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词条 Parklife
释义

  1. Recording

  2. Music

  3. Title and cover

  4. Reception

     Commercial performance  Accolades 

  5. Track listing

  6. Personnel

  7. Charts and certifications

     Weekly charts  Certifications 

  8. References

  9. Notes

  10. External links

{{Other uses|Parklife (disambiguation)}}{{EngvarB|date=September 2013}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2013}}{{Infobox album
| name = Parklife
| type = studio
| artist = Blur
| cover = BlurParklife.jpg
| alt =
| released = 25 April 1994
| recorded = August 1993 – January 1994
| venue =
| studio = {{plainlist|
  • Maison Rouge, Fulham
  • RAK Studios, St. John's Wood, London}}

| genre = Britpop
| length = 52:39
| label = Food, SBK
| producer = Stephen Street, Stephen Hague, John Smith and Blur
| prev_title = Modern Life Is Rubbish
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = The Special Collectors Edition
| next_year = 1994
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Parklife
| type = studio
| single1 = Girls & Boys
| single1date = 7 March 1994
| single2 = To the End
| single2date = 30 May 1994
| single3 = Parklife
| single3date = 22 August 1994
| single4 = End of a Century
| single4date = 7 November 1994
| single5 = This Is a Low
| single5date = 3 January 1995
| single6 = Tracy Jacks (U.S. only)
| single6date = December 1994
}}
}}

Parklife is the third studio album by the English rock band Blur, released in April 1994 on Food Records. After disappointing sales for their previous album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: "Girls & Boys", "End of a Century", "Parklife" and "To the End".

Certified four times platinum in the United Kingdom,[1] in the year following its release the album came to define the emerging Britpop scene, along with the album Definitely Maybe by future rivals Oasis. Britpop in turn would form the backbone of the broader Cool Britannia movement. Parklife therefore has attained a cultural significance above and beyond its considerable sales and critical acclaim, cementing its status as a landmark in British rock music.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} It has sold over five million copies worldwide.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Recording

In 1990, a year before Blur's debut album, Damon Albarn, the band's vocalist, had told a group of music journalists, "When our third album comes out, our place as the quintessential English band of the '90s will be assured. That is a simple statement of fact. I intend to write it in 1994."[2]

After the completion of recording sessions for Blur's previous album, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Albarn began to write prolifically. Blur demoed Albarn's new songs in groups of twos and threes.[3] Due to their precarious financial position at the time, Blur quickly went back into the studio with producer Stephen Street to record their third album.[4] Blur met at the Maison Rouge recording studio in August 1993 to record their next album.[3] The recording was a relatively fast process, apart from the song "This Is a Low".

While the members of Blur were pleased with the final result, Food Records owner David Balfe was not, telling the band's management "This is a mistake". Soon afterwards, Balfe sold Food to EMI.[5]

Music

Blur frontman Damon Albarn told NME in 1994, "For me, Parklife is like a loosely linked concept album involving all these different stories. It's the travels of the mystical lager-eater, seeing what's going on in the world and commenting on it." Albarn cited the Martin Amis novel London Fields as a major influence on the album. Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher was once quoted saying that Parklife was, "Like Southern England personified".[6] The songs themselves span many genres, such as the synthpop-influenced hit single "Girls & Boys", the instrumental waltz interlude of "The Debt Collector", the punk rock-influenced "Bank Holiday", the spacey, Syd Barrett-esque "Far Out",[7] and the fairly new wave-influenced "Trouble in the Message Centre". Journalist John Harris commented that while many of the album's songs "reflected Albarn's claims to a bittersweet take on the UK's human patchwork", he stated that several songs, including "To the End" (featuring Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab) and "Badhead" "lay in a much more personal space".[8]

Title and cover

The album was originally going to be entitled London and the album cover shot was going to be of a fruit-and-vegetable cart. Albarn stated tongue-in-cheek, "That was the last time that Dave Balfe was, sort of, privy to any decision or creative process with us, and that was his final contribution: to call it London".[9] The cover refers to the British pastime of greyhound racing.[10] Most of the pictures in the CD booklet are of the band in the greyhound racing venue Walthamstow Stadium, although the actual cover was not shot there.[11] The album cover for Parklife was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.[12][13]

