The Final Wave

The Final Wave
Live album by
Australian Crawl
ReleasedSeptember 1986
Recorded27 January 1986
GenreRock
LabelFreestyle Records / EMI
ProducerJohn French
Australian Crawl chronology
Between A Rock and a Hard Place
(1985) 		The Final Wave
(1986) 		Lost & Found
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The Final Wave is the second live album released by Australian rock band Australian Crawl.[2] It is a recording of the band's final Melbourne concert on 27 January 1986. The album reached #16 on the Australian album charts upon its release.[3]

The album cover features a copy of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's best known woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. It was first published in 1832 (Edo period) and is Hokusai's most famous work. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa; Mount Fuji can be seen in the background. The wave is probably not intended to be a tsunami, but a normal ocean wave created by the wind.

Track listing

  1. "Beautiful People" (James Reyne, Mark Hudson) – 3:37
  2. "Unpublished Critics" (Reyne, Paul Williams) – 5:46
  3. "Lakeside" (Reyne) – 4:25
  4. "Love (Beats Me Up)" (Reyne) – 4:39
  5. "White Limbo" (Simon Binks)- 3:27
  6. "Two Can Play" (Simon Hussey, Reyne) – 2:35
  7. "Errol" (Guy McDonough, Reyne) – 3:18
  8. "Downhearted" (Sean Higgins, G McDonough, William 'Bill' McDonough) – 4:44
  9. "Daughters of the Northern Coast" (G McDonough, Reyne) – 3:31
  10. "The Boys Light Up" (Reyne) – 4:13
  11. "Indisposed" (Brad Robinson, James Robinson, James Reyne, W McDonough) – 3:04
  12. "Things Don't Seem" (G McDonough, Higgins) – 3:01
  13. "Reckless (Don't Be So)" (Reyne) – 5:14
  14. "(The Last) Louie Louie" (Richard Berry) – 5:17

Songwriting credits from Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).[4]

Personnel

Credits:[2]

Charts

Chart (1986) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)[5] 16

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ a b Holmgren, Magnus; Warnqvist, Stefan; Draper, Oliver; McDonough, Bill. "Australian Crawl". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  4. ^ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Archived from the original on 24 January 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2008.
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 22. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.