“End of a Century” by Blur

Blur sent "End of a Century" out on Food in November 1994 as the fourth and final single from Parklife, their third album, and it stalled at number 19 in the UK. Food's Andy Ross counted it a disappointment, and Damon Albarn later allowed that "This Is a Low" might have been the smarter pick.

It's a small domestic drama. Albarn said the song is about couples who settle into nights in, gazing at each other by the glow of the TV instead of candlelight, and it starts from a real ant infestation in the Kensington home he shared with Justine Frischmann. The coming millennium hangs over it all, people fretting about the future while the present slides. All four members wrote the music, Albarn the words, and Stephen Street produced, with the Kick Horns, Richard Edwards on trombone and Roddy Lorimer on flugelhorn as guests.

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