Goodbye to the Age of Steam
by Big Big Train
- Type: Album
- Released: 1994
- Label: Giant Electric Pea
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:13:41
- Community rating: 3.42/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The debut album from the long-running British progressive rock outfit establishes their signature pastoral, English aesthetic. 'Goodbye to the Age of Steam' is a highly melodic, conceptually driven neo-prog record exploring philosophical themes of nostalgia and industrial decline.
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, melodic
Tracklist
- Wind Distorted Pioneers (3:21)
- Head Hit the Pillow (5:49)
- Edge of the Known World (4:47)
- Landfall (4:18)
- Dragon Bone Hill (3:52)
- Blow the House Down (9:21)
- Expecting Snow (2:40)
- Blue Silver Red (10:02)
- Losing Your Way (7:35)
- Far Distant Thing (4:35)
- Expecting Dragons (7:16)
- Losing Your Way (extended) (10:01)
Credits
- Big Big Train - primary artist
- Martin Orford - additional arranger, additional producer, background vocals vocal
- Jim Trainer - design/illustration
- Rob Aubrey - engineer, mastering, mix, producer, background vocals vocal
- Andy Poole - graphic design, electric bass guitar instrument, liner notes, mix, producer
- Steve Christey - wind chime instrument
- Ian Cooper - keyboard instrument
- Steve Hughes - membranophone instrument
- Greg Spawton - guitar keyboard instrument, liner notes, producer
- Ken Bundy - background vocals vocal
- Gary Chandler - background vocals vocal
- Sally French - background vocals vocal
- Stuart Nicholson - background vocals vocal
- Martin Read - lead vocals vocal
- Mandy Taylor - background vocals vocal