Reviews (page 13 of 14)
Yeah, no. I do see a couple of things going for this album and I could imagine myself liking it back when I was about 13 and a lot edgier and much more into campy rubbish. But luckily, that is not the case anymore and I think Blur are rubbish - decidedly British rubbish with some character though. Parklife is probably better than the other two Blur albums I had the misfortune to rate with 1 and 2 stars respectively. This one might be a 2.5 rated down. It's something.
The songs started off like they’d be bangers and then I’m pummeled with British accents and weird lyrics
It was somewhat enjoyable but don't know if I'd seek it out.
2/5 Brit-pop blur is my least favorite version of Blur.
This was a divisive album Some songs were strong and reminded me of the smiths/ sex pistols and showed the potential of what would eventually become the gorrillaz. But other songs felt like a carnival ride and made me feel nauseous. I don’t think I’ll be listening to it again. 2
eh
Um, what?
Didn't love it. Almost stopped listening at track 9 because I was done washing the dishes but something told me to keep listening and I'm glad I did because I actually preferred the second half a lot more. In particular, track 10 "To The End" and then "Clover Over Dover" ended up being some of my faves on the album.
Ok
This is too inconsistent. No fluidity and the vocals are uneasy on the ears. The music just isn’t good.
More punk stuff, I am not a fan.
Britpop ist nichts für mich
Not my favorite
Yeah, no. The first couple songs were just alright, but the deeper cuts kinda sucked IMO.
not my thing
So tedious.
mid brit pop with some great songs springled in a real long album. they lose a star for being british and for bullying nardwuar.
Not a big fan of britpop. Album was too long. I can see why it would have been good if I liked britpop, or maybe if I was british. IDK
I do NOT like his voice. The music is fine, but dang.
Really cringy 90s rock. It was not my favorite.
There were good tracks on the album, but it felt a bit bloated for what it was. The highs were high and the lows were forgettable. I'd recommend some songs from the album, but I don't think I'd recommend the whole thing.
Album 8/1001: Parklife by Blur. Pinnacle 90s filler music, one song that if played you would immediately recognize the rest feel relegated to movie background music 5/10
sorry, no.
I have never been much for this band. But they're British, so here they are.
If I had to pick a side in the Blur versus Oasis debates that took place in the 90s, I would never pick Blur. They always came over as slightly nerdy failed art-school friends who formed a band to earn some money. I did like the two good tracks on this album, the first one and the album's title. They held up reasonably well, even though they've been played to death for the last 30 years or so. The rest of the album sucked and was incredibly dull. I even considered a 1 star rating at some points, but the two half-decent tracks pulled it back up to 2.
A big meh from me. Most of it was just boring to me. Not really personally a big fan of this genre in general. But Girls & Boys I did quite enjoy though. Other than that it just didn't really hit for me. Too british 🇬🇧☕️ 3/10
This album didn't really leave any lasting inpressions on me and I doubt that I'll come back to it.
Blur sounds like it should be for me but it just isn't.
It’s fine
Sounds like generic Brit garage rock to me - I know it was a huge album but didn’t find myself drawn to it.
britpop... not exactly my jam
Sucks. Just agonizing voices to be forced to listen to.
Londonfornication. America gets RHCP, I guess Britain had Blur? Lol It's like a 1990s Village Green Preservation Society in someways, quirky and very British. "I like Radiohead but I'm also a goofy MFer" oh do we have the band for you. The 90s were weird man lol. It's not awful, why is it almost an hour though?
britpop just not my thing
I’m not a fan of the British “talking singing”, feels like a boyband Just not a fan, feels like it’s too basic, but could see it being fun radio songs etc 1/2***
Only liked the first track
Decent pop rock, not my jam but not terrible
Personally, the lo-if britpop genre is not my favorite. I don’t think I quite finished this album.
Not really my favorite, too pop-ie
Its great British pop. I personally dislike this, but can appreciate it's significance in the genre
This ones not really for me. Pretty typical 90s brit rock, kind of alternative. I got excited when "To The End" came on since I thought it was the end of the album, but then I unfortunately realized I still had half of the album to listen to.
5/10 This...is not it. Definitely overstays its welcome, although the closer tracks are better than the middle section. Kinda boring, I know Brit pop and even Blur can do better.
Many odd choices. I really enjoyed Badhead. I dig Clover Over Dover. This Is A Low is good too.
I didn't think it was bad, but I didn't enjoy it like I did the other albums I've given 3 stars, so I have to do 2 for this one
While only have a couple of standout tracks this album has you questioning "when does it end?" about halfway through. Some tracks were better left completely off the album and the best songs are okay at their best.
Too few bangers, too many smug wankers
Vocal melodies and timbre not good. Not worthwhile.
