Advantages: too many, it's sublime from start to finish Disadvantages: NONE
...10/10
4. Parklife (3:05) -
This is the first Blur track that I truly loved when I first heard it. More so than 'Girls and Boys' and thus it holds something special in my mind. 'Parklife' featuring the vocals of actor Phil Daniels is about Urban life with the well know chorus 'All the people, so many people, and they all go hand in hand...'. An absolute classic and great for jumping around to at nightclubs. Believe me - I've done it many a time.
... ...This is a punky sounding track, fast and furious and brilliant.
8/10
6. Badhead (3:25) -
This is another marvel, a greatly constructed track with catchy lyrics, verses and chorus.
9/10
7. The Debt Collector (2:10) -
This is the first instrumental which may surprise you if you listen to the album from start to finish. It is basically fairground music with added sounds. Very calming. 7/10
8. Far Out (1:37) - When I first heard this I thought ...
nigelpm 11.07.2001
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Advantages: Great songs Disadvantages: Bit too chirpy
...opening chords to closing fade, Parklife is as splendid a work of Brit Pop as you are ever likely to experience, as light hearted, frothy and insubstantial as pop gets, while still hiding a grim and moody sensuality at its heart. Most of the attention was inevitably focused on the pretty boy good looks of Damon Albarn, but this album is as much of a triumph for guitarist Graham Coxon as the happy go lucky frontman. There's plenty of stuff on here ... ...which helps you understand, and Parklife is a truly wonderful example of pop music at its archest. ************************************* Girls & Boys ************************************* Jolly Up your fairground, boys, the street urchins are back in town with their up tempo Oompah Oompah triumph, as Damon comes over all Club 18-30 - "Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys, always ...
thehud 23.10.2002
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Advantages: Fantastic collection of songs Disadvantages: None
I expect everybody knows or knows about this album by now but I couldn't resist having my say on what is truly a classic album by one of my all time favourite bands.
"ParkLife" was released in 1994 featuring the greyhound racing cover (a soft spot for the band, Damon in particular). It features Blur's usual line-up of Damon Albarn, Dave Rowntree, Alex James and Graham Coxon - all have done other musical projects aswell, but I digress. In fact, I ... ...old as it still sounds so fresh and interesting to me.
Tracklisting:
Girls & Boys
Tracy Jacks
End of a Century
Parklife
Bank Holiday
Badhead
The Debt Collector
Far Out
To the End
London Loves
Trouble in the Message Centre
Clover over Dover
Magic America
Jubilee
This is a low
Lot 105
There are many highlights and few lowlights to this album and the best known tracks are probably "Girls & Boys" and "ParkLife" - both massive hit singles. ...
blurbubble 25.04.2001
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Advantages: British guitar music was back on the map Disadvantages: absolutely nuffink
...synonomous of generation. Blur's Parklife was the sound of the English layabout striking back, great tracks include the title track "Parklife" with the lads backed up with cockney rap from Phil Daniels, "Boys and Girl" and "End of the Century" to name but a few. This album paved the way for a whole generation of British guitar music, for which, I for one, owe a debt of gratitude. ...
JohnnyBravo 13.07.2000
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Advantages: Excellent album which did infact put Blur back on the map. Disadvantages: Couple of poor tracks!
...an effort until 94 when Parklife appeared on the shelves. It would have been the best album of the time only for Oasis..Definitely Maybe but to be second best to that album doesn`t make it bad in any way.
The Inlay way also quite good in the style of dogs racing with the numbers on the back as if the tracks were names of dogs!
This album is amazing fluent from start to finish although some tracks sound similar. It is full of energy, originality, ... ..."We are Back"
1 Parklife starts with GIRLS AND BOYS. The perfect start to a great album. Full of energy and imagination. "Streets Like a Jungle, So call the Police" Why? I don`t know but it sound great. The whole track "Girls who like girls to be boys and the boys to be girls....yap yap yap excellent!
2 TRACEY JACKS was never single material but was the type of quality track you find on the best albums. Very imaginitive again and continues the ...
kingbill 03.08.2006 (04.10.2008)
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Advantages: Lots of great tracks Disadvantages: They get stuck in your head
This was the first Blur album that I bought, and was a favourite of mine for a long time. This was one of the albums that really brought the UK music scene to many peoples attention - then they called it Britpop! There's not a bad song on the album, and there are 15 or 16 songs in total. The singles give a good view of the album but are not necessarily the best points. Songs such as This Is A Low and Bad Head show that there is another side to Blur ...
bjlangley 06.09.2000
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A few years ago now, Blur and Oasis were rivals in the battle for musical supremacy. These days Oasis have stolen the spot light, but I still hold on to the thought that once those cocky beatles rip offs were being given a run for their money. The album that gave Blur their breakthrough was of course Parklife. The opening track from Albarn and company, is Girls & Boys, a mid nineties dance ensemble. Tracy Jacks is a song written in true Blur style, ... ...track, you have probably heard before at least once. Far Out was written by Alex James, and is essentially a weird song with little tune. Despite this, it is incredibly catchy. There are sixteen tracks on this album, but the majority are very similar. For all of those that wish to know the track names, here you are: Girls & Boys, Tracy Jacks, End Of A Century, Parklife, Bank Holiday, Badhead, The Debt Collector, Far Out, To The End, London Loves, ...
