The Greatest Non Hits
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The Greatest Non Hits
Blur: Parklife
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Exploring Blur's "Parklife" Album
Speaker 1Now on the album you've got pictures of dog racing and you had your album launch at a dog race , yeah .
Speaker 2What's the appeal ? It's just another facet of part life , really the dogs . It's a night out , actually . You can eat and you can have a drink and watch dogs going around on the circuit . Simple lines intertwining all right .
Speaker 4Thank you for listening the greatest non-hits . I'm chris and playing like a kind of of this Is A Low and Clover Over Dover is my co-host , tim . Thank you so much for listening to the Greatest Not Hits . It's been a few weeks since we've done an episode , so thank you for joining us . We're getting back in the swing of things .
Speaker 4This is a nod to the Brits out there . This is Blur . This is from Blur , the Parklife album , and it was released in April 25th in 1994 . And Blur is one of those bands that's they're Britpop , but I mean they have a long , like a huge range of different genres that they can go to . I mean there's elements of punk , there's brit pop , there's shoegaze , there's there's all kinds of stuff going on on this album and I think it's one of their best ones . I would say um , huge , huge in britain , not so much everywhere else , but we've seen all , we've heard all their songs from the 90s . Everybody's heard at least one or two of them , like on MTV back in the day there was Song 2 . That was a favorite of mine . Boys and Girls is on this album . That's a hit . This is considered to be their best album . It's the third album , third studio album by Blur 1994 . It's also an album that critical acclaim .
Speaker 4It was the lead singer . What's his name ? Damon Albarn , considered one of the best writers of all time by huge performers such as Elton John . They think he's the bee's knees . He's a great songwriter , very prolific indeed . Formed the Gorillaz back in 1998 with another writer . I'll get the guy later . Anyway , there's a number of hits on this , singles , releases of singles that ended up being hits in Britain Girls and Boys , the song called To the End , the song Park Life is probably the biggest , I think , by far and End of a Century . There was also Tracy Jacks , which was released as a single but never reached , you know , hit status . So for the purposes of our show , you know , getting back to our roots , we're a .
Speaker 4We're a sort of like a , like a movie , like a book club , but we're more of like a album club , and at the end of this we're going to rank our top three non-hits , and those four that I mentioned are not going to be considered . We will consider Tracy Jacks , though . I think we agreed on that . So it's going to be everything but Girls and Boys to the end Park Life , end of a Century , and then we'll get into it . We've got hilarious sound clips on the way . We're going to listen to all the songs . We're going to talk about Blur , the band , the personnel , the accolades .
Speaker 4This one , I think , went four times platinum . I think this is their highest-selling album too . But you know what the lineup they're like , one of those bands that doesn't change out people either . It's always been the same four guys , which are , you know , damon Albarn there's my man . What's his name ? Coxon . Where are we at here ? It was on food records , too , which got swallowed up by EMI . There was a guy named David Balf who was the head of food records , with another guy named Andy Ross , and this was the last time that they collaborated with Blur and the rest of these guys .
Speaker 4So Alex James is on bass who are the other guys on here .
Speaker 4Let's get back to the personnel here . Let's get back to the personnel . We've got Dave Roundtree on drums . This guy's a great drummer . I guess he's also like a . He was in Parliament . He ran for Parliament in 2024 and lost as a Labour candidate . That's interesting . He served on the Norfolk County Council from 2017 to 21 . The drummer's got some political chops there . See Graham Coxon , who I was talking about . He's a guitarist , singer , songwriter . He and Damon Albarn are like the main guys . I think they're the ones who started the band . And then I think Alex James was the last to come aboard . I think Dave Roundtree and Graham Cox knew each other in college . You know that kind of thing Late 80s . I guess the band officially started in 1990 . Their first album was Leisure Leisure , whatever you want to call it and this is the third one . What else ? There's a lot of simple lines intertwining .
Speaker 4Simple lines intertwining and Tim is more of a lines intertwining and Tim is more of a blur guy than I am . He likes the gorillas . I know that he knows the history . We're doing a lot of Tim . This is Tim's wheelhouse right here . Interestingly , I think with this album it comes out right after Kurt Cobain dies . For me it represents the end of after Kurt Cobain dies and it's from . For me it represents like the end of the grunge era , because this is like April of 94 . Cobain dies and then there's all this other stuff and so this kind of comes in cause . It kind of borrows from it , but it's this is mostly a British thing . Oasis is kind of like a around this time definitely maybe comes out at the same time , and so they're like the two . They're sort of competing with one another , but there's like a mutual respect . But anyway , tim is going to chime in here . He is how you doing , bud ? Oh , doing well , thanks , good , yeah , what do you think about ?
