Blur – Parklife

Look at the amount of copies that have been sold in the last month. Pretty soon this will be a $450 record. Mark it.

As for sound, it’s as good as a 53 minute 1xLP is going to sound. Pulp’s Different Class is the same length but sounds much, much more compressed and lifeless. This is a highly enjoyable listen and doesn’t lead to ear fatigue from compression. Having The Debt Collector and Far Out end side A helped reduce the overall issue.

Definitely a copy to own. Insert is dope too.

Looking forward to getting this on black vinyl, I have to say, on an affordable pressing. Come on record company, if they can do Led Zep at affordable prices...............

Sounds So Good, So Much Fullness To The Sound And Really Knocks On The Heavier Songs. For My Money This Is The Best Rock / Pop Album Of The 1990's And Of Course The Magnum Opus Of The Whole Britpop Era Alongside Blur's Follow Up Album The Great Escape.

i got a VG+ copy on here and it plays well. quiet pressing, the cut itself is also a bit quiet but not terrible (the DMM cutting helps here). that said, it's clearly cut from the original CD master, and while it sounds good, the 2LP remaster sounds much better. more detail, more space, more presence... the original is appealing in that it's nice and warm but at the expense of immediacy and spatial information. the 2LP reissue ROCKS... this one kinda just floats by. i'm happy to have an original copy, but would recommend people buy the 2LP remaster (which will hopefully get repressed soon).

listening setup: rega p6, ortofon mc cadenza bronze cartridge, stein music 'the perfect interface' carbon mat, liberty b2b-1 preamp, hegel h95 integrated amp, elac debut b5 speakers.

I have been looking for this version of Parklife for a few years.

PARKLIFE DELUXE BOOTLEG
Recorded 1993/4, London, Leeds and Glastonbury
This extraordinary four-disc set rounds up everything Blur produced around the time of Parklife, including the original album, remixes, radio sessions, demos and live performances. It’s part of a series, collating all existing and leaked material of all seven Blur studio albums. Parklife is the most interesting, however, as the third CD contains 10 unreleased demos from the 1993 sessions, including an early take of “To The End” with Elastica’s Justine Frischmann –Damon Albarn’s then-partner – whispering in French on backing vocals. The only other song that’s markedly different is “Trouble In The Message Centre”, with much changed atmosphere and lyrics to the released version. There’s also an early version of “One Born Every Minute”, which later appeared as the b-side to “Country House”. Completists will also enjoy the second CD’s remixes and radio versions, while the final CD features triumphant live shows at Glasto and Leeds Town And Country Club.
Sound quality: Excellent

It appears on a list of the 50 Greatest bootlegs of all time by Uncut Magazine 2019. I do not know Blur at all and there are clearly way too many versions of this album to try and figure it out.

If anyone can point me towards this version or at least the closest thing to it, I would be very appreciative.

Thanks!

I have a copy which does not have "Townhouse DMM" in the runout. It has A-1-1-2 on side A and B-1-1-1 on side B. Is it a bootleg? Or does it exits copies without Townhouse DMM?

In a sea of brit-pop sharks of 1994, Blur stood out with "Parklife" as one of (if not a single) brightest star of that year. Yes, the competition was fascinatingly strong, but once "Boys & Girls" kicks in through the laser beam, your "definitely maybe" turns into a "fucking yes!". Funnily experimental and seriously radio-friendly, "Parklife" is their true concept album, somewhat informed by the predecessor LP "Modern Life Is Rubbish", an intriguing statement-by-title, fully absorbed with "Parklife" into a tour-de-force, socio-political 16-track masterpiece.

I own two copies of this album. Both have the sticker on the cover, and both have the same matrices in the deadwax. The only difference is that one of the pressings is on typical thin vinyl (common on LPs/12" singles from this period...Radiohead: The Bends is the same way), but the other is pressed on crazy thick 180g vinyl. I can't tell any other differences but may need to go though both with a fine tooth comb. Anyone else have a really thick pressing? It can't be the reissue from 2012 as that pressing came on two discs, and this one has all tracks on one slab of vinyl. Thanks!

How is the sound quality on this original pressing? 52 or so minutes on 2 sides is probably pushing it a bit. Think I'll go for the double LP.

does anyone have this on gold? Or is that one a bootleg?