Blur - Oily Water - Modern Life is Rubbish "I was listening to a lot of the Pretty Things during that time, something about their visions made its way into the album, probably, definitely in Oily Water," said Coxon, more or less. So in addition to Kinks, My Bloody Valentine, Who, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Bowie, the more psychedelic Pretty Things also serve as musical references: the instrumental outro of Oily Water is lysergic and obsessive #blur30