Meh. Shoe gazer meets electronic meets pop with a dash of I don't care.
This album is a miss for me mainly cause of personal taste, but i feel like i could enjoy the rocky summer vibe some of these songs have, big Zappa vibe on bank holiday but rockier. Still got some nice discoveries there and enjoyed playing the game and hearing it, just not my thing usually. Have to admit the songs are eventful and clearly a good deal of creativity and originality is at work, i can appreciate that and Damon Albarn's early identity.
Not my style , I like some of the guitar work but it was too hokey for me
hmmm
Too much filler!
I never really understood the cult of Blur. Some great singles, but over-rated albums. It's a British thing, isn't it? Maybe you had to be doing coke in Camden in the 90s with the Britpop crew to really _get_ it. And I don't know why they have THREE albums on the 1001 list. They were certainly an epochal English band of the early 90s; they were massive selling and really important in the British scene at the time. They are the most Britpop of all the Britpop bands (Oasis were, ultimately, a bigger band, but they are not quite so typical of the scene). The NME wasted miles of column inches to their every move, and particularly their supposed rivalry with Oasis. Noel Gallagher once described this album as ""Like Southern England personified". I'm not sure he meant it as a compliment (qv. 'London Loves'). Girl & Boys is a terrific single (especially the Pet Shop Boys remix on the 12", which I regularly spin when I am DJing). Robert Christgau opined that it was the only good song on the album. The rest of the album is comprised of generic indie rock or novelty songs. Parklife annoys me more every time I hear it. And it isn't the only novelty song on the record (The Debt Collector, Far Out, But in fairness, I'm not British, and so the specific concerns of such and Anglocentric album don't really speak to me. If you look at the chart performance of this album, there is a marked difference between how it charted in Britian compared to anywhere else in the world, which I think speaks to the cultural specificity of this record. And you certainly don't need to listen to THREE different Blur albums in your life. This is a 2.5 star album for me, in that it isn't really _bad_ per se, except that the constant over praise from the British music press still annoys me. Rounded down.
Best Song: Girls & Boys. Something catchy to sing along to. Worst Song: The Debt Collector. This kind of oom-pah-pah only works ironically, and I fear the artists were truly serious here. Overall: Although I respect how diverse the music on offer here is, I also feel like not a lot of it is that great. The end result is an album that feels a mile wide but an inch deep.
With a few exceptions, this album didn't really do anything for me
nah, i really did try with this record, i really did. inspired by lauras fond tales of bopping around to and from school with it. for an oasis fan a truly great and terrible commitment! i just think its totally fucking wank. oh well.
Nothing really made me want to hit repeat. One and done.
Fine
I will preface this by saying that I’m an American. Maybe if I was British this record would have a different connection with me. Blur seem to have a really playful attitude about them, similar to bands like Phish. I can kinda appreciate that. This record is wildly inconsistent. There are some good songs, but there are also some very bad songs. Some of the highlights were End of a Century, Badhead, Far Out, and This is a Low. Everything else I could do without.
Sounds like the soundtrack to a guy ritchie movie. Its not bad, but this list is making me increasingly weary of british music. Its also boring. 2/5
This is an album which didn’t find many ways to stand out. I don’t like the lead singers voice, I find it quite annoying. However the quirkier middle section and the closing section were definite highlights. This was the type of album where the songs were okay but you wouldn’t come back to many of them. 5/10
Too british.
- Did not know Blur made music like this - Huge Brit-pop vibes - a few whimsical beats in here - Overall not really my jam, but I can respect the quality of the album
A decent track here or there. Mostly fine, some songs were a bit strange which I thought was interesting
Maybe it would be better if it was 10 minutes shorter. Britpop is not really my thing, though.
I did not enjoy this nearly as much as I expected to.
most average background music ive ever heard. second half is better.
There are a couple of songs on this album that I’ll always love. I struggled with Blur when they first landed and this album kinda sums up just why. Damon’s into his mockney phase and it isn’t very pleasant. Even as a kid I felt that he was taking something that wasn’t his and it drove me crazy that others didn’t see it but I know now that’s because we all came from different places. Anyway, fun songs on here and moments of grace too, ie. This is a low.
A very different album. Not my cup of tea.
Så kan jeg bedre lide Oasis
Wow - they REALLY frontloaded this. The first four songs are great pop, real sing-a-long nostalgia stuff. I wasn't really a Blur / Britpop devotee at the time, so don't really know the album, and hearing it now I don't think I missed that much. It hasn't stood the test of time. I can't stand Oasis, and I do like a few Blur tunes, but I do find them pretentious most of the time. The nice middle class lad with the Mockney accent is so, ahem, hackneyed. They wrote a few catchy ditties, but they do often seem to be trying too hard, and the bulk of this bears that out. Also, was it this long when it first came out? If so, why?
