Green Limousine

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"Green Limousine"
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Single by the Badloves
from the album Get on Board
ReleasedDecember 1993 (1993-12)
Studio Metropolis Audio (Melbourne, Australia)
Length3:48
Label Mushroom
Songwriter(s) Michael Spiby
Producer(s)
  • The Badloves
  • Doug Roberts
The Badloves singles chronology
"The Weight"
(1993)
"Green Limousine"
(1993)
"Memphis"
(1994)

"Green Limousine" is a song by Australian rock and pop band the Badloves and released in December 1993 as the third single from the band's debut studio album, Get on Board (1993). The song peaked at number 35 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart in January 1994.

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On the album liner notes, the band says "This song offers a wry comment on the willingness of certain celebrities to jump on the bandwagon of any fashionable cause. Doffing their collective caps to the traditions of 60s soul, the band took 12 hours to record the piece... it started as a pop, soul thing and we progressively stripped it back." [1]

Track listing

CD and cassette single [2] [3]

  1. "Green Limousine" – 3:48
  2. "For What It's Worth" – 3:24
  3. "Yesterday's Gone" – 5:38
  4. "Sugar Daddy" – 5:29
  5. "I Embarrass Myself" – 3:40

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [4] 35

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References

  1. The Badloves (1993). Get on Board (Australian CD album liner notes). Mushroom Records. D30976, D24025.
  2. The Badloves (1993). Green Limousine (Australian CD single liner notes). Mushroom Records. D11611.
  3. The Badloves (1993). Green Limousine (Australian cassette single sleeve). Mushroom Records. C11611.
  4. "The Badloves – Green Limousine". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 6 January 2019.