English Boy Wonders Explained

English Boy Wonders
Type:	studio
Artist:	Big Big Train
Cover:	Big_Big_Train_English_Boy_Wonders.jpg
Recorded:	Parklands Studios
Genre:	Progressive rock
Length:	71:39
Label:	Giant Electric Pea
Producer:	Andy Poole, Gregory Spawton
Prev Title:	Goodbye to the Age of Steam
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	Bard
Next Year:	2002

English Boy Wonders is the second studio album by the English progressive rock band, Big Big Train. It was released in 1997 by Giant Electric Pea.

Track listing

Re-release

In February 2008, it was announced on Big Big Train's BlogSpot that English Boy Wonders was going to be re-recorded and partially re-mixed.^[1] It was re-released on the band's new record label, English Electric, on 1 December 2008.

The re-release adds one track and changes the running order.

1. "Big Empty Skies" – 4:23
2. "Brushed Aside" – 5:40
3. "Albion Perfide" – 10:27
4. "Pretty Mom" – 3:43
5. "A Giddy Thing" – 5:17
6. "Out of It" – 6:02
7. "Cloudless and Starry and Still" – 3:36
8. "Two Poets Meet" (Spawton) – 4:26 (Re-issue Bonus Track)
9. "28 Years" – 2:28
10. "Reaching for John Dowland" – 8:46
11. "Boxgrove Man" – 7:23
12. "The Shipping Forecast" – 10:14
13. "Right to the End of the World Tra-La" – 2:03
14. "Fell Asleep" – 3:59

Tracks 3-7 are grouped as For Autumn (Parts 1-5) and tracks 12-14 as For Autumn (Parts 6-8).

Personnel

• Martin Read – lead vocals
• Gregory Spawton – guitars, backing vocals, additional keyboards
• Tony Müller – keyboards, piano
• Andy Poole – bass, backing vocals, additional keyboards
• Steve Hughes – drums, percussion

Guest musicians

• Ken Bundy – backing vocals

References

1. Web site: English boys wondering how to play our old songs. bigbigtrain.blogspot.com.