Big Country - Wonderland: The Essential Big Country (2017)

Universal Music will issue another great value three-CD Essential set under their budget Spectrum imprint, this time featuring Scottish rock band Big Country. This package includes all 13 of the band’s UK top 30 singles (including ‘Look Away’, ‘One Great Thing’, ‘Chance’ and ‘Wonderland’) as well as highlighting key album cuts (including the title track of 1986’s The Seer which features one Kate Bush) and offering a smattering of remixes. A live cover of the soul classic ‘The Tracks of My Tears’ features at the end of CD 2.

This set takes us up to 1991, although the band would continue releasing albums and touring until the end of the millennium. Frontman Stuart Adamson tragically took his own life in December 2001.

Like the previously announced The Human League Essential package (due out on 5 June) this triple-disc Big Country offering is not really one for the diehards, although anyone with half an interest should find plenty of rewards for their £7 investment.

Tracklist
Disc 1 (01:05:36)
1. Harvest Home (04:20)
2. Balcony (03:57)
3. Fields of Fire (03:31)
4. Angle Park (04:04)
5. Chance (04:26)
6. The Tracks of My Tears (live From Locarno Tiffany’s, Glasgow / 1983) (03:32)
7. In a Big Country (04:42)
8. All of Us (04:09)
9. The Storm (06:20)
10. Heart and Soul (04:33)
11. A Thousand Stars (03:51)
12. Wonderland (12″ mix) (07:08)
13. The Crossing (07:06)
14. Giant (03:57)

Disc 2 (01:13:56)
1. East of Eden (04:29)
2. Prairie Rose (04:46)
3. Where the Rose Is Sown (04:58)
4. Belief in the Small Man (05:17)
5. Come Back to Me (04:35)
6. Steeltown (04:38)
7. Just a Shadow (05:40)
8. Winter Sky (03:15)
9. Look Away (04:23)
10. Restless Natives (04:00)
11. One Great Thing (04:02)
12. The Seer (feat. Kate Bush) (05:20)
13. Song of the South (04:59)
14. The Great Divide (04:49)
15. Tall Ships Go (04:37)
16. The Teacher (04:08)

Disc 3 (01:13:05)
1. King of Emotion (04:51)
2. The Travellers (03:13)
3. Starred & Crossed (04:23)
4. Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys) (05:10)
5. Soapy Soutar Strikes Back (instrumental) (04:11)
6. River of Hope (04:29)
7. Heart of the World (03:43)
8. Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys (03:19)
9. Save Me (04:29)
10. Pass Me By (03:56)
11. World on Fire (03:47)
12. Beautiful People (05:32)
13. Return of the Two Headed King (04:28)
14. Fly Like an Eagle (04:25)
15. Republican Party Reptile (04:01)
16. Freedom Song (04:31)
17. I’m Only Waiting (04:37)