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Infobox album | Name = Steeltown| Type = Studio album| Artist = Big Country | Cover = Big_Country_-_Steeltown.jpg| Released = October 29, 1984| Recorded = Polar Studios, Stockholm, Sweden and RAK Studios, London, England| Genre = Alternative rock New Wave (music)|New Wave Celtic Rock | Length = 47:54| Label = Mercury Records|Mercury | Producer = Steve Lillywhite | Last album = The Crossing (Big Country album)|The Crossing (1983)| This album = Steeltown (1984)| Next album = The Seer (album)|The Seer (1986)Album ratings|rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = Rating|3|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r1846|label="Big Country: Steeltown " |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |accessdate=date|2011-0-18|rev2 = Rolling Stone |rev2score = Rating|4|5cite journal |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bigcountry/albums/album/94209/review/5946119/steeltown |title=Big Country: Steeltown |first=Fred |last=Schruers |date=date|Jan 17, 1985 |magazine= Rolling Stone |issue=RS 439 |publisher=Wenner Media |issn=0035-791X |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20080613140236/ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bigcountry/albums/album/94209/review/5946119/steeltown |archivedate=date|2008-06-13 Steeltown is the second studio album by Scottish band Big Country . The album was recorded at ABBA 's Polar Studios in Stockholm with Steve Lillywhite producing. It was released on October 29, 1984, in the United States and 19 October 1984 in the UK .cite journal |url= http://books.google.com/books? id=MyQEAAAAMBAJ& lpg=PT2& dq=billboard& pg=PT3#v=onepage& q=& f=false |title=October Hot Album Releases |magazine= Billboard (magazine)|Billboard |date=date|October 6 1984 |issue=Vol. 96 No. 40 |issn=0006-2510 |accessdate=date|2011-09-18 It was released on compact audio disc|CD only in Germany, as well as remastered and reissued there.
Steeltown is the band's only UK number 1 album. Topping the chart for 1 week in October 1984. The title track Steeltown was written about the town of Corby , telling how many Scots went to work at the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks when it opened in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression , but later found themselves unemployed when the steelworks declined in the early 1980s. (Source: Melody Maker, 1984)
The 1996 reissue contains all of the B-sides from the album's single releases as well as the extended version of "Wonderland"
"East of Eden" was the only Top 20 single from the album, reaching #17 in the UK chart.
Track listing
All songs written by Stuart Adamson , Mark Brzezicki , Tony Butler (musician)|Tony Butler , and Bruce Watson (guitarist)|Bruce Watson *Written by Tony Butler (musician)|Tony Butler . # "Flame of the West" – 5:01 # "East of Eden" (Butler) – 4:29 # "Steeltown" – 4:39 # "Where the Rose Is Sown" – 4:58 # "Come Back to Me" – 4:35 # "Tall Ships Go" – 4:38 # "Girl with Grey Eyes" – 4:47 # "Rain Dance" – 4:19 # "The Great Divide" – 4:50 # "Just a Shadow" – 5:38 # "Bass Dance*" - 1:39 (Re-Issue Bonus) # "Belief In The Small Man" - 5:17 (Re-Issue Bonus) # "Prairie Rose" - 4:46 (Re-Issue Bonus) # "Wonderland (Extended) - 7:07 (Re-Issue Bonus) # "Winter Sky" - 3:16 (Re-Issue Bonus)
Personnel
Stuart Adamson – guitar , piano , Singing|vocals
Mark Brzezicki – Drum kit|drums , percussion instrument|percussion , vocals
Tony Butler (musician)|Tony Butler – bass guitar|bass , vocals
