Bigger Than America is the sixth album by the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 group Heaven 17

Heaven 17

Heaven 17 are an English synthpop band originating from Sheffield in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware , Ian Craig Marsh and Glenn Gregory...

, released in 1996. The album did not chart in the UK.

The album peaked at number one on Germany Alphabeat Redaktionscharts' Rock/Pop/Alternative Charts in November 1996. It was listed as number 6 on the Addicted To Noise's Writers Poll.

Track listing

1. "Dive" (4:30)
2. "Designing Heaven
   Designing Heaven
   "Designing Heaven" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's first single from the 1996 album Bigger Than America. It was written by all three members. The single was released and peaked at #128 in the UK although it didn't peak in the top 100...
   
   " (5:15)
3. "We Blame Love" (4:49)
4. "Another Big Idea" (4:57)
5. "Freak!" (4:09)
6. "Bigger Than America" (4:00)
7. "Unreal Everything" (4:10)
8. "The Big Dipper" (4:57)
9. "Do I Believe?" (4:57)
10. "Resurrection Man" (4:06)
11. "Maybe Forever" (4:42)
12. "An Electronic Prayer" (4:06)
13. "Designing Heaven - (Mies Van Der Rohe mix)" +
14. "Designing Heaven (Den Hemmel Designen) - (Gregorio remix)" +

Tracks marked with "+" are bonus tracks added to the other version of the CD album.