Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Australian Crawl album)


Between a Rock and a Hard Place was the final studio album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl. It was produced by English producer Adam Kidron. The album was initially released by Freestyle Records on vinyl and reached #11 on the ARIA album charts but slipped out of the top 40 two weeks later. The album was subsequently re-released on CD in 1997.
Disappointed with sales, the band was ready to split but had to go out on tour for the next year to pay off the enormous $400,000 cost of producing the album. After completing their national tour of Australia in January, 1986, the band split up. Australian Crawl released a successful live album, The Final Wave, on the Freestyle Record label, towards the end of October, 1986.

Singles

There were four singles lifted from the album, "Two Can Play"/"Two Can Play", "If This Is Love"/"You Told Me", "Trouble Spot Rock"/"Newly Weds In The Morning" and "Two Hearts"/"Across the Way".
All the singles failed to have significant chart success with "Two Can Play" reaching #44 and only remaining in the charts for nine weeks, "If This Is Love" peaking at #87 and remaining for three weeks, whilst "Trouble Spot Rock" reached #69 and stayed in the charts for four weeks.

Track listing

All songs were written by James Reyne, except where otherwise noted.
  1. "Two Can Play" - 3:48
  2. "I'd Do It" - 3:33
  3. "Divers Down" - 3:07
  4. "If This Is Love" - 3:26
  5. "Two Hearts" - 3:55
  6. "Trouble Spot Rock" - 4:46
  7. "You Told Me" - 3:06
  8. "My Day At The Beach" - 3:51
  9. "Always The Way" - 5:37
  10. "Newly Weds In The Morning" - 3:07
  11. "Land Of Hope And Glory" - 5:08

    Personnel

Credits:

Australian Crawl