Big Trash

Artist: Thompson Twins
Label: Warner Bros / Ada
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075992592123
EAN: 0075992592123
ASIN: B000005JAU

Release Date: 1989-09-12

Big Trash

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Tracks:

Sugar Daddy
Queen Of The U.S.A.
Bombers In The Sky
This Girl's On Fire
T.V. On
Big Trash
Salvador Dali's Car
Rock This Boat
Dirty Summer's Day
Love Jungle
Wild

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Customer Reviews:

Appropriately titled.......2006-08-10

It seems as if "Big Trash" has a cult reputation, and since it wasn't a big hit, the fans of the album are usually longtime fans of the band. I have to admit that I don't see it. According to interviews and press releases, Warner Brothers signed on Tom and Alannah to make "the kind of record they'd always wanted to make", and this was the result. If this was their dream record, then thank god some outside force must have been there to help shape their classic 80s albums.

In terms of production, arrangement and sheer craft, this album is exquisite. Listening to it on headphones is very cool, and you can tell they put a lot of creative ideas into the way they recorded it.

The songs, on the other hand, have the fatal "Close to the Bone" syndrome. I say that because "CTTB", aside from a few quality gems, was riddled with unbelievably bland cliches and lyrics that evaporated the moment they were out of Tom Bailey's mouth. The tracks on "Big Trash" fare no better, with about half the record coming off as a compilation of well-produced but boring B-sides.

It is not all bad. "Sugar Daddy" is nearly as good as anything else the Thompson Twins ever recorded; if the verses don't engage the listener in quite the same way as the golden hits of the mid-80s, that killer chorus and the very funky groove glosses it right over. "Queen of the USA" is another keeper, and even the awkwardly worded "Bombers in the Sky" sounds like good stuff when it's playing--although you have to wonder, wasn't 1989 a little late for songs about nuclear doom?

Then there are songs like the title track, which attempts to engage us with a chorus that vamps "Big trash, ooooo big trash...people payin' hard cash, yeah yeah, for big trash." Uh huh. There's also a song with a great title called "Salvador Dali's Car", which is literally nothing more than a great title. The whole album is this way; the trippy "psychedelic" lyrics are about as interesting as listening to someone tell you for 45 minutes all about the weird dream they had last night--you smile and nod while they ramble on, but you really don't care and you can't wait until they just shut up. It's like they made up the words to half of this stuff at the last minute and just let it fly. It's a little disconcerting, because a lot of times the music and production are so seductive that you get drawn in, but the nonsense lyrics don't hold you.

Best overlooked album of 1989.......2005-12-02

I'll say one thing about these Thompson Twins,they are good at creating mood with manipulating synthesizers to their advantage.The album in classic Thompson Twins,part rock,part dance.Overall its very plush and sounds like its full of MTV hits you've never heard.
It's late 1989 release didn't help it because most potential buyers
of the lp were by then in college experimenting with underground.
Great creepy-sounding title track.

TT- BIG TRASH.......2004-08-08

THIS IS THE TT ALBUM THAT SHOULD HAVE MADE THE TRANSITION FROM 80'S BAND TO JUST A GREAT BAND. UNFORTUNATLY IT DIDN'T. THERE ARE SOME GREAT SONGS ON HERE. SUCH AS "BOMBERS IN THE SKY" - AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY IT CAME OUT DURING THE GULF WAR? BUT I DO REMEMBER HEARING IT IN EVERY CLUB BACK IN '91. ANOTHER GREAT SONG HERE IS "THIS GIRLS ON FIRE"- WHICH I THINK SHOWCASES TOM BAILY'S GREAT VOCALS. "SUGAR DADDY", THE ONLY HIT SINGLE OFF THIS ALBUM IS YOUR BASIC CATCHY QUIRKY TT SONG. TO THIS DAY, I STILL LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM. BOY, DO I MISS THE THOMPSON TWINS.

Only Queer is better.......2004-03-15

This CD is really good. It's stayed in my rotation for years. It's the next best Thompson Twins CD (I own or have owned them all). Queer is best and Quick Kick and Side Step would be a distant third. They transformed into Babble after this CD and both Ether and The Stone are up in the same class as Queer and Big Trash.

this one deserves more praise than it gets..........2001-07-20

"Big Trash" -- though not the Twins' best work, was a much-improved follow up to the disappointing "Close to the Bone". This CD began the transformation of Tom & Alannah actually pushing aside the record companies and popularity, and beginning to record music they enjoyed. From the catchiness & fun of the top 40 hit "Sugar Daddy", the guitar driven "Bombers in the Sky" (which cleverly sampled "Kamikaze" from their "Side Kicks" album, and used briefly in the movie Gremlins 2), the soft-core eroticism of the title track, to the exuberant bounciness of "Salvador Dali's Car" and "Wild" -- this album shows the Twins' having fun, relying less on keyboards, and returning to their guitar-based roots. Even tossing in a special appearance by Deborah Harry, who is a hoot on "Queen of the U.S.A.".

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