WTF IS THIS?!?! American Oasis Fans React To "Blur - Parklife - Jools Holland '94"
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Based on how much you are struggling to understand Blur, please don't even try Radiohead!! 🤣
The first guy 'singing' wasn't really part of the group ........ he's a respected actor, Phil Daniels, who made a career playing 'Cockneys' ...... he was just brought in for this record.
The rivalry wasn't real, it was invented by the record labels. And you guys went in to this claiming to have an open mind and to not be judgmental, then immediately started dissing them for the way they look. Look at some of their other stuff.
The rivalry was embraced by both bands, but both bands were great. Oasis had better better songs and better presence, better live etc. but blur are great, as said before blur initially won the battle but oasis won the war. Both band respected each other, apparently the main reason for the shit between them was actually because Damon’s then girlfriend Justine frischman of the band elastica (who were also great), had a thing for Liam and some thing may have happened etc etc. Spencer’s face during this makes me laugh still.
In fact, Liam’s girlfriend left a party with Damon and spent the night with him and she told Liam that they slept together. Since then, Liam couldn’t stand even being in the same room with Damon. That’s the story morning glory!!😅
the ironic thing is that Parklife is a reaction to the americanisation of Britain
100% that ^ early Blur was anti grunge and focused on British life so it's not going to translate too well.
Later Blur opens up and is more accessible/universal.
Also the rivalry was mainly a gimmick to sell more 💰💰💰
Should also say that's the worst version of Parklife I've ever heard 😁
@@alang7587 the reunion tour version was probably the best
@@alang7587 absolutely rubbish version. I honestly couldn't watch more than 30 seconds of it.
@@alang7587 absolutely! I love this song but this version is awful.
im a massive oasis fan, but to be fair, blur were awesome in their own right. this was probably the worst way to get into them. dont be turned off, they have some incredible stuff (e.g. the album 'the great escape') and damon albarn (lead singer/guitarist/songwriter) is a musical genius...for real. his work on the chinese opera 'monkey: journey to the west' is amazing.
maybe look at noel and damon/coxon doing 'tender' at the royal albert hall.
As a massive blur fan, you've picked an awful one to get in to them with. This is a tongue-in-cheek satirical look at a working class London life, with an actor singing the verses. In a lot of ways most of Blurs material is very eclectic so it can be hard to find where to begin. I'd say songs like There's No Other Way may be more up your street, but there's other great songs like Charmless Man, The Universal, Beetlebum, etc. and they span such a wide musical spectrum. Don't give up on Blur yet!
P. S. This show was recorded for NYE, so they were probably getting in to the spirit of things, you know what I mean? 😉
100% a fuckin awful start point guys. Ban whoever told you this was a good video to start. Must have been an agent of Oasis.
Not a huge fan of Blur but I agree they’d surely like There’s No Other Way
There is no start with blur. They where never proper rock and roll. More of a silly band like the darkness. You could never take them seriously. That’s why there lyrics mean fuck all
@@joekilroy2201 just cause they came out the same time as nirvana doesn’t mean they where anything like them with that song. It was ok. That’s all
Excellent summary pal.
I always say that Blur's real gold is hidden in their albums. For some reason their more 'comedy' singles were their bigger hits. Country House makes me squirm, where as 'Modern Life is Rubbish' for example, is a superb album.
Oasis hey now is criminally underrated on morning glory
It most certainly is!!! I love that tune!
Great lyrical track
love that song
Yes mate, it's my favourite track on the album
Everything Oasis has done is criminally overrated
I am an Oasis fan have seen them on many occasion also seen their solo stuff live but Damon ALburn of Blur is more talented than the Gallaghers
This is a bit unfair..it's a comedy blur song
All Blur songs are comedy, they are nursery rhymes absolute overrated tripe.
@@MultiBULLYBEEF no. Not at all.
Some really creative stuff.
Oasis a few good tunes..no depth, no variety
@@MultiBULLYBEEF music isn’t about lyrics it’s about music and musically Parklife is 20x more complex than anything Oasis wrote. If you want good lyrics go to a poetry book
@@Deadralord777 quite true coz Blur do not have the ability to write lyrics except to appeal to children.
