XTC - The Big Express
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Artist: XTCEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-08-06
Music Label: Caroline
Soundtracks:
- Wake Up
- All You Pretty Girls
- Shake You Donkey Up
- Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
- This World Over
- The Everyday Story Of Smalltown
- I Bought Myself A Liarbird
- Reign Of Blows
- You're The Wish You Are I Had
- I Remember The Sun
- Train Running Low On Soul Coal
- Red Brick Dream
- Wash Away
- Blue Overall
Free Music Notes for The Big Express
Free Music Review: Absolute perfection
Hit: 5 Stars
This album took a little while to grow on me, but when I finally got it, it was absolutely life-changing. It is my favorite XTC album among many strong contenders and one of my favorite albums all-time. The mystery of this album is the fact that those of us who get it have little luck trying to convey its majesty to those who don't. To those folks I say keep trying, you will be amply rewarded. "Wake Up" and "Train Running Low on Soul Coal" are tracks beyond description. With encroaching age, I feel the pull and power of the latter track more every year. Consider this an album to grow up and old with - gracefully!
The Big Express Poster
Remastered reissue of 1984 album. Virgin Records. 2001.Even hardcore fans remain ambivalent about this least organic and most dogmatic of all XTC albums, and this is the last place anyone should start building their collection. The Big Express has some strong tracks to offer, notably the Police-inspired nuclear-war lament "This World Over" and the bubblegum sea shanty "All You Pretty Girls," which sounds like "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor" as performed by the cast of The King and I. For the more persistent and inquisitive, this 1984 collection features some challenges in the shape of the twitchy Captain Beefheart-at-the-hoedown "Shake Your Donkey Up" and "Everyday Story of Smalltown," which evokes Ray Davies in its lyrical observations of dawn milk rounds and laborers commuting to the Swindon railworks on bicycles. --Kevin Maidment
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