Band Name: Hard-Ons
Music Album: Hard-Ons
Album Release Date: April 1987
Music Genre: Punk Rock
Record Label: Waterfront Records
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 10 Tracks Vinyl LP
The Hard-Ons are a melodic punk rock band from Sydney, Australia who officially formed in 1982. They are often acknowledged as Australia's most commercially successful independent band and have found international success since the release of their debut Surfin On My Face EP in 1985 (later re-released in 1987 on Australia's Waterfront Records).
The band's origins can be traced back to Western Sydney's Punchbowl Boys High School, where all three original band members were students. The multicultural trio of Keish De Silva (of Sri Lankan descent), Blackie (Yugoslavian heritage) and Ray Ahn (Korean ancestry) were initially too young to play gigs in pubs, but honed their skills playing at parties, school dances and the famous Sydney "all ages shows" of the era.
Largely influenced by punk, metal and psychedelic bands, the Hard-Ons sound is hard to categorise, though their love of the independent punk spirit (with the members deliberately controlling their own careers: recording, booking and promoting themselves, creating thei (...)
| A1 | The Girl In The Sweater | 2:42 |
| A2 | Lollipop | 2:14 |
| A3 | Buddies | 2:01 |
| A4 | Squat House | 1:36 |
| A5 | Wog Food | 2:50 |
| B1 | I Heard Her Call My Name | 2:54 |
| B2 | Dancing Girls | 2:15 |
| B3 | Then I Kissed Her | 2:11 |
| B4 | Think About You | 2:17 |
| B5 | I Farted | 2:38 |
This record is a US issue of the The Hard-Ons* - Smell My Finger 12" and the The Hard-Ons* - The Girl In The Sweater 7", originally released in their native Australia on Waterfront Records.
Photos, etc. are printed on inner sleeve.
Recorded Feb '86 and August '86
℗ 1986 Waterfront Records
© ℗ 1987 Big Time Records (America), Inc.
All songs published by Kafta Music/Best Of All Music, ASCAP except:
B3 published by Warner-Tamerlane, BMI
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