This is the Magic Mile

This is the Magic Mile
Compilation album by Ed Kuepper
Released	December 2005
Genre	Indie rock
Length	3:35.44
Label	Hot Records
Producer	Ed Kuepper, Phil Punch
Ed Kuepper chronology

Last updated February 28, 2019

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This is the Magic Mile is a three-CD compilation album by Australian rock guitarist Ed Kuepper, released in 2005. The album is a 49-track retrospective of his output from 1991 to 2000. While Smile ... Pacific (2000) and Character Assassination (1994) are heavily represented—with 15 tracks drawn from the two albums—the collection also includes a 1994 single ("If I Had a Ticket"), several cuts from limited-release mail-order albums and two tracks from his side project The Aints.

Edmund "Ed" Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the punk band The Saints (1973–78), the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns (1979–85) and the grunge-like The Aints!. He has also recorded over a dozen albums as a solo artist using a variety of backing bands. His highest charting solo album, Honey Steel's Gold, appeared in November 1991 and reached No. 28 on the ARIA Albums Chart. His other top 50 albums are Black Ticket Day, Serene Machine and Character Assassination. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993 he won Best Independent Release for Black Ticket Day and won the same category in 1994 for Serene Machine.

<i>Character Assassination</i> (album) album by Ed Kuepper

Character Assassination is the eighth solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper recorded in 1994 and released on the Hot label. Early pressings of the album were released with an additional disc Death to the Howdy-Doody Brigade containing the undubbed master versions of all songs but one from Character Assassination and one new song.

The Aints is a band name used by Ed Kuepper during his prolific early 1990s period for loud, feedback-drenched three-piece performance and recordings. In 2017, Kuepper convened a new iteration, this time known as The Aints!.

The album includes a song, "Camooweal", that had originally been recorded for the Slim Dusty tribute album Not So Dusty (1998), which had also featured Midnight Oil, Mental as Anything and Cold Chisel's Don Walker. Other covers included AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" and Eric Burdon's "When I Was Young".

Slim Dusty, AO MBE was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and numerous recordings. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs.

Midnight Oil are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey (guitar) and Bones Hillman. The group was formed in Sydney in 1972 by Hirst, Moginie and original bassist Andrew James as Farm: they enlisted Garrett the following year, changed their name in 1976, and hired Rotsey a year later. Peter Gifford served as bass player from 1980–1987.

Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes on lead vocals and, in 1975, Phil Small became their bass guitarist. The group disbanded in late 1983 but subsequently reformed several times. Musicologist Ian McFarlane wrote that they became "one of Australia's best-loved groups" as well as "one of the best live bands", fusing "a combination of rockabilly, hard rock and rough-house soul'n'blues that was defiantly Australian in outlook."

Track listing

(All songs by Ed Kuepper except where noted)

Disc one
No.	Title	Origin	Length
1.	"All of These Things"	from Frontierland , 1996	4:43
2.	"Confessions of a Window Cleaner"	from A King in the Kindness Room , 1995	5:52
3.	"Electrical Storm"	from Ed Kuepper and His Oxley Creek Playboys—Live!, 1998	6:39
4.	"La Di Doh"	from Character Assassination , 1992	4:56
5.	"MDDP Ltd"	from Frontierland, 1996	4:40
6.	"My Best Interests at Heart"	from Ed Kuepper and His Oxley Creek Playboys—Live!, 1998	4:34
7.	"I Wish You Were Here"	from Serene Machine , 1993	3:05
8.	"Fireman Joe"	from Frontierland, 1996	4:27
9.	"Real Wild Life"	from Black Ticket Day , 1992	3:58
10.	"Everything in the World"	from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	3:40
11.	"Sleepy Head (Serene Machine)"	from Serene Machine , 1993	4:03
12.	"Gun Runnin'"	from Cloudland, 1997	0:41
13.	"The Weepin' Willow"	from Frontierland, 1996	4:51
14.	"Without You"	from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	4:49
15.	"Like an Oil Spill"	from Ascension (The Aints), 1991	3:43
16.	"Sea Air"	from With A Knapsack On My Back, 1997	2:50
17.	"3 Stigmata of James Blood Ulmer"	from Cloudland, 1997	4:41
18.	"Everything I've Got Belongs To You"	from Honey Steel's Gold , 1991	4:12

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Origin	Length
1.	"Maria Peripatetica"	music Ed Kuepper, lyrics traditional	from Serene Machine, 1993	3:38
2.	"The Cockfighter"		from Character Assassination, 1992	3:46
3.	"Camooweal"	Slim Dusty, Mack Cormack	from Reflections of Ol' Golden Eye, 1999	5:28
4.	"By the Way"		from Character Assassination, 1992	4:04
5.	"Angel's Lament"		from Starstruck, 1996	2:48
6.	"Pretty Mary"	music Ed Kuepper, lyrics traditional	from Today Wonder , 1990	4:20
7.	"So Close to Certainty"		from Character Assassination, 1992	4:43
8.	"Baby Well I"		from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	3:14
9.	"Blind Girl Stripper"		from Black Ticket Day, 1992	8:41
10.	"How Would You Plead?"		from Frontierland, 1996	3:23
11.	"Ill Wind"		from Character Assassination, 1992	6:39
12.	"Walked Thin Wires"		from Black Ticket Day, 1992	6:33
13.	"Little Fiddle"		from Character Assassination, 1992	4:11
14.	"Still Call This Failure My Home"		from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	3:49
15.	"Horse Under Water"		from Today Wonder, 1990	4:39
16.	"Car Headlights"		from "If I Had a Ticket" single, 1994	2:15
17.	"Today Wonder Medley"		from Today Wonder, 1990	4:12

Disc three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Origin	Length
1.	"The Way I Made You Feel"		from Honey Steel's Gold, 1991	5:23
2.	"When I Was Young"	Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, Danny McCulloch	from The Exotic Mail Order Moods of Ed Kuepper, 1995	3:18
3.	"Sinnerman"	music Ed Kuepper, lyrics traditional	from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	2:46
4.	"Highway to Hell"	Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young	from The Wheelie Bin Affair, 1997	5:11
5.	"Here to Get My Baby From Jail"		from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	4:53
6.	"It's Lunacy"		from Black Ticket Day, 1992	4:02
7.	"Fever"	Eddie Cooley, John Davenport	from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	3:33
8.	"I'm With You"		from Character Assassination, 1992	3:08
9.	"Rue the Day"		from Smile ... Pacific, 2000	5:30
10.	"This Hideous Place"		from Serene Machine, 1993	3:15
11.	"Honey Steel's Gold"		from Honey Steel's Gold, 1991	5:25
12.	"Messin' Pt 2"		from A King in the Kindness Room, 1995	7:13
13.	"It's Still Nowhere"		from Ascension (The Aints), 1991	7:14
14.	"Black Hole"		from The Blue House, 1998	3:09

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References

↑ Craig Mathieson, Sun-Herald, 8 January 2006.
↑ Kathy McCabe, The Daily Telegraph, 12 January 2006.
↑ Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun, 22 January 2006.

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[1] Craig Mathieson, Sun-Herald, 8 January 2006.

[2] Kathy McCabe, The Daily Telegraph, 12 January 2006.

[3] Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun, 22 January 2006.