The remarkable thing about the history of Blur is definitely her musical career. Summing up her reminiscent of Britpop reference bands like Stone Roses and Ride debut Leisure with his three successor albums, then moved the London five years stoically their stylistic line of traditional British Pop, away American rock influences through. A tradition, which they, however, broke with the album 13. The focus of this first year is clearly their third album Parklife. The cover photo of the two greyhounds that after rush their prey to exhaustion, and the back with the band as bored pursued as a supposed part of the decadent high society in the stands of the dog track, the bizarre goings, represented the baroque pop sound of Parklife with a slightly ironic wink. Actually, it was the already excellent predecessor Modern Life Is Rubbish, who had already paved the way for Britpop towards success. But except for a placement in the British Top Ten otherwise nobody took note of the album. Parklife aimed against it more than clear to the crowd, which especially the international music success of Girls & Boys begat. But the album offered luckily more than just a lot of naked women Skin and Ibiza beer bellies, as they were numerous to see the nonsense video for the first single. Except for a few small self-citations in some places and, although well-intentioned, but nonetheless slightly exaggerated (over) supply of 16 songs Park Live is a one part impressive showcase their marked by nostalgia early work, on the other hand also its climax, which a year later with The Great Escape followed just another infusion of altbekanntem. Blur`s fourth album was a successful compromise of high artistic standards and sovereign self-government. Only a few gentle cuts, a few steps forward and Parklife might indeed the masterpiece of Blur become that many see in him. 1994 also saw another Essenzielles album of Britpop wave the light of day: the Oasis debut Definitely Maybe. The struggle of the two biggest heavyweights in the British rock music of the 90's had thus begun. However, the first round is likely to be gone almost to Manchester ...
