The Essential (GANGgajang)
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The Essential is a greatest hits
album
released by Ganggajang
in 1996. It features songs from their first three studio albums.
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
released by Ganggajang
GANGgajang
Gang Gajang are an Australian rock band who formed in 1984. The three principal figures in the original lineup were former Riptides frontman Mark "Cal" Callaghan and two former members of popular Australian hard rock band The Angels, bassist Chris Bailey and drummer Graham "Buzz"...
in 1996. It features songs from their first three studio albums.
Track listing
All songs written by Mark Callaghan unless otherwise indicated.- "Sounds of Then (This is Australia)Sounds of Then"This is Australia" is a 1985 song by Australian band Gang Gajang from their self-titled debut album, Gang Gajang. "Sounds of Then" was written by frontman Mark "Cal" Callaghan....
" – 3:56 - "Gimme Some Lovin" (Callaghan, Graham Bidstrup) – 2:47
- "Hundreds Of Languages" (Callaghan, Robert James) – 3:36
- "Ordinary World" (Bidstrup, Callaghan, James) – 3:54
- "Giver of Life" (Geoffrey Stapleton, Chris Bailey, Callaghan, Bidstrup, Kayellen Bidstrup aka Kay Bee) – 3:40
- "Distraction" – 3:20
- "Talk to Me" – 4:02
- "Initiation" (Callaghan, Bidstrup) – 3:28
- "Maybe I" (Bidstrup, Callaghan) – 3:35
- "American Money" (Stapleton) – 3:43
- "Ambulance Men" – 3:24
- "Tree of Love" – 4:18
- "House of Cards" – 2:48
- "To the North" (Bidstrup, Callaghan) – 2:47
- "Initiation (Mad Wax Mix)" (Callaghan, Bidstrup) – 3:29
- "Sounds of Then (Mad Wax Mix)" – 3:24
- "The Bigger They Are" – 3:29
- "Luck of the Irish" – 3:46
- "Shadow of Your Love" (Bidstrup, Callaghan) – 3:07