Introduction
The Living End are an Australian punk rock band, which formed in 1994. Since 2002 the line up consists of Chris Cheney (vocals, guitar), Scott Owen (double bass, vocals) and Andy Strachan (drums). The band rose to fame in 1997 after the release of their double A-sided single, "Second Solution" / "Prisoner of Society", which peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart. They have released six studio albums and two reached the No. 1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart: self-titled album (12 October 1998) and State of Emergency (4 February 2006). They have also gained chart success in the United States and United Kingdom.
At ARIA Music Awards ceremonies they have been nominated 27 times and have won five awards: Highest Selling Single for "Second Solution / Prisoner of Society" (1998), Breakthrough Artist – Album and Best Group for The Living End (1999), Best Rock Album for White Noise (2008), and the same category for The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating (2011). Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described the group which "emerged as one of the country's premier rock acts. By blending a range of styles (punk, rockabilly and flat out rock) with great success, The Living End has managed to produce anthemic choruses and memorable songs in abundance". In October 2010 their debut album was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.
Selected general articles
- Modern Artillery (typeset as MODERN ARTillery) is the third album by the Australian Punk rock band the Living End. It was released twice for 28 October 2003 as an international release date and 2 March 2004 for a United States release date. It was the first album with Andy Strachan as drummer, since Travis Demsey had left after Roll On.
Who's Gonna Save Us? has been released as a single, and End of the World appears on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk's Underground 2. "Who's Gonna Save Us?" appeared in commercials for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Read more...
The discography of The Living End, an Australian punk rock and psychobilly group, consists of seven studio albums, twenty-three singles, six extended plays (EPs), four video albums and three compilation albums. Chris Cheney, Scott Owen and Joe Piripitzi formed The Living End in 1994; their debut release was Hellbound, an eight-track EP, in 1995. The group's first single, "From Here on In", was issued in 1996 from their second EP, It's for Your Own Good, which received airplay on Triple J, an Australian radio station. Soon after, Piripitzi was replaced on drums by Travis Demsey. The band's breakthrough hit occurred in 1997 with "Second Solution / Prisoner of Society", a double A-sided single/EP, which became the highest-selling Australian-made single of the 1990s. It peaked at number four and spent 47 weeks in the ARIA Top 50 Singles chart, and charted in the top 30 of the United States' Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.
In 1998, The Living End signed with Modular Recordings and released their debut album, The Living End. It peaked at number one on the Australian Albums Chart and was certified four times-platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) – indicating shipment of 280,000 copies in Australia. Six tracks from the debut album were issued as singles and, as of September 2015, it remains The Living End's most commercially successful album. Their second album, Roll On (2000), provided the singles, "Pictures in the Mirror" and "Roll On". It peaked at number eight and received a platinum certification. Andy Strachan replaced Dempsey on drums in 2002. Modern Artillery was the band's third album, released in 2003, which peaked at number three. It achieved gold status in Australia, making it their lowest-selling album to date. Read more...- The Living End is the debut studio album by Australian punk, rockabilly band The Living End, which was released on 12 October 1998. It was recorded at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne with Lindsay Gravina producing for Modular Recordings. The cover art, as described by front man Chris Cheney, is based on a photograph of a World War I all-female bomb factory. The album reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart and remained in the top 50 for 63 weeks.
The Living End had achieved mainstream success with the extended play, Second Solution / Prisoner of Society released in September 1997. It peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart. In early 1998 the related single, "Prisoner of Society", was released in the United Kingdom and, the following year, in the United States. Other charting Australian singles are "Save the Day" (September 1998) and "All Torn Down" (December). The sixth album track, "Monday", is The Living End's epitaph to the 1996 Dunblane massacre. In December 1999 The Living End was certified 4× Platinum by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 280,000 units. In October 2010 it was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. As of July 2012 it is the band's most successful album. Read more... - "One Said to the Other" is a single released by The Living End on 20 January 2003. It peaked at No. 19 on the ARIA Singles Chart and reached No. 52 on Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2003.
"One Said to the Other" and "What Would You Do?" featured on this EP were recorded in 2002, before the Modern ARTillery sessions. This recording was released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. Read more... - The Living End is the debut studio album by Australian punk, rockabilly band The Living End, which was released on 12 October 1998. It was recorded at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne with Lindsay Gravina producing for Modular Recordings. The cover art, as described by front man Chris Cheney, is based on a photograph of a World War I all-female bomb factory. The album reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart and remained in the top 50 for 63 weeks.
The Living End had achieved mainstream success with the extended play, Second Solution / Prisoner of Society released in September 1997. It peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart. In early 1998 the related single, "Prisoner of Society", was released in the United Kingdom and, the following year, in the United States. Other charting Australian singles are "Save the Day" (September 1998) and "All Torn Down" (December). The sixth album track, "Monday", is The Living End's epitaph to the 1996 Dunblane massacre. In December 1999 The Living End was certified 4× Platinum by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 280,000 units. In October 2010 it was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. As of July 2012 it is the band's most successful album. Read more... - Shift is the seventh album by the Australian rock band The Living End. It was produced by Woody Annison and recorded at Red Door Sounds in Melbourne, Australia. Read more...