Most US sports fans will know one Blur song without realising - Song 2
Damon is a genuine musical deity
As much as I like Oasis, most of their songs have a similar sound. Blur on the other hand are very eclectic in their sound. This one is a comedic fun track. They have done lots of other absolutely classic fantastic tracks, like The Universal... which is genius, or This is a Low, or Tender, or To the End. All such different sounds and styles and pretty much show off their genius song writing. I guarantee if you listen to these you'll love them. Parklife was not a good song to start with.
It was their single country house that went head to head with oasis roll with it, and it wasn't an adult v teenage thing, it was a middle class v working class thing ... I really like their song the universal and the guitarist Graham coxon is a very good musician, that's where me and blur part ways
In my opinion, Country House is one of Blur's worse songs and 'Roll With It' one of Oasis' worst songs. I wouldn't say either song were great representatives of either band. People could easily be turned off to both bands just going off their chart battle of these singles. They both have so much more to offer than these.
@@RichardBlakey I agree with every word, spot on 👍
Northern/Southern divide, too
This song was absolutely massive in the UK, though I never even thought about how dead on arrival it would be in the US. Give "Girls and Boys" a try if you haven't heard it before
Girls And Boys, that’s even worse than this travesty of a song
If they hate this song, they'll not like Girls and Boys either.
You've never been to a British park so how would you get it. You've been totally poisoned.
If you want to check out the actual archetypal BritPop song, check out Pulp, 'Common People' live from Reading.
Blur were a very creative band. Noel is still churning out the same ol' same ol' Whilst Damien from Blur is giving us Gorillaz. and other stuff.
Noel still churning out the same ol? his latest solo stuff is very different, Blur were very average.
I don’t like Noel’s new stuff, but you’re completely wrong when you say that Noel is still churning out the same stuff… if you listened to ‘This Is the Place’ for example, you’d see that it sounds nothing like Oasis.
@@godlike4810 A broken clock is right twice a day. I stand by my original statement, one or two tracks does not a summer make.
@@dougoneill7266 I just gave you one example of a track that sounds completely different from Oasis as I’m not too familiar with Noel’s whole catalog
Tbf Noel has been a lot more experimental of late. It’s Liam who still thinks he’s in the 90s
It was also a north/south divide thing. Northerners think all southerners are rich which is certainly not true.
"You can't even call it rap" He's not trying to rap! 🤣
This is a low, beetlebum, the universal, girls and boys are some of the best tunes from blur
Girls and boys 🤨🤨
I just tried girls and boys. couldn't get through more than half the song. just awful
Tender is worth a listen
@@bigdaddybry yeah it's not really everyone's cup of tea and i do like the other 3 more than that
@@stewartross1030 i like tender, but sometimes i feel like its too repetitive, i prefer To the end more
The official video is brilliant......its a slice of the uk........you need to be from the uk to appreciate it......
I would say blur kinda have a very english sound to them, a quirky eccentricity which gives more scope to their music, blur arnt tryn to sound like anyone, they are dynamic in that sense and push boundaries..........
They will grow on you
Why are you watching a live version of this ?
The video makes the song make sense .
Its funny as fuck & a good tune !
Music videos are more likely to get a copyright strike
@@joshhanson6538
Ok
Maybe they should hold back on derogatary comments about summit being shite
Until theyve.seen the song making sense .
I know they think there Music Gurus but Oasis are so 1990s
Just like blur .
😁
This was a tongue and cheek satire song, more of a joke. Oasis where due to release Roll With It in August 95, so Blur decided to release their song Country House the same day...... Country House sold more than Roll With It!!! Blur actually won the battle between them
The rivalry was big in the 90s but these days the fans are pretty laid back about it so you're unlikely to cause any anger from people here.
I really wish you'd react to Pulp as well.
Also I'd like to see you react to some Radiohead if you're not already familiar with their work.
Not sure many "fans" gave 2 sh9ts at the time either to be honest. Definitely the majority of fans at the time would have been fans of both bands. It was when they hit the chart war where peoples aunties and mothers were buying the singles. A total pr stunt of epic proportions that pulled all the pants down and forced that horrendously embarrassing moniker of "Brit pop" I for 1 flipping hated that entire rape of what was once a very cool, credible genre.
