Track Listing

1. I Got You Eating Out Of My Hand
2. All In Red
3. Whole New World
4. Screaming On The Beaches
5. Turn Me Loose
6. Cold Tired And Hungry
7. Calling All The Heroes
8. You'll Never Go To Heaven
9. Big Lad In The Windmill
10. Wanna Shout

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14367 in Music
• Released on: 1986-09-15
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

A Dated Gem
I'd loved this band for a long time, but only discovered this, their debut record, quite recently. If like me you're primarily familiar with their work from their two better known, stellar albums Once Around The World and Eat Me In St Louis, you'll be in for a surprise on hearing this. Where those records are the work of an experimental yet utterly coherent, uncompromising progressive rock band, this is a vaguely quirky Go West with a guitar player who wants to rock. There's even some '80s pop-soul on there, in the form of Turn Me Loose. Some of this stuff reminds me of Mel and Kim. I'm not kidding.

The '80s keyboard stabs and production value raise a smile and it's infused with a boyish enthusiasm that's profoundly infectious. The songs are mostly very, very good and there are two drop-dead, killer-diller classics in the unusually-themed Screaming On The Beaches and the live favourite You'll Never Go To Heaven.

Stirring stuff, lots of ideas, a less kind reviewer might consider it a bit of a hotch-potch but it's a great ride.

Undoubtedly the odd stepsister in the It Bites album family, but she's a babe nonetheless, even if her dress sense raises an eyebrow at times.

it bites - Big Lad in the Windmill
Whoa! The first IB album ! It's great ! Maybe not much progressive, better it's a pop album, but very strong, very powerful.
The higlights: "Whole New World" "Turn me loose",the powerful "All in red" and the great "You'll never go to heaven". Francis Dunnery is the absolute king of the chromatic guitar scales.
Later comes out "Once Around The World" the best IB album, in my opinion at least.
Miguel (Spain)

unsung heroes
Belter! Always enjoyed this bunch's approach to carefully crafted heavy stuff that's not blues oriented (why have/do so many people with guitars play blues based rock year after year? Yeuch!)

Gorgeous delicate tinkly moments are also a delight

This is mainly fast, furious and clean-sounding well-produced music which is good for playing LOUD! Bust yer eardrums on the motorway!