The Great Escape [1995]

[Kailey]

Discuss the songs, cover art, inside booklet, etc of Blur's fourth album, "The Great Escape".

[marilynroxie]

Now this is my personal favorite Blur album...most people scoff at me because of it! P I don't know why, though, it's got "Stereotypes", "Country House", "Charmless Man", "The Universal", and "Entertain Me" on it! Also a related memory attached to the album...I once collapsed after a shower from this anemia-type problem I'd been having and pulled down the whole towel rack with me. As I lay there in utter confusion, with my mind all addled and weak and I was almost passing out, for whatever reason "Top Man" popped into my head and that's all I was thinking about until I realized what had happened to me and was able to get out of my daze XD

[Nel]

^ Hahaha wow! I would probably be a bit scared of that song if I were you. But when traumatic things happen to me a seemingly random song will sometimes float into my mind as well...

Anyhoo, I find this album really interesting. Sort of Britpop starting to go a bit demented... some really strange perhaps questionable moments ("Mr. Robinson's Quango" for instance, although I've grown to enjoy it xD) but a lot of it is really fantastic stuff ("He Thought of Cars", "Best Days", "Entertain Me", "Yuko & Hiro" and especially "The Universal" come to mind).

The expectations were incredibly high following the previous two albums - I think overall TGE would've been better received had none of that awful "battle for #1!" nonsense with Oasis happened, and also some of the choice of singles/videos (I like "Stereotypes" but everyone bitches about it and the video was such a lame non-attempt, I doubt it did them any favors).

[notsomanicnow]

Yes, this was a good album.

'Yuko and Hyro' was a personal fave.

[denton83]

It's a good album. I like Country House and Charmless Man.