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Why the Long Face [VINYL]

Big Country | Format: Vinyl

3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Product details

Vinyl (13 Jun 1995)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Transatlantic
ASIN: B00004WVJG
Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 738,491 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

Outrageous how this album was not a world wide smash 16 Oct 2003

By Mike

Format: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

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Reassessment time 20 Dec 2001

By C. Jannuzi

Format: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.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Great guitar-rock album from Scotlands best Rockband! 14 Feb 2001

By A Customer

Format: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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Why so under rated?

A must for all BC lovers - wasn't a commercial success but worth the money

Published 20 months ago by Ged

An unfortunate fizzer

Why the long face, indeed. Its hard to put your finger on it, but something went terribly wrong for Big Country after their incredible 1993 album, `The Buffalo Skinners', and the... Read more

Published 23 months ago by B. S. Marlay

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This album is a mixed bag. It contains some excellent songs; 'Wildland in My Heart', 'Sail Into Nothing', 'You Dreamer', 'I'm Not Ashamed' and 'Thunder and Lightning' are among the... Read more

Published on 28 Feb 2010 by Graeme

Their Last Decent Album

Being a very longstanding Big Country fan (since before their first album) I would make the following comments. Read more

Published on 30 April 2008 by MJV

bought on the strength of amazon reviews!

Here's a strange one... I am a longtime Stuart Adamson fan, being of the right age to have adored The Skids when they were first around. Read more

Published on 4 April 2007 by Anne Ward

Lost Classic

Having been a fan of Big Country from, well before Big Country i.e. The Skids days I feel qualified to report that this album is certainly Big Country firing on all cylinders... Read more

Published on 12 Nov 2004 by Jwrdavis

Good title shame about the record!

I`m a big Big Country fan but this record has to many standard songs on it...i.e you think you`ve heard them before. Read more

Published on 30 Jun 2000 by S. Williamson

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