Speaker 5uh , like the characterization of the time it's um , right after grunge , when you say yeah this kind of feeds into , like the next chapter of of music , on music from the decade yeah yeah , and and damon really steps up and I and I think I went reverse into his catalog , like a lot of people after the gorillas when that was started , and then start to started to go into blur as a result of being like who is this guy ? And he's , he's got his hands and everything and right Uh yeah , no , it's good stuff , man . We're going to start off with a composer , yeah .
Speaker 4Well , we're going to go right into it Like girls and boys . We've all heard this one . Right , this is the non hit , but it's the first track , so there's going to be a couple more that are going to be intertwined . That's going to be a theme going forward , so we're going to start off right from the beginning . This is girls and boys . We're going to get right into it .
Speaker 5All right there we go , it's technical .
Speaker 3All right .
Speaker 4Shout out to Mrs Garrett .
Speaker 5It's like a four on the floor beat . Is that right ? It's popping . It's popping floor beat . Is that right ? It's popping . It's popping right here . That's some space .
Speaker 1Streets like a jungle . So call the police , call the fire department . Follow in the herd .
Speaker 5Down to Greece . I've never been to Greece .
Speaker 4It's a beautiful country . I need to go .
Speaker 1Yeah , oh crap .
Speaker 4It kind of sounds like Duran Duran . A little bit too , it does .
Speaker 1In new order .
Speaker 4This is the Manchester coming out .
Speaker 7Hey , mrs Garrett , can I ask you something ? What , what is it , joe ? Is it a problem if your penis and your vagina touch each other ? Whoa , hey .
Speaker 4What was that all about ? What ? I can't wait to hear what this skit's going to say next .
Speaker 6Well , I try to keep them separated , but I woke up this morning and they were sort of together .
Speaker 7I just didn't know , is that okay ?
Speaker 3Hot fingers .
Speaker 1You have both . Well , yeah , doesn't everybody ? No , go , go Go .
Speaker 4This song is a lot more fun at the club , you know . Oh , you've got to be in the club . Yeah , you've got to be dancing , you've got to be popping around . Yeah , it's just hard to just get into this with a bro like in the studio .
Speaker 5You need a little Roxy music , maybe I don't know , sort of poppy like that .
Speaker 1Yeah , hey , I got the body of a taut pre-teen Swedish boy .
Speaker 5Is that cream ?
Speaker 4There's a reason you got cancer .
Speaker 1No fear , just love , it's catchy .
Speaker 5The boys , they like they do girls . Yeah , I get it , I'm a man . What about men and women ? When does that transition happen ?
Speaker 4This subject is out of my wheelhouse .
Speaker 1Why are boys jerked ?
Speaker 4I like that scratching with the guitar .
Speaker 5It sounds like an airplane lifting off . Yeah , exactly , it's lift off . That's the pick scrape Down the . Is that what it's called ? That's the pick scrape down the down the . Is that what it's called technically down the yeah , go down the wire .
Speaker 4Yeah , it's well placed it's a well placed . You don't often pull that off with well , shout out to Graham Cox and seems like that's his big move . Al Barnes playing the vibraphone , the melodica . Okay , all right , this one is called Tracy Jacks . Okay , that sounds who-ish .
Speaker 5Squeeze box . It's a squeeze box , raga . It is , excuse me , russell .
Speaker 1Tracy Chan works in civil service . Tracy Chan is steady employment . Tracy Chan is a golfing fanatic . Tracy Chan is a party director . Tracy Chan saw Harley's big doctor Tracy Chan prescribed help with living . Oh bitch , you got jacked , tracy Chan , but he's getting past ball day , tracy Chan , and all the seams are splitting . Every day you go closer , dude , I've jacked it twice since I've been here . Are you kidding me ? Why not ? I'd love to stay here and be normal .
Speaker 5Normal .
Speaker 1But it's just so overrated .
Discussing Blur's Parklife Album
Speaker 1Try to say Jack Left home without warning . Try to say Jack , oh , bitch , you bought Jack . Try to say Jack Got on the first train to Walter . Try to say Jack , I'm still on the seafront .