Very 90s Britpop, but it doesn’t quite resonate here and now.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz boring
Very mediocre, won't listen to this again
The album never got past second gear. It’s also very English and Damon Alborn sounds like a wanker. Meh.
I tried, but no thanks. I didn't enjoy it in the 1990s and I still don't. The out-of-kilter timings grate and Damon Albarn's sarcastic whine annoys me. Title track is great, but otherwise I don't know what all the fuss was about.
Siis sinänsä tykkään alun soundista, mutta sitten joka biisi on oikeesti vain saman toistoa
After listening to this list for a year, I have discovered that I am not a huge fan of Britpop. I like the lead singers later work with his band Gorillaz, but I just can’t get into his earlier stuff. It just doesn’t appeal to me but I understand why others enjoy it.
The Blur have some good albums. This is not one of them.
I've never listened to blur so to me it really feels like proto-Gorillaz. Feels relatively generic. Albarn's vocals were never my favorite part of Gorillaz and this album has a much heavier focus on them than any Gorillaz album. I'm also not a super big fan of this genre of rock. Could be worse. I could actively hate listening to it. But I wouldn't be the one to put this on given the choice.
Painfully British. Doesn't really start off super strong. The first song on the album was alright I guess. Bank Holiday sounded like a song that would be in a racing or extreme sports game in the mid-2000s (ps2, early 360 era). Most of these sound like bad Gorillas songs. Not a fan of the first disk (like a 4/10 rating) it's not terrible, but not a fan of the lead singer for the most part, but some of the instrumentals are pretty good sometimes they are kinda just mediocre. A lot of songs have cool starts in the production then as more voices (instruments) are added they kind of detract from the cool introduction. London Loves has neat sections, but ends up getting ruined by the lead singers singing; the instrumental part sounds like it would be in Teen Titans as a background song to that British villain. Disk 2 starts off much stronger than disk 1. Never mind it was only the first song on Disk 2 Magpie that was ok; the next two songs arent good. A good portion of Disk 2 aren't "new" songs ast they are just Acoustic versions of songs. a remix and a Frensh version of their songs. So far Beard is the only song I remotely like a good amount and thats because there is no singing and is very jazzy (chaotic jazz). Holy shit Red necks and Alex's Song were probably the worst 2 songs I have heard in a while. 3/10 for disk 2 Overall probably would rate the whole experience a light 4/10 (red flanel)
An extremely average 90s rock album. Wikipedia says Blur were britpop rivals with Oasis. To me, that’s like saying a hammer and nail are “rivals”. One always wins the battle.
Some good songs but can see why oasis won
I was going to listen to this but then the day just got busy and things went by in a real... blur. I will say that I was not looking forward to it, so two stars for low expectations.
Mid
Is it possible that all the music we loved when we were young really, in reality sucked? Were our parents right when they said you're music is awful? Do the new experiences and experimentations that happen when we're younger cloud our judgement? Case in point, this was an album that I casually listened to thirty years ago and can barely tolerate it today. Music is so tied to personal experiences, and I did have a good time growing up, especially during my college years, but I suppose we all do things we'd rather forget, listening and spending money on this album may well be one of them. Again, my younger self would hate me #tooyoungtobeold #realityhurts
Blur’s “Parklife” opens with “Girls & Boys,” a truly annoying song. It gets a bit better after that, but that’s not saying much. “Bank Holiday” is the best song on the album, in a much punkier style that I wish Blur delved into more. I re-read my “Modern Life is Rubbish” review, and I don’t think I could do any better job of summarizing what I think of Blur. So I’ll just leave “Parklife” with its two stars and move on.
Scale: 1: Dissapointing 2: Didn't enjoy 3: Decent 4: Enjoyed 5: Would listen again Girls & Boys: 3/5, chorus cool Tracy Jacks: 1/5, dont like it End of a Century: 2/5, idk Parklife (feat. Phil Daniels): 2.5/5, ok Bank Holiday: 2/5, kind of annoying Badhead: 1/5, boring The Debt Collector: 3/5, ok Far Out: 3.5/5, chill To the End: 1.5/5, annoying London Loves: 3.5/5, cool Trouble in the Message Centre:2.5/5, idk Clover Over Dover: 2/5, idk Magic America: 2/5, uhm Jubilee: 3.5/5, like the beep boops This Is a Low: 1/5, too long and annoying Lot 105: 2/5, yeah Overall: 2.25/5
Why wouldn’t you just listen to Bowie or the Kinks?
