The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake
The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake | ||||
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Studio album by Spiderbait | ||||
Released | 25 September 1995 (1995-09-25) | |||
Recorded | September 1994 – March 1995[1] | |||
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Length | 37:22 | |||
Label | Polydor/Universal | |||
Producer | Spiderbait[1] | |||
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Singles from The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake | ||||
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The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake is the second studio album by Australian rock band Spiderbait, released in 1995. It peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Albums Charts.[2]
The album was named after the real unfinished Spanish galleon built in Spiderbait's hometown, Finley, New South Wales, which was a "failed civic beautification project".[3][4]
The Unfinished Spanish Galleon Of Finley Lake did well for the band, picking up two ARIA nominations and drawing industry attention.
Reception
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Emma MacDonald of The Canberra Times opined, in October 1995, that "the music is inventive and quite melodic but, be warned, what seems like a nice musical jaunt at first can turn into a thrashing, speaker-blowing experience without the slightest warning."[4] Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane felt it "found the band adding a jazzier touch (as on the title track) to the usually frantic, distortion-fuelled thrash-pop style."[3] Jonathan Lewis of AllMusic wrote that it "consisted of short (most songs are under three minutes) blasts of punk-pop," adding that "[w]ith their buzzing guitars and the strange vocals of lead singer Kram, Spiderbait were a kind of hybrid of the rawer moments of the Pixies and the Muffs, but less melodic than either of those two."[5]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "I Gotta Know" | 2:03 |
2. | "Sam Gribbles" | 2:28 |
3. | "Monty" | 2:34 |
4. | "Who Are the Freemasons?" | 3:21 |
5. | "Riot" | 3:18 |
6. | "Spanish Galleon" | 2:58 |
7. | "Jesus" | 1:51 |
8. | "Chuck Picola" | 1:22 |
9. | "Yeah O Yeah" | 1:09 |
10. | "Ooga Booga" | 2:58 |
11. | "Goal" | 2:32 |
12. | "Detective" (The song "Detective" ends at 3:20. After 5 minutes of silence (3:20 – 8:20) begins an untitled hidden track: it's a section, where instructional audio on table playing is accompanied by a MIDI track reminiscent of a Casio keyboard tune.) | 10:48 |
Charts
Chart (1995/96) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] | 14 |
Release history
Country | Release date | Format | Label | Catalogue |
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Australia | 25 September 1995 | CD, Cassette | Polydor | 529155-2 |
References
- ^ a b c The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake (CD liner notes). Spiderbait. Polydor. 1995. 529 155-2.
{{cite AV media notes}}
: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discography Spiderbait". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ a b McFarlane, 'Spiderbait' entry. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ a b MacDonald, Emma (2 October 1995). "Home Entertainment: Titles Justify CD Purchase". The Canberra Times. Vol. 71, no. 22, 082. p. 34. Retrieved 27 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b Lewis, Jonathan. "The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake – Spiderbait". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- ^ "Australiancharts.com – Spiderbait – The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake". Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
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