Drive Through Charisma

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Drive Through Charisma
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Studio album by
The Fauves
Released1993
Genre Indie rock
Label Polydor Records
The Fauves chronology
Drive Through Charisma
(1993)		 The Young Need Discipline
(1994)

Drive Through Charisma is the 1993 debut album by the Australian rock band The Fauves, released on Polydor.

Contents

The original release of the album included a 22 track bonus disc, featuring early demos and some live songs. The bonus disc was accompanied by a separate booklet titled "22 Reasons Why A Band Shouldn't Put An Album Out In Its First Few Years." The booklet was written by the band and provided critical analysis for each track.

Details

Guitarist Phil Leonard later said of the album, "I think we took a few too many dark alleys on Drive Through Charisma." [1]

Cox said, "We stumped up $15K for our first album and somehow managed to stooge Polydor into signing us who were then stuck with us for another three releases. Rarely has such a modest sum produced so much quantity. At 65 minutes with 23 track bonus disc it was like a meal at Sizzler - lots of it, but stay away from the salad bar. Reviewers were unanimous in their opinion that the album was long." [2] The album was recorded in a "mud-brick house in Daylesford", [3] "with all the gear set up in a caravan". [4]

The album was fully recorded before the band signed with major label Polydor. Cox said, "I still never really understood why they signed us to begin with. That first record is a pretty challenging listen." [4]

Reception

Craig Mathieson said, "after two years of middling grunge dysfunctionalism, the Fauves are ready to take things a step further. Drive Through Charisma mixes hyper-kinetic Sonic Youth riff-play with the deep-seated obsessions of the group's two vocalist/songwriters: Physical corruption, social divergence, sexual deviancy, deception..." [5]

Track listing

  1. Crashing Bore
  2. Hitler Youth
  3. Marble Arse
  4. Puffinhead And Manta Ray
  5. Orgasmosarion
  6. She's A Hunter
  7. Debauch Me
  8. Diving Bell
  9. Thin Body Thin Body
  10. Bone Park
  11. Self Immolator
  12. Lightning Cabinet
  13. Let Me Be your Toilet
  14. Rising Blow
  15. Arbuckle At Glenrowan

Track listing

Bonus disc:

  1. What About The Kiss?
  2. Inland Sea
  3. Blue September
  4. Crumbling
  5. Circumcision
  6. A Moments Ornament
  7. People Hater
  8. In A Time of Plague
  9. Vibrosonic
  10. Out of Season
  11. Italian Movies
  12. Net Weight, One Pound
  13. Reflecto Boy
  14. The Man Who Never Sleeps
  15. I Saw the Birth of Jesus
  16. On A Trip to Sydney
  17. The Rapids
  18. On the World's Last Day
  19. Cavalry Fought
  20. Asylum
  21. Fade Behind the Green
  22. Runaway

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References

  1. ↑ Dino Scatena. "Random Notes". Australian Rolling Stone. Sydney, NSW: Tilmond Pty Ltd (August 1994): 10.
  2. ↑ "Q&A: The Fauves". beat.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
  3. ↑ McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'The Fauves'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop . St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. p. 214. ISBN   1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 23 August 2004.
  4. 1 2 "Episode 51: Andrew Cox - The Fauves". Listen Carefully with Nathan Jolly.
  5. ↑ Craig Mathieson (April 1994). "The Fauves Corrupt Charisma". Juice. Terra Plane Press Pty Ltd. p. 38.
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