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Through a Big Country: The Greatest Hits
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Track Listing
- Save Me
- In A Big Country
- Fields Of Fire
- Chance
- Wonderland
- Where The Rose Is Sown
- Just A Shadow
- Look Away
- King Of Emotion
- East Of Eden
- One Great Thing
- The Teacher
- Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys)
- Peace In Our Time
- Eiledon
- The Seer - Big Country, Kate Bush
- Harvest Home
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1278 in Music
- Released on: 1996-03-25
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 77 minutes
Customer Reviews
Does exactly what it says on the tin
Tracks on this album go back 25 years and I loved them then and I still love them now. I am only sorry that Stuart and the boys never got the critical credit and public acclaim they deserved. One of the few bands to keep guitars in the charts in the 80's they never reached the heights of U2 (I remember seeing Stuart Adamson joining Bono and the band at Hammersmith for an encore in 1982/83 I think) but their stirring music appealed to the celt in all of us. Not a duff track on this album representing as it does the heyday of their glorious noise. Don't forget the later albums either, still a cut above anything else out there at the time and still hold good today.
Absolute Genius
Big Country captured a moment in musical time that'll never be repeated. I'm a big fan of many current bands but this is something else. Buy this along with the rest of the their albums and you'll understand. The lyrics, the guitar riffs and the passion are something to behold. Check out the 'Final Fling' DVD live from Berlin - outstanding! I only wish I was back in the late 80's/early 90's to see these guys live. A unique sound and one of the most under-rated bands of our time.
Big Country Big Sound
I always thought they were treated as a bit of a poor relation to Simple Minds and U2 . I thought their sound was completely distinctive and certainly the 'Scottishness' shone through . I lent this album to a Scottish Military colleaugue he liked it so much that he never gave it back ..... bloody Pikey ! Any way I'll buy it again and really enjoy listening again . I am very sorry about Stewart Adamson though a sad end to avery talented man
