The Wreckery - Past Imperfect
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THE WRECKERY

Title: Past Imperfect
Label: Memorandum (Australia)
Catalogue No: (mem05)
Format: CD (double album)
Released: August 2008
Price: $25.00

This double CD features 24 key tracks selected from the band's large recorded output. All tracks have been completely remastered and are presented in a deluxe gatefold card wallet with a 24 page booklet stuffed with photographs, artwork and entertaining liners notes by band leader Hugo Race.

Track Listing - Disc 1: (51:00 m:s)
  1. No Shoes For This Road (4:10 m:s)
  2. Good To Be Gone (3:25 m:s)
  3. Hometown Exile (4:04 m:s)
  4. Body Like A Stone (4:35 m:s)
  5. Holy Honey (3:52 m:s)
  6. I Can't Say (4:24 m:s)
  7. Baby Play Dead (3:44 m:s)
  8. Clue To My Desire (4:32 m:s)
  9. Kickdown (4:42 m:s)
  10. Passion Fall Down (4:09 m:s)
  11. Base Devil (5:00 m:s)
  12. Governors Pleasure (4:23 m:s)
Track Listing - Disc 2: (55:11 m:s)
  1. Ruling Energy (3:17 m:s)
  2. I Think This Town Is Nervous (5:39 m:s)
  3. The Understudy (5:22 m:s)
  4. Crooked Tree (4:49 m:s)
  5. Laying Down Law (5:42 m:s)
  6. Yeh My People (4:35 m:s)
  7. Two Wings (4:05 m:s)
  8. Everlasting Sleep (4:44 m:s)
  9. Grinder Mill (5:03 m:s)
  10. Damned Is Hard (3:06 m:s)
  11. Overload (5:09 m:s)
  12. Bending The Bars (3:40 m:s)

Melbourne based The Wreckery were formed by Hugo Race and Ed Clayton-Jones on their return home from tenure with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds in Europe and the U.S.A. Robin Casinader joined on drums having played with Hugo and Ed in the art punk outfit Plays with Marionettes. Nick Barker and Charles Todd finished the line up on bass and sax respectively.

The Wreckery were a big hit on the live circuit and had a large and loyal following. They were infamous at a time when heroin chic was de rigeur and Burroughs and Bukowski topped our reading lists. The band became the poster boys for the dark side, tapping the seam of the old delta blues and the Flannery O'Connoresque imagery of a toxic, dilapidated world.They lived it for better and ultimately for worse. They played their last show at Melbourne University 20 years ago. Having just completed what would be their last and best album "Laying Down Law" the wheels fell off and the band split ending 4 years.

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