Speaker 5Seafront , Are you laughing by the seafront over there ? Yeah , it's one of my favorite pastimes . I love laughing by the seafront . Run around naked okay .
Speaker 2Running with the police . Two lines 8 for 20 .
Speaker 1Simple lines intertwining .
Speaker 7Oh , bitch , you got jacked , bitch Billy .
Speaker 1Billy , billy . And then it happened on Tuesday morning , tracy Jack's bulldozed down the road .
Speaker 5She began saying he's just so overrated .
Speaker 3Oh , I love this little whammy ball delay .
Speaker 4I'm liking that . It's all . It's something different .
Speaker 5It's Lukather-esque . Yes , lukather the Grand Coxon is the Lukather of . Yeah .
Speaker 4That's Tim's line-esque . Yes , lukather the Grand Coxon is the Lukather of . Yeah , that's Tim's line , that's not mine . He said it right before that .
Speaker 5No , I'm glad you brought that . I would have forgot .
Speaker 4No , I agree with you , sort of build up tension .
Speaker 5You're right , change the chords , come back . Yeah , you know , simple lines intertwined .
Speaker 1This song has the body of a Swedish boy . Dude . I've jacked it twice since I've been here . Are you kidding me ?
Speaker 7Why not ? Well , I think this calls for the old Billy Baru .
Speaker 4Get a golfing . Oh yeah , there's like . There's like golf , like Well , tracy Jacks is a golfing fanatic , so , but his putt is erratic . It's time for the Obele Beru . Oh , obele Beru , this is a biggie Spalding .
Speaker 7Oh , bitch , you got jacked bitch .
Speaker 3All right .
Speaker 4Some strings , all right . That was sort of like a built-in palate cleanser , that little thing there .
Speaker 5I like how they did that yeah we don't need to do one now .
Speaker 4Okay , so this is called End of a Century . This is one of the hits .
Speaker 1Tracy Jacks was a pretty good song . She says her son's in the carpet Dirty little monsters .
Speaker 4Eating all the morsels .
Speaker 1Picking up the rubbish . Give her effervescence . She needs a little sparkle . Good morning TV . You're looking so healthy . We all say Don't want to . We wear the same clothes the chord is heavier in this one , very Oasis-esque .
Speaker 4Yeah , the chord is heavier in this one . It's kind of psychedelic a little bit .
Speaker 1Yeah , everybody's at it . Wine gets dirty , clean it up .
Speaker 5Love that line .
Speaker 1I love that line .
Speaker 4You're not a big TV fan , kiss my grits .
Speaker 5That's what I say to TV .
Speaker 1Kiss , my grits .
Speaker 5I mean , yeah , except all the sounds , some footy every once in a while .
Speaker 4Yeah , the one-liners are good . Otherwise , yeah , if you start getting into Football .
Speaker 5Yeah , Wingers aren't the same Wingers yeah .
Speaker 1There's no big wingers anymore .
Speaker 5What do you say ?
Speaker 1Well , isn't that special . Dry lips Well isn't that special . It's a dry lift when we say goodnight and I'm a centriole . Dry lifts , it's nothing special . And I'm a centriole , it's nothing special . Well , isn't that special ?
Speaker 4I hear the horns at the end , kind of Beatles-ish . It . Does Brits love that ?
Speaker 5The wrap-up the bow .
Speaker 4All right , this is park life .
Speaker 5We're going to hear from Saul on this one he likes . He's a big Blur fan .
Speaker 4This is their big one . He likes he's a big Blur fan . This is their big one . This one more listens by far than the others , so I can see where Saul's coming from . Yeah .
Speaker 6Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as a morning soup can be avoided if you take a route straight through . What is known as A morning soup can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as Dave Roundtree's Canada . Job's got brewers through and he gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons they love a bit of it , dirty pigeons . Who's that couple all marching ? You should cut down on your pork life , mate . Get some exercise , oh .
Speaker 5Is pork high in fat or something ?
Speaker 4I think that's the insinuation .
Speaker 5Ham and ham yeah .
Speaker 4I like the plan where it's pork life , pork life . I don't know who's that Gut lord marching . You should cut down on your pork life , mate .
Speaker 6Except on Wednesdays , when I get rudely awakened by the dustman . I put my trousers on , have a cup of tea .
