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"Cheap Wine" is a 1980 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel. The second single from the album East , it was released in May, a month before the album. [ 2 ] It reached number 8 on the Australian charts, the band's first top-ten single, and would eventually remain the band's second highest chart performance. [ 3 ]
The photo of Barnes was taken at Roger Langford's apartment in Elizabeth Bay, where the video for "Cheap Wine" was later shot. [18] Barnes had purchased the headband in Japan, and years later discovered he had worn it upside-down. [19] Walker said, "I got the idea of the bathtub and the Marat/Sade ripoff. I knew I wanted to fill the whole thing ...
[2] [3] [5] All tracks were written by Don Walker, except "Juliet", where Barnes composed its melody and Walker the lyrics. [11] Cold Chisel was released in April and included guest studio musicians: Dave Blight on harmonica (who became a regular on-stage guest) and saxophonists Joe Camilleri and Wilbur Wilde (from Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons ).
Barnes stated that the ideas for most of the lyrics and song themes came from a journal he kept during a period in his life (late 1990s to early 2000s) when he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Rage and Ruin debuted at number 3 on the ARIA Charts on 5 September 2010.
Both of Barnes' songwriting contributions to the album were co-written with his son-in-law Ben Rodgers. [5] "Down-and-dirty disco highlight," [7] "Bus Station" was written by Walker in the eighties. The lyrics include the line, "Fat girl with a travel rug / She’s got a Chiko Roll". Barnes said, "Yeah, the fat girl holding a Chiko Roll under a ...
Walker's incisive musical arrangements coupled with his looking glass lyrics give Barnes the scope to exercise his awesome set of tonsils in a constructive way. Barnes' own compositions tend to reduce him to a shouter." [15] The Age called it, "by far the best album Cold Chisel has recorded". [16]
The first single "You Got Nothing I Want" was written by singer Jimmy Barnes about the lack of interest shown in them by their American label rep during the band's 1981 US tour. "Bow River" was a song by guitarist Ian Moss , written about a sheep station in the Northern Territory where his brother Peter had once worked.
It exudes a conceptual aura at street level, cleverly indigenous. The main vehicle for this is Don Walker's lyrics." [13] Rip It Up was less positive, describing Barnes singing as, "white boy sings the blues and gets laryngitis" and the lyrics as "predictably sexist" but, "what saves their ass is the tunes". [14]