1/31/2024 0 Comments Parklife album coverParklife went straight in at Number 1, selling 27,000 copies in its first week – it would have to wait until the week before Christmas 1994 to notch up its biggest weekly sales, when it shifted almost 40,000 copies.Īfter Girls And Boys went Top 5, Parklife spawned three more Top 20 singles: To The End (16), Parklife (10) and End Of A Century (19). But while bands of the Britpop genre had enjoyed considerable success, it was Blur who first converted this into Number 1s and a mainstream following. The beginning of the Britpop movement – essentially a media buzzword that covered lots of different types of music but was shorthand for "bands with a fondness for guitars from the UK" – is widely accredited to the cover of the April 1993 edition of dear departed music magazine Select featuring Suede frontman Brett Anderson. The track marked a poppier, cheekier sound for Blur, and paved the way for the release that would see Britpop go mega-mainstream – Parklife.īritpop wasn’t a new concept. So what next for Blur aka Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree? It was bolshy chant Girls And Boys that turned things around for the band, giving them their biggest hit so far when it peaked at Number 5. Their debut hit There’s No Other Way and its parent album Leisure had made them the darlings of the music scene, but times had changed and while there was enough critical acclaim for the band, it wasn’t translating into sales or chart positions. “Street’s like a jungle, so call the police…” is the opening to one of the most talked about albums of the ‘90s.īlur would be the first to admit that they were in need of a big comeback following the milder than anticipated success of their second album Modern Life Is Rubbish. It’s 20 years since Britpop went stratospheric as Blur’s third album Parklife went straight in at the Number 1 spot.
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