Parklife

too British for me

It is THE 90s britpop album. I guess this one is a merited inclusion unlike way to many uninspired records on this brit-biased list. However, it does not do anything extraordinary, it is just a correct record. 7/10 [KEEP]

Not listened to this for over 25 years. I understand why now, how could anyone compare this to anything by Oasis? 90% shite, 2 points only for To The End which is the only track worth listening to, and is actually pretty perfect.

I low key hated this

Not a bad album but that pseudo London/home counties accent is so irritating.

The music of the opening track was quite good & had me optimistic for the journey ahead. The vocals on the other hand were annoying as fuk & unfortunately the remainder of the album followed that track. There were one or two more cuts that I enjoyed musically, but I just couldn't with the vocal. And there were some radio hits on here from my adolescence. I hated them then & I'm not too keen now.

This was annoying and boring

It's funny, I've just spent the week obsessing over the new Gorillaz (Damon Albarn's other project that's arguably now more successful than Blur) album ("The Mountain"). It's so good. Unlike this album which I didn't like very much at all. It just goes to show...something.

2/5 It's music but I think I hate Britpop. Like a lot. I'm four songs in to this two disc album (32 songs total) and I'm so bored. Parklife (The title track, and most listened to song by 100,000,000 plays on Spotify) is dull talking over repetitive music. Frankly I'm annoyed. This is talentless repetitive and NOT catchy (at least to me) I will not be finishing this album if I can help it and oh my god song five has started and I want to shoot my speakers. Why is album this on this list? British people can't season food and they sure as hell can't season music. Hard pass, please stay away from my playlists.

Weaker than the Blur album. A few great tracks, but then too much bland and boring.

2+

Based on absolutely nothing but a gut reaction I could not shake the feeling that blur were overconfident and fakey posh boys. The only thing they seemed to have going for them was a distant pissing match with Oasis who also bothered me from afar. Later, Song 2 would be so catchy that I'd give a few of their singles a listen and casually pick that one up. Outside of their s/t fifth studio album I gave no other record a complete listen and even that was a let down — whoo hoo. So with historical context adequately set I've just now listened to Parklife in its entirety. I didn't miss much. It's overly long and a bit too "at the circus" more than "the park". A more focused edit of the record that eliminated their weaker work would have kept my attention better. Having said that, I appreciate that there is some exploration in the songwriting but they could've done that in demos. Ultimately there's too much pop in this Britpop for me.

I loved this back in 1994. Hasn’t aged well.

We get it, you're british.

I already listened to it

Girls & Boys and Parklife are good songs. A lot of the other songs though were hard to get through. Too cheesy and not in a very endearing way.

Some good some bad just a mid album for 16 songs

Listened to first half. I feel bad, but I find the heavy accent of the vocals annoying.

Meh, album was a blur

Only song of theirs I knew before was Song 2. This album was a disappointment. just generic brit rock garbage

1/3. Surprising given how much I like Gorillaz, but this felt pretty unexciting overall. It's not that it was necessarily bad, just not particularly interesting and I'm not sure it really needs to be on the list.

old school aint fo me

Átlagos, de inkább rossz. Nehezen hallgatható számomra

Yeah, I can't really go into detail other than just it being bad. Would be a 1 star rating, but the greyhound doggos on the album cover made me smile.

I didn't really feel this one. More Britpop in a list already filled to the brim with the genre, and crossed with New Wave? Yeah, I think I'll pass. Favourite Track(s): Clover Over Dover Least Favourite Track(s): Trouble at the Message Centre

Oasis is better

There is a Blur album I like. This one isn't it.

Overstays its welcome - sounds very unique at first but ends up having very little variety in instrumentation, structure, vocals, lyrics, etc. Too goofy for me at times :'( Highlights: "Girls and Boys", "Badhead", "The Debt Collector", "To the End"

Perhaps I'm just not a Blur guy. Started off okay I guess but it was all downhill from there.

Not my style of music, but ok album

De laatste zin van het 3e nummer "End of a Century" vat het album toepasselijk samen: It's nothing special. Staan een paar leuke nummers op maar ook echt een hoop bagger. Voor de Britpop liefhebbers zal dit vast een stuk beter zijn, maar niet in mijn straatje. Kom toch echt niet hoger dan 2 sterren voor dit album.

Vandaag weer netjes geluisterd, maar was dat echt nodig… UK geezers. Ja wat moet ik zeggen dat is gewoon niet echt iets voor mij. Ik schrijf hiermee misschien een heel genre af wat in de UK populair is maar I don’t like it. Het is beschaafd provocerend. Het is rocky maar ook rustig en vibey. Zo laat ik het positief klinken maar ik vind het geheel eerder een beetje meh. Er zit niks in waardoor ik denk ‘holy moly wat een goede band he’, ‘ken je dat ene nummer van Blur’ Ze maken muziek die je prima ff ergens in een serietje kan gooien uit early 2000s. Ik heb de louterinstrument wachtmuziek geliked - The Debt Collector Het mag op maar je doet me er geen plezier mee - 2/5

Just didn’t stick the landing for me

Started strong but lost the appeal after a few songs. Heavy Beatles influence I think.

Honestly, once again it is not for me. It sounds just like the last two I listened to. Hoping for something different.

Listened to most but only really liked bank holiday.

The musicians are talented, but I can’t stand the whiny, affected vocals. The tunes, while varied, all sound directly derived from something else — the Beatles, Bowie, Clash, Cream. Not a good sign if an album makes you think of all the better music it kind of sounds like. A 2.

