Blur - Colin Zeal - Modern Life is Rubbish "It's one of our best albums. English music had become a farce and we were reacting to this situation; we had improved quite a bit as musicians and we were pushing hard in this direction. We didn’t want to make heavy rock, with blues scales and dark lyrics, which is what everyone else was doing; we were trying to make the records that we really liked" Graham Coxon on the masterpiece that #uscivadomani.