Bodyswerve
| Bodyswerve | |
|---|---|
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 10 September 1984 |
| Studio | Rhinoceros Studios, Sydney |
| Genre | Hard rock |
| Language | English |
| Label | Mushroom |
| Producer | Jimmy Barnes, Mark Opitz |
| Jimmy Barnes chronology | |
| Singles from Bodyswerve | |
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Bodyswerve is the debut solo album by former Cold Chisel vocalist Jimmy Barnes. The album was released on 10 September 1984 and went to No. 1 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart.[1] It contains covers of tracks by Sam Cooke and Janis Joplin. "No Second Prize" was the album's first single.
Details
[edit ]"No Second Prize" was originally demoed by Cold Chisel but never recorded by them. It was written in 1980 as a tribute to Chisel roadies Alan Dallow and Billy Rowe, who died in a truck crash. "Daylight" was also originally a Cold Chisel song. That band's version later appeared on the 1994 album Teenage Love. A version of this song was also used in a TV commercial promoting milk. "Vision", "Daylight", "No Second Prize", "Promise Me You'll Call" and "Thick Skinned" were all remixed for inclusion on 1985's For the Working Class Man . The album title is a football term for a feint.
Barnes later said, "One of the reasons my first album was so rough was that I was jumping in the deep end. I didn't have a clue, but I thought that was the best way to go."[2]
Assembling the band
[edit ]For his first solo recording, Barnes said he wanted people he felt "safe with". Drummer Ray Arnott had recorded with Barnes on Cold Chisel's final album, Twentieth Century . Bruce Howe had been a bass player with Fraternity that Barnes had sung with for a short time in 1975. Barnes said, "As far as I could tell, Bruce only played upstrokes, so his sound was very aggressive." Mal Eastick had played with Stars. Seeking a second guitarist to make the band more "hard rock", Barnes chose ex-Dingoes guitarist Chris Stockley, who played, "old-style rock, like Little Richard and Gene Vincent".[3]
Track listing
[edit ]All tracks composed by Jimmy Barnes; except where indicated
- "Vision"
- "Daylight"
- "Promise Me You'll Call"
- "No Second Prize"
- "Boys Cry Out for War"
- "Paradise"
- "A Change is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke)
- "Thick Skinned" (Barnes, Ray Arnott)
- "Piece of My Heart" (Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns)
- "Fire" (Eastick)
- "World's on Fire" (Barnes, Richard Clapton, Eastick, Howe, Arnott, Stockley)
Personnel
[edit ]- Jimmy Barnes - lead vocals
- Mal Eastick, Chris Stockley, Jimmy Barnes[4] - guitar
- Bruce Howe - bass
- Ray Arnott - drums
- Steve Hill - keyboards
- Renée Geyer, Venetta Fields, Shauna Jenson - backing vocals
- Chris Stockley - mandolin
- Viv Riley, Barry Gray - bagpipe
Charts
[edit ]Weekly charts
[edit ]| Chart (1984–85) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[5] | 1 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[6] | 35 |
Certifications
[edit ]| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[7] | ×ばつ Platinum | 140,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. p. 27. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988.
- ^ Stuart Coupe (29 November 1987). "Barnsie steams in". The Sydney Morning Herald . p. 169.
- ^ Jimmy Barnes (2017). Working Class Man. HarperCollins. pp. 260–262. ISBN 978-1460752142.
- ^ "Jimmy Barnes – Bodyswerve (1984, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Charts.nz – Jimmy Barnes – Bodyswerve". Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1998 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 26 August 2024.