Onka's Big Moka

This article is about the Toploader album. For the anthropological film with a similar spelling, see Ongka's Big Moka.

Onka's Big Moka
Studio album by Toploader
Released	11 November 1999
Genre	Pop rock
Length	46:00
Label	S2 Records
Producer	Dave Eringa
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Toploader chronology
"Onka's Big Moka" (1999) "Magic Hotel" (2002)

Onka's Big Moka is an album released in 1999 by the pop rock band Toploader. The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight", a cover of the King Harvest song, was featured in a television commercial for supermarket chain Sainsbury's.

The title is a reference to a 1976 anthropological documentary Ongka's Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea. It was being much played in university anthropology departments in the mid-1990s, around when the band members would have been attending.

Track listing

1. "Let the People Know" – 3:54
2. "Dancing in the Moonlight" – 3:52
3. "Achilles Heel" – 4:18
4. "Breathe" – 3:56
5. "Do You Know What Your Future Will Be?" – 4:24
6. "Only for a While" – 4:13
7. "Just Hold On" - 4:01
8. "Higher State" – 3:11
9. "High Flying Bird" – 4:10
10. "Summer Cycle" – 4:38
11. "Just About Living" - 4:01
12. "Floating Away (In the Bath Tub)" - 3:22

Singles

• 1999 "Achilles Heel" #64 UK
• 1999 "Let the People Know" #52 UK
• 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight" #19 UK (King Harvest cover)
• 2000 "Achilles Heel" (re-release) #8 UK
• 2000 "Just Hold On" #20 UK
• 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight" (remix) #7 UK
• 2001 "Only for a While" #19 UK

The album was given a mention in MTV's Top 100, but was not in the top 100