You Can Ride My Bike: The Best of the Icecream Hands

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You Can Ride My Bike: The Best of the Icecream Hands
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Compilation album by Icecream Hands
Released December 2004
Genre Rock
Label Rubber Records
Icecream Hands chronology
Broken UFO
(2002) Broken UFO2002
''You Can Ride My Bike: The Best of the Icecream Hands
(2004)
The Good China
(2007) The Good China2007

You Can Ride My Bike is a compilation album by Australian rock band Icecream Hands. It was released in 2004. [1] The album was released as both a single disc—with all but one of the tracks taken from the band's first four albums—and a double disc containing b-sides and outtakes. [2]

Icecream Hands were a power pop band formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 1992 as Chuck Skatt and His Icecream Hands with Charles "Chuck Skatt" Jenkins as lead singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist, Arturo "Arch" Larizza on bass guitar, his brother Dom "Benedictine III" Larizza on lead guitar and Derek Smiley on drums. They shortened the name and released a self-titled extended play on Rubber Records in 1992. After a year Douglas Robertson had replaced Arch on bass guitar.

Contents

Track listing

Disc one

(All songs by Charles Jenkins except where noted)

  1. "The Way She Drives" — 1:55
  2. "The Ocean Floor" — 4:35
  3. "Home" — 3:18
  4. "Supermarket Scene" — 2:45
  5. "Winter's Tune" — 3:21
  6. "Paper Bird" — 3:10
  7. "Olive" — 2:39
  8. "Here We Go 'Round Now" — 3:57
  9. "Dodgy" (Charles Jenkins, Douglas Lee Robertson) — 2:44
  10. "Spirit Level Windowsill" — 2:27
  11. "Nipple" — 3:40
  12. "Yellow and Blue" (Robertson) — 2:32
  13. "Gasworks Park" — 5:18
  14. "Picture Disc From the Benelux" (Derek G. Smiley, Douglas Lee Robertson, Charles Jenkins) — 3:17
  15. "The Obvious Boy" — 3:26
  16. "Rain Hail Shine" — 3:44
  17. "Broken UFO" — 3:06
  18. "Beautiful Fields" — 3:15
  19. "Head Down" (Marcus Goodwin) — 3:33
  20. "Why'd You Have to Leave Me This Way?" — 3:27
  21. "When the Show is Over" (Robertson) — 4:06
  22. "Music by the Metre" — 4:05

Disc two

(All songs by Charles Jenkins)

  1. "Sanity Can" — 1:51
  2. "Riverside" — 2:49
  3. "Sobersides" — 3:03
  4. "Struggle Town" — 2:20
  5. "Bend" — 2:06
  6. "Early Morning Frost" — 4:24
  7. "Miller" — 2:40
  8. "Visiting Girl" — 3:18
  9. "Ed's General Store" — 2:56
  10. "It's Always Going to Get You" — 4:20
  11. "You Should Know By Now" — 3:20
  12. "I Bet It's Warm Up There" — 3:15
  13. "Three Minute Song" — 3:35
  14. "Letterbox" — 2:55
  15. "The Ballad of Human Nature" — 2:15
  16. "Can You Slide" — 3:00
  17. "Forest Hill" — 2:12
  18. "When The Bullshit Comes" — 2:45
  19. "Look At You Now" — 3:57
  20. "Sometimes" — 3:22
  21. "My Lights Are Green" — 3:31

Personnel

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References

  1. Daniel Ziffer, "Icecream melts hearts," The Age, 7 December 2004.
  2. The Herald Sun, 18 November 2004.