Hands Out of My Pocket

"Hands Out of My Pocket"
Single by Cold Chisel
from the album Teenage Love
A-side"Hands Out of My Pocket"
Released29 August 1994[1]
Recorded1980
GenreRock
LabelWEA
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Barnes
Producer(s)Mark Opitz
Cold Chisel singles chronology
"Misfits"
(1991) 		"Hands Out of My Pocket"
(1994) 		"Nothing But You"
(1994)

"Hands Out of My Pocket" was a 1994 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel, the first from the album Teenage Love. It reached number 9 in the Australian charts.[2]

Details

Teenage Love was a compilation album that collected studio recordings, many just demos, that the band had previously not released. "Hands Out of My Pocket" was originally demoed for the album East and was included in some later reissues of the album as a bonus track. Don Walker later said the song was really only played once and author Jimmy Barnes can be heard yelling out chord changes on the recording.[3]

Glenn A. Baker said the song was inspired by, "a bizarre incident on Christmas Day where a Hare Krishna cousin of Jimmy's conducted a self-immolation rite in a bathtub."[4]

Charts

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[5] 9

Recording credits

Footnotes

  1. ^ "New Release Summary – Product Available from : 29/08/94 > Singles (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 237)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. ^ "COLD CHISEL - HANDS OUT OF MY POCKET (SONG)". australiancharts.com.
  3. ^ Michael Lawrence (2017). Cold Chisel: Wild Colonial Boys. Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Books. p. 183. ISBN 9781925556209.
  4. ^ Glenn A. Baker (14 January 1995). "Warner's "New"Cold Chisel Album Is Hot Down Under". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Cold Chisel – Hands Out of My Pocket". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 12 December 2016.