Uhhhh yeah. So yes it’s better than that shit grunge stuff coming out of the US in the 90s, but comparisons to British Rock of the 60s is a bit of a stretch. That these songs sold well in the UK says more about their music scene than it does about the talent of this group.

In some ways a difficult album to review because it was so culturally significant at the time. I enjoyed how diverse some of the sounds are, e.g barhead vs debt collector, but that being said I just don't love the style of the album. I find the campy laid back vocals quite annoying after one or two listens. I can respect alot of the lyricism and it's clear the album has a message but I'm not quite keen on the sarcastic cynicism. Rating subjectively as a 2 on enjoyment, aware objectively it could be a 4

Couple good songs bit weird

Despite the comps to Oasis (UK and era) these guys do not compare...at all. You can hear the same influences but the sound and songwriting aren't in the same stratosphere. I read that first, then listened, probably a mistake...if one was a fan of this crap.

I never really understood the allure of Britpop. Like, is the whole thing that they are trying to be a modern Beatles or some shit? This album is fine. Just okay. I guess I'm seeing what they are trying to do? It's lame as fuck tho. For the time, tho, would you put this on at a party? Would you dance to this at a concert? I just don't get it, and I love emo.

Well , it's Britpop, so you get what you paid for. I found it to be a bit boring.

hate his voice

Weetje its prim, maar ik zou t zelf niet opzetten. Maar ook niet afzetten 🧣

The very definition of mid in my opinion. A few stand out moments, but mostly average tracks, most of which I found pretty forgettable. Was ready for it to be over by the end. 2.5 ->2

Boring

There's only so much la la la and whoo whoo whoo one can take.

Meh

I only liked one song.

Learned that I'm not really a big fan of Britpop after this album and the previous one I had from The Jam. Bank Holiday was a good listen but nothing else really hooked me on here.

Run of the mill Britrock.

What were the Brits doing in the 90s man? I've never been a huge fan of Blur, in fairness I've never really given them a fair shake, but upon listening to this album it cemented my distaste for them. I just don't get it. Sure, Parklife is out there and does some cool things; found myself bopping along to To the End and Girls & Boys, but overall the album just kinda went in one ear and out the other. Maybe with repeated listens it would grow on me, but something about the sound they're going for here feels very ignorable and stale. Banger album art though.

Very underwhelming....I don't understand it.

I like Blur but this one caught me at a bad time I think. The first two songs I found kind of annoying with how they take the song title of each and say it constantly throughout each song. It felt like I had heard "Tracy Jacks" a good five hundred times by the time the song was over. I think it might just be a tinge more punk than I was wanting and that led me to be. Ok, by the time it gets about halfway in it redeems itself a bit for me, it's more dynamic and actually kind of "chamber pop-y"? It's nice! Overall though this one needs more listens from me before I think I would enjoy it. Really great album cover. I love the motion and energy in it.

Always had a low tolerance for "Britpop" back in the day. Still do. Ok in small doses, but an album end-to-end? Not for me, thanks. Tiresome.

Identity pop, fun for the moment

nothing extraordinary

This album was ok, I could listen to it but I don’t think I would ever choose it 2.5 stars

Oasis won.

Very British The Debt Collector sounds like carnival music (good) VERY British

Some good ones, similar sound to other brit bands of the time.

The younger version of me loved it.

when your only memorable song off the album is also the most annoying one

I liked the part when they yell Blur!

What am I missing here? All of the accolades I read about this album - best album of the 90’s, the definitive Britpop album, etc. - I was expecting so much more and it was so mediocre. Don’t know why they’re so popular. I’d rather listen to Oasis.

The Brits have given us many great bands, Blur doesn't appear to be one of them. I was looking forward to this one, but was left dissappointed and scratching my head. First the upside, I learned who sings boys & girls, that annoying song that worked its way into countless movie soundtracks. Not the greatest start, but mystery solved. The title track Parklife epitomizes this album for me. Lots i like about the song, good backbeat groove, snarky spoken word lyrics that flow nicely into sung chorus, and a good bit of attitude. I should love this song, but I don't. It doesnt come together for me, for everything they did right there is something wrong. It's missing something, actually, it's missing a few things but I cant put my finger on what they are. I didn't like or dislike anything about this album. It just seemed off. I was hoping this would be a great find, but it's not. It's okay at best. The Brits love Blur so I'm certain there will be another album, fingers crossed that will be better.

Ikke favoritt. Helt ok

I listened to Parklife a few times in college, getting into the headspace of young brit punks as I wrote a thinly-veiled ripoff of Trainspotting. Blur was also often just a few lines of lineage back from all the UK EDM sounds that were starting to invade the states. I couldn't get past the blandness back then. Needed the spice of the drum & bass remix. The Gorillaz Blur aint. Now years of banal adulthood have worn away my youthful predilections. I eat plain rice and beans every day and I have the patience of an old oak tree. It's still pretty bland. End of Century, Parklife, and Badhead are good. I can see liking Magic America. It all probably hits better in the UK, I'm sure. But it's gonna be a 2 from a 'murican who wasn't there.

Well, well here's yet another post-punk Britpop album that sounds exactly like all the others. Sleepy go night-night. Influence 2. Hits 2. Quality 3. Intangibles 2. I do not like boring post-punk Britpop, but if I must choose one, I guess it would be Blur. 3.

1, 3, 6

not bad, but didn't do anything for me

Slet slet ik fan :))))!!!

