Description
To celebrate 30 years of Blur’s The Great Escape, the band will be releasing a 30th Anniversary edition on 2xLP and digitally, which includes a bonus disc of rare b-sides which have never been released on vinyl before.
Originally released on 11th September 1995, this iconic album captured the spirit of Britpop at its peak and marked a defining moment in the band’s career.
The Great Escape was the follow-up to blur”s global breakthrough album Parklife and it charted at no. 1 selling over 125,000 copies in its first week, going on to achieve Triple Platinum status in the UK (900k+ sales to date).
Featuring the hit singles, Country House (#1), The Universal (#5), Stereotypes (#7) and Charmless Man (#5). The singles have combined UK sales of over 1.8m, with over 60m YouTube views and combined global streams of 335m+
It defined mid-’90s Britain, both the optimism and the underlying malaise and ultimately became the record that placed Blur at the heart of one of the most talked-about moments in music history.
- – Disc 1 –
- 1 LP1 – the Great Escape
- 2 Stereotypes
- 3 Country House
- 4 Best Days
- 5 Charmless Man
- 6 Fade Away
- 7 Top Man
- 8 The Universal
- – Disc 2 –
- 1 Mr Robinson”s Quango
- 2 He Thought of Cars
- 3 It Could Be You
- 4 Arnold Same
- 5 Globe Alone
- 6 Dan Abnormal
- 7 Entertain Me
- 8 Yuko and Hiro
- – Disc 3 –
- 1 LP2 – the Great Escape – the B-Sides
- 2 One Born Every Minute
- 3 Ultranol*
- 4 Tame
- 5 No Monsters in Me*
- 6 To the End (La Comedie) (Featuring Françoise Hardy)*
- – Disc 4 –
- 1 The Horrors
- 2 Ludwig*
- 3 A Song
- 4 St. Louis*
- 5 The Man Who Left Himself
- 6 Eine Kleine Lift Musik