I don't like Blur. I can't get into them. This album just doesn't mean much to me. Perhaps it's a cultural phenom and I just am too far removed from it for any resonance.
Singles were fine, pretty mediocre
Does this have the woo hoo song? First track was bad. Some straightforward brit pop. Some "avante garde" "we're trying to do magical mystery tour" shit.
A fine rock album. Nothing really stood out as impressive or terrible, I enjoyed the listen but would probably not revisit when Gorillaz exists.
I was pretty bored and it felt even longer than it actually was
Snoozefest
Debt Collector was incredibly fun but otherwise, this is meh.
Very weird album, at least not at all like the Blur songs I'm used to. Not a fan of their slower stuff.
I was never really in to 90s Brit Pop. And I guess this is why.
Meh
hehheh... hullun näköinen koira koverissa... hullu ilme... bri'ish 90 luku rokki odotin aivan vitusti paskempaa mutta tässä onkin vähän monimuotoisempaa musiikkia mutta faktaa on se... että albumin ydin on mätä ja mikä on naudalla mätä, niin ladossa on hätä... london loves paras biis...
While this is a lot better than the last album I got by blur which was ultra shitty and should’ve gotten a 1, I still didn’t enjoy it very much. Just not for me I guess
I commend them for trying some different things I.e. using their British accents instead of taking in an American Accent. Essentially it is a pop album with many 3 minute songs. “Boys and Girls” & “Parklife” are catchy tunes, but no real depth to the album. Hearing this once was enough for me, but found no value added.
Zou willen zeggen dat ik dit een te 'wazig' bandje vind, maar dat is het eigenlijk. Ik vind het gewoon saai en snap niet helemaal waarom dit zo populair is.
I really don't care for Britpop or Blur very much, although I think this album is decent for what it is.
New one for me. Think I had heard of the group but not the album. Well sounds kind of dated. Not sure how well it's held up. I'll pass.
Interesting that Damon Albarn did music before gorillaz. Had no idea. Kind of a mixed album, some good songs but plenty that just seemed goofy and were not that interesting. Pretty weak album in the majority. 2 stars
considering blur's "song 2", i guess i was hoping this album would be better and more exciting. it was mediocre. not even one song stood out to me.
So, I only knew the infamous "Song 2" from Blur, and was pretty much expecting something in that vein. I was pretty wrong. This is some bizarre indie, britpop, semi-ska contraption. I did like the chipper, sunshine-y nature of it all, but overall, I honestly just could not get into it.
Like Girls & Boys en Magic America. Niet mijn type muziek, wel heel strak gespeeld. Sterk instrumentaal.
Meh ik kwam er niet in misschien dat dit beter wordt als je er vaker naar luistert
Meh
Another generic Brit pop album.
Was okay liked the top songs rest kind of blurred into the background… pun intended
Great punk album, but it's not for me
Man, Damon Albarn's voice is grating
Badhead, The Debt Collector, Clover Over Dover and This Is A Low. You can only listen to these 4 songs, the rest is rather average and is forgotten very quickly. I'm not sure what this album does on this list, but it would be a good candidate to drop to make way for more modern material.
I did not listen a lot that I liked here. It is the second Blur album I've got, and I had the feeling they were almost the same.
Reconheci alguns dos hits.
Fun, alternative album.
some singles I knew, and can see why they were the singles, rest is circus fillers
Album is all over the place, with a handful of excellent songs.
Cool parts but then they sing
Has a handful of good songs most of this drones on and all sounds the same.
Not really a fan. I enjoyed maybe 2 songs. I imagine it's just not my style of music.
6/16=38%
blur are a boring band
Couple okay hits but mediocre then and did not age well
Decent album but nothing special
The tunes are catchy, but each song is basically the chorus played over and over the exact same way. Boring.
Schwer zu ertragen
4/10
It was alright, but I have a hard time with their accents. 0RS
nope, still don´t like this, i should not say hate.....
Lot more filler than I remember.
Of course I'm familiar with Song 2, which was unavoidable when it came out, but before I started this review, my strongest impression of Blur was how much Brian hates them. :joy:Listening to Parklife is a really odd experience. A high level of songcraft is immediately apparent. The rhythmic hooks are jagged and the melodies and harmonies are cunningly constructed, so why is it that they leave next to no impression? What does leave an impression is the arrangements. Blur weaves together crunchy, grungy guitars, snaky 80s synth lines (thankfully in the background), sing-song choral backgrounds, Manchester accented talk-singing about British everyday life, chugging rhythmic parts, churchy organ overlays, and more into a sound that somehow manages to encapsulate the previous quarter century of British rock without sounding like a simple pastiche. On Parklife, Blur has come up with, like it or not, a unique sound.So what do I think of Parklife? Not a lot, actually. Clearly, Blur is a competent band, and I can appreciate what they're doing on an intellectual level, but they just don't appeal to me.Okay, I wrote the previous paragraphs a few songs into the album. Blur frontloaded the most driving, pop-oriented songs. As Parklife goes along, the songwriting and arrangements get increasingly less energetic and more anonymous and twee, not a good combination. At least until London Loves, and then we're back to the punchy sound of the opening tunes. Blur is much better at these sort of uptempo songs, which are at least cheeky instead of wan.I just had an insight--Blur is the 90s version of XTC, not as horrid, of course, but still with a tendency towards the twee and cutesy, best disguised with crunchy guitars. Best in short doses.
