The Screaming Tribesmen -The Savage Beat Of
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SCREAMING TRIBESMEN

Title: The Savage Beat Of
Label: Savage Beat (Australia)
Catalogue No: (savage002)
Format: CD (album)
Released: December 2003
Price: $30.00

The original Screaming Tribesmen ­ Mick Medew, John Hartley and Murray Shepherd ­ blazed a trail from Brisbane to Sydney in the early '80s, releasing two classic singles on Citadel Records and building a cult following world-wide. The Savage Beat of the Screaming Tribesmen brings together the band's complete studio recordings: Igloo and A Stand Alone and their respective b-sides, together with the four songs from the band's mega-rare debut four-song EP from '82 (as well as a killer and never before-heard out-take called Look In Your Eyes ­ all taken from original tapes).

Track Listing:
  1. Igloo (M Medew / R Peno) (4:01 m:s)
  2. My True Love's Blood (M Medew) (3:17 m:s)
  3. A Stand Alone (M Medew / R Peno) (3:48 m:s)
  4. Move A Little Closer (M Medew) (2:52 m:s)
  5. I Don't Wanna Know (M Medew / B Shepherd) (2:07 m:s)
  6. Lookin On (M Medew) (4:26 m:s)
  7. Look In Your Eyes (M Medew / B Shepherd) (3:45 m:s)
  8. Love Lite (Malone/Scott) (2:00 m:s)
  9. Trans 43 (M Medew / B Shepherd/Hartley) (2:21 m:s)
  10. Nobody But Me (Isley Brothers) (2:06 m:s)
  11. Psychotic Reaction (Ellner / Chaney / Atkinson / Byrne / Michalski) (3:01 m:s)
  12. Some Kinda Fun (Lee / Montez) (1:45 m:s)
  13. Left In The Dark (Draznik) (3:15 m:s)
  14. Anyway You Want It (Clark) (2:24 m:s)
  15. I Never Loved Her (Starfires) (2:47 m:s)
  16. Going All The Way (Bouyea) (2:17 m:s)
  17. See The Way (Oloman) (2:19 m:s)
  18. Walkin Out On Love (Collins) (1:39 m:s)
  19. I Can Only Give You Everything (Scott / Coulter) (3:03 m:s)
The Musicians:
Mick Medew - Guitar & Vocals  •  John Hartley - Bass & Backing Vocals  •  Murray Shepherd - Drums & Backing Vocals
Technical Details:
Tracks 1 - 2:
Recorded at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney 1982  •  Produced by Chris Masuak  •  Engineered by John Frolich

Tracks 3 - 4:
Recorded at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney 1984  •  Produced by Chris Masuak  •  Engineered by Alan Thorne

Tracks 5 - 9:
Recorded at Speak Studios Brisbane 1982. Engineered by Mark Louttit. Remixed by Murray Shepherd 2003

Tracks 10 - 19:
Recorded live in Brisbane 1982  •  Previously unreleased
Of Interest:

Also included is a wild 10-song live set from their early days in Brisbane, which is particularly revealing of the band's melodic '60s punk and garage-rock roots. It's a killer set that includes choice covers of The Human Beinz's Nobody But Me, Them's I Can Only Give You Everything and The Squires Going All The Way, classic Aussie punkers See The Way by the Black Diamonds and Some Kinda Fun by The Missing Links, and then-contemporary killers Left In the Dark by the Vertebrats (as featured on Voxx's 'Battle of the Garages' album) and Paul Collins' Walking Out On Love.

The CD is packaged with a lavish full-color 16 page booklet, which includes extensive liner notes and an interview with the band, as well as plenty of never before published colour photos.

While the more polished hard rock leanings of later Tribesmen incarnations are profiled on another CD recently released under the band's name, The Savage Beat of the Screaming Tribesmen focuses purely on this original line-up, whose sound was rawer and spirit wilder.

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