Speaker 4Shout out to the tea drinkers you beat me too .
Speaker 5We could have said it together . Yeah , jinx .
Speaker 6I sometimes feed the sparrows too , we could have said it together , jinx .
Speaker 5Just not white bread right .
Speaker 6Shout out to the people in the park .
Speaker 5Any park , yeah . People in private parks can can fuck off , but public parks shout out , yeah they all go hand in hand I guess the night outers , yeah , salt , salt what happened ?
Speaker 1Yes , yes , All the the whole .
Speaker 6Oh , no , yes , the whole railway , the technique , you know . Oh , and it's not about you chumpers . You could go round and round and round , and I was holding my cat Salt .
Speaker 5He's a good park , lad , yeah .
Speaker 6And we were going up and the whole oh my God , the whole goddamn thing went into a flip out and it flipped and bent the whole railing and it must have gotten caught on the carpet on the stairs .
Speaker 4Saul , you've got to be careful with those chairs that go up the stairs . All right , this is called Bank Holiday .
Speaker 1All right , this is called Bank Holiday . This is kind of a punk song .
Speaker 4I think we were just sort of like fuck this song .
Speaker 1This is like way too much .
Speaker 4Yeah , it's drinking barbecue day , barbecue
Analyzing Blur's "Parklife" Album
Speaker 4punk day . Yeah , all right . Five , four off , all right , bye , okay , we got bad head here . Yeah , okay , now this is called bad head simple lines intertwining .
Speaker 1This is Get Closed and Smoochie , smoochie music that today . I'll get up around soon From a lack of anything to do , and I might as well just grin and bear it , cause it's no other trouble .
Speaker 3I'll learn how to play , and you .
Speaker 4You tell him Starowski .
Speaker 5It's a little country Almost . Yeah , no surprise .
Speaker 1Little , I'll get up around two With nothing to do Except get a touch of , and I might as well just grin and bear it Is bad head supposed to be the same thing as bad head .
Speaker 4We have bad head . You wake up . Your hair's all messed up .
Speaker 5That's bad head . You hang out in bed .
Speaker 4Yeah , I didn't know . In Britain it was just referred to as bad head instead of bad head . I don't know , in Britain it was just referred to as bad . It's kind of a French .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , Do not come with me to see Casbah . We shall make beautiful music together .
Speaker 3Oh yeah .
Speaker 5Nice Sing it . This is good . Yeah , it's nice .
Speaker 4It's like a vibraphone . Yeah , there's a vibraphone . There's a mood synthesizer , Al Barnes doing it all .
Speaker 5A depth of sound here , Just saying let it out , Give it some air .
Speaker 1Man Play with it .
Speaker 4There's some other people out here too . Shout out to Stephen Street on the synthesizers .
Speaker 5Vintage keys .
Speaker 4he's the vintage key guy shout out to phil daniels . He did a new narration on parkland .
Speaker 5We missed that something about argument , you know just you're going to argue just try to put yourself in their shoes .
Speaker 4Yeah , just try to be a partner who listens .
Speaker 5Yeah , a little bit more . Take the ego down a notch . Yeah , give that ego some air .
Speaker 4Yeah , give the guy a break . He's got a bad head . Yeah , you know what ? He's perfect Okay .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 4All right , that song was all right .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 4This is called the Debt Collector . I count Mississippis in the back . No words on this song . This is kind of like an Oopa .
Speaker 5Oopa .
Speaker 4I don't know what to do with this . I don't know what to do with this . I don't know where to go . Maybe this is part of like the . This is part of park life . You know , that's the aesthetic this kind of has like a .
Speaker 5The debt collector . Yeah , this is the debt collector .
Speaker 4Yeah , this is the debt collector , you put all your bets up and yeah , after you've lost at the track , all of a sudden the debt collector comes .
Speaker 3Don't you pay ahead ?
Speaker 4of time yeah exactly . You don't have to claim if you , yeah , so we have a little debt to settle . You had Santa's Little Helper and Santa's Little Helper .
Speaker 7The Magical man Gumdrop hosts a lollipop lane . You're making people happy . I'm the Magical man from Happyland , not the deck like that yeah .
Speaker 4Oh Fat Tony .
Speaker 3Billy , Billy , Billy , Billy , Billy , Billy .
Speaker 4I think Coxon is playing saxophone on there . What Something .
