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XTC, The Big Express
Audio CD
Disk ID: 820712
Disk length: 43m 56s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2002
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Wake Up | 4:40 |
| 2. All You Pretty Girls | 3:40 |
| 3. Shake You Donkey Up | 4:19 |
| 4. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her | 3:50 |
| 5. This World Over | 5:36 |
| 6. The Everyday Story Of Smalltown | 3:54 |
| 7. I Bought Myself A Liarbird | 2:49 |
| 8. Reign Of Blows | 3:30 |
| 9. You're The Wish You Are I Had | 3:13 |
| 10. Remember The Sun | 3:10 |
| 11. Train Running Low On Soul Coal | 5:07 |
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Review
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 MaidmentRemastered reissue of 1984 album. Virgin Records. 2001.Re-issue featuring Three Bonus Songs "Red Brick Dream," "Washaway," and "Blue Overall."
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 43m 57s (+0m 1s)
Tracks: 14 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 53m 22s (+9m 26s)
Tracks: 14 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 53m 26s (+9m 30s)
Tracks: 14 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 53m 48s (+9m 52s)
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