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Released
  
May 1994

Producer
  
Big Country

Release date
  
May 1994

Recorded
  
29 December 1993

Artist
  
Big Country

Label
  
Compulsion

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Without the Aid of a Safety Net(1994)
  
Radio 1 Sessions(1994)

Genres
  
Rock music, Alternative rock, Celtic rock

Similar
  
Big Country albums, Alternative rock albums

Without the Aid of a Safety Net is the first live album by the Scottish band Big Country, released in 1994. It contains a portion of the tracks from a concert at The Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, and was recorded on 29 December 1993. The full concert was released in 2005, labelled as 2CD Expanded Edition: The Complete Concert. This version features eight tracks not on the original release.

Contents

IN June 1994, the album peaked at No. 35 in the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing

  1. "Harvest Home" (3:27)
  2. "Just a Shadow" (3:33)
  3. "13 Valleys" (5:04)
  4. "The Storm" (4:51)
  5. "Chance" (3:44)
  6. "Look Away" (4:20)
  7. "What Are You Working For" (4:00)
  8. "Steeltown" (5:38)
  9. "Ships" (6:06)
  10. "Wonderland" (5:54)
  11. "In a Big Country" (6:21)

The cassette and CD releases include these additional tracks:

  • "Peace in Our Time" (3:20)
  • "Long Way Home" (6:01)
  • "Lost Patrol" (6:10)

    • 2005 release

    All tracks written by Stuart Adamson, Tony Butler, Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezicki, unless stated otherwise.

    Disc one

    1. "Introduction"
    2. "Harvest Home"
    3. "Peace in Our Time"
    4. "Just a Shadow"
    5. "13 Valleys" (Adamson)
    6. "Winter Sky"* (Adamson/Watson)
    7. "The Storm"
    8. "Chance"
    9. "Tracks of My Tears"* (William Robinson/Marvin Tarplin/Warren Moore)
    10. "Rockin' in the Free World"* (Neil Young)
    11. "All Go Together"* (Adamson/Watson)
    12. "We're Not in Kansas"* (Adamson)
    13. "Look Away" (Adamson)
    14. "What Are You Working For" (Adamson)
    15. "Steeltown"

    Disc two

    1. "Stuart and the Audience"
    2. "Ships" (Adamson/Watson)
    3. "Wonderland"
    4. "Long Way Home" (Adamson)
    5. "Alone" (Adamson)
    6. "In a Big Country"
    7. "The Audience - Encore"
    8. "Lost Patrol"
    9. "(Hey Hey My My) Out of the Blue (Into the Black")* (Young)
    10. "Fields of Fire"*

    All tracks marked (*) were previously unreleased.

    Personnel

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

    • Songs

    1Harvest Home3:28
    2Peace in Our Time3:21
    3Just a Shadow3:34

    References

    Without the Aid of a Safety Net Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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