Escapology (album)

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Escapology
Image:Escapology.jpg
Album by Robbie Williams
Released November 5, 2002
Recorded ???
Genre Rock
Length 73 min 57 s
Label EMI
Producer(s) Guy Chambers
Professional reviews
Robbie Williams chronology
Swing When You're Winning
(2001) 		Escapology
(2002) 		Live at Knebworth
(2003)

Escapology is a 2002 album by Robbie Williams, his sixth solo effort, and his last with producer and co-songwriter Guy Chambers. Critics were negative about the album, calling it "stale songs, formulaic arrangements, and mediocre songwriting" All Music Guide, [1]. Rolling Stone was less harsh, describing it as a "self-conscious effort to craft a pop-rock blockbuster" [2]. PopMatters said it was "probably the weakest Robbie Williams album to date" [3].

Williams has said of the album that "half of it is written from the standpoint of 'Look, this is really me with my tears of a clown. Do they love me or hate me?' The rest of it is about somebody that I have to think I am to get up onstage. Because little me wouldn't get up there. It's too scary!"

The album was refactored for the U.S. market upon its release there in 2003.


Note: Image:Copy control logo.png This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.

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Track listings

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United Kingdom

  1. "How Peculiar" (Williams/Chambers)
  2. "Feel" (Williams/Chambers)
  3. "Something Beautiful" (Williams/Chambers)
  4. "Monsoon" (Williams/Chambers)
  5. "Sexed Up" (Williams/Chambers)
  6. "Love Somebody" (Williams/Chambers)
  7. "Revolution" (Williams/Chambers)
  8. "Handsome Man" (Williams/Chambers/Deevoy)
  9. "Come Undone" (Williams/Ottestad/Hamilton/Pierre)
  10. "Me and My Monkey" (Williams/Chambers)
  11. "Song 3" (Williams/Chambers)
  12. "Hot Fudge" (Williams/Chambers)
  13. "Cursed" (Williams/Chambers/Deevoy)
  14. "Nan's Song" (Williams)

In addition, two hidden tracks follow "Nan's Song", the first concerning the state of society, often referred to as "Save the Children", the only line of its chorus; the second concerns Williams' abstract wonderings during a date with a boring girlfriend, sometimes referred to as "I Tried Love", after the first line of its chorus.

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United States

  1. "Feel" (Williams/Chambers)
  2. "Monsoon" (Williams/Chambers)
  3. "Sexed Up" (Williams/Chambers)
  4. "Get a Little High" (Williams/Ottestad)
  5. "Come Undone" (Williams/Ottestad/Hamilton/Pierre)
  6. "Something Beautiful" (Williams/Chambers)
  7. "Love Somebody" (Williams/Chambers)
  8. "Revolution" (Williams/Chambers)
  9. "How Peculiar" (Williams/Chambers)
  10. "One Fine Day" (Williams)
  11. "Me and My Monkey" (Williams/Chambers)
  12. "Handsome Man" (Williams/Chambers/Deevoy)
  13. "Nan's Song" (Williams)
  14. "How Peculiar (Reprise)" (Williams/Chambers)

The U.S. release, on Virgin Records, shuffles the song order, removes "Song 3", "Hot Fudge", "Cursed", and both hidden tracks, adding "Get a Little High", "One Fine Day", and a reprise of "How Peculiar" in their place.


Robbie Williams

Studio Albums: Life thru a Lens - I've Been Expecting You - Sing When You're Winning - Escapology - Intensive Care

Lives and Compilations: The Ego Has Landed - Swing When You're Winning - Live at Knebworth - Greatest Hits

Related: Britpop - EMI - Guy Chambers - Take That - Discography

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