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The Great Escape (Blur album)

January 01, 1970

The Great Escape is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Blur. It was released on 11 September 1995 on Food and Virgin Records. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and charted in the top 10 in more than ten countries around the world. Less than a year after the album was released, it was certified triple platinum in the UK.[5] The album received near-universal acclaim on release.

The Great Escape
Studio album by
Blur
Released11 September 1995 (1995-09-11)
RecordedJanuary – May 1995
StudioMaison Rouge and Townhouse, London
GenreBritpop
Length56:56
Label
ProducerStephen Street
Blur chronology
Parklife
(1994) 		The Great Escape
(1995) 		Live at the Budokan
(1996)
Singles from The Great Escape
  1. "Country House"
    Released: 14 August 1995[1]
  2. "The Universal"
    Released: 13 November 1995[2]
  3. "Stereotypes"
    Released: 12 February 1996[3]
  4. "Charmless Man"
    Released: 29 April 1996[4]
  5. "It Could Be You"
    Released: 22 May 1996 (Japan only)

The album continued the band's run of hit singles, with "Country House", "The Universal", "Stereotypes" and "Charmless Man" all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. "Country House" was Blur's first number one hit in the UK, beating Oasis' "Roll with It", in a chart rivalry dubbed "The Battle of Britpop".[6]

The Great Escape is often considered to be the final album of a trio of Britpop albums released by Blur in the mid-1990s,[7] after Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) and Parklife (1994). With Blur's 1997 self-titled album, the band would change direction and move away from Britpop in favour of a more lo-fi and alternative rock sound.

Background and recording edit

Concept edit

On 17 June 1995, lead singer Damon Albarn and bassist Alex James spoke on BBC Radio 1 about coming up with a title for the album;[8] "We've got until this Wednesday, our record company inform us, to come up with it", said Albarn. "We've been trying to get life into it, but nothing was very good – Wifelife, Darklife, Nextlife", added James.

The album is in the style of a concept album, that is, most of the songs are linked by a similar theme—loneliness and detachment. Albarn subsequently revealed that much of The Great Escape is about himself (e.g. "Dan Abnormal" is an anagram of "Damon Albarn").

Songs edit

"Mr. Robinson's Quango" was the first song recorded for the album[9] and "It Could Be You" was the last, in May 1995.[10] The title of the latter was taken from the original advertising slogan of the United Kingdom's multimillion-pound-prize National Lottery, which had drawn much public interest after its inception the previous year.[11]

"Yuko and Hiro" was originally titled "Japanese Workers",[12] and "The Universal" was first attempted during the Parklife sessions as a ska number. During the making of The Great Escape the song was resurrected by James, who notes in his autobiography, Bit of a Blur, that the band had almost given up on getting it to work when Albarn came up with the string section.[12]

One song on the album, "Ernold Same", features then-MP Ken Livingstone. He is credited in the sleevenotes as "The Right-On" Ken Livingstone.[9] Producer Stephen Street commented, "It was my idea to get him in because I’m not a huge fan of his. We needed somebody with a really nasal, boring voice doing the commentary and I suggested him. He came in thinking he was the bee’s knees and we were fans – we weren’t at all! (Laughs) I couldn’t stand him and my preconceptions were confirmed when he insulted the pastel jumper I was wearing that day! But his voice suited the song."[13]

As with Blur's previous two albums, the liner notes also contain guitar chords for each of the songs along with the lyrics.

Singles edit

The album spawned four hit singles for the band with "Country House", "The Universal", "Stereotypes" and "Charmless Man". "Stereotypes" made its debut at a secret gig at the Dublin Castle in London and was considered as the album's lead single, but "Country House" got a bigger reaction from fans.[9] "Country House" gave the band their first number one single, beating Oasis to the top spot. "The Universal" and "Charmless Man" both reached the top 5, whilst "Stereotypes" peaked at number 7. In Japan, "It Could Be You" was released as a four-track single, featuring B-sides recorded live at the Budokan.

