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Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Australian Crawl album)

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Released
  
August 1985

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (1985)
  
The Final Wave (1986)

Release date
  
August 1985

Label
  
Freestyle Records

Length
  
43:24

Artist
  
Australian Crawl

Producer
  
Adam Kidron

Genre
  
Rock music

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Sirocco, Sons of Beaches, The Final Wave, Phalanx, The Greatest Hits

Between a Rock and a Hard Place was the final studio album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl. It was produced by English producer Adam Kidron (Ian Dury, Cabaret Voltaire, Aztec Camera). The album was initially released by Freestyle Records on vinyl and reached #11 on the ARIA album charts but slipped out of the top 40 two weeks later. The album was subsequently re-released on CD in 1997.

Contents

When the album virtually failed to chart, the band was ready to split but had to go out on tour for the next year to pay off the enormous $400,000 cost of producing the album. After completing their national tour of Australia in January, 1986, the band split up. Australian Crawl released a successful live album, The Final Wave, on the Freestyle Record label, towards the end of October, 1986.

Singles

There were four singles lifted from the album, "Two Can Play"/"Two Can Play" (released June, 1985), "If This Is Love"/"You Told Me" (released September, 1985), "Trouble Spot Rock"/"Newly Weds In The Morning" (released November, 1985) and "Two Hearts"/"Across the Way" (released January, 1986).

All the singles failed to have significant chart success with "Two Can Play" reaching #44 and only remaining in the charts for nine weeks, "If This Is Love" peaking at #87 and remaining for three weeks, whilst "Trouble Spot Rock" reached #69 and stayed in the charts for four weeks.

Track listing

All songs were written by James Reyne, except where otherwise noted.

  1. "Two Can Play" (Simon Hussey, James Reyne) - 3:48
  2. "I'd Do It" - 3:33
  3. "Divers Down" - 3:07
  4. "If This Is Love" - 3:26
  5. "Two Hearts" (Simon Hussey, James Reyne) - 3:55
  6. "Trouble Spot Rock" - 4:46
  7. "You Told Me" (Simon Hussey, James Reyne) - 3:06
  8. "My Day At The Beach" - 3:51
  9. "Always The Way" (Simon Hussey, James Reyne) - 5:37
  10. "Newly Weds In The Morning" - 3:07
  11. "Land Of Hope And Glory" - 5:08

Personnel

Credits:

Australian Crawl

  • James Reyne - guitar (acoustic), guitar (electric), guitar (rhythm), harp, marimba, saxophone, vocals
  • Brad Robinson - synthesizer, clarinet, keyboards
  • Simon Hussey - keyboards, guitar
  • John Watson - drums, marimba, timbales
  • Harry Brus - bass
  • Mark Greig - guitar

    • Additional musicians

  • John Barrett - saxophone
  • John Courtney - trombone
  • Rahmlee Michael Davis - trumpet
  • Ric Formosa - guitar, brass arrangement
  • Cheryl Freeman - background vocals
  • Michael Harris - trumpet
  • Bill Harrower - saxophone
  • Chelli Jackson - background vocals
  • Keith Johnson - saxophone
  • Don Lock - trombone
  • Peter Martin - saxophone
  • Don Myrick - saxophone (alto)
  • Mick O'Connor - organ (Hammond)
  • Phenix Horns - brass
  • Eddie Rayner - keyboards
  • Pete Salt - trumpet
  • Lui Lui Satterfield - trombone
  • Bob Venier - trumpet
  • Zan - background vocals
  • Allan Zavod - piano

    • Songs

    1Two Can Play3:50
    2I'd Do It3:33
    3Divers Down3:07

    References

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Australian Crawl album) Wikipedia
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