- britpop
- 130 min
- 33 tracks
- Parlophone
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.
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Character
Classical in form, spare, character-led and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- NME9/10
- Q5/5 ★
- Select5/5
- Smash Hits4/5 ★
- Spin6/10
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Pitchfork8.2/10
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Stereotypes3:11
- 2Country House3:57
- 3Best Days4:49
- 4Charmless Man3:34
- 5Fade Away4:19
- 6Top Man4:01
- 7The Universal3:59
- 8Mr Robinson’s Quango4:01
- 9He Thought of Cars4:16
- 10It Could Be You3:13
- 11Ernold Same2:07
- 12Globe Alone2:23
- 13Dan Abnormal3:24
- 14Entertain Me4:19
- 15Yuko and Hiro5:24
- 1One Born Every Minute2:19
- 2To the End (La Comedie)5:06
- 3Ultranol2:43
- 4No Monsters in Me3:38
- 5Entertain Me (live It! remix)7:17
- 6The Man Who Left Himself3:23
- 7Tame4:47
- 8Ludwig2:24
- 9The Horrors3:18
- 10A Song1:45
- 11St Louis3:14
- 12Country House (live)4:58
- 13Girls and Boys (live)5:03
- 14Parklife (live)3:43
- 15For Tomorrow (live)7:02
- 16Charmless Man (live at the Budokan)3:22
- 17Chemical World (live at the Budokan)4:12
- 18Eine Kleine Lift Musik4:19
33 tracks, 130 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Blur
- Label
- Parlophone
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- AF
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