The Great Escape

by Blur

The Great Escape cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 September 1995
  • Label: Food
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:09:30
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 15 ratings

Artists on this release: Ken Livingstone, Louie Fuller, John Metcalfe, The Kick Horns, Alex James, Neil Sidwell, Louisa Fuller, Teresa Davis, Angela Murrell, The Duke Quartet, Ivan McCermoy, Tim Sanders, Rick Koster, Roddy Lorimer, Simon Clarke

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released at the absolute peak of 'Britpop mania', 'The Great Escape' is a deeply cynical, highly orchestrated satirical concept album concerning modern suburban isolation. Damon Albarn delivers incredibly sarcastic, melancholic character studies wrapped in dense, eclectic new wave and pop-rock instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, melodic, satirical, british, pastiche

Tracklist

  1. Stereotypes (3:11)
  2. Country House (3:56)
  3. Best Days (4:49)
  4. Charmless Man (3:33)
  5. Fade Away (4:18)
  6. Top Man (4:00)
  7. The Universal (3:58)
  8. Mr Robinson's Quango (4:00)
  9. He Thought of Cars (4:16)
  10. It Could Be You (3:12)
  11. Ernold Same (2:06)
  12. Globe Alone (2:23)
  13. Dan Abnormal (3:23)
  14. Entertain Me (4:19)
  15. Yuko and Hiro (5:24)
  16. One Born Every Minute (2:18)
  17. To the End (La Comedie) (5:05)
  18. Ultranol (2:42)
  19. No Monsters in Me (3:38)
  20. Entertain Me (7:17)
  21. The Man Who Left Himself (3:22)
  22. Tame (4:47)
  23. Ludwig (2:24)
  24. The Horrors (3:18)
  25. A Song (1:45)
  26. St Louis (3:13)
  27. Country House (4:57)
  28. Girls & Boys (5:02)
  29. Parklife (3:42)
  30. For Tomorrow (7:02)
  31. Charmless Man (3:22)
  32. Chemical World (4:12)
  33. Eine Kleine Lift Musik (4:18)

Credits

  • Blur - primary artist
  • Angela Murrell - backing vocals
  • Teresa Davis - backing vocals
  • Alex James - bass guitar, chorus [pub choruses], handclaps [pub hand-claps], composer
  • Ivan McCermoy - cello, cello guest
  • Damon Albarn - chorus [pub choruses], handclaps [pub hand-claps], vocals, piano, organ, synthesizer, written-by, composer, organ piano synthesizer, lyricist, vocal
  • Dave Rowntree - chorus [pub choruses], drums, handclaps [pub hand-claps], composer, membranophone
  • Graham Coxon - chorus [pub choruses], electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, backing vocals, saxophone [occasional], handclaps [pub hand-claps], composer, acoustic guitar banjo electric guitar saxophone, background vocals vocal
  • Stylorouge - design
  • John Smith - engineer
  • Julia Gardner - engineer [assistant], additional engineer
  • Tom Girling - engineer [assistant], additional engineer
  • Stephen Street - handclaps [pub hand-claps], producer
  • The Kick Horns - horns
  • Ken Livingstone - narrator
  • Pictor International - photography by [all other]
  • Nels Israelson - photography by [bandshot], photography
  • Tom King - photography by [covershot], photography
  • Simon Clarke - saxophone, guest saxophone
  • Tim Sanders - saxophone, guest saxophone
  • The Duke Quartet - strings
  • Neil Sidwell - trombone, guest trombone
  • Roddy Lorimer - trumpet, guest trumpet
  • John Metcalfe - viola, guest viola
  • Louisa Fuller - violin
  • Rick Koster - violin, guest violin
  • Cathy Gillat - vocals [additional]
  • Louie Fuller - guest violin

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