Goodbye To The Age of Steam is the debut studio album of the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band, Big Big Train

Big Big Train

Big Big Train is an English progressive rock band that was founded in 1990. Based in Bournemouth, England, the band members are Nick D'Virgilio, Dave Gregory, David Longdon, Andy Poole and Gregory Spawton....

. It was released in 1994, by Giant Electric Pea. On the official BBT website, Spawton has revealed that "much of the album was about how people lose their way in their lives; about the tightrope we all walk every day. The album title wasn't linked to this, but it conveyed a feeling of pathos which fitted the mood of the songs."

Track listing

1. "Wind Distorted Pioneers" - 3:21
2. "Head Hit the Pillow" - 5:48
3. "Edge of the Known World" - 4:47
4. "Landfall" - 4:18
5. "Dragon Bone Hill" - 3:52
6. "Blow The House Down" - 9:20
7. "Expecting Snow" - 2:36
8. "Blue Silver Red" - 10:03
9. "Losing Your Way" - 7:28
10. "Two Poets Meet" - 4:30 bonus track on Japanese Release

Re-release

BBT are currently working on re-mixing the album. It is expected to be re-released in 2010.

Personnel

• Ian Cooper - Keyboards
• Steve Hughes - drums
  Drum kit
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   and percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Andy Poole - Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , keyboards
• Martin Read - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Greg Spawton - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, keyboards

Guest musicians

• Rob Aubrey - backing vocals
• Ken Bundy - backing vocals
• Gary Chandler - backing vocals
• Sally French - backing vocals
• Stuart Nicholson - backing vocals
• Martin Orford
  Martin Orford
  Martin Orford is an English keyboard player best known as the keyboardist and founder member of progressive rock bands IQ and Jadis. He also worked with former King Crimson, UK and Asia bassist John Wetton, and released a solo album, Classical Music and Popular Songs in 2000...
  
  - backing vocals
• Mandy Taylor - backing vocals
• Steve Christey - windchimes

External links

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