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Flight Paths

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Released
  
4 June 1998

Flight Paths (1998)
  
Reworkings (1998)

Release date
  
4 June 1998

Producer
  
Victor Van Vugt

Length
  
50:03

Artist
  
The Paradise Motel

Genre
  
Alternative/Indie

Label
  
Mushroom Records

Recorded
  
Sing Sing Studios, Seneca Studios and Big Sur, Melbourne, Victoria

Similar
  
Australian Ghost Story, I Still Hear Your Voice at Night, Still Life

Flight Paths is the second album by Australian rock band The Paradise Motel, their first album released after relocating from Melbourne to London.

Contents

Singles from the album included 'Aeroplanes', 'Derwent River Star' and 'Drive' a cover of The Cars' hit, and the band's most popular song. Their version was featured on the soundtrack to the 2001 Richard Lowenstein film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand.

Flight Paths was followed by the album Reworkings featuring remixes of tracks from Flight Paths and the band's previous album Still Life by artists including Lee Ranaldo, Echoboy and Mark Eitzel.

Personnel

  • Mérida Sussex - vocals
  • Matt Bailey - bass
  • Matt Aulich - guitars
  • BJ Austin - organ, pedal steel
  • Tim O'Shannassy - drums
  • Charles Bickford - guitar, organ, percussion
  • Lyrics were written by Charles Bickford, string arrangements were composed by Matt Aulich, except 'Drive', written by Ric Ocasek.

    Songs

    1Aeroplanes4:53
    2Heavy Weather4:04
    3Derwent River Star3:02

    References

    Flight Paths Wikipedia