Cold Chisel Circus Animals (Vinyl, WEA Records, 1982) ****
Jimmy Barnes is the perfect aussie front man too - his stage introductions are brilliant - introducing Don't Let Go, Knocking On Heaven's Door and Four Walls (Here's a ballad after ripping through My Turn To Cry at breakneck speed) are highlights in themselves!
Where do they all belong? Best aussie rock band of the last four decades! Better than AC/DC? You bet!! There's a lot more Cold Chisel to come on CD - when they reunited they delivered some impressive albums but you'll need to wait for them to roll around in the countdown.
Cold Chisel The Barking Spiders Live: 1983 (Vinyl, WEA Records, 1984) ***
Genre: Australian pop/rock
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Side three of Swingshift is amazingly fab and shouldn't be split up so...Standing on the Outside (Barking Spiders Live).
Gear costume: Khe Sanh (Swingshift)
Active compensatory factors: I first heard Swingshift at Roger Marbeck's house while we were digging out his basement. It was the perfect soundtrack! It's pretty much a Cold Chisel Greatest Hits line up of songs with all my favourites included in the package.
Gear costume: Khe Sanh (Swingshift)
Active compensatory factors: I first heard Swingshift at Roger Marbeck's house while we were digging out his basement. It was the perfect soundtrack! It's pretty much a Cold Chisel Greatest Hits line up of songs with all my favourites included in the package.
The Barking Spiders package (best bootleg looking cover I've seen) is less cohesive than the Swingshift double, although it includes great versions of early eighties Cold Chisel classics (Forever Now, You Got Nothing I Want).
Both of those tracks are included on their 1982 studio album, Circus Animals. It's their best studio album before their break up (Twentieth Century was not a good album to end on).
Where do they all belong? Best aussie rock band of the last four decades! Better than AC/DC? You bet!! There's a lot more Cold Chisel to come on CD - when they reunited they delivered some impressive albums but you'll need to wait for them to roll around in the countdown.
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