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    Blur - The Great Escape (1995) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012

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    Blur - The Great Escape (1995) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012

    Blur - The Great Escape (1995) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 902 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 203 Mb | Scans ~ 37 Mb
    Alternative Rock, BritPop, Dance Rock | Label: EMI Music Japan | # TOCP 71342-43 | 02:12:18

    To celebrate the 21st anniversary of their debut release, Blur s fourth album The Great Escape has now been remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright (The Smiths, Arcade Fire, New Order, Joy Division), with the remastering overseen by legendary original producer, Stephen Street.

    Whilst Parklife took Blur stratospheric, The Great Escape maintained the band s success with their second successive No 1 entry into the album charts, with the September 1995 release going on to sell three times platinum. Accompanying the remastered album, the bonus disc of The Great Escape Special Edition crams in 18 tracks, including all the b-sides from all formats of the Country House, The Universal, Stereotypes and Charmless Man singles. Among these b-sides are nestled a duet version of To The End between Damon and Francoise Hardy, the Live It! remix of Entertain Me and four tracks taken from the now legendary 1995 Blur gig at Mile End Stadium. Completing the bonus disc are two live tracks from Blur s show at the Budokan arena in Tokyo (both of which were only previously released on the Japanese-only single release of It Could Be You), plus the instrumental Eine Kleine Lift Musik, which originally formed part of the Help War Child compilation released in 1995.

    The Great Escape Special Edition is housed in a deluxe lift-off lid box with four exclusive Blur artwork postcards and an expanded booklet that includes previously unseen photos and liner notes based on a brand new interview with all the band members.

    In the simplest terms, The Great Escape is the flip side of Parklife. Where Blur's breakthrough album was a celebration of the working class, drawing on British pop from the '60s and reaching through the '80s, The Great Escape concentrates on the suburbs, featuring a cast of characters all trying to cope with the numbing pressures of modern life. Consequently, it's darker than Parklife, even if the melancholia is hidden underneath the crisp production and catchy melodies. Even the bright, infectious numbers on The Great Escape have gloomy subtexts, whether it's the disillusioned millionaire of "Country House" and the sycophant of "Charmless Man" or the bleak loneliness of "Globe Alone" and "Entertain Me." Naturally, the slower numbers are even more despairing, with the acoustic "Best Days," the lush, sweeping strings of "The Universal," and the stark, moving electronic ballad "Yuko & Hiro" ranking as the most affecting work Blur have ever recorded. However, none of this makes The Great Escape a burden or a difficult album. The music bristles with invention throughout, as Blur delve deeper into experimentation with synthesizers, horns, and strings; guitarist Graham Coxon twists out unusual chords and lead lines, and Damon Albarn spits out unexpected lyrical couplets filled with wit and venomous intelligence in each song. But Blur's most remarkable accomplishment is that they can reference the past – the Scott Walker homage of "The Universal," the Terry Hall/Fun Boy Three cop on "Top Man," the skittish, XTC-flavored pop of "It Could Be You," and Albarn's devotion to Ray Davies – while still moving forward, creating a vibrant, invigorating record.

    [EMI's deluxe 2012 double-disc expansion of The Great Escape contains the 1995 album on the first disc and a host of B-sides and rarities on the second. Among Blur's British Trilogy, The Great Escape often gets slighted but this era generated the band's greatest B-sides, likely due to the confluence of the band being in its commercial prime and the industry's dictate to release multi-part CD singles for every single pulled from the record. And so we have "One Born Every Minute," "The Ultranol," and "No Monsters in Me," outtakes from The Great Escape that could have fit easily within the record itself ("Ultranol" itself is the sunny flip of "The Universal"). There are a couple of alternates – a remix of "Entertain Me," a French version of "To the End" – along with a suite of songs culled from their triumphant 1995 gig at Mile End. And then there are five flips that illustrate how not all was well beneath the glided surface: "The Man Who Left Himself," "Tame," "Ludwig," "The Horrors," "A Song," and "St. Louis" are woozy, unnerving returns to Barrett-styled psychedelia and tentative stabs at lo-fi that point the way to the sounds of 1997's Blur.]

    Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

    Blur - The Great Escape (1995) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012

    Blur - The Great Escape (1995) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012



    Tracklist:

    CD1:

    01. Stereotypes (03:11)
    02. Country House (03:57)
    03. Best Days (04:49)
    04. Charmless Man (03:34)
    05. Fade Away (04:18)
    06. Top Man (04:00)
    07. The Universal (03:58)
    08. Mr. Robinson's Quango (04:00)
    09. He Thought Of Cars (04:16)
    10. It Could Be You (03:12)
    11. Ernold Same (02:07)
    12. Globe Alone (02:23)
    13. Dan Abnormal (03:23)
    14. Entertain Me (04:19)
    15. Yuko And Hiro (05:24)

    CD2:

    01. One Born Every Minute (02:18)
    02. To The End (La Comedie Featuring Françoise Hardy) (05:05)
    03. Ultranol (02:42)
    04. No Monsters In Me (03:38)
    05. Entertain Me (Live It!) Remix (07:17)
    06. The Man Who Left Himself (03:22)
    07. Tame (04:47)
    08. Ludwig (02:24)
    09. The Horrors (03:18)
    10. A Song (01:45)
    11. St. Louis (03:13)
    12. Country House (Live At Mile End) (04:57)
    13. Girls And Boys (Live At Mile End) (05:03)
    14. Parklife (Live At Mile End) (03:42)
    15. For Tomorrow (Live At Mile End) (07:02)
    16. Charmless Man (Live At Budokan) (03:22)
    17. Chemical World (Live At Budokan) (04:12)
    18. Eine Kleine Lift Musik (04:23)
    19. It Could Be You (Live At The Beeb) (03:07)


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    Blur - The Great Escape (1995) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012

    Blur - The Great Escape (1995) 2CD Japanese Special Edition 2012

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