Circus Animals [Enhanced, 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: Enhanced, Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Wea/Warner
• ASIN: B00004UFWY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #309,424 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Got Nothing I Want

2. Bow River

3. Forever Now

4. Taipan

5. Hound Dog

6. Wild Colonial Boy

7. No Good for You

8. Numbers Fall

9. When the War Is Over

10. Letter to Allan

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered two disc (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of this 1982 album from the Australian Rock 'n' Roll institution. On the accompanying Live Bootleg DVD is never before seen footage and exclusive live audio of the song 'Taipan' from the band's unique album launch shows An Evening With The Circus Animals. Also, captured at The Playroom on Queensland's Gold Coast are early versions of the Circus Animals songs 'No Good For You' and 'Wild Colonial Boy', featuring different lyrics and phrasings, all captured before the band recorded the songs. 'Letter To Alan' and 'Houndog' are two of the favorites of hardcore fans and are captured here in blistering, live style. Warner. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars American's Don't Know What They're Missing, October 30, 2001

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Eric R. Last "misterrockobscurities" (San Bruno, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Circus Animals (Audio CD)

I know of only a few people who have even heard of Cold Chisel, but I'd venture to guess that virtually any American fan of classic rock ranging from Steely Dan to Bob Seger to Blue Oyster Cult to Bruce Springsteen would love this Australian band if they ever got a chance to hear them. "Circus Animals", their 4th studio album, shows them moving in a slightly pop direction with great songs like "Forever Now", and "No Good For You". Of course they still rock like crazy on "Bow River", "Wild Colonial Boy", etc. Cold Chisel have got the musical chops, the great guitar leads from Ian Moss, the great singing of Jimmy Barnes, and most important, the great songs of Don Walker, who writes the kind of lyrics that would fit right in on an album by Dylan or Jackson Browne and are so seldom heard on music that rocks this hard. The complete package!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Oz-Rock, November 28, 2001

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Richard Kenna (Blue Mountains, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Circus Animals (Audio CD)

You want Oz-Rock at it's finest? Just listen to Bow River. Hear Ian Moss' amazing voice (and he ain't even the lead singer). Hear the band kick in for the second verse. Hear it lift when Jim Barnes joins in for the chorus. Experience the intensity in Mossy's crunching guitar solo and then, when you think it can't scale any new peaks, feel your hairs stand on end when Barnes comes in for the final screaming verse. It all finishes with Moss bringing it back down to earth. I'm always breathless by the end of this song. As for the rest of the disc, all I'll say is there's not a dud song on there, esp Wild Colonial Boy, No Good For You, Hound Dog (love the bridge), and the classic, classic pop of Forever Now. Stunning music.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Under-appreciated beauty, August 23, 2005

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Eric Saderholm (Elko, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Circus Animals (Audio CD)

This album is a gem...a must for any rock collection. in the early 80s when the American "hair bands" (Journey/REO etc) had degenerated into shlock like "Lovin', touchin' squeezin'" and "High Infidelity" these Aussies were rockin'. This album is a fine mix of balls-out rockers to ballads and every song is great. This is Cold Chisel at their best. The original version of "Bow River" found on this album, which appears in many forms on all live Chisel albums, is the best of all....possibly one of the coolest, catchiest rock songs ever written....a virtual rollercoaster of fantastic vocals and crunchy guitar hooks...great stuff. The bonus tracks are neat but the original more than stands up by itself. Cold Chisel was an honest, straight-forward band with no need for hype or pretense. It is too bad they had such a short life together....more records like this would be very welcome indeed. I could write a lot about this relatively unknown album (at least unknown in the US) but suffice it to say it always satisfies. Buy it and enjoy it, I know you will.