definitely not my style of music, very upbeat happy beats and found a few songs i like
Boys & Girls is a bop, otherwise kinda hard to listen to : P
Pretty horrible. Heavy handed lyrics and awful vocals with boring music make for a near hour-long slog. 3
Thought it would be better. I found it kind of boring man.
Boys and Girls und Park Life sind zurecht Hits, finde ich. Ansonsten haben sie bei diesem Album ihren Sound noch nicht so richtig gefunden und klingen ein bisschen wie andere berühmte britpopper.
“Parklife” by Blur (1994) Quality pop that apparently took off in the UK, but not in the US, which apparently has a lower tolerance for ditzy grooves generated by toddling about in an era of geopolitical stability. It could have been enhanced by one or two ominous overtones. What, me worry? Overall, this album is a pleasant enough listen, entertaining without quite rising to the level of good music. I spent considerable time wondering which dog on the cover was my favorite (conclusion: the one on the right. He’s winning!). Well crafted arrangements, with deft but not overbearing dissonance. Nicely done on “Magic America”. Refreshing departures from standard chord progressions, while maintaining popular feel. Nice balance. On the album’s only attempt at introspection (“Badhead”), it seems there’s not much in there to introspect. “This Is a Low” is interesting, highly referential, and stuffed with layers of meaning, chiefly for those living (or interested) in a maritime culture. This song is the highlight of this otherwise lowlight album. Vocal harmonies excel, even if lead vocal quality is limited. The strain for pitch on “To the End” is unbearable. Nicely recorded and produced, but to what end? The songs Herman’s Hermits would have produced If they’d been unleashed by the guys in the suits. 2/5
Bored
Probably wouldn't listen to again.
Pretty meh overall. It had some moments but I found it boring and wanted it to be over after a bit.
Really liked Modern Life Is Rubbish when it was out and remembered being disappointed by Parklife but what do I know? It exploded and became a huge album. Would never think to give this album a spin nowadays, not many tracks stand out on their own and too many are poor versions of The Kinks. Very much of its time but I will always have time for This Is A Low which is fantastic.
Luka mi je sjebo ovaj album iak je dobar ngl
There no denying that Parklife is a great pop song. And ironically This is a Low turned out to be a quite wonderful high point of the album. These tracks aside the rest of the album is pretty, well, rubbish. Generally not a fan of the Britpop genre and this does nothing to change that.
A nice pop album that wanders a bit during its near one hour runtime.
Meh
I just couldnt do it
Keanu reeves in the 90s vibes
Kinda indifferent. the last song was the music in Arrested Development and that was a random surprise.
Not a fan
I was never a fan of the Britpop sound, and after trying to listen to this its confirmed. I couldn’t listen to any of the songs all the way though without being thoroughly bored
90's uk alternative pop rock band. good not great.
very middle of the road. liked one song
Brit pop. A little generic sounding but likely due to being so iconic.
dont like it
Super not our jam. I would have rated this 1/5, but after how bad Tom Waits was, it doesn't seem fair.
Not as engaging as their later efforts. Some tracks have a good deal of life to them, but I feel like most are somewhat repetitive and forgettable. Too much straight britpop with sing-song structure
Wohoo. Ugg.
honestly expected more rather boring and just overall British more than any other unique style
As the first song began to play, I thought it sounded nice: Blur clearly has some Britpop chops. I still think that, but the sequencing and the length ended up souring me to Parklife-in-full. There's a lot of stylistic jumping around, with not enough fun being had in it. At the same time, the high points aren't high enough to perk up my ears. It's a fifty-minute grab bag of tracks, all of which end up sounding nice enough. It might be a gem for someone who liked each of the songs just a little more, but for me it outlives its welcome. The cover would be striking on a shelf: I give them that Blur unreservedly.
Ok this is amateur as fuck. The last blur album was shit and it was way better than this. 2/5.
Bonkmachine <br>
Another complete surprise, but a profoundly negative one. I thought I liked (or at least tolerated) Blur. But this album, new to me, was formulaic, asinine, and way too cute.
