English Boy Wonders

English Boy Wonders

Infobox Album
Name = English Boy Wonders
Type = studio
Artist = Big Big Train


Released = Start date|1997
Recorded = Parklands Studios
Genre = Progressive rock, post-rock
Length =
Label = Giant Electric Pea
Producer = Andy Poole, Gregory Spawton
Reviews =
Last album = Goodbye To The Age of Steam (1994)
This album = "English Boy Wonders" (1997)
Next album = Bard (2002)

English Boy Wonders is the second studio album by the English progressive rock band, Big Big Train. It was released in 1997 in music by Giant Electric Pea. It is generally considered to be the weakest of their albums.

Track listing

# "Big Empty Skies" - Spawton (4:21)
# "Brushed Aside" - Spawton (5:37)
# "A Giddy Thing" - Spawton (5:16)
# "28 Years" - Read, Spawton (2:24)
# "Pretty Mom" - Spawton, Poole (3:26)
# "Out of It" - Spawton (5:57)
# "Cloudless and Starry and Still" - Spawton (3:33)
# "Albion Perfide" - Spawton, Muller (10:23)
# "Right to the End of the World Tra-La - Spawton (1:56)
# "The Shipping Forecast" - Spawton (10:46)
# "Mr Boxgroveman" - Spawton, Poole (6:12)
# "Reaching for John Dowland" - Spawton, Poole, Hughes (8:13)
# "Fell Asleep" - Spawton (3:35)

Re-release

In February 2008, it was announced on Big Big Train's BlogSpot that English Boy Wonders was going to be re-recorded and partially re-mixed, then re-released. [cite web
title = English boys wondering how to play our old songs
publisher = bigbigtrain.blogspot.com
url = http://bigbigtrain.blogspot.com/2008/02/english-boys-wondering-how-to-play-our.html]

Personnel

*Steve Hughes - drums and percussion
*Tony Muller - Piano and keyboards
*Martin Read - vocals
*Andy Poole - Bass, keyboards and backing vocals
*Gregory Spawton - Guitars, keyboards and vocals

Guest musicians

*Ken Bundy - backing vocals

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Boy wonder — moved Boy Wonder to Boy wonder:/:Boy Wonder is is similar to a child prodigy and refers to a male who achieves success at an early age. They are often considered precocious youth. The phrase is sometimes a pejorative for a vain, pampered child.… …   Wikipedia

  • English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …   Universalium

  • Boy called Twist — Infobox Film name = Boy called Twist caption = director = Tim Greene producer = Aurelia Driver Clare van Zyl writer = Charles Dickens (novel) Tim Greene narrator = starring = Jarrid Geduld music = cinematography = Mike Downie editing = Ronelle… …   Wikipedia

  • Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders — VHS cover Directed by Kenneth J. Berton Produced by Kenneth J. Berton …   Wikipedia

  • Sun Boy'z — Infobox Chinese language singer and actor name = Sun Boy z caption = chinesename = tradchinesename = simpchinesename = pinyinchinesename = jyutpingchinesename = birthname = ancestry = origin = Hong Kong birthdate = birthplace = deathdate =… …   Wikipedia

  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) — Infobox Film name = The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas image size = caption = director = Mark Herman writer = Novel: John Boyne Screenplay: Mark Herman starring = Vera Farmiga David Thewlis Rupert Friend Asa Butterfield Jack Scanlon music = James… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Marmalade Boy chapters — This is a complete list of chapters of the manga series Marmalade Boy , written by Wataru Yoshizumi. The 39 unnamed chapters were serialized in Ribon Magazine from May 1992 to October 1995 issue.cite web |… …   Wikipedia

  • List of one-hit wonders in Canada — A one hit wonder is a Top 40 phenomenon: the combination of artist and song that scores big in the music industry with one hit, but is unable to repeat the achievement with another hit. The term can refer to the artist, the song, or both together …   Wikipedia

  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — Infobox Book | name = The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas title orig = translator = author = John Boyne illustrator = cover artist = country = Ireland language = English series = Andrew Wilson genre = Children, Historical, Tragicomedy publisher =… …   Wikipedia

  • My Boy Jack (play) — Rudyard Kipling in his study My Boy Jack is a 1997 play by English actor David Haig. It tells the story of Rudyard Kipling and his grief for his son, John, who died in World War I. The title comes from Kipling s 1915 poem, My Boy Jack.[1 …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”