Speaker 5He's a guitarist though .
Speaker 4I know that's the thing . What , yeah , yeah . It says here right here Graham Coxon saxophone's the thing . What , yeah , yeah , it says here right here Graham Cox and saxophone percussion .
Speaker 1What yeah I ?
Speaker 4think that was him on that , I don't know . There's other people . This is called Far Out , so there's some weird stuff going on here . Ready .
Speaker 2I spy in the night sky don't I V-B-I-O-L-R-L-A . De Callisto Sinope , janus Diony .
Speaker 1Porsche . So many moons Quiet in the sky at night . Hearts in the Milky Way Outside in . I'm sorry , Dave , I'm afraid I can't do that .
Speaker 4It does kind of have like a spacey kind of a vibe to it , right .
Speaker 2If I'm here and you're here , doesn't that make it our time ?
Speaker 1One , two , three , four , five , nine me to the juice .
Speaker 2Sun , sun , sun sun , Our time .
Speaker 3Excuse me , holmes , what it is , bro , we're from out of town .
Speaker 4No shit , yeah , that was good . There's some far out stuff here . I kind of like that for one of the short songs . That was really good . There's some Far Out stuff here . I kind of like that for one of the short songs . That was really good . Far Out was enjoyable . It was like a palate cleanser in and of itself .
Speaker 5Now we've got some Burt Bacharach going on . Yes , this is like Elvis Costello . Yes .
Speaker 4This is one of the hits , though . This is one of the ones that .
Speaker 2We need that extra push over the cliff .
Speaker 1You know what we do . Put it up to 11 , exactly One louder . Why don't you ?
Speaker 5Oh , this is the Pepe song , yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , I like these . Like Been drinking far too much .
Speaker 4I like these like spy movies from the 60s .
Speaker 5It is like spy yeah .
Speaker 4Like in , like Flint Q yeah .
Speaker 5Shout out Q . That's right , have a cup of tea on me . Q Be Q .
Speaker 4And it looks like we might have made it If he were alive , he'd be one of the tea drinkers . Is that like a xylophone Shout out to the strings ?
Speaker 5I it's the duke strings . This is like if anybody , if all the youngsters wanted like a frank sinatra-esque song , but modern , but modern and English . Right , this is what it is , oh yeah .
Speaker 4It's classy , yeah , a lot of good use of strings , the string arrangements , the cello , the viola , the violins , really .
Speaker 1It's got horns , it's a dame . A dame Looks like we might have made it yes it looks like we made it to the end when you and I collapsed and fell .
Speaker 5Well , it looks like we might have made it . Yes , it looks like we made it to the end , an amorphous blob of love .
Speaker 4Is this supposed to be celebratory or is it just ? Is it like they made it to the end of a relationship and now it's over ? Oh good question , I don't , I can't , or is it ? Whatever you want it to be .
Speaker 5Maybe let's ask Pepe .
Speaker 2It is love at first sight is it ?
Speaker 5No , I don't know . I think it's the first one . Yeah , it is just a celebration , maybe .
Speaker 4Yeah , we made it to the end of something that we've been looking forward to and it was successful .
Speaker 5I'm going to look up this French word here .
Speaker 1I'm going to look up this French word here Looks like we've made it to the end .
Speaker 3Not no .
Speaker 2Do not come with me to the Casbah . We shall make beautiful music together right here .
Speaker 5In broad daylight . What's that ? Oh okay , that's wow , that's naughty that is naughty broad daylight simple lines intertwining .
Speaker 4Okay , we're going back to Matt Chester now . London loves . Oh , this is London .
Speaker 7I'm the magical man .
Speaker 4Not quite there yet , all right , not quite there yet , alright , it's got a nice rock and roll .
Speaker 1Beat to it . It's a little David .
Speaker 5Bowie-esque . Yeah , I like this . I've gotten some good speeding tickets over the years . Good times , it's love you like and everyone's out there . I don't speed anymore , though .
Speaker 4And where's the change and the mind ? These are like love metaphors . Yeah , the car . So see together Speeding car Before Speeding car , speeding car . That's supposed to have been a great song , like back in the clubs in London during that time . It's like an anthem .
Speaker 1Call the fire department . This is out of control .
Speaker 3Fire out man .
Speaker 1If I'm here and you're here , doesn't that make it ?
Speaker 5our time Just saying let it out , Give it some air . Man , this is great .
