Welcome Stranger (album) explained

Welcome Stranger
Type:Album
Artist:The Blackeyed Susans
Cover:Welcome_Stranger_BES.jpg
Released:August 1992
Recorded:Perth – March, 1989
Sydney – March, 1991
London – 1990
Genre:Rock / Folk rock
Length:54:42
Label:Waterfront Records
Producer:James Hewgill and The Blackeyed Susans (1–4)
Phillip Kakulas and The Blackeyed Susans (5–8 & 15)
David McComb (9–14)
Prev Title:Depends on What You Mean By Love
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:All Souls Alive
Next Year:1993

Welcome Stranger is the debut studio album by The Blackeyed Susans. Released in August, 1992, the album is a compilation of their first three EPs – Some Births are Worse than Murders, Anchor Me and …Depends On What You Mean By Love – with the addition of three tracks recorded at the same time as the material released on those EPs.

Track listing

  1. "Don’t Call Yourself An Angel" (McComb, Kakulas) – 3:14
  2. "Enemy Mine" (McComb, Kakulas) – 4:07
  3. "Viva Las Vegas" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 5:10
  4. "Cripple Creek" (Traditional/Kakulas) – 4:47
  5. "Glory Glory" (Kakulas) – 4:03
  6. "Anchor Me" (Snarski) – 2:43
  7. "Who’s That By The Window?" (Kakulas) – 2:50
  8. "Trouble" (Kakulas, Rollinson) – 4:13
  9. "Ocean of You" (McComb) – 3:33
  10. "Close Watch" (John Cale) – 2:59
  11. "Will’s Blues" (Akers) – 3:22
  12. "Spanish Is The Loving Tongue" (Traditional) – 2:59
  13. "Who’s Loving You" (Robinson) – 3:08
  14. "It Hurts Me" (Byers, Daniels)/"Prisoner of Love" (Robin, Columbo, Gaskill) – 3:42
  15. "In The Pines" (McComb) – 3:44

Personnel

Tracks 1–4

Tracks 5–8 and 15

Tracks 9–14