Giant Steps (The Boo Radleys album)


Giant Steps is the third album by The Boo Radleys, released in 1993. The title is inspired by John Coltrane's album of the same name, and the record features an assortment of influences — their previous shoegazing sound backed by pop, reggae, noise pop and orchestral sounds.

Reception

NME and Select named it as album of the year, and it was ranked as #1 in Fanning's Fab Fifty for that year. It reached the UK Top 20, but did not spawn a Top 40 single. Reviewing the album's rerelease in 2008, Sic Magazine wrote, "For 64 minutes they were the greatest band on the planet."
The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
In 2016, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 25 in its list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time", with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing:
The following year, Pitchfork also ranked it at number 40 on its list of "The 50 Best Britpop Albums".

Track listing

All songs and lyrics written by Martin Carr.

Original release

2010 expanded edition

CD1 – Giant Steps
CD2 – Bonus disc 1
  1. "Lazy Day"
  2. "Vegas"
  3. "Feels Like Tomorrow"
  4. "Whiplashed"
  5. "Does This Hurt? - Edit"
  6. "Boo! Forever"
  7. "Buffalo Bill"
  8. "Sunfly II "
  9. "Rodney King "
  10. "As Bound As Tomorrow"
  11. "I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been Even Though I Know The Answer"
  12. "Peachy Keen"
  13. "Further"
  14. "Crow Eye"
CD3 – Bonus disc 2
  1. "Tortoiseshell"
  2. "Zoom"
  3. "Cracked Lips, Homesick"
  4. "At The Sound Of Speed"
  5. "Let Me Be Your Faith"
  6. "Petroleum"
  7. "Lazarus "
  8. "Lazarus "
  9. " Touchdown Jesus"
  10. "Lazarus "
  11. "Lazarus "
  12. "Lazarus "
  13. "Lazarus "
  14. "Lazarus "