June 2 1980
Cold Chisel
East
Genre: Rock
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Standing on the Outside
Choirgirl
Tomorrow
One of the best experiences of this project are the Discoveries. Sometimes it’s just an album, other times it’s an entire band and their catalog.
Cold Chisel falls into the latter category. But that’s a recent thing because I missed their 70s records and only heard them when this project hit the mid-80s (which came before the early 80s cuz, of course). Twentieth Century was a masterwork collection of unheard rock tracks and front man Jimmy Barnes’ solo follow up was nearly as good.
Turns out, that’s no fluke. In fact, I bet had they traveled stateside more, they might have broken on American AOR radio. These tracks are solid. Don Walker can write, man. But, so can the rest of the band. Ian Moss’s “Never Before” and Phil Small’s “My Baby” are neat little ditties and Jimmy himself adds to the fun with the roots rocking “Rising Sun” and rambunctious “My Turn to Cry”. Even the drummer, Steve Prestwich gets a chance with “Best Kept Lies”.
No wonder these guys were big down under.
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