Big Country - Crossing
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Artist: Big CountryEdition: Music CD
Published: 1983
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- In a Big Country
- Inwards
- Chance
- 1,000 Stars
- The Storm
- Harvest Home
- Lost Patrol
- Close Action
- Fields of Fire
- Porrohman
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Free Music Review: Still great 18 years after it's release
Hit: 5 Stars
I was going through some things in storage and found my old The Crossing tape. Popped the tape in my tapedeck and it's been there ever since for the last three months playing it to and from work. It's a solid album thoughout and still stands up to the test of time. Thet have a unique sound early U2 but with a unique bagpipe guitar sound on this album, which was unusual at the time because new wave was the rage at the time. Once you listen to the song samples you will get what I mean by their sound. When I bought this originally it was for In A Big Country, but now my favorite is Close Action especially the guitar solo and drums. I've just picked up a few of their later albums that I missed out on, and it's been like rediscovering an old friend. Do yourself a favor and pick up this album and others for one of the most under-recongized rock bands in recent times. They've matured over time and it's a shame that (1) they didn't get much recognition in the states after their first album The Crossing, and (2) the recent passing of lead singer Stuart Adamson. I was looking forward to seeing them in concert in the future but it looks now I will just have to settle for the next best thing...what they recorded when Adamson was alive.
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Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition of the Scottish band's 1983 debut album including 24 bonus tracks. This double disc set, released to mark the 30th Anniversary of the formation of Big Country, now includes a plethora of demos, outtakes and b-sides. The enhanced packaging includes a 20-page booklet featuring sleeve-notes by the respected author and journalist, Tim Barr, as well as previously unseen photographs. Includes the hits 'In A Big Country', 'Fields Of Fire' and 'Chance'. Universal.A former member of the late '70s English punk band the Skids, guitarist/vocalist Stuart Adamson went to Scotland in 1982 to form a group whose goals were to regain the idealism and passion he felt the punk/new wave movement had lost through commercialization. Tapping U2's producer, Steve Lillywhite, then known for his highly textured, expansive sound, Adamson realized his vision on Big Country's 1983 debut. Propelled by the hit single "In a Big Country," and featuring such rousingly evocative fare as "Fields of Fire" and "Harvest Home," the group's decidedly Scotch-Irish tone prefigured the Celtic music boom by a good 10 years. --Billy Altman
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