Blur / Parklife
Artist Blur
Album Title: Parklife
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Brit Pop
Format CD
Released 04/25/1994
Label SBK Records / ERG
Catalog No 7243-8-29194-2-1
Bar Code No 7 2438-29194-2 1
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Girls & Boys (4:50)
2. Tracy Jacks (4:20)
3. End Of A Century (2:45)
4. Parklife (3:05)
5. Bank Holiday (1:42)
6. Badhead (3:25)
7. The Debt Collector (2:10)
8. Far Out (1:41)
9. To The End (4:04)
10. London Loves (4:15)
11. Trouble In The Message Centre (4:09)
12. Clover Over Dover (3:22)
13. Magic America (3:38)
14. Jubilee (2:47)
15. This Is A Low (5:07)
16. Lot 105 (1:18)
Date Acquired 07/22/2008
Personal Rating
Acquired from Discland (98th And 35W)
Purchase Price 7.99

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Notes

Recorded in Fulham, London, England at Maison Rouge, November 1993 & January 1994, except 'To The End' recorded at Rak Studios, St. John's Wood, London, England. Laetitia Sadier appears courtsey of Stereolab.

Unlike in other countries, the inside of the booklet is printed in black & white.

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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13      -0.13 dB   -14.42 dB      4:50 01-Girls & Boys
DR12      -0.07 dB   -13.74 dB      4:20 02-Tracy Jacks
DR11      -0.03 dB   -13.85 dB      2:46 03-End of a Century
DR12      -0.21 dB   -13.86 dB      3:05 04-Parklife
DR11      -0.02 dB   -13.87 dB      1:42 05-Bank Holiday
DR11      -0.26 dB   -13.64 dB      3:26 06-Badhead
DR12      -0.66 dB   -15.43 dB      2:11 07-The Debt Collector
DR9       -2.67 dB   -15.87 dB      1:41 08-Far Out
DR10      -0.17 dB   -13.66 dB      4:05 09-To the End
DR13      -0.27 dB   -14.35 dB      4:15 10-London Loves
DR10      -0.10 dB   -12.52 dB      4:10 11-Trouble in the Message Centre
DR13      -0.21 dB   -15.00 dB      3:22 12-Clover Over Dover
DR11      -0.12 dB   -13.62 dB      3:38 13-Magic America
DR12      -0.03 dB   -12.46 dB      2:48 14-Jubilee
DR11      -0.32 dB   -13.42 dB      5:07 15-This Is a Low
DR12      -0.42 dB   -16.14 dB      1:18 16-Lot 105
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Number of tracks:  16
Official DR value: DR11

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Bits per sample:   16
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Modern Life Is Rubbish established Blur as the heir to the archly British pop of the Kinks, the Small Faces, and the Jam, but its follow-up, Parklife, revealed the depth of that transformation. Relying more heavily on Ray Davies' seriocomic social commentary, as well as new wave, Parklife runs through the entire history of post-British Invasion Britpop 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 the mid-'90s, and it's startling how close he came to his goal; not only did the bouncy, disco-fied "Girls & Boys" and singalong chant "Parklife" become anthems in the U.K., but they inaugurated a new era of Britpop and lad culture, where British youth celebrated their country and traditions. The legions of jangly, melodic bands that followed in the wake of Parklife revealed how much more complex Blur's vision was. Not only was their music precisely detailed - sound effects and brilliant guitar lines pop up all over the record - but the melodies elegantly interweaved with the chords, as in the graceful, heartbreaking "Badhead." Surprisingly, Albarn, for all of his cold, dispassionate wit, demonstrates compassion that gives these songs three dimensions, as on the pathos-laden "End of a Century," the melancholy Walker Brothers tribute "To the End," and the swirling, epic closer, "This Is a Low." For all of its celebration of tradition, Parklife is a thoroughly modern record in that it bends genres and is self-referential (the mod anthem of the title track is voiced by none other than Phil Daniels, the star of Quadrophenia). And, by tying the past and the present together, Blur articulated the mid-'90s zeitgeist and produced an epoch-defining record.
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