Day670 - i’ve had a few tom waits albums albums and now i’m a tom waits fan. this is my third blue album and now i hate blur

Brit Pop. Certainly. Some good moments, but also quite bland at time. A lot of the theatrical/ show tunes sound production annoyed me. Not sure the big hits justify the rest. Rather hear Oasis.

A little all over the place. Felt disjointed and too long.

Boys who like girls who oh whatever

Maybe one needs to be from the UK or super into mid 90s britpop to want to throat this as deeply as the British press and rags like Pitchfork have. Im not and this is as far on the low end of mediocre as can be.

There's a lot going on in this album. And the songs seem to change direction a lot. At one point I thought I was in a circus.

Didn’t we listen to this already? I don’t know. It’s all… a BLUR. I know I know. A lot of you came to this dog track to hear droning British “rock” and gamble on competitive animal abuse, but I just wanted to take this time to thank all my loyal readers for the approximately 6 “thumbs up” across 300 reviews. It’s thanks to the loyalty of those people that I can strive to continue to make “jokes” like the one that began this paragraph. It appears that another dog is going to have to be put down around the homestretch turn, so I’ll begin my exit by saying it’s in a man to dream *GUNSHOT* *LOUD YELPING* but you’ll find that *SECOND GUNSHOT* in dreams we find out the uhh how’s that go? *GRAINY PA ANNOUNCEMENT ADVERTISING PENNY BARK-A-RITA NIGHT* that we are all uhh the men in dreams or what have you. It looks like they’ve got the corpse off the track, so I bid you all a good evening and please, enjoy the rest of the races. Oh and Blur. *SCATTERED SOBS AMONGST WAILING SIRENS.* Girls & Boys - Both?? How are we going to afford this? Duran Duran called, they said they have urgent word from the Visa fraud department. Thankfully I gave them my credit number promptly and I should be on easy street. Tracy Jacks - Related to Terry Jacks? Songsmith extraordinaire who brought us “Seasons in the Sun.” End of a Century - BLUR PREDICTS Y2K. Parklife - Ahh this is actually pretty good. Love a bit of cockney screeching. PARKLIFE. Bank Holiday - The banality of working life distilled into a mid-90’s punk tinged rock song. This somehow captures the bleakness of the infinity of employment while also sounding like a run of the mill party song. Badhead - How’s your head? Nothing but complaints, really. I kinda lead with the teeth. The Debt Collector - Ah the classic boredom interlude. I love those. Far Out - Through the looking glass, I spy a dapper alligator surfing upon a sea of rubies. From his corncob pipe, a billow of phantoms form a megalophobic nightmare in the cream cheese skies lighting the scene. Now that would be far out. Whatever this was, was more like “close in.” To the End - Even ColderPlay London Loves - Fun little poppy tune. Feels refreshing compared to the last little bit. Also? Like a decade ahead of its time. This has 2004 written all over it. Trouble in the Message Center - Whoa, this guy IS the message center? I would like to commit arson at the message center. I kid the poor man. These la la la’s do have me obsessively fidgeting with my lighter. Clover Over Dover - Mozart Moshpit. Magic America - Magic if in stead of making a rabbit disappear, you were killed in an “unpreventable” mass shooting. God bless the US of A, where civilians spay the ultimate price for freedom. Jubilee - Man I am asleep here. If it weren’t for the dense swath of This is a New Low - Oh it’s just kind of bad, not THAT bad. Lot 105 - No, this is Lot 301. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve peeled greyhound corpses off of a modern day coliseum for psychopaths. It’s now time to end the week on a low. A boring album, that I’m sure was the “soundtrack” to some bloke’s ‘94, but it was simply the drone in the background for me for about an hour. The fun ideas were there, but appeared like pennies in a pile of gruel during the world’s worst scavenger hunt. Not very fun, and in the end, kind of a waste of time. I have donned my corrective lenses and now the blur is gone. I think that’s best for everybody. Especially LensCrafters. Greedy fucks. 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Parklife, London Loves, Clover Over Dover

Niestety nie mój klimat. Nie jest źle ale pierwszy kawałek mnie denerwował już po polowei

Pretty meh after that poppy first track. I tried, but pass

Wow this list is just different varieties of white guy rock, hey. Went into this a bit jaded which has maybe harshed my judgment but I just really really don't care that much about this album. Saved a song: N RYM: N

So for some reason my browser didn't save my review when I refreshed my screen. I do remember saying "More Blur. Hooray." somewhat sarcastically. And I believe I said that I liked each song approximately half as much as I liked the previous song. And I did like "This Is a Low." I believe that's all of it.

Really did not like this. I'm not a Blur hater by any means, but I thought this album would be much better given it's relatively widespread acclaim.

I wouldn’t say I’m much of a Blur fan and this record didn’t fix that. I don’t know what it is but none of the chords or notes just really hit? There’s some nice guitar play but the use of electronics, brass sections and the overal vocale just feel a little to whimsy for me. There are some sick moments, but in general I just cringe.

Groupe connu de nom uniquement. Rien d’interessant dans cet album trop long, les morceaux sont mous et très ennuyeux. Quelques morceaux plus dynamiques le sauvent de la note minimale, pas assez pour me donner envie d’y revenir. =>2/5

Aight

First song was great. The rest was pretty meh.

Lame. Et par kule her og der.

