| Big Plans for Everybody | ||||
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| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, North Carolina | |||
| Length | 40:30 | |||
| Label | I.R.S. | |||
| Producer | Mitch Easter | |||
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Big Plans for Everybody is the second studio album by the American rock band Let's Active, released in 1986 by I.R.S. Records. [1] [2] It was produced by band leader Mitch Easter at his own Drive-In Studio, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | [4] |
| Trouser Press | favorable [5] |
The Los Angeles Times determined that the album "combines lush, textured melodies with bright-eyed and bushy-tailed vocals." [6] The Chicago Tribune wrote: "It's pop, it's Southern, it's quirky, it's ringing guitars, it's neo-psychedelic, it's haunting." [7] The New York Times concluded that Easter "breaks the symmetry of ordinary pop tunes into irregular phrases, while his lyrics are quizzical and pessimistic." [8] The Philadelphia Inquirer opined that "Easter's rock-group hobby founders this time around on a series of Beatle salutes and a tedious obsession with '60s rock." [4]
All songs written by Mitch Easter.
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