Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes Night Of The Wolverine, by Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes

Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes Night Of The Wolverine

by Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes

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frankrossi I first heard Dave Graney and band playing the title track of this album at the Punters Club one hot Saturday night, must have been February 1994. I'd walked in just on a whim at the end of the night. Ordering at the bar, I heard those unmistakable chords, hauntingly beautiful, delicate, sad, and lyrics that enchanted me. That week I bought the CD, enthralled by the music and lyrics that I still read something new into over 30 years later. Don't hesitate to buy it for yourself. Thank you, Dave.

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2 12" 33rpm vinyl discs.
Original 1993 album was released on Compact Disc. 53 minutes long. Too long for just one disc.
Remastered for vinyl edition.
Double album with inner gatefold full of a collage of polaroids, flyers and promotional ephemera of the period.
Also includes a lyric insert which also has another collage of images on the reverse side.
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1.	You're Just Too Hip, Baby 04:20	lyrics
you're just too hip baby uh huh how did you get so detached? talkin a mouthfull of cash you're just too hip baby uh huh you take a feather from every bird you see you'll never fly you're just too hip baby I can't wait for you any more I can't carry you anymore you dont cast a shadow you cant work a mirror you take a feather from every bird you see you'll never fly you're just too hip baby youre fadin fast baby there's nothin to you baby the lights are on the front doors open the furnitures on the front lawn there's noone home at all you take a feather from every bird you see you'll never fly you're just too hip baby
2.	Mogambo 03:49	lyrics
shit you could really wear a white towel the mysterious woman from out of town a swaggering pirate a rolling stone a wild girl you saw my ship my life was a storm I felt you move with me along the shore I'd hear things about you people would talk got a kind of phantom picture of you I heard your nickname what you were called by the crowd I heard what your mother called you in a conversation about Mogambo walked around pickin up your trail pickin our your shape lovers and catfights overlaid the map treaure island Mogambo I was like a private eye who couldn't move couldnt ask a question Phillip Marlowe waiting for another door to open by itself I heard your nickname what you were called by the crowd I heard what your mother called you in a conversation about Mogambo
3.	Night Of The Wolverine 1 04:46	lyrics
saturday night golly gee monday mornin what does it mean? night of the wolverine all is reflection all is gone all around me an open road yeah up here on the 25th floor with my feet in the clouds free beer and chicken man, and hotel rooms hired cars, alligator boots a scarf over the lampshade black tape over the window one strong suitcase goin to bed in the morning breakfast in the afternoon love ya! oh next time I'm passin' through night of the wolverine I cant know what you mean know what I mean? yeah I put a hump on my back so I could walk straight in the world I'm a song and dance man Esmerelda yeah I put a hump on my back so I could walk straight in the world work with me girl! yeah I'm dreamin of a quiet life say a minor role in a re-run soap on a pirate channel in an obscure Portuguese colony I cant know what you mean know what I mean? night of the wolverine
4.	I'm Just Havin O' Of those Lives 03:47	lyrics
wouldn't it be nice? If I was just havin one o those lives Wallace Beery was right when he looked from the screen that night and said "I ain't gettin outta bed today nothins gonna happen anyway I'm just havin one o those lives" pay no mind its my time of the century I'm just havin one o' those lives wouldnt it be nice? every now and then I get the feelin everythin I do is wrong most times I get the feelin I'm right pay no mind its my time of the century I'm just havin one o' those lives wouldnt it be nice yeah yeah yeah maybe it'll be better next time Ill come back as a three toed sloth a multi couloured macaw a sickly kitten everybody has to love yeah yeah wouldnt it be nice
5.	I Held The Cool Breeze 04:24	lyrics
I was a born stranger I'd run along with the scene go home and write and dream of other days yeah I'd be sittin at a table somebody'd be talkin to me I couldn't make it back in time I held the cool breeze yeah i was your son I was your brother I was your lover I was nothin but trouble then I sold a story I could make a scene I held the cool breeze I couldnt feel anything I was empty I was drifitng birds circled in the sky it was complete night I was in the back seat being taken to Bordertown there was nothing for me there I pulled the window and let my hand stray I held the cool breeze
6.	I Remember You (you're the girl I love) 03:40	lyrics
laying back smokin watchin you in the mirror in the window brushing out your hair lookin somewhere i could never be you couldn't belong to anybody I remember you puttin a line around your eye dusting your cheek you did this once before coming to meet me I didn't have a chance I remember you you're the girl I love I chase before the bright lights before the low life before me before her I remember you you're the girl I love I chase
7.	Three Dead Passengers In A Stolen Secondhand Ford 04:00	lyrics
Three dead passengers in a stolen secondhand Ford outside of Keith, near the border wrapped around a tree and thrown across the road tyres spinning like a Ferris Wheel at the Easter Show the papers said your couldn't tell who was drivin nobody had a licence they were all wearin gloves and wrap around shades Three dead passengers in a stolen secondhand Ford somebody said he called everybody "sport" smoked cigars and kept to himself another was wearing white flared trousers and a red and green checked Miller shirt last seen makin to drag a Holden at the lights and laughin like fools as they reversed into the night she lived in a shed behind her parents house she collected model guillotines theres a picture of Serge Gainsbourg on her wall Three dead passengers in a stolen secondhand Ford