I do not get this one at all. It started super poppy, and stayed mostly poppy, but felt like it thought it was more serious that than. It didn't make a lot of sense to me. Like, why is there carnival-esque music sometimes? Is it because we're in a park and carnivals can be in parks and that's #parklife? A lot of it felt dumb and other parts snobbish. It's honestly hard for me to articulate why it turned me off so much. Best I can do is say it sounded like something I would like if I had no personality. I guess there were two or three songs that I did enjoy, but the album was 16 songs (and 52 minutes) long. I found the rest bland, boring, and/or lame. While this isn't a list of 1,001 "cool" albums to listen to, I would expect the albums on it to have more style than this. Or, at least, be better. Overall: 1.9/5

1994 brit pop is an era I lived through and haven't spent much time revisiting. Some of the songs on this album are national consciousness level, which doesn't always bode well for a sit down album listening experience. In the end I'd say this is a mixed bag.

I know everyone, including Ray Davies himself, are willing to give Blur credit for being the Kinks of the 90s, but you can leave me out of it! I've always hated how you can hear the sneering at people unlike them in songs like "Girls & Boys", "Tracy Jacks", or the title song. It's not even that they're so nasty about it (like, the Kinks come off homophobic in songs like "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" and "A Well Respected Man"), it's that they're not even funny about it. Like, "Girls & Boys"' much-parodied chorus sounds like nothing more than it does some right wing talk radio guy trying to make fun of liberals and their 27 genders. The only good thing I have to say about this album is that at least it's not Oasis, you know?

This was OK. I'm wasn't in love with it though, I feel it's one of those 'you'd have to be there at release' to get the hype

vocals missed me

i truly don't like Brit Rock

Not for me

Covers a lot of ground in terms of its influences—disco, punk, pop, new wave, early-era Pink Floyd. The results are hit and miss. Damon Albarn envisioned this as a concept album, but the concept doesn’t come across as having been fully worked out. The short bits don’t bring any value to the record, and there’s an attempt at a love song that doesn’t quite get off the ground. But Blur always seemed like they were having more fun than most of their Britpop brethren; and on the few tracks where they throw caution to the wind (‘Girls & Boys’, ‘Parklife’, ‘This Is A Low’), the record is better for it.

I thought I liked Blur, but I didn't like this album.

Didn’t really like it.

Meh. Back half of the album is much better than the front half but I only liked about half the songs on the album anyway. I don’t get the hype.

Stinky stinky stinky. So grating to listen to. A few redeemable tracks... London Loves and Trouble in the Messaging Center are fine

Can't believe this list has four (4)(!!!!) Blur albums on it. Not to tell too obvious of a joke, but these songs really blurred together with all the rest of their stuff.

Toooooooooooo looooooooong

Inte riktigt min smak

music for children

I like blur, weird that they came up for the first and second time in such quick succession, but okay. This album doesn't hit nearly as well for me though. It does establish a 'signature sound' for the band. But the content just hasn't blown me away at 2/3rds through the album. This is a Low was a good song though.

Eh

Didn‘t find it interesting soundwise. At least the text is progressive.

Whiny Brit pop mixed with carnival music or something. Second half was better than the first. Better than Modern Life is Rubbish but still not really hitting for me.

Un gran álbum de brit pop y uno de los fundamentales, creo qué la primer mitad del álbum es muy buena pero en la segunda vuelta pierde fuerza, también creó qué es demasiado 16 canciones para un álbum con tanta redondez y poca fuerza, mi favorita fue London loves, le doy un 6.7 por qué en realidad no creo qué sea un gran álbum.

Generally speaking, the 1990s is my vibe and I’m a fan of most Britpop ( although this tends to be the less well known Britpop brands rather than the big hitters like Oasis and the ghastly Blur. I don’t care how Kinks tinged this album is, I don’t like being shouted at by cockneys, even if he was in Quadrophenia.

Some okay, most terrible

Not my thing. I find the vocals incredibly irritating and the instrumental are nothing to write home about. Girls and Boys is a pretty good song but nothing else really stands out. I was not a fan of this album.

Nah. Too long, too not fabulous.

I recognized the album art to this one, and it seems like I've liked previous Blur albums ok, but this one wasn't it. It's too much right in the brit-pop pocket, which I'm not a fan of. Won't be returning to this one. 2/5

I generally like Damon Albarn projects but for some reason, this one isn't doing it for me.

Meh

Girls and Boys is a great song but another forgettable album for me

Boys & girls is a classic but the rest of the songs on this album were nothingburgers

Poppier than I would have thought, more baroque too, not bad. Gets tiring as it goes on

Properly diagnosed with a case of "every song is okay, but none are reamarkably good". Also, too heavy on the trumpet. Also, commentaries are clearly filled of nostalgia.

I'm very hit and miss with Blur.. they were the 2nd band I saw live and it remains one of the worst gigs I've seen! I do think that they are capable of great moments and theres a couple of them on _Parklife_ in _To the End_ and _This is a Low_. But for the most part, and particularly this era Blur, the mockney, end-of-the-pier schtik is tiring and absolutely grates on me these days. _Boys and Girls_ and the title track being the biggest offenders, two songs I never need to hear again. The album _Parklife_ as a whole sounds of it's time and despite knowing it pretty well, I don't have any nostalgia for it. And whilst I can't deny the catchiness of some of the well-known songs here that I'm not a fan of, there's also a fair bit of filler too, particularly the back end of the album. So not one I need to return to and Blur will remain a playlist band for me.

Eh

2.5 - Meh

i like more oasis sorry

Never been wowed by BritPop, even though I was living there in its heyday--maybe that's why: it was on the radio nonstop. So this one feels pretty overrated to me. I know it's blur's masterpiece and all, but even the hits are kind of a drag. I kind of liked "This is the Low" at the end, but quite a few I wanted to fast forward. I'm not Cool Britannia enough to get it

eh. was good, but don't really see myself revisiting anything, honestly.

