Breakfast at Sweethearts [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Cold Chisel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 29, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Wea Int'l
• ASIN: B00004UFYF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #474,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Conversation

2. Merry Go Round

3. Dresden

4. Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)

5. Plaza

6. Shipping Steel

7. I'm Gonna Roll Ya

8. Showtime

9. Breakfast At Sweethearts

10. Door

11. It Ain't Wrong (Bonus Track)

12. Mona And The Preacher (Bonus Track)

13. Metho Blues (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered two disc (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of this 1978 album from the Australian Rock 'n' Roll institution. Accompanying Breakfast At Sweethearts is a full 11 song concert recorded at the ABC's Studio 221. It's rough and dirty but it shows the band in their early days, performing songs across their first two albums, including those that became huge ('Shipping Steel', 'Goodbye Astrid Goodbye', 'Khe Sanh') as well as lesser known songs like 'Dresden' and 'I'm Gonna Roll Ya'. Warner. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars First-rate Australian rock, August 12, 2000

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"redgrevillea" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breakfast at Sweethearts (Audio CD)

As I see it, there have been many great Australian bands - Birthday Party, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Laughing Clowns, Saints, and maybe INXS...but Australia is responsible for two classic bands, The Church, and Cold Chisel. Cold Chisel were an Australian phenomenon, they formed in Adelaide in 1973 ('a "karass"' they called themselves), and with one line up change only, became the unit that played blinding soulful blues rock night after night and for years even, unable to afford even decent food. But they were very very good. They had the chemistry that makes a band 'great'. Moreso, they had a genius songwriter, piano/keyboardist Don Walker, a Mathematics graduate who as a lyricist I'd rate only second to Dylan...and what did he write about, the other half, sort of what Springsteen was writing about in the USA. His songs are very much of their time and place and yet remain pertinent and timeless. And the range of styles conveyed by the band and Walker's songwriting delve between brilliant propulsive blues rock'n'roll to sublimely tender - yet hard - jazz blues classics. 'Breakfast at Sweethearts' is the band's second album...not their best as it suffers from a somewhat muted production. But lyrically it's possibly Walker's finest set. The title track is absolutely first-class. Can't really say much more but if you're a fairly serious person at times and are into Springsteen and Dylan then you'll love Cold Chisel. Note that this particular version of the album has three extra tracks which are all brilliant, 'Metho Blues' (piano & guitar only) & the gospel 'It ain't wrong' are again, absolutely first-class compositions. Possibly the best introduction to Cold Chisel is their greatest hits package or 'East', which is their most radio-friendly (and commercially successful) album.