Big Sounds of the Drags is the second album by electronic music producer Junkie XL.
"Check Your Basic Groove" has an unusual introduction. This portion begins with the sounds of various farm animals (cows for example), then more layers of sound effects are added (including a supercar) until the song segues to the music. The song that follows the opening track, "Synasthesia", lyrically has nothing to do about the topic of the same name.
"Future in Computer Hell (Part 2)" is intended to be a sequel to "Future in Computer Hell", a track featured on his 1997 debut album, Saturday Teenage Kick (1997).
"Action Radius" (written by Silver Surfering Rudeboy) has the same ending incorporated into the outroduction of "Check Your Basic Groove". The 2000 reissue of the album has a different tracklisting; "Disco 2000", "Bon Voyage" and a reintrepation of "Power of Big Slacks" were added, while "Action Radius" and "Dance USA" were excluded. At this move, "Check Your Basic Groove" had the ending of "Action Radius" added.
The reprise of "Power of Big Slacks" sounds different from its original form, and lasts 8 minutes and 34 seconds longer.
Among the packaging of Big Sounds of the Drags is the front cover, which was a digitally mainpulated image of a blue muscle car landing to the ground admist a fire behind it. Besides the front cover, a sticker pasted on early copies of the album suggested that Junkie XL's remix of Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" (used in promotion of a Nike, Inc. advertisement campaign) was not created for all editions of the album. It read:
From the remix team of "A Little Less Conversation" as featured in the Nike commercial. (Not included on this album)
The lyrics were printed out of order, making listeners confused of its content.
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