Painful, and some of the songs were downright cringeworthy
Those britpop vocals are like nails on a chalkboard
I swear man, the British are responsible for some of the best but ALOT of the weirdest fucking music I have ever heard. This shit is not good. The fact that this shit has over a 3 and some other albums struggle to break average shows me how flawed yall opinions are. Who is the target audience for this type of music? I am so serious rn.
No entiendo como compitió con oasis este disco
I know Blur from "Song 2." That song is not on this album. Parklife is Britpop — very English, very 1994, jumping between styles without warning. "Girls & Boys" is fine. The rest is all over the place. 1/5 — wrong album, wrong mood, wrong me.
Needed to put it down halfway through because it was so annoying, I hate his stupid voice.
More Britpop noise. The best part of this album is that it ended.
This was a no for me. I don’t care for Blur’s music nor was this inspirational or memorable to me.
I feel every single song was the same
favs: the debt collector far out to the end london loves rating 1.3/5
almost unlistenable, thanks
I was expecting something like The Stones Roses, but this is nothing like The Stone Roses and also terrible.
I didn't listen to it
ass
Thanks, I hate it.
Absolutely terrible like horrendously
This albums sounds like they are trying to mix music from the past (specifically beat, a bit of post-punk and new wave) and give it a new twist, but somehow it doesn't work.
I had heard the first song but it was certainly not indicative of the best of the album. I’m not sure who this band wants to be but I can’t say I really care. Leads vocal is irritating and the music style was all over the map of a place I never want to visit again.
Innovativ? Herausragend? Nö, öde, das übliche Britpop-Gejaule! Forget it!
Not for me
this is so bad and hurts my ears i hate the british
Never heard, not a fav, still waiting on my fav by then to show up.
ok so i thought i liked blur but this was not good
I really dislike this… End of the century is ok and probably pushes this up to a 1.5 but the rest of it is not for me
No me interesó.
Boys and Girls is a great song. I just didn’t like the rest. Played the album in the car and Iggy seemed to like it. “Only when they are singing, not while they are talking.”
The album cover alone gave me a gross feeling. Maybe if I had heard it in 1994 I would’ve enjoyed more?
Nah
More mediocre Brit pop bullshit that didnt need to be on this list
not my jive...poorly executed punk...drums to heavy.
I don't like Blur one bit.
Gaar experimenteel album. Bank Holiday afgezet want ik was aan het werken en ik werd gek. Als je de rare experimentele kermis muziek negeert zitten en wel een aantal leuke tracks tussen. Het album ga ik never nooit meer in z'n geheel luisteren. Vast allemaal innovatief en boundary/convention pushing voor z'n tijd, maar simply not enjoyable to listen to. Liked Songs: Clover Over Dover
Did not like. Leipe britse bias dat dit in de lijst staat.
Radiohead’s greatest musical achievement was killing BritPop.
This is clown music
I liked “this is a low” and that is it. I really did not enjoy this album and it took me ages to complete. Not really sure why it is so critically acclaimed, the whole thing felt messy and incohesive, just because someone sings with an accent doesn’t make it good.
“It’s nothing special” - Blur. Except especially too long. Almost gave it a 2 because Girls and Boys has some precursor/ancestral hints to The Killers Somebody Told Me. But dragged down by too much rubbish as the Brits would say.
I do not like Blur. I went in with an open mind as to not ruin my listening experience, but this just reminded me why I don’t like blur. It sounds like several different bands fighting for attention on this record and all of them band. Stupid, pretentious, postering nonsense. Get to fuck.
🤮
I had a tinge of irony today when I listened to ‘Bank Holiday’ on a Bank Holiday. Unfortunately, that’s the closest I came to any sort of feeling other than complete disbelief and boredom at this pisspoor excuse of an album. The dogs on the cover are running away from a Blur live show, no doubt. This is absolutely awful, kitschy pop.
Hmmmmm gad vide hvordan det er 🙀🙀🙀🙀
Ordinary
Everyone agrees that our phones are listening to us but I don't think people are aware that the 1001 Albums Generator is also listening. Talk shit on Girls & Boys and the generator will punish you with Blur. When this album doesn't bore me, it annoys me. Every song had a moment where I'd hit my limit, look down at the runtime, and somehow there would always be 2 minutes left of pain.
A rare 1. This album really annoyed me. Generic boring brit-pop dnf. Why is this on the list? Genuinely I could find better music on the radio
Listen, Damen Albern is a legend. But this is just bland Brit pop. I couldn't find a single song worth revisiting.
Terrible album
Not bad. If any of these songs came on a station or Playlist I'd listen.
