The Big Express

The Big Express is the seventh studio album by XTC, originally released in 1984. it was one of XTC's harder-edged albums, in contrast to the pastoral Mummer and Skylarking which were released in sequence with it. The seventh track, I Bought Myself a Liarbird is about their former manager, Ian Reid. Working titles considered for the album were: Coalface, Shaking Skinheads, and Bastard Son of Hard Blue Rayhead.

Tracklisting:

1. Wake Up
2. All You Pretty Girls
3. Shake You Donkey Up
4. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
5. This World is Over
6. The Everyday Story of Smalltown
7. I Bought Myself a Liarbird
8. Reign of Blows
9. You're the Wish You Are I Had 
10. I Remember the Sun
11. Train Running Low on Soul Coal