Goodbye to the Age of Steam

Goodbye to the Age of Steam
Big Big Train's studio album
Publication (s)	1994
Label (s)	originally: Giant Electric Pea New editions: English Electric Recordings
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Neo-Prog
Title (number)	9
running time	51m33s
occupation	Guitars, keyboards: Gregory Spawton Bass, keyboards: Andy Poole Keyboards: Ian Cooper Drums, percussion: Steve Hughes Singing: Martin Read Bass pedals , backing vocals: Rob Aubrey Windchimes : Steve Christey Backing vocals: Ken Bundy, Gary Chandler, Sally French, Stuart Nicholson, Martin Orford, Mandy Taylor
production	Rob Aubrey, Andy Poole, Greg Spawton
Studio (s)	Parklands Studios
chronology - Goodbye to the Age of Steam English Boy Wonders (1997)

Goodbye to the Age of Steam is the first studio album by the English progressive rock band Big Big Train . The CD was released on May 31, 1994.

content

The songs on Goodbye to the Age of Steam are about everyday tightrope acts and partial crashes. The album title has no relation to the songs, but conveys the mood of the pieces.

style

Musically, at the time of their debut album, BBT showed themselves to be influenced by typical neo-prog bands such as IQ , Jadis , Galahad , and z. B. by Steve Hackett . A style of its own can be guessed, but not yet consolidated. The album received medium to positive reviews, although the vocals were often too thin.

Track list

1. Wind Distorted Pioneers (3:21)
2. Head Hit The Pillow (5:50)
3. Edge Of The Known World (4:47)
4. Landfall (4:18)
5. Dragon Bone Hill (3:53)
6. Blow The House Down (9:21)
7. Expecting Snow (2:37)
8. Blue Silver Red (10:04)
9. Losing Your Way (7:29)
10. Two Poets Meet (4:30) (bonus track on Japanese edition only)

Re-release

In 2011, Goodbye to the Age of Steam was re-released on the band's own label, English Electric Recordings. The keyboard tapes, which had partially disappeared, had to be re-recorded. The album cover was also redesigned by Jim Trainer, since the original by Kev Thompson was lost. Three bonus tracks complement the original songs, including a new composition.

1. Wind Distorted Pioneers (3:21)
2. Head Hit The Pillow (5:50)
3. Edge Of The Known World (4:47)
4. Landfall (4:18)
5. Dragon Bone Hill (3:53)
6. Blow The House Down (9:21)
7. Expecting Snow (2:37)
8. Blue Silver Red (10:04)
9. Losing Your Way (7:29)
10. Far Distant Thing (4:35) (1993 recording for The Infant Hercules demo )
11. Expecting Dragons (7:16) (new recording in the 2011 cast)
12. Losing Your Way (10:01) (long version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ a very essential release especially to the BBT fans , prognaut.com, accessed on May 11, 2012.
2. ↑ Not a revolution, but still so good  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , home-of-rock.de, accessed on May 11, 2012.  
3. ↑ Un-words come to mind first. ... Unagitated, unspectacular, inconspicuous , musikreviews.de, accessed on May 11, 2012.
4. ↑ Always the same, unspectacular singing , powermetal.de, accessed on May 11, 2012.
5. ^ Solid neo-prog all the way through. , progarchives.com, accessed May 11, 2012.
6. ↑ Music that simply grows with every listen , rocktimes.de, accessed on May 11, 2012.
7. ↑ Ambitious neoprog band in their development phase, hooked-on-music.de, accessed on May 11, 2012.
8. ↑ Exaggeration of eclecticism , babyblaue-seiten.de, accessed on May 11, 2012.
9. ↑ we've had to recreate them using sounds which are as close to the original ones , bigbigtrain.blogspot.de, accessed on May 11, 2012.

Web links

• Reviews of Goodbye to the Age of Steam on the Babyblauen Seiten
• Goodbye to the Age of Steam on bigbigtrain.com