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The Big Express - Remastered 200 Gram Super Heavyweight Vinyl

XTC The Big Express (2022 UK limited edition 11-track remastered LP, newly cut by Jason Mitchell at LOUD mastering and approved by Andy Partridge, pressed on 200-gram Super-Heavyweight Vinyl. A neglected classic of its era, this 1984 album creatively fused the band's immense songwriting gifts with the technology of the day to produce a vibrant Post-Punk concept album about growing up in an industrial town. The high quality gatefold picture sleeve, inner and vinyl are all in Near Mint condition APELP107)

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Release Date 11th Nov 2022
Release Year 2022 - 2 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Ape House
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Product Catalogue No APELP107
Music Genre Punk
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XTC’s seventh album, “The Big Express” was virtually ignored on release, much as its immediate predecessor “Mummer” (which was reissued on vinyl earlier this year to universal acclaim) had been. If Mummer was XTC’s quiet album, this was its polar opposite: bright, brash, noisy - even cluttered on occasion if the song demanded it - as it became a concept album of sorts, a partly autobiographical reflection on growing up in an industrial town, Swindon, with its history of engineering and railway accomplishments.

Perhaps in keeping with that tradition of technical innovation, the album also made extensive use of (at the time) new technology with Linn-Drum programming (alongside drummer Peter Phipps), E-mu Emulator and other synths claiming space among the more traditional guitars, bass and drums mix under-pinning the vocals.
This technology was juxtaposed with technology of a slightly earlier pop/rock era as phasing, backwards tapes and the inclusion of a mellotron hinted at a psychedelic influence that would move more centre stage with the band’s next project – ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’.

With XTC no longer touring, the sound radically different to any previous XTC album, in a musical climate where the upper end of the charts reflected national radio, producing the most mainstream result for years: Lionel Richie, Sade, Spandau Ballet, Howard Jones, Tina Turner, Queen – Frank Sinatra’s final solo studio album… the space for a metallic, post-punk concept album about growing up amidst the ghosts of Swindon’s industrial heritage proved non-existent.

Of course the songs were as good as on any other XTC album - a very high standard indeed – but they went largely unheard. Given that position, it would be easy to conclude that the timing was wrong for the album. But the best musicians follow the music and allow the times to catch up with that; precisely what happened when XTC released its next album “Skylarking” in 1986.

Coal for the Soul.

Side One
1. Wake Up
2. All You Pretty Girls
3. Shake You Donkey Up
4. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
5. This World Over

Side Two
1. The Everyday Story Of Smalltown
2. I Bought Myself A Liarbird
3. Reign Of Blows
4. You’re The Wish You Are I Had
5. I Remember The Sun
6. Train Running Low On Soul Coal


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Recording Artist XTC
Product Title The Big Express - Remastered 200 Gram Super Heavyweight Vinyl
Product Information XTC The Big Express - Remastered 200 Gram Super Heavyweight Vinyl UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To Andy Partridge, Barry Andrews, Monstrance, Spys (UK), The Colonel, The Dukes Of Stratosphear, Three Wise Men
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