The Great Escape
by Blur
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Blur bestography
The Great Escape is ranked 6th best out of 25 albums by Blur on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Blur is Parklife which is ranked number 205 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,292.
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The Great Escape track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Great Escape rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 87 Music Albums of 1995 | 53/87 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1995 | 61/100 | - |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #2501-2600* | 12/81 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 85/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Les Inrocks Les meilleurs albums 1995 | 6/51 | - |
| 2026 |  Arthurknight | Top 99 Music Albums of 1995 | 93/99 | 0 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 9/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Blur Studio Albums Ranked | 5/9 | - |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 62/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 23 Music Albums of 1995 | 6/23 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 343 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,511 | |||
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The Great Escape ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/14/2026 20:20 | Foxforce5 | 485 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2026 13:21 | stwhelan | 11 | 26/100 |
| ! | 08/14/2026 09:16 |  Purplepash | 5,001 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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The follow up and a kind of companion album to, Parklife, is another cracking LP. It hasn't quite got the bite and edge of it's predecessor, but there are some fine songs and many more quirky characters to meet. Best days, is absolutely beautiful, as is, yuko and hiro, and off course, the universal, is one of Blur's greatest ever songs. A bit of filler here and there but the album is a lot better than some people claim. Having said that, it's clear Blur needed to change something after this record. And they did, brilliantly so.
To me, one of the most underrated albums of all time. Blur was at his best here together with "modern life...", much better than Parklife, but losing the comercial "war" against Morning Glory Shit has been its cross.
johnner TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/08/2012 22:21 | #48143 | TOP COMMENT
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The Great Escape is Blur at their most straightforward minus the quixotic eccentricities of yore...so, is that a bad thing? Not really, if some people were to be more truthful about what it is they exactly like about this band. Albarn's songwriting makes another leap forward with some excellent tunes in the shape of Best Days, The Universal, and He Thought of Cars. The problem is that the album is very Park Life Pt 2 and the band are about to learn that you should, never, NEVER, give the public what they want.
Here is an example of an underrated record. Not all Blur greatest songs are in here, and as an unit the album may sound "strange". However, there aren't any bad tracks in here, and in my opinion people say it is worse than it really is. Charmless Man, The Universal, Stereotypes are examples of the best this album has to offer.
Severely underestimated album. It's clearly quite spotty; but have great singles (among the best of their career), and some bittersweet gems such as Best days, Fade away, He thought of cars or It could be you.
It also saw hints of what was to come both in Blur and Damon's side projects future albums. Definitely doesn't have the credit it deserves.
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