The Perfect Crime (CD)
- Artist:
- Cold Chisel
With The Perfect Crime there's a real sense among the band that they might just have pulled off the most definitive musical statement in the band’s unparalleled four-decade career. The first half of the album is dominated by a set of pulsating, menacing rockers, at once distinctly Cold Chisel, and yet for the most part quite unlike anything they’ve previously committed to tape.
"It’s probably the most rock & roll album that we’ve done," said primary songwriter Don Walker. “It’s historically been one of the bugbears that everyone brings in ballads or mid-paced songs,” adds Don, “but our producer Kevin Shirley was relentlessly looking for stuff that was up-tempo." Lead singer Jimmy Barnes agrees: “We wanted to do a rock record and Kevin was pushing for that from day one.”
The second half of The Perfect Crime then pushes all kinds of boundaries, ranging across slow-motion Soul Train-style disco (yes, disco!), ’50s Latino cabaret, smatterings of blues and jazz...and then, for the first time ever, strings (along with soulful female backing vocals) find their way onto a Cold Chisel song, on the album’s stone-cold classic lead-out single, “Lost.”
Tracklist
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alone For You | 3:11 |
| 2 | The Backroom | 3:36 |
| 3 | All Hell Broke Lucy | 4:06 |
| 4 | The Perfect Crime | 2:41 |
| 5 | Long Dark Road | 4:34 |
| 6 | Four In The Morning | 5:23 |
| 7 | The Mansions | 3:13 |
| 8 | The Toast Of Paris | 4:43 |
| 9 | Shoot The Moon | 3:30 |
| 10 | Mexican Wedding | 3:35 |
| 11 | Get Lucky | 3:03 |
| 12 | Bus Station | 5:12 |
| 13 | Lost | 4:06 |
| 14 | Romantic Lies | 3:30 |
| 15 | Blue Flame | 4:17 |