Yeah, agreed.
I was born 88 so wasn't really engaged with what was going on culturally in the 90s, although thanks to my older brother I was listening to this stuff.
By the time I was a teenager and talking to people about music, the Britpop conversation was framed as "are you an Oasis person or a Blur person?" but it was rarely as big a conflict as the media made out. Most people liked - or at the very least were able to appreciate - both but preferred one to the other.
Parklife is great but has its place in history. Tender, no distance left to run, beetlebum or country house are great for introductions to the band.
I don't agree. 'Country House' could put someone right off, it's dogshit. They have so many better songs than that to be introduced to the band through. All opinions though. They may very well love it.
I agree though that 'Beetlebum' and 'Tender' are good a place to start. Much less 'Marmite' choices; I've not heard of anyone who dislikes those songs.
@@RichardBlakey ah yeah fair enough. I'd probably add in To The End too
my favourite blur song is shes so high
When a song goes over people’s heads 😂😂😂😂.
I was as big a fan of Blur as I was Oasis.
The album this is from is basically a concept album.
Check out more of their stuff.
You've heard one oasis song you've heard them all. I couldn't name a typical blur tune, they were way more eclectic and interesting.
And their music is way more centred around British culture where oasis just sung any old words that rhymed.
That "one song" is better than all blur "songs" lmao
Not all Oasis songs sound the same… you clearly haven’t listened to enough of their songs.
@@godlike4810 I was a big fan of their first album when it came out, I liked the second too, but they got old quick. They're other albums were awful. Meaningless nursery rhyme lyrics over basic pub rock. Good ear for catchy tunes, and that's about it. Digsy's Dinner and Married With Children are the only songs I ever listen to now.
@@deathkebab Be Here Now and The Masterplan albums are good too, in my opinion.
Also… how is it basic pub rock? They’re quality tunes!
Tbf as a huge oasis fan both bands were great. It was all just fun and games, blur have some amazing songs too.
Damon and Noel are best mates now partly because they are now neighbors, Damon bought a house on the same street as Noel. Noel made a comment about "lost good years with Damon". I'm guessing feuding for so long they realized they lost out on a great potential collaborator.
@@lewisb85 still middle class 20 somethings and working class 20 somethings are so different I don’t think it could have happened in a different way.
Also noel has bassicly adopted the middle class way of life like a duck to water. Im not knocking him but he has lost touch a little over the years.
@@Beamboy555 I think that's the difference between Noel's relationship with Damon and say his relationship with Gruff Rhys (super furry animals). Although musically SFA were more like Blur than oasis, Gruff is from the south west wales valleys which is working class like Manchester.
@@lewisb85 exactly. My current friends are working class but had both parents and lived in nicer areas. I grew up with one parent, no money but a massive working class family so I’d spend all my time roaming the streets. When we talk about our childhoods even though they’re relatively working class and I can relate to everything they say they can’t relate to a thing from mine. It’s weird but I have completely different friendships with people and it all seems to be class based. Mates from my childhood, mates from the grammar school I went to and then mates from uni. There’s just something about being with similarly built people that you cannot fake which is why I have to think Noel is a twat. How can you grow up working class and then seriously be good mates with fuckers like Bono
Blur is honestly great and there discography is very varied. Its not really accurate to hold judgement when you've only listened to one song that is completely satirical.
Yeah listen to charmless man and the universal and there you go, opinion changed. (Best blur songs)
@@livingdeadgirlss na na na na na na nahhh
That's Phil Daniels, he's an actor and the best part of this song. He was the main character in The Who's 'Quadrophenia' film so he should be let off for this 😁
The difference between Blur and Oasis fans at the time was puberty...
Plus this was filmed New Years Eve at Jools Hollands Hootenanny which is televised in the UK to bring in the New Year and everyone is usually smashed!
Loving your work, from the UK
Stereophonics! You must start reacting to them. You'll fall for them like Oasis
Great shout
Looks like Chaplin live at Cardiff Castle would be a good start
@@ChrisPhonics84 Definitely! The 'Phonics are my next fav band after Oasis but I really love their early (first 5 or 6 albums) stuff more than their latest!
Same size feet is awesome
Going from oasis to blur is like going from wild turkey to wine coolers.Try The Jam "town called malice".Paul Weller was a huge influence on Noel.
