Disco de Big Country: “The Best of Big Country”

This is a good retrospective of one of the most underrated bands of our time. This anthemic, honest, Celtic-influenced real rock is not for everyone, but for those it touches, there is nothing that compares. This music is withstanding the test of time and these guys just released the finest collection of their career with 1999's "Driving To Damascus". "The Buffalo Skinners" is another essential latter-day release. This "best of" is almost identical to the U.K. release, "Through A Big Country". Unfortunately, the fine tracks, "The Seer" and "Eiledon", were dropped and the ok "Heart of the World" and the positively annoying political rant, "Republican Party Reptile", were added. "Through A Big Country" (remastered) gets the 5 stars. Stay alive.

If you're a Big Country fan and own all their CDs, stay away because you'll already have all of the songs on the CD. If you're a casual Big Country listener, this is the CD for you. Awesome collection of BC's best. If you only want one BC album, purchasing this is the way to go. All of their best music is on this disc. But my advice is to spend some extra cash (even go into the zShop) and buy the first 4 studio albums instead, along with the last studio album. I always find greatest hits albums a little pretentious, especially when the band only has 2 or 3 "legitimate" hits.

not here in the USA. And that's to bad. i got this CD originally for its one hit I knew of: "in a big country". but after listening to it a few times, i discovered that there were some really deep lyrics and melodies on this CD. There Scottish roots are very apparent, which adds to the total feeling of this CD.

A MUST IF YOU LOVE '80'S U.K. ROCK

In the best traditional of Rock-n-Roll, Stuart Adamson/Big Country wrote and sang about and FOR the poor and working class, even as the rich and powerful reaped the profits. "Where the Rose is Sown", "Peace In Our Time" and "Post Nuclear Talking Blues" leave no doubt what they thought of war. It's too bad that "All Go Together" didn't make this collection, as it accurately foreshadows the global warming, which the scientific community agrees is underway right now. "Republican Party Reptile" describes a man who stuffs corporate kick-backs into offshore bank accounts while confident that plastic surgery will keep his wife looking young.

This is no ordinary Pop Big 80s Collection, for Big Country was not an ordinary 80s band. Another review said " This Band Should have been Huge" and I say yes 10000 per cent. They had everything that should have made them alongside U2 as a power band of Celtic origins.

The Videos of Fields of Fire and In a Big Country show scenes of Scotland as well as them desplaying stories, for In a Big Country they are in search of a treasure with a mistchevous Girl running in competition against them; when Fields of Fire is about the band being on a train and them seeing a Bagpipe Player, when then they see a WW2 Battle, while in all of this it is all just how a child plays innosently with his Train set.

Many videos have the band just playing while others have the band again telling stories, and Look Away is one such video and song, for the song is about an outlaw and his love and him dying as he is captured and finaly hung for his crimes, although in the video he was really forced to fall to his death from a hillslope, when in escape. He was also originally to be shot and supposedly by the family of the man who the Outlaw killed in a drunken rage. The video was made very well but half in a studio and half out in the areas of Scotland supposedly around Glasgow and Edinburgh.

I can go on for hours of all the songs, but in closing the song of Where the Red Rose is Sown is a song that reminds me of the Patriotism that is needed today in our fight againt our enemy.

This is a great collection.