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Subject: Anyone remember the band Big Pig?
Written By: SpaceHog on 01/04/08 at 2:55 pm
they released one song in 1988, and that was breakaway. The band was from Australia
Subject: Re: Anyone remember the band Big Pig?
Written By: gibbo on 01/04/08 at 3:46 pm
they released one song in 1988, and that was breakaway. The band was from Australia
I remember a video clip from the Eighties of Big Pig. Strangely, I don't remember the song but the rather group name......I do remeber I thought they were a good sounding band (a female lead, I think). The song must have been Breakaway as that's all I could find on my searches.
Subject: Re: Anyone remember the band Big Pig?
Written By: whistledog on 01/05/08 at 11:54 am
I remember this song very well. Though it never broke the Top 40 in either the US or the UK, it was a Top 10 hit in both Australia and Canada
Subject: Re: Anyone remember the band Big Pig?
Written By: Midas on 01/05/08 at 6:39 pm
I gots the 12" single for "Breakaway". Good tune.
Subject: Re: Anyone remember the band Big Pig?
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/05/08 at 9:47 pm
Oh yeah, great band. I still have the "Bonk" album somewhere. "Breakaway" was a cool song, but my favorites were the album cuts "Iron Lung" and "Charlie." "Hungry Town" was a big hit in Australia but not in the U.S.
I thought Big Pig was cool because they were percussion-based and didn't use guitars. I like guitars, both acoustic and electric, but that instrument dominated pop music for over three decades. It was refreshing to see a band do something different. I wish Big Pig had been able to stay around longer.
"Bonk" went platinum in Australia and sold well around the world 1987-89. The follow-up album, "All You Lucky People" flopped, so I guess it really wasn't lucky. Maybe that had something to do with a premature split-up.