Crooked Little Thoughts

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Crooked Little Thoughts
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Studio album by
The Black Sorrows
Released24 February 2012 (2012-02-24)
Recorded Woodstock Studios, Platinum Studios, Melbourne
Genre
Length94:12
Label Head Records
Producer Joe Camilleri
The Black Sorrows chronology
4 Days in Sing Sing
(2009)		Crooked Little Thoughts
(2012)		 Certified Blue
(2014)

Crooked Little Thoughts is the thirteenth studio album by Australian rock band The Black Sorrows. The album was released as a 3CD + 72 page book package in February 2012. [1] [2] All tracks were written by Joe Camilleri and Nick Smith and each track is accompanied by a painting by Australian artist Victor Rubin. [3]

Contents

Reception

Michael Dywer from The West Australian said; "Crooked Little Thoughts demands engagement of the sitting down, listening and touching kind. Each disc is a digestible eight songs long, each a fresh take on Camilleri's panoramic appreciation of the soul of American music from zydeco to pop, with a cosy throng of ace muso comrades. With highlights as varied as Atlanta Coogan's roaring gospel vocal on "Lovin' You", the spooky New Orleans curb crawl of "Only Time Will Tell", the sleazy Miami disco of "Money Talkin'", the dustbowl waltz of "Salvation Song" and the Quintet du Hot Club swing of "The End of Time", these thoughts run deep enough for a long shelf life." [4]

Track listing

CD1
  1. "Money Talkin'" - 4:36
  2. "Our Town" - 4:09
  3. "Shelley" - 3:52
  4. "Lovin' You" - 3:18
  5. "Waitin' for the Hammer" - 3:22
  6. "Salvation Song" - 3:18
  7. "Lost in Wonder" - 4:21
  8. "Somewhere in this World" - 3:57
CD2
  1. "Lover's Story" - 4:00
  2. "I'm the One" - 4:00
  3. "Perfect Ending" - 4:26
  4. "Nothin' Lasts Forever" - 4:19
  5. "A Fool and the Moon" - 3:54
  6. "How Could I Have Been So Wrong?" - 4:55
  7. "The Romantic Death of Me" - 3:33
  8. "The End of Time" - 3:44
CD3
  1. "The Stars in the Sky" - 2:59
  2. "Only Time Will Tell" - 3:46
  3. "Long Cold Night" - 3:41
  4. "The Spell is Broken" - 4:55
  5. "Life's Sad Parade" - 3:29
  6. "Until the Day I Die" - 3:10
  7. "It's Only Xmas" - 4:33
  8. "Dustbowl Blues" - 2:59

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia24 February 2012 [5] CD+Book / Digital download Head RecordHEAD150

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References

  1. ↑ "Crooked Little Thoughts by The Black Sorrows". Head Records. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Crooked Little Thoughts". iTunes Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Crooked Little Thoughts (CD). The Black Sorrows. Head Records. 2012.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ↑ "CD Review: Crooked Little Thoughts (The Black Sorrows)". Yahoo. 13 April 2012. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Crooked Little Thoughts by The Black Sorrows". iTunes Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
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