Free Dirt

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Free Dirt
Died Pretty - Free Dirt.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1986
RecordedNovember 1985
StudioTrafalgar Studios, Sydney
Genre Alternative rock, Aussie rock
Length47:48
Label Citadel, What Goes On [1]
Producer Rob Younger
Died Pretty chronology
Free Dirt
(1986)
Pre-Deity
(1988)
Singles from Free Dirt
  1. "Stoneage Cinderella"
    Released: 1986
  2. "Blue Sky Day"
    Released: 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Free Dirt is the first full-length album by Australian alternative rock band Died Pretty, released in 1986. [3] [4] The album was repackaged in 2008 by Aztec Music with a second CD containing seven singles and six live recordings from 1986.

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "The highly recommended album — which contains glimmers of the ’60s, Dylan, Gram Parsons, folk-rock and neo-psychedelic — uses guest contributions of mandolin, violin, pedal steel and sax to magnify the band’s own essential variety." [1]

Track listing

All songs written by Brett Myers and Ron Peno, except where noted.

  1. "Blue Sky Day" – 3:29
  2. "Round and Round" – 2:41
  3. "Wig-Out" – 3:06
  4. "Laughing Boy" – 3:34
  5. "Through Another Door" (Myers) – 3:17
  6. "Life to Go (Landsakes)" – 5:31
  7. "Just Skin" (Myers) – 6:37
  8. "The 2000 Year Old Murder" – 4:31
  9. "Next to Nothing" – 6:47
  10. "Stoneage Cinderella" (Atkinson, Myers, Peno) – 3:19
1992 re-release bonus track [5]
  1. "Yesterday's Letters" (Myers) – 4:56

Personnel

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