Big Country Official Web Site News, tour dates, images, and audio and video clips, biography, discography, and merchandise. http://www.bigcountry.co.uk

Lost Patrol History, themes, discography, MP3's, and links. http://freespace.virgin.net/cj.simpson/

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Amazon offers Steeltown (Audio CD),30 June, 1998 List price $18.99 My favorite band of all time.. / 5 I had it loaded on cassette and I never grew tired of it. I still can't put it in the CD player and stop it at any point. The bombastic, maniacal but ingeniously controlled tempos exploding through each song have no rival. Why Big Country didn't get the wide appeal in America they should have is odd, but not unexpected. I remember American critics sticking their tongues out at their albums and them. Well, in a span of two weeks I saw first U2 and then Big Country in the same venue. You might as well compare a 1000 piece orchestra with a handful of amateurs playing kazoos. About six of us went to both concerts and maybe only three of us had listened to Big Country at all. We all just stood there frozen, mouth open when Big Country hit the stage. And I mean hit the stage. Very few concerts will take your breath away, but Big Country had a sincere, riveting presence onstage, and you combine this with close to speed metal delivery of some of their songs, and Stuart's profound belief in what he was singing about, well, everyone left converted. The American Record companies screwed them over completely. A few stupid reviews based on comparing them to U2 and other early 80's even more lame alternative bands left them with the wrong identity completely. This was no better illustrated than the big glossy fold out of the band all airbrushed up like Duran Duran on the inside of the Peace in Our Time album. Yuck! This wasn't the band that power-chorded its way through politically-charged songs us working class stiffs embraced with an unrivaled passion. It looked like a bad senior picture. It totally symbolized what their record companies just couldn't figure out about this band. There just wasn't a genre easily recognized by the American critics for their sound so they took the easy way out-they summarily ignored or dissed Big Country without acknowledging what an incredible stage presence they were, or how powerfully evocative their songs were to so many people. Big Country should be mentioned in the same breath as Husker Du and the Pixies as seminal 80's bands. Their whole catalog of albums even holds up well through the 90's, I think (well, maybe a misstep here and there...). But pick up their Live without a Net album if you want some incredible acoustic versions of their greatest songs. Long live Big Country. Song "Belief in the small man" Just as one life turns from birth Just as the ring finds its worth Just as the leaf turns to gold So you and I will be sold Sold for the work done While we could feel young Sold for the new son Gold for the pure one Where does our home lie Where is our own Lonely the cold cry Only unknown Dark comes the night on the aged Hard comes the day still unpaid yet All in a bed still unmade it Chokes like the tomb and it says its Sold for the work done While we could feel young Sold for the new son Gold for the pure one Where does our home lie Where is our own Lonely the cold cry Only unknown, unknown, unknown Sold for the work done While we could feel young Sold for the new son Gold for the pure one Where does our home lie Where is our own Lonely the cold cry Only unknown (repeat to end)

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dOc DVD Review: The Big Country (1958) Director William Wyler's cinematic style in The Big Country emphasizes its title throughout the picture, with the vastness of the surroundings dwarfing the ... http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=1035

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