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blur: The Great Escape 30th Anniversary Double Colored Vinyl Out December 12th

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“The Great Escape is so rammed with tunes, ideas, emotions, humour, tragedy, farce, and edgy beauty that it’s utterly beyond contemporary compare.” – NME (1995)

The Great Escape turns 30 this year and to celebrate, this seminal album from one of Britain’s most beloved bands will be available in a very special, brand new Half Speed Mastered Double-Disc Colored Vinyl Edition; out December 12th via Parlophone.

The Great Escape (30th Anniversary Edition) features the 15-track standard album (Disc One); as well as a collection of rare B-sides and bonus tracks (Disc Two) from the album era, several of which are previously unreleased on vinyl; available on yellow and turquoise vinyl and beautifully housed in a gatefold cover sleeve featuring all-new expanded artwork by artist and designer Tony Hung.

Released to widespread critical acclaim on September 11th 1995, The Great Escape is blur’s fourth studio album, the follow-up to Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree’s international breakthrough release, Parklife (1994). Featuring a run of hit singles – “Country House,”  “The Universal,” “Stereotypes,” and “Charmless Man”- The Great Escapedebuted at #1 on the UK Album Charts and went on to achieve triple Platinum status in the UK. The four singles have combined UK sales of over 1.8m, with over 61m YouTube views and combined global streams of 335m+ to date.

A brand new 5-piece capsule collection of new bespoke merch by Tony Hung to mark the 30th anniversary of The Great Escape will launch on December 12th. To pre order, visit the blur store.

The complete track listing for The Great Escape (30th Anniversary Edition) is:

DISC 1 (yellow vinyl):

Side A:

  1. Stereotypes
  2. Country House
  3. Best Days
  4. Charmless Man
  5. Fade Away
  6. Top Man
  7. The Universal

Side B:

  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 2 (turquoise vinyl):
* denotes tracks previously unreleased on vinyl

Side A:

  1. One Born Every Minute
  2. Ultranol*
  3. Tame
  4. No Monsters In Me*
  5. To The End (La Comedie) (featuring Françoise Hardy)*

Side B:

  1. The Horror
  2. Ludwig*
  3. A Song*
  4. St Louis*
  5. The Man Who Left Himself
  6. Eine Kleine Lift Music

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