Stunning Cover and Beautiful Sounds (The Great Escape - Blur)

Member Name: johnty

Product:	The Great Escape - Blur
Date:	14/02/01 (41 review reads)
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Advantages: Great looking cover, Chords provided, The Universal

Disadvantages: Yuko and hiro

This album has received a lot of flack but it had a lot to live up too.
Blur are one of the most instantly recognizable Brit bands of the nineties and one of the most popular as well. They have a great set-up, as well Damon Albarn is a great singer especially at the type of music Blur play. Alex James is a brilliant bassist and his greatness can best be heard on Song 2 by the great way he uses slides to produce that opening couple of bars.
Dave Rowntree is a fine drummer and his rhythm is impeccable. Graham Coxon is just frighteningly talented.
While Blur's best album (not including Greatest hits) is Parklife the great escape is definitely a close second. Three singles have been released from this album, Country House, Charmless Man and The Universal. All of which are fantastic especially The Universal which also has a brilliant Clockwork Orange type video. The song is brilliant worked and uses crescendos and diminuendos with great effect. The horns and strings on the song are also brilliants, and were provided by The Kick Horns and The Duke Strings Quartet. The backing Vocals from the hugely talented yet undiscovered Angela Murrell and Teresa Jane Davis on The Universal add immensely to the quality of the song.
There is also surprise appearance by the current Lord Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, in Ernold Same.
Blur have also been kind enough to provide the chords to each song in the CD cover. The CD cover is also brilliantly designed although that is only a little extra thing it does make a difference.
All in all this is a really great album with only one really bad song, Yuko and Hiro, but it is the last song on the album so you don?t notice it that often. If you liked any of the other albums you?re bound to like this. And if you?ve bought the Greatest Hits album and you want to hear more of Blur?s stuff then buy this and Parklife.

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