The Bolshoi - Bigger Giants
Originally released as a mini-LP on Situation II Records (SITUM 15) in 1985. Ripped here from am expanded compact disc album released in 1990.1 Fly
2 Sliding Seagulls
3 Hail Mary
4 Giants
5 Happy Boy
6 By The River
7 Sob Story
8 Boxes
9 Holiday By The Sea
10 Amsterdam
11 Crosstown Traffic
12 Happy Boy (Long Version)
The Bolshoi - Friends
Ripped from a compact disc album released on Beggars Banquet Records (BEGA 76CD) in 1986 to high quality lossless flac audio.1 Away
2 Modern Man
3 Someones Daughter
4 Sunday Morning
5 Looking For A Life
6 Romeo In Clover (Call Girls)
7 Books On The Bonfire
8 Pardon Me
9 Fat And Jealous
10 Waspy
11 A Funny Thing...
I know I've used the hanging on the coat-tails of goth pun before, but no other band fits this as well as The Bolshoi. The original Giants EP (scattered here among these tracks) was rather good and they deserved some praise of the back of it. Beggars Banquet were being steered financially by major WEA Records at the time and everybody wanted to get on the soft-goth bandwagon. You can probably think of another few bands guilty of similar offences - all going a bit too polished and primed for the hit parade. Just how many times could they plunder Away ...or was it A Way and then AWay II?? Before I upset anybody of a sensitive goth nature, I actually like a lot of what The Bolshoi did and bought their records, it's just this sceptical old man making another scathing comment about eighties major label execs.
