Without the Aid of a Safety Net

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Without the Aid of a Safety Net
Big Country - Without the Aid of a Safety Net.jpg
Live album by
Big Country
ReleasedMay 1994
Recorded29 December 1993
Genre
LabelCompulsion
ProducerBig Country
Big Country chronology
The Buffalo Skinners
(1993) 		Without the Aid of a Safety Net
(1994) 		Radio 1 Sessions
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3.5/5 stars[1]

Without the Aid of a Safety Net is the first live album by the Scottish band Big Country, released in 1994.[1] It contains a portion of the tracks from a concert at The Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, and was recorded on 29 December 1993. The full concert was released in 2005, labelled as 2CD Expanded Edition: The Complete Concert. This version features eight tracks not on the original release.

In June 1994, the album peaked at No. 35 in the UK Albums Chart.[2]

Track listing[]

  1. "Harvest Home" (3:27)
  2. "Just a Shadow" (3:33)
  3. "13 Valleys" (5:04)
  4. "The Storm" (4:51)
  5. "Chance" (3:44)
  6. "Look Away" (4:20)
  7. "What Are You Working For" (4:00)
  8. "Steeltown" (5:38)
  9. "Ships" (6:06)
  10. "Wonderland" (5:54)
  11. "In a Big Country" (6:21)[1]

The cassette and CD releases include these additional tracks:

  • "Peace in Our Time" (3:20)
  • "Long Way Home" (6:01)
  • "Lost Patrol" (6:10)

2005 release[]

All tracks written by Stuart Adamson, Tony Butler, Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezicki, unless stated otherwise.

Disc one[]

  1. "Introduction"
  2. "Harvest Home"
  3. "Peace in Our Time"
  4. "Just a Shadow"
  5. "13 Valleys" (Adamson)
  6. "Winter Sky"* (Adamson, Watson)
  7. "The Storm"
  8. "Chance"
  9. "Tracks of My Tears"* (William Robinson, Marvin Tarplin, Warren Moore)
  10. "Rockin' in the Free World"* (Neil Young)
  11. "All Go Together"* (Adamson, Watson)
  12. "We're Not in Kansas"* (Adamson)
  13. "Look Away" (Adamson)
  14. "What Are You Working For" (Adamson)
  15. "Steeltown"

Disc two[]

  1. "Stuart and the Audience"
  2. "Ships" (Adamson, Watson)
  3. "Wonderland"
  4. "Long Way Home" (Adamson)
  5. "Alone" (Adamson)
  6. "In a Big Country"
  7. "The Audience - Encore"
  8. "Lost Patrol"
  9. "(Hey Hey My My) Out of the Blue (Into the Black")* (Neil Young)
  10. "Fields of Fire"*[1]

All tracks marked (*) were previously unreleased.

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Without the Aid of a Safety Net - Big Country | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. 29 December 1993. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  2. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 56–7. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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