Pyramidiacs - Stuff 'n' Junk
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PYRAMIDIACS

Title: Stuff 'n' Junk
Label: Reverberation (Australia)
Catalogue No: (rev012)
Format: CD (double album)
Released: 2005
Price: $ 25.00

This 43 track double CD tracks the career of Sydney's kings of unashamed, straight-ahead power pop. It's been 10 years since the band bothered to release anything locally, so this compile features the best of their last 3 overseas albums, the early singles, first album, rarities and 2 new tracks recorded in 2005. All wrapped up in a substantial 16 page booklet of pics, posters and liners.

Track Listing - Disc 1: (74:15)
  1. Second Chance (Ellsmore / Owen) (3:39 m:s) * new song
  2. One Way Or The Other (Owen) ( 2:36 m:s)
  3. Don't Wish It (Owen) (3:48 m:s)
  4. I Can't Hide (O'Regan) (4:21 m:s)
  5. No Soul (Owen) (3:33 m:s)
  6. Gotta Be A Way (Owen) (4:20 m:s)
  7. There's Always Something (Owen) (3:20 m:s)
  8. Pretend (Owen) (3:49 m:s)
  9. Everything (Owen) (3:02 m:s)
  10. Krap TV (O'Regan) (3:45 m:s)
  11. Coming Down (O'Regan / Owen) (4:15 m:s)
  12. Stupid Questions (Owen) (3:37 m:s)
  13. Shed A Tear (Owen) (5:12 m:s)
  14. These Days (O'Regan) (3:37 m:s)
  15. Home Of The Brave (O'Regan) (4:30 m:s)
  16. Kiss Me On The Bus (Westerberg) (2:56 m:s)
  17. Make Up Your Mind (Owen) (5:04 m:s)
  18. It's Over (Owen) (4:09 m:s)
  19. I Found You (O'Regan) (4:09 m:s)
  20. Afterthought (Owen) (1:54 m:s)
Track Listing - Disc 2: (79:04 m:s)
  1. It's Not My Time (Ellsmore /Owen) (3:08 m:s) (new song)
  2. Call You 'Round (O'Regan) (2:43 m:s)
  3. Can you Feel It (Owen) (3:29 m:s)
  4. Can't Keep A Hold On You (Owen) (3:21 m:s)
  5. All You Want (Susnjara) (3:32 m:s)
  6. I Know What I Know (Owen) (4:16 m:s)
  7. Out Of Your Heart (O'Regan) (3:50 m:s)
  8. Don't Talk About Us (Mather / Mariani) (2:38 m:s)
  9. Sleep (Owen) (4:32 m:s)
  10. Take A Bow (O'Regan) (3:39 m:s)
  11. Under (Owen) (2:58 m:s)
  12. It's A Long Way Home (O'Regan) (3:28 m:s)
  13. The Cleaner (Owen) (3:34 m:s)
  14. Tuesday's Girl (O'Regan) (2:57 m:s)
  15. Fickle (Owen) (3:56 m:s)
  16. Sober (Owen) (4:08 m:s)
  17. Waiting (O'Regan) (2:03 m:s)
  18. Paper Dolls (J Lee) (1:53 m:s)
  19. You & Your Sister (C Bell) (3:12 m:s)
  20. Solo Una Vez (Owen) (3:54 m:s)
  21. It's Not You (Owen) (4:31 m:s)
  22. Superstar (Owen) (4:29 m:s)
  23. Forever Gone (Owen) (2:53 m:s)

"(The) Pyramidiacs, a band equally capable of power and delicate spot-on four part harmonies, able to take the energised melodicism of '70s powerpop such as Big Star but still able to find something original to say....In a perfect world we would all have Pyramidiacs CDs on our shelves." - Bernard Zuel - Sydney Morning Herald.

This 43 track double CD tracks the career of Sydney's kings of unashamed, straight-ahead power pop. It's been 10 years since the band bothered to release anything locally (the reasons for which will soon become apparent) - so this compile features the best of their last three overseas albums, the early singles and first album, rarities and two new tracks, recorded this year. All wrapped up in a substantial 16 page booklet of pics, posters and liners.

The intriguing story of The Pyramidiacs began in 1990 when a bunch of friends from the far flung Sydney suburb of Fairfield released their debut 7 inch; a blast of naive, teenage power-pop. Informed and inspired by the great Australian guitar bands of the '80s (we're talkin' the likes of The Sunnyboys, Hoodoo Gurus, and The Stems here), they launched themselves on a record-buying public poised to become obsessed with Nirvana and all things grunge. Their timing couldn't have been worse.

Not surprisingly the band found themselves on the margins of the independent scene. Too young to be a part of the great 1980's underground guitar boom, and playing a style of music that couldn't be more uncool in their home country if they tried, The Pyramidiacs decided to follow in the footsteps of the Hard-On's, Died Pretty and The Celibate Rifles and head straight to Europe. It was the best move they could have made.

Jump forward to 2005, and the band have carved a substantial following in Southern Europe (particularly Spain), touring countless times and commonly finding the 'Sold Out' sign hoisted outside venues they play. Bizarrely though, The Pyramidiacs' last three albums have never even found a local release and - despite a short period in the late 90s where they found themselves at the forefront of a happening guitar-pop scene centred around Sydney's Newtown, that gave birth to the likes of 78 Saab and Youth Group - they remain largely unknown in their home town (and everywhere else in Australia, for that matter). Something that the release of this compilation is set to address!

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