Following the recent announcement of the Feb 24 release of THE GLORY DAYS OF AUSSIE PUB ROCK, VOLUME 2, Festival Records and Warner Music Australia are pleased to now announce the final track listing of the 4CD set and downloadable release. Check it out below!
The follow up to one of the best-selling Australian compilations of 2016 (and very clearly the best one to feature solely Australian content), GLORY DAYS 2 includes another 90-odd tracks of classic Aussie rock from the 70s, 80s and into the 90s. It features different tracks from the much the same list of big names as last time and much much more. And it’s available for pre-order now.
That list of big names is massive. Cold Chisel, The Angels, Men at Work, Australian Crawl, the Sports, the Church, Divinyls, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Mental As Anything, Split Enz, Sunnyboys, Screaming Jets, Rose Tattoo, The Radiators, Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls, the Dingoes, Ian Moss, Goanna, Dragon, Flowers, Noiseworks, Hunters & Collectors, Skyhooks (their lone post-Shirl hit ‘Over the Border’), Baby Animals, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, TMG, Dragon, Dave Warner’s From the Suburbs, Choirboys, Richard Clapton, the Saints, the Reels, Mi-Sex, Mondo Rock, Models, The Badloves, Matt Finish, V Spy V Spy, Uncanny X-Men, Warumpi Band, Weddings Parties Anything, Russell Morris, Black Sorrows; all these and more are represented by tracks that not only shook pub walls back in the day but pumped out of transistor radios and, in most cases, Sunday night ABC TV screens too.
Also featured are plenty of big names who weren’t included last time, including the Hoodoo Gurus, Jim Keays with his 1975 remake of ‘Undecided’, Ol’55, Kings of the Sun, Daddy Cool (with the rare 1975 comeback single ‘All I Wanna Do Is Rock’), Do-Re-Mi with ‘Man Overboard’, Little River Band, Mother Goose, Kevin Borich Express, Rose Tattoo slide guitarist Peter Wells’ brilliant ‘Between the Saddle and the Ground’, Little Heroes with ‘One Perfect Day’, indigenous reggae-rock trailblazers No Fixed Address with ‘Black Man’s Rights’, Vika & Linda rocking up a storm on a song that Paul Kelly wrote but never recorded with the Dots’ ’I Didn’t Know Love Could Be Mine’, Sydney ‘80s faves Flaming Hands, the Riptides and Dynamic Hepnotics, Melbourne mainstays Nick Barker & the Reptiles, Mike Rudd & the Heaters and the Spaniards (featuring Billy Miller & Mick Pealing), and glam-era pub favourites Hush, Taste and Supernaut.
Other noteworthy tracks include rare singles by Stars (1976’s ‘With A Winning Hand’, which never appeared on an album) and post-Ol’55 power poppers the Breakers who featured in the original ‘Puberty Blues’ movie, and the first ever reissue of anything by Gary Young & the Rocking Emus (the great single ‘Rockabilly Heaven’, featuring the great Daddy Cool/Jo Jo Zep drummer together with late fellow DC members Wayne Duncan and Ross Hannaford). There’s also the rare but great 1971 single ‘If You Got It’ by legendary Adelaide group Fraternity, featuring Bon Scott on vocals. The collection ends with the Party Boys and John Swan – John had replaced Bon in Fraternity – who together give us an idea of what AC/DC might’ve sounded like if Swanee had also replaced Bon (or Brian) in AC/DC, with a ripping ‘High Voltage’.
As per last time, the collection features new cover artwork by legendary Aussie poster and album cover artist Ian McCausland, detailed liner notes and some great images.
To be released at the same unbelievable price as the first volume, THE GLORY DAYS OF AUSSIE PUB ROCK VOL.2 will be much anticipated by the legions of fans of classic Aussie Rock out there, and an instant party starter for anyone who trod the sticky carpet and inhaled the sweat, smoke and stale beer fumes back in the day.