Reception and legacy edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [14]
The Guardian     [15]
Los Angeles Times    [16]
Melody Maker12/10[17]
NME9/10[18]
Pitchfork8.2/10[19]
Q     [20]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [21]
Select5/5[22]
Spin6/10[23]

The Great Escape was met with widespread acclaim from critics.[24][25][26] David Cavanagh in Select called it "a funny, brave and heartbroken record" that "has everything you could want",[22] while NME reporter Johnny Cigarettes wrote: "The Great Escape is so rammed with tunes, ideas, emotions, humour, tragedy, farce, and edgy beauty that it's utterly beyond contemporary compare."[18] Melody Maker's Paul Lester awarded the album an unconventional 12/10 and deemed it superior to celebrated predecessor Parklife, while noting that "Blur understand the geometry of the song, and the basic principles of pop, better than anyone today".[17] In response to "album of the decade" claims from Melody Maker, J. D. Considine of The Baltimore Sun said: "The Great Escape may not be the defining work of the ‘90s, but it is the best Brit-rock release this year."[27] Less enthused was Spin journalist Chuck Eddy, who felt the LP ranged from "wonderful" to "detached and emotionally stiff".[23] The Great Escape was named as one of the 10 best records of 1995 in Melody Maker,[28] NME,[29] Q,[30] Raw[31] and Select.[32] NME readers voted it the third-best album of the year.[33]

Support from the music press soon tapered off, however, and The Great Escape gained many detractors. The greater commercial success of rival band Oasis is seen to have played a role in this revaluation;[24][25] BBC Music writer James McMahon recalled how the "critical euphoria" surrounding the album lasted "about as long as it took publishers to realise Oasis would probably shift more magazines for them".[24] Q would issue an apologia for its five-star review of the record,[34] while Graeme McMillan in Time remarked that it lacks the "breadth and heart" of Parklife, feeling "cynical and uninspired in comparison".[35] Drowned in Sound reporter Marc Burrows felt the LP had been overrated and then underrated, writing: "Reality is somewhere in between... The Great Escape reveals itself as flawed, melancholy, occasionally stunning and utterly bonkers."[25] Other journalists retained an unapologetically favourable stance: the album was described by AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine as "a vibrant, invigorating record" that "bristles with invention",[14] while Brian Doan of PopMatters dubbed it a "masterpiece" whose content examines the costs of "trusting in stasis".[7]

Damon Albarn has expressed distaste for the album in later interviews, describing it as "messy" and one of the two "bad records" he has made in his career (the other being Blur's debut album Leisure).[36]

Select named the record the 34th-best of the 1990s,[37] while Pitchfork placed it 70th.[38] It was ranked by BuzzFeed as the sixth-best album of the Britpop era.[39] The Great Escape also placed at number 725 in the 2000 edition of the book, All Time Top 1000 Albums.[40] In October 2023, the Official Charts Company revealed that The Great Escape was the twenty-first most streamed album from the 1990s in the United Kingdom.[41]

Commercial performance edit

The Great Escape continued the commercial success of previous album Parklife. While the latter was more of a sleeper hit,[42] The Great Escape registered strong first-week sales of 188,000.[43] In its first year, the album sold 68,000 copies in the US.[44] By late 1996 the album had sold approximately 600,000 units in continental Europe.[45] According to Food managing director Andy Ross, it "comfortably outsold Parklife everywhere except the UK. The total figure was up 400,000 and the balance came mainly from Europe and Southeast Asia." Sales in France up to late November 1996 were 125,000 units, compared with 69,000 for Parklife. In Italy, sales were 83,000 compared with 16,000 for Parklife.[45]

Track listing edit

All lyrics by Damon Albarn. All music by Damon Albarn/Graham Coxon/Alex James/Dave Rowntree.

No.TitleLength
1."Stereotypes"3:10
2."Country House"3:57
3."Best Days"4:49
4."Charmless Man"3:34
5."Fade Away"4:19
6."Top Man"4:00
7."The Universal"3:58
8."Mr. Robinson's Quango"4:02
9."He Thought of Cars"4:15
10."It Could Be You"3:14
11."Ernold Same"2:07
12."Globe Alone"2:23
13."Dan Abnormal"3:24
14."Entertain Me"4:19
15."Yuko and Hiro"5:24
Total length:56:56
  • 4:21 into "Yuko and Hiro" is a minute long instrumental reprise of "Ernold Same". Although officially untitled, it is sometimes erroneously referred to as "A World of Difference" because these words appear in a separate box below the track list in the booklet.
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
16."Ultranol"2:41
17."No Monsters in Me"5:14
Disc 2: Blur 21 2012 bonus material
No.TitleLength
1."One Born Every Minute"2:18
2."To the End (La Comedie)" (featuring Françoise Hardy)5:05
3."Ultranol"2:43
4."No Monsters in Me"3:38
5."Entertain Me" (Live It!) (Remix)7:17
6."The Man Who Left Himself"3:22
7."Tame"4:47
8."Ludwig"2:24
9."The Horrors"3:18
10."A Song"1:45
11."St. Louis"3:13
12."Country House" (Live at Mile End)4:57
13."Girls & Boys" (Live at Mile End)5:03
14."Parklife" (Live at Mile End)3:43
15."For Tomorrow" (Live at Mile End)7:02
16."Charmless Man" (Live at Budokan)3:22
17."Chemical World" (Live at Budokan)4:12
18."Eine kleine Lift Musik"4:18
19."It Could Be You (Live at the Beeb)" (Japan bonus track)3:07

