Cool Bananas

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Cool Bananas
Cool Bananas (album cover).jpg
Studio album by
DD Smash
Released1982
Recorded Mushroom Records
StudioHarlequin Studios (Auckland)
Genre Rock
Label Mushroom
Producer Ian Morris
DD Smash chronology
Cool Bananas Live: Deep in the Heart of Taxes
Singles from Cool Bananas
  1. "'Repetition'"
    Released: 1981
  2. "'Devil You Know'"
    Released: 1982
  3. "'Solo'"
    Released: 1982

Cool Bananas is the first album by the New Zealand band DD Smash led by Dave Dobbyn, released in 1982. It entered the charts at number 1, purely on tour exposure. [1]

Contents

In 2015, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the New Zealand Music Charts, Recorded Music NZ honoured Cool Bananas as being the first album by a New Zealand artist to debut at No.1 on the album chart. [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dave Dobbyn.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Devil You Know"3:25
2."Bury That Gun"4:05
3."Solo"4:52
4."Blue Note"4:40
5."Repetition"3:18
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."Silence"3:01
7."Save Yer"4:33
8."White Water"3:42
9."Say"2:50
10."The Gambler"5:10

Awards

The album won Best Album at the 1982 New Zealand Music Awards. DD Smash won the same award the following year with their follow up live album, Live: Deep in the Heart of Taxes . The band also won top group of the year, and Dobbyn won Most Promising Male Vocalist and Top Male Vocalist.

RIANZ Awards
YearAward [3] DetailsResult
1982 Album of the YearWon
Producer of the Year Ian Morris Won
Engineer of the YearPaul Streekstra & Doug RogersWon
Sleeve Design of the YearWayne RobinsonWon

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1982)Peak
position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [4] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1982)Position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [5] 29

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References

  1. ↑ "Dave Dobbyn: Homegrown". Documentary. NZ On Screen. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "40 years of chart-topping music". Stuff. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "NZMAs". nzmusicawards.co.nz. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "Charts.nz – DD Smash – Cool Bananas". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Top Selling Albums of 1982 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 1 February 2022.


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