The Last Wave of Summer

Infobox Album
Name = The Last Wave of Summer
Type = studio
Artist = Cold Chisel


Released = 1998
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Genre = Rock
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This album = "The Last Wave of Summer"
(1998)
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"The Last Wave of Summer" is the 1998 reunion album for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. It reached number-one in Australia for one week in October 1998.

Track listing

# "Mr. Crown Prosecutor"
# "The Things I Love In You"
# "Baby's On Fire"
# "Way Down"
# "Bal-A-Versailles"
# "Yakuza Girls"
# "He Can't Believe It's Over With You"
# "Angel In My Room"
# "Never Stop Loving You"
# "Red Sand"
# "Pretty Little Thing"
# "So Hard"
# "Water Into Wine"
# "The Last Wave Of Summer"

In addition to these, the album has a hidden track entitled:

*"Once around the Sun" [O’Grady, Anthony: "Cold Chisel – the pure stuff", Allen & Unwin, February 2001]

The album covers topics ranging from the serious, including the Australian Aboriginal stolen generation in the Ian Moss penned Red Sand and judicial inequity in Don Walker's Mr. Crown Prosecutor, to the flippant, such as the pub adventure Yakuza Girls.

A rockabilly version of "Yakuza Girls" appreared on Don Walker's 2006 solo album "Cutting Back".

Chart positions

Notes

succession box
before = "Songs from Ally McBeal"
by Vonda Shepard
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = October 18 - October 24 1998
after = "The Living End" by The Living End