- Audio CD (20 Mar 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Essential
- ASIN: B00004GLQ7
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 124,637 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. You Dreamer |
| 2. Message Of Love |
| 3. I'm Not Ashamed |
| 4. Sail Into Nothing |
| 5. Thunder And Lightning |
| 6. Send You |
| 7. One In A Million |
| 8. God's Great Mistake |
| 9. Wild Land In My Heart |
| 10. Take Me To The Moon |
| 11. Far From Me To You |
| 12. Charlotte |
| 13. Post Nuclear Talking Blues |
| 14. Blue On A Green Planet |
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outrageous how this album was not a world wide smash,
By Mike (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why the Long Face (Audio CD)
I am guilty. Guilty of getting off of the Big Country train at No Place Like Home and not getting back on until after the train had stopped. Now it's saddening because it is like exploring all of the carriages of the train, but knowing that it's not going anywhere. But MY GOD this album. It just grows and grows and grows. A bit of rock, ballad, country, passion, pride, honesty .. oh and yes the wonderful e-bow riff on One in A Million! It's all there, and don't think for one minute that it is just Big Country by numbers, it is so much more. If you gave up on Big Country and wonder where they went after the end of the Eighties like I did, then you must start here and then you will also feel the opposite of Adamson when he sings "I am Not Ashamed". Then try to stop yourself buying Skinners, Damascus, Rarities I II and III, the web album etc... Big Country were bigger than I ever imagined.Stuart, your music deserved so much more attention than it got. I guess no-one found you because they never knew quite how lost you were.... RIP
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reassessment time,
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This review is from: Why the Long Face (Audio CD)
Now that Stuart Adamson, the very heart of this great band, is gone, it's time to reassess the entire body of work. This LP is a good start. It got less attention than the previous Buffalo Skinners (which still didn't get the attention it deserved). This LP is lush and gorgeous in many places, but with a lot of all out rockers as well. The band didn't put out a single clunker in the 90s--Buffalo Skinners, Why the Long Face, Driving to Damascus. These are all worth getting now. You will find the lost chords of the 90s, the superband that should have been.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great guitar-rock album from Scotlands best Rockband!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Why the Long Face (Audio CD)
After the "heavy" sounding "The Buffalo skinners" album I was first a little bit disappointed about "Why the long face". But then it became better and better. Songs like "God`s great mistake", "Blue on a green planet" or "I`m not ashamed" are best examples, how rockmusic should sound. A great album from a band that hasn`t the luck in the 90s to follow their success from the 80s. This is a shame - and not their music!
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