End of a Century

"End of a Century"
Single by Blur
from the album Parklife
Released 7 November 1994
Format Cassette, CD, 7" vinyl
Recorded October 1993 – January 1994
Genre Britpop
Length 2:46
Label Food/EMI
Producer Stephen Street
Blur singles chronology
"Parklife"
(1994)
"End of a Century"
(1994)
"Country House"
(1995)
Music video
"End of a Century" on YouTube

"End of a Century" is a song by Blur. It was the last single to be released from their third album Parklife and reached #19 on the UK Singles Chart in 1994. The video is a live performance recorded at Alexandra Palace.

The lyrics seem to emphasise the (then) up-coming millennium change and the fact that people contemplate the future rather than take care of the present. The line from the song is "End of a Century // It's nothing special".

Damon Albarn later stated that "End of a Century" may not have been the best choice for the band's fourth single, and that "This Is a Low" would have been the alternative.

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