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Latest Release

• AUG 16, 2024
• 50 Years - The Best Of
• 25 Songs

Top Songs

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  • Khe Sanh
  • Cold Chisel (Remastered) · 1978
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  • Flame Trees
  • The Complete Cold Chisel · 1984
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  • Cheap Wine
  • East (Remastered) · 1980
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  • Bow River
  • Circus Animals (Remastered) · 1982
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  • When the War Is Over
  • Circus Animals (Remastered) · 1982
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  • Forever Now
  • Circus Animals (Remastered) · 1982
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  • Ita
  • East (Remastered) · 1980
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  • Standing On the Outside
  • East (Remastered) · 1980
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  • My Baby
  • East (Remastered) · 1980
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  • Saturday Night
  • Twentieth Century · 1984

Essential Albums

• Circus Animals (Remastered) Circus Animals (Remastered)

  It would’ve been easy for Cold Chisel to build on the pop-rock success of 1980’s East. But with their 1982 follow-up Circus Animals, the group did an about-face, making ** a record that was at times aggressive (“You Got Nothing I Want”) and quasi-experimental (“Taipan”, “Numbers Fall” and “Letter to Alan”, a tribute to former roadie Alan Dallow, who passed away in a car accident). At the time, Australian rock groups such as Men At Work and INXS were receiving international attention. Chisel, however, were so angered by the lack of support from their US record label while promoting ** the more instantly palatable ** East that the experience inspired the title of this album—a reference to how the band felt in America when required to perform and parade for an industry that didn’t care for them—and its biting opening track, “You Got Nothing I Want”. Keyboardist and songwriter Don Walker may have spearheaded the commercial appeal of East, but here he contributes the record’s most surprisingly complex songs, including “Houndog”, “Numbers Fall” and “Wild Colonial Boy”, a hostile, anti-corporation screed informed ** by the anonymous 19th-century ballad of the same name. (“And when they shaft my brother dear and pay him off with lies/I fill my hand with the union card and aim between their eyes,” snarls frontman Jimmy Barnes.) Drummer Steve Prestwich wrote two of the album’s most approachable ** moments in “When the War Is Over” and the reggae-tinged “Forever Now”, the album’s biggest hit, while Ian Moss’ “Bow River”—named after a small outpost between Kununurra and Halls Creek in Western Australia where his brother Peter worked at a sheep station—went on to become a staple of the band’s live set.

• East (Remastered) East (Remastered)

  1980

Albums

• Blood Moon Blood Moon

  2019

• The Perfect Crime (Bonus Track Version) The Perfect Crime (Bonus Track Version)

  2015

• No Plans No Plans

  2012

• The Last Wave of Summer (Deluxe Edition) The Last Wave of Summer (Deluxe Edition)

  1998

• Twentieth Century Twentieth Century

  1984

• Breakfast at Sweethearts (Remastered) Breakfast at Sweethearts (Remastered)

  1979

• Cold Chisel (Remastered) Cold Chisel (Remastered)

  1978

Music Videos

• Getting the Band Back Together

  2019

Artist Playlists

• Cold Chisel Essentials Cold Chisel Essentials

  The Oz rock legends helped shape the sound of Australia.

• Set List: Cold Chisel's The Big Five-0 Tour Set List: Cold Chisel's The Big Five-0 Tour

Singles & EPs

• Khe Sanh (Live) - Single Khe Sanh (Live) - Single

  2017

• Four Walls (Live) - Single Four Walls (Live) - Single

  2017

• Don't Let Go (Live) - Single Don't Let Go (Live) - Single

  2017

• Last Stand Out-Takes (Live) - EP Last Stand Out-Takes (Live) - EP

  2011

• Live at the Wireless 29.3.77 - EP Live at the Wireless 29.3.77 - EP

  2011

• You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine (Recorded Live) - EP You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine (Recorded Live) - EP

  1978

Live Albums

• The Live Tapes, Vol. 5: Live at the Bondi Lifesaver, Feb 29, 1980 The Live Tapes, Vol. 5: Live at the Bondi Lifesaver, Feb 29, 1980

  2020

• The Live Tapes, Vol. 4: The 'Last Stand' of the Sydney Entertainment Centre, December 17 and 18, 2015 The Live Tapes, Vol. 4: The 'Last Stand' of the Sydney Entertainment Centre, December 17 and 18, 2015

  2017

• The Live Tapes, Vol. 3: Live at the Manly Vale Hotel, June 7, 1980 The Live Tapes, Vol. 3: Live at the Manly Vale Hotel, June 7, 1980

  2016

• The Live Tapes, Vol. 2: Live at Bombay Rock, April 27, 1979 The Live Tapes, Vol. 2: Live at Bombay Rock, April 27, 1979

  2014

• The Live Tapes, Vol. 1: Live at the Hordern Pavilion, April 18, 2012 The Live Tapes, Vol. 1: Live at the Hordern Pavilion, April 18, 2012

  2013

• Live In St Leonards Park 28.5.78 Live In St Leonards Park 28.5.78

  2011

• Ringside (Live) Ringside (Live)

  2003

Compilations

• 50 Years - The Best Of 50 Years - The Best Of

  2024

• Covered Covered

  2011

• Besides: B-Sides/Bonus Tracks/Rarities Besides: B-Sides/Bonus Tracks/Rarities

  2011

• Never Before Never Before

  2011

• The Complete Cold Chisel The Complete Cold Chisel

  1998

• Teenage Love Teenage Love

  1994

• Circus Animals (Remastered) Circus Animals (Remastered)

  1982

About Cold Chisel

Few Australian rock bands are as successful or adored as the Adelaide-formed Cold Chisel. The group rose to prominence in the late ’70s and early ’80s on the basis of heart-on-sleeve pub rock with anthemic choruses and socially conscious lyrics, capturing youthful striving and angst via piano-driven soul ballads (“My Baby,” “Choirgirl”) and harder-edged blues rockers such as “Goodbye (Astrid, Goodbye).” Cold Chisel coalesced in 1973 and initially favored a sound indebted to hard rock and heavy metal. Yet the band—whose most successful lineup included vocalist Jimmy Barnes, guitarist Ian Moss, bassist Phil Small, drummer Steve Prestwich, and pianist Don Walker—spent the next few years refining their approach. The time was well spent: With empathetic lyrics that captured a post-Vietnam War generational zeitgeist, their Creedence Clearwater Revival-reminiscent 1978 debut single, “Khe Sanh,” became their signature song. This laid the groundwork for 1980’s multiplatinum breakthrough East (featuring the R&B-influenced hit “Cheap Wine”) and the chart-topping 1982 LP Circus Animals. The band broke up in 1983, and Barnes established a successful solo career; Cold Chisel were inducted into the prestigious ARIA Hall of Fame a decade later and reformed in 1997. Sporadic touring and new albums (including 2019’s Blood Moon) followed over the next few decades. Although the band have weathered sad moments, such as Prestwich’s 2011 death from a brain tumor, the core quartet remain together and their songs continue to reach new generations of fans.

FROM Adelaide, Australia FORMED September 1973 GENRE Rock

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