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This is WPA’s greatest album, it combines the Australian folk music and pub rock traditions to produce ballads of striking originality, pathos and musical depth. If you like the US folk tradition, you will be impressed by this album.
Rating: 5 / 5
Lawlor’s angry punk bass. Do not accept any imitation. Wally’s incongruous squeezebox Steele’s plaintive ‘alternate’ voice Marcus’ drumming. Subtle when needed, stonking when called for. Mick’s songs. And the voice. Pre-30s mellow, spitting fire.
Roaring Days defines the best line-up of the best Australian band, both in the studio and live. What Nirvana would have sounded like had Kurt been brought up on 70s Collingwood Carlton instead of 80s bad hair.
RIP Weddoes and thanks for the many memories. Chonk on.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this album as an LP many years ago after seeing WPA live at Club Soda in Montreal, Canada, and being mightily impressed. The album takes its sensability from the Clash and works it into an Aussie context. Each song is an original, featuring storytelling that strikes home. And they’ve aged well, at that. These guys are true song-smiths, and they pack a wallop in the studio, as well as on stage.
Rating: 4 / 5
Few albums inspire me enough to do a net review with my two-finger typing skills, but this – I agree with the other reviewer – finest ever album from finest ever Australian band forces me to speak to the worldwide Amazon reading public.
The listening is enhanced if you know a bit about any or all of Australian history, Australian rules football, and inner city Melbourne, but an ignorance of all 3 must not put the intending listener off. If you like melodic, folk-based rock with intelligent, poetic lyrics, then run, don’t walk out to buy this CD.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the best album from the best ever Australian band. It is their ‘Back in Black’, their ‘Rum Sodomy & the Lash’, & their ‘Joshua Tree’, it is their difinitive, classic album. If you have never heard a WPA album before, this is the one to start with. (unless you want to go straight for their best of, ‘Trophy Night’) This album will uplift you, and make you cry. Make you laugh and make you dance. Make you wish you were born in Melbourne. You will not be disapointed.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is WPA’s greatest album, it combines the Australian folk music and pub rock traditions to produce ballads of striking originality, pathos and musical depth. If you like the US folk tradition, you will be impressed by this album.
Rating: 5 / 5
Lawlor’s angry punk bass. Do not accept any imitation. Wally’s incongruous squeezebox Steele’s plaintive ‘alternate’ voice Marcus’ drumming. Subtle when needed, stonking when called for. Mick’s songs. And the voice. Pre-30s mellow, spitting fire.
Roaring Days defines the best line-up of the best Australian band, both in the studio and live. What Nirvana would have sounded like had Kurt been brought up on 70s Collingwood Carlton instead of 80s bad hair.
RIP Weddoes and thanks for the many memories. Chonk on.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this album as an LP many years ago after seeing WPA live at Club Soda in Montreal, Canada, and being mightily impressed. The album takes its sensability from the Clash and works it into an Aussie context. Each song is an original, featuring storytelling that strikes home. And they’ve aged well, at that. These guys are true song-smiths, and they pack a wallop in the studio, as well as on stage.
Rating: 4 / 5
Few albums inspire me enough to do a net review with my two-finger typing skills, but this – I agree with the other reviewer – finest ever album from finest ever Australian band forces me to speak to the worldwide Amazon reading public.
The listening is enhanced if you know a bit about any or all of Australian history, Australian rules football, and inner city Melbourne, but an ignorance of all 3 must not put the intending listener off. If you like melodic, folk-based rock with intelligent, poetic lyrics, then run, don’t walk out to buy this CD.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the best album from the best ever Australian band. It is their ‘Back in Black’, their ‘Rum Sodomy & the Lash’, & their ‘Joshua Tree’, it is their difinitive, classic album. If you have never heard a WPA album before, this is the one to start with. (unless you want to go straight for their best of, ‘Trophy Night’) This album will uplift you, and make you cry. Make you laugh and make you dance. Make you wish you were born in Melbourne. You will not be disapointed.
Rating: 5 / 5