Teenage Love (album)

Teenage Love
Compilation album by Cold Chisel
Released 1994
Genre Pub rock, rock and roll

Teenage Love is a compilation album by Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel, released in 1994. The album collected studio recordings, many just demos, that were not used on previous albums. Phil Small said, "There was always a surplus of 3 to 4 tracks with each album."[1] The tracks were recorded between 1976 and 1983. "Hands Out of My Pocket", "Nothing But You" and "Yesterdays" were issued as singles.

Album details

Don Walker said of the album, "Most of the time they were recorded as demos, so it's just the band in the studio slamming down a new song. For a certain number of them, it's the only time we ever played the song."[1]

"The Party's Over" was a live staple for the band but not included on earlier studio albums. "A Little Bit of Daylight" is an early version of the song recorded by Jimmy Barnes as "Daylight" on his solo album Bodyswerve. "Monica", a song written by Prestwich, is the only Cold Chisel song that Don Walker doesn't play on, as he claims he couldn't play with a "latin feel."[2]

Allmusic describes "Teenage Love" as, "the weakest studio album in Cold Chisel's catalog." However, it continues, "Yes, it's Chisel's "B" material [...] But then, most bands would kill to have this kind of stuff as their "A" material."[3]

The album reached the number 6 in the Australian charts.[4]

Track listing

  1. Hands Out of My Pocket
  2. Nothing But You
  3. When the Sun Goes Down
  4. Suicide Sal
  5. It Ain't Wrong
  6. Teenage Love Affair
  7. Monica
  8. Mona and the Preacher
  9. Drinkin' in Port Lincoln
  10. Payday in a Pub
  11. Metho Blues
  12. Yesterdays
  13. Notion for You
  14. F-111
  15. A Little Bit of Daylight
  16. The Party's Over

Credits

Jimmy Barnes- vocals

Ian Moss- vocals on tracks 2, 11 and 16, guitar

Don Walker- organ, piano

Steve Prestwich- drums

Phil Small- bass

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Simon McKenzie. "Cold Chisel look back on their teenage days". Time Off (Brisbane, QLD) (26 October 1994): page 5.
  2. ↑ Michael Lawrence (1998). Showtime: The Cold Chisel Story. Belmont, Victoria: Michael Lawrence. p. 201. ISBN 1-86503-118-6.
  3. ↑ "Teenage Love". Allmusic. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "COLD CHISEL - TEENAGE LOVE (ALBUM)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 11 February 2011.