I still find twats speeding their way to an insurance payout in parts of London. I used to live in Beckenham, and there's rich people with fancy cars going way over 30 every now and again.
After all the madness and trends of the indie music in the 90s in England , with the passing of the years, you arrive at a couple of conclusions and one is that Blur and Radiohead were the most sophisticated , original and ahead of its time along bands
@@ragtimegals I would say Radiohead have become more timeless, contemporary, and renowned than Blur. It helps that they continue making music, unlike Blur.
I always hear this as Blur (and especially Damon) sending a love letter to David Bowie’s music, this song mirrors “Fashion” in so many ways, particularly Graham’s guitar solo.
Apparently, Graham wanted to title the song "Fripp" as the solo was his homage to King Crimson, but The Catherine Wheel already had a song with that title, so they retitled it London Loves.
Got into Blur 4 days ago and i gotta say I’m obsessed:Listened to the hits,Leisure,Modern Life is Rubbish and now I’m here on Parklife,almost at the end of the playlist.Damon never misses man.
Not many were playing this that I can remember. Definitely 'Girls and Boys' and 'Parklife' were regular. I do remember going to clubs and the whole of the Stone Roses album being played from back to front, one after another, but these tended to be in alternative clubs. Your mainline places were still playing dross.
A malady has taken him over Coughing tar in his Japanese motor The lights are magic And he feels lucky 🍀 And he’s got money 💴 Shoots like an arrow, oh London loves The mystery of a speeding car 🚗 London loves The misery of a speeding heart 💖 It’s love 💕 you like and everyone’s at it And words are cheap when the mind is elastic He loves the violence Keeps ticking over So sleep 💤 together Before today is sold forever ♾ London loves The way people just fall apart London loves The way you just don’t stand a chance London loves The mystery of a speeding heart 💖 Oh oh oh, oh oh oh Oh oh oh, oh oh oh Oh oh oh, oh oh oh Oh oh oh, oh oh oh London loves The mystery of a speeding car 🚗 London loves The misery of a speeding heart 💖 London loves The mystery Oh, hey 👋 hey 👋 London loves The way people just fall apart London loves The way we just don’t stand a chance London loves (always London loves) The speeding heart 💖
A malady has taken him over coughing tar in his japanese motor the lights are magic and he feels lucky and he's got money,shoots like an arrow,oh London loves the mystery of a speeding car London loves the misery of a speeding heart it's love you like and everyone ''s at it and words are cheap when the mind is elastic he loves the violence ,keeps ticking over so sleep together before today is sold forever London loves the way people just fall apart London loves the way you just don't stand a chance London loves the mystery of a speeding cars oh,oh-oh,oh,oh-oh oh,oh-oh,oh, oh-oh oh,oh-oh,oh,oh-oh oh,oh-oh,oh,oh-oh London loves the mystery of a speeding car London loves the mystery of a speeding heart London loves the mystery (hey,hey)London loves the way people just fall apart London loves the way we just don't stand a chance London loves a speeding car...
Damon and the whole band paint a picture of dystopian London of racing Cars with people disconnected with each other, a familiar theme for blur. The song Go Out on their last album The Magic Whip, has a similar sort of sense of hopeless alienation without being depression.
Close. I believe that the working title of the song was 'Fripp', and the solo is Graham Coxon's homage to the solo on 'Fashion'. Which is equally brilliant.
Graham Coxon is amazing on this one. His guitar parts on "MLIR", "Parklife" & "TGE" remind me of Andy Summers' job in the Police; In that sense that all the stuff he contributed was simply perfectly suited for each song, perfect guitar craftsmanship always in a perfect amount to squeeze all the juices from Damon's songwriting capabilities
I heard this song on the radio this week and thought it was their earlier stuff. Couldn't believe it was on Parklife as I don't remember it. This is now my favourite Blur song!
