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Blur - Parklife (Official Music Video)

🕑 Added 2025-06-14 06:00:07 +0000 UTC

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Sam McGonigle

You should definitely react to the 2009 live version at Glastonbury! Chaotic, but a good chaotic

Ryan

Belting song, gotta love the 90s!

Kevin

Robbie Williams covered this recently

The Snow Dog

Interesting fact about Blur - they're Oasis's biggest rivals. Blue & Oasis still don't get on to this day.

Imogen

It's like if Micky Flanagan became a pop singer....

Mark E

Should check out the streets 👌

Static CentreHalf

Someone once suggested this as the national anthem ahead of England games. I think it could work.

Craig Wright

I think there's some Madness and Ian Dury influence in Parklife. To my ear, at least.

Mark Batch

The Coffee and Tv video is awesome!!

Peaches

Park life is one of my earliest memories jumping from sofa to sofa and dancing like a mad kid when my dad had this blasting on a Saturday morning! Good times!

Bedh3ad

You guys are thinking of Baz Luhrmann

Andy O'Sullivan

https://youtu.be/po9nTjglm5k?si=-R1kNvvjJb3NDDyz Now you are familiar with this song I’d say give this 1 minute clip of the 1996 Brit awards and watch. It’s oasis’s acceptance speech. Really funny and gives you a bit of a taste of the battle between oasis and blur in the 90s.

Richard Stokes

Great reaction guys. This is what you call one of the peak britpop anthems but the video is peak britpop too! The 90s was a very important time in the UK culturally. A lot of originality and creativity and because it didn't fit the formula of what rock was in the eyes of the big American radio chains, you didn't get to hear any of it. You have a whole decade of great stuff like this to discover. There was different movements before britpop in the 90s too, like acid dance, indie, shoegaze, trip hop, Madchester etc etc! a lot to explore! There are two britpop documentaries on the playlist I'd recommend so you can work out what it was all about! It will help you understand us over here a lot better!

James

The streets is probaly the closest to this style you will find. Should try out "Fit But You Know It "

Andy

It must have been said and there's been 56 comments, so I will keep it short - Yes Jess! Always wear sunscreen. It's a classic song and basically tells you not to worry about superficial things... but... Always. Wear. Sunscreen.

Jason Bonner

I saw Blur at Glastonbury in the mid 90's. You should take a look at Madness with Ian Dury - Drip Fed Fred. This has a similar spoken arrangement, also it was Ian Dury's last video before he sadly died. He was one our greats!

Jason Bonner

Baz Lurman, I think he was a film director too

Jason Bonner

I think I went to the same primary school as Ian Dury, I think they should do 'Drip fed Fred' as this is in a similar genre.

Jason Bonner

I've been adding his tracks to the list.

Jason Bonner

He was Jimmy in Quadrophenia

Jamie

I'm not being a dick btw, I think the idea of needing to give Blur any money is funny.

Jamie

'go support these guys'

Fordy7169

Blur did a lot of good videos tbf. 'Coffee and TV' with the walking milk carton is a good 'un

trev

Whiskey dick.

Richard Stokes

Blur's track Sing from that soundtrack is brilliant too. Bit depressing but very atmospheric

david mitchell

Think you'd like 'choose life' from the trainspotting sound track

Steve Moppett

Just in case the phrase "brewer's droop" isn't known in the US, it's what happens to a man's ability to rise to the occasion after too many beers.

Daniel Cooper-O'Reilly

If you like Parklife, you'll enjoy The Streets - https://youtu.be/MEIRNj0EmH0?si=sxh8o8F8fXK9GHWK

BrizeeB

Yes do Pulp 'Disco 2000'

BrizeeB

It's not a good representation of their best work or songs but at the time was popular (this is a low, end of a century, beetlebum, sing etc are better tracks)

Mark Rudd

Kevin from eastenders? Though I knew him 😆

Mark Rudd

Loved this as a child. I’d of not been like 8 when it came out. But remember it so well and always singing the chorus as that was the only part I knew haha

Athan Immortal

Robbie Williams did a live cover of it recently :)

Superclarky666

This is a collaboration with actor phil daniels .great reaction guys👍🏻

Jay

You might recognise the actor Phil Daniels on House of the Dragon, although he has a rather small part (That's what she said!).

Brucey Mitchell (Cheeky)

Great song, great reaction. Thanks guys :)

Chris

You might like pulp if you like that kind of song. I love Blur, prefer Oasis but Blur fantastic as well. Damon Albarn is a genius, Gorillaz are fantastic, for the most part. Also one of Blurs newer songs, the Narcissist is a belter

Nathan Daly

You need to a mike and jess video to this song

Death Lego

In thinking about things that are maybe a little different in the music world. Listening to you two, it made me think about the 2010 concept album by an artist Plan B. It's called The Defamation of Strickland Banks. Probably best listened to as a whole, as it chronicles through 13 songs, in a first person perspective. The fictitious tale of the rise and fall of the upcoming soul singer, Strickland Banks. This was a departure of the artists known style at the time. As it was meant to both showcase his usual rapping, but also his singing voice too.

