Blur - Parklife (1994) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012

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Blur - Parklife (1994) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 778 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 288 Mb | Scans included | 01:49:33
Alternative Rock, BritPop, Dance Rock | Label: EMI Music Japan | # TOCP 71340-41

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of their debut release, Blur s break-through album Parklife has now been remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright (The Smiths, Arcade Fire, New Order, Joy Division), with the remastering overseen by legendary original producer, Stephen Street.

The first of five No 1 albums for the band, the four times platinum selling Parklife transformed Blur into the biggest band in the country and the Parklife Special Edition certainly doesn t fall short of that status. The accompanying bonus disc begins by collecting together all b-sides from all formats of the Girls And Boys, To The End, Parklife and End Of A Century singles, which contain - among many lesser-known Blur tracks - a Pet Shop Boys remix of Girls And Boys, a rendition of To The End with Damon singing in French, Graham s take on Country and Western in Red Necks and a rare appearance of a track written by Alex on, Alex s Song. Also included are previously unreleased acoustic versions of Jubilee and Parklife recorded for a BBC Radio 1 session in 1994 and the previously unreleased Cadena 40 Principales Acoustic Version of End Of A Century, which featured on a Spanish-only promo for the single.

The Parklife Special Edition is housed in a deluxe lift-off lid box with four exclusive Blur artwork postcards and an expanded booklet that includes previously unseen photos and liner notes based on a brand new interview with all the band members.

Modern Life Is Rubbish established Blur as the heir to the archly British pop of the Kinks, the Small Faces, and the Jam, but its follow-up, Parklife, revealed the depth of that transformation. Relying more heavily on Ray Davies' seriocomic social commentary, as well as new wave, Parklife runs through the entire history of post-British Invasion Brit-pop in the course of 16 songs, touching on psychedelia, synth pop, disco, punk, and music hall along the way. Damon Albarn intended these songs to form a sketch of British life in the mid-'90s, and it's startling how close he came to his goal; not only did the bouncy, disco-fied "Girls & Boys" and singalong chant "Parklife" become anthems in the U.K., but they inaugurated a new era of Brit-pop and lad culture, where British youth celebrated their country and traditions. The legions of jangly, melodic bands that followed in the wake of Parklife revealed how much more complex Blur's vision was. Not only was their music precisely detailed – sound effects and brilliant guitar lines pop up all over the record – but the melodies elegantly interwove with the chords, as in the graceful, heartbreaking "Badhead." Surprisingly, Albarn, for all of his cold, dispassionate wit, demonstrates compassion that gives these songs three dimensions, as on the pathos-laden "End of a Century," the melancholy Walker Brothers tribute "To the End," and the swirling, epic closer, "This Is a Low." For all of its celebration of tradition, Parklife is a thoroughly modern record in that it bends genres and is self-referential (the mod anthem of the title track is voiced by none other than Phil Daniels, the star of Quadrophenia). And, by tying the past and the present together, Blur articulated the mid-'90s Zeitgeist and produced an epoch-defining record.

[EMI's deluxe 2012 double-disc expansion of Parklife contains the 1994 album on the first disc and a host of B-sides and rarities on the second. Parklife is where Blur hit their stride and this is evident even throughout the B-sides collected here. Sure, there are songs that are proud throwaways – Graham Coxon's spiteful, boozy pisstake "Red Necks" and Alex James' tweaked twee "Alex's Song" – but there are also moments of shivering beauty, as in the Ziggy Stardust homage "Peter Panic," the gleefully nasty disco "People in Europe," and the barbed pop of "Threadneedle Street." To these B-sides acoustic versions of "Jubilee" (a song that does not easily lend itself to such an arrangement), "Parklife," and "End of a Century" are added, rounding out a generous and entertaining bonus disc.]

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com




Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Girls & Boys (04:50)
02. Tracy Jacks (04:19)
03. End Of A Century (02:44)
04. Parklife (03:05)
05. Bank Holiday (01:40)
06. Badhead (03:25)
07. The Debt Collector (02:10)
08. Far Out (01:37)
09. To The End (04:04)
10. London Loves (04:15)
11. Trouble In The Message Centre (04:08)
12. Clover Over Dover (03:22)
13. Magic America (03:37)
14. Jubilee (02:47)
15. This Is A Low (05:07)
16. Lot 105 (01:18)

CD2:

01. Magpie (04:16)
02. Anniversary Waltz (01:22)
03. People In Europe (03:28)
04. Peter Panic (04:20)
05. Girls And Boys (Pet Shop Boys 12'' Remix) (07:15)
06. Threadneedle Street (03:17)
07. Got Yer! (01:47)
08. Beard (01:43)
09. To The End (French Version) (04:04)
10. Supa Shoppa (03:01)
11. Theme From An Imaginary Film (03:34)
12. Red Necks (02:52)
13. Alex's Song (02:43)
14. Jubilee (Acoustic BBC Live Version) (02:31)
15. Parklife (Acoustic BBC Live Version) (02:58)
16. End Of A Century (Acoustic Version) (02:42)
17. Girls And Boys (Demo) (04:54)


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