Bonk is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Big Pig. It was released in May 1988 on White Label Records and peaked at number 5 on The Australian charts. The album was released in America by A&M Records in 1988. It was produced by Nick Launay. "Breakaway" was featured on the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure soundtrack.
Track listing All songs written by O. Witer, A. Scaglione, N. Disbray, and S. Abeyratne, except where noted, according to Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Note: requires user to input song title e.g. IRON LUNG
"Iron Lung" - 3:34 "Hungry Town" - 3:06 "Tin Drum" - 4:22 "Breakaway" (Gary Zekley, Mitch Bottler) - 3:38 "Big Hotel" - 3:26 "Boy Wonder" (O. Witer, A. Scaglione, N. Disbray and T. Rosewarne) - 4:14 "Hellbent Heaven" (O. Witer, S. Abeyratne, A Antoniades and N. Baker) - 3:27 "Nation" - 3:34 "Charlie" - 4:03 "Fine Thing" - 3:22 "Money God" - 4:28 "Devil's Song" - 5:27 "Breakaway" (Popper Mix) (Zekley, Bottler) - 6:01 "Hungry Town" (Grub Club Mix) - 6:27
Charts Weekly charts Chart (1988)PositionAustralia (Kent Music Report) Albums Chart Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.5
Year-end charts Chart (1988) Position Australian Albums Chart (ARIA Charts) 18
Certifications
Personnel Credited to:
Big Pig Tony Antoniades - Harmonica, Vocals Neil Baker - Drums Nick Disbray - Percussion, Vocals Tim Rosewarne - Keyboards, Vocals Adrian Scaglione - Drums Sherine Abeyratne - Percussion, Vocals Oleh Witer - Drums, Vocals
Additional musicians Jim Benning - Guitar Mike Tyler - Guitar, Bass guitar Al Colman - Bass guitar Como String Quartet - Strings (Track 9)
Recording details Producer — Nick Launay Engineer — Nick Launay Assistants — Heidi Cannave, Noel Haris, Michael Wickow Mixer — Nick Launay
Art work Art Direction & Design - Oleh Witer, Jeremy Pearce Photography — Eric Watson Video Photography - Eric Watson, Robert Ogilvie
Notes
A "Boy Wonder" was recorded in Sydney separately to the album which was recorded in Melbourne, Nick Launay was assisted by Heidi Cannova on this track
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