Modern Life Is Rubbish [Special Edition]

According to Damon Albarn, Modern Life Is Rubbish was started shortly after Blur’s first ever tour of America.

When I first went to America with Blur it was a very alien place and it had a massive affect on us in a way and we came back and made Modern Life Is Rubbish… It was kind of a prophetic vision of what England would become in the near future. You could see all that stuff that would transform England into something else. It wasn’t maybe what Britpop turned into, as a sort of celebration of all things. It was sort of imagining the near future and the transformation of our culture.