Your Average Australian Yobbo

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Your Average Australian Yobbo
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Studio album by Kevin Bloody Wilson
Released 1984
Genre Comedy/Australian humour
Length34:20
Label Both Barrels Music
CBS Records Australia
Producer Kevin Bloody Wilson
Kevin Bloody Wilson chronology
Your Average Australian Yobbo
(1984)
Kev's Back (The Return of the Yobbo)
(1985)

Your Average Australian Yobbo was the debut album by Australian singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson. It started out as just a collection of rude songs on a tape which he sold at performances at pubs and clubs around Australia, and by mail order. 22,000 copies of the cassette, Your Average Australian Yobbo, were sold this way. [1] The album was later transferred to vinyl in 1986 and then re-released on CD in April, 2002. [2] [3]

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Track listing

All tracks written by Denis Bryant. [4]

  1. "Sunday Morning" - 3:42
  2. "I Gave Up Wanking" - 4:01
  3. "Cum Chin Mi Gurflen" - 1:39
  4. "Arr Fuck" (The Instrumental) - 1:59
  5. "Country Bumpkin" - 3:48
  6. "That Fucking Cat's Back" - 2:55
  7. "Stack the Fridge" - 2:31
  8. "Ailments of the Eighties" - 2:16
  9. "Wow, Did I Get Whacked!" - 5:48
  10. "The Festival of Life" - 5:41

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References

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  2. "Your Average Australian Yobbo". Poem Hunter.com. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
  3. "Archived Australasian Releases - April, 2002". ARIA. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
  4. "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA . Retrieved 2008-05-08.