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The Great Escape

The Battle of Britpop album: another number one, later called messy by Albarn.
Blur, 1995

Released
11 September 1995
Studio
Maison Rouge and Townhouse, London
Label
Food
Producer
Stephen Street
Length
56:56

The follow-up to Parklife came out a month after the Country House chart battle with Oasis. It went to number one with 188,000 first-week sales and was certified 3x Platinum. Select's David Cavanagh called it a funny, brave and heartbroken record. Albarn later described it as messy.

Track listing

  1. Stereotypes3:10
  2. Country House3:57
  3. Charmless Man3:34
  4. The Universal3:58
  5. Mr. Robinson's Quango4:02
  6. Yuko and Hiro5:24

More from Blur

Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994), Blur (1997), 13 (1999), Think Tank (2003), The Magic Whip (2015), The Ballad of Darren (2023)

Sources

  1. The Great Escape (Blur album), Wikipedia
  2. Britpop, Wikipedia