"Motor's Too Fast" is a single from
Australia
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n rock musician
James Reyne
James Michael Nugent Reyne OAM (born 19 May 1957) is an Australian rock musician and singer-songwriter both in solo work and, until 1986, with the band Australian Crawl.
Biography
Early years
Reyne was born in Lagos, Nigeria. His father, Ro ...
. It was included on the international and Australian 1988 re-release of his debut
self titled
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solo
studio album
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. It was the fifth single taken from the album overall.
"Motor's Too Fast" provided Reyne a nomination for
ARIA Award for Best Male Artist
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at the
ARIA Music Awards of 1989
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. It lost to ''
Barnestorming
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'' by
Jimmy Barnes
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. The
Chantoozies
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covered the song on their self-titled debut
album
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but titled their cover "Slightest Notion".
Track listings
; CD Single/ 7”
# "Motor's Too Fast" - 3:34
# "Counting on Me" -
; Vinyl / 12"
* A1 Motor's Too Fast
* A2 Mr. Sandman
(Live)
* B1 Heaven On A Stick
(Live)
* B2 Counting On Me
(Live)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end chart
Credits
* Bass – Andy Cichon
* Drums – John Watson
* Guitar – Brett Kingman, Jef Scott
* Keyboards – Simon Hussey
External links
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References
1988 songs
1988 singles
Capitol Records singles
James Reyne songs
Songs written by James Reyne
Songs written by Simon Hussey
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