- new wave, pop rock, rock, progressive pop
- 44 min
- 11 tracks
- Virgin
The Big Express is the seventh studio album by the English rock band XTC, released on 15 October 1984 by Virgin Records. It is an autobiographical concept album inspired by the band's hometown of Swindon and its railway system, the Swindon Works.
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Spare, cool, contemporary and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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Tracks
- 1Wake Up4:40
- 2All You Pretty Girls3:40
- 3Shake You Donkey Up4:20
- 4Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her3:58
- 5This World Over5:36
- 6(The Everyday Story of) Smalltown3:59
- 7I Bought Myself a Liarbird2:49
- 8Reign of Blows (Vote No Violence!)3:31
- 9You’re the Wish You Are I Had3:14
- 10I Remember the Sun3:10
- 11Train Running Low on Soul Coal5:07
11 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- XTC
- Label
- Virgin
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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