The Great Escape
Album by Blur
Release	September 11, 1995
Recorded	January-May 1995
Genre	Britpop
Length	56 min 56 s
Label	Food
Producer	Stephen Street
Professional reviews
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Blur chronology
Parklife (1994)	The Great Escape (1995)	Blur (1997)

The Great Escape is the fourth album by Blur. It was released in 1995, with high expectations, as the follow-up to the much-adored Parklife. The Great Escape received glowing reviews and was a big seller in its initial release, reaching #1 in the United Kingdom album chart and was their first to crack the US charts (even if at a lowly # 150). Image File history File links Blur_thegreatescape. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Damon Albarn. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... This article is about the month of May. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Britpop is a British alternative rock movement from the mid 1990s, characterised with the appearance of bands who borrowed many influences from 1960s and 1970s while creating big and catchy hooks, as well as the glamour of earlier pop stardom and the sense that they were creating the soundtrack to... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Stephen Street is a music producer best known for his work with The Smiths in the 1980s and Blur in the 1990s. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Damon Albarn. ... Parklife is a Britpop album by the band Blur, released on April 25, 1994 (see 1994 in music). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Blur is the fifth album by Blur, first release in 1997. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Damon Albarn. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Parklife is a Britpop album by the band Blur, released on April 25, 1994 (see 1994 in music). ...

When Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory? outsold The Great Escape, Blur appeared to lose face in their well-publicised rivalry. Nonetheless, the album continues the run of inventive hit singles: "Country House" (their first #1 single, which infamously beat out Oasis' "Roll With It"), "The Universal", "Stereotypes" and "Charmless Man". The bands nucleus - The Gallagher brothers Noel and Liam Oasis are a British rock band, originally formed in Manchester. ... (Whats the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by British rock band Oasis, first released in October 1995. ...

Damon Albarn subsequently revealed that most, if not all the songs on The Great Escape were about himself, in some form or another (i.e. "Dan Abnormal" is an anagram for "Damon Albarn"). However, dissention over musical direction between Damon and guitarist Graham Coxon would result in a stunning change in style for the next release, 1997's Blur. Albarn singing in the video for Beetlebum Damon Albarn, born March 23, 1968 in Leytonstone, London, is a British vocalist and keyboardist who initially gained fame as the lead singer of rock band Blur. ... An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or words to produce other words using all the original letters exactly once. ... Graham Coxon singing in the video to Blurs Tender Graham Coxon (born Graham Leslie Coxon on 12 March 1969, in Rinteln, West Germany) is best known as the former guitarist in the British band Blur. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Blur is the fifth album by Blur, first release in 1997. ...

Track listing

• All tracks written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree.

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
    • Contains the hidden track "A World of Change" at exactly 4:20.

• Japanese release includes "Ultranol" and "No Monsters In Me" (also released as B-sides to "The Universal").
• French release includes "To The End (La Comedie) (with Françoise Hardy)", a comedy of "To The End" (also released as B-side to "Parklife").