X - Under the Big Black Sun [Remastered]

Fat Possum Records and punk icons X team up to reissue newly remastered versions - courtesy of Jason Ward and Chicago Mastering - of four of the band's classic albums including Los Angeles (1980), Wild Gift (1981), Under The Big Black Sun (1982), and More Fun In The New World (1983). 

Under the Big Black Sun is the third studio album by American rock band X, and their major-label debut. It was released on Elektra Records in July 1982. The cover art illustration was drawn by Alfred Harris. Lyrically, the band broadened their perspective. No longer the punk scene's Raymond Chandler, writing of the squalor and chaos of Los Angeles, where their house was often a center of activity, the band instead looked inward. The lyrics focus on break-ups, death, and the nagging truth that all of the critical fawning had yet to add up to more tangible success (the wry "The Have Nots," which incorporates a slew of bars and one night stands the band had noted on their endless criss-crossing tours of the states).

• - SIDE 1 -
• 1 The Hungry Wolf - 3:45
• 2 Motel Room in My Bed - 2:32
• 3 Riding with Mary - 3:40
• 4 Come Back to Me - 3:43
• 5 Under the Big Black Sun - 3:23

• - SIDE 2 -
• 1 Because I Do - 2:21
• 2 Blue Spark - 2:06
• 3 Dancing with Tears in My Eyes - 2:20
• 4 Real Child of Hell - 2:59
• 5 How I (Learned My Lesson) - 2:12
• 6 The Have Nots - 4:44