Cold Chisel - Circus Animals
180 Gram Heavyweight Vinyl - 2016 Remaster
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Circus Animals is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band Cold Chisel, originally released in March 1982 via WEA / Warner.
Cold Chisel opened the '80s with their most widely accepted and artfully constructed album, East. Following it up was a tall order, but they did the trick admirably with Circus Animals. (A live album, Swingshift, was released in the period between the two studio discs.) A ten-song stew of the band's signature guitar-and-piano-driven ballads and rockers, it further confirmed Chisel's depth and breadth as a creative unit.
From the outset of Circus Animals, the boys come crashing in through the window like a bunch of rowdies with hell-raising on their minds, cranking out the guitar rock rottweiler "You Got Nothing I Want". Jimmy Barnes' wrote the song about the frustration of a recently completed U.S. tour that had imploded ingloriously. As he belts out the number, Barnes' voice sounds like a buzz saw blade that's flown loose and ripped through a bunch of parked cars.
Guitar star Ian Moss takes over the lead vocals for the second track, the up-tempo jangler-cum-thumper "Bow River", which tells a typical Chisel tale of a working-class battler who dreams of better things. Moss also chips in with a guitar solo that would take many better-known names from the axe-grinding fraternity back to school.
Other hightlights include "Houndog" (not to be confused with Leiber & Stoller's "Hound Dog"), a gripping, grueling riff-fest road song; the strip-club, tom-tom beat of the slinky "Numbers Fall"; the bent-halo ballad "When The War Is Over"; and the coup de grâce, the coke-frenzy-rock of the mini-epic "Letter To Alan", written for the band's deceased roadie, Alan Dallow (another hail-of-bullets solo from Moss).
Cold Chisel are a group acutely proud of their roots, and it shows in their songs. A band deserving of a much more prominent place on the world's rock and roll stage.
Check out the tracks: “You Got Nothing I Want”; “Forever Now” and “When The War Is Over”.
This 2016 remastered LP on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl, with reproduced original artwork is pressed in Australia.
(0602537904884)
Tracklisting:
|
Title |
Time |
A1 |
You Got Nothing I Want |
3:16 |
A2 |
Bow River |
4:23 |
A3 |
Forever Now |
4:26 |
A4 |
Taipan |
3:55 |
A5 |
Houndog |
5:04 |
B1 |
Wild Colonial Boy |
4:52 |
B2 |
No Good For You |
3:16 |
B3 |
Numbers Fall |
4:46 |
B4 |
When The War Is Over |
4:25 |
B5 |
Letter To Alan |
5:57 |
SKU | 0602537904884 |
Record Label | Cold Chisel |
Label / Model # | Universal |
Catalogue Number | CCLP005 |
Country | AU - Australia |
Release Date (Year) | 23 September 2016 |
Original Release Date (Year) | 01 March 1982 |
Barcode # | 0602537904884 |
Shipping Weight | 0.2950kg |
Shipping Width | 0.005m |
Shipping Height | 0.314m |
Shipping Length | 0.314m |
Shipping Cubic | 0.000493000m3 |
Type | New |
Format | Limited Edition LP Record, 180 Gram Heavyweight Vinyl, Inner Sleeve, Reissue, 2016 Remaster |
Vinyl Colour | Black |
Genre | Rock |
Genre | Hard Rock |
Genre | Classic Rock |
Format | VINYL LP |
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