Big Country. 30th anniversary.

[hobbit.]

February 8th, 2012, is the release date of the 30th anniversary edition of their first album, The Crossing. Pass it on and enjoy the genius of Stuart. UK tour this year with the full album being performed. Sadly without Stuart.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwhD5tJLZc&feature=related

 

[hobbit.]

Manchester academy, 3rd feb 2012.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xcfOCqtqQ&feature=related

 

[hobbit.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2rIXnw26U&feature=related

ok so its a welsh cunt on vocals - mike peters from The Alarm.. but it still rocks a bit

 

[rosco rathbone]

Shock!!!!

 

[hobbit.]

what the welsh fucker attempting to replace stuart?

it should be a good night. if it's not we can brick the welsh cunt, the alarm were shit anyway.

 

[rosco rathbone]

No, that thing he yells at the beginning of "In A Big Country".

 

[hobbit.]

No, that thing he yells at the beginning of "In A Big Country".

Oh the screaming thing? yes he is a bit poor at it.

 

[rosco rathbone]

dee, dee-dee-dee-dee...dee, deedle deedle dee [/ebow]

 

[hobbit.]

there was a lot more to Big Country than the E bow.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Shock!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuFYBiLH5k#t=00m03s

 

[torchthebitch]

Shock!!!!

No, that thing he yells at the beginning of "In A Big Country".

Oh the screaming thing? yes he is a bit poor at it.

Pull your head up off the floor!


ffs

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The only way to get the songs that I wanted, was to buy the LPs. So I did.
They were doing something different. I thought that they deserved support.

 

[hobbit.]

Pull your head up off the floor!


ffs

que? who the fuck asked for your opinion? i like the concept of mike peters from the alarm screaming - preferably while he is on fire.

FFS ~bollocks~

 

[torchthebitch]

que? who the fuck asked for your opinion? i like the concept of mike peters from the alarm screaming - preferably while he is on fire.

FFS ~bollocks~

It's the lyric you old bugger!

I've never seen you look like this without a reason,
Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you.
I never took the smile away from anybody's face,
And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child.

CHORUS:
And in a big country, dreams stay with you,
Like a lover's voice, fires the mountainside..
Stay alive..

(I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered)


I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert,
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime..

CHORUS [x2]

So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you.
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded.
Pull your head up off the floor, come up screaming.
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted.
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered.

I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert,
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime..

CHORUS [x3]

Less hobbit, more muppet.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

rosco!

What the heck kind of psychotic, deranged, bloody mess, is that?

Must have received the sanitized version meant for America....

(OK, this explains Sean of The Dead.)

 

[rosco rathbone]

rosco!

What the heck kind of psychotic, deranged, bloody mess, is that?

Must have received the sanitized version meant for America....

(OK, this explains Sean of The Dead.)

That is Big Country as we know them in the USA.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

That is a side of them that I have never seen- then again, it was the music, not the visuals, I was seeking.

 

[hobbit.]

It's the lyric you old bugger!



Less hobbit, more muppet.

Daniel O'Donnel does a cover version.