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''The Jaws of Life'' is the third studio album by Australian rock band, Hunters & Collectors, which was released on 6 August 1984. It was co-produced by Konrad Plank and the band in Weilerswist, Germany. The album peaked at No. 89 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and No. 37 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The only Australian single from the album, "The Slab" ("Betty's Worry")/"Carry Me", was released as a Double A sided single, in August but failed to chart on the Australian or New Zealand singles charts. ==Background== Late in 1983, Hunters & Collectors had briefly disbanded, but soon reformed without Martin Lubran and Greg Perano.〔〔 Mark Seymour (guitar and lead vocals) explained to ''The Canberra Times'' Neil Lade why the group had reconvened "() have something valuable to offer the Australian music scene".〔 According to Doug Falconer, the group's drummer, the album "was written in about a month and a half after the band returned to Australia" in the previous December.〔 He recalled that they had wanted "to have a bit of a change of style, a change of atmosphere, it (the writing) was getting too heavy handed".〔 He felt the band were "a much happier unit".〔 The 1984 line-up now featured greater use of keyboards by Geoff Crosby, as well as more emphasis on their horn section of Jack Howard on trumpet and backing vocals, Jeremy Smith on French horn and Michael Waters on trombone.〔 The band began to pare back their art rock pretensions of their earliest albums, although they retained a muscular, bass-driven sound, rounded off by the band's distinctive horn section. Seymour's lyrics became less abstruse and focused on the twin themes of the fraught personal relationships and the politics of the day.〔 ''The Jaws of Life'', their third studio album, was issued on 6 August 1984 on White Label/Mushroom Records.〔〔 Like their previous album, ''The Fireman's Curse'' (1983), it was co-produced with Konrad Plank (Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk),〔 but this time it was recorded at Can's Studio with René Tinner engineering. The title, cover art and opening track, "42 Wheels", all refer to the murder of five people by an intoxicated, outback trucker, Douglas Crabbe.〔〔〔 The album reached No. 89 on the Australia Album charts and No. 37 on the New Zealand charts.〔〔 The first single from the album, "The Slab", having being renamed from its original title of "Betty's Worry or The Slab", was also released in August, as a Double A-sided single, with "Carry Me" but failed to chart.〔〔 "Carry Me" was released in the UK as a separate single (both in a 7" and 12" format). Nevertheless as a result of relentless touring, airplay on radio station Triple J plus their music videos screening on ''Countdown'' and other music video shows, the group fostered a devoted following on the pub rock scene. In the UK the album was released on the Epic Records label, where according to Michael Waters, "it got favorable reviews, but it just didn't sell."〔 In North America it was released by Slash Records.〔 In July 1991 ''The Jaws of Life'' was re-issued on CD by White Label Records/Mushroom Records, with the inclusion of a further four tracks from an earlier extended play, ''Payload'' (November 1982). The album was subsequently re-issued on CD by Phantom Records in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2002 and was re-mastered and re-released by Liberation Music on 11 August 2003. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Jaws of Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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