Length 43:30 Release date December 1993 Label Torn & Frayed | Artist The Blackeyed Susans Producer Phil Kakulas Genres Rock music, Folk rock | |
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Released December 1993
29 April 1994
July 1994 Recorded Fortissimo Studios, Melbourne
July 1993 All Souls Alive
(1993) Hard Liquor, Soft Music
(1994) Similar The Blackeyed Susans albums, Rock music albums | ||
All Souls Alive is the second studio album by The Blackeyed Susans, released in December 1993 on the independent record label, Torn and Frayed, and distributed by Shock Records.
Contents
The album features ten tracks, eight penned by Phil Kakulas and David McComb, as well as the Leonard Cohen/Phil Spector classic "Memories" and a version of the Johnny Paycheck song "Apartment No 9".
All Souls Alive was released in America on Frontier Records in April 1994. The album was also released in the UK, Greece, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Italy and Sweden in July 1994. The album got great reviews in the UK press and airplay on Radio One.
Two singles lifted off the album were released in Australia in July 1994, "Dirty Water" and "This One Eats Souls".
Graham Lee said of the album, "You couldn't describe it as a sunny record, I don't think anyone would've been expecting that. But there's a willingness to experiment."
Track listing
All written tracks by Phil Kakulas and David McComb unless otherwise indicated.
- A Curse On You (Phil Kakulas, David McComb, Graham Lee) – 3:34
- We Could’ve Been Someone – 4:21
- Every Gentle Soul (David McComb, Will Akers) – 3:31
- Memories (Leonard Cohen, Phil Spector) – 6:01
- Sheets Of Rain (Phil Kakulas) – 3:30
- Reveal Yourself – 4:15
- I Can See Now – 3:58
- Apartment No. 9 (Johnny Paycheck, R. Austin) – 2:52
- Dirty Water (Phil Kakulas, P. Van Zalm) – 4:48
- This One Eats Souls – 6:33
Personnel
Songs
1A Curse on You3:31
2We Could've Been Someone4:22
3Every Gentle Soul3:32