James Reyne (album)

James Reyne
Studio album by James Reyne
Released 1987
Recorded 1987
Length 50:39
Label EMI
Producer Davitt Sigerson
James Reyne chronology

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (with Australian Crawl) James Reyne Hard Reyne
1989

James Reyne's self-titled album was released in 1987 and was the Australian singer's first solo venture since the break-up of the band Australian Crawl in 1986.

The album saw four singles released in Australia the first being, "Fall Of Rome", followed by "Motor's Too Fast" (which saw the album repackaged to include this song) and then "Hammerhead" and "Heaven On A Stick".

One of Reyne's best known songs was "Hammerhead" which was commonly believed to be about drug addiction. He later reflected:

‘Hammerhead’ was not necessarily about me, but let’s say I thought I knew what I was talking about. I wrote it with Simon Hussey; the music Simon and I wrote together and I wrote the lyrics. From memory it seemed to come quite easily. I shouldn’t make too much about the fact that it’s about drugs. It can be taken many ways. It was an exercise in trying to write a song about that subject but to also make it that it could be about a relationship. It’s a song about a relationship. And whether that relationship is with a substance or a person, it’s an obsessive relationship.[1]

Track listing

  1. "Fall Of Rome" (Reyne)
  2. "Hammerhead" (Reyne / Hussey)
  3. "Mr. Sandman" (Reyne / Hussey)
  4. "Counting On Me" (Reyne / Sigerson)
  5. "Always The Way" (Reyne / Hussey)
  6. "Land Of Hope And Glory" (Reyne)
  7. "Heaven On A Stick" (Reyne / Hussey)
  8. "Motor's Too Fast" (Reyne / Hussey) (US & European Release)
  9. "Rip It Up" (Reyne / Scott / Sigerson)
  10. "Burning Wood" (Reyne)
  11. "The Traveller" (Reyne / Scott / Sigerson)
  12. "Coin in a Plate" (Reyne / Hussey) (Australian Release)

Personnel

Guests

References

  1. ↑ "Songwriters Speak" republished at Debbie Kruger