Local and/or General

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Local and/or General
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Studio album by
Models
ReleasedOctober 1981
RecordedFarmyard Studios, Bucks, United Kingdom
Genre New wave
Label Mushroom
Producer Stephen W Tayler, Models
Models chronology
Cut Lunch
(1980)		Local and/or General
(1981)		 Pleasure of your Company
(1983)
Singles from Local and/or General
  1. "Local and/or General"
    Released: November 1981
  2. "Unhappy"
    Released: December 1982

Local &/or General is the second studio album by Australian new wave rock band Models, [1] which peaked at #30 on the Australian albums chart. [2] It was released in October 1981 on Mushroom Records with Stephen W Tayler producing. [3]

Contents

Early in 1981, Janis Friedenfelds was replaced on drums by Mark Hough (a.k.a. Buster Stiggs) from New Zealand band The Swingers. [3] Prior to flying to the United Kingdom to record Local &/Or General, Models had made some demo recordings, which proved successful enough to be released as an EP, Cut Lunch in June. [1] One track, "Man o' Action", from that EP was re-recorded for Local &/or General. [1] The album provided two singles, "Local and/or General" in November and "Unhappy" in 1982, neither peaked into the Australian Top 50 singles chart. [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sean Kelly and Andrew Duffield [4] unless otherwise shown.

Local and/or General
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Local and/or General"Sean Kelly [5] 3:20
2."Truth About Truth About Scientists" 2:22
3."Unhappy"Mark Ferrie, Andrew Duffield) [6] 3:22
4."Telstar" Joe Meek [7] 0:55
5."Dying for My Country at the War"Sean Kelly [8] 3:39
6."Drive and Reflex" 5:00
7."Bantam Had"Sean Kelly [9] 4:04
8."Man O' Action"Sean Kelly, Mark Hough [10] 3:40
9."Drunk in the House"Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Mark Ferrie, Mark Hough [11] 3:06
10."Tearing Hair Out"Sean Kelly [12] 3:33
11."Rate of Change" 3:16

Personnel

Credited to: [13]

Musicians

Models

Production

In pop culture

The album gives its title to the name of a radio program focussing on new Australian music on Melbourne radio station Triple R.

Television music quiz program RocKwiz has a round on general music knowledge titled "Local and/or General" after the album.

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  6. ↑ ""Unhappy" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 4 March 2009.
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  11. ↑ ""Drunk in the House" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 4 March 2009.
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