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''The Big Express'' is the seventh studio album by the English band XTC, released in 1984. It was one of XTC's harder-edged albums, in contrast to the pastoral ''Mummer'' and ''Skylarking'' which were released in sequence with it. Initial copies of the LP were released in a round sleeve. Working titles considered for the album were ''Coalface'', ''Head of Steam'', ''Shaking Skin House'', ''Bastard Son of Hard Blue Rayhead'', ''The Known World'', and ''Bull with the Golden Guts''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=XTC on Twitter )〕 The singles released from the album were "All You Pretty Girls" (released 3 September 1984 and reached No. 55 on the UK Singles Chart), "This World Over" (released 29 October 1984) and "Wake Up" (released 28 January 1985). The album reached No. 38 on the UK Albums Chart,〔 and No. 181 on the U.S. Billboard 200. The band made a big-budget promotional video for "All You Pretty Girls", and appeared on the BBC-TV programme ''Saturday Superstore'' with lip-synch performances of "This World Over" and "All You Pretty Girls". The seventh track, "I Bought Myself a Liarbird" is about their former manager, Ian Reid. The fourth track, "Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her" was written by Partridge on the band's mellotron. It inspired the name of the Japanese indie rock band, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her. ==Track listing== All songs written and composed by Andy Partridge, except where noted. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Big Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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