Speaker 1This is out there .
Speaker 5Yeah , it's growing on me the falsetto and then the low voice and then growing on me the falsetto , and then the low voice and then the high voice , kind of , yeah , it feels like an 80s song almost . How is this not a hit ?
Speaker 4Yeah , I mean I would take this over . Tracy Jett they could have at least released it as a single .
Speaker 5Yeah , it's got a little more edge to it it's hooky yeah .
Speaker 4I just wonder if there's just something that Graham Cox could have done . It's wonderful there's just something that Graham Cox could have done . He's done some Lucanair kind of things just to push it over the cliff .
Speaker 5You should have played clarinet on this one . Yeah , this looks like a weather report or something , a traffic report .
Speaker 4Oh that narration in the back , yeah , that Phil guy . Yeah , oh , that narration in the back , yeah , that Phil guy .
Speaker 1Just looking at credits , maybe that's a fact , Jack .
Speaker 4That's a fact , Jack . Yeah , I can't find anything . Let's see as to who's doing the narration of the weather report ?
Speaker 5It's probably TV like actual TV , maybe yeah .
Speaker 4It sounded real . Or some radio Sure , All right . What have we got next ? Trouble ? Or some radio Sure , All right . What do we got next ? Trouble in the Message Center .
Speaker 5Interesting .
Speaker 4Interesting .
Speaker 6We didn't delve too much into this one .
Speaker 4Okay , I am the message center . Yeah , this sounds like Valley Girl . This is like new wave early 80s Room to room an operator , no calls .
Speaker 1Today dear , they just have to wait . Dear , I call and I collect . So just put something away from the morning . Too late , too shy , too dull and so much trouble .
Speaker 4What's a jazz ? Listen what ? Yeah , this song's not as soft as the last couple .
Speaker 6It sounds like Devo mixed with like local delegator .
Speaker 5Shout out to the anesthesiologists out there . Yeah , if you're putting yourself under , I recommend a good anesthesiologist .
Speaker 4A new type face . A new type face , a new day .
Speaker 1It's a new day .
Speaker 4Yeah , I hope this song is not about anything plastic surgeon , plastic surgery related , is it no ?
Speaker 5It's rhinoplasty .
Speaker 4It's rhinoplasty . Okay Okay , Coxon . Okay Okay yeah . Coxon is channeling his inner Lucifer .
Speaker 5Ah , not all Lucifer songs are good . No , yeah .
Speaker 4In my opinion this one .
Speaker 5It's falling flat for me , me too .
Speaker 4I did kind of like the guitar that they had going on a little bit earlier .
Speaker 5It's a little heavier , which I do like .
Speaker 4Yeah , this is good for me . It is a little too loud , isn't good for me ? It is a little too loud , isn't it ?
Speaker 5It's a lot of laws yeah .
Speaker 4Let's save 30 seconds of our life . Ready to go ? All right , we're going to the next one . All right , okay .
Speaker 3Ooh .
Speaker 4Okay , oh , this is . It was worth the reward . Clover over Dover , little harpsichord going Right , it's kind of Baroque .
Speaker 2We need that extra push over the cliff . You know what we do Put a . We need that extra push up .
Speaker 4Oh geez , what was that ?
Speaker 5What happened there ?
Speaker 4It's technical difficulties . It was a cautionary tale For me .
Speaker 5Oh , oh , oh , Technical difficulties . It was a cautionary tale for me . Shout out to the clover lawn owners out there . Yeah , it's better for the environment , but you know , lawns are nice too , and this little lawn , little putting green .
Speaker 4There's some golf references in here . You got Tracy Jacks little putting green . Some golf references in here . You got Tracy Jacks bad putter . The Brits love golf .
Speaker 5They love clover .
Speaker 4Yeah , I think Judge Smales and Caddy Sheckson , they used to pronounce it golf , golf , golf Golf . It's like the Straits of Dover , the Dover Channel . Yeah , southern , I guess this is the sound of southern England , southern Britain .
Speaker 5Or heavy Down where the seagulls are . Yeah , the dogs . Dags , dags , you like dags .
Speaker 4It's not Irish , it's not British .
Speaker 1It's . I taste the fact that , in actual fact , there's no bear inside and it's all love . I taste the fact that , in actual fact , there's no bear inside and it's all love it's in here Mesmerizing .
