The Stems - Mushroom Soup
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THE STEMS

Title: Mushroom Soup (The Citadel Years)
Label: Citadel (Australia)
Catalogue No: (citcd555)
Format: CD (album)
Released: March 2003
Price: $25.00

The Stems came roaring out of Perth in the mid Eighties with a sound and style that definitively captured the spirit and enthusiasm of sixties garage music - lurching fuzz-tone guitars, brooding organ and solid gold garage-trash! At the core of it all though The Stems wrote some awesome songs, made great records and put on exciting live shows. Tracks like Make You Mine, Love Will Grow and Tears Me In Two mark them out as one of the truly great Australian acts of the Eighties.

Mushroom Soup - The Citadel Years brings together these break-through singles, their debut EP Love Will Grow, the video for Tears Me In Two, previously unreleased demos and alternative song versions all on one disc. This collection captures a great band at the peak of its powers.

Track Listing: (60:03 m:s)
  1. Make You Mine (D Mariani) (4:45 m:s)  (A-side Citadel single cit011)
  2. Tears Me In Two (R Lane/J Matthews) (3:22 m:s)  A-side Citadel single cit013)
  3. Just Ain't Enough (D Mariani) (2:46 m:s)  (From the Love Will Grow EP)
  4. No Heart (D Mariani) (3:18 m:s)  (Extra track off the compile Buds)
  5. Jumping To Conclusions (D Mariani) (4:14 m:s)  (From the Love Will Grow EP)
  6. Can't Resist (D Mariani) (2:35 m:s)  (B-side Citadel single cit013)
  7. Love Will Grow (D Mariani) (3:15 m:s)  (From the Love Will Grow EP)
  8. Under Your Mushroom (R Lane/J Matthews) (2:38 m:s)  (From the Love Will Grow EP)
  9. On And On (D Mariani) (4:13 m:s)  (Extra track off the compile Buds)
  10. She's A Monster (D Mariani) (3:49 m:s)  (A-side Citadel single cit011)
  11. Don't Let Me (R Lane/D Mariani) (2:20 m:s)  (Extra track off the compile Buds)
  12. All You Want Me For (J Matthews) (2:18 m:s)  (Extra track off the compile Buds)
  13. Power Of Love (D Mariani) (4:13 m:s)  (Previously unreleased single mixed by Rob Younger)
  14. For Always (D Mariani) (2:46 m:s)  (Previously unreleased demo version)
  15. Mr Misery (D Mariani) (3:13 m:s)  (Previously unreleased demo version)
  16. She's Fine (D Mariani) (2:36 m:s)  (Previously unreleased demo version)
  17. Tears Me In Two (R Lane/J Matthews) (3:08 m:s)  (Previously unreleased single version)
  18. Lon Chanery's Daughter (R Lane/D Mariani) (2:46 m:s)  (Previously unreleased)
  19. Tears Me In Two (R Lane/J Matthews) (video)  (Video by John Linahan)


    Citadel single (cit011) originally released May 1985
    Citadel single (cit013) originally released Sept 1985
    Citadel EP Love Will Grow (citep903) originally released Feb 1986
    Citadel compile Buds (citcd512) originally released 1991

The Musicians:
Richard Lane - Keyboards, Guitar & Vocals  •  Dom Mariani - Guitar & Lead Vocals  •  Julian Matthews - Bass  •  Gary Chambers - Drums
Technical Details:
Tracks 1 & 4, 9-12, 14-18:
Recorded at Shelter Studios Perth with John Gailbraith

Tracks 2 & 3, 5-8:
Recorded at Trafalgar Studios Sydney  •  Produced by Rob Younger  •  engineered by Alan Thorne

Track 13:
Recorded at Sound West Studios Perth with John Gailbraith  •  Mixed at Trafalgar Studios by Rob Younger and Alan Thorne

Tracks 4,11 & 12:
Re mixed at Revolver Studios by Ben Glatzer and Dom Mariani

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