The Great Escape was originally released in September 1995 on Food Records, Blur's fourth studio album. It closes the run that began with Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife: another gallery of English characters stuck inside their own lives, from the burnt-out commuter of "Country House" to the chilly future sketched in "The Universal". Stephen Street produced, with brass, strings and a pointedly theatrical streak. "Country House" won the much-reported August 1995 chart race against Oasis and "Roll With It", and the album entered at number 1 in the UK. "Stereotypes" and "Charmless Man" were also released as singles.
This edition is a 2-LP on yellow and turquoise vinyl, the second disc carrying B-sides, pressed for the album's thirtieth anniversary.
- 1 The Great Escape
- 2 The Great Escape B-Sides
- 3 Stereotypes
- 4 Country House
- 5 Best Days
- 6 Charmless Man
- 7 Fade Away
- 8 Top Man
- 9 The Universal
- 10 Mr Robinson's Quango
- 11 He Thought Of Cars
- 12 It Could Be You
- 13 Ernold Same
- 14 Globe Alone
- 15 Dan Abnormal
- 16 Entertain Me
- 17 Yuko And Hiro
- 18 One Born Every Minute
- 19 Ultranol
- 20 Tame
- 21 No Monsters In Me
- 22 To The End (La Comedie)
- 23 The Horrors
- 24 Ludwing
- 25 A Song
- 26 St Louis
- 27 The Man Who Left Himself
- 28 Eine Kleine Lift Music