Speaker 5Really it's over the cliff , really it's over the cliff . I could just round and round repeat most of this one .
Speaker 4Yeah , yeah , that was lovely , it's good . All right , we got Magic America .
Speaker 7I'm the magical man , okay .
Speaker 4All right , this got Magic America . I'm the magical man , Okay .
Speaker 1All right , this is Magic America . Okay , here's plan B , when there are buildings in the sky and the air is sugar free and everyone's very friendly . Well , plan B arrived on a holiday , took a cab to the shopping malls , bought an AT Could do neither anymore Loss , but tonight Take it to Neither anymore . Then found love On channel 44 La La , la , la la .
Speaker 5Another La yeah La song .
Speaker 4There's like a lot of La la la going on . It's a . It's a popular La La , la , la la Filler . It's a popular Filler . Yeah yeah , a lyric , a filler . Yeah yeah , popular lyric for Damon .
Speaker 7The magical man , the magical Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night . Ghosts of the night .
Speaker 1Go drop home to Nani Pumlee Shout out to the Simpsons fans out there . From the people who care how you feel La la , la , la la . They want Steve Jobs to match America . La , la , la , la la . That's the fact , yeah .
Speaker 7Go , go go .
Speaker 4I'm the magical man . It's like chill out . Oh wow , who's doing that ? I think this is like the Hammond organ , I think .
Speaker 5David said this Vintage organ .
Speaker 1Vintage organ . We'll see you
Ranking Blur's Parklife Album Tracks
Speaker 1next time .
Speaker 5It's not the worst song , it's not .
Speaker 4I'm not sure if it's in the camp . I mean it wasn't a hit or a single .
Speaker 5I think you could just get away with not saying anything in those la-la-la parts . Yeah , it cheapens it . Yeah .
Speaker 1And this song could be even shorter . It is .
Speaker 4Okay , point taken . I don't know , there's some good stuff in there . There's almost too much , but I liked it . It was okay , is it top three ? I don't know .
Speaker 5Well , keep it going .
Speaker 4We'll see .
Speaker 3We'll see .
Speaker 1This is called Jubilee .
Speaker 5He's got a TV watching .
Speaker 1Yeah , he watching 24 hours of rubbish . He got beauty , he got plastic bags .
Speaker 5His eyes are going square , oh yeah .
Speaker 1He no right , but just antisocial . He not going to cut his hair .
Speaker 3Hey , Jesse , take it right .
Speaker 4This sounds a little Bowie-inspired .
Speaker 1He not being enough . Hey , jesse , take it right , this sounds a little Bowie-inspired . Billy , billy , billy , billy , billy , billy , hopefully , billy Bill .
Speaker 5I don't need a job . He's cool bud , tasty ways . Bolling this calls for the old .
Speaker 1Billy Baru . But you just don't get out enough . Hey , just say , say correctly no , I'm Tony Tony , tony , tony , tony . Hey , just say say correctly no , I'm Tony 17 . He not keen on being like anyone else , so he just plays on his computer . Wow , this is all over the place , kiss my crickets Just saying let it out , give it some air , man Play with it . They just say say correctly , no , I'm totally 17 , let it out , give it some air , man Play with it .
Speaker 4Where'd it go ? I think there's a whole whole section of horns too .
Speaker 5The kick horns Richard Edwards on trombone , roddy Lorimer on frugal horn , flugelhorn Yep flugelhorn .
Speaker 1Tim Sanders tenor sax soprano sax .
Speaker 4David Sandsborn . Yeah , sad to say , yeah , sandsborn . No , david Sandsbourne . Yeah , sad to say , yeah , sandsbourne . No David Sandsbourne . Sighting Simon Clarke Although I shouldn't talk , my hair's getting a little shaggy too . Okay , this is a low . All right , I'm on board for this one Again , shout out to the tea drinkers .
Speaker 1Just find a taxi . Wreck , sail by with the tide .
Speaker 4It's a second reference to a taxi I've seen in this album and the radio sings this is a love . But it won't hurt you . The radio says this is a love , but it won't hurt you .
Speaker 1When you're alone . It will be now , and you're finding ways to stay so long .
Speaker 4What ? What is that ? Cramity . I'm a time forth in Cramity .
Speaker 5Time is the river .
Speaker 1Oh , okay , there's a low in the high , oh , okay .
Speaker 3There's a low in the high 40s .