This one is heavy on the Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) David Bowie tip. Didn’t they run into some copyright issues with M.O.R. lifting from “Boy’s Keep Swinging”? I’m going to assume that whatever came from it, they had a laugh and kept in touch, boys always work it out
One of the truly Greatest British bands. And that's some pretty 'eavy company right. The way people just fall apart/ the way we just don't stand a chance....
i’m 42 and when i was 14 i was all about oasis , i luvd blur aswell but oasis had that swagger that a 14 yr old wants . now i come back to blur 50/1 sorry liam but we have to grow up
I'm not sure of the band name or exact song title but does anyone remember Dalek I Love You - The Story of Wild Bill? I had a cassette from 1982 called something like SFX. Anyway it has the exact same keyboard sound. Sorry for the lack of details but I'm getting old and the chemicals have taken their toll!!!
Speeding cars are a mystery in London because there's so much traffic that it's impossible to speed
I never got that lyric til now.
reminds me of that one video.
"COME TO FUCKING LONDON!"
But the Lambo driver's still try!
I still find twats speeding their way to an insurance payout in parts of London. I used to live in Beckenham, and there's rich people with fancy cars going way over 30 every now and again.
lmaooooo
After all the madness and trends of the indie music in the 90s in England , with the passing of the years, you arrive at a couple of conclusions and one is that Blur and Radiohead were the most sophisticated , original and ahead of its time along bands
finally, someone said it!
Absofuckinglutely!👌
Blur are waaay better than Radiohead. But maybe it’s just me, I used to love Radiohead, now I can’t even listen to them.
@@ragtimegals I would say Radiohead have become more timeless, contemporary, and renowned than Blur. It helps that they continue making music, unlike Blur.
Nonsense !! What about Super Furry Animals? Primal Scream? Mansun? Boo Radleys? Spiritualized? etc etc....
One of the best songs of Parklife. But come on, Parklife is perfect
Modern Life is Rubbish IS Perfection. X
charmlessnerd hmm
Yep
👍👍👍
parklife the greateat album ever!
This entire album is a freaking masterpiece, cheers from America
Agreed! From spain
From Magic America? With all the magic people???
Jamie Hellfire it certainly is my friend.
Totally true, cheers from México
So true
Most underrated song of the album.
damon has got the most exquisite voice
Damn right how does he do that??
He’s got quite the vocal range, which Im a big fan of.
The snappy magic of Graham Coxon on this track - amazing
I know! What a beast!
I always hear this as Blur (and especially Damon) sending a love letter to David Bowie’s music, this song mirrors “Fashion” in so many ways, particularly Graham’s guitar solo.
The way Coxen weaves a highly avant garde guitar solo into this perfect piece of pop is 👌
Apparently, Graham wanted to title the song "Fripp" as the solo was his homage to King Crimson, but The Catherine Wheel already had a song with that title, so they retitled it London Loves.
@@mrt77wv I love that fact, thanks for sharing it!
The guitar work on this album is sublime
courtesy of graham coxon
Not just this album.
i think graham coxon is a greatest guitarist in pop music scene ever. his play is awesome .(from japan .)
👍
Didn't quite appreciate this enough when I was a teen in the 90s, now it's the one track from the album I keep going back to. Guitar pop perfection.
Robert Wright so true!!!!!
This is such an underrated song
cool
Got into Blur 4 days ago and i gotta say I’m obsessed:Listened to the hits,Leisure,Modern Life is Rubbish and now I’m here on Parklife,almost at the end of the playlist.Damon never misses man.
Got into them a few weeks ago and they r so good man, I wish I could see them live sometime :(
Also love their the great escape album
With this one song, blur transports me to 90s London. It's encapsulates it perfectly.
i know what you mean!
I made 2 trips to London in 1995. One in spring and the other on New Years Eve. Both were fantastic!
I was up north and we loved it in the student unions.
I can imagine dancing this in a disco in 1994.
