I maintained a Big Country fan site from 1997-2006. Click the thumbnail to see what it used to look like. I also managed the Big Country fan email list for a few years. If you’re looking for other Big Country fans, there’s still a moderately active discussion group at Yahoo.
The main thing worth preserving from my old site is the results of the online fan poll I conducted in 1997. To my knowledge it was the only fan poll ever done (not counting another one I did in 2005, but the results of that one were not as good – there were too many bogus entries).
Also worth mentioning:
- My list of links to other Big Country sites
- Post to Post Links II error: No term found with slug "big-country"
The 1997 Fan Poll
The Big Country fan poll was conducted via a web form that was open to the public for 3 weeks during the summer of 1997. A total of 134 people participated in one or more parts of the poll. There are 4 sets of rankings:
Analyses of the results in the first three of the above categories were conducted with weighted scales.
Studio Album Rankings
122 people provided rankings for some or all of the 8 studio albums that were available at the time (Driving to Damascus was released after the poll was done).
Rank | Album | Score |
---|---|---|
1. | The Crossing | 6.96 |
2. | Steeltown | 6.41 |
3. | The Seer | 5.35 |
4. | Wonderland | 4.60 |
5. | Buffalo Skinners | 4.58 |
6. | Why the Long Face | 3.72 |
7. | Peace In Our Time | 3.04 |
8. | No Place Like Home | 2.12 |
Live Album Rankings
107 people provided rankings for some or all of the 4 officially released live albums.
Rank | Album | Score |
---|---|---|
1. | Without the Aid of a Safety Net | 3.21 |
2. | King Biscuit Flower Hour | 2.71 |
3. | BBC Live | 2.27 |
4. | Eclectic | 2.20 |
Top 10 Songs
121 people participated in this part of the poll. The 10 most popular songs are listed below.
Rank | Song | Score |
---|---|---|
1. | Wonderland | 77.0 |
2. | In a Big Country | 69.6 |
3. | Fields of Fire | 65.2 |
4. | Just A Shadow | 64.8 |
5. | Chance | 62.2 |
6. | Where the Rose is Sown | 48.4 |
7. | The Storm | 44.0 |
8. | Steeltown | 40.0 |
9. | Restless Natives | 39.4 |
10. | Eiledon | 36.6 |
The Worst Song
105 people offered their opinion on what they think is the worst Big Country song ever created and commercially released. The songs that received 4 votes or more as the worst are listed in the table below.
Song | Votes |
---|---|
Beautiful People | 7 |
Flag Of Nations | 7 |
Balcony | 6 |
Charlotte | 5 |
Pink Marshmallow Moon | 5 |
Fly Like An Eagle | 4 |
King of Emotion | 4 |
Leap of Faith | 4 |
Other Big Country Sites
- The Official Big Country Web Site
- Yahoo Launch Groups: Big Country – fan discussion group
- BigCountryInfo.com – contains over 1,000 pages
- The bands Wikipedia page and discography
- myspace page for the band’s surviving trio – Brzezicki, Butler, Watson
- Big Country guitarist Bruce Watson’s web site
- Google Videos search results for Big Country videos
- Big Country Music Files – downloads of hard to find songs and interesting info
- Big Country Book of Lyrics
- Rolling Stone’s Album Reviews: