Goodbye To The Age of Steam
- Goodbye To The Age of Steam
Infobox Album
Name = Goodbye To The Age of Steam
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Big Big Train
Cover size =
Caption =
Released = 1994
Recorded = Parklands studios
Genre = Progressive rock
Length =
Language = English
Label = Giant Electric Pea
Producer = Rob Aubrey, Andy Poole, Greg Spawton
Reviews =
Compiled by =
Chronology =
Last album = The Infant Hercules (1993)
This album = "Goodbye To The Age of Steam" (1994)
Next album = English Boy Wonders (1997)
Misc =
"Goodbye To The Age of Steam" is the debut studio album of the English progressive rock band, Big Big Train. It was released in 1994, by Giant Electric Pea.
Track listing
# "Wind Distorted Pioneers" - 3:21
# "Head Hit the Pillow" - 5:48
# "Edge of the Known World" - 4:47
# "Landfall" - 4:18
# "Dragon Bone Hill" - 3:52
# "Blow The House Down" - 9:20
# "Expecting Snow" - 2:36
# "Blue Silver Red" - 10:03
# "Losing Your Way" - 7:28
# "Two Poets Meet" - 4:30 "bonus track on Japanese Release"
Lyrical content
On the official BBT website, Spawton has revealed that "much of the album was about how people lose their way in their lives; about the tightrope we all walk every day. The album title wasn't linked to this, but it conveyed a feeling of pathos which fitted the mood of the songs."
Personnel
*Ian Cooper - Keyboards
*Steve Hughes - drums and percussion
*Andy Poole - Bass, keyboards
*Martin Read - vocals
*Greg Spawton - guitars, keyboards
Guest musicians
*Rob Aubrey - backing vocals
*Ken Bundy - backing vocals
*Gary Chandler - backing vocals
*Sally French - backing vocals
*Stuart Nicholson - backing vocals
*Martin Orford - backing vocals
*Mandy Taylor - backing vocals
*Steve Christey - windchimes
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