Blur

The Great Escape


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The black sheep of Britpop, the straw that broke Graham Coxon’s back, few documents of mid-90s pop excess are quite as polarizing as Blur’s fourth studio album.

It wasn’t always thus. The album’s September 1995 release saw NME award the record 9/10, Q gave it perfect marks, while Melody Maker broke their rating scale to score the record a wacky 12/10. It was critical euphoria that would prove to be short-lived – truth be told, about as long as it took publishers to realise Oasis would probably shift more magazines for them. It’s not a record the band think particularly fondly of either. In 2007, Damon Albarn mused that it was "messy". Coxon, meanwhile, is unavailable for comment, perhaps on account of still being traumatized from being made to straddle a pig in the Country House video.-James McMahon


Tracklist

A1 Stereotypes
A2 Country House
A3 Best Days
B1 Charmless Man
B2 Fade Away
B3 Top Man
B4 The Universal
C1 Mr Robinson's Quango
C2 He Thought Of Cars
C3 It Could Be You
C4 Ernold Same
D1 Globe Alone
D2 Dan Abnormal
D3 Entertain Me
D4 Yuko And Hiro
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