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This album features some great music from an extraordinary band... Unfortunately it suffers from terrible remastering. Straying far from Big Country's trademark bass-heavy, echoey, drum-heavy mix (listen to the Crossing & Seer), the engineer on this reissue leans more for a brittle, clean, dry, highly treble sound that is altogether displeasing & far from Big Country's original vision. I recommend instead purchasing the reissue of "The Crossing" which has been masterfully remastered AND includes several stunning bonus tracks that date from Big Country's early & most prolific era!

This is a good retrospective of one of the most underrated bands of our time. This anthemic, honest, Celtic-influenced real rock is not for everyone, but for those it touches, there is nothing that compares. This music is withstanding the test of time and these guys just released the finest collection of their career with 1999's "Driving To Damascus". "The Buffalo Skinners" is another essential latter-day release. This "best of" is almost identical to the U.K. release, "Through A Big Country". Unfortunately, the fine tracks, "The Seer" and "Eiledon", were dropped and the ok "Heart of the World" and the positively annoying political rant, "Republican Party Reptile", were added. "Through A Big Country" (remastered) gets the 5 stars. Stay alive.

I can not say enough good things about Big Country. Music that stirs the soul, with awesome guitar work, meaningful lyrics, and drums that just drive. This CD stays in my CD changer.

One down side to the Best Of, is the drum work in the beginning of "In A Big Country" is cut short.

Aside from that criticism, I highly recommend The Best Of.

One of the best tracks on this CD is "Just A Shadow". Giving this song a listen is more than worth the price of the CD.
Give it a listen!

In my listmania list I placed The Best Of Big Country as No. 1 for music with meaning.

If you're a Big Country fan and own all their CDs, stay away because you'll already have all of the songs on the CD. If you're a casual Big Country listener, this is the CD for you. Awesome collection of BC's best. If you only want one BC album, purchasing this is the way to go. All of their best music is on this disc. But my advice is to spend some extra cash (even go into the zShop) and buy the first 4 studio albums instead, along with the last studio album. I always find greatest hits albums a little pretentious, especially when the band only has 2 or 3 "legitimate" hits.

This band is the most under-rated force to hit the scene. From their debut Big Country on down, they continue to give chills with their deep lyrics and melodic bagpipe sounding riffs. Well, they do get commercial on a couple of tunes, but now foul.

not here in the USA. And that's to bad. i got this CD originally for its one hit I knew of: "in a big country". but after listening to it a few times, i discovered that there were some really deep lyrics and melodies on this CD. There Scottish roots are very apparent, which adds to the total feeling of this CD.

A MUST IF YOU LOVE '80'S U.K. ROCK

You won't go wrong with this choice sample of some of BC's best of the last 10 years. Excellent, excellent music...will make you want to find all of BC's CDs and will leave you wondering why you didn't have them before. Superb.

In the best traditional of Rock-n-Roll, Stuart Adamson/Big Country wrote and sang about and FOR the poor and working class, even as the rich and powerful reaped the profits. "Where the Rose is Sown", "Peace In Our Time" and "Post Nuclear Talking Blues" leave no doubt what they thought of war. It's too bad that "All Go Together" didn't make this collection, as it accurately foreshadows the global warming, which the scientific community agrees is underway right now. "Republican Party Reptile" describes a man who stuffs corporate kick-backs into offshore bank accounts while confident that plastic surgery will keep his wife looking young.

Good cd. I hadn't heard that much from them except their biggest U.S. hit "In A Big Country" and the song I bought it for, "Look Away". It wasn't huge in the U.S., 'tho it did reach the MTV Top 20 Video Countdown in 1986. It was one of their biggest hits in the U.K., though, I understand.

This is no ordinary Pop Big 80s Collection, for Big Country was not an ordinary 80s band. Another review said " This Band Should have been Huge" and I say yes 10000 per cent. They had everything that should have made them alongside U2 as a power band of Celtic origins.
The Videos of Fields of Fire and In a Big Country show scenes of Scotland as well as them desplaying stories, for In a Big Country they are in search of a treasure with a mistchevous Girl running in competition against them; when Fields of Fire is about the band being on a train and them seeing a Bagpipe Player, when then they see a WW2 Battle, while in all of this it is all just how a child plays innosently with his Train set.
Many videos have the band just playing while others have the band again telling stories, and Look Away is one such video and song, for the song is about an outlaw and his love and him dying as he is captured and finaly hung for his crimes, although in the video he was really forced to fall to his death from a hillslope, when in escape. He was also originally to be shot and supposedly by the family of the man who the Outlaw killed in a drunken rage. The video was made very well but half in a studio and half out in the areas of Scotland supposedly around Glasgow and Edinburgh.
I can go on for hours of all the songs, but in closing the song of Where the Red Rose is Sown is a song that reminds me of the Patriotism that is needed today in our fight againt our enemy.
This is a great collection.