The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake

The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake is the second studio album by Australian rock band Spiderbait, released in 1995. It peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Albums Charts.[2]

The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake
Studio album by
Spiderbait
Released25 September 1995 (1995-09-25)
RecordedSeptember 1994 – March 1995[1]
Studio
  • Birdland Studios, Melbourne
  • ABC Studios, Sydney
  • Rockinghorse Studios, Byron Bay[1]
Genre
Length37:22
LabelPolydor/Universal
ProducerSpiderbait[1]
Spiderbait chronology
Shashavaglava
(1993)		 The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake
(1995)		 Ivy and the Big Apples
(1996)
Singles from The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake
  1. "Jesus"
    Released: 1994
  2. "Monty"
    Released: September 1995
  3. "I Gotta Know"
    Released: December 1995
  4. "Sam Gribbles"
    Released: April 1996

The album was named after the real unfinished Spanish galleon built in Spiderbait's home town, Finley, which was a "failed civic beautification project."[3][4] The galleon had been partly constructed for many years, before being burnt to the water line by an unknown arsonist. It was then rebuilt in its entirety but then burnt down again and now no longer exists.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]

Emma MacDonald of The Canberra Times opined, in October 1995, that "the music is inventive and quite melodic but, be warned, what seems like a nice musical jaunt at first can turn into a thrashing, speaker-blowing experience without the slightest warning."[4] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt it "found the band adding a jazzier touch (as on the title track) to the usually frantic, distortion-fuelled thrash-pop style."[3] Jonathan Lewis of AllMusic that it "consisted of short (most songs are under three minutes) blasts of punk-pop. With their buzzing guitars and the strange vocals of lead singer Kram, Spiderbait were a kind of hybrid of the rawer moments of the Pixies and the Muffs, but less melodic than either of those two."[5]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."I Gotta Know"2:03
2."Sam Gribbles"2:28
3."Monty"2:34
4."Who Are the Freemasons?"3:21
5."Riot"3:18
6."Spanish Galleon"2:58
7."Jesus"1:51
8."Chuck Picola"1:22
9."Yeah O Yeah"1:09
10."Ooga Booga"2:58
11."Goal"2:32
12."Detective" (The song "Detective" ends at 3:20. After 5 minutes of silence (3:20 - 8:20) begins an untitled hidden track: it's a section, where instructional audio on table playing is accompanied by a MIDI track reminiscent of a Casio keyboard tune.)10:48

Charts
Chart (1995/96) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] 14

Release history
Country Release date Format Label Catalogue
Australia 25 September 1995 CD, Cassette Polydor 529155-2

References
  1. The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake (CD liner notes). Spiderbait. Polydor. 1995. 529 155-2.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. Hung, Steffen. "Discography Spiderbait". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  3. McFarlane, 'Spiderbait' entry. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  4. MacDonald, Emma (2 October 1995). "Home Entertainment: Titles Justify CD Purchase". The Canberra Times. 71 (22, 082). p. 34. Retrieved 27 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. Lewis, Jonathan. "The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake – Spiderbait". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
  6. "Australiancharts.com – Spiderbait – The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake". Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.