Blur - Tracy Jacks (Official Audio)

The official audio for Blur - Tracy Jacks
Taken from Blur’s 3rd studio album ‘Parklife’ released in 1994, which featured the hit singles 'Girls And Boys', 'End of a Century', 'Parklife' and 'To the End'.
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About Blur:
Blur were formed in 1989 by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree and signed with Food/EMI the same year. Announcing their arrival with debut album Leisure in 1991, Blur continued to revolutionise the sound of English popular music with second release Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993). Five successive UK #1 albums followed - with Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helping to propel the band to mass popularity in the UK and beyond. The eponymous Blur was released in (1997) and seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur’s first as a three-piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon.
Twenty one years after the release of their debut album, 2012 saw Blur 21: The Box, the band's body of work compiled and gathered together into one box. Their most recent release as a four-piece, the critically acclaimed chart-topping album The Magic Whip (2015), started life in Hong Kong when the band had an unexpected break in touring in May 2013.
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[@thomasporton9656]

The best thing about coming on a KZbin comment section is to find other like minded people who think the exact same thing about a song and makes you realise it’s not just you out there that appreciates it.

[@karlos_taylor]

Can we just appreciate the tone of the bass!

[@robertsharp6960]

That's definitely what gets you hooked on this masterpiece, then bit by bit you realise everything about it is brilliant.

[@clivehampshire6531]

But it's just so overrated!

[@mkramer6920]

Never 😤

[@mkramer6920]

Just kidding! Great Bass!

[@spaghettisauce445]

3:13 is so fire because of it

[@JamesWright-kn4xj]

I was 16 and working in a hotel overlooking fistral beach in Newquay. Parklife album was the soundtrack, what a summer that was.

[@watermelonineasterhay]

ahhh, people who were young (but old enough to remember) in those days are so lucky. I only started school in 94 :(

[@KRPTV]

My dad had this album on cassette in the 90s and he always used to play it in the car whenever we went for a day out or when we drove to a pub in an evening, so these songs always remind me of those times!

[@Br1tp0pp]

lucky

[@culttops1296]

This album is such an acute satire of english society.

[@Explorer982]

most of them are. Great Escape and Modern Life is Rubbish similar. Maybe the latter is a bit on the nose !

[@dellafenton2417]

@@Explorer982 Modern life is rubbish is a great album

[@mattludlam2194]

Must have been amazing to have lived in a time when this was considered accessible pop music for the masses - there's really creative musicianship and musical interplay combined with socially conscious and aware lyrics, there aren't many if any pop acts out there today with their eyes open like this.

[@andrewjohnston4076]

The 90s was an amazing time to be alive and the music was mind blowing

[@peky6036]

well said!

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

How old are you Matt? Youre talking like this was the 1950s, I was alive during this period and it was fine but in no way was it amazing, it was just a standard rock tune cos we didnt know any different.

[@samanthalarner5895]

I wish I could go back. I was 18 when this album came out.

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

@@samanthalarner5895 I was only 14 but I didnt become aware of the album until my 20s.

[@burtbackattack]

Alex's bass on the this album is fucking incredible.

[@Daniel-ed6cb]

Parklife will always be a classic 90s albulm, reminds me of sunny summers day playing football in the fields with my mates as a kid.

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

Even though this is only the second track in the album, it would also make an excellent final track in Parklife. It really has that finale, feel-good vibe.

[@PBL187]

Even though it's about a man having a midlife crisis

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

Feel good vibe? its about a middle aged man having a mental breakdown......

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

@@theyellowlightsaber3193 I rarely pay attention to lyrics in a song. I'm more of a melody-focused guy, hence why I find myself tapping my foot at this song, despite its dark themes.

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

@@AgsmaJustAgsma Im sure that wasnt the intention, Blur dealt with off kilter tunes, far from being a "good vibe" its spose to signify the guy's descent into madness under the guise of hedonism which is what youre no doubt confusing as the "good vibe" but this is in no way a feel good tune. Blur's themes on thier first three albums generally dealt with ennui and the insanity of people living boring repetitive lives in the suburbs.

[@APoxOnNordStream]

One of their best, so beautifully layered.

[@urlocalnerd899]

I have this as a cd and its a vibe

[@junsantos73]

Alex James's f...ing great bassline!