Bonus track notes

  • Tracks 1–2, 12–15 from the single "Country House", August 1995
  • Tracks 3–5, 19 from the single "The Universal", November 1995
  • Tracks 6–8 from the single "Stereotypes", February 1996
  • Tracks 9–11 from the single "Charmless Man", April 1996
  • Tracks 16–17 from the Japanese single "It Could Be You", May 1996
  • Track 18 from the War Child compilation Help, September 1995

Personnel edit

Charts edit

Certifications edit

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[71] Gold 50,000^
France (SNEP)[72] Gold 100,000*
Ireland (IRMA)[73] 2× Platinum 33,000[73]
Japan (RIAJ)[74] Gold 100,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[75] Gold 25,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[76] Platinum 100,000^
Sweden (GLF)[77] Gold 50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[79] 3× Platinum 901,349[78]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[80] Platinum 1,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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External links edit

  • The Great Escape at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
  • The Great Escape at Discogs (list of releases)

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The Great Escape is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Blur It was released on 11 September 1995 on Food and Virgin Records The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and charted in the top 10 in more than ten countries around the world Less than a year after the album was released it was certified triple platinum in the UK 5 The album received near universal acclaim on release The Great EscapeStudio album by BlurReleased11 September 1995 1995 09 11 RecordedJanuary May 1995StudioMaison Rouge and Townhouse LondonGenreBritpopLength56 56LabelFood VirginProducerStephen StreetBlur chronologyParklife 1994 The Great Escape 1995 Live at the Budokan 1996 Singles from The Great Escape Country House Released 14 August 1995 1 The Universal Released 13 November 1995 2 Stereotypes Released 12 February 1996 3 Charmless Man Released 29 April 1996 4 It Could Be You Released 22 May 1996 Japan only The album continued the band s run of hit singles with Country House The Universal Stereotypes and Charmless Man all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart Country House was Blur s first number one hit in the UK beating Oasis Roll with It in a chart rivalry dubbed The Battle of Britpop 6 The Great Escape is often considered to be the final album of a trio of Britpop albums released by Blur in the mid 1990s 7 after Modern Life Is Rubbish 1993 and Parklife 1994 With Blur s 1997 self titled album the band would change direction and move away from Britpop in favour of a more lo fi and alternative rock sound Contents 1 Background and recording 1 1 Concept 1 2 Songs 2 Singles 3 Reception and legacy 4 Commercial performance 5 Track listing 6 Personnel 7 Charts 7 1 Weekly charts 7 2 Year end charts 8 Certifications 9 References 10 External linksBackground and recording editConcept edit On 17 June 1995 lead singer Damon Albarn and bassist Alex James spoke on BBC Radio 1 about coming up with a title for the album 8 We ve got until this Wednesday our record company inform us to come up with it said Albarn We ve been trying to get life into it but nothing was very good Wifelife Darklife Nextlife added James The album is in the style of a concept album that is most of the songs are linked by a similar theme loneliness and detachment Albarn subsequently revealed that much of The Great Escape is about himself e g Dan Abnormal is an anagram of Damon Albarn Songs edit Mr Robinson s Quango was the first song recorded for the album 9 and It Could Be You was the last in May 1995 10 The title of the latter was taken from the original advertising slogan of the United Kingdom s multimillion pound prize National Lottery which had drawn much public interest after its inception the previous year 11 Yuko and Hiro was originally titled Japanese Workers 12 and The Universal was first attempted during the Parklife sessions as a ska number During the making of The Great Escape the song was resurrected by James who notes in his autobiography Bit of a Blur that the band had almost given up on getting it to work when Albarn came up with the string section 12 One song on the album Ernold Same features then MP Ken Livingstone He is credited in the sleevenotes as The Right On Ken Livingstone 9 Producer Stephen Street commented It was my idea to get him in because I m not a huge fan of his We needed somebody with a really nasal boring voice doing the commentary and I suggested him He came in thinking he was the bee s knees and we were fans we weren t at all Laughs I couldn t stand him and my preconceptions were confirmed when he insulted the pastel