It is too bad that Big Country weren’t nearly as successful at bringing working-class passion and romance across the pond as U2 was. Like the Jam, perhaps too English/Scottish/Irish. It’s a wonder the Pogues or the Clash made any headway here. It’s always remarkable, I find, to watch video of a big drunken crowd pogo-ing to a band like this overseas, knowing the lyrics to every song – while here they garnered barely a ripple. RIP Stuart Adamson; you were one passionate Romantic.