[@jimwolfgang9433]

It's ok, you can swear

[@Irene-nq5qm]

my longest TRAAACY JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKS ever

[@urineanxiety]

nice

[@cosmopolitao]

ye

[@BenGott]

wee ooo wee ooo

[@chrisryland202]

Works in civil service...but he's getting past forty..threw his clothes in th water...and ran around naked....traaaaacyyyyy jaaaackkkk...🚜🏠

[@BulletDrummer]

Yea boi

[@ss1980s]

works in civil service (Tracy Jacks) it's steady employment (Tracy Jacks) is a golfing fanatic (Tracy Jacks) but his put is erratic (Tracy Jacks) saw a Harley Street doctor (Tracy Jacks) who prescribed healthy living (Tracy Jacks) but he's getting past forty (Tracy Jacks) and all the seams are splitting Everyday he got closer He knew in his heart he was over I'd love to stay here and be normal But it's just so overrated left home without warning (Tracy Jacks) at five in the morning (Tracy Jacks) got on the first train to walton (Tracy Jacks) and stood on the seafront (Tracy Jacks) threw his clothes in the water (Tracy Jacks) and ran around naked (Tracy Jacks) got stopped by the police (Tracy Jacks) and escorted back home Well, everyday he got closer He knew in his heart he was over I'd love to stay here and be normal But then it's just so overrated Tracy Jacks Tracy Jacks Tracy Jacks Tracy Jacks And then it happened on a Tuesday morning Tracy Jacks bulldozed down the house he lived in Saying it's just so overrated Tracy Jacks Tracy Jacks Tracy Jacks Tracy Jacks Everyday he got closer He knew in his heart he was over I'd love to stay here and be normal But it was always overrated

[@M.2018-b3f]

Thank you.

[@MultiStrickland]

Salma S Ive just realised...i am Tracy Jacks

[@nathangrindon9256]

His putting is erratic

[@magentaMegi]

@@nathangrindon9256 GOLF?

[@nathangrindon9256]

@@magentaMegi Yes, golf.

[@k-leb4671]

This is the most viewed deepcut on Blur's KZbin channel, and for good reason. I love this song! It could've easily been a single.

[@rachelbonnett-dell3779]

I'm addicted to listening to this

[@SlackrUk]

On the day Parklife came out I rushed into town, went into the mall and waited for Our Price to open. Rushed to the counter and asked for the CD. On my way out, I noticed it was wall to wall Blur. That was my "this is going to be huge" moment :)

[@bradcuzidk8306]

This is, no joke, my favorite song, I've listened to a lot of music, The Cure, The Police, The Smiths, Oasis, blur, David Bowie etc. This Song however never fails to make me nostalgic and also emotional (despite its unique submatter) Its one of the best songs ever written imo.

[@chaqvhs]

i’m so glad i’m not the only one who gets a nostoglic feeling from this song

[@chrislong9390]

First blur tune I remember! When I started secondary school. Many good fun memories !

[@lmc3608]

More than 25 years loving this song🎶🎶🎶🎶❤

[@andrewleyden2752]

I love this song. I was too young to appreciate it at the time but as I discovered the blur back catalogue it was a standout. Such wit and social insight.

[@SO-rq3pm]

you're not alone - same here (despite me having listened to Blur the last 20 odd years, I'm still in awe by re-discovering their raw talent!)

[@andrewleyden2752]

@@SO-rq3pm I briefly worked in the UK civil service and I saw Tracy Jacks type characters everywhere. Not sure how Damon managed to pick up the archetype but it is definitely a thing.

[@SO-rq3pm]

@@andrewleyden2752 Exactly! When I said "talent" I don't just mean musically. I have no idea how they were able to be such brilliant social observers and psychologists in their early 20s not having lived the lives of those many characters. Damon was unhappy about not breaking America until Song 2. What I'd say is they're far too intelligent for the American pop scene!

[@mmtz3051]

Such a tuneeeeeeee

[@terryprofitt6902]

I an obsessed with Blur. So goddam good!

[@noursarhan8695]

Almost a year and I'm still not over them. Talented bastards

[@nathangrindon9256]

The sheer audicty of the guitaring..

[@chateaulobby]

this has the noel gallagher seal of approval "i don't hate graham coxon i mean tracy jacks is a fucking mega song!"

