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Wreckless Eric
Big Smash (Reis) (Dlx)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Popsong - Wreckless Eric, Gosling
2. Tonight (Is My Night) - Wreckless Eric, Goulden
3. Too Busy - Wreckless Eric, Goulden
4. Broken Doll - Wreckless Eric, Goulden
5. Can I Be Your Hero? - Wreckless Eric, Goulden
6. Back in My Hometown - Wreckless Eric, Gosling
7. It'll Soon Be the Weekend - Wreckless Eric, Gosling
8. Strange Towns - Wreckless Eric, Gosling
9. Excuse Me - Wreckless Eric, Goulden
10. Break My Mind - Wreckless Eric, Laudermilk
11. Good Conversation - Wreckless Eric, Goulden
12. Out of the Blue - Wreckless Eric, Goulden
Track Listings (16) - Disc #2
1. Whole Wide World
2. Take the Cash (K.A.S. H)
3. Let's Go to the Pictures
4. Walking on the Surface of the Moon
5. Hit and Miss Judy
6. I Wish It Would Rain
7. Reconnez Cherie
8. Veronica
9. Brain Thieves
10. Semaphore Signals
11. I Need a Situation
12. The The Final Taxi [Live]
13. There Isn't Anything Else [Live]
14. A A Little Bit More [Live] [*]
15. Take the Cash (K.A.S. H) [Live] [Live][*]
16. I Need a Situation [Live] [Live][*]

CD Details

All Artists: Wreckless Eric
Title: Big Smash (Reis) (Dlx)
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Stiff Records UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 4/10/2007
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Hardcore & Punk, New Wave & Post-Punk
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
Other Editions: Big Smash
UPCs: 5055041822727, 827912060584

Synopsis

Album Description

Wreckless Eric Goulden was one of Stiff's earliest long-term signings, penning a deal with the nascent label in 1977. This two CD release features Eric's 1980 third album, Big Smash, on Disc One plus a second disc that is a compilation of hits and tracks off the first two albums. Effectively a label 'Best Of', this is the first ever release on CD, including the incredibly rare 'A Little Bit More' (recorded for the original album sessions) and two live Australian b-sides. All tracks have been digitally remastered and, as ever, Eric has provided a fairly off the wall commentary in his new sleeve notes. Stiff. 2007.

CD Reviews

When will there be a retrospective that does eric justice?

Jon Stratton | Perth, Australia | 06/25/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is the Wreckless Eric's third album plus the compilation from his first two albums originally released in the US in 1979 as Whole Wide World. According to Eric's website the album plus compilatiion were first released together in 1980. My gripe is that the compilation takes many more tracks from the second of Eric's releases than the first. The second album is much 'cleaner' and more 'professional' than the first and lacks much of the first's glorious idiosyncracy. In a word, Eric's first album was in the great tradition of English eccentricity--plus it had some great rock'n'roll on it and songs with wonderful hooks. Certainly the compilation includes the stand-outs 'Reconnez Cherie' and 'Whole Wide World' but the almost equally good, but weirder, 'Telephoning Home', 'Personal Hygiene', 'Grown Ups' and 'Waxworks' were left off, as was Eric's version of Ian Dury's 'Rough Kids'.

Don't get me wrong, it's great to have so much Wreckless Eric available on CD at last but, please, let's treat this great English eccentric rock'n'roller to the quality retrospective he deserves!"