Covers for different versions

Released: 11 September 1995

All release dates

Highest UK Chart Position: 1

Chart History | Intl Chart Positions | Sales

Formats:

UK
CD Cat. No. FOODCD 14
Cassette FOODTC 14
Vinyl CFOODLP 14
Cassette Promo unknown

US
US CD 40855-2
US Cassette 40855-4

Asian Countries
Japanese CD TOCP-8633
Japanese re-issued CD TOCP-65992 (1)
Japanese re-issued CD TOCP-53318 (2)
Japanese re-issued CD TOCP-53574 (3)
Korean Cassette EKPC-0473

Other Countries & Formats
French CD 7243 8 35349 2
Digital Download (from 2005)
 

 

Record labels: UK: Food/EMI Records US: Virgin Records Japan: Toshiba/EMI Records Japan Korea: EMI Records Korea France: EMI Records France

Extra tracks in the Japanese release are "Ultranol" and "No Monsters In Me".

French version includes "To The End (With Francoise Hardy)" as a bonus track.

Japanese re-issued CD (1) comes in a mini-LP sleeve.
 

Liner notes
Credits inside the album booklet.

Blur as a sales team on the album's back cover. Years later, a fan told that this picture was used to advertise glasses in Asia!

Trivia:

• "Stereotypes" debuted at the Dublin Castle secret gig. It was considered for the first single, but another song ("Country House") got a bigger reaction from fans.
• The "Quango" mentioned in "Mr. Robinson's Quango" stands for Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation. This was the first song recorded for the album.
• "It Could Be You", the last song recorded for the album, was originally written about Winston Churchill.
• The narrator in "Ernold Same" is Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London.
• "Dan Abnormal" is about an over-zealous fan. The title is Damon's anagramic pseudonym.
• Total running time (UK ver.): 57:03

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