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Influenced by: Genesis, Van de Graaf Generator, IQBig Big Train is an English Progressive Rock band formed in 1990, and still active. Founded as a studio-based project releasing independent albums, since the late '90s they have become a more traditional touring band with a stable line-up.The group specializes in epic, often album-length celebrations of English history and culture, from bucolic nostalgia to Steampunk and Diesel Punk. Their music manages to stay highly melodic and complex at the same time, and has slowly incorporated more and more classical instrumentation over the years.The group was formed in Bournemouth by then-guitarist Greg Spawton and then-bassist Andy Poole (the two would later trade instruments), who employed a series of singers and guest musicians to fill out their songs. Since their breakthrough 2007 album The Difference Machine, Big Big Train’s popularity and album sales have steadily increased among prog fans on both sides of the Atlantic. | |
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Concept Album: Even the albums that don't tell an explicit story are heavily thematic: The Difference Machine juxtaposes a dying man's thoughts with the explosion of a star in another galaxy. The Underfall Yard is an album-length lament for the great builders and the golden age of steam. Folklore is Exactly What It Says on the Tin—it covers English myths and legends both ancient and modern, from peasant wassailing superstitions to early motor racing. Grand Tour is inspired in the tours affluent Europeans used to make in the continent and is a journey of sorts - from England to Italy, then Prospero's Island, then outer space and finally back home. | |
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Uncommon Time: The band isn't strictly above playing in 4/4 time, but they're forever breaking out of it for something more expansive. | |
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Tony Müller was solely a keyboardist on "English Boy Wonders" before joining Read and Guest-Star Party Member Jo Micheals as a member of the Vocal Tag Team on Bard. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: In "Judas Unrepentant", the protagonist's talents are at last recognized, but only after the stress caused by his forgery trial, compounded by years of chain-smoking and exposure to toxic fumes, takes the final toll on him. | |
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Small Town Boredom | |
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Small Town Boredom: The English Electric albums include several examples, enough to make it a secondary theme: "Upton Heath," "A Boy in Darkness," "Summoned by Bells." | |
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Downer Ending: Many of the band's songs are nostalgic, observing the last moment of something about to die out or pass away: "Last Train" gives us a railway station the day before its route closes down. "The Underfall Yard" closes with an observation on the limits of nostalgia: "Those days are gone; their names are lost." "Brooklands" takes place in the mind of the legendary British racer John Cobb ... on the morning of the speedboat test drive that would claim his life on Loch Ness. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The group began as a highly experimental two-man project, altogether studio-based. Over the first decade, they acquired a cohesive line-up with proper band members, and their music became less overtly avant-garde. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Drummer Nick D'Virgilio shares lead vocals with David Longdon in "Winkie," "A Mead Hall in Winter," and "Theodora in Green and Gold". Violinist Rachel Hall shares vocals with Longdon on "As the Crow Flies." Tony Müller was solely a keyboardist on "English Boy Wonders" before joining Read and Guest-Star Party Member Jo Micheals as a member of the Vocal Tag Team on Bard. On the album Welcome to the Planet violinist Clare Lindley shares lead vocals with Longdon on "Made from Sunshine," as does keyboardist Carly Bryant on the album's title track. | |
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Lead Bassist | |
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Lead Bassist: Originally a guitarist, co-founder and main songwriter Greg Spawton switched to bass in 2009, and still guides the band’s direction from behind his Rickenbacker. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: As one might expect from a Progressive Rock band. Their songs often last more than six minutes, but the highlights are certainly "The Underfall Yard", which clocks in nearly 23 minutes, "East Coast Racer", which lasts almost 16 minutes, and "Beneath the Masts", which lasts 17 minutes. The London Song EP is a slightly more unusual example; it is a compilation of previously released songs but it is formatted as a single 34-minute track. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: Averted in "A Boy in Darkness", in spite of the band's fondness for the Victorian era. The song vividly describes child labor and appalling working conditions in coal mines during the time. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Folklore is Exactly What It Says on the Tin—it covers English myths and legends both ancient and modern, from peasant wassailing superstitions to early motor racing. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: "Brooklands" hearkens back to the classic Bentleys, Napiers, Invictas, and Sunbeams that all burned rubber at the eponymous racing track. | |
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Cool Train | |
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Cool Cool Train: Fitting with the band's name and usual themes, "East Coast Racer" tells the story of a locomotive called the "Mallard" and how it set the (still standing) land speed record for a steam-powered vehicle. | |
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Cool Uncle | |
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Cool Uncle: Uncle Jack, from the eponymous song, is a well-read man who enjoys taking strolls outdoors and sharing curiosities with his nephew. | |
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Beneath the Earth | |
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Beneath the Earth: "Winchester Diver" is the true story of William Walker, a deep-sea diver who spent five years shoring up the foundations of Winchester Cathedral to keep it from tumbling into the sea. Walker worked deep underwater, for six hours a day, in total darkness. | |
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Abusive Parents: The third part of "A Boy in Darkness" describes the horrific case of Baby P, albeit obliquely. | |
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Wanderlust Song | |
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Wanderlust Song: "Summoned by Bells" and "Winchester from St. Giles' Hill" both show a protagonist taking the first, long-awaited steps away from the small town of his birth. "Alive" is a straight example and starts Grand Tour properly; inverted in "Homesong", which closes the album and the journey. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Beginning with The Underfall Yard, David Longdon's smooth, melancholy voice contrasted strongly with his predecessor Sean Filkins's more rock-inflected vocals. | |
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Lovable Rogue | |
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Lovable Rogue: Explicitly stated in "Judas Unrepentant", which tells the story of a talented but failed artist who resorts to forgery to make a living. And while he's at it, he leaves hidden messages and anachronisms as a means to stick it to inept experts and critics and greedy dealers. | |
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Contrast Montage | |
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Contrast Montage: "Winchester Diver" portrays the locals at worship, bathed in light from the stained glass; the song switches back and forth from them to a man deep beneath their feet, working in underwater darkness to preserve them. | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: "Victorian Brickwork" from The Underfall Yard is partly about the death of Spawton's father, and a posthumous embrace of the unnoticed ties that had always bound them. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: After seven tracks of Sturm und Drang, The Difference Machine closes out with the lovely, elegiac "Summer's Lease." | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Big Damn Heroes: In "The First Rebreather", a diver saves his fellow workmen by keeping a tunnel from flooding. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Nick, Dave, Danny, and Rachel all appeared as guest musicians before becoming full members. | |
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Vocal Tag Team | |
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Vocal Tag Team: Martin Read, Tony Müller, and Jo Michaels all sing lead on Bard Even with David Longdon singing lead, Nick D'Virgilio, Rikard Sjöblom, and Rachel Hall all have experience both within and out of BBT performing lead vocals | |
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