Speaker 4Okay , I'm going to brush up on my English geography .
Speaker 5Blackpool has all the little amusement parks .
Speaker 4Oh yeah , yeah , I do remember that , yeah .
Speaker 1Right here , but it won't hurt you when you're alone and we'll be there with you finding ways to stay so long .
Speaker 4And shout out to Jethro Tull from Blackpool . I knew we did an album . Somebody from Blackpool that was big . Yes , jethro Tull . Oh yeah , robert Smith from the Curious from Blackpool . Graham Nash , screwdriver yeah , forget , I even brought that up . Yeah , jeffrey Hammond , bass player for Jeff Rotel .
Speaker 3This is a lie , but it won't hurt you when you're alone it .
Speaker 4it won't hurt you when you're alone , it will be there . It's kind of a positive song , in a way . Like this is a low , but it won't hurt you .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 5Only a heartbreak .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 5Right Linda .
Speaker 3Anyhow , if you think that I'm just sitting around waiting for you , you can forget it .
Speaker 4That's right , finding ways to stay solo . Linda , she's putting on pepperoni pizza at the mall . Oh , this is kind of a cool ending . It was a little intense at times , but I came around . All right , we got one more . Oh yeah , lot 105 . I came around , alright , we got one more . Oh yeah , lot 105 . This is like a Sprockets little vignette . There's a lot of la la lying going on here .
Speaker 5Should we start the top three ? Yeah , what's your ?
Speaker 4top three . What's your number three ?
Speaker 5My number three , coming in London Loves .
Speaker 4London Loves . Okay , that was a good one . I like that . That's a good number three . I'm going to say this Is A . Love is going to be my number three Okay , because I got a couple more . That was a . Is going to be my number three , okay , because I got a couple more . That was a really great song . It was good yeah . But I got a couple others that I liked just a little bit better . Okay , what about your number two ?
Speaker 5I'm going to say Clover Over Dover . It's just mesmerizing . That could be up there with a lot of good 90s songs . Yeah , I agree , it's Mark Knopfler-esque . It's great , absolutely .
Speaker 4Yeah , it's your two . My two is going to be London Loves . Nice , it just struck me at the right time . That could probably be my number three , but today it just hit me the right way . So I'm going to say London Loves is my number three , but today it just hit me the right way . So I'm going to say Leonard loves , my number two .
Speaker 5Nice . I have always had this Is A Low starred on this album and I listen to it occasionally with a bunch of other sad English songs together and it's great .
Speaker 3Yeah , it kind of gets you right there .
Speaker 4Yeah , it gets you . Yeah , yeah , I guess you really have to feel it . You know like it wasn't quite there for me , but I'm sure I don't know . It's been a long time since I've gone through the heartbreak thing , but nevertheless I'm going to say my number one is going to be Clover over Dover Nice , that's a hell of a song right there .
Speaker 5Makes you feel good .
Speaker 4Yeah , I'm imagining being on the cliffs of Dover and there's a mood to it .
Speaker 5That's right , yeah .
Speaker 4Yeah , and you feel like you're there .
Speaker 5He does a good job of describing the atmosphere .
Speaker 4Yeah , there's a little bit of danger because of the drop off cliff and all that .
Speaker 5Yeah .
Speaker 4Yeah , it's , it's very
Reflecting on Blur's Parklife Album
Speaker 4charming .
Speaker 5He's a good storyteller .
Speaker 4He is he's a good writer .
Speaker 5The band is great yeah .
Speaker 4And they had four other songs that you know Skyrocketed , you know so .
Speaker 5Some on the album are Not , you know , palatable again Potentially , but that's okay .
Speaker 4And fillers too . Deck Collector , what was ?
Speaker 5that yeah , lots of fillers , yeah a lot of 105 . I mean yeah , it was a good deal .
Speaker 4But yeah , it's a solid album 16 tracks , good call man .
Speaker 2Very good , Good call yeah .
Speaker 4We're coming up on our third year . We're going to be winding up the 90s soon . I think we've got another in the chamber , even though this is uh . Yeah , this is . We're at the . You know we're at the the end of the third year , but we're going to do a couple more nineties and then uh , and then uh see where it goes . So thanks for listening . Deeper and deeper Any uh , any last thoughts .
Speaker 5Tim Just getting way down , you know , get out there um do your thing All right , all right Thanks .