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No thanks
Naw
Albarn's vocals are particularly annoying here. Not a single stand out track; produced well enough
made it through the first 4 songs. gg
Ight. Just ight
No me ha gustado
Absolutely awful. Parklife was okay, and that's as good as it got. I couldn't even finish it and gave up after To the End.
Chaotic
I don’t think I like Blur. End of a Century might be the only half-decent track on here for me. Everything else is insufferable, grating, and practically unlistenable.
Mmmmmm, nah
Britpop shit Tony Blair shit
Not my cup of tea. It was not the worst that I have ever heard and I found myself tapping my foot a few times. The Debt Collector had me feeling like I was at a circus. Very strange. If someone else was into this album and wanted to listen to it, I would be ok to listen again, but I would never seek it out on my own. One and done is ok for me.
Not for me. 1/5
Another 90's album that's overly long! And with brit-pop to boot. 1.5 stars
13 year old me might have vibed with this - but that's also questionable! This was boring af 🫠 Album rating: ⭐
Pure crap !
Gruwelijke zeik-nummers
Mostly derivative of the kinks. I love the kinks but not this.
Great. Another Britpop band... The British catch a lot of hell for their bland food, but they don't get near enough grief for enjoying bland music. Why do they all have to sound like the unholy marriage of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Wonderwall!? I feel a little bad because this album was at least slightly less boring than The Verve's "Urban Hymns" that came up a couple of days ago, but because I'm still not over how awful that was, I'm punishing this one with a one star rating.
Feels like I've listened to a soundtrack to a shitty British sitcom, where the characters are all unrelateable posh wankers.
This barely sounds like music to met. It's just a bunch of noises put over each other
I want to write this while this record is very fresh in my mind. Mainly so I never have to suffer through it again. God damn, I hated this. I’m sorry to the fans out there, and I will say I like Gorillaz, and even Damon Albarn’s solo record, so I went in with some excitement, but was in pure misery by the end of it. I’m on a road trip right now, and decided to chip away at my long list of 1001 albums, and Parklife sucked the life out of the car. When listening to Chic I was talking about how much I love the road. Blur made me want to crash the car. I’m sure there’s some genius I’m missing, but I have to say this is amongst my least favorite albums ever.
not my vibe
Not for me.
Dislike this Blur album. Much prefer Blur (1997).
Lots or repetition within each song. The little short tracks spring led in were a nice little surprise but kind of odd music (organs I think?) Liked Nw Low the best.
A couple of classics with Parklife and Boys & Girls. Unfortunately the rest of the album was mediocre at best and total drivel at worst
I appreciate how timely this is, given the Oasis reunion news. There is one good song on this album and a bunch of unbelievably annoying ones. It is absolutely insane that they were ever placed in a "rivalry" with the Gallagher brothers, who are absolute knobs and wildly overrated in their own right, but Blur never came close.
I didn't like this music when it came out. And I still don't like this music however many years later. The cover is better than the music within.
Oh my fucking life. I don't hate them because I'm an Oasis fan. I hate them because they're shit.
Coldplay? Early Radiohead? Late Oasis? Nope, those are all better than this. And it all comes down to the songwriting. The only redeeming quality about this record in my mind is it’s the album in which Damon developed a lyrical style and musical intention that would allow him to form the Gorillaz, whom would take any day over this mediocre Britpop After listening to it throughout the day is like to punch in the mouth whomever put this on this list. This is the most boring, bland, non-inspirational record. It’s ’fine’ but I absolutely couldn’t gone my whole life without hearing it.
Got bored enough I gave up somewhere around song 4.
This was an actively unpleasant listen. Lyrics intended to just sound silly and mean nothing, music that gives me a headache, and this entire vibe of "cheeky British" that I detest. I have nothing positive to say.
boring
Shite
Hated this. Couldn't even listen to most of it.
Puuuh rundum anstrengend gewesen und nicht wirklich was davon ist bei mir hängen geblieben.
1, I don't know why I thought that Blur was supposed to be one of the best
Very loud and scattered all over the place (not in a good way).
Not into it
Nicht meine Richtung
Unknown
No me convertiré en un fan de Blur.
1. girlz and boyz - 1 2. tracy jackz - 0 3. end of a century - 0 4. parklife - 0 5. bank holiday - 0 6. bad head - 0 7. debt collector - 0 8. far out - 0 9. to the end - 0 10. london lovez - 0 11. trouble in the mezzage - 1 12. clover - 0 13. magic america - 0 14. jubilee - 1 15. thiz iz louu - 1 16. lot 105 - 0
One good song
I was annoyed with this album. 0.5/5
I like a couple of songs but the rest are rubbish and it’s not my cup of tea
One of the 90’s bands that were, a one hit wonder. Not impressed with there other music.
did not like
I really did not like this album. most of it i found so annoying that I mad to skip. some were nice vibes but the vocals were so bad.
