It's for Your Own Good

It's for Your Own Good
EP by The Living End
Released 11 November 1996
Recorded June, 1996
Genre Punk rock, psychobilly
Length 21:40
Label Rapido
Producer Lindsay Gravina, Mike Alonso, The Living End
The Living End chronology
Hellbound
(1995)
It's for Your Own Good
(1996)
Second Solution / Prisoner of Society
(1997)
Singles from It's for Your Own Good
  1. "From Here on In"
    Released: 1997

It's for Your Own Good is the second EP by Australian rock band, The Living End. The EP was recorded in June 1996 at Birdland Studio, Melbourne. The lead track, "From Here on In", provided the name of the band's singles collection which was released in 2004, with the song included on it because it got the band's first radio attention. The original cover art featured incorrect formatting of the word "It's" as "I'ts". This was rectified on later re-releases. The EP features is a cover of the original track by The Cure, "10:15 Saturday Night".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
PunkNews.org[2]
Sputnikmusic[3]

Jonathan Lewis of AllMusic rated It's for Your Own Good as four-and-a-half stars out of five.[1] He felt that it had "Equal parts punk, ska, rockabilly and straightforward rock" and the group were "able to transfer the energy of their live performances to their studio recordings".[1]

Track listing

  1. "From Here on In" - 2:42
  2. "English Army" - 2:51
  3. "One More Cell" - 3:57
  4. "Stay Away from Me" - 4:43
  5. "Problem" - 2:33
  6. "10:15 Saturday Night" - 4:54

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lewis, Jonathan. "It's for Your Own Good". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  2. Juanse, J. M. (30 July 2001). "The Living End – It's for Your Own Good". PunkNews.org. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  3. 3TwoCan3 (16 January 2007). "The Living End – It's for Your Own Good". Sputnikmusic. Jeremy Ferwerda. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
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