Even the album's nonsense ('The Debt Collector', or James' Syd Barrett tribute, 'Far Out') serves to bolster the flow. Albarn - supported ably by guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree - mapped out Blur's territory as cultural tourists: chroniclers of the mores and foibles of the modern world, be it presciently with gender confusion, binge-drinking and the genesis of chav culture (all on 'Girls And Boys'), pre-millennial tension and growing older ('End Of A Century') or the renaissance of England's capital city ('London Loves', 'Parklife').
#Parklife song series
Their second album after the group's wholehearted embracing of British popular culture (the critically-lauded, commercially underperforming Modern Life Is Rubbish the first), with its Walthamstow dog track-adorned sleeve, Parklife was where Britpop began, with its series of well-crafted songs that re-tooled the writing of Ray Davies and Paul Weller for the 90s. Recorded between November 1993 and January 1994 in London, Parklife captured the zeitgeist in a manner few other albums have. Robert Burrowīefore Damon Albarn became every inch the multi-faceted post-modern Renaissance man, Blur was his sole passion and Parklife from 1994 remains their finest work. For that reason alone, it can be considered one of Blur's finest albums. Witty, ironic and irreverent, Parklife remains one of those rare albums that sum up a specific place and time (Britain in the mid-1990s).
#Parklife song full
Parklife is full of songs that, quite frankly, don't make much sense outside of the British Isles, songs that find joy in the mundane, like "Girls & Boys" (a song about working-class holidaymakers in the sun) and "Parklife" (a day in the life of a cheeky, unemployed bench-sitter).
At a time when Oasis were aping the sounds of their pub-rock heroes on Definitely Maybe, Blur drew from the legacy of the Kinks and Small Faces to create an album that's as English as a rainy Sunday in front of the gas fire. Lot 105 .ukĪlthough Blur had long been recognised as one of the premier bands responsible for the reinvigoration of Britpop in the 1990s, it's 1994's Parklife that truly provided the template for the entire movement.
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