Salty (album) explained

Salty
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Mutton Birds
Cover:	The_Mutton_Birds_Salty.jpg
Released:	April 1994
Recorded:	November 1993
Studio:	Shortland Street Studios, Auckland
Genre:	Rock
Length:	63:24
Label:	Virgin/EMI
Producer:	The Mutton Birds
Prev Title:	The Mutton Birds
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Nature
Next Year:	1995

Salty is the second album by the New Zealand rock band The Mutton Birds, released in 1994. Four songs — "The Heater", "Anchor Me", "In My Room" and "Ngaire" — reached the top 20 in the New Zealand singles chart with "The Heater" reaching No.1.^[1]

"Don't Fight it, Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us" was originally recorded by an earlier band of McGlashan's, Blam Blam Blam. "The Heater" is used as a plot device in the Christopher Brookmyre novel Be My Enemy; two central characters bond over it, and it is used as a contrast against the manufactured pop music made by a minor villain.

Track listing

(All songs by Don McGlashan except where noted)

1. "The Heater" – 4.22
2. "Ngaire" – 3.52
3. "When the Wind Comes Round" – 5.30
4. "You Will Return" – 4.32
5. "Wellington" (Alan Gregg) – 3.07
6. "In My Room" – 4.35
7. "Queen's English" – 7.07
8. "Salty My Dear" – 1.22
9. "There's a Limit" (Gregg) – 4.13
10. "Esther" (Gregg) – 2.45
11. "No Telling When" – 5.28
12. "Anchor Me" – 4.27
13. "Too Close to the Sun" – 5.31
14. "Don't Fight It Marsha. It's Bigger Than Both of Us" – 4.38

Personnel

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

Additional personnel

• Jane Dodd — backing vocals ("Anchor Me", "Queens English")

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Mutton Birds - The Heater. Hung Medien. charts.nz. 4 February 2021.