Noel Gallagher said his favourite Blur song is ‘Beetlebum’ which is about herion addiction. You might dig that one! My personal favs are ‘Tender’ and No Distance Left To Run
The two of you With ooks of wonder and despair , then ended with a. ‘what the fuck is this shit!?!’ 😂😂😂😂
Not one of blurs best songs. It's very british though, as the guy talking is a well-known british actor. It was very different at the time. I'm a Oasis man, and I've been in a Oasis tribute band. I was about 14 at this time. The rivalry was great at the time. Noel and Damon the singer of Blur have performed together since the fall out. Was a great time to be a teenager when this all went on. I miss it. Thanks for videos lads. Great channel, and well worth me hitting the subscribe button. Peace.
The 'rapper' is a comedian who only appears in this Blur song. He's in a show called Time Gentleman Please, worth a watch.
Rumour has it that both bands , conspired through the media to create a rivalary to generate sales, and remember Oasis lost
A bit harsh (but accurate) on "McLovin" on guitar (it was bass), and I was at school with him, but then again as far as egotistical bellends go, Batman was also at school with us (when he turned up and wasn't filming Empire of the Sun anyway)
But yeah you will likely enjoy more blur later, amusingly it's Blur who you come to appreciate more as an adult
Noel Gallagher is a massive fan of John Lydon and the sex pistols, he was inspired by them to produce the music he did. He once said he would be willing to give up every album to be the person who wrote the album ' never mind the bollocks'. That makes the difference I think what shaped and created the oasis phenomenon over others.
Anarchy in the UK...
My dad had 'never mind the bolloks' on vinyl
Oasis + blur were both exceptional. This blur album is good as hell
Inspiral carpets- She comes in the fall (live) like a mix between oasis and the roses with an organ also noel used to be their roadie and he credits them for helping him get oasis going(the name oasis comes from a venue the inspirals played when noel was roadieing!). Also fronted by Tom Hingley who Liam said was the best singer in Manchester.
Haha this is one of the funniest reactions I've ever seen. My fellow Brits, what a day!
Blur was pop, oasis was rock n roll. Simple.
Trimm trabb etc. Oasis was an assortment of stolen riffs and shit lyrics. BLUR forever!!!
Try The Universal. It's one of my fav Blur songs.
Especially if you like the film a clockwork orange
I can’t see them being into that song tbh with you!
If you like British culture and humour, start watching Karl Pilkington videos, will triple your subscribers overnight...
Haha, so true!
Head like a fucking orange
Yes man!
One from a later album of blur is “out of time “ it’s a fantastic song I think it would be good to react to
I love both oasis and blur. As others have said this one is tough first introduction.
Try “no distance left to run” “beetlebum” “tender”
Parklife is a parody song. It was the third or fourth single off their 2nd album.
Hahaha, quality reaction! 😂👍
The guy singing isn't even a member of Blur. he's an actor of British tv he's a very good actor.
Phil Daniels is a great actor.
@@Rabant777 played good performances in Scum and Quadraphenia
You guys need to check out more Arctic monkeys - mardy bum or certain romance
Yeah he was amazing in eastenders! 😁
@@Wearethewingmakers haha yeah he was in that to 🤓 he had ginks on in that
This is literally the worst Blur video I have ever seen! We're did u find this one?? ha Ffs
A decent blur song is “for tomorrow”(live at Glastonbury is a good version) or “Sunday Sunday”, "Charmless Man" The difference is influences Oasis were influenced by the Beatles and the rolling stones, whilst Blur were inspired by bowie, the kinks, syd barrett and XTC. Ironically 10 years later you had the same thing in the US with the dandy warhols and the Brian Jonestown massacre.
The live version of The Universal on their documentary is perfection
Better off watching the video.
Its a great track because it was weird that they got this known actor with a very working class accent doing the spoken word part and then Blur/Albarn do the chorus.
Don't buy into Blur being crap cause Oasis said they were. They were just riffing on cocaine in the 90's. And Liam isnt really open minded when it comes to music. Things are either "rock 'n roll, man" or their not. If they're not, he doesn't like it. Half of "Blur VS Oasis" was contrived by the red-top news media and it helped sell both bands a lot of albums.
