Blur - Country House A few months after the release of Parklife, Blur were already starting to record the new album that would come out a year later: prolific, to say the least. If Parklife was their first number 1 album, Country House is their first number 1 single. And it's the song through which I got to know them, via this video, so I feel particularly attached to it. It's the opening track of an album, The Great Escape, which has nothing to envy from its predecessor; on the contrary, I believe it contains even higher peaks than Parklife: it's a sort of gallery of horrors, with often unsettling characters, still a mirror of a society that the four are capturing with ferocity, through unforgettable sarcasm and satire. While in Parklife the atmosphere seemed generally more serene, here a deep melancholy is often felt. #blur30