Nature (The Mutton Birds album) explained

Nature
Type:	compilation
Artist:	The Mutton Birds
Cover:	Muttonbirdsnature.jpg
Released:	September 1995
Genre:	Rock
Label:	Virgin Records
Producer:	Wayne Connolly
Prev Title:	Salty
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	Envy of Angels
Next Year:	1996

Nature is a compilation album by the New Zealand rock band The Mutton Birds.^{[1] [2]} The album, a selection of songs from the band's first two albums, was released in 1995 in the UK.^{[3] [4]}

Another compilation, Box of Birds, a double CD repackaging of the entire two albums, was released in New Zealand two months later with an almost identical cover. Box of Birds spent three weeks in the New Zealand album charts and peaked at No. 42.^[5]

Track listing

(All songs by Don McGlashan except where noted)

1. "Nature" (Wayne Mason) — 3:40
2. "Dominion Road" — 3:48
3. "Anchor Me" — 4:30
4. "The Heater" (McGlashan, Alan Gregg, David Long, Ross Burge) — 4:25
5. "Giant Friend" — 3:50
6. "Your Window" — 4:16
7. "White Valiant" — 5:11
8. "In My Room" — 4:34
9. "A Thing Well Made" — 4:38
10. "Queen's English" — 6:27
11. "There's a Limit" (Gregg) — 4:17
12. "Too Close to the Sun" (McGlashan, Long) — 5:35

Personnel

• Don McGlashan – guitars, vocals, euphonium, melodica
• Ross Burge – drums, autoharp
• Alan Gregg – bass guitar, vocals, keyboards
• David Long – guitar, vocals, keyboards, banjo

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Mutton Birds | Biography & History. AllMusic.
2. Web site: The Mutton Birds - AudioCulture. www.audioculture.co.nz.
3. Web site: Mutton Birds . Trouser Press . 31 August 2020.
4. Web site: Virgin to Let Kiwi Act Mutton Birds Fly in U.K.. Billboard. March 22, 1997. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
5. Web site: charts.org.nz - The Mutton Birds - Box Of Birds. charts.nz.