In A Big Country
	Produced by Steve Lillywhite
	Released on May 1983
	UK CHART POSITION #17 . . . US CHART POSITION #17 (charted OCT. 22, 1983 for 15 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
814 467-7 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

M en made in the crossing, their anthem rising over the highlands and drifting toward us on the same tide that brought the call and the alarm. Definitely one for the fresh new sounds of 1983, they made a fan of me in the moment I heard this song. The single version sounds like a different mix than the elpee version, smoother and shorter where the latter was edgy. You’d sell your soul (metaphorically speaking) to write a song like this, and for an instant it looked like they might make it big in this country. But Americans didn’t seem to be hungry for more, instead content to gnosh on an alternative sampler plate that included Madness, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Split Enz, etc. If you tuned in for Wonderland and Steeltown, give yourself a gold star for loyalty. The B side is a nonalbum track, “All of Us,” that features the same idiosyncratic sound but in a less-pressurized setting. It was later added to the 1996 Mercury remaster.

TRACK LISTING

1. IN A BIG COUNTRY    (Big Country)    3:55
2. ALL OF US    (Big Country)    4:09
   
   UK/AUS'L 12-inch single track listing
   
1. IN A BIG COUNTRY (PURE MIX)
2. IN A BIG COUNTRY (ORIGINAL MIX)
3. ALL OF US
   
   US 12-inch promo single track listing
   
1. IN A BIG COUNTRY (LP VERSION)
2. IN A BIG COUNTRY (SINGLE VERSION)
   
   UK CD single track listing
   
1. IN A BIG COUNTRY
2. FIELDS OF FIRE
3. CHANCE
4. PORROH MAN
5. IN A BIG COUNTRY (VIDEO)

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