XTC - Big Express (200 Gram Vinyl, United Kingdom - Import) Kinks (Red Vinyl)

XTC - Big Express (200 Gram Vinyl, United Kingdom - Import) Kinks (Red Vinyl)Limited 200gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. XTC's seventh album, The Big Express was virtually ignored on release, much as it's immediate predecessor Mummer had been. If Mummer was XTC's quiet album, this was it's polar opposite: bright, brash, noisy even cluttered on occasion if the song demanded it as it became a concept album of sorts, a partly autobiographical reflection on growing up in an industrial town, Swindon, with it's history of

Like A Ship is a stirring and powerful meditation on the wayward aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement

Something I hadn't done like this before

4 Electricity

"Take me to awful places now

2 Chemtrails Over the Country Club

on the surface

Mark Ronson

Two LP set

"Maybe the last record was our teenage angst and 3D Country is our newfound twenty-something arrogance

It all combined to mount tremendous pressure on Elvis and all involved to deliver something that lived up to expectations

and ultimately the band hired R

it was also the first ever rock album to be the Best-Selling Album Of The Year (also 1967)