| English Boy Wonders | ||||
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| Released | 1997 | |||
| Recorded | Parklands Studios | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 71:39 | |||
| Label | Giant Electric Pea | |||
| Producer | Andy Poole, Gregory Spawton | |||
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| Classic Rock |   (re-release) |
English Boy Wonders is the second studio album by the English progressive rock band, Big Big Train. It was released in 1997 by Giant Electric Pea.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Big Empty Skies" | Spawton | 4:21 |
| 2. | "Brushed Aside" | Spawton | 5:37 |
| 3. | "A Giddy Thing" | Spawton | 5:16 |
| 4. | "28 Years" | Read, Spawton | 2:24 |
| 5. | "Pretty Mom" | Spawton, Poole | 3:26 |
| 6. | "Out of It" | Spawton | 5:57 |
| 7. | "Cloudless and Starry and Still" | Spawton, Poole | 3:33 |
| 8. | "Albion Perfide" | Spawton, Poole, Muller | 10:23 |
| 9. | "Right to the End of the World Tra-La" | Spawton | 1:56 |
| 10. | "The Shipping Forecast" | Spawton | 10:46 |
| 11. | "Mr Boxgroveman" | Spawton, Poole | 6:12 |
| 12. | "Reaching for John Dowland" | Spawton, Poole, Hughes | 8:13 |
| 13. | "Fell Asleep" | Spawton | 3:35 |
In February 2008, it was announced on Big Big Train's BlogSpot that English Boy Wonders was going to be re-recorded and partially re-mixed. [1] It was re-released on the band's new record label, English Electric, on 1 December 2008.
The re-release adds one track and changes the running order.
[†] Tracks 3-7 are grouped as For Autumn (Parts 1-5) and tracks 12-14 as For Autumn (Parts 6-8).
Big Big Train are an English progressive rock band formed in Bournemouth in 1990. The current line-up includes band founder Gregory Spawton, along with Nick D'Virgilio and Rikard Sjöblom. Until 2009, the band were active as a predominantly studio project led by Spawton and co-founder Andy Poole, who departed the band in 2018, with changing line-ups and guest musicians. They have released fourteen studio albums and six EPs.
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Gathering Speed is the fourth studio album of the English progressive rock band, Big Big Train. It was released in 2004 by Treefrog Records. It is dedicated to the airmen and women who lost their lives in the Battle of Britain. The song The Road Much Further On was originally titled You Can't Draw Love. It was inspired by Spawton's then seven-year-old daughter. The album as a whole was a return to progressive rock for the band. It is the first album in which Sean Filkins recorded vocals, replacing Martin Read. It is also the only album in which Laura Murch recorded vocals, and the only Big Big Train album not to feature any songs solely written by Greg Spawton.
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English Electric Part One is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Big Big Train. It was released on 3 September 2012, by English Electric Recordings and GEP.
English Electric Part Two is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Big Big Train. It was released on 4 March 2013, by English Electric Recordings and GEP.
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Far Skies Deep Time is the first official studio EP by the English progressive rock band Big Big Train. It was released in 2010 by English Electric Recordings, and re-released in 2011 with "Kingmaker" replacing "Master of Time" as the first track. It contains five tracks, including a 17-minute epic about the last voyage of Belgian singer Jacques Brel.
Make Some Noise is the second official studio EP by the English progressive rock band Big Big Train. It was released on 23 September 2013 by English Electric Recordings and Burning Shed. It contains four new tracks from the compilation album English Electric: Full Power, plus a selection of tracks from English Electric Part One and English Electric Part Two, two of which are edited versions.
Folklore is the ninth studio album by English progressive rock band Big Big Train. Released on 27 May 2016, it was recorded at English Electric Studios, produced by Big Big Train, and mixed and mastered at Aubitt Studios by Rob Aubrey. It is the first studio album to feature Rachel Hall and then-Beardfish lead vocalist Rikard Sjöblom as official members.
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Common Ground is the thirteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Big Big Train, released on 30 July 2021. With the departure of Dave Gregory, Rachel Hall, and Danny Manners in 2020, Common Ground is the first album release with the core four-piece lineup of Greg Spawton, David Longdon, Nick D'Virgilio, and Rikard Sjöblom. Joining the core line-up on the album are session musicians Carly Bryant, Dave Foster, and Aidan O'Rourke. Upon release it entered the UK music charts at number 31.
Ingenious Devices is the fifteenth studio album by English progressive rock band Big Big Train, released on 30 June, 2023. It includes four studio tracks that were recorded in 2019 and one live track that was recorded in September 2022. Three tracks are re-recordings, except for the vocals of the late David Longdon.
Gregory Spawton is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and only continuous member of English progressive rock band Big Big Train.
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