Giant Steps (The Boo Radleys album)

Giant Steps
Studio album by The Boo Radleys
Released 31 August 1993
Recorded First Protocol Studios, London; February 1993-March 1993
Genre Psychedelic pop, Britpop, shoegazing
Length 64:11
Label Creation CRECD 149
Producer Martin Carr, Tim Brown & Andy Wilkinson
The Boo Radleys chronology
Everything's Alright Forever
(1992)		 Giant Steps
(1993)		 Wake Up!
(1995)

Giant Steps is the third album by The Boo Radleys, released in 1993. The title is inspired by John Coltrane's album of the same name, and the record features an assortment of influences — their previous shoegazing sound backed by pop, reggae, noise pop and orchestral sounds.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
NME Magazine[2]

NME[3] and Select[4] named it as album of the year, and it was ranked as #1 in Fanning's Fab Fifty for that year. It reached the UK Top 20,[5] but did not spawn a Top 40 single. Reviewing the album's rerelease in 2008, Sic Magazine wrote, "For 64 minutes they were the greatest band on the planet."[6]

Track listing

Original release

All songs and lyrics written by Martin Carr, with music by The Boo Radleys.

  1. "I Hang Suspended" - 3:57
  2. "Upon 9th and Fairchild" - 4:50
  3. "Wish I Was Skinny" - 3:37
  4. "Leaves and Sand" - 4:25
  5. "Butterfly McQueen" - 3:28
  6. "Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce)" - 2:45
  7. "Thinking of Ways" - 3:48
  8. "Barney (...and Me)" - 4:42
  9. "Spun Around" - 2:31
  10. "If You Want It, Take It" - 2:47
  11. "Best Lose the Fear" - 4:12
  12. "Take the Time Around" - 4:07
  13. "Lazarus" - 4:38
  14. "One Is For" - 1:36
  15. "Run My Way Runway" - 2:20
  16. "I've Lost the Reason" - 5:17
  17. "The White Noise Revisited" - 5:02

2010 expanded edition

CD1 - Giant Steps
CD2 - Bonus disc 1
  1. "Lazy Day"
  2. "Vegas"
  3. "Feels Like Tomorrow"
  4. "Whiplashed"
  5. "Does This Hurt"
  6. "Boo! Forever"
  7. "Buffalo Bill"
  8. "Sunfly II: Walking With The Kings"
  9. "Rodney King (St Etienne Remix)"
  10. "As Bound As Tomorrow"
  11. "I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been Even Though I Know The Answer"
  12. "Peachy Keen Acoustic Version"
  13. "Furthur"
  14. "Crow Eye"
CD3 - Bonus disc 2
  1. "Tortoiseshell"
  2. "Zoom"
  3. "Cracked Lips, Homesick"
  4. "At The Sound Of Speed"
  5. "Let Me Be Your Faith"
  6. "Petroleum"
  7. "Lazarus (7" Version)"
  8. "Lazarus (Acoustic)"
  9. "(I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus)"
  10. "Lazarus (St Etienne Remix)"
  11. "Lazarus (Secret Knowledge Remix)"
  12. "Lazarus (Ultramarine Remix)"
  13. "Lazarus (Augustus Pablo Remix)"
  14. "Lazarus (12" Version)"

Personnel

The Boo Radleys

Additional musicians

Production

References

  1. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  2. ↑ Moody, Paul. http://www.booradleys.co.uk/giant_steps/press23.htm. Retrieved 11 May 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "1993 NME Albums". rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "1993 Albums". Select End Of Year Lists. rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  5. ↑ "Giant Step [sic]". chartstats.com. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  6. ↑ Spaceman, Brett (September 2011). "The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps, Deluxe Edition". sicmagazine.net. Retrieved 8 September 2011.

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