Giant (The Woodentops album)

Giant
Studio album by
The Woodentops
ReleasedJune 1986
Recorded1985
StudioThe Roundhouse, Camden; Power Plant Studios, Willesden
GenreIndie rock
Length45:42
LabelRough Trade
ProducerBob Sargeant
The Woodentops chronology
Giant
(1986) 		Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway
(1988)

Giant is the debut album by British rock band the Woodentops.

The album reached No. 35 on the UK Albums Chart, spending 4 weeks on the chart.[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Record Mirror4/5[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Smash Hits9+3⁄5/10[5]
Sounds[6]
The Village VoiceB[7]

Giant featured in the 1986 end of year critics polls in the NME and Melody Maker at numbers 36 and 16 respectively.[8]

In the 1992 Rolling Stone Album Guide, J. D. Considine wrote: "Giant refines the band's sound, fleshing out the arrangements with occasional splashes of color ... but never messes with its essential energies. It's the writing that carries the album, though, thanks to infectious numbers like 'Love Train,' 'History' and 'Love Affair with Everyday Living'".[4] AllMusic critic David Cleary deemed Giant the Woodentops' best album and said that it "explores a wide range of variations on the band's signature manic pop style, here adding occasional marimba, trumpet, accordion, and strings to the mix", also praising its "utterly inspired" production.[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rolo McGinty.

  1. "Get It On"
  2. "Good Thing"
  3. "Give It Time"
  4. "Love Train"
  5. "Hear Me James"
  6. "Love Affair with Everyday Living"
  7. "So Good Today"
  8. "Shout"
  9. "History"
  10. "Travelling Man"
  11. "Last Time"
  12. "Everything Breaks"

Personnel

The Woodentops
  • Rolo McGinty – vocals, guitar
  • Frank de Freitas – bass, voice
  • Simon Mawby – guitar, voice
  • Benny Staples – drums, voice
  • Alice Thompson – keyboards, voice

with:

References

  1. ^ "Woodentops". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b Cleary, David. "Giant – The Woodentops". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  3. ^ Culp, Nancy (28 June 1986). "The Woodentops: Giant". Record Mirror. p. 20.
  4. ^ a b Considine, J. D. (1992). "Woodentops". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. p. 786. ISBN 0-679-73729-4.
  5. ^ Patterson, Sylvia (18 June – 1 July 1986). "The Woodentops: Giant". Smash Hits. Vol. 8, no. 13. p. 56.
  6. ^ Barron, Jack (28 June 1986). "Ogre and Out". Sounds. p. 18.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (28 October 1986). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Melody Maker Lists". Rocklist.net. Archived from the original on 16 February 2006. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
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