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Cold Chisel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B000006XPJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,346 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #34 in Music > Imports > International

Track Listings

1. Standing on the Outside

2. Rising Sun

3. You Got Nothing I Want

4. No Sense

5. Misfits

6. Breakfast at Sweethearts

7. My Baby

8. Bow River

9. Choir Girl

10. Cheap Wine

11. Forever Now

12. Saturday Night

13. Flame Trees

14. Merry-Go-Round

15. Star Hotel

16. Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)

17. When the War Is Over

18. Khe Sanh

Editorial Reviews

Cold Chisel Represents What Aussie Pop Maven Jimmy Barnes Was Doing Before Embarking Upon a Solo Career. Contains the Hard Rocking, Adelaide, Australia Quintet's Signature Tunage, "Khe Sahn" and "Goodbye (Astrid Goddbye)" and Fourteen Songs More.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aussie's best kept secret...you MUST get this CD!, April 6, 2000

By 

Michael J Harrington (Phoenix, Arizona USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

I lived in Australia from 90-97, and had never heard of Chisel till I moved there. And what a pleasant shock it was when I found myself hearing this very CD (my first taste o'Chisel) and singing/stomping along on the first 'spin'. This band is the essence of Oz - raw power and emotion with simply great tunes to back them. Why this band never made it HUGE in the US is beyond me...but heck, forget that and get this CD for an unprecedented treat GREAT music (esp for parties). Barnesy and Mossy are one of the best songwriting teams ever! I have since gone back and bought everything this band has done to make sure I didn't 'miss a beat'!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic rager., January 9, 2000

By 

Rob Hosking - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

As a New Zealander I find this hard to say...but Cold Chisel is the best band to come out of Australasia. I have a travel tape of songs when I'm backpacking overseas and Chisel have several tracks, all of which are from here. The band is difficult to describe - not-quite-hard rock or heavy-metal, not-quite-blues. The best I can do is suggest - imagine if of Chuck Berry and Ray Charles met The Who on an Australian beach? Something almost like that. Lyrically the band is VERY Australian: cheerfully blunt, at times to the point of crudeness. That's offset by an often an acute intelligence and sensitivity in the lyrics, but this is disguised, at times heavily so (again, VERY Australian). All in all, a brilliant, feet on the ground rock album. Great for parties.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars America! BUY THIS ALBUM!, March 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

A complete travesty of justice that Cold Chisel never achieved international stardom.

They were one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever, and are Australia's best kept secret.

How else does one describe music that is so ingrained in one's society and culture that it performs the function of lullaby, anthem and catechism simultaneously?

Buy this album, and you will realise why the so-called 'legends' of rock should be mere footnotes to the story of Cold Chisel.