Eleventh Avenue (album)
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Eleventh Avenue is Ammonia
Ammonia (band)
-Studio albums:-Extended plays:-Singles:*"Drugs" - Murmur AUS #32*"Ken Carter" - Murmur AUS #50*"Suzi Q" - Murmur *"Satin Only" - Murmur *"You're Not the Only One Who Feels This Way" - Murmur AUS #83...

's second studio album. It was released in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 in May, 1998.

It was a very different album to their previous effort, Mint 400
Mint 400 (album)
Mint 400 is Ammonia's debut studio album. It was released in Australia in October 1995. The album takes its title from an auto race described in Hunter S. Thompson's book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas....

, moving away from grunge
Grunge
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-inspired guitar rock to include harmonies, samples and psychedelic keyboards.

The album was recorded and produced by Dave Fridmann
Dave Fridmann
Dave Fridmann is an American record producer and musician. From 1990 onwards he co-produced all releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips...

 (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American alternative rock group, that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. Original personnel were David Baker , Jonathan Donahue , Sean Mackowiak, a.k.a...

), a choice made by the band in part due to the lack of control the band had over the first album. Two songs ("You're Not the Only One..." and "Monochrome") received extensive airplay on Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

; however, the album failed to chart as well as its predecessor, only reaching #20 on the National Album charts. Eleventh Avenue turned out to be the band's last album. It went out of print in March 2002.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Allan Balmont, Simon Hensworth and Dave Johnstone.
  1. "Eleventh Avenue" - 4:12
  2. "You're Not the Only One Who Feels This Way
    You're Not the Only One Who Feels This Way
    "You're Not the Only One Who Feels This Way" is Ammonia's second single from their second album Eleventh Avenue. Released ahead of the album, this song was the second big song for the band and is generally regarded as their second biggest song after "Drugs".Originally written on the last day of...

    " - 3:54
  3. "Keep on My Side
    Keep on My Side
    "Keep on My Side" was Ammonia's fourth single from their second album Eleventh Avenue. It was released just after the album and was the last song the band released as a single before breaking up.-Track listing:#"Keep on My Side"...

    " - 3:26
  4. "Monochrome
    Monochrome (Ammonia song)
    "Monochrome" is the first single by Ammonia, from their second album Eleventh Avenue. It was released in February 1998 on the Murmur record label.-Track listing:#"Monochrome" – 2:08#"Union City Blues" – 3:29#"Sunrise" – 3:27...

    " - 2:07
  5. "Killswitch" - 4:26
  6. "Baby Blue" - 3:09
  7. "Wishing Chair" - 3:11
  8. "Keeping My Hands Tied" - 3:32
  9. "4711" - 4:02
  10. "Yeah Doin' It" - 3:14
  11. "Afterglow" - 3:35
  12. "Pipedream" / "Satin Only
    Satin Only
    "Satin Only" is a song by Ammonia, released as the first single from their upcoming second studio album Eleventh Avenue in 1996. Released ahead of the album, the song was not a big success and was unbeknownst to most that it was on the album, as it appeared as a hidden track at the end of the album...

    " (hidden track
    Hidden track
    In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...

    ) - 14:26

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalogue
Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

8 May 1998 Murmur
Murmur (record label)
Murmur was a record label that started as an imprint of Sony Music Australia in mid 1994. Named after REM's first album, Murmur signed a number of Australia's most successful rock bands, including Silverchair, Ammonia, Something for Kate and Jebediah...

CD
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MATTCD069
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