Grong Grong | ||||
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Released | May 5, 1986 | |||
Recorded | July – October 1983 | |||
Studio |
Seaview Ballroom ( Melbourne) | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 34:46 | |||
Label | Aberrant | |||
Grong Grong chronology | ||||
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Grong Grong is the eponymously titled debut studio album of Grong Grong, released in 1986 by Aberrant Records. [1]
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Source | Rating |
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Allmusic awarded Grong Grong two out of five possible stars. [2] Spin compared the band favorably to The Birthday Party, saying "Grong's sound screeches and shimmers smoothly in vibrato-drowned squiggles" and that the songs "only hint at the dark, heavy, and twisted minds behind this flat black slab." [3] Deborah Sprague of Trouser Press was especially complimentary towards guitarist Charles Tolnay, saying "where his fine abstract-expressionist guitar mist was subordinate to a series of overly pious Birthday Party eulogies like "Poor Herb" and "Louise the Fly." [4]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Grong Grong" | Farkas, Klestines, Taskas, Tolnay | Farkas, Klestines, Taskas, Tolnay | 4:28 |
2. | "Angels & Demons" | Farkas | Taskas | 5:10 |
3. | "Club Grotesque" | Farkas | Taskas, Tolnay | 4:01 |
4. | "Louie the Fly" | Taskas | Tolnay | 3:39 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Poor Herb" | Buchan | Tonlay | 2:50 |
2. | " Looking at You" ( MC5 cover) | Davis, Kramer, Smith, Thompson, Tyner | Davis, Kramer, Smith, Thompson, Tyner | 3:03 |
3. | "The Hills Have Eyes" ( The Meteors cover) | Fenech | Fenech | 2:46 |
4. | "Who's Got It" | Farkas | Tolnay | 3:45 |
5. | "Vlad the Impaler" | Tolnay | Tolnay | 4:04 |
Adapted from the Grong Grong liner notes. [5]
Grong Grong
Production and design
Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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Australia | 1986 | Aberrant | LP | Grunt1 |
United States | Alternative Tentacles | VIRUS 49 |
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