“Wonderland” by Big Country

"Wonderland" is the Big Country hit that never found a home on a studio album. It came out in Britain on 9 January 1984, in the gap between their first and second LPs, climbed to number 8 and gave the Anglo-Scottish band their third UK top 10. Steve Lillywhite produced it, and all four members share the writing credit: Stuart Adamson, who sings and plays guitar alongside Bruce Watson, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark Brzezicki.

It's the full-hearted Big Country charge, two guitars and a rhythm section pushing hard for the horizon. Americans got it on a four-song Mercury EP with "All Fall Together", "Angle Park" and "The Crossing", the video set the band playing in the woods, and every Big Country hits collection since has made room for it.

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