Primitive Calculators

Primitive Calculators And Friends

Tracklist

  1. I Can't Stop It (Single Version)
  2. Do That Dance (Single Version)
  3. Signals (Live)
  4. Beat Goes On (Live)
  5. Mud In My Eye (Live)
  6. Shout (Live)
  7. Do That Dance (Unplugged)
  8. Too Fat To Fit Through The Door - Flintstones Meet The Flintstones
  9. Morpions - Point Blank
  10. The Take - Summer
  11. Ronnie & the Rhythm Boys - Hey Joe
  12. Thrush & the Cunts - 1,2,3,4 (Live)
  13. Thrush & the Cunts - In Bed She's A Circus (Live)
  14. Zye Ye Ye - Zye Ye Ye
  15. Take Two - Lamppost To Lamppost
  16. The Egg - Let Her Know
  17. Dave Light - Rumple

About the album

FROM THE ORIGINAL 2007 PRESS RELEASE:
 

After reissuing the landmark 1979 live album by Melbourne’s ferocious synth-punk snarlers Primitive Calculators in late 2004, Chapter Music follows up with a crucial compilation of tracks by Primitive Calculators and their friends from the legendary Melbourne Little Band scene.

Including the Calculators’ only studio recording, the single I Can’t Stop It b/w Do That Dance, plus the Little Bands compilation EP (both originally released in 1979 and now highly prized collectors items), plus numerous live and rehearsal recordings, the CD examines a particularly fertile and distinctive time in Melbourne music history, which has been discussed in hushed tones ever since. It takes in bands with names like Thrush & the Cunts and Too Fat To Fit Through The Door, and ranges from disaffected Fitzroy art-punk to Sudanese tribal chanting recorded in London.

With liner notes culled from a revealing interview with Prim Calcs members Dave Light, Denise Hilton and Frank Lovece, plus rare photos and song lyrics, Primitive Calculators And Friends is a revelatory companion piece to their live album, which received a rave review from Maximum Rock’n’Roll and a 10 out of 10 Album of the Month feature in Australian Vice Magazine, amongst other stellar reviews.                                  

    

Release Date: 2007-03-12