Raw Material #10 1989 04 04 Middle Park Hotel album (cover)

Desk tape showcasing early Ghost Nation material.

Released In: [Australia / NZ].

Release Date: Digital: 21 January 2022.

Australian Chart Position: N/A.

Availability: Streaming audio only.

Track Listing(s)

Legend:

 Commercial single.
 Promotional single.

Version: Digital album.

Album length: 62 minutes, 10 seconds.

ReplayGain loudness: -2.46dB.

1. Wishing Well
2. Running Water
3. When The River Runs Dry
4. Blind Eye
5. Ghost Nation
6. 42 Wheels
7. The Way You Live
8. Everything You Love (The Price Of Freedom)
9. Inside Looking Out
10. Carry Me
11. Crime Of Passion
12. Shifting Silver
13. Inside A Fireball

Original studio source of the songs on this live album:

• The Jaws Of Life contains:
  • 42 Wheels
  • Carry Me
• Living Daylight EP (attached to most Human Frailty albums) contains:
  • Inside A Fireball
• What’s A Few Men? / Fate contains:
  • Wishing Well
• Ghost Nation contains:
  • Running Water
  • When The River Runs Dry
  • Blind Eye
  • Ghost Nation
  • The Way You Live
  • Crime Of Passion
• Mutations contains:
  • Everything You Live (as The Price Of Freedom)
• Unreleased:
  • Inside Looking Out
  • Shifting Silver

Review

N/A.

Liner Notes

In early 1989, Hunters and Collectors set to work on what would become Ghost Nation by the end of the year. Unusually, the band chose to flesh out significant new material live – over a few (mainly) Tuesday nights in March and April at Melbourne’s Middle Park Hotel.

Early versions of the Ghost Nation hits – When The River Runs Dry, Blind Eye and The Way You Live – are all here. A rare live performance of Running Water also features. Then there are tracks that never made it onto a record! The gig is rounded out with some choice fan favourites.

The band were kind enough to record this one onto an early digital format involving PCM data being stored on VHS tape. Cheers to John for holding on to this – and for still having a working Sony PCM-501ES machine that could read it!

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.