8.	That's The Way It's Gonna Be 03:56	lyrics
she kneels down with a balled up tissue in her hand spits in it wipes my chin I smell lipstick and tobacco catch my legs in the spokes of a wheel Phillip carries me home from church on his shoulders I fall asleep listenin to him breathe thats the way its gonna be thats the way its gonna be I was born in a town that hugged the side of a mountain for dear life everybody my brothers and sisters we flew as quick as we thought we could thats the way its gonna be thats the way its gonna be I don't go in there where all the people get together really out there i live here all the people I know are too busy livin to make the world a better place for their own kind you know whats goin on in the world who, what, when and where you're the sort of persom who used to be called a square till you all decided it was so unfair thats the way its gonna be thats the way its gonna be
9.	Maggie Cassidy 04:11	lyrics
before i was the loathsome king of the beats before they laid a childrens crusade on me I was a football player for the only team I was meant for Maggie Cassidy before i lost myself in conversation and followed any words anywhere never dreamed of walkin in a circle or dreamed of anyne who couldn't be here dead drunk in a bright tv studio flaked out on the floor of a timber shack just out of the city not quite in the woods I was meant for Maggie Cassidy before i stoped collecting my reflections before i didn't want to know before i tried to put the sea into words I was meant for Maggie Cassidy she's got a life of her own boys she keeps walking through a doorway in my mind I sit and drink beer with my mother I speak old french at the tv I was meant for Maggie Cassidy I was meant for Maggie Cassidy
10.	You Need To Suffer 03:19	lyrics
you need to suffer you need to straighten out you're gonna kill yourself livin the way you do you need to suffer you need to know what a good time is you need to suffer you're always puttin on other peoples shoes you're surrounded by lives you just want to wlk into you need to open up your eyes you need to realize you've come to a lonely and still place you've been blessed with a bad memory none of your friends would ever remind you life's been very kind to you you need to suffer the universe? wahts in it for you? planets move like they do a single cell on a distant shore burns, rises and falls assumes human form you need to suffer
11.	Night Of the Wolverine 2 08:32	lyrics
I passed an old friend he was lyin in the gutter with an ear full of rain I remember him sayin he was gonna prevail ohif I could've staye dhome he was everything an artist should be poor and dirty and ugly oh if I coulda stayed home yeah hed go for days without a change of clothes live without a shower smoke a lot of dope if I could have stayed home meanwhile the prince of the underworld sits by his penthouse pool champagne cool in the sauna his children search for him down below if I coulda stayed home to be at the centre to be at the scene to be seen to care to be seen to have a drink in your hand to know the score to flick the blood from your lapel and yawn lord, if I coulda stayed home what you gonna do? who you gonna be? where you gonna go? there's this friend of mine his idea of a good time is to set an exotic table in his back yard slow down and savour a flavour nop on else will ever know out there on his own closed out in the hot sun as he pleases closed 360 degree closed the King Of Adelaide lord of you and me of all we were and yet could be you could always make the band laugh you just got to wear it its not the sort of thing you could put up in lights you got to decide whether thats good or bad you got to work out who you're living for the band, they're gonna be changin just like the people out front but they're gonna be stayin and you're gonna be movin on someone else will get the job of standin in between someone else will make the rules stand up again The people at the front tables walked during the first set. They'd go home to tell their kids about this guy down at the club who thought he was funny. You liked to think those kids really wanted to come and see you. The kids and the band, they kept you going. All the bad gigs, the drunks, the cheese and the ham. You could sellp - rough - but you could sleep. Talk yourself out, talk yourself back in. Knowing you could make sense somehow, maybe not right now but nobody knew just what yu were worth, you just had a little cash flow problem, a lack of liquidity. You were payin the price, sewing the seeds, dealing an alien currency. All the others who went before you? Were they playin for you? Someone light years removed? What is it? A closed circle? A funky queue?
12.	Out There (In The Night Of Time) 04:56	lyrics
I got away from it all I was sittin on the bonnet layin back on the windscreen you were behind the wheel the wind rushin loud and raw engine racin down below a bottle of beer, darkness overhangin trees a way nobody is gonna be a place nobodys gonna go layin awake at night and waitin for the wind to come back and belly your sails walkin out to the middle of the runway layin down and waitin i watched you walk away through the window holdin each other through the traffic in the rain you looked so great laughin together so fine and good a place nobody is gonna be a way nobody is gonna go I had a dream about you about you and me i woke up feelin bad and feelin good we were ridin a bicyle up a hill together I could fell my arms about your waist and your breath upon my neck at the same time because I could because I was dreamin out there in the night of time you know how you get an idea in your head who knows how?who knows when? but all of a sudden you cant look at the world in the same way somethin is gonna happen somethin has changed you imagined a reality but just by lookin at somethin the light you shine your shadow causes the scene to change dramatically