Reception

{{Album reviews
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}[14]
| rev2 = Chicago Tribune
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}[15]
| rev3 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[16]
| rev4 = Los Angeles Times
| rev4Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}[17]
| rev5 = NME
| rev5Score = 9/10[18]
| rev6 = Pitchfork
| rev6Score = 9.5/10[19]
| rev7 = Q
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}[20]
| rev8 = Rolling Stone
| rev8Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[21]
| rev9 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev9Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[22]
| rev10 = Select
| rev10score = 5/5[23]

}}

Johnny Dee, reviewing Parklife for NME, called it "a great pop record", adding "On paper it sounds like hell, in practice it's joyous."[18] Paul Evans of Rolling Stone stated that with "one of this year's best albums", the band "realize their cheeky ambition: to reassert all the style and wit, boy bonding and stardom aspiration that originally made British rock so dazzling."[21] Conversely, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice indicated that the only good song on the album was "Girls & Boys".[24]

Parklife remains one of the most acclaimed albums of the 1990s. In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine commented: "By tying the past and the present together, Blur articulated the mid-'90s zeitgeist and produced an epoch-defining record."[14]

Commercial performance

Upon release, Parklife debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for 90 weeks.[25][26] It reached number six on the Billboard Top Heatseekers album chart in the United States.[27] In the UK it sold 27,000 copies in its first week and would see a resurgence in sales the week before Christmas of 1994, with weekly sales of 40,000.[28] Parklife is Blur’s bestselling studio album in the UK, with just over a million copies sold.[28]

Accolades

Parklife has received accolades since its official release and is largely seen not only as one of the best albums of 1994 and its decade, but of all time. The album was nominated to the 1994 Mercury Prize, but it lost to M People's Elegant Slumming.[29] Blur also won four awards at the 1995 Brit Awards, including Best British Album for Parklife.[30] The album was listed as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[31]

In 2003, Pitchfork placed the album at number 54 on their Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list.[32] In 2006, British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll of which, 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Parklife was placed at number 34 on the list.[33] The album has been hailed as a "Britpop classic".[34]

In April 2014, American LGBT magazine Metro Weekly ranked the album at number 29 in its list of the "50 Best Alternative Albums of the 90s."[35] In July 2014, Guitar World placed Parklife in its "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.[36] The album was ranked at number 171 on Spin{{'}}s "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)" list.[37] In 2017, Pitchfork listed the album at number two in its list "The 50 Best Britpop Albums."[38]

Track listing

All music by Blur and all lyrics by Albarn, except "Far Out" written by James.

  1. "Girls & Boys" – 4:50
  2. "Tracy Jacks" – 4:20
  3. "End of a Century" – 2:46
  4. "Parklife" (featuring Phil Daniels) – 3:05
  5. "Bank Holiday" – 1:42
  6. "Badhead" – 3:25
  7. "The Debt Collector" – 2:10
  8. "Far Out" – 1:41
  9. "To the End" – 4:05
  10. "London Loves" – 4:15
  11. "Trouble in the Message Centre" – 4:09
  12. "Clover Over Dover" – 3:22
  13. "Magic America" – 3:38
  14. "Jubilee" – 2:47
  15. "This Is a Low" – 5:07
  16. "Lot 105" – 1:17
  17. "Girls & Boys (Pet Shop Boys 12" Remix)" – 7:16 (Japan bonus track)

Personnel

Blur
  • Damon Albarn – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, Hammond organ, Moog synthesiser, melodica, vibraphone, recorder, programming
  • Graham Coxon – guitars, backing vocals, clarinet, saxophone, percussion
  • Alex James – bass guitar, vocals on "Far Out"
  • Dave Rowntree – drums, percussion, programming
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Additional musicians
  • Stephen Street – synthesizer, sound effects, programming
  • Lætitia Sadier – vocals on "To the End"
  • Phil Daniels – narration on "Parklife"
  • Stephen Hague – accordion
String quartet
  • Chris Tombling
  • Audrey Riley
  • Leo Payne MBE
  • Chris Pitsillides
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Duke strings
  • Louisa Fuller – violin
  • Rick Koster – violin
  • Mark {{Not a typo|Pharoah}} – violin{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}
  • John Metcalfe – string arrangement, viola
  • Ivan McCready – cello
Kick horns
  • Richard Edwards – trombone
  • Roddy Lorimer – flugelhorn, trombone
  • Tim Sanders – tenor sax, soprano sax
  • Simon Clarke – baritone sax, alto sax, flute[39]
{{col-end}}

