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Big Big Train: The Underfall Yard | Extended Play Lounge Episode 58 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-19 23:03:28
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2024-06-04 21:54:02
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2026-06
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For our last Extended Play Lounge episode of 2023, I'm pleased to present my review of The Underfall Yard by Big Big Train. This is an album that I have and that I've played, but I've never "read-in" on the songs and listened all in order until now. And, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

If you're a fan of classic progressive rock, I know you'll enjoy this album. 

Thanks for all your support this year! I can't wait to get started again in the new year.

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Big Big Train: The Underfall Yard | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 58

Comments

Steve Campbell

BBT do remind me so much of Genesis, everybody in the band does what is needed for the good of the band, with no over the top solo's, they have times when they have the opportunity to do so but they don't and like particularly the early Genesis they have a very English feel. I love them to bits, Doug you will enjoy seeing them live.

Jason

Powerful.

Nick

Wonderful reaction to a fantastic album. I loved how you broke down the final section of Victorian Brickwork, and your closing comments totally nailed what is so great about this band.

Arrow2theACL

Great episode. Thanks for the heartfelt outro. I absolutely love the orchestration as well. Horns, organ, the cello and that mellotron in the background just gives me life.

Bill Coonley

Like the best of Yes or Genesis, BBT can take their listeners into worlds unknown. However, there seems to be a higher level of emotion in their playing and singing. I'm going to dig deeper into their catalog!

Philip Briddon

I think we're all very lucky. Prog did not pass away in the late 1970s. True, the audience is smaller these days but the quality of the music remains incredibly high. Artists like Big Big Train, Marillion, Steven Wilson, Neal Morse and many more still produce some outstanding works which are definitely worthy of attention. The Underfall Yard is one of the defining works of this era, I first discovered it in early 2010 and it has literally changed my musical direction ever since. A great reaction to an album which changed my world.

Andrew Marsh

I just started my journey to Big Big Train thanks to you, Doug. I've listened to Ingenius Devices, and I've spotted several Yes influences. But this album, I hear so much of Genesis. So much, in fact, that after Last Train, I was almost anticipating Squonk (from Trick of the Tail) as the next song. Love that mellotron! Looking forward to more BBT!

Anderson Davies

I would like to mention, that guest musician Dave Gregory later would become a constant member getting to play the the more tricky parts.

Anderson Davies

Dave Gregory had been long time guitarist of the band XTC, another very, very English band in the way they portrait people and things.

Ralph Darvill

Second time watching and listening to this. Not overly familiar with BBT, but liking what I've heard so far. Genesis should maybe have signed up Mr Longdon as vocalist for their farewell tour? Such a sad loss. I live the inclusion of Dave Gregory on the album- Dave is from Swindon, which was home to the locomotive works of the Great Western Railway, thus inextricably linked to Brunel and the railway. There's a beautifully elegiac song by XTC called "Red Brick Dreams" which is about the end of the steam era in Swindon.