jumper I was wearing that day But his voice suited the song 13 As with Blur s previous two albums the liner notes also contain guitar chords for each of the songs along with the lyrics Singles editThe album spawned four hit singles for the band with Country House The Universal Stereotypes and Charmless Man Stereotypes made its debut at a secret gig at the Dublin Castle in London and was considered as the album s lead single but Country House got a bigger reaction from fans 9 Country House gave the band their first number one single beating Oasis to the top spot The Universal and Charmless Man both reached the top 5 whilst Stereotypes peaked at number 7 In Japan It Could Be You was released as a four track single featuring B sides recorded live at the Budokan Reception and legacy editProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 14 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 15 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 16 Melody Maker12 10 17 NME9 10 18 Pitchfork8 2 10 19 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 20 The Rolling Stone Album Guide nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 21 Select5 5 22 Spin6 10 23 The Great Escape was met with widespread acclaim from critics 24 25 26 David Cavanagh in Select called it a funny brave and heartbroken record that has everything you could want 22 while NME reporter Johnny Cigarettes wrote The Great Escape is so rammed with tunes ideas emotions humour tragedy farce and edgy beauty that it s utterly beyond contemporary compare 18 Melody Maker s Paul Lester awarded the album an unconventional 12 10 and deemed it superior to celebrated predecessor Parklife while noting that Blur understand the geometry of the song and the basic principles of pop better than anyone today 17 In response to album of the decade claims from Melody Maker J D Considine of The Baltimore Sun said The Great Escape may not be the defining work of the 90s but it is the best Brit rock release this year 27 Less enthused was Spin journalist Chuck Eddy who felt the LP ranged from wonderful to detached and emotionally stiff 23 The Great Escape was named as one of the 10 best records of 1995 in Melody Maker 28 NME 29 Q 30 Raw 31 and Select 32 NME readers voted it the third best album of the year 33 Support from the music press soon tapered off however and The Great Escape gained many detractors The greater commercial success of rival band Oasis is seen to have played a role in this revaluation 24 25 BBC Music writer James McMahon recalled how the critical euphoria surrounding the album lasted about as long as it took publishers to realise Oasis would probably shift more magazines for them 24 Q would issue an apologia for its five star review of the record 34 while Graeme McMillan in Time remarked that it lacks the breadth and heart of Parklife feeling cynical and uninspired in comparison 35 Drowned in Sound reporter Marc Burrows felt the LP had been overrated and then underrated writing Reality is somewhere in between The Great Escape reveals itself as flawed melancholy occasionally stunning and utterly bonkers 25 Other journalists retained an unapologetically favourable stance the album was described by AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine as a vibrant invigorating record that bristles with invention 14 while Brian Doan of PopMatters dubbed it a masterpiece whose content examines the costs of trusting in stasis 7 Damon Albarn has expressed distaste for the album in later interviews describing it as messy and one of the two bad records he has made in his career the other being Blur s debut album Leisure 36 Select named the record the 34th best of the 1990s 37 while Pitchfork placed it 70th 38 It was ranked by BuzzFeed as the sixth best album of the Britpop era 39 The Great Escape also placed at number 725 in the 2000 edition of the book All Time Top 1000 Albums 40 In October 2023 the Official Charts Company revealed that The Great Escape was the twenty first most streamed album from the 1990s in the United Kingdom 41 Commercial performance editThe Great Escape continued the commercial success of previous album Parklife While the latter was more of a sleeper hit 42 The Great Escape registered strong first week sales of 188 000 43 In its first year the album sold 68 000 copies in the US 44 By late 1996 the album had sold approximately 600 000 units in continental Europe 45 According to Food managing director Andy Ross it comfortably outsold Parklife everywhere except the UK The total figure was up 400 000 and the balance came mainly from Europe and Southeast Asia Sales in France up to late November 1996 were 125 000 units compared with 69 000 for Parklife In Italy sales were 83 000 compared with 16 000 for Parklife 45 Track listing editAll lyrics by Damon Albarn All music by Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James Dave Rowntree No TitleLength1 Stereotypes 3 102 Country House 3 573 Best Days 4 494 Charmless Man 3 345 Fade Away 4 196 Top Man 4 007 The Universal 3 588 Mr Robinson s Quango 4 029 He Thought of Cars 4 1510 It Could Be You 3 1411 Ernold Same 2 0712 Globe Alone 2 2313 Dan Abnormal 3 2414 Entertain Me 4 1915 Yuko and Hiro 5 24Total length 56 56 4 21 into Yuko and Hiro is a minute long instrumental reprise of Ernold Same Although officially untitled it is sometimes erroneously referred to as A World of Difference because these words appear in a separate box below the track list in the booklet Japanese bonus tracksNo TitleLength16 Ultranol 2 4117 No Monsters in Me 5 14 Disc 2 Blur 21 2012 bonus materialNo TitleLength1 One Born Every Minute 2 182 To the End La Comedie featuring Francoise Hardy 5 053 Ultranol 2 434 No Monsters in Me 3 385 Entertain Me Live It Remix 7 176 The Man Who Left Himself 3 227 Tame 4 478 Ludwig 2 249 The Horrors 3 1810 A Song 1 4511 St Louis 3 1312 Country House Live at Mile End 4 5713 Girls amp Boys Live at Mile End 5 0314 Parklife Live at Mile End 3 4315 For Tomorrow Live at Mile End 7 0216 Charmless Man Live at Budokan 3 2217 Chemical World Live at Budokan 4 1218 Eine kleine Lift Musik 4 1819 It Could Be You Live at the Beeb Japan bonus track 3 07 Bonus track notes Tracks 1 2 12 15 from the single Country House August 1995 Tracks 3 5 19 from the single The Universal November 1995 Tracks 6 8 from the single Stereotypes February 1996 Tracks 9 11 from the single Charmless Man April 1996 Tracks 16 17 from the Japanese single It Could Be You May 1996 Track 18 from the War Child compilation Help September 1995Personnel editBlur Damon Albarn vocals piano keyboards organ synthesiser handclaps Graham Coxon electric and acoustic guitar banjo saxophone backing vocals handclaps Alex James bass guitar handclaps backing vocals on Top Man 46 Dave Rowntree drums percussion handclaps backing vocals on Top Man Additional musicians Simon Clarke saxophone Tim Sanders saxophone J Neil Sidwell trombone Roddy Lorimer trumpet Louise Fuller violin Jennifer Berman violin Richard Koster violin John Metcalfe viola Ivan McCermoy cello Ken Livingstone narration on Ernold Same Theresa Davis backing vocals on The Universal Angela Murrell backing vocals on The Universal Cathy Gillat backing vocals on Yuko and Hiro Stephen Street handclaps Technical personnel Jason Cox studio manager John Smith engineering Julie Gardner assistant engineering Tom Girling assistant engineering Nels Israelson photography Tom King photographyCharts editWeekly charts edit Chart 1995 Peakposition Australian Albums ARIA 47 10 Austrian Albums O3 Austria 48 21 Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 49 28 Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 50 22 Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 51 24 Danish Albums Hitlisten 52 10 Dutch Albums Album Top 100 53 28 European Albums Music amp Media 52 2 Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 54 5 French Albums SNEP 55 14 German Albums Offizielle Top 100 56 35 Icelandic Albums 57 1 Irish Albums IRMA 52 1 Italian Albums FIMI 58 15 Japanese Albums Oricon 59 5 New Zealand Albums RMNZ 60 7 Norwegian Albums VG lista 61 5 Spanish Albums AFYPE 62 8 Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 63 2 Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 64 26 UK Albums OCC 65 1 US Billboard 200 66 150 Year end charts edit Chart 1995 Position European Albums Music amp Media 67 61 Swedish Albums amp Compilations Sverigetopplistan 68 55 UK Albums OCC 69 10 Chart 1996 Position UK Albums OCC 70 76Certifications edit See Tfd See Tfd Region Certification Certified units sales Canada Music Canada 71 Gold 50 000 France SNEP 72 Gold 100 000 Ireland IRMA 73 2 Platinum 33 000 73 Japan RIAJ 74 Gold 100 000 Norway IFPI Norway 75 Gold 25 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 76 Platinum 100 000 Sweden GLF 77 Gold 50 000 United Kingdom BPI 79 3 Platinum 901 349 78 Summaries Europe IFPI 80 Platinum 1 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone References edit New Releases Singles Music Week 12 August 1995 p 39 New Releases Singles Music Week 11 November 1995 p 31 New Releases Singles Music Week 10 February 1996 p 27 New Releases Singles Music Week 27 April 1996 p 35 BPI Certified Awards Search Archived 24 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine British Phonographic Industry Note reader must define Search parameter as Blur Beaumont Mark 14 August 2019 Blur and Oasis big Britpop chart battle the definitive story of what really happened NME Retrieved 19 September 2019 a b Doan Brian 5 August 2014 Blur and The Great Escape PopMatters Archived from the original on 1 July 2016 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