Red Back Fever / Left Hand Drive

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Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive
The Angels - Red Back Fever-Left Hand Drive.jpg
Studio album (reissue)by
The Angels
ReleasedJuly 1992
Genre Hard rock
Length101:25
Label Mushroom
Producer Steve James, The Angels
The Angels chronology
Red Back Fever
(1991)		Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive
(1992)		 Their Finest Hour... and Then Some
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [2]

Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive is a double album by Australian hard rock band The Angels, released in July 1992. [3] The album is a re-issue of 1991's Red Back Fever with a disc, titled Left Hand Drivewhich is a disc of remixes, rarities, unreleased and deleted songs and B-Sides. This was later released as the second disc of Greatest Hits - the Mushroom Years with the addition of the track "Blue Light" from the deleted Hard Evidence Tour E.P.. [4]

Contents

The set peaked at number 28 on the ARIA Charts.

Track listing

Disc 1 – Red Back Fever

  1. "Tear Me Apart" (Bob Spencer, Richard Brewster, Brent Eccles) – 5:15
  2. "Some of That Love" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 3:51
  3. "Once Bitten Twice Shy" (Ian Hunter) – 4:38 (Ian Hunter cover)
  4. "Child in You" (Amanda Brewster, R. Brewster) – 3:28
  5. "Lyin' Awake in Bed" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 5:42
  6. "Bedroom After Bedroom" (A. Brewster, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 3:58
  7. "Red Back Fever" (Spencer, Eccles, Doc Neeson, James Morley, R. Brewster) – 3:59
  8. "Don't Need You" (Spencer, Eccles, Morley, R.Brewster) – 2:20
  9. "Natural Born Woman" (Steve Marriott) – 3:40 (Humble Pie cover)
  10. "High and Dry" (Spencer, Eccles) – 5:53
  11. "Hold On" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 6:12
  12. "No More Words" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 1:42

Disc 2 – Left Hand Drive

  1. "Don't Waste My Time" (Spencer, R. Brewster) – 5:15
  2. "Junk City" (Neeson, R. Brewster, Spencer) – 6:23
  3. "Dead Man's Shoes" (R. Brewster) – 4:37
  4. "Backstreet Pickup" (Lipstick Remix) (Spencer, Neeson, R. Brewster, Morley, Terry Manning) – 7:25
  5. "Don't Break Me Down" (Spencer, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 4:48
  6. "Tear Me Apart" (Spencer, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 3:33
  7. "Straight Aces" (Neeson, Jim Hilbun, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 4:02
  8. "Blood on the Moon" (A. Brewster, R. Brewster) – 3:02
  9. "Take an X (Neeson, R. Brewster, Spencer) – 6:37
  10. "Man There" (R. Brewster) – 5:05

Personnel

The Angels
Production

Charts

Chart (1992)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [5] 28

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References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 23. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. ↑ The Angels - Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive at Rate Your Music
  4. ↑ The Angels – Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive
  5. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – The Angels – Red Back Fever / Left Hand Drive". Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
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