Focusing in with Blur

Focusing in with Blur is an album by British rock band Blur, released in 1991. The album is a 12-track album of interviews with the band about their career and their 1991 debut album, Leisure, the band's only album released prior to Focusing in with Blur. The album was only released on CD and cassette as a promo to US radio stations, giving it similarities with another radio-only music and interview album, Blur: The Best of...The Radio Show.

Track listing

The track listing is somewhat wrong. The back cover states tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 as being song excerpts, and tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 being interviews. Actually, the even-number tracks are the excerpts and odd-number tracks are interviews. In fact, the entire album is set up as a consecutive 25-minute feature and each track featured both musical and spoken elements, aside from the spoken-only track 5.

The back cover track listing is as follows:

1. "Bang" (Excerpt)
2. Interview
3. "There's No Other Way" (Excerpt)
4. Interview
5. "She's So High" (Excerpt)
6. Interview
7. "Bad Day" (Excerpt)
8. Interview
9. "High Cool" (Excerpt)
10. Interview
11. "I Know" (Excerpt)
12. Interview

Personnel

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• Damon Albarn (vocals, interview, song writer)
• Graham Coxon (guitar, interview)
• Alex James (bass, interview)
• Dave Rowntree (drums, interview)
• Mike Mena (interview conductor)
• Jeff Panzer (producer)
• Matt Kane (assistant producer)
• Marc Graue (editor, album produced at his recording services)
• Steve Lovell (producer on "She's So High" and "I Know")
• Steve Power (producer on "She's So High" and "I Know")
• Stephen Street (producer of "Bang", "There's No Other Way", "High Cool" and "Bad Day")

References