Teenage Love (album)

Teenage Love
Compilation album by Cold Chisel
Released 1994
Genre Pub rock, rock and roll
Cold Chisel chronology
The Last Stand
(1992)The Last Stand1992		 Teenage Love
(1994)		 The Last Wave of Summer
(1998)The Last Wave of Summer1998

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] Walker insisted that the tracks be released without any overdubs."[2] "The Party's Over" was a live staple for the band but not included on earlier studio albums. Teenage Love's studio version originally appeared (with a different mix) as the B-side of "Knocking On Heaven's Door", the bonus single that, in 1980, accompanied the first 10,000 Australian pressings of the East album.

"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."[3]

The impetus for the album was manager Rod Willis finding some tapes with song titles he didn't recognise, sending the details to Walker. Walker said, "I went to a tape drawer I hadn't opened since 1984 and found some of the songs on Rod's list plus one or two others. The quality of the playing was just astonishing."[4]

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."[5] Ian McFarlane said, "Teenage Love proved to be a remarkable collection of songs that were brimming with loose ends and vibrant spontaneity. Outstanding tracks like "Metho Blues", "Nothing but You", "Teenage Love Affair" and the boogie "Drinkin' in Port Lincoln" possessed more grit and fire than most of the debut album or Twentieth Century.[6]

The album reached the number 6 in the Australian charts.[7]

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 2 Simon McKenzie. "Cold Chisel look back on their teenage days". Time Off. Brisbane, QLD (26 October 1994): 5.
  2. ↑ Glenn A. Baker (14 January 1995). "Warner's "New" Cold Chisel Album Is Hot Down Under". Billboard. p. 37.
  3. ↑ Michael Lawrence (1998). Showtime: The Cold Chisel Story. Belmont, Victoria: Michael Lawrence. p. 201. ISBN 1-86503-118-6.
  4. ↑ Peter Cotton (17 September 1994). "Force of Gravity". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 248.
  5. ↑ "Teenage Love". Allmusic. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  6. ↑ "Cold Chisel". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "COLD CHISEL - TEENAGE LOVE (ALBUM)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
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