Some redeeming songs but not the best

Meh.Ni lo terminé de escuchar. No me acabo d gustar.

generic and repetitive

unoriginal British pop rock that shouts and doesn't do much for me. has some bright spots but not enough to make me want to listen to it again

It was like taking the worst parts of the Gorillaz and amplifying them to be more unbearable and annoying. Mostly just noise and less than great vocals. I can see how it was different for the time. But not for me

Quaint and fun enough. I fondly remember the singles dominating the radio and TV airwaves at the time. It does get a little too silly-willy-British-tea-time-bob's-your-uncle for me in places, though.

I’m listening to a Blur album that does not contain Song 2? I see this is their earlier stuff. I didn’t hate it, but I’m probably never gonna listen to this album again.

5/10. All songs pretty average but Girls and Boys is pretty fire 🙏🙏🙏👍🚲😞❤️🇨🇳💥🤥🙏🥶🥁🥶🚲🇬🇧😞💥👍🤥🤐🇪🇺🤐🇪🇺🚲🤪🔥👍🥶🤫🤐🛳🤐🚳🤐🚲🤪

Girls & Boys set my hopes too high

Breakthrough in Britpop but was overall disappointing after well known tracks. Didn’t really follow a cohesive story and felt kind of muddled. Overall 5/10

Cold cover Decent bit boring but decent 5/10

It was ok but that first song reminded me of Good Charlotte?

Very repetitive songs, but “end of a century “ and “to the end” are great songs

Just sounded like a a much worse version of the Beatles. Maybe would’ve had a better opinion if it didn’t play directly after them.

Big gorilla’s fan so I listened to this album a while back to see what blur is all about. I wasn’t super impressed at the time, but I enjoyed it a lot more this time around. It was a nice easy lesson, but I won’t be adding any of these songs to my rotation. I hear a little bit of the Gorillaz and boys and girls which I thought was kind of cool.

oasis better. damons voice on this album grates on me slightly. i much prefer gorillaz and the new blur album from the last couple of years. Ballad of Darren I think it was called. 2/5

Damon Albarn is so insufferably annoying. Insane to me that the man behind this could also produce the genius records of Gorillaz. Can we have one of those next?

no.

Just didn’t like this album. Not sure why.

I think it was a had to be there sort of situation. Not for me.

this album may have the dogs on the cover but blur did not have that dawg in them when making this

Okay for the genre

This is like the 5th middle-of-the-road 90's British band I've gotten recently and I'm getting a little sick of it. Normally this'd be another 3 stars but fuck that

i fucking hate "Girls and Boys".

I liked this much less than the other Blur. The more songs a British band does where they’re trying to Do A Beatles, the worse it is. Too many of those here.

I once read that you're either an Oasis person or a Blur person — and after listening to Parklife, I can say without a doubt I'm firmly in the Oasis camp. Always have been, still am. There's just no comparison. Parklife feels all over the place. It's quirky, sure, and I get why people say it's clever, but most of the time it just comes off as smug and trying too hard to be artsy. The songs bounce between styles without much cohesion, and while there's some catchy stuff here and there, nothing really sticks with me. If I had heard this back in 1994 or 1995, I'd have shrugged and gone right back to Definitely Maybe. Blur might have been critical darlings, but Oasis had the soul, the swagger, and the songs that hit you in the chest

Vocals are so nasal and grating, but typically British. Annoyingly catchy. Playful lyrics.

Eh

Not for me. I did sit up and pay attention to This is a Low, but apart from that it is mediocre. 2.5/5

Not great at all. Came off a like some OG ‘60’s Brit pop…

girls & boys - 1 tracy jacks - 1.5 end of a century - 2 parklife - 2 bank holiday - 1 bad head - 4 the debt collector - 1 far out - 1 to the end of- 2 london loves -2 trouble in the message centre - 2 clover over dover - 2 magic america - 2 jubilee - 3 this is a low - 3 lot 105 - 1

Very interesting. Really British and it kinda seemed like each song was completely different which I liked. But not exactly my style.

Punk-ish Britpop, feels sort of sanitized and in an awkward phase of the music

Absolutely brutal singing in the first 4-5 songs. Got much more bearable later on in the album, but my goodness I thought this was on pace for a 1. Still kind of terrible in my opinion but it at least got better as the album went on.

Not my favorite, a decent song or two

Could not get into this. Not into Brit-pop I guess? Nothing caught me...

There’s something so horrendously smarmy about Damon Albarn that I felt even a child that I was alone in seeing the Emperor without his clothes. Now, having listened to a full Blur album, the bile which rises to meet his disgust with my own only intensifies. Parklife alone - saved in its primary delivery by a professional actor who shits all over Albarn’s full vocal career in his one contribution to it - heftily drags this to two stars. Don’t even get me started on the failed politician and fucking cheese farmer.

Quite chill vibes, not very remarkable, nice background work music Fav song- Girls and boys 2/5

Strange Brit rock of the early 90s.

This is going to be a long listen. The vocalist isn't my favorite. Oh well. This album feels too long and I'm 4 songs in.

meh

A few good to great moments. But very unappealing to me aesthetically, feels very all over the place

4/10 - voice is just annoying

Honestly, DNF at track 3. Not without merit, but not for me.

