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Released
  
19 October 1984

Steeltown (1984)
  
The Seer (1986)

Release date
  
19 October 1984

Label
  
Mercury Records

Length
  
47:54

Artist
  
Big Country

Producer
  
Steve Lillywhite

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Recorded
  
Polar Studios, Stockholm, Sweden and RAK Studios, London, England

Genres
  
Rock music, New wave, Alternative rock, Celtic rock

Similar
  
Big Country albums, Rock music albums

Big country steeltown full album


Steeltown is the second studio album by Scottish band Big Country. The album was recorded at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm with Steve Lillywhite producing. It was released on 19 October 1984, in the UK and 29 October 1984, in the United States. It was released on CD only in Germany, as well as remastered and reissued there.

Contents

Steeltown is the band's only UK number 1 album, topping the chart for 1 week in October 1984. The title track Steeltown was written about the town of Corby, telling how many Scots went to work at the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks when it opened in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, but later found themselves unemployed when the steelworks declined in the early 1980s. (Source: Melody Maker, 1984)

The 1996 reissue contains all of the B-sides from the album's single releases as well as the extended version of "Wonderland"

"East of Eden" was the only Top 20 single from the album, reaching #17 in the UK chart.

Big country steeltown


Reception

Critic Fred Schruers of Rolling Stone gave the album a glowing review, writing:

Track listing

All songs written by Stuart Adamson, Mark Brzezicki, Tony Butler, and Bruce Watson except where indicated.

  1. "Flame of the West" – 5:01
  2. "East of Eden" – 4:29
  3. "Steeltown" – 4:39
  4. "Where the Rose Is Sown" – 4:58
  5. "Come Back to Me" – 4:35
  6. "Tall Ships Go" – 4:38
  7. "Girl with Grey Eyes" – 4:47
  8. "Rain Dance" – 4:19
  9. "The Great Divide" – 4:50
  10. "Just a Shadow" – 5:38
  11. "Bass Dance" - 1:39 (Tony Butler) (Re-Issue Bonus)
  12. "Belief In The Small Man" - 5:17 (Re-Issue Bonus)
  13. "Prairie Rose" - 4:46 (Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera) (Re-Issue Bonus)
  14. "Wonderland (Extended)" - 7:07 (Re-Issue Bonus)
  15. "Winter Sky" - 3:16 (Re-Issue Bonus)

Personnel

  • Stuart Adamson – guitar, piano, vocals
  • Mark Brzezicki – drums, percussion, vocals
  • Tony Butler – bass, vocals
  • Bruce Watson – guitar, mandolin, sitar, vocals

    • Chart performance

    Album

    Songs

    1Flame of the West5:01
    2East of Eden4:30
    3Steeltown4:40

    References

    Steeltown Wikipedia
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