Eternally Yours

Saints | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Amsterdamned
• ASIN: B000000P7C
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,342 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Know Your Product

2. Lost And Found

3. Memories Are Made of This

4. Private Affair

5. A Minor Aversion

6. No, Your Product

7. This Perfect Day

8. Run Down

9. Orstralia

10. New Centre of the Universe

11. Untitled

12. (I'm) Misunderstood

13. International Robots

14. Do the Robot

Editorial Reviews

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Having kickstarted punk rock with 1977's seminal (I'm) Stranded, this runty, sardonic Brisbane foursome followed up their debut with an equally testy and snarling collection. This time, however, the Saints added horns to certain tracks, sounding not unlike updated Teenage Head-era Flamin Groovies. Aside from a couple of morose antilove songs ("Untitled,"" "A Minor Aversion") and an acrid advert for their homeland ("The Hilarious "Orstralia"), much of Eternally Yours consists of bilious attacks on consumer society and its myriad lures. --Barney Hoskyns

Product Description

2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of the Australian Punk band's 1978 sophomore album now featuring an additional 14 bonus tracks, all taken from 'The International Robot Sessions'. Never purposely fashionable, The Saints were Garage rockers caught up in the Punk scene, but their raw dirty sound fit perfectly into the Punk aesthetic.. This release is coinciding with a monumental occasion in Aussie musical history: the three surviving members of The Saints (Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay) are reuniting for a one-off historical performance in Brisbane in July of 2007. 27 tracks. EMI. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blitzkrieg Rawk For Capitalism's Prisoners, July 21, 2001

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"greymouser" (Tartaros) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eternally Yours (Audio CD)

Being Australian in the rock'n'roll circus entails that, save a few notable exceptions, you don't get credit for your music anywhere in the world, your homeland included. This means that if you happen to be a band that, in its original incarnation, put out three records that are absolute diamonds in the rough, you get summarily ignored by the musical apparatchiks and, over the years, only a few hardcore enthusiasts of great garage and punk get to sample the uncut pleasures you provided with the zeal of pursuers of the most illicit of substances.

The Saints are such an unheralded band. And Eternally Yours is one of those rare gems that only exceptional outfits are able to produce. What makes this album a classic is not that it was recorded almost 25 years ago, but that it sounds now as fresh as it undoubtedly did back then. It is, like the great records put forth by the Stones, the Real Kids, or the Ramones, timeless in essence. It wasn't created in response to rapidly changing trends instigated by corrupt multinationals, but out of the love for a style of music that could, can, or will never be eradicated: Rock & Roll. It was the product of the intelligent and sincere assimilation of whatever records Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey happened to enjoy as music fans, not of mindless, inept, and/or interested aping at whatever sold the previous season.

Eternally Yours brings about a more developed songwriting approach, and a fuller, richer sound, than the preceding and definitive (I'm) Stranded, but without losing its spontaneity and raw energy. This is rawk in its purest form. Buzzsaw guitars, courtesy of the great Ed Kuepper, hover and zigzag over the galloping rhythms generated by Ivor Hay and Alasdair Ward, while Chris Bailey intones in his deadpan drawl insightful tales of horror and/or disaffection in the Western World. There are three magnificent slow numbers in this record, and a molten horn section fuels a few other tracks. The closest bands in sound I can think of are the Ramones and the Buzzcocks, but the Saints were even greater and in a league of their own. They were smart guys and knew how to play. Even though they never took themselves too seriously, they never made a joke of their music. The Saints were destined for greatness and somehow, perhaps fittingly, fame, although not success, eluded them by a hair's breadth. They were 100% triumphant in their efforts.

The Saints formed around the same time the Ramones did. They fashioned music as exciting, and a hell of a lot more varied than the boys from Brooklyn ever blitzkrieged. They inadvertently transformed the face of modern music. And yet, they are virtually unknown. Like other seminal acts such as the Scientists, These Immortal Souls, the Stems, or Loop, the only Saints worthy of their salt followed their own counsel exclusively and disappeared, leaving behind a trail of obscure masterpieces. Precious few tears were shed in their wake. Now you have the extraordinary opportunity to partake of these amazing songs by one of the greatest groups of all time in all their jagged, incandescent splendor. And no, you won't have to kneel in front of an idol or light a few candles to be in direct contact with heaven.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album from that 77thru 79 era punk, misc. style., October 30, 1998

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This review is from: Eternally Yours (Audio CD)

I love the addition of the horn section in a couple of songs. Better song writing than the I'm Stranded album. A must for those who love that late 70's stuff like The Dictators "Bloodbrothers",Ramones"Rocket to Russia",Stranglers,Dickies,ETC.!!!!!Chris Bailey sounds like a punk version of Bob Dylan!!!I love it!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A killer album by Australia's greatest punk band, March 9, 2003

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This review is from: Eternally Yours (Audio CD)

So, uh, if you thought the first Saint's album was cool, then check your pacemaker at the door before you put this one on the stereo. Ace bunny killer. An absolute classic of relentless and unceasingly catchy guitar rock. While the lyrics are comparatively highbrow, Chris Bailey's vocals are practically feral -- combined with Ed Kuepper's crushingly powerful guitars and a set of LOUD, LOUD speakers, and you've got a record to reckon with. At this point Bailey and Kuepper seem telepathically entwined; when they later had an inevitable falling out over artistic differences (or whatever...), the band went soft and postpunk, and while that stuff ain't bad, this record is amazing. One of the few seminal punk albums that still holds up when you're all grown up.