The Seer (album)

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The Seer
The Seer cover
Studio album by Big Country
Released July, 1986
Recorded Early 1986
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 46:46
Label Mercury
Producer(s) Robin Millar
Professional reviews
Big Country chronology
Steeltown
(1984)		 The Seer
(1986)		 Peace in Our Time
(1988)


The Seer is the third studio album by Scottish band Big Country, released in 1986. (see 1986 in music). This album was set with very traditional Scottish musical settings, reminiscent of The Crossing back in 1983, with the music being also more of a bold setting as compared to that of The Crossing and Steeltown. Kate Bush worked on the title song in a beautiful duet with lead singer and lyricist Stuart Adamson. This albums main Single of Look Away was for Big Country their biggest Hit in the UK, with it reaching no 7 on the UK Bilboard Charts. The album cover was set in a semi computer graphic design of the 1950s, when Steeltown had a cover that was designed after the Propaganda in Europe at the time in dealing with Labour and Industry in the 1940s during the Second World War.

The track of "The Red Fox" was based on Kidnappped by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the so called Appin Murder of one Colin Campbel, who was a Tory who was hated by many in Scotland around 1752.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Look Away" (Adamson) – 4:23
  2. "The Seer"( featuring Kate Bush) (Adamson, Watson) – 5:26
  3. "The Teacher" (Adamson) – 4:05
  4. "I Walk the Hill" (Adamson, Butler) – 3:30
  5. "Eiledon" (Adamson)
  6. "One Great Thing" (Adamson, Butler)
  7. "Hold the Heart" (Adamson)
  8. "Remembrance Day" (Adamson)
  9. "The Red Fox" (Adamson)
  10. "Sailor" (Adamson)

[edit] Personnel

Big Country

Additional personnel

  • Kate Bush - backing vocals
  • Kingston Bodham - backing vocals
  • Dave Duncan - backing vocals
  • June Miles - backing vocals
Big Country
Stuart Adamson | Mark Brzezicki | Tony Butler | Bruce Watson
Discography
Albums: The Crossing | Wonderland EP | Steeltown | The Seer | Peace in Our Time | No Place Like Home | The Buffalo Skinners | Why the Long Face? | Restless Natives & Rarities | Bon Apetit (EP)| In The Scud (EP) | Driving To Damascus | Big Country: The Nashville Album | Undercover | Rarities II | One In A Million | Greatest 12 Inch Hits | John Waynes Dream (US Remaster)| Rarities III | Rarities IV | Rarities V | Rarities VI | Rarities VII | The Buffalo Skinners (The US Remaster) | Rarities VIII
Live and Compilations: Without the Aid of a Safety Net | Radio 1 Sessions | BBC Live in Concert | Eclectic | King Biscuit Flower Hour | Brighton Rock | Come Up Screaming | Das Fest - Live In Germany 95 | Live in Cologne | Without the Aid of a Safety Net - The Complete Concert
Singles "Harvest Home" | "Fields Of Fire" | "In A Big Country" | "Chance" | "Wonderland" | "East Of Eden" | "Where The Rose Is Sown" | "Just A Shadow" | "Look Away" | "The Teacher" | "One Great Thing" | "King of Emotion" | "Peace In Our Time" | "The One I Love"
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