Electric Digger Dandy | ||||
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Released | June 1991 | |||
Recorded | 1990–1991 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 47:00 | |||
Label | Free City Music/ Virgin (Australia) Charisma (US) | |||
Producer | Simon Hussey | |||
James Reyne chronology | ||||
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Singles from Electric Digger Dandy | ||||
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Alternative cover | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Electric Digger Dandy is the third solo studio album by Australian singer/songwriter James Reyne released in June 1991. The album was released in the United States as Any Day Above Ground. The album peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Charts and remains Reyne's highest-charting album. [2]
The album saw Reyne's return to a more electric sound. It features the singles "Slave","Any Day Above Ground" and "Some People",as well as a new,acoustic rendition of the Australian Crawl song "Reckless".
Tomas Mureika of AllMusic wrote that on "Electric Digger Dandy Reyne expanded his musical boundaries with collaborations with Jim Vallance and Tony Joe White. The result is an invigorated Reyne,who seems to be having a great time winding his voice around gorgeous melodies and intense rants alike. Despite its nutty had-to-be-changed-for-America title,Digger Dandy finds a more introspective experimental Reyne,one content to play the music at a lower level and let his words and stiletto voice speak for itself." [3]
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [2] | 3 |
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [4] | 83 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [5] | Gold | 35,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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