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Big Trash by Thompson Twins
Big Trash is an album by Thompson Twins, released in 1989. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sugar Daddy”, on 2 lists with a best position of #55.
Big Trash, the Thompson Twins' seventh studio album, came out on Warner Bros. on 26 September 1989, with Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie producing it themselves and Steve Lillywhite handling two tracks. The Sheffield band had long since traded its new wave beginnings for glossy mainstream pop, and here the gloss gets a brasher, rockier edge.
"Sugar Daddy" was the hook that worked, a sly, bouncy single that climbed to number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 while barely scraping into the UK chart at 97. "Bombers in the Sky" sank without a trace. The album stalled at 143 on the Billboard 200 and missed the UK chart altogether, and a few years later the band renamed itself Babble.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Big Trash on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar Daddy | 2 | #55 | – | 1989 | |
| 2 | Bombers in the Sky | 1 | #70 | – | 1989 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.