The Big Express is the seventh studio album by XTC, originally released in 1984. it was one of XTC's harder-edged albums, in contrast to the pastoral Mummer and Skylarking which were released in sequence with it. The seventh track, 'I Bought Myself a Liarbird' is about their former manager, Ian Reid. Working titles considered for the album were: Coalface, Shaking Skinheads, and Bastard Son of Hard Blue Rayhead.