Eternal Nightcap

Artist: The Whitlams
Label: Vicio
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 9398603193283
ASIN: B00003IQJU

Release Date: 1999-01-01

Eternal Nightcap

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Tracks:

No Aphrodisiac
Buy Now Pay Later (Charli
Love Is Everywhere
You Sound Like Louis Burd
Melbourne
Where's The Enemy?
Charlie No.3
Life's A Beach
Tangled Up In Blue
Laugh In Their Faces
Charlie No.1
Up Against The Wall
Band On Every Corner

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Album Description

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Album Details

Critically Acclaimed Aussie Pop Band Fronted by Poet and Keyboardist Tim Freedman. These Guys Are Huge in Australia.

Customer Reviews:

A Story In Every Song.......2005-08-28

If you do one thing today, buy this album.

The Whitlams have been together since 1992, and started out as a 3-piece and released their first album, a ten-song collection including two ballads, two short and odd songs, a few masterful jazz/rock pieces and even a 25 second hillbilly song about lighting your mother on fire.

After this, they only got better, with Undeniably, an album released in 1995. It contained numerous fan favourites including the singles I Make Hamburgers and Met My Match/Following My Own Tracks.

Unfortunately, in 1996, lead singer and guitarist Stevie Plunder (real name: Anthony Hayes) was found dead at the bottom of a cliff in New South Wales.

After four months, Tim Freedman got himself together with an assortment of musicians, Including Louis Burdett, Ben Fink, and original Whitlams member Andy Lewis (who went on to commit suicide in 2000).

This album, released in late 1996, is the result of all that history.

It opens with No Aphrodisiac, one of the most famous and influential songs in Australian music in the 90s. Tim Freedman wrote the entire song in one night with a keyboard and a bottle of scotch, with the obviously un-Whitlams like bridge written by friends Machine Gun Fellatio.

The next song, Charlie No. 2 (buy now pay later) is totally touching, and even better live, as it is played faster, with more rock.

Love Is Everywhere is a great jazzy little interlude that is only really there to give you a break before the next masterpiece -

You Sound Like Louis Burdett - an ingenious rock song, played with heavy piano and bass. This is one of my favourite songs of all time, and with good reason.

Melbourne, the original single off the album is a bittersweet love song, and is beautifully orchestrated.

Where's The Enemy and Life's A Beach are great, but not up to par with the rest of the album, but wedged in between them is Charlie No. 3, the final song in the Charlie trilogy, and probably the best.

Tangled Up In Blue is up there with No Aph, Louis, and Melbourne as the best songs on this album. An old Bob Dylan song about love and seperation, a favourite of mine.

Of the remainder of the album (Laugh In Their Faces, Charlie No. 1, Up Against The Wall, Band On Every Corner), you cannot find a single fault. Especially with Up Against The Wall - a song about seduction, lies, and betrayal.

Overall, this is a must have for anybody who likes any album of the Whitlams, as it bridges the gap between Introducing and Undeniably to Love This City and Torch The Moon.

But it. Buy it now. You won't regret it.

Great CD!.......2003-11-13

Eternal Nightcap is an eternal classic, I first purchased this cd after hearing No Aphrodisiac on the radio (this song was voted number 1 for the year in JJJ hottest 100) and have been loving this CD every since. I have seen the Whitlams live and loved them...Tim certainly knows how to work the crowd and the best part was he hung out at the bar like a regular guy during the support acts, I also have seen Tim doing a solo show - just him and his piano fantastic I will never forget that night (sorry I had to rub it in to all of you USA types!!). Eternal Nightcap will in my opinion never get old, everytime I listen to it something else grabs me - especially the hidden track.

One of My Favorite Albums.......2003-03-18

It is weird liking a band that has two Double Platinum albums (out of four), yet is practically unknown in the US.

"You Sound Like Louis Burdett" was my introduction to the Whitlams while vacationing (or should I say "On Holiday") in Oz (long story). When I found out Louis was an ex-roomate, the song was just as cool, but it made a lot more more sense. "Terror, like charity, begins at home"

Part of me would like to tell a little something about each song, but it's late.

The Charlie songs are a great tribute to Steve, who along with Tim, start the band.

My ex-roomate was a bit of musicals snob. I think "Band On Every Corner" sums up one of the parts of him that all us ex-frends of his found annoying. Only, I don't know if he could have said it nearly as well.

I now own ever album of theirs I can get my hands on. The next time they tour Canada I am going to try to get to one of their concerts (I doubt I can afford Australia again for a long while).

Everyone I have introduced to the music of the Whitlams has loved it.

Buy The Whitlams, you'll thank me. After that, call you radio station and tell them they need to play more Whitlams (okay, so right now they don't get any airplay at all, that is the point). Don't thank me, help me get them popular enought that they will put on some US gigs so I can get to see them live again.

Great album, well worth it........2002-01-05

My sister turned be onto this album when she lived in Melbourne. I've had it for about three years and still listen to it regularly.

Three songs I always go to the album if not going through the entire bit: "...Louis Burdett" (track 4), "Tangled up in Blue", and "Band on Every Corner."

Tangled up in Blue is a pretty good Dylan cover. When he hit's the verse /like a bird that flew/ it seems entirely forced or too dramatic and I cringe, but otherwise a fun listen. The last track is a great ender and makes me think of a band playing their last song of the night in a pub to a lively receptive and welcoming--yet drunken--audience.

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