Johnny Dee, reviewing Parklife for NME, called it "a great pop record", adding "On paper it sounds like hell, in practice it's joyous." Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars. 'This Is a Low' is one of the most poignant songs ever onthe subject of The British isles.", Ranked #15 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" Ranked #72 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" - "Years ago, when albums were this magical they had titles like SOMETHING ELSE BY THE KINKS.", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.", 4 Stars - Excellent - ".With one of the year's best albums, they realize their cheeky ambition: to reassert all the style and wit, boy bonding and stardom aspiration that originally made British rock so dazzling.this is explosive pop.", Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994" - ".PARKLIFE shares its ragamuffin rambunctiousness with past masters like The Small Faces and The Kinks but has a contemporary sense of the surreal.", Rated #71 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95.', ".taking MODERN LIFE's `For Tomorrow' to its logical retro conclusion, but making it all seem so shiny, spanking, sparkly new, that the next time there's a '60's revival, they'll have to ask Blur if it's ok with them first.", Highly Recommended - ".Blur cultivates that new wave look and sound, evoking the halcyon days of yore when London produced weekly pop sensations the way today's American college towns produce Superchunk clones.", Ranked #2 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.', Ranked #22 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - ".Tempered by a wistful elegiac quality that brilliantly captured England's mixture of madness and mundanity.
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