I usually love British pop:punk. I don’t like this. End of the day. Couple songs were okay but that’s it
There was not much I liked about this album.
Yuk. Not my style.
Not for me. Some of the short songs were catchy and sounded like commercial jingles.
More UK rock that I just don’t like. Not the worst album this shit has given me. No more Brit rock please
Diese Musik ist nicht meine.
Hmmm. A few interesting songs, not quite my taste though. (Also sort of skimmed through the album, so not the best rating) Onto the next one !
I really respect a lot of what Damon Albarn has done for the pop-rock industry, but his earlier Blur albums just don't do it for me. Where most of the 90s consisted of American grunge and punk, Blur was just continuing along a weird, cornball saga.
No
Not for me.
idk man, its just really bad
No.
Listened to the first sing and turned it off
Honestly not a very good album. I really didn’t find one song that I thought was decent.
Ei pysty puolikkaita antaa ylläpito perkele wish u nyt!!!! Brittiläistä keiton hämmentelyä perkele vedenpaisumus ja saari osaksi merta perkele heh Musiikissa hauskoja elementtejä naurattane välillä loppu varsinkin oikein hupaisaisa.. siitä kavereille puoli tähteä..
Im a blur hater
Who would’ve guessed that the band that made the hit song song 2 would make an album that sucks
Garbage
Banal. Stop trying to make Blur happen. It's not going to happen. Best track: To the End
shite
Iskevä (joskaan ei erityisen HYVÄ) aloitusbiisi. Muuten levy jää jumittamaan minimaalisista aineksista venytettyihin täytebiiseihin. Ideoiden puutteessa voi tuntua riittävältä, että lisää biisiin jonkun jännän raidan erikoisella soittimella tai soundilla. Mutta ei se riitä.
Ass
One imagines that Blur saw themselves as chroniclers of the everyday on Parklife, the Kinks of the bold 1990s. However, they fail to rise above their own prurience, resulting in an album that comes across as a sneer of condescension at the lower orders. Add in Damon Albarn's unappealing foghorn voice and you've got a stinker on your hands. Worst live band I've ever witnessed, too.
eh…
My son summed it up well when he asked, "Does this band have any good songs?" It's mostly intensely irritating clown music, with a couple of soppy melodramas. "Girls and Boys" is a definite highlight, but it's downhill from there.
Terrifyingly dull.
Really boring and just not good
Not my style
Not my fav, must not be a Blur fan..
Blech
0couldn't listen through the first two tracks - skipped through, stopped and listened to a couple more tracks but I found nothing that is "must hear".
as English as tuppence, mockney Britpop
Не мое
I have an instinctive dislike of this record since I was in the North during the Britpop Wars. The singles are fun, although Boys and Girls is impossible to sing along to. Parklife has become so much part of culture that it's hardly a song anymore. On this album, Blur don't really seem to know what they want to be, beyond the novelty singles and the cod chanson it's all a bit forgettable. And don't get me started on the bleated mockney vocals. Ultimately, Mogwai put it best: Blur are shite.
Kolejny blur na liscie, dzien w ruinie, jest to rzeci studyjny krazek bandy, ale chyba pierwszy ktory przyniosl im mainstreamowy sukces, bo jak pan Damon powie, ze zrobi album, ktory kazdemu anglikanowi sie spodoba i w radio beda go grac, to tak bedzie, jest to kompilacja najbardziej mialkich popowych kawalkow utrzymanych w klimacie okolo synthowym polaczonym z brzmieniem alternatywnego rocka, wiec typowy britpop, jak przystalo na wyspiarska muzyke z lat 90, o ile szanuje Damona za muzyke, ktora tworzy w gorillazach, tak jestem hejterem blura, bo nie slychac przez kogo jest tworzona muzyka, wszystko brzmi jak muzyka tworzona przez nikogo dla kazdego, wiec masa instrumentow, synthow i mialkosc liryki dobija przez cale 16 trakow rozciagnietych na 52 miniuty, najblizej prawdziwej muzyki stoi chyba tytulowy traczek, ktory featuruje dodatkowa narracje, wiec nie sam pan Damon opowiada historie, jak na reszcie plyty, chociaz reszta bandy wspiera go typowymi chorkami, kolejnym trakiem wartym uwagi z tych 16 bedzie otwierajacy girls&boys, ktory przywodzi mi na mysl tworczosc The The przez ten dencingowy beat oparty na synthach, ale na plejke dodam jedynie parklife, pewnie nie jest to ostatnie spotkanie z blurem, bo przeciez chluba brytyjskiej muzyki popularnej