8/22/2023 0 Comments Blur parklife vinyl![]() The elegaic 'Badhead,' with its chiming guitar and tasteful brass, is lovely, while 'Tracy Jacks' addresses stereotypes (better than the other Blur song of that name) with the line 'I'd love to stay here and be normal but it's just so overrated.' ] The title track is famous thanks to Phil Daniels, but really not one of the standouts here. Beach Boys rivalry thirty years earlier, both bands produced their greatest work before even beginning their competition, Oasis with their debut and Blur with this masterpiece.Ĭountless elements of Britain and its people are explored across this album's 53 enthralling minutes monarchism in 'Jubilee ' everyday proletarianism in the title track fashion trends and subcultures, as well as millenial interest in 'End Of A Century' bank holidays on.well, 'Bank Holiday' taxation and debt on 'The Debt Collector.' No stone is left unturned.Īnd from this concept/theme you get some of Blur's finest songs. It also came out in the same year as Oasis' debut album shook the world's foundations and the Blur vs. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2023Ī quasi-concept album about Britain and its Americanisation, Parklife is the peak of Blur, coming as the second part of their Britpop trilogy, after the poorly received (commercially at least) Modern Life Is Rubbish and before the decent The Great Escape. Is the vinyl "comeback" actually a regress? And to think i was going to become a record store owner myself!?! Thanks again Amazon for being so reasonable and taking back these post covid crappy produced records. Well, i will keep the faith and keep trying cause good ones do make it through but this time im sticking with my CD. I even feel sorry for Amazon and how many people in the world say this lol. I have to waste my time returning and returning. Even though that was doable 70 years ago. Now they want nigh £40 for a product made out of a small bit of pvc they cant be bothered to produce properly. When demand was low the pressing standards were WAY higher and the prices of records were also at least sane. This kind of shoddy work in vinyl production is why im sad that the medium has taken off again. Side 4 is - lets just say - not a good listen. Sure, as a result the records are unusually flat for heavyweights but the constant unpleasant noises from non fill offsets this massively. So the pressing plant has decided to go to the trouble of using more vinyl than necessary (this heavyweight fad really is a downside on every level) to create a good sounding record but then decided to release the press too soon and too quickly leaving the grooves not fully formed. What you can see is extensive patches of non fill on side 4. However my copy of Parklife looks - on careful and close inspection - like the one above. Yet its not a new thing to press a record well. One or two plants get it right 8 times out of 10 and some almost never do. A record CAN be silent and free of background noise (on proper decent and well setup equipment at least) and thats been the case since the 50s. On vinyl they ask four times as much as the CD and at this premium price the pressings need to be perfect or at least 99% as perfect as a record can be. The Blur 2012 remasters are a good if not audiophile listen on CD and Vinyl.
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