Blur
Parklife 2LP (special edition) vinyl

Although Blur had long been recognised as one of the premier bands responsible for the reinvigoration of Britpop in the 1990s, it is 1994's Parklife that truly provided the template for the entire movement. At a time when Oasis were aping the sounds of their pub-rock heroes on Definitely Maybe, Blur drew from the legacy of the Kinks and Small Faces to create an album that's as English as a rainy Sunday in front of the gas fire.

Parklife is full of songs that find joy in the mundane, like "Girls & Boys" (a song about working-class holidaymakers in the sun) and "Parklife" (a day in the life of a cheeky, unemployed bench-sitter).

Witty, ironic and irreverent, Parklife remains one of those rare albums that sum up a specific place and time (Britain in the mid-1990s).

NEW / Released in 1994 / Reissue

Tracklist:

A1 Girls & Boys

A2 Tracy Jacks

A3 End Of A Century

B1 Parklife

B2 Bank Holiday

B3 Badhead

B4 The Debt Collector

B5 Far Out

C1 To The End

C2 London Loves

C3 Trouble In The Message Centre

C4 Clover Over Dover

D1 Magic America

D2 Jubilee

D3 This Is A Low

D4 Lot 105