Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard

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Box set by
Skyhooks
Released30 October 2015
Recorded1974–1975
Label Festival Records / Warner Music Group
Skyhooks chronology
The Lost Album
(1999)		Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard
(2015)		 Hits'n'Riffs
(2015)

Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard is three-disc box set by Australian glam rock band Skyhooks, subtitled '40 Years of 'Hooks Hysteria!'. The box set includes Skyhooks' first two albums Living in the 70's and Ego Is Not a Dirty Word which both peaked at number 1 in Australia in 1975. The set includes bonus original B-sides and unreleased demos. The third disc is called Skyhooks in Concert: 1974–75. it features 14 previously unreleased live tracks from 1974 and 1975. The album was packaged with a deluxe 8-panel digipak and a 36-page booklet with numerous never-before-seen images and a new essay from former Rock Australia Magazine editor and Skyhooks confidant Anthony O'Grady. [1] [2]

A box set or boxed set is a set of items traditionally packaged in a box and is offered for sale as a single unit.

Skyhooks were an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in March 1973 by mainstays Greg Macainsh on bass guitar and backing vocals, and Imants "Freddie" Strauks on drums. They were soon joined by Bob "Bongo" Starkie on guitar and backing vocals, and Red Symons on guitar, vocals and keyboards; Graeme "Shirley" Strachan became lead vocalist in March 1974. Described as a glam rock band, because of flamboyant costumes and make-up, Skyhooks addressed teenage issues including buying drugs "Carlton ", suburban sex "Balwyn Calling", the gay scene "Toorak Cowboy" and loss of girlfriends "Somewhere in Sydney" by namechecking Australian locales. According to music historian, Ian McFarlane "[Skyhooks] made an enormous impact on Australian social life".

<i>Living in the 70s</i> 1974 studio album by Skyhooks

Living in the 70's is the debut album by Melbourne band Skyhooks. Released in October 1974 on the Mushroom Records label, the album achieved relatively little success until early 1975. It spent 16 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts from late February 1975, and became the highest-selling album by an Australian act in Australia until that time, with sales of 240,000. In October 2010, it was listed at No. 9 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.

Contents

Reviews

Patrick Emery of Beat gave the album 4 out of 5 saying; "For a couple of years, there was nothing bigger in Australia than Skyhooks. To hear this compilation is to realise just why that was", adding, "The classics come thick and fast [...] But to get a sense of just how culturally significant Skyhooks were in the mid '70s, it's best to skip to the live tracks. The opening strains of 'Horror Movie' live at Festival Hall in July 1975 are accompanied by a wave of teenage hysteria; by the end of 'Love on the Radio' it's verging on madness." [3]

Track listing

All songs written by Greg Macainsh except where noted

CD1 – Living in the 70's
  1. "Living in the Seventies"
  2. "Whatever Happened to the Revolution"
  3. "Balwyn Calling"
  4. "Horror Movie"
  5. "You Just Like Me ‘Cos I’m Good in Bed"
  6. "Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)"
  7. "Toorak Cowboy"
  8. "Smut" (Red Symons)
  9. "Hey What’s the Matter"
  10. "Motorcycle Bitch"
  11. "Broken Gin Bottle" bonus track (B side of original ‘Living in the Seventies’ single)
  12. "Don’t Suck it" bonus track (Demo)
  13. "Hey Whats The Matter" bonus track (Demo)
  14. "Horror Movie" bonus track (Demo)
  15. "Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)" bonus track (Demo)
CD2 – Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
  1. "Ego is Not a Dirty Word"
  2. "Love on the Radio" (Macainsh, Steve Hill)
  3. "Saturday Night"
  4. "Love’s Not Good Enough"
  5. "The Other Side"
  6. "Smartarse Songwriters"
  7. "Mercedes Ladies"
  8. "All My Friends Are Getting Married"
  9. "Every Chase a Steeple" (Symons)
  10. "Private Eye"
  11. "Sweet Sister" bonus track (Demo)
  12. "The Other Side" bonus track (Demo)
  13. "Saturday Night" bonus track (Demo)
  14. "Love on the Radio"bonus track (Demo) (Macainsh, Hill)
  15. "Smartarse Songwriters" bonus track (Demo)
CD3 – Skyhooks in Concert: 1974-75
  1. "Hey What’s the Matter"
  2. "Living in the 70’s"
  3. "Whatever Happened to the Revolution"
  4. "Balwyn Calling"
  5. "Toorak Cowboy"
  6. "Smut" (Symons)
  7. "All My Friends are Getting Married"
  8. "Ego is Not a Dirty Word"
  9. "Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)"
  10. "Private Eye"
  11. "You Just Like Me ‘cos I’m Good in Bed"
  12. "Smartarse Songwriters"
  13. "Horror Movie"
  14. "Love on the Radio" (Macainsh, Hill)
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Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [4] 40

Release history

RegionDateFormatEdition(s)LabelCatalogue
Australia30 October 2015 [5]
Standard Festival Records, Warner Music Australia FEST601042

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References

  1. ↑ "Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Skyhooks 40th Anniversary Set 'Don't You Believe What You've Seen Or You've Heard' To Be Released". Noise11. 25 September 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Skyhooks Don't Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard". www.beat.com.au. October 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Skyhooks – Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Don't You Believe What You've Seen Or You've Heard". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
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