Not many were playing this that I can remember. Definitely 'Girls and Boys' and 'Parklife' were regular. I do remember going to clubs and the whole of the Stone Roses album being played from back to front, one after another, but these tended to be in alternative clubs. Your mainline places were still playing dross.
Graham's 'asthmatic' guitar breaks make this for me. Supery-doopery! 👌
A malady has taken him over
Coughing tar in his Japanese motor
The lights are magic
And he feels lucky 🍀
And he’s got money 💴
Shoots like an arrow, oh
London loves
The mystery of a speeding car 🚗
London loves
The misery of a speeding heart 💖
It’s love 💕 you like and everyone’s at it
And words are cheap when the mind is elastic
He loves the violence
Keeps ticking over
So sleep 💤 together
Before today is sold forever ♾
London loves
The way people just fall apart
London loves
The way you just don’t stand a chance
London loves
The mystery of a speeding heart 💖
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
London loves
The mystery of a speeding car 🚗
London loves
The misery of a speeding heart 💖
London loves
The mystery
Oh, hey 👋 hey 👋
London loves
The way people just fall apart
London loves
The way we just don’t stand a chance
London loves (always London loves)
The speeding heart 💖
A malady has taken him over
coughing tar in his japanese motor
the lights are magic and he feels lucky
and he's got money,shoots like an arrow,oh
London loves the mystery of a speeding car
London loves the misery of a speeding heart
it's love you like and everyone ''s at it
and words are cheap when the mind is elastic
he loves the violence ,keeps ticking over
so sleep together before today is sold forever
London loves the way people just fall apart
London loves the way you just don't stand a chance
London loves the mystery of a speeding cars
oh,oh-oh,oh,oh-oh
oh,oh-oh,oh, oh-oh
oh,oh-oh,oh,oh-oh
oh,oh-oh,oh,oh-oh
London loves the mystery of a speeding car
London loves the mystery of a speeding heart
London loves the mystery
(hey,hey)London loves the way people
just fall apart
London loves the way we just don't stand a chance
London loves a speeding car...
Damon and the whole band paint a picture of dystopian London of racing Cars with people disconnected with each other, a familiar theme for blur. The song Go Out on their last album The Magic Whip, has a similar sort of sense of hopeless alienation without being depression.
That David Bowie Low guitar solo 😍😍😍
Close. I believe that the working title of the song was 'Fripp', and the solo is Graham Coxon's homage to the solo on 'Fashion'. Which is equally brilliant.
that opening riff......................................................................... love love love
Love London ❤❤❤
Graham channeled Robert Fripp for that solo.
george412 yep, definitely hearing ‘fashion - bowie’
Fripp guitarr, love it.
This is an absolute pleasure to listen to
Indeed
Indeed
Lmaoooo doggo on the left
Ram you just worsened my day
Just as I saw your comment I laughed my ass off.
Needed that.
Tritnew1 Alt you're welcome.. I think. :)
Fran, you’re ruining the vibe
:c
Catchy little tune from simply a masterpiece of a album.
so underrated and definitely my favourite song from blur
Marvelous, especially Graham's guitar
Graham Coxon is amazing on this one. His guitar parts on "MLIR", "Parklife" & "TGE" remind me of Andy Summers' job in the Police; In that sense that all the stuff he contributed was simply perfectly suited for each song, perfect guitar craftsmanship always in a perfect amount to squeeze all the juices from Damon's songwriting capabilities
Such an underpracticed art ! Andy, Malcolm Young, Johnny Marr, Keef himself, talkin rhythm and genius big grooves
Graham is just beyond this planet of clever hooks- his guitar lines are so perfect 🤩
Parkside just nailed the Zeitgeist. This track is so witty and sardonic
One of Blur's best
THIS SONG NEEDS TO BE PLAYED OUT LOUD! What a tuneeeeee
One of my favourites from Parklife
I can't get over the catchiness of this song. It's so infuriating how good this sounds heckkk
Such a f***in tune even now 2023 90s bands dont come any better in my opinion
this song have to be in the best of Blur
La voz de Damon siempre se me ha hecho muy divertida en esta cancion :v
Underrated song🙌🏻
A magical album... so many amazing memories of that period, it's just the perfect album.
this is one of the best of Blur
The guitar is insane
A very underrated Blur classic, waiting to be found on a very good album!
