Topanga (album) explained

Topanga
Type:	Album
Artist:	Colin Hay
Cover:	Topanga (album).jpg
Released:	7 December 1994
Genre:	Pop rock
Length:	50:40
Label:	Lazy Eye Records, Newmarket Records
Producer:	Colin Hay
Prev Title:	Peaks & Valleys
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Transcendental Highway
Next Year:	1998

Topanga is the fourth solo album by Scottish-Australian singer Colin Hay, released in 1994. It was the first released on his own label Lazy Eye Records.^[1]

According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, it "sold well in Canada, Germany and Brazil. In July, Hay set off on his solo Man at Work Australian tour."^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Colin Hay, except where noted.

1. "I Haven't Seen You in a Long Time" – 3:19
2. "Into the Cornfields" – 4:09
3. "Waiting for My Real Life To Begin" (Hay, Mooney) – 4:57
4. "Can't Take This Town" – 4:51
5. "I Think I Know" – 3:59
6. "Against the Tide" (Clifforth, Hay) – 4:53
7. "I Don't Miss You Now" – 2:55
8. "She Put the Blame on You" – 3:48
9. "Woman's Face" – 5:14
10. "Lost Generation" (Capek, Hay) – 3:57
11. "Road to Mandalay" – 3:47
12. "Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh Baby" – 4:51

Bonus track on the 2003 German edition

13. "Overkill (Acoustic version)" – 3:46

Bonus track on the 2009 re-mastered deluxe edition

13. "Spencer The Rover" – 4:35

Personnel

• Colin Hay – acoustic guitar, guitar, bass, electric guitar, vocals, slide guitar
• Phil Butson – electric guitar
• John Clifforth – acoustic guitar, keyboards
• Joe Creighton – bass
• Chad Fischer – drums, tambourine
• Paul Gadsby – bass
• Gerry Hale – fiddle, mandolin
• Greg Ham – saxophone
• Bruce Haymes – organ, piano
• Martin Tillman – cello

Production

• Producer: Colin Hay
• Mixing: Phil Butson
• Engineer: Phil Butson
• Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
• Engineer: Micajah Ryan
• Photography: Isamu Sawa

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sue Kiesewetter . Singer Colin Hay comes to Fairfield Community Arts Center April 24 - Butler County News at Cincinnati.com . https://archive.today/20120715110802/http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100224&sid=146365 . dead . 15 July 2012 . Rodeo.cincinnati.com . 4 February 2010 .
2. Book: McFarlane . Ian . Ian McFarlane . . Encyclopedia entry for 'Colin Hay' . https://web.archive.org/web/20040807051951/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=881 . http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=881 . 1999 . . . 7 August 2004 . 1-86508-072-1 .