I liked both bands but I was only a kid. Music is music.
Blur have a bigger repertoire of diverse music. Oasis just stay in a Rock n roll lane.
Also, Gorillaz (Damon Albarn's project) had Noel Gallagher playing live with them. And Albarn almost lampooning Liam on stage by doing Liam's stance, lol.
Great Blur tracks to check:
Beetlebum
Charmless Man
On Your Own (brilliant one)
The Universal
Coffee & TV
Please check out those fan favourites. Video album versions too.
Thanks and great reaction.
Also check Damon Albarn's Gorillaz and Noel Gallagher, phenomenal live version
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Also the main man doing the talking in this video is a British actor from the film Quadrophenia (check that out. Mod culture film) he is not a member of the band
Lol hearing your interpretations of this is great , try "there's no other way " for a more accessible entry into Blur, "Chemical world " is another good early one
You guys would love Oasis on Jools Holland playing "whatever" some real music as Liam would say :)
They did the MTV one
@@SyMchale yes that's right, another absolute classic
@@adammcgrattan8960 tbf Noel could fart it in the bath and would still sound as good
When the only blur song you've heard "song 2" is the furthesr thing you can listen to from blur😂
Not a fair song to choose really blur do have a lot of really great songs
I won't click dislike, got too much love for the channel to do that...but I definitely can't hit like! 🤣. Sorry always been on the oasis train with one way ticket
“We’re not trying to be judgemental!” After you immediately said “what tf was that” and literally made fun of what they look like
Noel said, of all the Blur songs, Beetlebum is the one he wish he wrote
Blur - Tender is an absolutely beautiful song.
You'll probably also know "Song 2" if you heard it.
Live performances always sound a bit iffy. Also the guy who started singing first is an actor who appeared in the song, playing a character, not a regular band member. It’s possible to like both bands, it doesn’t have to be one or the other, but I think Blur were a little bit more inventive than Oasis Quo. Damon Albarn was a “Mockney”, posh but tried to sound like a working class Londoner.
both noel and liam gallagher said beetlebum is their favorite blur song so you guys should listen to that one
Country House is not a good example of Blur as well, but it directly competed with Roll With IT
They're both great bands but Blur were way better musicians. Oasis never really moved beyond 60's inspired British rock n roll whereas Blur were far more eclectic. If you listen to their albums Oasis were pretty much treading water past Morning Glory but Blur's albums were far better, other than Leisure and Great Escape each album was a progression and creatively and musically far superior to Oasis. Also I'm not really sure it's a class thing, I'm working class and in my 40s and although I love both bands I'm far more likely to play a Blur album than an Oasis album nowadays!
I started listening to oasis when I was 8 that's when wonderwall came out and I instantly became a fan, as did the rest of the school and probably every other school! 😂😂
I love oasis and blur but oasis a lot more you should check out blur tender live at Glasto and the universal live I think these are blurs best songs live coffee and tv and end of a century are also really good personally i dont think blur oasis should of been compared it was the media that did it but you couldn't get two bands anymore different
the older guy wearing the brown leather jacket is Phil Daniels. who is best known for playing the lead character Jimmy in The Who's movie Quadrophenia.
Try charmless man by blur and also check out a few other British 90s bands supergrass,cast and shed seven and the charlatans
Definitely Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz. Probably the closest another band got to Oasis.
@@MKYCmusic in terms of what for me there were a lot of bands in the 90s that was better than oasis the charlatans being one
@@harrytrent13 By closest to oasis I meant sound wise not necessarily as in who is 'best'.
@@MKYCmusic yh fair enough but in my eyes supergrass are nothing like oasis
@@harrytrent13 No they're not. I'm not really explaining it well. I mean closest to Oasis in ferocity. Songs like Caught By the Fuzz, Richard III are really rocking. Not a lot of 90's Britpop bands got that heavy.
Guys don't get too hung up on what the Gallaghers said in the 90s, Blur have some bangers
Blur are Musicians, OAsis is a one trick pony, stealing riffs from every big band ever.
Thank you for speaking truth.
