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 June 15, 2009. 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 (including the single-only "Popscene" from the same era) than on Blur: The Best Of, in addition to material from 2003's Think Tank.

Track listing
All songs written by Blur (Albarn/Coxon/James/Rowntree), except for "Out of Time" and "Good Song", which were written by Albarn/James/Rowntree.

Musicians

 * Damon Albarn – vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
 * Graham Coxon – guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Coffee & TV", co-lead vocals on "Tender" (not featured on "Out of Time" or "Good Song")
 * 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