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NIGHT OF THE WOLVERINE

Cd released mid 1993 on ID/Mercury.
Produced by Dave Graney, the Coral Snakes and Tony Cohen. Recorded at Metropolis and Atlantis, mixed at Atlantis, Melbourne. Cover designed by Tony Mahony.
Video for "you're just too hip, baby" devised and directed by Tony Mahony.

Track listing:
"You're just too hip, baby"
"Mogambo"
"Night of the wolverine 1"
"I'm just havin' one of those lives"
"I held the cool breeze"
"I remember you (you're the girl I love)"
"three dead passengers in a stolen secondhand Ford"
"That's the way it's gonna be"
"Maggie Cassidy"
"you need to suffer"
"Night of the wolverine 2"
"Out there in the night of time"

We began playing with Andrew Picouleau on the bass and also without him as a semi acoustic four piece (Myself, Clare Moore, Rod Hayward and Robin Casinader). We called these performances, "the soft'n'sexy shows".
We played all through 1991 and 1992 in this fashion. Predominantly at the Lounge and the Punters Club and the Esplanade in Melbourne and the Hopetoun and the Annandale in Sydney. We never played outside these two cities.
Clare, Rod and Andrew also played many shows backing Robin doing all his material. This was known as "the Vanishing Lady". We seemed to build up a little momentum as, first "I was the hunter..." came out and then, "the lure of the tropics. "
On Saturday December the 19th we played at the Lounge, on the Sunday we recorded 9 songs at Metropolis, on the Monday and Tuesday we recorded two more songs and then mixed the whole lot at Atlantis.
Adam Yazxhi, who had worked at MDS, who imported "My life on the plains" and "I was the hunter..."into Australia, was now setting up a small label at Mercury and wanted to put the cd out. The title track was an attempt to make something in the style of Lou Reeds' "street hassle". That was a long story song which featured a sweet middle section where Bruce Springsteen came in to read a few lines of lyrical stuff. In the middle of ours, Tex Perkins from the Cruel Sea came in and did something similar, "the king of Adelaide".
Tony Cohen was a physical wreck as he was simultaneously working on the Bad Seeds live album and the Cruel Sea's "Honeymoon is over".
As this record came out we began to play outside the inner cities of Melbourne and Sydney, opening for the Hunters and Collectors through a national six week tour. We then did the same with the Cruel Sea and then by ourselves.
We did about 85 shows around Australia through 1993. "Night of the wolverine" was re released in 1996 in Australia with a different cover. It was also released in 1996 with the new cover in the UK on the label "This way up".
Two singles, "3 dead passengers" and "you're just too hip, baby" were released.

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released January 7, 2019

Produced by Dave Graney, the Coral Snakes and Tony Cohen. Recorded at Metropolis and Atlantis, mixed at Atlantis, Melbourne. Cover designed by Tony Mahony.
Video for "you're just too hip, baby" devised and directed by Tony Mahony.

Dave Graney- vocals
Clare Moore - drums, percussion, glockenspiel, backing vocals
Robin Casinader - piano, violin, mandolin
Rod Hayward - guitar.

Amanda Brotchie - backing vocals on the title tracks.
Tex Perkins special guest spoken word on the King Of Adelaide section of the title track.

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Dave Graney and Clare Moore were once in the Moodists, singer and drummer respectively.Then there was the Coral Snakes and and now Dave Graney and the mistLY.
Stu Thomas on bass since 2004 and Stuart Perera on guitar since 1998 ... more

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