What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



A gift from a mate. Their third and their breakthrough album in the Australian homeland. Had not heard of them
before this. They became very big there, yet this is the only album that received any recognition in the states.
Made #171 on the Billboard chart. But how about 63 weeks on the Australian chart peaking at #2 and 5X platinum
there. Formed in 1973 in Adelaide as a heavy metal cover band. Changing their style they were signed by Warner in
'77, with their debut album to follow soon. First to albums eventually went gold on the strength of this one I
suppose. Fairly good album with nothing I didn't like and two love tracks. What I have is a 2011 collectors edition
re-release of the 1980 album. It also includes a dvd of a concert supporting the original release. Have not watched
the dvd yet. Singles were Choirgirl, Cheap Wine, and My Baby of which Choirgirl is my favorite, but Cheap Wine
fared the best at #8. Also love Ita which is about a real person who was a popular women's magazine publisher/tv
journalist at the time. Liner notes told me that. Always helpful to have some background information on a song. A
good album to have in a history of Australian music.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Standing On The Outside

Best Track - Choirgirl

Looking like a choirgirl
She's crying like a refugee
Looking like a choirgirl
She's crying like a refugee
One nurse to hold her
One nurse to wheel her down the corridors of heeling
Well I've been trying
But she's crying like a refugee

Loves me like a sister
Loves me like an only child
Loves me like a sister
She loves me like an only child
She's my connection
I'll hold on
And never, never, never let her down
'Cause she's alone
And she loves me like an only child

Suffer little children
Send that little child to me
All day the doctor
Handles his responsibility

Looking like a choirgirl
Crying like a refugee
Looking like a choirgirl
Crying like a refugee
She's my connection, yeah
I'll hold on
And never, never, never let her down
'Cause she's alone
And she's crying like a refugee

Looking like a choirgirl
She's crying like a refugee
Looking like a choirgirl
She's crying like a refugee
Yes she is

1) Standing On The Outside **
live - Cold Chisel - Standing On The Outside - Live 1982 - YouTube
2) Never Before **
3) Choirgirl ***
video - Cold Chisel - Choir Girl (1979) - YouTube
4) Rising Sun **
live - Cold Chisel - Rising Sun - Live 1982 - YouTube
5) My Baby **
video - Cold Chisel - My Baby (1980) - YouTube
6) Tomorrow **
audio - Tomorrow by Cold Chisel ^-^ - YouTube
7) Cheap Wine **
video - Cold Chisel - Cheap Wine (1980) - YouTube
8) Best Kept Lies **
9) Ita ***
live - Cold Chisel Ita - YouTube
10) Star Hotel **
ive - Cold Chisel - Star Hotel (1981) - YouTube
11) Four Walls - **
audio - Cold Chisel - Four Walls (with lyrics) - YouTube
12) My Turn To Cry **
ive - Cold Chisel - My Turn To Cry: TV Week Rock Awards 1981 - YouTube

3's - 2
2's - 10
1's - 0

Grade - 2.2

so many albums, so ittle time