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[CRAZY-HORSE]

BLUR "the great escape" cd,1995.

huge,huge album in terms of sales worldwide, and spawned numerous singles also in tracks 1,2,4,7.
Blur's fourth album and the one that started all the bitter rivalry with fellow Brit-pop stars Oasis...
thought Oasis made better albums overall, but these guys were an awesome singles band during the 1990s.
the album starts off pretty good with their little singalong poppy tunes(sort of a modernday Madness IMO), but atfer track ten there are some prett aweful album fillers, which is the problem nowadays with a lot of albums...ie: bands feel they have to fill up useable space on cds instead of saying, 'ok,we've got ten good tracks,lets just do that'...but no!,they feel the need to use up 76 minutes of time(hell, albums that lasted that long in the old days were double albums, and how many of them were totally successful?, the answer....not many!)
overall, a good solid album, but let down by too many fillers at the end!

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: ernold same
best track: charmless man

tracks:

1. stereotypes ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRKoN31HpL0 live acoustic
2. country house ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGLumxJdqe8 live
3. best days **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flUnDtO7_gI live
4. charmless man ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlXMHDykUJ8 live
5. fade away **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2POiGNwspIM audio
6. top man **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OedJXMWzVE live
7. the universal **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Y8SDD1E-s live
8. mrs.robinson's quango ***
9. he thought of cars *
10.it could be you **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iLTmYuh_I audio
11.ernold same *
12.globe alone *
13.dan abnormal *
14.entertainme *
15.yuko and hiro *

3s=4
2s=5
1s=6

rating: 1.9