Can't Take Any More

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"Can't Take Any More"
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Single by The Angels
from the album Howling
Released April 1987
Format Vinyl, 7", 12"
Genre Hard rock
Length3:21
Label Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s) Richard Brewster, Brent Eccles
Producer(s) Steve Brown
The Angels singles chronology
"We Gotta Out of This Place"
(1987)
"Can't Take Any More"
(1987)
"When the Time Comes"
(1987)

"We Gotta Out of This Place"
(1987)
"Can't Take Any More"
(1987)
"When the Time Comes"
(1987)

"Can't Take Any More" is the twenty-ninth single by Australian hard rock band the Angels, released in 1987. It was released as the fourth single from their eighth studio album Howling . "Can't Take Any More" peaked at number 63 on the ARIA Charts. [1]

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with keyboards.

The Angels (Australian band) Australian rock band

The Angels are an Australian rock band which formed in Taperoo, a small beach side suburb in Adelaide in 1974 as The Keystone Angels by John Brewster on rhythm guitar and vocals, his brother Rick Brewster on lead guitar and vocals, and Bernard "Doc" Neeson on lead vocals and guitar. They were later joined by Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup on drums and vocals, and Chris Bailey on bass guitar and vocals. In 1981 Bidstrup was replaced on drums by Brent Eccles. Their studio albums on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart top 10 are No Exit, Dark Room, Night Attack, Two Minute Warning, Howling and Beyond Salvation. Their top 20 singles are "No Secrets" (1980), "Into the Heat" (1981), "We Gotta Get out of This Place" (1987), "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again", "Let the Night Roll On" and "Dogs Are Talking".

<i>Howling</i> (The Angels album) album by The Angels

Howling is the eighth album by Australian hard rock band The Angels, released in 1986.The album charted at number 6 on the ARIA Charts and it peaked at number 10 on the Recorded Music NZ.

Contents

Track listings

7-inch single

  1. Can't Take Any More (Richard Brewster, Brent Eccles) - 3:21
  2. Stonewall (John Brewster, Brent Eccles, Richard Brewster) - 4:11

12-inch single

  1. Can't Take Any More (Brent Eccles, Richard Brewster) - 3:21
  2. Stonewall (John Brewster, Brent Eccles, Richard Brewster) - 4:11
  3. All Night For You (Doc Neeson, Mark Lieb) - 3:20

Personnel

Doc Neeson Australian singer

Bernard Patrick "Doc" Neeson OAM was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was the front man for the hard rock band The Angels from its formation in February 1976 to their disbandment in December 1999. For the group Neeson was the main lyricist with brothers, John and Rick Brewster, as the music composers. Their top 20 studio albums on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart are Face to Face, No Exit, Dark Room, Night Attack, Watch the Red, Two Minute Warning and Howling. Their number-one album, Beyond Salvation, on the ARIA Albums Chart appeared in February 1990 and was followed by another top 20 album, Red Back Fever. The group's top 20 singles on the related Australian charts are "No Secrets" (1980), "Into the Heat" (1981), "Never so Live" (1981), "We Gotta Get out of This Place" (1987), "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again", "Let the Night Roll On" (1990) and "Dogs Are Talking" (1990).

Bob Spencer Australian guitarist

Bob Spencer is a guitarist who was in two significant Australian rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s, Skyhooks and The Angels.

Brent Eccles was the drummer for The Angels, an Australian pub rock band and, in chronological order, he was also drummer in: The Breed, Vox Pop, Stuart & The Belmonts, Streetalk, Space Waltz, After Hours, and Citizen Band.

Production

Steve Brown is a British composer, lyricist, record producer and arranger.

Bill Price was an English record producer and audio engineer who worked with The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Guns N' Roses, Sparks, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Nymphs, The Waterboys, Mott the Hoople and Simon Townshend. He was chief engineer on the first three solo albums by Pete Townshend: including Empty Glass and White City: A Novel.

Charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts [2] 63

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References

  1. The Angels - Can't Take Any More at Australian-Charts
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p. 94. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988.