5/10 Favorite Tracks: Girls and Boys, The Debt Collector, This is a Low Least Favorite Tracks: Bank Holiday (skip), Parklife, Far Out, Trouble in the Message Center, Clover Over Dover, Jubilee

Did not like.

Has a few nice songs and a few that make this an album I will not listen to again (as a whole). 2.5 stars, but as an album leaning towards 2 rather than 3.

1st half samey kind of annoying second half good

Not my cup of tea.

bem mé

I just don’t know. I want to like Blur, even if just to have them win against their foil, Oasis. But I found this album inconsistent and even forgettable for the lost part. Not exactly the stuff with which to battle for the title of “the next Beatles”. I do like some of their stiff, maybe just not this stuff.

Really not Damon Albarn's best work. Pretty boring and uninteresting outside of the first song, with a few exceptions. 2/5

Early 2k rock

I remember hating Girls and Boys when it came out - an infuriating earworm that summed up the banality of early 90s lad culture. Parklife was a different story though, mainly for the fantastic guest appearance by the great Phil Daniels and a nice sense of humour. I thought I might like the rest of the album, but it’s a bit hit and miss - I do like some of the tracks, especially the punk vibes of Bank Holiday and the places where they are trying to channel the 60s kitchen sink feel of the Kinks. However, there are just too many jinky-janky, blokey-wokey, blinky-blimey faux working class pretensions from a group of art school students. Damon Albarn’s whiny voice really started to grate on me by the end of this too.

It has a slightly annoying sound to me, but overall it is creative and engaging and I can understand why someone may love it.

this feels very very long. very long

Tiene temas decentes y singles muuy trillados. Tienen mejores discos .

Really dope album cover, the 2 dogs are moods for sure. Well obviously "Girls and Boys" is a classic and a banger but I have to admit that I didn't enjoy the album at all like there were some good ones but that wasn't really enjoyable or catchy or viby and without "Girls and Boys" I think that I would rate it worse than that.

look I usually like 90s brit rock but I've been listening to a lot of bbno$ recently so the unironic use of "chewsday" was a little off putting. it's a fine album I think I just wasn't in the mood

Twee, shouty, jangly, childlike, ridiculous indie pop of a calibre rarely seen at the time, or even now. Fuck me, I’m glad they discovered how to write actually good music once they’d lost to Oasis. This is shite

Britain should not have been allowed to survive into the 20th century

Ehhhhh

Every song is kind of weird, nothing really sounds good, production sounds great but I’ve discovered from this list that I don’t like Blur at all. It’s goofy, full of awkward melodies that don’t work. It’s just unpleasant rock music’s with a few decent moments.

I remember when this came out and I was lukewarm on it then. After listening to it again I still think it is alright but nothing great. It's not something that I will be listening to again. Kind of forgettable overall with maybe a good song or two in there.

I swear, somebody who was in an early nineties British Rock Band must have been on the selection committee!! It's not bad, but it all sounds the same!

I was bored

The voice is getting annoying over time.

I liked the production, some pretty scrungly sounds. Nice, catchy hooks and instrumentals. Lyrics seemed to be pretty solid too from what I could gather. Problem is, both the hooks and instrumentals are annoying as shit and sound silly. Good album just not my taste.

Rock, Punk, 1994 -> 2

interesting and weird. A variety of styles but none really that interesting. Standout songs: Bank Holiday The Debt Collector This is a low

This album was fucked. Oddly, it started off not too bad for a Blur record, but after 5 songs, it descended into the typical fare of Damon Albarn's incoherent ramblings and brain droppings. No cohesion at all, just random shit thrown at a wall to see what would stick. Fuck that guy. And why the fuck did it have to be an hr long.... Favourite songs: Bank Holiday, End of a Century, Girls & Boys, Tracy Jacks, Jubilee Least favourite songs: Far Out, This is a Low 2/5

Ok

No

not for me

Gave me mild headache and I didn't enjoy it very much, especially the singing. Best song on the album should be Parklife tho. 2.5/5

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘸, 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰. Rating: ☆ ☆ Stand Out Songs: 6. Badhead, 8. Far Out, 9. To the End, 10. London Loves, 13. Magic America, 𝟏𝟓. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐰 Interesting...This is not an album I can say I thoroughly enjoyed by any means. I think for most of my listening experience I just got reminded of shitty ska bands that would play in the beginning of a cheesy movie from the early 00's, however once I noticed that this album was made in 1994, I can see that it was probably ahead of its time, and maybe even the inspiration for the former. The album does take a more enjoyable turn after track 7. The Debt Collector, which makes me think maybe the track filled with polka music acts as a divider between the music they wanted to make and the music their label forced them to make. Although this is certainly not an album I would have listened to on my own by any means, and had this been an independent listening session I definitely would've abandoned ship in the middle of Tracy Jacks (despite it being stuck in my head several hours later), I am glad that i stuck it through if only for the saving grace of track 15. This Is a Low, which is a beautiful beautiful song that brought this album from a 1 star to a 2.

Kind of seems like they're trying too hard here.

Didn't care much for this. I know they are pretty big across the pond but I'd rather listen to Oasis...or Gorillaz. Tracks that stood out to me: "Clover Over Dover", "Badhead", "London Loves" Wouldn't actively seek out listening to this full album again.

Lost me with the first track; way too repetitive to be 5 minutes long. At least the rest of the album was quite varied, but at times it felt like the music was being made for the band’s enjoyment rather than the audience’s.

Annoying. Thank you blur for not ever growing up out of the '80s.

