Parklife
by Blur

Album
Parklife by Blur
Year: 1994
Release date: 1994-04-25
Overall rank: 205th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 1,398 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1994 (10th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1990s (41st)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (205th)

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Blur bestography

Parklife is ranked as the best album by Blur.

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Parklife track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Track pick (880 - 398 votes)
Girls & Boys
Average Rating: 88 (398 votes)Comments: View 6
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Tracy Jacks
Average Rating: 83 (287 votes)Comments: View 2
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Track pick (870 - 344 votes)
End Of A Century
Average Rating: 87 (344 votes)Comments: View 0
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Track pick (870 - 382 votes)
Parklife
Average Rating: 87 (382 votes)Comments: View 5
5.
Bank Holiday
Average Rating: 77 (255 votes)Comments: View 3
6.
Badhead
Average Rating: 83 (264 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
The Debt Collector
Average Rating: 76 (246 votes)Comments: View 1
8.
Far Out
Average Rating: 75 (237 votes)Comments: View 1
9.
To The End
Average Rating: 86 (319 votes)Comments: View 3
10.
London Loves
Average Rating: 81 (260 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
Trouble In The Message Centre
Average Rating: 80 (250 votes)Comments: View 1
12.
Clover Over Dover
Average Rating: 81 (252 votes)Comments: View 2
13.
Magic America
Average Rating: 78 (246 votes)Comments: View 1
14.
Jubilee
Average Rating: 78 (242 votes)Comments: View 2
15.
This Is A Low
Average Rating: 86 (305 votes)Comments: View 3
16.
Lot 105
Average Rating: 75 (224 votes)Comments: View 1

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Parklife rankings

Parklife rankings summary
Overall rank: 205th | 1990s rank: 41st | 1994 rank: 10th  Overall chart history
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Parklife ratings

Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 1,398 votes)
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95/100
 !		09/12/2026 09:03 DommeDamian  Ratings distribution  7,79448/100
 
80/100
 !		09/02/2026 08:31 TheWongs  Ratings distribution  88171/100
 
90/100
 !		08/07/2026 07:33 barethman  Ratings distribution  20780/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.1/100, a mean average of 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.


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Parklife forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 34 hours ago in Chart of the day (#5453): By Bach
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s by Bach () 1. by by by by (1999) 8. (1996) 9. (1998) 10. by by (1990) 17. by (1992) 18. by (1998) 19. by by (1995) 22. by (1994) 23. by (1996) 24. by (1994) 25. (1993) 28. by (1994) 29. by by (1990) 32. by (1994) 34. by (1993) 35. by (1997)…”
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“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Untitled () 1. (1989) 2. by (1979) 3. by (1998) 4. by by (1996) 6. by (2000) 7. (2005) 8. by (1994) 9. by (1975) 10. by (1985) 11. (1991) 12. (1966) 13. (2001) 14. by (1959) 15. by (1999) 16. by (1965) 17. (2008) 18. by (1966) 19. (1977) 20.…”
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From BestEverAlbums 09/03/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5424): By fabm0
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s by fabm0 () 1. by by (1992) 3. by (1999) 4. by by (1991) 8. by by (1994) 10. by (1997) 12. by (1992) 13. by (1995) 15. by by (1993) 18. by (1990) 20. by (1996) 21. by (1998) 22. by (1992) 24. by (1991) 25. by (1995) 26. by (1993) 28. by by…”
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Parklife comments

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From 04/01/2013 02:16 | #70918 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
cant remember the last time i liked an album this much on the first listen. Lots of really creative song writing, good chord progressions, experimental rhythms, good backing vocals, everything to like.
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95/100
From 01/28/2012 20:52 | #36068 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
It was an exciting time to be young: watching music history in the making.
A lot of great music being dished out at the same time.
And Blur created some of the best with this album, becoming a great stop at the BIRT continuum that started with the Kinks and went on to include great acts such as the Jam, the Madness and so on...
This is a low, funnily enough is the real high of the album
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90/100
From 06/04/2015 01:13 | #142963 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Maybe not quite the decade's best, but it could be the most "90s" album I've heard. As a catalog of everyday British life in the dole age, it becomes a sort of a looking glass sequel to The Kink's Village Green Preservation Society. So many enjoyable tunes, particularly "Tracy Jacks" and "London Loves".
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From 03/09/2015 00:02 | #136399 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Good album but there are some very short and forgettable tracks but the highlights to the record help stave off this problem
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From 05/07/2012 22:56 | #41774 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Fantastic album, better than I was expecting it to be.
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