:

1. Beetlebum
2. Girls & Boys
3. For Tomorrow
4. Coffee & TV
5. Out Of Time
6. Blue Jeans
7. Song 2
8. Bugman
9. He Thought Of Cars
10. Death Of A Party
11. The Universal
12. Sing
13. This Is A Low

CD 2:

1. Tender
2. Shes So High
3. Chemical World
4. Good Song
5. Parklife
6. Advert
7. Popscene
8. Stereotypes
9. Trimm Trabb
10. Badhead
11. Strange News From Another Star
12. Battery In Your Leg

(by Daniel Melia)

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