Blur
The Great Escape
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.
THE GREAT ESCAPE LP:
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.
Expanded across two discs, the LP format of The Great Escape remaster is cut on heavyweight 180 gram, audiophile vinyl and housed in a replica of the original sleeve artwork.
Tracklist
CD1 - ORIGINAL ALBUM REMASTERED:
1. Stereotypes
2. Country House
3. Best Days
4. Charmless Man
5. Fade Away
6. Top Man
7. The Universal
8. Mr Robinson's Quango
9. He Thought of Cars
10. It Could Be You
11. Ernold Same
12. Globe Alone
13. Dan Abnormal
14. Entertain Me
15. Yoko and Hiro
CD2 - BONUS DISC (ONLY CD & DD):
1. One Born Every Minute
2. To the End (La Comedie) (Feat. Francoise Hardy)
3. Ultranol
4. No Monsters in Me
5. Entertain Me (Live It!) (Remix)
6. The Man Who Left Himself
7. Tame
8. Ludwig
9. The Horrors
10. A Song
11. St Louis
12. Country House (Live at Mile End)
13. Girls and Boys (Live at Mile End)
14. Parklife (Live at Mile End)
15. For Tomorrow (Live at Mile End)
16. Charmless Man (Live At The Budokan)
17. Chemical World (Live At The Budokan)
18. Eine Kleine Lift Musik
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