No Plans

No Plans
Studio album by Cold Chisel
Released 6 April 2012
Recorded Studios 301, Sydney
Genre Rock
Length 51:51
Label Warner
Producer Kevin Shirley
Cold Chisel chronology

Ringside
2003		 No Plans
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
The Australian [1]
Sunday Herald Sun [2]
Sun Herald [3]
Herald Sun [4]
theMusic.com.au positive [5]

No Plans is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band Cold Chisel. It was released on 6 April 2012 and was the band's first studio album in 14 years. It features the final recorded performances by drummer Steve Prestwich, who died of a brain tumour in January 2011.[6] The album peaked at number 2 on the Australian charts.[7]

Album details

Work on the album began after the band reunited for a one-off gig in front of 50,000 people at a V8 Supercars event in Sydney in 2009. Singer Jimmy Barnes explained: "Even before the show, in the rehearsal period we all had a really great time and we thought maybe we should carry it on a bit. So we went into my studio at my house and did some writing and recording, without having any plans of doing anything with it."[8]

The album's closing song, "I Got Things To Do", was written by Prestwich and presented to the band in the early sessions for Barnes to sing. Barnes said: "I think somewhere in the demo process Steve put down his own version for his own benefit or archives, or it was to show me the melodies or something like that and we didn't think about it." The masters of the recordings were given to producer Kevin Shirley to mix in the United States and he produced a version with Prestwich performing lead vocals. "Don (Walker)'s listening to this mix and it sounded really good and he thought, 'Oh yeah, Jimmy will start singing in a second', and the sound of Steve's voice came out and it was one of those hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck standing up moments and we all got very emotional," Barnes said. "We thought, `Well, that's the version we should put out'."[8]

The album's cover art, by Sydney photographer Steve Baccon, is a homage to expatriate Australian landscape artist Jeffrey Smart.

Track listing

(All songs written by Don Walker, except as noted)

  1. "No Plans" – 2:36
  2. "Everybody" – 3:40
  3. "All For You" – 4:56
  4. "HQ454 Monroe" (Walker, Troy Cassar-Daley) – 3:10
  5. "Dead and Laid to Rest" (Jimmy Barnes, Guy Davies) – 4:30
  6. "Missing a Girl" – 3:25
  7. "Too Late" (Ian Moss) – 4:30
  8. "I Gotta Get Back on the Road" – 5:51
  9. "Our Old Flame" – 3:43
  10. "This Day" – 3:13
  11. "Summer Moon" – 4:30
  12. "The Horizon" – 4:37
  13. "I Got Things to Do" (Steve Prestwich) – 3:10

Personnel

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (2012) Position
Australian Albums Chart 2
New Zealand Albums Chart 14

Year-end charts

Chart (2012) Position
Australian Albums Chart[9] 76

References

  1. ↑ The Australian "Review" section, 12 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Sunday Herald Sun, 1 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Sun Herald, 1 April 2012, pg 14.
  4. ↑ Herald Sun, 5 April 2012, pg 46.
  5. ↑ theMusic.com.au, 1 May 2012
  6. ↑ Sarah Whyte, "Beginning of next chapter for Chisel", Sun Herald, 1 April 2012, pg 14.
  7. ↑ "Cold Chisel - No Plans". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sally Browne, "A simple plan", Sunday Herald Sun Play section, 1 April 2012, pg 4.
  9. ↑ "ARIA Top 100 Albums 2012". ARIA. Retrieved 15 January 2015.