jelfsy16 13.09.2000
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Parklife has to be my favorite blur ablum out of the three that I have bought. I bought the album after I heard parklife on the radio and I have never regretted that decision. If you like brit pop then you should buy this album. It has all my favorite blur tunes on it and there are no bad songs on it at all. The ablum has a mixture of different songs from up tempo songs like 'Parklife' to slower stuff like 'to the end'. I am still listening to it ...
peterbenfield 24.08.2000
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Advantages: Brilliant songs and good to lissen to Disadvantages: Samey in places - could have been shorter and noone would caire
...tracks which can be skipped, Parklife on the other hand the tracks between track number 4 and track 11 all merge into one samey lump. I’m not saying this isn’t a good album but it wouldn’t have lost much had it been 5 or 6 tracks shorter. However trying to pick a track that you don’t like is very hard. This is one of those albums which I frequently get out, play 3 or 4 times then put away again for a few weeks.
This is a album that should be in ...
MrMusic2000_uk 02.08.2000
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Advantages: Brilliant songs, very high standard and very consistent Disadvantages: Nope
Parklife was the release that REALLY did it for Blur and got them full in the face of the record buying public. Its twin single smashes, Girls and Boys and the title track, are Brit pop marvels and the cheeky chappy cockney ranting of Phil Daniels keep just far enough this side of naff to make Parklife a very memorable little number.
But the singles are just the froth on the top of what is an excellent album, and one of the best of the last ten ... ...started believing their own publicity and some of the lesser known stuff here is what really makes this classic album stuff.
You've got Brit pop, melancholy ballads, seaside organ and punky thrashes and they're all of such a uniformly high and consistent quality that you're left breathless at the end.
After this Blur went badly downhill although they have made some ace singles since then with Beetlebum and stuff like that but they've never achieved ...
dave27 02.03.2001
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...package. Not only does parklife contain these gems but also many others with the same sort of bounciness and cockney knees upping that only Blur could be described as. This Is A Low is a solemn tale of woe and End Of A Century is a cracking tune with a great orchestral sound of brass.
This is one of Blur's best albums and probably one of the most popular because it is how they are instilled on peoples memories. ...
mandymoo 07.03.2001
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...the Jam, but its follow-up Parklife revealed the depth of that transformation, as well as the band's own identity. Relying more heavily on Ray Davies' seriocomic social commentary, as well as new wave, Parklife runs through the entire history of post-British Invasion Brit-pop in the course of 16 songs, touching on psychedelia, synth-pop, disco, punk and music-hall along the way. Damon Albarn intended these songs to form a sketch of British life in ... ...followed in the wake of Parklife revealed how much more complex Blur's vision was. Not only was their music infinitely detailed &mdash sound effects and brilliant guitar lines pop up all over the record &mdash but the songs were tightly written, with the melodies elegantly interweaving with the chords, as in the graceful, heartbreaking "Badhead." Surprisingly, Albarn, for all of his cold, dispassionate wit, demonstrates a compassion that gives these ...
jamiegiles 29.06.2000
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Advantages: Every track a polished gem Disadvantages: Its association with BritPop is an albatross round its neck
This album has been so overexposed and overhyped in the years since its release, that it's easy to underrate it. However, now that the horrors and media feeding frenzy of Britpop have died down, the simple truth remains that "Parklife" is a GREAT album - one of the true milestones of British Pop Music. Like its spiritual ancestors, the Small Faces' "Lazy Sunday" and the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset", "Parklife" revels in showing picture postcards of the ... ...18-30 which is "Girls and Boys" (and hands up who thought Blur had "gone disco" when they heard the opening synthbeat bars?), to "Bank Holiday"'s breakneck punk evocation of the Great British bank holiday, the band don't put a foot wrong, and Damon Albarn's writing has never been sharper. The tradition of silly instrumentals is nobly upheld by the giddy "The Debt Collector", whilst the anthemic "This Is A Low" is one of the finest slow numbers I've ...
pvincent 17.06.2001
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This is probably the first blur album most people will have heard songs from as this is the album that got them noticed by the general population.
16 tracks and about 53 minutes long it includes the singles: Girls and Boys, Parklife, End of a Century and To The End.
Released in 1994, this came out at the beginning of the Britpop era.
If you expect it to be an album of 'Parklife' type songs then you might be disappointed, they're good but in different ...
y2kati 28.08.2000
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Advantages: The strength and cohesion of tracks on the album. Disadvantages: Runs a little long in terms of tracks.
Parklife, like the vast majority of British rock albums of the 90s, was passed up in the United States upon its release in 1994: despite its massive critical and cultural success in the UK, and despite its incredible collection of songs. Wringing British rock for all it was worth-the Beatles, Bowie, The Kinks, Magazine, to name a few; guitars, bass, saxophones, drums, and burning keyboards-and adding their own oft-times quirky, funny and cynical ... ...of an album of wit and "kitchen-sink" drama a masterpiece. It's not a concept album per se, but rather a cohesive album with songs that fit together just right-without, of course, impinging on their individual qualities as songs. The singles here are impeccable, as most of Blur's are. (Looking at it objectively, one can safely say Blur's corpus of singles is easily among the very best of the last 15 years.) "Girls & Boys" (holidays in the sun), "End ...
RCMoya612 20.12.2006
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