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Peace In Our Time – album background
- Rating the album and placing it in the overall catalogue
- The sound of the album
- Setting the stage: Other hits at the time of release in 1988
Speakpipe from Steve Coulter.
- Setting the stage: The timeline of band activities in 1988
- The band’s Russian-based promo activities and shows
- The “Under Wraps”-tour, and early live versions of the PIOT songs
“Time For Leaving” – live version from the Under Wraps tour – Newcastle Mayfair, 13 Dec 1987.
- Dave Bates – quotes explaining the whole American plan
- “Peter Wolf 1” and “Peter Wolf 2”, and the confusion over the years
- Peter Wolf’s credentials as a producer, and the master plan to steer PIOT towards the sound he achieved on the Starship album “Knee Deep In Hoopla” (sample song: “Desperate Heart” from said album).
- The 28 demos they had to choose from
Speakpipe from Tim Eldred.
- The R.E.L. Tapes
- A Tom rant! How Dave Bates felt – incredibly – that the material that the band came up with during this time was lacking, and how this diluted the band.
Speakpipe from Warren Craigshead
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- Stuart Adamson’s 1996 liner notes for PIOT
- Short-term gamble vs. Long-term cost.
Speakpipe from Felicity Cooper
King of Emotion – song DEEP DIVE by Tom and Svein
- Memories of hearing the song for the first time, including Tom’s initial mockery and disowning of the song - until he (to his horror) discovered that it was Big Country.
- The change of attitude from the early days of staying away from blues and r’n’b.
- The great Mary Clayton.
- The search for the BC sound: The tiny e-bow section, the final part of the guitar solo
- The origins of the song: “Honky Tonk Woman” by The Rolling Stones, and “Stainsby Girls” by Chris Rea.
- A relationship song – looking at each other and wondering if things could still be.
- Stuart’s different way of singing and super-clear inflection on the album.
- The singing ladies, both on the album and on the tour, and the suitability of them on BC music.
- Is the song bad or just incredibly average? Svein has thoughts.
- If this is your favourite BC song, as some people have indicated in the past, are you a fan of the BC sound or are you just defending the song by making a stand?
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