[@mybrainisrottingaswespeak]

this song changed my life

[@cari2274]

I'm glad tristate jazz changed your life travis

[@RedGoldGreen-Dub]

Memories I was 8 years old when heard this fast-forward, and I remember listening to this record laying on my front in my living room on my dad stereo and I would record this for on blank cassette tape in my mid-teens ready for school 🥰 one of my favorite on this record reminds me of my uncle also

[@TheWhitestKidIKnow]

OH MY GOD THE FUCKING NOSTALGIA!!

[@truthseeker3503]

Bloody hell, last year at high school flashback!! Nostalgia! :D

[@nevergrowingupnevergetting7352]

I hear this n I'm 17 n working in a factory, coming down off acid n trying not to fall off a roofing joist. Fucking good times!!!

[@rmkw4291]

This and 'London Loves' are my favourite album tracks from Parklife.

[@noursarhan8695]

Both are catchy as hell. Blur are a freakin' nightmare to listen to, once you hear their songs you can't escape them. So so addictive!

[@sonjulian5801]

@@noursarhan8695 yes? To late, im high on Blur

[@sonjulian5801]

@@noursarhan8695 yes? To late, im high on Blur

[@ivycoveredwa11s]

The drums do sound quite similar on both tracks

[@CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

XTC

[@ofrabjousday1]

Wow. If Syd Barrett played a song with XTC, it would be this one! First time I've ever heard this track. I want more!

[@TheRonantraftery]

Best track on the album!!

[@Voltra98]

Thanks Vinny!👌🏻

[@andymurray8224]

The best track XTC never made !

[@tobertcordless2491]

I'd like to thank Vinny for getting this song stuck in my head

[@arturhours]

when did he mention it?

[@dadkisser2682]

@@arturhours final fantasy 7 stream

[@someoneincognito2070]

@@dadkisser2682 and also the stream where he eats vegemite.

[@adiohead]

Just heard him mention it in his Thank Goodness You're Here! playthrough.

[@jermainefernando7852]

Thanks for getting this song stuck in my head Vinny

[@mattbourassa3713]

Best tune on the record

[@CMONCMON007]

this song and this album single handily made me love Blur and made me love & appreciate music when i was a child!

[@largeslappy]

tracy jacks: literally about a man having a midlife crisis blur fans: WATCH ME THROW IT BACK

[@jogaukrodger8168]

I remember buying this on tape and was so happy

[@scarlettbunce1005]

I really hear the Jam's influence on this song

[@romanjohncarlos2368]

Hard to believe that it’s 30 years old! What a time and place!❤❤

[@keithcoleman9449]

This is -in fact - a Mod classic. Subject matter + chords + voices

[@samuraininjarockstar9355]

Nah these are Mod classics 1/ Making Time , The Creation 2/ midnight to six, the Pretty Things 3/ I can’t explain, The Who 4/ Tin Soldier, the Small faces 5/ Dead end St, the Kinks 6/ the Funeral pyre, the Jam 7/ Louie Louie, the Kingsmen 8/ I’ll keep on holding on, the Action 9/ Leaving here , the Birds 10/ in the deep end, the Artwoods Blur weren’t no mod band …..

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Always reminds me of Tracy's Sandwich Shop, Ponders End; served grungy students in the mid nineties.

[@projectresonate5142]

Tracys Snacks 😂😂

[@Wolfdragon92584]

This represents the unique firm of pop Blur quickly mastered. I love Oasis and all that, but Blur were more talented musically and pushed their boundaries far further. Oasis never quite coalesced past "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants," and they fell by the wayside artistically despite commercial success.

[@michaelroberts7374]

Glad that the best days of my life had this in the soundtrack❤ May every generation look back and feel the same glow about the sound of their youth

[@lucascastro812]

Favourite Blur tune.

[@dennisosborne4368]

I like Oasis and Blur but songs like this show there was actually more going on with Damon and Graham if you know what I mean?

[@linksauce_1]

Dennis Osborne do you mean more of a collaborative writing effort or a more dynamic relationship?

[@Rodrigombia1990]

I'd choose the second one. Maybe Noel IS a great songwriter, but join a band and said that he will write all the songs by himself is so selfish, in contrast to blur with damon writing the lyrics and the music but the music was a collaborative process of the 4 members, and that's what makes blur better than oasis.

[@k-leb4671]

+Rodrigo Manuel Ibarra Juarez Graham also wrote lyrics and instrumentals, particularly from their self-titled album onward.

[@bigpoppa3020]

Rodrigo Manuel Ibarra Juarez Just because it was a "collaborative effort" doesn't mean it's better. You cannot just claim that because everyone was getting along and working as a whole that makes them automatically better than oasis. Oasis method worked, why complain about it. Liam was never a good songwriter and the others were average at best. Noel alone, was able to make some of the best songs of the 90s and today, if it isn't broke, don't fix it. Simply because their not writing the lyrics together doesn't mean the band isn't a group effort. I could aknowledge and respect any other argument as to why blur is better, but the argument because they all wrote songs together is horseshit.

[@Zonk420]

Rodrigo Manuel Ibarra Juarez Noel never said that lol and Liam and other band mates wrote songs for later albums

[@clivehampshire6531]

Pop perfection. Can't believe I bought this CD for £15 in 1999, then a few years later it was only £9.

[@dx7tnt]

now its around £0

[@clivehampshire6531]

On KZbin certainly, or £1 maximum at Poundland!

[@MatthewTattershall]

Or 50p in charity shop lol

[@ollieman3343]

Perfect Album on Repeat for Decades in 2030 Still be priceless 👌 ❤

[@baconkili1106]

I used to always request this when I was younger

[@TheOmniBach]

Make it or break it. This record collected the spirit of Joy. Hence Blur

[@lilyburrows9469]

the song that introduced me to blur at around age ten

[@xtraspecialmango]

This song is kinda magical & it's got less than 250,000 hits... Strange days indeed.

[@PhilInsane]

I had this album on tape when i was 12 and it got caught in the tape heads and broke and i cried lol

[@diomar64]

Second favorite Blur track, first is Bank Holiday. I love the bassline on this one.

[@rudegyal4084]

Great song/album

[@stephensmith1110]

Must admit I was lucky the 90s was my decade

[@sulffffffur]

TRACY JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKS

[@basketburger]

Great song 👍

[@streetlurker8168]

I grew up in age with this music nearly 40 my kids love it

[@paul-wg4ts]

where did the time go. How am I now TRACY JACKS

[@SGMiner21]

Song is so good 300 likes and NO dislikes! (i was the 300th btw). This isn't even my favourite

[@clare3835]

this is makin me want to do the soulja boy

[@constanza4214]

De las mejores de Blur 🖤

[@mc22b]

Reminds me of my childhood

[@nyugiboy]

nice -blurry- memories

[@linksauce_1]

Am I the only who can picture XTC performing/putting this on either the Black Sea or English Settlement album?

[@MrFluffypunk]

Indeed... Heard this (for first time ever) on Radio 6 this morning and thought it WAS XTC and Partridge was putting on the mockney...

[@Paulcitomusic]

Yes but Damon's artistry offers an occult mystery element that XTC lacks....a deeper heart and soul. XTC is great but I prefer Blur. Andy Partridge could never author or sing a song like "This is a low".

[@DrTomoculus]

You've learnt no lessons all that time so cheaply spent there's no youth culture only masks they let you rent Travels, travels in Nihilon we've seen, no Jesus come and gone Fashion, their vampire drapes itself across your back as you fall from style it waits rebirth on its rack Building your whimsy hypnotising you to need dance goes full circle one step ahead of your greed You've learnt no lessons all those years to get it right flashes of promise burn out faster than strobe light -------------------------------------------------------------- Nah Partridge. He's got no deep, no heart no soul. (never thought I'd read someone say this about Andy Partridge, but here we are.)

[@robbo2357]

don't they realise its respectable street

[@Irene-nq5qm]

Heard the neighbor slam his caaar doooor

[@masicbemester]

Sounds like a good Anime Opening for life. I swear I heard it in a movie, unless my imagination is messing with my memory. Edit: Just realized the song is 420 long. Nice.

[@Bangtan_Stigma]

I love this song

[@TheChilternEHT]

Certianly the best ever, perhaps only, song set in Walton-on-the-Naze...

[@johnpaulharrison7816]

"I'd love to stay here and be normal but it's just so overrated!!"

[@kolbramwellson]

P

[@jshada11]

That bass though 🤙

[@sofiaf3003]

i friccin love dis song

[@-s5947]

Temazo, me encanta

[@jaimejaviergarcia3743]

Such a good song.

