Sweeter Than the Radio

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Sweeter Than the Radio
Studio album by
Released1999
RecordedJanuary 1999
StudioHothouse Studios, St Kilda
GenreRock
Length48:00
LabelRubber Records
ProducerIcecream Hands, Wayne Connolly
Icecream Hands chronology
Memory Lane Traffic Jam
(1997)
Sweeter Than the Radio
(1999)
Broken UFO
(2002)

Sweeter Than the Radio is the third album by Australian rock band Icecream Hands. It was released in 1999[1][2] and was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2000.

Track listing[edit]

(All songs by Charles Jenkins except where noted)

  1. "Can Anyone Be Hypnotised?" — 3:21
  2. "Spiritlevel Windowsill" — 2:26
  3. "Dodgy" (Charles Jenkins, Douglas Lee Robertson) — 2:40
  4. "Rise, Fall & Roll" — 3:07
  5. "Nipple" — 3:41
  6. "Yellow & Blue" (Robertson) — 2:31
  7. "Gasworks Park" — 5:18
  8. "Picture Disc From the Benelux" (Derek G. Smiley, Douglas Lee Robertson, Charles Jenkins) — 3:18
  9. "Bad Hip" — 3:07
  10. "You Could Be Reported" — 4:12
  11. "Giving It All Away" — 3:43
  12. "Stupid Boy" — 3:05
  13. "Magic Pudding Blues" — 1:54
  14. The Obvious Boy" — 3:28
  15. "Seawall" — 2:01

Personnel[edit]

  • Marcus Goodwin — guitar
  • Charles Jenkins — guitar, vocals
  • Douglas Lee Robertson — bass, vocals
  • Derek G. Smiley — drums, vocals

Additional personnel[edit]

  • David Owen — keyboards ("Can Anyone Be Hypnotised?", "Dodgy")
  • Elroy Falcon — guitar ("Dodgy," "Bad Hip," "Magic Pudding Blues")
  • Anita Quayle — cello
  • Craig Harnath — keyboards ("Gasworks Park")

References[edit]

  1. ^ Noel Mengel, "Melting moments," The Courier-Mail, 31 December 1999.
  2. ^ Bernard Zuel, "Stay in touch," Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October 1999.