The Last Wave of Summer

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The Last Wave of Summer
Studio album by Cold Chisel
Released 1998
Genre Rock

The Last Wave of Summer is the 1998 reunion album for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. It reached number-one in Australia for one week in October 1998.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Mr. Crown Prosecutor
  2. The Things I Love In You
  3. Baby's On Fire
  4. Way Down
  5. Bal-A-Versailles
  6. Yakuza Girls
  7. He Can't Believe It's Over With You
  8. Angel In My Room
  9. Never Stop Loving You
  10. Red Sand
  11. Pretty Little Thing
  12. So Hard
  13. Water Into Wine
  14. The Last Wave Of Summer

In addition to these, the album has a hidden track entitled:

  • "Once around the Sun"[1]

The album covers topics ranging from the serious, including the Australian Aboriginal stolen generation in the Ian Moss penned Red Sand and judicial inequity in Don Walker's Mr. Crown Prosecutor, to the flippant, such as the pub adventure Yakuza Girls.

A rockabilly version of "Yakuza Girls" appreared on Don Walker's 2006 solo album Cutting Back.

[edit] Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1998 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ O’Grady, Anthony: "Cold Chisel – the pure stuff", Allen & Unwin, February 2001
Preceded by
Songs from Ally McBeal by Vonda Shepard
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
October 18 - October 24, 1998
Succeeded by
The Living End by The Living End