BlakeK80DrumCovers

Blur are my favourite band of all time. The genius of Albarns songwriting combined with the outstanding musicianship of the other 3 band members, they are just unbeatable. If you really want to get deeper into what Blur are really all about, i would suggest tracks like This is a Low, He thought of cars, The Universal, Strange news from another star, Caramel, Out of time, Good song. So many incredible songs over 30 plus years.

Ash C

Coffee & TV is such a wonderfully melancholy song but a complete change in pace from the songs you've reacted to so far but just shows the range of Blur. If you react to it please react to the music video and not any live performances

Peter Larter

Gorrilaz you defo need to check. This era was when Brit pop ruled 🇬🇧

Daz Parker

Damon Albarn is a creative genius. As others have said, Blurs style could change album to album, song to song. And he did the same with Gorillaz. Btw, coffee & tv is a bonafide banger as well

Cheryl Probert

I think Madness House of Fun gives this kind of vibe with the naration of song

Erica

I miss the 90s 😭

Thomas

Phil Daniels went to the same school in Paddington, London, as Paul Hardcastle, who is famous for the massive 1980s hit ‘19’, which relies entirely on spoken word clips played over a synth pop musical backing. The record is about the average age of a US soldier in Vietnam being just 19 compared to 26 in World War Two.

justlookin 28

Yeah I agree with most of that apart from Country House? That's basically a worse version of Parklife set in the Countryside. The Universal would be a better choice, beautiful song.

Daz Parker

And of course, not forgetting William Shatner or Telly Savalas 🤣

Thom

National Express is brilliant from The Divine Comedy and Disco 2000 from Pulp is also very good.

Davee-man

Yeah, agree. Chalk and cheese!

Paul

So the guy who is speaking is not actually apart of the band. He is an actor named Phil Daniels. He was the lead actor of a legendary British film called Quadrophenia. I highly recommend you watch it. It's about a 1960's British sub-culture (The Mod's and the Rockers).

Julian T

I love the Sunscreen song. Very accurate life advice.

Davee-man

Of Blur and Oasis, I always found Blur’s music more creative. Oasis put out good music, but as Mike and Jess were alluding to here, some bands output was formulai and all sounded the same, where as with Blur, you never knew what you were going to get. I’d also like to big up The Divine Comedy for a reaction soon. They arrived on scene in the Britpop era, so sometimes get classed as such, but more usually categorised as ‘chamber pop’ because of singer/ songwriter Neil Hannon’s love of orchestral arrangements. Biggests hit to date were ‘National Express’ and ‘Something for the Weekend’, but also have done stuff for tv, like Father Ted theme tune ‘Songs of Love’, and most recently he wrote all the original songs for the movie ‘Wonka’. Definitely needs checked out on RNTV!!

Julian T

Pity you didn’t double up with the 2009 live version I suggested, you would see the chaos of this song on stage and the crowd interaction. I never really understood the Oasis vs Blur rivalry in the 90s. To me they were completely different bands.

Darren Geoghegan

You'll love the Streets

Phil C

The only other spoken word songs that come to mind apart from Baz Lurman and Sunscreen is The Streets. Maybe try Dry your Eyes from them.

Christian Rolfe

You probably know the gorrilaz , lead singers of blur Damon Albans other project. You will or have already, I don't know ,react to one of them

Daniel Stuckey

The music video for coffee and TV is great

Thomas

Agree on The Kinks. Also, The Jam. Graham Coxon was a huge Jam obsessive in his youth. He and other band members are said to have bonded over The Jam’s Setting Sons album while at school in Colchester. Coxon and Paul Weller of The Jam put out a single, This Old Town.

Thomas

So pleased you liked this. I have seen a few American reactors pull faces when watching this. I saw Blur do this at Wembley in 2023, and Phil Daniels performed his spoken part. And, yes, the whole of Wembley joined in word for word. It was special sharing it with my sons, who weren’t born when it came out, but they have inherited my music taste. Always feel the video has an Inbetweeners vibe, though it came out long before the TV show. As others have said, this is not typical Blur, but still great. The genre is Britpop.

John Gault

The Sunscreen graduation speech was written by a woman journalist from Chicago I think and then Baz Luhman (sp) turned it into a song with a gruff voiced Australian actor. Blur are on the same level as The Kinks in the history of British pop music, IMO. Blur’s masterpiece is “Tender” and that would be a good reaction to do after you done a few other Blur Brit Pop era songs such as: Girls and Boys, Charmless Man, Sing and Country House.

Chris Carleton

The talking bits were performed by Phil Daniels, not a member of Blur and more known for his acting than singing. I was at a sold out Wembley 2 years ago for Blurs comeback concert and Phil appeared to sing his lines in Park Life. Absolutely brilliant.

na plz

The guy doing the spoken word stuff is Phil Daniels who has acted in a number of films and soap opera (Eastenders), typically plays cockneys. He's not in the band, only this track. The "it's nothing to do with your vorsprung durch technik" line is related to an Audi advertising slogan. Maybe add "charmless man" or "country house" to the list for more blur from this era. Great reaction ☺️

Toby Lewis

I do like this song, but I think it’s actually a poor representation of how good Blur can be. It’s catchy yes, but songs like Beetlebum, Charmless Man, and Country House are far more interesting. I’m more likely to remember the whole song out of the 3 mentioned in my head compared to just a few phrases and the chorus from Parklife annoying me on repeat