No fool, nothing new. Unfortunately. Two demos from the time Blur were leaving dark times behind with Modern Life is Rubbish and demoing songs for what would become brit pop archetype Parklife. There’s two demos, one of Girls and Boys, and one of Parklife. Damon does the speaking parts in Parklife, as it was intended that Phil Daniels talk over The Debt Collecter- unfortunately, Damon couldn’t be arsed to write some lyrics for it so he ended up doing Parklife instead.
Girls and Boys sounds a bit more 80s, and my god is that bassline excitable! Thank goodness
it calmed down a bit for the proper version. Anyway, to hear them, head over here.
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number7 // September 1, 2007 at 9:14 am
that version of parklife sounds really odd – stick to the chorus Damon.
number7 // September 6, 2007 at 8:12 am
Radio 1 is celebrating it’s 40th birthday and they keep playing a jingle with some remix of parklife with a super heavy bass line – keep an ear out for it.