Guys you need to realise this was filmed on New Years Eve so they’ve probably had a few drinks 🍺 the dark haired guy is an actor called Phil Daniels
Blur are a good band. A great one I'd even say. I like them a lot. But Oasis are legendary. Different level. Parklife is not one of their best tunes though, as iconic as it may be. You should check out 'Country House', 'Girls and Boys' and 'She's So High'.
The Blur Oasis thing was started by Blurs management changing the release of singles to coincide with Oasis releases. The media grabbed hold and both bands went with it as there is no bad publicity in pop music. Blurs Damon Albarn went on to create the Gorrillaz who are much better than Blur ever were.
Blur is ecclettic,Oasis popular, Pulp is Class
Why haven't you checked out the Happy Mondays or Black Grape? Real quality bands (come on Bez)
The rivalry was pretty much manufactured to drive sales even higher.
The “Britpop” moniker sold
I personally don’t know anyone who bought into it. Everyone I know/knew likes the both.
Tender and The Universal are Blur's crowning moments. You'll like those.
Theres no other way is decent so is shes so high
TBF Oasis left blur behind after year 1. Some decent songs but the weren't anywhere near the phenomenon that oasis were.
Hilarious. Blur were way more compositionally complex than oasis, Blur spanned multiple genres Oasis barely made good rock and roll music. Definitely Maybe is okay but they remade that album 7 times. Each blur song on each of their different albums all sounded different and often where different genres in themselves. Oasis were pageantry, Blur were compositionally and creatively minded blokes
tender live at Hyde park. unreal. even as a huge oasis fan... you can't deny that song is an all time great.
he also performs it with noel later on in life
Do "coffee and tv' by Blur the official video.
The guy singing the song was the main actor in The Who movie 'Quadrophenia'
You should react to hey now by oasis and also gas panic. 2 great and underrated songs by oasis
They did gas panic i love hey now.
Gas panic is such a sinister sounding track, I love it.
the guy doing the talking bit is English actor Phil Daniels, best known for his amazing role as Jimmy in the Mod Classics Quadrophenia, that film spawned a new generation of Mods , you can loosely associate the Britpop scene with the mod scene as a lot of Britpop band Oasis especially were big fans of bands like The Jam & Paul Weller
This song is massive, one of their best known. It’s the sort of song that cheesy nightclubs play and everybody sings along.
The main singer in this is just a cockney (London) actor and was only in this song for his accent as it is meant to be an over exaggerated cockney accent and this song never made it in the us due to it being particularly British
Hahaha! "What the fuck is this shit"
I couldn't have put it better myself! Although Blur have done a couple of alright tunes, they aren't in the same league as Oasis!
That is a terrible take but we all make mistakes. It’s all good buddy.
Americans not understanding strange British culture is my favourite form of entertainment. This had me in stitches and really makes you step back and think - yeah this song is pretty weird 🤨🤣
'I'm allergic to their Bullshit' haha
I despised oasis theybare awful blur are far better
The guy in the park life video is an british actor who eventually ended up on eastenders, its a british soap. My brother said, put eastenders on tv and everytime he finishes talking sing "park life" and it could be the actual song.
Now, Its not a productive use of time, but its funny.
They were really big being honest I heard on a documentary I think at one point they were twice as big as oasis
The guy doing the talk-singing is not a member of Blur. Basically the album this is from is the band trying to embrace Britishness over the American grunge sound that was so popular in the early '90s. They brought in Phil Daniels who is a British actor and icon of British music for appearing in the film "Quadrophenia" (a movie set to WHO music that is a big tribute to the 60's mod era) and got him to talk in thick cockney slang about the average day as he looks around at regular London life. It annoyed a few people that middle-class guys were piggybacking off of a working-class actor playing an exaggerated character but it was all in good fun. Also its one of those songs which is very fun to attempt at karaoke
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They’re basically theatre kids from a posh school. The Gallaghers were the weed smokers who never turned up
The older guy in the video is Phil Daniels a popular Cockney actor and star of the movie “Quadrophenia”.
The man shouting out his part is an actor who starred in two of my favourite films Scum and Quadrophenia (probably spelt wrong) he was Jimmy in the best Mod film ever should watch by the way his name is Phil Daniels.
I was all Blur!! Girls & boys is great! Damon Albarn went on to create Gorillaz.