Feeling like a broken record with this run of albums, but I think this is again just not for me? It's a long album with a variety of instrumentals/speeds/tones; however, I don't think I thoroughly enjoyed a single one. They all somehow felt both unique and more of the same. Oh well...

It’s British, innit? Not bad as far as Britpop goes, but not for me.

I like a few songs by Blur but don't like them enough to listen to full albums. I want to like them more than I do, but repetitive lyrics are my "nails on a chalkboard"

Never listened to a Blur album before, but now I get why Oasis won that battle. A couple of hits which everyone knows and there’s one or two half-decent other numbers - I quite liked Bank Holiday. But other than that there’s a pile of overly arty crap here that’s trying to be too clever by half. Interesting to hear Cocker’s vocal revert to RP at times. Didn’t enjoy this at all. My last two albums have been 1s. This scrapes a 2. Just

How can I like Gorrilaz but not this? Who knows, but I do.

Whole album was a blur. Nothing unique and all of the songs sounded the same and most of the lyrics were the name of the song repeated over and over.

Some good songs but that's all.

I like some of blur's singles that I've come across over my years, but these whole albums haven't grabbed me at all.

About average for the genre. Nothing new or edgy.

Good in small doses, I suppose. There were a few songs I liked and could see myself revisiting. But as an album I found the “cuteness” became cloying after a while. 2.5/5

Only 2 stars because it’s not as bad as the ones I rated one star, still not good

Nah

mid

Not more fucking Britpop.....

Girls & Boys is a catchy opening track. These guys took the "rip off the Beatles" thing a step too far, End of a Century sounds like an original song written by a Beatles cover band. Bank Holiday is terrible. This is taking "post punk" too literally. This album starts with it's best song and gets steadily worse as it goes on. To the End is the worst song so far. I spoke to soon, there are many bad songs on the album, London Loves being one of them. Lot 105's goofiness doesn't help, especially with the Beatles' Eight Days a Week melody.

Not really a Britpop fan

Never really listened to much from the 90s BritPop era, mainly because the bits I heard didnt really grab me. I always heard about the rivalry between Blur and Oasis. And fans saying you can't be a fan of both. Not that Im a huge Oasis fan either but I would probably side more with them than Blur. This album had a couple of songs I thought were ok. The musicianship is great. I loved a lot of the basslines and some of the guitar parts. The vocals were good but the thick English accent got a bit much after a few songs.

Never heard the album before. There's a lot of variety here. Not a lot of great songwriting, but there is a lot of variety. Boys & Girls stands out from the rest due to its catchiness. They've done a good job with making a satirical euro dance hit. But the lyrics are mean-spirited and, in my opinion, problematic.

Some cool instrumentals, but the vocals are like not good man

this is so annoying. like an emo beatles. 2 stars.

Also das Cover gefällt mir gar nicht, und die Musik reißt auch nicht mit.

Another Britpop album that i am sure many folks enjoyed at the time, which is fine, but is not timeless or memorable.

This is the most British album I’ve ever heard, which is not necessarily a good thing. It’s goofy and over the top and just too much. A few times I stopped and said “what is this song?” Not the worst thing I’ve ever heard but there is much that is far better. Sorry Blur, I love Boys and Girls, and Song 2 is a favorite from the 90s, but this album is not it. 2

Never been sure why Blur is put up there with the britpop royalty. Albums are too long, lack a through line and just don't do it. Songs are forgettable.

They got better songs

this was just ok, i was kind of hoping it would be better but i found it annoying at time and there were really only a few songs i liked. the rest was just kind of background noise.

Just another 90s band who sound like a lot of other uninspiring 90s bands

Mehhhh. Wasn’t my favorite. A good song here and there. But not for me. British pop mehh

I reviewed Modern Life Is Rubbish earlier this year, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Outside of "Song 2," I had never heard any of Blur's music before starting this project, so I'm heading into their discography pretty blind. I've heard good things about this album though, so I'm hoping I'll enjoy it as much as or more than Modern Life Is Rubbish. Well, the verdict is in, and I didn't care for Parklife very much. I appreciate the theme of everyday life that binds these songs together, but to me, the end result was pretty dull (maybe that's the point of this album). The songwriting was fine, but outside of the unifying theme, it didn't really do much for me. Musically, there wasn't much that I enjoyed either. I didn't care for a majority of the songs, and the few songs that didn't fall into that category, were fairly middle of the road. I didn't care for the musical styles that were used on this album either. On first listen, I really hated "Girls & Boys" (it eventually grew on me a little), but the synthesizer really stood out like a sore thumb from the rest of the album. There weren't really any hooks, melodies, or rhythms that I liked, so I found myself just trudging through this album, and it was a long trudge. Parklife might be critically acclaimed, but it's a miss in my book.

It didn’t help that this is my 2nd Blur album in 4 days. I feel like I’m listening to the Kinks if the Kinks sounded a little less pleasant.

It’s OK - well known album. Never did really get Blur

Not really my vibe but it's not bad. Could see myself having it on as background music sometimes

Not how I remember Blur. Not my favorite album

Been bumping Blur’s self titled a lot since i pulled it here. Given that, I was actually pretty excited for this album. Unfortunately this falls flat for me. Maybe I’m just getting hammered with so much Brit pop lately and need to revisit, but this doesn’t capture any of the fun the self title does. Favorites: End of a century, Jubilee

Girls & Boys started and I was like okay this is pretty groovy and fun and then after like 3 minutes I was like oh man it's just the same thing still and I got kind of bored with it. Overall I was a bit bored by this album but there were a couple interesting moments. I liked London Loves. It was kind of like post/egg punk sounding.

