''One Big Day'' is the third album by the American band Face to Face, released in 1988. It was produced by

Anton Fier Anton Fier (June 20, 1956 – September 14, 2022) was an American drummer, producer, composer, and bandleader. Family Fier, known as Tony, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ruthe Marie Fier and Anton J. Fier Jr., a former Marine and electrician. ...

. The group disbanded shortly after the album's release.

Critical reception

The ''

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'' deemed the album "flat out good," noting that the band had shifted from "electrobeat pop to country-flavored rock." ''

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'' wrote that "the songs are smart, the arrangements are countrypolitan with a metallic glint, and aurieSargent meets them with a warm clarion call that's often multi-tracked." ''

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...

'' opined that in a "misuse of talent, Syd Straw and Bernie Worrell contribute to the tunefully bland proceedings."

Track listing

All songs written by

Laurie Sargent Laurie Sargent is best known as a songwriter and vocalist in the 1980s and 1990s. She was active in the city of Boston. Around 2008, she and her long-term partner, drummer Billy Conway, moved to Montana, where they began raising food on an organ ...

and Angelo Petraglia except as indicated. #"As Forever as You" #"Change in the Wind" (Petraglia) #"A Place Called Home" #"Never Had a Reason" (Sargent, Petraglia, Stuart Kimball) #"The Day I Was Born" (Petraglia) #"She's a Contradiction" #"I Believe in You" #"Ever Since Eve (Blood Gone Bad)" #"Some Stories" (Petraglia) #"Grass Is Greener"

References

Face to Face (new wave band) albums 1988 albums Mercury Records albums {{1980s-album-stub