The Living End (The Living End album)

The Living End
Studio album by The Living End
Released 12 October 1999
Recorded 1997-1998
Genre Punk rock, punkabilly
Length 47:05
Label Modular/EMI
Producer Lindsay Gravina
The Living End chronology
It's For Your Own Good
(1996)		 The Living End
(1999)		 Roll On
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

The Living End is the self-titled debut studio album by Australian punk/rockabilly band The Living End. It was recorded at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, Australia. The cover art, as described by frontman Chris Cheney, is taken from a photograph of the inside of a World War I all-female bomb factory.

The Living End achieved mainstream success with one of the singles "Prisoner of Society", and supported The Offspring on the Americana tour.[3] ARIA publicised that The Living End had officially achieved 5x Platinum status in Australia in November 2007. It is still to date the band's most successful release. In October 2010, The Living End, was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.[4]

The 6th track "Monday" is the band's epitaph to the 1996 Dunblane massacre.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Chris Cheney, except for where noted.

Australian Version
No. Title Length
1. "Prisoner of Society"   3:52
2. "Growing Up (Falling Down)"   3:56
3. "Second Solution"   3:00
4. "West End Riot"   3:54
5. "Bloody Mary"   3:45
6. "Monday"   3:32
7. "All Torn Down"   4:09
8. "Save the Day"   2:56
9. "Trapped"   3:26
10. "Have They Forgotten"   3:13
11. "Fly Away"   2:53
12. "I Want a Day" (Cheney, Scott Owen) 2:29
13. "Sleep on It"   2:58
14. "Closing In"   3:03

Note: "Sleep on It" was omitted and changed to "Strange" for all versions released outside Australia. "Strange" had already appeared on previous releases in Australia and it was deemed unnecessary to repeat the track again for Australian fans.

Singles

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1998 Australian ARIA Albums Chart
1

Personnel

Band members

Additional musicians

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ http://www.offspring.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Offspring.woa/wa/tourArchive?year=1999
  4. ^ O'Donnell, John; Creswell, Toby; Mathieson, Craig (October 2010). 100 Best Australian Albums. Prahran, Vic: Hardie Grant Books. ISBN 978-1-74066-955-9. 
Preceded by
The Last Wave of Summer by Cold Chisel		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
25 October - 8 November 1998		 Succeeded by
The Best of 1980-1990 by U2
The Living End
Studio albums
The Living End (1998) · Roll On (2000) · Modern ARTillery (2003) · State of Emergency (2006) · White Noise (2008) · The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating (2011)
Extended plays
Compilations
Video compilations
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