Raw Material #08 1987 05 21 RPM album (cover)

Desk tape from the What’s A Few Men? era.

Released In: [Australia / NZ].

Release Date: Digital: 4 February 2022.

Australian Chart Position: N/A.

Availability: Streaming audio only.

Track Listing(s)

Legend:

 Commercial single.
 Promotional single.

Version: Digital album.

Album length: 88 minutes, 01 seconds.

ReplayGain loudness: -3.01dB.

1. Faraway Man
2. The Way To Go Out
3. Is There Anybody In There?
4. Living Daylight
5. January Rain
6. Relief
7. So Long Ago
8. Say Goodbye
9. Getting Older
10. Throw Your Arms Around Me
11. Breakneck Road
12. Stuck On You
13. Dog
14. 99th Home Position
15. Inside A Fireball
16. What’s A Few Men?
17. The Slab
18. Everything’s On Fire
19. 42 Wheels

Original studio source of the songs on this live album:

• The Jaws Of Life contains:
  • The Way To Go Out
  • The Slab
  • 42 Wheels
• Human Frailty contains:
  • Is There Anybody In There?
  • Relief
  • Say Goodbye
  • Throw Your Arms Around Me
  • Stuck On You
  • Dog
  • 99th Home Position
  • Everything’s On Fire
• Living Daylight EP (attached to most Human Frailty albums) contains:
  • Living Daylight
  • January Rain
  • Inside A Fireball
• What’s A Few Men? / Fate contains:
  • Faraway Man
  • So Long Ago
  • Breakneck Road
  • What’s A Few Men?
• Unreleased:
  • Getting Older

Review

N/A.

Liner Notes

When it comes to love for the Hunnas outside of Australia, there are certain places that come to mind: New Zealand, Sweden and… Canada. Fortunately for the latter, we have this cracking recording from Toronto.

This is not the well circulated RPM bootleg from 18 November 1986 where Doug taunts the rowdy but highly appreciative crowd with “…and I always thought Toronto was the Lone Ranger’s horse.” This is the return the following year with a fistful of new songs.

All three songs from the Living Daylight EP are here. Songs from the upcoming What’s A Few Men? and Fate albums are rising, including very early versions of Faraway Man and So Long Ago. There is also a rare cover of Getting Older by New Zealand band The Clean. With 19 tracks, there is much to enjoy – and the magnificent Toronto punters lap it up.

Our desk tape selections complement the official professional recordings already available – The Way To Go Out (The Venue, Melbourne, 1984), Living in Large Rooms and Lounges (The Continental and others, 1995), Under One Roof (Selinas, Sydney, 1998) and Live 2014 (The Palais, Melbourne). All can be found on streaming audio, including Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music and Apple Music.