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- Artist: Big Country
- EP: Just A Shadow/winter Sky
- Label: Mercury
- Year of Release: 1985
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on 2011-02-22 CharlesMartel Said:
One of Big Country's best tracks off their "Steeltown" album given a superb remix. This continues the anti-conflict theme which runs through a lot of the tracks on "Steeltown" and clearly intends to draw parallels between the jingoistic futility of wars in the early twentieth century with the obnoxious jingoism of Thatcher at the time of the Falklands war. The lyric is about how the protagonists have failed in their quest to be everything they could have been as a result of the choices they made in their lives. It is stirring stuff, and executed by Big Country with a mixture of sensitivity and style. Every time I hear those shimmering chords cascade into the final outro as the last refrain ends, it just sends a shiver down the back of my spine. Masterful stuff.
Rating: 9/10
