Wild About You!

Tales from the Australian Rock Underground 1963-68

leda030 : (CD) : 07 11 05

Wild Sounds! Car crashes! Pep pills! Exploding amps! Bloodied noses! Jealous boyfriends! Drug busts and arrests!

Herwith, seventeen of Melbourne's modern day garage/indie rock bands pay tribute to their Australian rock n roll forebears. All live recordings done at 3cr by Cara Beltrame.

The Wild About You! book/cd package is now out of print, but the full text is now available online too!

Track listing
(Group names link to their web sites)

1. The Drones - Believe In Me (The Throb)
2. The Mystaken - Rum Drunk (The Moods)
3. Pink Stainless Tail - Time Will Come (The Tol-puddle Martyrs)
4. The Lords Of Gravity - Black (The Throb)
5. The Stabs - Lies Lies (The Chimney Sweeps)
6. Digger And The Pussycats - Just A Little Bit (The Purple Hearts)
7. The Gruntled - Drivin' Me Insane (The Missing Links)
8. Thee Stag Knights - C'mon (The Atlantics)
9. The Double Agents - I Want, Need, Love You (The Black Diamonds)
10. ninetynine - Its A Hard Life (The Atlantics)
11. The Naked Eye - Ugly Thing (The Creatures)
12. Shutdown 66 - All I Do Is Cry (The Creatures)
13. The Cants - Saturday Date (Toni McCann)
14. Ian D Marks - Wild About You (The Missing Links)
15. Go Genre Everything - No (Toni McCann)
16. The Kamikaze Trio - Claudette Jones (Peter and The Shilouettes)
17. The Lucy Parsons Experience - H'Tuom Tuhs (The Missing Links)

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See also: Pink Stainless Tail