The Great Escape
Studio album by BlurWikipedia
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Search complete. 9 mentions across 6 episodes found for "The Great Escape".
Oct 1, 2026
Paul MedewGUEST
So anyone who saw that and, you know, I don't think they would have liked the song, but they might have gone, oh, that's a good looking band and then found us and been bitterly disappointed.
speaker_0HOST
The song reminds me a little bit of Blur, like something off The Great Escape or something like that.
Paul MedewGUEST
Yeah, yeah, fair call.
speaker_0HOST
Did you play that one quite often or...?
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, I am recording this review on the number 45 bus to Brixton.
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I have left it late, but, um, uh, I'm delighted to bring you this very quick review of The Great Escape by Blur, who are a band [inhales deeply] that it is almost impossible to decide whether they're one of the greatest bands of all time or one of the most annoying Uh, mutilations of sort of British culture.
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So- Do you hear that? That's, uh, that's the announcement of the bus.
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[clears throat] Um, announcements like that, ironically, are sort of littered throughout this era of Blur, where they had decided that America was never gonna take to them, and so they decided to become as British as they possibly could, which is a sort of noble, a noble cause, I suppose.
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is an album that I'm glad exists, uh, though I will happily never listen to it again.
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Though I must say, the final track, You're Coheed Hero, may be the most underrated song they ever did.
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So that's my whistle stop review of Blur, The Great Escape.
Sean McLoughlinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, I'm actually gonna listen to the album now and decide whether I agree with this.
Dave FensomeHOST
well we know because the punk is short for punctuation that's the way that goes
Tal DaviesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hi, my name's Tal Davis, I'm a comedian, and my favourite album of 1995 is Blur's The Great Escape, which apparently these guys have been slugging off recently, but never mind.
Tal DaviesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, I was five at the time, so my music taste wasn't that refined, but I do have a lot of memories attached to dancing around my dad's house at weekends to Charmless Man and Country House, and it just feels very nostalgic, very fun to me, and, yeah, just reminds me of my dad.
Krister GreerHOST
All right, we'll tell you what.
15 MINS LATER
Krister GreerHOST
all right um yeah i i mean that's nuts isn't it absolutely bullshit mate i don't think that black grape album is better than elastica nme
Dave FensomeHOST
I mean, I like that Black Grape album a great deal.
Dave FensomeHOST
I'm not going to argue the toss between the two of them, but I certainly don't think The Great Escape is, and I certainly don't think I Should Coco by Supergrass is.
Dave FensomeHOST
And I certainly, I mean, I doubt very much that Tinderstick's album is.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Right.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Blur did add a song on The Great Escape called It Could Be You, which starts with the line, Churchill's got his lucky number, which was about that.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Also, the Millennium Dome becomes...
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Of course, of course.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
Okay.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
And right when The Great Escape comes out, I mean, there's a great Oasis album that comes out right at that time as well.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
But I, yeah, again, I'm just, I was a Blur person, still am through and through.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
I will listen to 13 and Blur and The Great Escape at least two or three times a year.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
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Greg SwinehartHOST
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speaker_0HOST
It did not chart, however, but it did have a cover of Ballad of Hollis Brown.
speaker_0HOST
In 1995, Blur released The Great Escape.
speaker_0HOST
This was their fourth studio album.
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It captured them at the height of the mid-90s Britpop wave.