At Home with You

At Home with You
Studio album by X
Released 1985
Genre Rock, punk
Label Major
(1985 release)
Aztec Music
(2007 reissue)
Producer Lobby Loyde
X chronology
X-Aspirations
(1979)		 At Home with You
(1985)		 And More
(1989)

At Home with You is the second studio album from Australian rock band, X. It was produced by Lobby Loyde; whereas the band's first album was reputedly recorded in five hours, the second was completed in five days.

Details

Between this and its first album X-Aspirations the group had broken up; mainstays Steve Lucas and Ian Rilen had played with Harold Holt and the Sharks and The Feel, and Sardine v respectively. Lucas and Rilen and Steve Cafiero regrouped as X in late 1983. A new drummer, Cathy Green, replaced Cafiero the following year; she had previously been a member of the Canberra band **** **** (pronounced 'Cough Cough'). Green had first seen X 'a couple of years earlier' at the invitation of Mark Seymour, of Hunters and Collectors; three tracks on At Home With You utilised the 'Horns of Contempt' (John Howard, Jeremy Smith and Michael Waters), the brass section from Hunters and Collectors. That band also covered Ian and Stephanie Rilen's song 'Stuck on You', which had originally recorded by Sardine V, on their 1986 album Human Frailty.

Reception

Ian McFarlane has written that At Home with You 'displayed a breadth and sense of dynamics only previously hinted at in the band's music. A lot had to do with the freshness and vitality, to say nothing of the rhythmic swing, that Green contributed to the band.'[1] Richard Guilliatt, writing in the Age in November 1985, claimed the LP 'vindicates the band's persistence, a fantastic slice of the most basic, earthy rock...' [2] The sleeve notes to the 2009 reissue, quoting an interview with Green from December, 1985, claim that the photograph on the album cover is of the band reacting with hilarity to The Cosby Show.

Original LP track listing

  1. "The Feel"
  2. "T.V. Glue"
  3. "Movin' On"
  4. "Halfway 'Round the World"
  5. "You Say That You Love Me"
  6. "Degenerate Boy"
  7. "All Over Now"
  8. "At Home with You"
  9. "Goin' Crazy"
  10. "Oxford Street Nick"
  11. "Don't Cry No Tears"
  12. "She's Gone"

A special limited edition was released called "A TV Dinner at Home with X". It contained a T-shirt and a flexi-disc of the song "El Salvador" recorded live at The Prince of Wales in Melbourne, Australia on 13 March 1985 for a live 3PBS radio broadcast. In searching for the master tapes for this track for the 2007 reissue, the complete concert was found and issued as a bonus disc.

2007 reissue track listing

Disc one

  1. "The Feel"
  2. "T.V. Glue"
  3. "Movin' On"
  4. "Halfway 'Round the World"
  5. "You Say That You Love Me"
  6. "Degenerate Boy"
  7. "All Over Now"
  8. "At Home with You"
  9. "Goin' Crazy"
  10. "Oxford Street Nick"
  11. "Don't Cry No Tears"
  12. "She's Gone"
  13. "El Salvador" (live 13 March 1985) [bonus track]

Disc two

Live at the Prince of Wales Melbourne. 13 March 1985.

  1. "The Feel"
  2. "Degenerate Boy"
  3. "Simulated Lovers"
  4. "Delinquent Cars"
  5. "Good on Ya Baby"
  6. "Goin' Crazy"
  7. "Oxford Street Nick"
  8. "She's Gone"
  9. "Waiting"
  10. "Dipstick"
  11. "Suck Suck"
  12. "Halfway 'Round the World"
  13. "All Over Now"
  14. "T.V. Glue"
  15. "I Don't Wanna Go Out"

Personnel

Musicians

  • Steve Lucas – guitar, vocals
  • Ian Rilen – bass
  • Cathy Green – drums
  • The Horns of Contempt – horn section

Technical

  • Lobby Loyde – producer

References

  1. ↑ Ian McFarlane The Encyclopaedia of Australian Rock and Pop Allen and Unwin, St Leonards 1999 p. 692
  2. ↑ Richard Guilliatt, ‘X marks the spot’ Melbourne Age 8 November 1985 p. 44


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