Love This City [Import]

The Whitlams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea/East/West
• ASIN: B000034CP1
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,571 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Make The World Safe

2. Thankyou (For Loving Me At My Worst)

3. Chunky Chunky Air Guitar

4. Pretty As You

5. You Gotta Love This City

6. God Drinks At The Sando

7. Blow Up The Pokies

8. 400 Miles From Darwin

9. Time

10. Made Me Hard

11. High Ground

12. Unreliable

13. Her Floor Is My Ceiling

14. Theres No-one

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding CD.., September 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Love This City (Audio CD)

Split Enz meets Billy Joel ? Tom Waits with a smooth, lilting voice ? Catchy, memorable tunes wrapped around razor sharp lyrics.... The Whitlams are an outstanding band that writes and sings about contemporary Australian issues - gambling addiction, the Indonesian rape of East Timor, a city more intent on winning the Olympics than on housing its down and outs...

If that sounds too heavy, then this album isn't. Virtually every song is memorable. Every tune has the ability to seep into your consciousness and replay itself over and over. There are lots of nice harmonies and lovely musical passages. The band is supported by strings and brass to create a full, lush sound. Tim Freedman is an easy singer - only his lyrics bite.

Absolutely on a par with albums like "Piano Man" or "Heart Attack and Vine" when it comes to social comment, "Love This City" is far easier to listen to than either. It's a bit like being confronted by a mugger in a Salvation Army uniform.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, December 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love This City (Audio CD)

I bought this album cynical that the Whitlams could produce something as good as "Eternal Nightcap" twice. I was amazed to discover an album even better. One of those albums that gets better every time you hear it. My only regret is that it is difficult to get in the United States. '400 miles from Darwin' is an excellent commentary that proves that it is Tim Freedman's lyrics that separate the Whitlams from bands that are only "very good."

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars (You gotta) Love this CD!, April 3, 2000

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Roz Brown (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love This City (Audio CD)

The Whitlams are a piano-based pop outfit from Sydney (think Ben Folds Five meets Elvis Costello's lyrics). Their strength has always been in fine songwriting. Tim Freedman is the master of a clever lyric - example: 'It could have been the beginning of the end, if I wasn't already in the middle' from 'Thank You (for loving me at my worst)', an uptempo track or 'Time' which remembers old girlfriends - 'Been some months since she came around lying where she used to lie'. The orchestrations on this album are lush - lots of strings and brass. 'Love This City' has a fuller sound than their previous album 'Eternal Nightcap', which only adds to their beauty. Do yourself a favour - give this album a listen.