Not to be confused with The New Cool (book)

The New Cool (book)

The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts is a 2011 non-fiction narrative book by American writer Neal Bascomb. It follows four FIRST Robotics Competition teams through the course of the 2009 season...

The New Cool is the third studio album, the fourth album overall, by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Daddy Cool

Daddy Cool (band)

Daddy Cool is an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1970 with the original line-up of Wayne Duncan , Ross Hannaford , Ross Wilson and Gary Young . Their debut single "Eagle Rock" was released in May 1971 and stayed at number 1 on the Australian singles chart for ten weeks...

. It was released in November 2006, thirty-four years after the release of their previous studio album, Sex, Dope, Rock'n'Roll: Teenage Heaven

Sex, Dope, Rock'n'Roll: Teenage Heaven

Sex, Dope, Rock'n'Roll: Teenage Heaven, released as simply Teenage Heaven in the US, is the second studio album by Australian rock band Daddy Cool, released in January 1972. It reached number 15 on the ARIA Charts, and contains the hit single "Hi Honey Ho"...

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Although the album failed to appear on the Australian albums chart, it was released to critical acclaim from numerous sources all over – and even outside of – Australia. A review by 'Pete Best' of the Sunday Herald Sun

Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...

 declared the album to be 'an irresistible mix of 1950's West Coast garage

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

, Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

 & doo wop'. A 'double-bill arena tour' was planned for the two bands, but the project was soon cancelled before the studio album they were making to accompany the tour could be completed. Seven of the tracks from the 1994 sessions went on to be released on this album.

The creation of the album, and the story of the recording of the tracks, is recounted by Ross Wilson

Ross Wilson

Ross Andrew Wilson is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer who fronted the groups Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, and produced albums by Australian band Skyhooks. He has also performed solo, and as a judge on celebrity singing TV series It Takes Two from 2005...

 in this excerpt from the liner notes:

In February 2005 we regrouped as a spontaneous one-off to lend weight to the bill of the Melbourne Tsunami Benefit Concert. To a joyful audience of 10,000 Daddy Cool's first public performance in thirty years was filmed, recorded, and released as part of 'The Complete Daddy Cool', a five-hour DVD detailing our history. The three 'live' bonus tracks on this album are from that day.



In late 2005 we put our hands up for charity once again and recorded 'The Christmas Bug' for the annual Myer/Salvation Army CD 'The Spirit of Christmas'. That session was a breeze done in one take, then over dubbed and mixed by the end of the second day. We were so happy with the way it sounded that we began to believe it might be a good idea to complete that pesky lost album and get it out there as much for ourselves as for the public who stuck by us for so long. Besides we were about to be inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame in August 2006 and had a couple of big festival gigs coming up later in the year. In June 2006 we spent 2 days cutting new basic tracks. The eight we completed show how we've both changed yet stayed the same.

Track listing

All songs written by Ross Wilson unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Daddy's Back" - 3:20
2. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (Dave Williams) - 3:08
3. "$64000 Question" (Woods) - 2:11
4. "For You" - 3:32
5. "You Can't Have Everything" - 3:06
6. "Sun Is Always Shinin'" (Ross Hannaford) - 2:49
7. "Getting Drunk" (Gary Young) - 2:52
8. "Hey Senorita" (Carl Green/Curtis Williams) - 3:07
9. "Sexy Girl" (Ross Wilson/A. Cadell) - 4:35
10. "The Christmas Bug" (Ross Wilson/Eris O'Brien) - 2:35
11. "Everybody's In The Mood" (Chester Burnett) - 2:47
12. "Barbara" (Huey Smith) - 3:22
13. "They Built The Ute" (Peter Lillie) - 3:04
14. "The Ballad Of Oz" - 3:06
15. "Uluru" (Hannaford/L. Austin) - 4:18
16. "Waves" (Hannaford) - 3:34

Bonus tracks

Recorded live at the Melbourne Tsunami Benefit Concert in February 2005.

17. "Come Back Again" - 4:48
18. "Bom Bom" (Wilson/Hannaford) - 3:03
19. "Daddy Cool" (Frank Slay/Bob Crewe
    Bob Crewe
    Bob Crewe is an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, record producer and fine artist. He is known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for The Four Seasons...
    
    ) - 2:55

Tour edition bonus disc

This edition omits the above bonus tracks and instead includes a bonus disc of songs performed live at RocKwiz

RocKwiz

RocKwiz is an Australian television quiz show series, focused on rock music, and broadcast on SBS One. It premiered in 2005.-Summary:The forty minute program airs on Saturday at 9:20 pm, and is hosted by Julia Zemiro. It is shot in The Gershwin Room at St Kilda's Esplanade Hotel, commonly...

 in the Park, in March 2007.

1. "$64000 Question" (Woods) - 2:14
2. "Everybody's In The Mood" (Burnett) - 2:33
3. "Come Back Again" - 4:00
4. "Bom Bom" (Wilson/Hannaford) - 2:58
5. "Baby Let Me Bang Your Box" (Teddy McRae
   Teddy McRae
   Teddy McRae was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.McRae was born in Philadelphia and played with local ensembles, including one composed of family members, when young. He played with June Clark in 1926 before moving to New York City to found his own band...
   
   /Sidney Wyche) - 3:14
6. "Momma Don't Tear My Clothes" (traditional, arr. Wilson) - 3:48
7. "Daddy Cool" (Slay/Crewe) - 3:27