- Travis Demsey was the former drummer for The Living End from May 1996 to February 2002. He currently works as a youth worker and is the drummer for the Melbourne band Doubleblack Read more...
- "Save the Day" was the first official single taken from Australian rock group, The Living End's debut self-titled album. It followed the release of the "Second Solution/Prisoner of Society" double A-side single the previous year. It was released in September 1998, spending 17 weeks in the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and peaking at No. 22. The song also reached No. 10 on Triple J's Hottest 100 for 1998. The single was later certified as Gold (selling in excess of 35,000 copies).
The single was also released on 7" vinyl however it was a limited release with only 500 copies issued. Read more... - All tracks recorded live at ACDC Lane, Melbourne. Read more...
- "Who's Gonna Save Us?" is the first single from The Living End's third album Modern ARTillery (not including "One Said to the Other" because it was re-recorded for the album). It reached number 37 on the ARIA Singles Chart and also charted in the United States, peaking at number 26 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks.
The song appeared on the soundtrack and in a television commercial for Michael Moore's 2004 film, Fahrenheit 9/11. Read more... - "Tabloid Magazine" was the second single taken from Australian rock group, The Living End's third studio album, Modern ARTillery. It was released in February 2004, spending 4 weeks in the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and peaking at No. 57. It appeared at No 66 on Triple J's Hottest 100 poll for 2003. "Tabloid Magazine" was the first single to be released from the album in the UK.
It features a live version of the classic "All Torn Down", plus acoustic versions of "Who's Gonna Save Us?" and "What Would You Do?" and a previously unreleased track, "No Reaction". Read more... - Joe Piripitzi is an Australian rock musician. He was the founding drummer of the rockabilly band, The Living End, from 1994 to 1996; which formed in Melbourne with Chris Cheney on lead guitar and lead vocals, and Scott Owen on double bass and backing vocals. Cheney considered Piripitzi to be ideal due to his charismatic appearance. Piripitzi is recorded on their first two extended plays, Hellbound (1995) and It's for Your Own Good (November 1996).
After leaving the Living End, Piripitzi was a drummer for another Melbourne band, H-Block 101, which were a 77-punk-influenced group from October 1996 to mid-1998. He appeared on that group's second album, No Room for Apathy (1997) and their EP, Synergy – recorded in January 1998, but released after Piripitzi's departure. Read more... - How to Make an Album and Influence People is a documentary DVD covering the making of State of Emergency, live and behind the scenes footage of the band. Starting from laying down the basic tracks in a practice studio, to the re-introduction of Nick Launay (producer of the band's seconds studio album, Roll On) and playing a gig at Splendour in the Grass in 2005, before heading to the studio to record and mix the album. The DVD came as a bonus with the limited edition album. Read more...
- State of Emergency is the fourth studio album by Australian punk rock band The Living End. It was released in Australia on 4 February 2006, in New Zealand on 6 February and in Japan in May 2006. The album was released in the United States and Canada on 11 July 2006. It debuted in the number one position on the ARIA charts. The first single off the album was "What's on Your Radio" which was released on 20 November 2005. The follow-up single, "Wake Up" was released on 18 February 2006, and debuted at number 5 on the ARIA charts, making it the highest single debut position for The Living End (not including the double A-side "Second Solution" / "Prisoner of Society").
The limited edition comes with a DVD, documenting the stages of making the album and shows footage of their performances, including the band as The Longnecks and at Splendour in the Grass. The band also released a live DVD of the State of Emergency Tour, Live at Festival Hall. A limited edition vinyl of the album was released and is limited to 500 copies worldwide. Read more... - "Wake Up" is the second single from The Living End's fourth album, State of Emergency. It was released on 18 February 2006, in Australia. The song was both popular on Australian and New Zealand radio stations. It also peaked at number five in the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The song was also used on the 40 Hour Famine DVD for 2006.
Wake Up was featured on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2006, reaching #53. This kept safe The Living End's record of featuring in every Hottest 100 countdown since 1997. However, there was no song by The Living End in the Hottest 100 for 2007, although their cover of the Cold Chisel song "Rising Sun" was in the list of songs that listeners could vote for. Read more... - "Prisoner of Society" is a song by The Living End. The song was originally released in Australia on the 1997 EP "Second Solution/Prisoner of Society". It was later released as a single, separate from "Second Solution", in the United Kingdom in 1998. Read more...
- Live at Festival Hall is a video album which captures Australian rock band, the Living End's State of Emergency tour concert on 19 May 2006 at Melbourne's Festival Hall. The video album was issued on 30 September of that year, which peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Top 40 DVD Chart and was certified gold by ARIA by the end of the year for the shipment of over 7,500 copies. Read more...
- "Roll On" is the second single from The Living End's second album by the same title based on the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. It reached number 15 in the ARIA Charts.
The song was used in National Lampoon's Van Wilder, as well as promotional advertisements for ESPN's X-Games. It was also used by professional wrestler Nigel McGuinness as his entrance music. Read more...
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The Living End, performing in Berkshire, England, August 2009.
Owen plays his double bass while Cheney clambers atop. Strachan is behind his drum kit.Left to right: Chris Cheney, Andy Strachan, Scott Owen
(Leipzig, Germany, November 2009)
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