Charts and certifications

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Weekly charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[40] 45
Canadian Albums Chart 41
European Albums Chart[41] 8
Finnish Albums Chart[42] 32
Icelandic Albums Chart[43]4
Irish Albums Chart[44] 3
Japanese Albums Chart[45] 36
New Zealand Albums Chart[46] 27
Norwegian Albums Chart[47] 37
Swedish Albums Chart[48] 8
UK Albums Chart[25] 1
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Certifications

{{Certification Table Top}}
|-
| Canada (CRIA)[49]
| Gold
| 50,000
|-
| Sweden (SRIA)[50]
| Gold
| 50,000
|-
| United Kingdom (BPI)[51]
| 4× Platinum
| 1,200,000{{Certification Table Summary}}
| Europe (IFPI)
| Platinum[50]
| 1,000,000{{Certification Table Bottom}}{{col-end}}

References

  • Harris, John. Britpop! Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock, 2004. {{ISBN|0-306-81367-X}}

Notes

1. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27167392 | title=Damon Albarn on Blur's Parklife, 20 years on | work=BBC News | date=26 April 2014 | accessdate=25 October 2016}}
2. ^Cavanagh, David, England's Dreaming, Mojo Magazine, June 1994, pg. 66
3. ^1 Cavanagh, David; Maconie, Stuart. "How did they do that? – Parklife". Select. May 1995
4. ^Harris, p. 97
5. ^Harris, p. 139
6. ^Moody, Paul. "We Can Be Eros Just For One Day". NME. 5 March 1994.
7. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/q94h |title=Review of Blur – Parklife |publisher=BBC Music |date=23 April 2007 |accessdate=4 December 2011 |last=Easlea |first=Daryl}}
8. ^Harris, p. 140
9. ^Essential Albums of the 90s: Blur – Parklife BBC/6music. Aired on 10 November 2010.
10. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/1278/Blur-Parklife/ |title=Blur – Parklife (album review) |date=16 January 2005 |work=Sputnikmusic |accessdate=24 January 2012}}
11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nme.com/news/blur/36730 |title=Dog track that inspired Blur's 'Parklife' album art to close |work=NME |date= 20 May 2008 |accessdate=24 December 2011}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=Classic Album Covers: Issue Date – 7 January 2010 |url=http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps/content1?catId=32300674&mediaId=112400790 |publisher=Royal Mail |accessdate=8 January 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219004400/http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps/content1?catId=32300674&mediaId=112400790 |archivedate=19 February 2012 |df= }}
13. ^{{cite news| url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/08/coldplay-album-stamp-approval | title=Coldplay album gets stamp of approval from Royal Mail | work=The Guardian |date=8 January 2010| accessdate = 8 January 2010 | location=London | first=Sean | last=Michaels}}
14. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/parklife-mw0000624951 |title=Parklife – Blur |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=1 November 2007 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |authorlink=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}
15. ^{{cite news |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-07-07/features/9407070046_1_star-blur-parklife |title=Brilliant Brits |work=Chicago Tribune |date=7 July 1994 |accessdate=18 November 2015 |last=Kot |first=Greg |authorlink=Greg Kot}}
16. ^{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=0-85712-595-8}}
17. ^{{cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-19/entertainment/ca-5736_1_new-albums |title=Blur, 'Parklife,' SBK/ERG |work=Los Angeles Times |date=19 June 1994 |accessdate=18 November 2015 |last=Hochman |first=Steve}}
18. ^1 {{cite journal |url=http://www.vblurpage.com/articles/albums/parklife_nme.htm |title=Blur – Parklife |work=NME |date=April 1994 |accessdate=4 December 2011 |last=Dee |first=Johnny}}
19. ^{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16877-blur-21/ |title=Blur: Blur 21 |work=Pitchfork |date=31 July 2012 |accessdate=18 November 2015 |last=Zoladz |first=Lindsay}}
20. ^{{cite journal |title=Blur: Parklife |work=Q |issue=93 |date=June 1994 |last=Maconie |first=Stuart |authorlink=Stuart Maconie}}
21. ^1 {{cite journal |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/parklife-19940630 |title=Parklife |work=Rolling Stone |date=30 June 1994 |accessdate=24 May 2012 |last=Evans |first=Paul}}
22. ^{{cite book |chapter=Blur |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA89 |last=Randall |first=Mac |accessdate=26 March 2017 |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=89–90}}
23. ^{{cite journal |url=http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2013/02/albums6.jpg |title=Yobs for the Boys |work=Select |issue=48 |date=June 1994 |accessdate=31 December 2016 |last=Harrison |first=Andrew |pages=84–85}}
24. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv595-95.php |title=Consumer Guide |work=The Village Voice |date=6 June 1995 |accessdate=18 November 2015 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Christgau}}
25. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/blur/ |title=Blur |publisher=Official Charts Company |accessdate=30 July 2013}}
26. ^Harris, p. 142
27. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/parklife-mw0000624951/awards |title=Parklife – Blur – Charts & Awards |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=4 December 2011}}
28. ^1 {{cite web |last1=Myers |first1=Justin |title=Official Charts Flashback 1994: Blur – Parklife |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/official-charts-flashback-1994-blur-parklife__4770/ |publisher=Official Charts Company |accessdate=14 November 2018 |date=2 May 2014}}
29. ^{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/cries--whispers-1449544.html | work = The Independent | title = Cries & Whispers| first=Jack |last=Hughes |accessdate=10 June 2009|date=18 September 1994}}
30. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.brits.co.uk/history/shows/1995 |title=The BRITs 1995 |publisher=The BRIT Awards |accessdate=4 December 2011}}
31. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1001Albums.htm |title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die |publisher=rocklist.net |accessdate=4 December 2011}}
32. ^{{cite web|title=Top 100 Albums of the 1990s|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/5/|website=Pitchfork Media|accessdate=1 May 2015}}
33. ^"Best album of all time revealed". NME. 1 June 2006
34. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/feature/gorillaz-contributors-and-discography |title=Inside the Gorillaverse: A Look at Alt-Rock's Best Cartoon Band |author=Jason Dietz |date=2 March 2010 |publisher=Metacritic |work=CBS Interactive |accessdate=24 December 2011}}
35. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/2014/04/50-best-alternative-albums-of-the-90s/|title=50 Best Alternative Albums of the '90s|publisher=Metro Weekly|last=Gerard|first=Chris|date=4 April 2014|accessdate=31 December 2016}}
36. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/superunknown-50-iconic-albums-defined-1994 |title=Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 |date=July 14, 2014 |work=GuitarWorld.com |accessdate=14 July 2014}}
37. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/2015/05/the-300-best-albums-of-the-past-30-years-1985-2014/3/|title=The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)|work=Spin|author=Unterberger, Andrew|date=11 May 2015|page=3|accessdate=6 August 2015}}
38. ^{{cite web|title=The 50 Best Britpop Albums|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10045-the-50-best-britpop-albums/?page=5|publisher=Pitchfork|accessdate=30 May 2017|date=29 March 2017}}
39. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/parklife-r202255/credits |title= Parklife – Blur – Credits |work=AllMusic |accessdate=4 December 2011}}
40. ^{{cite web|title=Australian chart positions |url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Blur |publisher=australian-charts.com |accessdate=16 October 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/68ZgtBxTk?url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Blur |archivedate=21 June 2012 |df=dmy }}
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42. ^source:Pennanen, Timo: Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 2006. {{ISBN|978-951-1-21053-5}}. page: 280
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46. ^{{cite web|title=New Zealand chart positions |url=http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Blur |publisher=charts.org.nz |accessdate=16 October 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/68Zh0vXG0?url=http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Blur |archivedate=21 June 2012 |df=dmy }}
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48. ^{{cite web|url=http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Blur&titel=Parklife&cat=a|title=Blur - Parklife - swisscharts.com|author=Steffen Hung|publisher=swisscharts.com|accessdate=25 October 2014}}
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51. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |title=Archived copy |accessdate=23 March 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6DaMNbmDo?url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |archivedate=11 January 2013 |df=dmy }}

External links

  • [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq6LLq4DHMbvI_DTijYaVV4fnfEH_PwtU Parklife] at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
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