''Tu-Plang'' (ตู้เพลง Thai for ''Jukebox'') (1996) was the first album released by Australian rock band

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after making two EPs. The band chose to record the album in

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, to the quandary of its label, Warner Music, which was uncertain as to what terms A&R executive Michael Parisi had contracted. Ely later said, "We didn't want to do it in just any old place, so we had a tour in Europe and Japan booked and our drummer Martin said, 'let's stop in Thailand on the way and check out some studios,' so we did and we found this place." Producer Magoo later said the studio, "was

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. He was described to us as the local, Thai,

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. He had this compound in outer Bangkok. We'd drive there and it's in the middle of all these slums. There were wild chickens running around everywhere. There were open sewers and stuff like that." At the

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, the album won two awards; Best Alternative Album and Breakthrough album. In 2012, Regurgitator performed the entire album along with ''Unit'' on the Australian RetroTech tour.

Reception

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'' described the album as, "an album that leapt from rock to rap, from fun to funk, from thrash to surf rock (a la

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), and it did nothing less than announce the arrival of the most significant band in Australia today. More successfully than any of their peers, Regurgitator showed they were committed to pushing the boundaries of contemporary music through their marriage of technology and pop." ''

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'' said the album "at times resembles a net surfer's wet dream, skipping from one style to another, sometimes mid-song," and noted Yeomans' sardonic lyrics. They later voted ''Tu-Plang'' as one of the greatest albums from the first 50 years of Australian music. Less flatteringly, AllMusic said the album was, "an utterly misbegotten funk-rap-metal fusion which, much as the band's name implies, offers merely another rehash of the usual genre fare." The song "Pop Porn" was singled out for being, "so overboard in attacking rap misogyny that it reaches levels of offensiveness beyond anything actually in the true hip-hop canon."

Track listing

# " I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am" (Q. Yeomans) # " Kong Foo Sing" (Q. Yeomans) # "G7 Dick Electro Boogie" (Q. Yeomans) # "Couldn't Do It" (Happy Shopper Mix)" (B. Ely) # " Miffy's Simplicity" (Q. Yeomans) # "Social Disaster" (Q. Yeomans) # "Music is Sport" (Q. Yeomans) # "348 Hz" (B. Ely) # "Mañana" (B. Ely) # " F.S.O." (Q. Yeomans) # "Pop Porn" (Q. Yeomans) # "Young Bodies Heal Quickly" (Q. Yeomans) # "

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* "G7 Dick Electro Boogie" contains samples of street sounds in Bangkok. Yeomans later said, "I think this song small claim to fame is attributed to the 'gang-rape a cripple' line nicely taken out of context by a few bored conservative factions floating around at the time." * Track 4 is a

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version of "Couldn't Do It" off the band's first self-titled EP. * "Blubber Boy" is an up-tempo version of "

" off the band's second EP, ''

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Release history

References

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