Big Country
Harvest Home
In a Big Country
Just a Shadow
Release Date: 2/22/1994
Reviewed on 10/12/2006.
great collection of all their hits - relive the 80s !
CD Reviews
John C. Adams (4 out of 5 stars) Big Country burst onto the music scene about the same time as fellow Isles rockers, U2. What is amazing after listening to this CD is that they didn t enjoy even slightly comparable sucess. The hard driving riffs and lyrical imagery of Wonderland is reminicant of U2 s earliest work. Unlike U2, Big Country preserves more of the folk sounds of their native Scotland. Harvest Home roars; Fields of Fire, another 80s US MTV hit, is one of the best on the CD; In a Big Country of course has the sounds that help define the brit pop new wave of the first half of the 1980s without the techno silliness of groups like Flock of Seagulls. As with many greatest hits CDs, some of the songs trail toward the end just as their careers did in the early 90s. To first time listener