Future Spa (album)

Future Spa
Studio album by The Fauves
Released August 1996
Recorded Sing Sing, Hothouse, Melbourne and Charing Cross, Sydney
Genre Indie rock
Length 60:45
Label Polydor Records
Producer Wayne Connolly, Greg Wales
The Fauves chronology

The Young Need Discipline (1994) Future Spa (1996) Lazy Highways (1998)

Future Spa is the third album by Australian rock band The Fauves. It was released in August 1996.

The album contained two songs that appeared in Triple J Hottest 100, 1996, "Dogs Are the Best People" at No.20 and "Self Abuser" at No.30.[1] It was nominated for Best Alternative Album in the 1997 ARIA awards but lost to Spiderbait's Ivy and the Big Apples.[2][3] In November 2008, The Age reported that the album had sold 15,000 copies,[4] making it the best-selling Fauves album.

Track listing

(All songs written by The Fauves)

  1. "Big Brother Age" — 3:46
  2. "Don't Get Death Threats Anymore" — 3:22
  3. "Self Abuser" — 2:54
  4. "Sentimental Motel Journey" — 3:33
  5. "Dogs Are the Best People" — 2:49
  6. "I Love the Fight Game" — 2:35
  7. "Understanding Kyuss" — 2:53
  8. "That's the Lifestyle" — 4:13
  9. "Skateboard World Record" — 2:38
  10. "Tying One On" — 2:55
  11. "I Wrote You a Power Ballad" — 3:56
  12. "Dragster For Christmas" — 2:50
  13. "Suddenly Looked and Realised" — 2:48
  14. "Tighter Than I Like" — 19:45*

*Contains hidden track, "Everybody's Getting a Three Piece Together", followed by a police interview of two band members regarding a marijuana arrest and caution.[5]

Personnel

Additional musicians

References

  1. ↑ McFarlane, Ian (1999). The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. p. 214. ISBN 1-86-449768-2.
  2. ↑ 1997, ARIA Awards
  3. ↑ George Palathingal (August 11, 2006). "The Fauves". Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ↑ Patrick Donovan (November 21, 2008). "Almost famous". The Age.
  5. ↑ Future Spa, Jonathan Lewis, All Music Guide

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