THE GLORY DAYS OF AUSSIE PUB ROCK, VOLUME 2 is out on Festival Records through Warner Music Australia Feb 24.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
1 Cold Chisel – You Got Nothing I Want
2 The Angels – Shadow Boxer
3 Divinyls – I’ll Make You Happy
4 Split Enz – I See Red
5 The Sports – Strangers On A Train
6 Mental As Anything – Come Around
7 Sunnyboys – Happy Man
8 Choirboys – Boys Will Be Boys
9 Rose Tattoo – One Of The Boys
10 Dave Warner’s From The Suburbs – Nothing To Lose
11 Skyhooks – Over The Border
12 The Motivators – After The Fall
13 The Ferrets – This Night
14 Models – Atlantic Romantic
15 The Aliens – Follow That Girl
16 The Radiators – Summer Holiday
17 Matt Finish – CIA (Live at PACT Theatre 1981)
18 Kevin Borich Express – No Turning Back
19 Stars – With A Winning Hand
20 Dragon – Get That Jive
21 Richard Clapton – Hearts On The Nightline
22 Ian Moss – Tucker’s Daughter
23 The Black Sorrows – The Chosen Ones
24 Moving Pictures – Winners
Disc 2
1 Baby Animals – Early Warning
2 Heroes – I Can’t Go On
3 Dallimore – We Are The Kids
4 Taste – Boys Will Be Boys
5 Hush – Glad All Over
6 Supernaut – Unemployed
7 Kings Of The Sun – Bottom Of My Heart
8 The Screaming Jets – Shivers
9 Nick Barker & The Reptiles – Another Me
10 Painters and Dockers – Die Yuppie Die
11 James Freud & Berlin – Enemy Lines
12 Flowers – Sister
13 Noiseworks – No Lies
14 Peter Wells – Between The Saddle And The Ground
15 Buster Brown – Roll Over Beethoven
16 Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs – Sick ‘n’ Tired (1973 Version)
17 Jim Keays’ Southern Cross – Undecided
18 Daddy Cool – All I Wanna Do Is Rock
19 Ol’ 55 – C’mon Let’s Do It
20 T.M.G. – Gonna Be Somebody
21 Mother Goose – Moonshine Lady
Disc 3
1 The Saints – Ghost Ships
2 The Church – The Unguarded Moment
3 Hoodoo Gurus – In The Wild
4 The Cockroaches – Hey What Now
5 The Riptides – Day Has Gone
6 Flaming Hands – The Edge
7 The Hitmen – Didn’t Tell The Man
8 Young Modern – Automatic
9 Mondo Rock – Searching For My Baby
10 Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls – To Her Door
11 No Fixed Address – Black Man’s Rights
12 Broderick Smith’s Big Combo – My Father’s Hands
13 Goanna – Razor’s Edge
14 The Badloves – Green Limousine
15 Fraternity (Feat. Bon Scott) – If You Got It
16 Gary Young & The Rocking Emus – Rockabilly Heaven
17 The Johnnys – Injun Joe
18 Warumpi Band – Stompin’ Ground
19 Vika & Linda – I Didn’t Know Love Could Be Mine
20 Weddings Parties Anything – Roaring Days
21 The Dingoes – Come On Down
22 Russell Morris & The Rubes – Walk Don’t Run
23 Little River Band – Help Is On Its Way
Disc 4
1 Men At Work – Be Good Johnny
2 Australian Crawl – The Boys Light Up
3 Hunters & Collectors – The Slab
4 Boom Crash Opera – Great Wall
5 Dynamic Hepnotics – Soul Kind Of Feeling
6 Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons – All I Wanna Do
7 The Dugites – In Your Car
8 The Reels – Love Will Find A Way
9 Do Re Mi – Man Overboard
10 v.Spy v.Spy – Hardtimes
11 The Spaniards – I Want to Live in a House
12 Mike Rudd & The Heaters – Talking to the Television
13 The Breakers – When I’m On TV
14 The Numbers – Five Letter Word
15 The Boys – Weoh Weoh Weoh
16 The Swingers – One Good Reason
17 The Kevins – Romeo Romeo
18 The Little Heroes – One Perfect Day
19 Uncanny X-Men – Still Waiting
20 Jimmy & The Boys – They Won’t Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me
21 Mi-Sex – Graffiti Crimes
22 The Party Boys (Feat. Swanee) – High Voltage