[@기간제-f7j]

와 47만 구독자를 이 계정으로 목격하네 그 기념으로 구독했다

[@cruzdiabIo]

love it!!

[@cruzdiabIo]

2:29

[@DrKennyWang]

Does anyone know what kinda amp Graham was using on this? It sounds maybe like a Marshall with a ProCo Rat. I can't find any confirmation anywhere though.

[@blxxdcxrmxny]

Makes me think of the movie The History Of Mr Polly with John Mills and has Ray Davies written all over it phenomenal!

[@Stefano1875]

Name a bad song on this album??? That's right, there aint one. classic.

[@robertsharp6960]

There isn't one, and it is, but I can't be the only one who skips Parklife itself due to how ubiquitous it is, especially in adverts. Same with "The Universal" on The Great Escape, it was the theme for fucking bobble headed British Gas men in CGI Corsa vans, it's card is marked forever for that. I even skip Town called Malice on The Gift due to how many shit things have thought they deserved being soundtracked by it over the years.

[@viktorflorianschantz4084]

This sounds a lot like an XTC song.

[@lynxafrican7608]

I think xtc is were Blur got a lot of there influence listen to a song like *making plans for nigel* and you can really see the similarities

[@taxus750]

Try XTC's "Respectable Street". BTW Andy Partridge helped produce 'Modern Life Is Rubbish'

[@k-leb4671]

@@taxus750 Andy Partridge produced a few songs during the development of Modern Life Is Rubbish, but all those recordings got scrapped. I don't believe there's a lick of Andy Partridge on the finished album.

[@taxus750]

@@k-leb4671 I've since done a little more digging and it seems there is doubt about the part Partridge had: I acknowledge that. What you believe is your concern; to me (and apparently others), the resemblance to an XTC song is striking.

[@villababy8748]

This song makes me wanna shout “TRACY JACKS!”.

[@angrygrouse4989]

do it

[@milomcdermott3466]

twice as good as any oasis

[@blakev.4540]

dont make a fool out of yourself, blur isn on Oasis level of perfection A**hole!!

[@oskar3639]

how come every Oasis fan i have seen in a comment section is swearing ?

[@MarcoConradie10]

I always thought Oasis were so much better than Blur, but then I actually really started listening to Blur in depth....

[@markheap2218]

oasis were better pal. but blur were pretty good i could be wrong but i get the feeling these were from a richer background than oasis in my opinion it shows in their lyrics.

[@JT-np5gz]

You're all crazy. Oasis and blur were both incredible. Oasis had hooks that made you cry, life forever, slide away, stand by me, girl in a dirty shirt, I hope I think I know, all of morning glory, etc, if u wanna talk just pure pop perfection their 1994-1997 period blew blur out of the water. But blur was always superior as far as musicianship and changed constantly. Blur was so consistent and awesome at every turn. U can't choose one. Screw u all for trying to pick one over the other. Why can't you just love them both and agree that they were both far better than nirvana. Lol. And I'm american!

[@DAZZA-qy8hl]

Who’s here because this is a great song

[@Linmints]

TRAAACY JAAAACKKKKSSSSSS

[@NOAH-jq6fb]

TRACEEEEY JAAACKS

[@samanthalarner5895]

I ripped this album off Britannia in the nineties on the never, never! Best dodge ever.

[@andrewjohnston4076]

Can always hear very early pink floyd and syd barrett influences in their music. Brilliant band and way better than oasis although they were also awesome

[@Voltra98]

i do hear a very early 70s Roger and Syd. Reminds me of piper at the gates of dawn a little bit.

[@luv4dirt]

Tracy jacks

[@reaganwiles_art]

I thought this is great, I was in college reading a lot of Martin Amis, and here is this band obviously influenced by Amis and other lit sources: they do what they do, or did, bloody perfeCK.

[@alternativefm328]

Started the new Purealternative FM Request Rock Show tonight

[@charmlessnerd8582]

UH UH UH the best part of the song

[@jimalmeara]

WOW!😎

[@peterwaterson1504]

Something about this makes me love it.I did work for the Council.DREAM

[@IguanaMassacre]

Weooooweooooo

[@claclamila]

i love this song 😁

[@Glassesgirl2002]

it's stuck in my head O H N O

[@sunny-uo8dl]

trACY JACKS~

[@subterraneanoreo3102]

I feel like the music of Britain compensates for the people