Leisure
Album by Blur
Released	26 August 1991
Recorded	Summer 1990-Spring 1991
Genre	Indie/Alternative Rock
Length	50:13
Label	Food/EMI
Producer(s)	Steve Lovell, Steve Power, Stephen Street, Mike Thorne
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (2.5/5) link
Blur chronology
Leisure (1991) Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)

Leisure is the debut album by Blur, released in August 1991 and making # 7 in the UK. The US version of the album had some differences. The songs "She's So High", "There's No Other Way" and "Bang" were also released as singles. The US version differs from the UK slightly by frontloading the record with its biggest hits and swapping "Sing" for the UK B-side, "I Know". Image File history File links LeisureUK.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Blur is the name of a English rock band. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Summer is a season, defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July, and August, in the Northern hemisphere, and the whole months of December, January, and February, in the Southern hemisphere. ... This article is about the year. ... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... In popular music, indie music (from independent) is any of a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by (real or perceived) independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in producing, manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and sometimes video recordings (especially music videos), on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Stephen Street is a music producer best known for his work with The Smiths in the 1980s and Blur in the 1990s. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Blur is the name of a English rock band. ... Modern Life Is Rubbish is the second album by the British rock band Blur, released on May 10 1993. ... Blur is the name of a English rock band. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Released during the waning days of the Shoegazing period, Leisure was considered an album that was catching the end of a trend, as were Blur. But they would reinvent themselves with their second album, Modern Life Is Rubbish, in 1993. Shoegazing is a style of alternative rock that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. ... Modern Life Is Rubbish is the second album by the British rock band Blur, released on May 10 1993. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Track listing

All tracks written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree. Albarn singing in the video for Beetlebum Damon Albarn, born March 23, 1968 in Leytonstone, London, is a British vocalist and keyboardist who initially gained fame as the lead singer of rock band Blur. ... Graham Coxon singing in the video to Blurs Tender Graham Coxon (born Graham Leslie Coxon on 12 March 1969, in Hanover, West Germany) is best known as the former guitarist in the British band Blur. ... Alex James, 2003 James was part of The Idlers University Challenge team in 2005 Steven Alexander James (born on 21 November 1968 in Bournemouth, England), popularly known as Alex James, is the bass player in the band Blur, and one of the members of Fat Les. ... Dave Rowntree (born on 8 May 1964) is the drummer in the band Blur. ...

1. "She's So High" – 4:45
2. "Bang" – 3:36
3. "Slow Down" – 3:11
4. "Repetition" – 5:25
5. "Bad Day" – 4:23
6. "Sing" – 6:00
7. "There's No Other Way" – 3:23
8. "Fool" – 3:15
9. "Come Together" – 3:51
10. "High Cool" – 3:37
11. "Birthday" – 3:50
12. "Wear Me Down" – 4:49