I get kinda angry listening to this, the kind of angry that just makes you want to shake a baby. It’s all over the place and directionless. I

I love the song “Girls & Boys” from some random compilation album my mom had when I was a kid. Song 2 is the only song I know from Blur, and I don’t love it, but was hoping this would be one of those albums I never looked at but ended up being really good. Nope. It’s alright, but too many meh songs to make it a good cohesive album. Why is there a full blown carnival track?? I’ll pass on this one, even with a couple decent songs. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: in the end

Not holding up so well.

This album is far too British for me.

Eh, grand

2/5 Not a big fan of punk.

SO BRITISH! so britpop… i get why it’s loved but think it’s not just for me (american 😔)

I'm almost tempted to give this album an "incomplete," because I feel like I just don't 'get it'. It feels very born out of 90s British culture, with lyrics reflecting sentiment of the time that I just won't be able to connect to. It was an entertaining enough listen, but definitely had way too many filler tracks that bog down the good ones. All in all not bad, but I don't think I'll ever be able to appreciate this album as much as I could. Top Tracks: Parklife, To the End, Clover Over Dover

I really wanted to enjoy it but it ended up just being annoying

I didn't enjoy this at all. Britpop in general doesn't seem like a genre you can really sink your teeth into. This album is fast, cheap, and easily disposable.

offbrand arctic monkeys

There's an interesting exploration of genres going on here but it comes off a bit incohesive over the whole album. I actually thought at one point there must be another band named "Blur" because this can't be the same guys who put out "Song 2". Overall, it's a fun listen, it's fine but not amazing.

Changing the channel.

It sounds like any other britpop record.I don't like it. It is very boring and samey.

Not too crazy for it. Have nothing to say really hahaha

2.5 Nothing special

No. I don't like this Blur album either. Dull, don't like the vocals.

Never really got the 90s Britpop phenomenon. That being said Parklife the song is top shelf ( 4 stars for the single !)

#273. Another run of the mill britpop album. Nothing to write home to mum about. 2/5: meh.

Ah Blur, one of the defining acts of Brit Pop. I can sometimes enjoy Brit pop, when it isn’t just a lad from Manchester talking loudly into a mic while his 4 best mates play instruments. Which is why the only song I’d see myself listening to again off this album is Parklife, and perhaps This is a Low.

eh. nothing really stood out on this one for me.

I am shocked this album was in the 90s. I thought it was 80s. Anyway not my thing.

One or two good songs but mostly repetitive.

Meh

Kept waiting for song #2 or something that sounds like song #2 but to no avail

Holy crap they toned down the British-isms in their later work. This is almost unlistenable.

I wanted to like it, and can tell that some of the songs hit the numbers for being solid pop jams. It just could not hold my interest.

Not a great record. But I would say that to every Britpop record out there.

I’m not listening to this god damned album again and getting.. Parklife! Ahhh fuck me now I am going to be yelling Parklife randomly the rest of the week. 4/10

# 246 : Another britpop album. What a surprise. Honestly, all of these bands are starting to sound exactly the same. Much like their food, British pop music seems to be mostly bland and uninspiring. Average at best.

Not a fan. Kind of droning.

It was fine. Not my thing at all.

I've been lighter on britpop than a lot of people seem to be on here but maybe I'm starting to get fatigued. This just didn't interest me at all.

Girls & Boys Park Life

Not into it

Meh

Not bad, I kind of think of this as stereotypical "british rock". Girls & Boys is a great song. Nothing else on the album did much for me tbh, but it's a fine album.

It doesn’t know what it wants to be. There is plenty of songs that sound very britpop, but also random punk-ish song thrown in the middle. Quite incoherent stylistically.

Not sure how an album like this made the list. Although there are some entertaining bits, those bits were already done by the Kinks in the 60s and most “new wave” bands in the 80s.

feels like another generic British rock band

Это второй альбом Blur, кажется, и теперь я уж уверен, что Oasis были лучше КЕК. Лучшая песня - This Is a Low.

Not a bad album, but not really that good either. Pretty average overall. 2.5/5 Won't listen again

It's becoming very repetitive and boring pretty fast. What a pity. I always thought they had great songs but obviously not on that record. I love british music but there are way better bands!

Not for me 2/5

I thought I liked Blur - then I listened to this and it’s not my favorite. Boys and Girls is still fun. The rest of the album is boring Britpop.

Had a very 69-70 vibe. Nothing special to me

Uniform pop song mush. London Love and Clover over Dover stand out nicely. Yawn.

Honestly, kind of mediocre. I love the genre, this should be my type of music, but I was left unimpressed. It was good, in a fine sort of way.

Honestly... Childish sounding. Unimpressed.

2.5 stars - It's perfectly fine but I would rather listen to XTC.

I thought I'd like this more than I actually did. I've always liked the first song - Girls & Boys - but the rest of the album was kinda boring.

Ну такое себе. Истоки Gorillaz уже слышно, но до них ещё далеко.

Gear: Aür Audio Aurora Mix: "You okay?" Musik: "No, [Britpop] is pretty f***in' far from okay." Wertung: 🐶🐶/5

Fuck britpop. 1.5

Ooof. This was a tough one to get through. Not my jam

Britpop to Cool Britannia. Mysterious genres - but this is quite innocuous. Very meh - mostly pablum. Disappearing background muzak - that's probably a bit harsh. That's what some people want from music and there's a market. I wouldn't change the station, but I sure wouldn't buy it.

Meh