Robbie Williams - Escapology
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Album Review
Release date: 28 August 2006
Williams, Robbie : Escapology
...determined to prove himself as human as the rest of us, but incapable of letting us forget he's a star...
In the olden days, Robbie Williams was in a band called Take That. But it was no fun! Robbie 's entire life was what the internet generation would come to know as a colon and an opening bracket. So he hitched a lift on the Oasis tour bus, did a song that sounded like 'Cigarettes & Alcohol', and that was that. Hooray for being free! Four albums later (or five, if you...
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- How Peculiar
- Feel
- Something Beautiful
- Monsoon (Explicit)
- Sexed Up
- Love Somebody
- Revolution
- Handsome Man (Explicit)
- Come Undone (Explicit)
- Me And My Monkey (Explicit)
- Song 3
- Hot Fudge
- Cursed
- Nan's Song (Includes Hidden Tracks 'How Peculiar (Reprise)' And 'I Tried Love')
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Robbie Williams - Escapology: Wikipedia Album Entry
Escapology is a 2002 album by Robbie Williams, his fifth solo effort, and his last with producer and co-songwriter Guy Chambers. The most successful singles released from the album were "Feel" and "Something Beautiful". Escapology was arguably conceived as a concept album due to its lyrics being totally reflective about Williams' life as a popstar in Los Angeles, particularly his hopes ("Hot Fudge") and fears ("Monsoon").
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 revised for the U.S. market upon its release there in 2003 and was named the 'Best Album by a Solo Male' in the International Category on the Oye! Awards in Mexico.
The album was certified as 7x Platinum in the UK.
This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.
In 2002, Williams signed a record-breaking £80 million contract with EMI. The contract featured a number of provisos, including the label ceding greater creative control to the artist and a commitment to breaking Williams in the US market. In return, EMI affirmed they would benefit from a cut of Williams' non-recording activities, including touring, publishing, and merchandising, thus protecting the company from any commercial downturn in the singer's album sales. So far it has become the biggest music deal in British history.
Williams began working on what would be his fifth studio album, after a year out recording, the album heralded a new era for Robbie; he had taken a more active role in the making of this album giving an indication of his growing confidence in the studio, and "One Fine Day", "Nan's Songs" and "Come Undone" were the firsts songs that Robbie wrote without Guy Chambers input. Most of the songs were recorded in Los Angeles, with most vocals sung naked, one of the songs that didn't make the album was even recorded in a Superman costume.
Initial critical response to Escapology was generally mixed. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 53, based on 11 reviews.
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Robbie Williams - Escapology Lyrics
Robbie Williams - Sexed Up Lyrics
Loose lips sunk ships
I'm getting to grips
With what you said
No it's not in my head
Robbie Williams - Get A Little High Lyrics
Wake up in the middle of
In the thunder of a scream
And you realize that it was yours
You don't know what to tell them
Robbie Williams - Something Beautiful Lyrics
You can't manufacture a miracle
The silence was pitiful, that day
And love is getting too cynical
Passion's just physical, these days
Robbie Williams - Revolution Lyrics
Don't fight the feelin', relax
Oh child, the knots in your back
'Cause, you've been holdin' on
I feel you when you're reachin' out
Robbie Williams - Monsoon Lyrics
I've sung songs that were lame
I've slept with girls on the game
I've got my Catholic chain
Lord, I'm in purgatory
Robbie Williams - Me & My Monkey Lyrics
Johnny and Robbie
Youth, why you talking like that were from Stoke
I dunno, but I can't stop here, pally
Like the wallpaper sticks to the wall
Robbie Williams - Love Somebody Lyrics
Always and forever is forever young
Your shadow on the pavement, the dark side of the sun
Gotta dream the dream all over and sleep it tight
You don't wanna sing the blues in black and white
Robbie Williams - How Peculiar Lyrics
Cows
Aah, how peculiar?
I am all of the above, babe
Robbie Williams - Handsome Man Lyrics
Hello, did you miss me?
I know, I'm hard to resist
Y'all can come and help me
Pick the sweet corn out of this
Robbie Williams - Feel Lyrics
Come on hold my hand
I wanna contact the living
Not sure I understand
This role I've been given
Robbie Williams - Come Undone Lyrics
So unimpressed but so in awe
Such a saint but such a whore
So self aware, so full of shit
So indecisive, so adamant
Robbie Williams - Nan's Song Lyrics
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye, the Lord came and asked you to leave
You went to a better place but he stole you away from me
Robbie Williams - One Fine Day Lyrics
I like to reminisce about a time I've never had
A book that no one read, a film that never made me sad
And you remind me of a place I've never been
And something no one said, when I was seventeen
