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With new producer Steve Lillywhite, the band recorded the single "Fields of Fire" in early 1983, which became a UK Top Ten hit. In May, on the back of the single's success, Lillywhite and the band proceeded to record The Crossing, which would include a re-recorded "Harvest Home".
Stuart Adamson and fellow guitarist Bruce Watson used the MXR Pitch Transposer 129 effect pedal to create a guitar sound reminiscent of bagpipes.[citation needed] Also contributing to the band's unique sound was their use of the e-bow, a hand-held device which, through the use of magnets, causes the strings of an electric guitar to vibrate producing a soft attack which sounds more like strings or synthesizer.[citation needed]
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The album has been remastered and reissued on three occasions. The latest version released by Universal in 2012 in advance of the album's 30th anniversary includes a second disc of previously unissued demos. Also included in the set are tracks produced by Chris Thomas from the first abortive attempt to record the band's debut album. The demos include the earliest recordings done by Adamson and Watson, some of which were recorded on four-track prior to recruiting either a drummer or bassist for the band.
The set also includes a booklet with interviews (new in the case of the current band members and archived in the case of the late Stuart Adamson) by the journalist and author Tim Barr. Lyrics for all of the key songs are also included, and the album has been remastered by Paschal Byrne from the original master tapes. In total, ten previously unreleased tracks were included in the deluxe, digitally remastered edition.
The songs on The Crossing deal with topics including loss ("Inwards," "Chance"), separation ("Close Action"), dehumanization ("Lost Patrol"), and the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion ("The Storm"). Many of the songs are characterized by Mark Brzezicki's highly-compressed drums and the heavily effects-treated, layered guitars of Adamson and Watson. The music often demonstrates a clear influence of Scottish traditional music, particularly obvious in the pipe-band rhythms of "In a Big Country" and "Fields of Fire" and the swirling, Gaelic guitar intro to "The Storm." This caused the band to be categorized as a Celtic rock band, which sometimes led to unfavorable comparisons with other bands such as Thin Lizzy.[citation needed]
Here's a big-noise guitar band from Britain that blows the knobs off all the synth-pop diddlers and fake-funk frauds who are cluttering up the charts these days. Big Country mops up the fops with an air-raid guitar sound that's unlike anything else around, anywhere ... Like the Irish band U2 (with whom they share young, guitar-wise producer Steve Lillywhite), Big Country has no use for synthesizers, and their extraordinary twin-guitar sound should make The Crossing a must-own item for rock die-hards.[17]
All songs written by Stuart Adamson, Mark Brzezicki, Tony Butler, and Bruce Watson, except as indicated. On the US vinyl LP, the songs "1000 Stars" and "Fields of Fire" are in reversed order. The US CD release keeps the same order as below.
It looks like we've got the first deluxe edition of 2012 locked down - at least across the pond. Scottish band Big Country today announced the details for a new expansion of their fantastic debut, The Crossing, to coincide with a 30th anniversary tour across the United Kingdom. (The band reunited first in 2007 and again in 2010, both times with new vocalist Mike Peters of The Alarm, replacing late lead singer/guitarist Stuart Adamson, who died in 2001.)
Released in 1983, The Crossing was a killer first album for the Scottish band, thanks to a clutch of fantastic, almost theatric folk-infused rockers from the collective pen of the group (Adamson, guitarist Bruce Watson, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark Brzezicki), Watson and Adamson's rich landscape of guitar tones and the production of one Steve Lillywhite, who applied the same magic to The Crossing that he did on the first three albums by an ambitious, guitar-driven band from Ireland named U2.
The results were phenomenal: The Crossing peaked at No. 3 in the U.K. and was a solid Top 20 album in the U.S., where the album's "In a Big Country" was a Top 20 single and still one of the high points of '80s pop-rock. (Closer to home, "Fields of Fire" and "Chance" were Top 10 hits, as well.)
With a healthy following, both fans and sales-wise, it's not hard to see why Universal is rolling out a double-disc edition of the album. (It's actually the third CD reissue of the record, following a U.K. expansion in 1996 that added four B-sides and a U.S. re-release in 2002 which featured the alternate version of "Chance" released as a single and the entirety of the 1984 EP Wonderland.) This double-disc release features all seven of the non-LP B-sides from the singles released from The Crossing, as well as a bonus disc of demos, ten of which are being released for the first time. (Of particular interest to longtime fans is a trio of four-track demos from 1981 and four demos produced by Chris Thomas, noted producer for The Sex Pistols, The Pretenders and INXS, who helmed the band's debut single, "Harvest Home.")
The package will be out January 30, days before the band's Crossing the Country tour kicks off in England. Hit the jump to pre-order your copy on Amazon and see the track list (as generously bestowed upon the world by Slicing Up Eyeballs).
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Thanks for showing some love to Big Country. Even though I've owned this on vinyl (at least 21 copies), the original CD, the UK remastered CD and the US remastered CD, AND I have all nine of their officially-released "Rarities" CDs, I will still be picking this up, since I'm not sure I have those '81 demos in my collection. Thanks for posting the track listing, which I've been trying to find since this release was announced a couple of weeks ago.
FYI, "Dreams Stay With You" is also the name of a recently-released CD/DVD document of a live performance from earlier this year, in Edinburgh, with Mike Peters on vocals. Any Big Country fan with an open mind should check it out. Mike is no Stuart Adamson, but no one could replace him. His passion for these songs is palpable, and hearing these songs again, played by three of the four guys who originally recorded them, is a true pleasure. Their monumental rhythm section (Mark Brzezicki & Tony Butler) is still as powerful today as they were nearly 30 years ago. I should also point out that I had the pleasure of being at the show in Edinburgh, and my wife & I can be seen (barely) in the first row of the balcony throughout the DVD.
It was indeed a fine album, and it was never off the record player. Scratch that, I think my brother actually brought back the cassette cause it had the 12 inch mixes of Fields of Fire and In A Big Country AND the 2 b-sides, Angle Park and Heart and Soul. My favourite song is still Balcony. It's very different as Big Country song, and on the soundtrack to the movie Against All Odds, but i don't remember hearing it in the movie, does anyone?
More interesting for me will be if they ever get round to sorting out Steeltown. I really thought the band matured very quickly with that album with a larger production job and the guitars, although not completely untangled from each other, did show more mettle. Listen to songs such as The Great Divide and Flame of the West and you'll hear what I mean. The quieter moments were few, but The Girl With Grey Eyes is quite beautiful in places.
One thing I really hoped to get with any Steeltown reissue would be a live concert from that period. It's a time that is ill served with decent recordings out in the great wide web, save one of the nights at the Glasgow Apollo which is incomplete but does have a version of the rarely played single, East Of Eden. They played there 4 times in 3 months if I am not mistaken. My older brother had an October ticket, I had a December ticket.
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