"King of Emotion" is a song by Scottish rock band Big Country, released in 1988 as the lead single from their fourth studio album Peace in Our Time.

[9] Upon its release as a single, William Shaw of Smash Hits noted, "Big Country used to be the group whose tunes sounded all Scottish due to having billions of bagpipe-like guitars on them.

"[12] Bill Coleman of Billboard wrote, "A new musical maturity is more than evident on this cleanly produced power chord rock piece of merit.

"[13] In his 2015 book The Top 40 Annual 1988, James Masterton noted, "Even two and a half decades later "King of Emotion" still has the capacity to annoy as it only takes one listen to realise just how much better it could have been.

"[14] In a retrospective review of the album, William Ruhlmann of AllMusic commented, "On songs like the "King of Emotion", Wolf sought to retain Big Country's heroic quality while adding the widescreen dramatic style and cheerleader choral approach of Starship's "We Built This City."