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

15 June 2009. Designed as a sampler for casual listeners, and with a greater focus on the band's career highlights rather than their hit singles, it is Blur's second retrospective collection, succeeding 2000's Blur: The Best Of and coincides with the band's 2009 reunion performances.

Disc one

 * 1) Beetlebum (from Blur) – 5:04
 * 2) Girls & Boys [Single Edit] (from Parklife) – 4:19
 * 3) For Tomorrow [Visit to Primrose Hill Extended Version] (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) – 6:00
 * 4) Coffee & TV [Single Edit] (from 13) – 5:19
 * 5) Out of Time (from Think Tank) – 3:52
 * 6) Blue Jeans (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) – 3:53
 * 7) Song 2 (from Blur) - 2:02
 * 8) Bugman (from 13) - 4:51
 * 9) He Thought Of Cars (from The Great Escape) - 4:16
 * 10) Death Of a Party [7" Remix] (from Blur) – 4:15
 * 11) The Universal  (from The Great Escape) - 3:59
 * 12) Sing (from Leisure) - 6:01
 * 13) This Is a Low (from Parklife)

Disc two

 * 1) Tender (from 13) - 7:42
 * 2) She's So High [7" Edit] (from Leisure) – 3:50
 * 3) Chemical World [Single Edit] (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) – 3:53
 * 4) Good Song (from Think Tank) – 3:06
 * 5) Parklife (From Parklife) – 3:07
 * 6) Advert (from Modern Life Is Rubbish) – 3:44
 * 7) Popscene (from Popscene single) – 3:15
 * 8) Stereotypes (from The Great Escape) – 3:11
 * 9) Trimm Trabb (from 13) – 5:37
 * 10) Badhead (From Parklife) – 3:28
 * 11) Strange News from Another Star (from Blur) – 4:03
 * 12) Battery in Your Leg (from Think Tank) – 3:20

Trivia

 * The compilation tries to serve as an honest and ecclectic introduction to the band. Many hit singles (such as "Charmless Man", "Country House" and "There's No Other Way") were left out of the compilation and replaced with the album tracks that are more valued by the band and fans.
 * Curiously, the design concept of the album is directly copied from Beginner's Guide To series by Nascente records. The cover design is indentical to Beginner's Guide To Africa (starring Damon's collaborators Amadou & Mariam and Bassekou Kouyate, among other).