The Aussie Music Blog: Mental As Anything

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Reckless Kelly.....A Serious Motion Picture Soundtrack...music by various Australian artists

soundtrack to the 1993 movie starring Yahoo Serious featuring music by INXS, Yothu Yindi, The Dukes, Mental As Anything, Divinyls, James Reyne, Anthony Warlow and more.

Tracklist:
1 –Inxs Born To Be Wild 3:52
2 –The Dukes I Fought The Law 2:57
3 –Divinyls Wild Thing 4:15
4 –Alan Dargin, Yahoo Serious Awabakelly 1:18
5 –Yothu Yindi Djapana 4:03
6 –Mental As Anything Ride 3:16
7 –Anthony Warlow Handle The Fame 2:32
8 –The Dukes Happiness Is A Warm Gun 3:03
9 –Yahoo Serious Reckless Angels 0:39
10 –Single Gun Theory From A Million Miles 4:36
11 –The Dukes Faith 3:20
12 –Steve Kilbey As You Like It 4:28
13 –Succotash Bedazzled 3:52
14 –James Reyne Reckless 6:06
15 –Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Happy On My Way 1:59
16 –Yahoo Serious, The Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra Such Is Life
17 –Anthony Warlow Handle The Fame (Finale) 0:26

Reckless Kelly

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Mental As Anything...Get Wet...1979 debut album

Mental As Anything formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976 as a new wave/pop-rock band. Its most popular line-up (which lasted from 1977-1999) was Martin Plaza (birth name Martin Murphy) on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa (birth name Chris O'Doherty) on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird" Delisle (birth name David Twohill) on drums; and Andrew "Greedy" Smith on vocals, keyboards and harmonica.Their original hit songs were generated by Mombassa, O'Doherty, Plaza and Smith, either individually or collectively; they also hit the Australian charts with covers of songs by Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.

The band's debut album, Get Wet, was released on 1st November 1979. With support from nationwide TV pop show Countdown, "The Nips Are Getting Bigger" became the group's first Australian Kent Music Report top 20 hit, and also made No. 1 on the UK alternative charts when released there by Virgin Records and remains one of the group's most popular songs. Get Wet achieved a top 20 position on the Kent Music Report albums chart.

All of the early members are visual artists and have had combined studio displays, some have had solo studio displays with Mombassa's artwork also used as designs by the Mambo clothing company. The majority of the group's record covers, posters and video clips have been designed and created by themselves or their art school contemporaries. On 27 August 2009, Mental As Anything was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, The Dingoes, Little Pattie and John Paul Young.