Cool Bananas

Cool Bananas is the first album by the New Zealand band DD Smash led by Dave Dobbyn, released in 1982. It entered the charts at number 1, purely on tour exposure.[1]

Cool Bananas
Studio album by
DD Smash
Released1982
RecordedMushroom Records
StudioHarlequin Studios (Auckland)
GenreRock
LabelMushroom
ProducerIan Morris
DD Smash chronology
Cool Bananas Live: Deep in the Heart of Taxes
Singles from Cool Bananas
  1. "'Repetition'"
    Released: 1981
  2. "'Devil You Know'"
    Released: 1982
  3. "'Solo'"
    Released: 1982

In 2015, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the New Zealand Music Charts, Recorded Music NZ honoured Cool Bananas as being the first album by a New Zealand artist to debut at No.1 on the album chart.[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dave Dobbyn.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Devil You Know"3:25
2."Bury That Gun"4:05
3."Solo"4:52
4."Blue Note"4:40
5."Repetition"3:18
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."Silence"3:01
7."Save Yer"4:33
8."White Water"3:42
9."Say"2:50
10."The Gambler"5:10

Awards

The album won Best Album at the 1982 New Zealand Music Awards. DD Smash won the same award the following year with their follow up live album, Live: Deep in the Heart of Taxes. The band also won top group of the year, and Dobbyn won Most Promising Male Vocalist and Top Male Vocalist.

RIANZ Awards
Year Award[3] Details Result
1982 Album of the Year Won
Producer of the Year Ian Morris Won
Engineer of the Year Paul Streekstra & Doug Rogers Won
Sleeve Design of the Year Wayne Robinson Won

References
  1. "Dave Dobbyn: Homegrown". Documentary. NZ On Screen. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. "40 years of chart-topping music". Stuff. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. "NZMAs". nzmusicawards.co.nz. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.



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