This was released as a single before the album, at the end of 1979. A strong, emotional, incredible ballad that showed us all that Jimmy Barnes could really sing. ' Choirgirl' (My album has the title as one word, my cassette and the greatest hits albums as two, but I'll stick with the album.) A ballad. This song has a groove to it and some wonderful guitar playing. It is a bit of a departure from the previous Cold Chisel albums, but this sort of difference is why East is regarded as one of their very best. As a song, it has similarities in sound to what would become Ian Moss' Matchbook album at the end of the 80s. ' Never Before' I was never really sure what this song was about, but it does seem to be a guy trying to calm a woman in the only way he knows how – not very well. This song is about a guy who looks at what others have and he doesn't, and decides that maybe breaking the law is the way to get what he wants, because " No amount of work's gonna buy my way to freedom…" But this song pounds along like the rocker it is. They have something to say a lot of the time and are so well written.
One thing about classic Australian rock music (and continues to this day look at The Smith Street Band's latest) is that the lyrics tend not to be standard, boring lyrics. ' Standing On The Outside' The album opens with a fast-paced track, a slice of pure Australian pub rock.
I borrowed a friend's CD a few years ago and it had three extra tracks on it, but I will stick with the vinyl version for this because that is the version we bought and loved forty years ago. Why can't the rest of the world see that?Īll right, I own this album on both cassette and vinyl. Chisel have released more consistent albums than Kiss they've never released a St Anger like Metallica. How can that be? When Limp Bizkit has an international following, when Nickelback, that perennial joke of modern music sells millions of albums, why aren't Cold Chisel regarded as stalwarts of rock? Yes, I know, they sing about things that are uniquely Australian, but why should that matter? Especially in this day and age? I do not understand it. One? What? Same for Midnight Oil! And then there are bands like Cold Chisel who do not have a hit outside of their home country.
The Divinyls are known as a one-hit-wonder in the USA. I do not understand how some brilliant bands from Australia do not make it overseas. There are still songs that, if I put them on the jukebox at the local hotel, would have people singing along.Ī brief rant, if I may. There are still songs that get played on FM radio. But here's the thing: There are songs on this album that still sound fresh and excellent today. One of the greatest Australian rock albums ever released, one of the finest examples of pub rock with a commercial edge ever recorded, and it was released forty years ago.
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