''Sweeter Than the Radio'' is the third album by Australian rock band
Icecream Hands
Icecream Hands (also seen as Ice Cream Hands) are a power pop band formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 1992 as Chuck Skatt and His Icecream Hands with Charles "Chuck Skatt" Jenkins as lead singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist, Arturo "Arch" La ...
. It was released in 1999
[Bernard Zuel, "Stay in touch," ''Sydney Morning Herald,'' 1 October 1999.] and was nominated for the
ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album
The ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Reco ...
at the
ARIA Music Awards of 2000
The 14th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 24 October 2000 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Presenters distributed 28 awards with the big win ...
.
Track listing
(All songs by Charles Jenkins except where noted)
# "Can Anyone Be Hypnotised?" — 3:21
# "Spiritlevel Windowsill" — 2:26
# "Dodgy" (Charles Jenkins, Douglas Lee Robertson) — 2:40
# "Rise, Fall & Roll" — 3:07
# "Nipple" — 3:41
# "Yellow & Blue" (Robertson) — 2:31
# "Gasworks Park" — 5:18
# "Picture Disc From the Benelux" (Derek G. Smiley, Douglas Lee Robertson, Charles Jenkins) — 3:18
# "Bad Hip" — 3:07
# "You Could Be Reported" — 4:12
# "Giving It All Away" — 3:43
# "Stupid Boy" — 3:05
# "Magic Pudding Blues" — 1:54
# The Obvious Boy" — 3:28
# "Seawall" — 2:01
Personnel
* Marcus Goodwin — guitar
* Charles Jenkins — guitar, vocals
* Douglas Lee Robertson — bass, vocals
* Derek G. Smiley — drums, vocals
Additional personnel
* David Owen — keyboards ("Can Anyone Be Hypnotised?", "Dodgy")
* Elroy Falcon — guitar ("Dodgy," "Bad Hip," "Magic Pudding Blues")
* Anita Quayle — cello
*
Craig Harnath
Craig Norman Harnath is an Australian musician who was the founding mainstay bass guitarist of the pop, funk and new wave musical group, Kids in the Kitchen from 1983 to 1988. As a songwriter he co-wrote the B-side, "Glad to Be Alive", Note ...
— keyboards ("Gasworks Park")
References
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1999 albums