276:, Asia and Europe. He intended to retire from the music industry. He said, "I found myself in the rare position of having a reasonable amount of money, unlimited time and no ties, so I just took off. I mapped out a vague course that would take me a couple of years to cover most continents, and with the understanding that if I ever found myself in a place that took my fancy, I could get a job in a piano bar."
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cabaret and funk." Walker said, "Catfish was designed with a specific sound in mind and I didn't want session musicians. All of the people playing on this album have a strong personality which has affected the overall sound." Elsewhere, he noted, "To me it sounds eastern
European. I wanted to make something that was vaguely a European disco album."
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series 2, but the bass parts were later re-recorded by Ian Belton. Walker later said, ""Iād worked it down to every note that I wanted played so I was sort of a control freak at that stage. I remember Ricky Fataar begging me 'For God's sake can you turn this
Fairlight off that Iām playing along with,
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noted Walker, "toured through
Australia, Asia and Eastern Europe. These songs are linked by the narratives, the stories of cafes and bars in Europe and caravan parks in the Territory. There is the sense of detachment, a touch of voyeurism and an attempt to get some external reality into an emotional
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noted that the album may appeal to Cold Chisel fans, but the music was markedly different from his old band. "Brassy blues is the order, though a pop-rock flavour shines through some of the tracks. Walker is not about to limit himself to just one style. He moves subtly, almost quietly, from one mood
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Sequeira said of the album, "This might very well be regarded as one of our greatest pieces of contemporary music that slipped under the commercial radar. And no one knows why." Upon release, the album received minimal radio play. Walker later said, "It was the 80s and it was the real butt-end
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The press release for the album said, "twenty-five thousand miles of road and rail have carved through the last five years of your life, and there's a pile of songs lying there like shavings on a workbench. If you had friends like harmonica player David Blight and guitarist Peter Walker, you could
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Walker later noted the album was, "produced by Peter Walker and even though I was feeling my way as a singer, he managed to get good performances. And it also took me those two
Catfish albums to try and figure out what I should be doing, as far as what kind of songs suit the tales that I have to
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The album showed a different side to Walker's songwriting, reflecting his travels during the previous years. Walker said that many of the songs were initially written for his own amusement before
Catfish was conceived. One review described it as, "a weird amalgam of torch songs, Eastern European
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In 2010, the album was re-released with new cover artwork. The album was remastered by Don
Bartley, and the songs "One Night in Soviet Russia" and "Subway" were remixed by Phil Punch. The previous record label had lost the masters, but Walker had the original tapes in storage, allowing him to
339:'s band at the time. Walker said, "I immediately felt it was a single, a hit. I was really ambitious at that stage, fool that I was, and I was really concerned that because a record company had signed me to make solo records, that I should be providing radio singles."
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said, "Although steeped in the decade in which it was made, the album sounds timeless. It's dark, suave, and brilliantly worded, spanning smouldering confessionals and deconstructed funk and Motown."
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1007:: Allen & Unwin. p. 268.
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939:Natalie Rogers (20 April 2018).
18:1988 studio album by Catfish
1191:Warner Music Australasia albums
894:Showtime: The Cold Chisel Story
699:Australian Chart Book 1970ā1992
752:Lesley Sly. "Catfish Capers".
622:Peter Walker ā Record producer
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335:who were touring Australia in
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975:"Catfish ā Unlimited Address"
767:Mike Daly (15 October 1988).
663:Peter Walker ā Engineering,
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1005:Crows Nest, New South Wales
1001:Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff
225:Released: 19 September 1988
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892:Michael Lawrence (1998).
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1052:Your Name's on the Door
234:Released: 13 March 1989
216:Released: 18 April 1988
727:Australian-charts.com
594:Peter Walker ā Guitar
628:ā Executive producer
469:"In the Early Hours"
854:on 26 February 2011
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796:Aussie Music Online
697:David Kent (1993).
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875:"In from the cold"
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633:Engineering
337:James Brown
270:Cold Chisel
107:WEA Records
1175:Categories
684:References
639:Don Walker
617:Don Walker
611:Production
583:Don Walker
422:Don Walker
318:John Barth
266:Don Walker
261:Background
136:chronology
127:Don Walker
1147:7 January
659:Mastering
577:Personnel
558:position
524:"Station"
402:search."
399:Australia
374:Matchbook
358:Footloose
351:Reception
329:Tony Cook
1088:26 March
1050:(1992).
945:The Brag
825:24 March
591:ā Guitar
589:Ian Moss
480:"Subway"
369:Ian Moss
298:Ian Moss
121:Producer
59:Recorded
51:Released
41: by
1123:Inpress
960:X_Press
926:YouTube
774:The Age
606:ā Drums
408:Inpress
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255:Catfish
198:Singles
162:(1991)
153:(1988)
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44:Catfish
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436:Title
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102:Label
72:Rock
68:Genre
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1090:2014
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