Stupor Ego, released in 1996, is the first live album to be released by

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. The album contains live recordings from performances at the Harbourside Brasserie in mid-1994, and at Goosens Hall on July 30, 1995, as part of national radio station

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's ''Real Appeal'' broadcast. When asked if Stupor Ego would be re-pressed Tim Freedman replied:

"''I want 'Jesus' gone. It offends people and death threats are no fun ... Mixed with this motive was my perception that people were buying tupor Egoat gigs thinking it represented what they had just seen. They would get a shock when they got home and played it''.

Due to its discontinued status, extreme rarity and nostalgia value (it features The Whitlams in the initial trio of

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and Andy Lewis), copies of this CD have been known to sell for hundreds of dollars.

Track listing

#" Stuck In The Middle ith You ( J. Egan, G. Rafferty) - 3:24 #"Dumb Bloke" (W. Madigan) - 2:08 #"Rollercoaster" ( J. Richman) - 2:18 #"

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" ( T. Freedman, A. Lewis) - 3:51 #"Happy Days" ( S. Plunder) - 2:12 #"Ballad Of Lester Walker" (S. Plunder) - 3:57 #"I Get High" (T. Freedman, S. Plunder) - 3:33 #"Jesus Has Got an Erection" (T. Freedman, G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 1:49

Personnel

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–

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

, vocals * Andy Lewis –

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* Stuart Eadie -

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* Michael Vidale –

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(Tracks 7–9)

Trivia

Tracks 1 through 7 are given inaccurate duration in the liner notes. This varies from a few seconds to 23 seconds (for Track 7, listed as 3:34 in the notes). Track 3, though printed in the notes (and on the disc itself) as Rollercoaster, is a cover of "Roller Coaster By The Sea" by

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. It is preceded by a few bars of The Whitlams' song "Gough". The Gershwin brothers are, for Track 9, jointly credited with Tim in the notes (and on the disc) as "G & I Gerschwin".

References

External links

Official site
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