Parklife - 20 years old today

mosstin

Hard to believe really. Was just listening to The Great Escape earlier for the first time in years and it struck me how ****ing awful it sounds today. Stuck on Parklife - different beast. Brilliant record - lots of folk rate late Blur records as their peak but for me Parklife is by some distance their best. 20 years old though - hard to credit.

Dandelion6

I still there's a lot of good stuff on The Great Escape but it was never up to the standards of the two albums before it. And far better than everything that came after it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIEsmGzo2UE

Looper007

mosstin wrote: »

Hard to believe really. Was just listening to The Great Escape earlier for the first time in years and it struck me how ****ing awful it sounds today. Stuck on Parklife - different beast. Brilliant record - lots of folk rate late Blur records as their peak but for me Parklife is by some distance their best. 20 years old though - hard to credit.

If you thought Parklife was great check out Modern Life is Rubbish that's even better. But I loved them as cheeky cockney laddie's, Albarn really was the modern day Ray Davis wasn't he. I like Stuff like Blur, 13 and Think Tank even like Great Escape which you seem to hate but for having The Universal and Best Days it deserves a pass. But Modern life is Rubbish/Parklife and Demon Days are Albarn's masterpieces.

anyway love Tracey Jacks and Message from Trouble Centre both could have been singles for me but This is a Low is the real masterpiece from that album, Coxon really is the reason Parklife works his guitar playing is amazing.

MadYaker

In before old people saying how old they feel and how they remember it like it was yesterday!

Looper007

MadYaker wrote: »

In before old people saying how old they feel and how they remember it like it was yesterday!

God I do feel old :pac: thanks for reminding me.

Ah the Britpop years were great for a while, you had something great come out every week nearly. from 1994 to 1997.

Elastica-Elastica
Oasis- Definitely Maybe/WTSMG
Pulp- Different Class
Supergrass- I Should Coco/In it For the Money
Radiohead- The Bends/Ok Computer
The Verve- Northern Soul/Urban Hymns

some great stuff released during that time, so a great time to grow up in.

uncle ernie

This is a good read...

http://thequietus.com/articles/15092-blur-parklife-anniversary-review

Gambas

Looper007 wrote: »

God I do feel old :pac: thanks for reminding me.

Ah the Britpop years were great for a while, you had something great come out every week nearly. from 1994 to 1997.

Elastica-Elastica
Oasis- Definitely Maybe/WTSMG
Pulp- Different Class
Supergrass- I Should Coco/In it For the Money
Radiohead- The Bends/Ok Computer
The Verve- Northern Soul/Urban Hymns

some great stuff released during that time, so a great time to grow up in.

And Suede... suede, dog man star, coming up.

Radiohead The Bends was of that time alright, but I look on OK computer as being post- Brit Pop and the dawning of a terribly boring phase that they and Coldplay dominated and we've not come out of.

SilverScreen

Gambas wrote: »

Radiohead The Bends was of that time alright, but I look on OK computer as being post- Brit Pop and the dawning of a terribly boring phase that they and Coldplay dominated and we've not come out of.

Might be a bit off-topic, but lumping Radiohead and Coldplay in together like that seems a bit silly. Especially when you consider that in 2000 Coldplay were releasing radio-friendly alt. rock and Radiohead had done a u-turn with Kid A and were experimenting with electronic music.

Dandelion6

Gambas wrote: »

Radiohead The Bends was of that time alright, but I look on OK computer as being post- Brit Pop and the dawning of a terribly boring phase that they and Coldplay dominated and we've not come out of.

Thank you. Never understood the love for OK Computer, not a patch on The Bends IMHO.

karaokeman

Gambas wrote: »

Radiohead The Bends was of that time alright, but I look on OK computer as being post- Brit Pop and the dawning of a terribly boring phase that they and Coldplay dominated and we've not come out of.

OK Computer to me is more like U2's 90s work, of the two albums The Bends has the track that could be argued to have influenced Coldplay the most - High and Dry. Other than that the two bands have little in common, but alas this thread is about Blur, so I'll leave it at that.

seachto7

Think Tank is a brilliant Blur album. Parklife is very good too, but of its time. I don't think they could have made a Parklife after their late 90s alt albums, which are also very good. (IMO)

fleet_admiral

think tank is a very angry album imo, modern life is rubbish is great from start to finish, intermission is superb

Temaz

'13' for me is the Blur album I listen to most. Just so much going on and it always draws me in.

Prettyblack

I always liked "Leisure"...

Anyone listening to Damon Albarn's solo album? Some good stuff there.

bf26

I like modern life is rubbish better

refusetolose

lets not forget cast echobelly menswear boo radleys :D:D

Welsh Megaman

Parklife still remains a fantastic album 20 years on, even though it (unfairly) gets a lot of criticism for opening the floodgates for dozens of dubious Britpop bands.

'This Is A Low' is a masterpiece - I found it a nice touch to make that the penultimate track, followed by the wildly contrasting 'Lot 105' - a short reminder that 'Parklife' is a pop album

buck65

Ok computer is the best album of the 90s. Shut up fools.

The Wild Bunch

buck65 wrote: »

Ok computer is the best album of the 90s. Shut up fools.

Suicide music.

No thanks

loyatemu

buck65 wrote: »

Ok computer is the best album of the 90s. Shut up fools.

not even the best Radiohead album of the 90s