True!
so underrated...the guitar is brilliant
No, this music not is underrated
love London and love Blur tooo!!!!!!!
Si eres de México, quizás vengan al corona capital 2023 🤯
My favourite song from parklife. Not the most iconic, but certainly sums up blurs creative side.
Su voz es preciosa!
Indeed
I heard this song on the radio this week and thought it was their earlier stuff. Couldn't believe it was on Parklife as I don't remember it. This is now my favourite Blur song!
That's odd because it's not a single.
Not sure if this or Country Sad Ballad Man has the best anti-solo :)
Love you Blur
Fantastic song love the quirky Synths in this one 😎👽👍🏻
Brilliant Adrian Belew-like guitar at 1:44
Graham is a guitar god,.
The Cartridge Family exactly i remember that from the video of damon and bowie singing fashion
I was just going to post a comment on that
This one is heavy on the Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) David Bowie tip. Didn’t they run into some copyright issues with M.O.R. lifting from “Boy’s Keep Swinging”? I’m going to assume that whatever came from it, they had a laugh and kept in touch, boys always work it out
the guitar on the beginning... so many Crash Bandicoot vibes ;D LOVE IT
love it listen to your album everyday!🐶
17 years old coming from the north hitting the big city ending up in Walthamstow......Best night.
One of the truly Greatest British bands. And that's some pretty 'eavy company right.
The way people just fall apart/ the way we just don't stand a chance....
Mi adolescencia, siempre la cantaba bien traumada x)
One of my favorite songs EVER.❤️❤️
Luv Damon and Blur.😍💕
about a romance that didn't work, cool x
As perfect an album that captured the time and culture it was created in, as The Who's QUADROPHENIA...
i’m 42 and when i was 14 i was all about oasis , i luvd blur aswell but oasis had that swagger that a 14 yr old wants . now i come back to blur 50/1 sorry liam but we have to grow up
such a good song
When I listen to this, I always wonder if it's an ode to a particular Borough 🤔 I don't think it's Merton believe me 😂 😪 that was too quiet
Catchy song
graham was so ahead of the game
Where's the sample of the San Francisco groupie? I don't hear it.
wait did anyone notice that the albums get two tracks longer every album?
best songggg
This song reminds me of living in London ha
Favourites to rim
Top gear brought me here! But still a great classic!
Great song. Do I detect a Bowie influence?
sooooooooooo. Speeding cars in London you say?
how meaning changes.
I'm not sure of the band name or exact song title but does anyone remember Dalek I Love You - The Story of Wild Bill? I had a cassette from 1982 called something like SFX. Anyway it has the exact same keyboard sound. Sorry for the lack of details but I'm getting old and the chemicals have taken their toll!!!
LONDON LOVES
The Sun Never Sets
This is the one 👌🏻
Reminds me of a 1979 song called 7Teen by The Regents.
Reminds me of Magazine, and Television.
Buena música !
Lol, this is one of the funniest album covers ever.
Dog racing is funny? I don't think that's why the band used this photo, but I could be wrong.
1:43
The one that sounds a bit like XTC
or Trampled Under Foot?
mt bom
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh hey - hey !
1:43 🤨🤨🤨🤨
This song has XTC written all over it. Too underated if you ask me.
♡♡♡
Battle of the band’s in the nineties! Blur shit em
0:42
Tracey jacks
Over 20 years ago & mid 1990s
💙💙🎶
Bow bowww bo-bo-bo-boww boww
sounds like go out
2 people be like...."shit I have no imagination what soever"
lounden laaavs
If you omitted the vocals, this could pass as an INXS song
the whole album is littered with Bowie influences.
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uwu
🎧