Trophy Night : The Best of Weddings Parties Anything is a compilation album released by Australian rock band Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything were an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1998. Their name came from The Clash song and musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks' Living in the '70s.-Formation and...

. It comprises songs from the band's seven studio albums together with two new tracks: "Anthem" and "Traffic Goes By", together with a cover of The Triffids

The Triffids

The Triffids were a seminal Australian alternative rock and pop band formed in Perth, Western Australia, in May 1978 with charismatic, David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist. They achieved negligible success in Australia, but greater success in the U.K...

' "Wide Open Road".
Trophy Night was also released for a limited time with a bonus disc Benched, a collection of unreleased demos and assorted B-sides.

In early August 1998, Weddings, Parties, Anything announced that they were calling it a day, one month before this long-planned retrospective was to be released. The material for this best-of was compiled by allowing fans to pick heir favorite songs through the band's website. Although it is not known how the songs were chosen for the bonus disc, Benched and it is notable that there are no songs written or sung by former member Dave Steel, who co-wrote the band's first two albums.

"Anthem" was the only song released as a single from the album. It is a cover of a Tiddas

Tiddas

Tiddas are a three piece all-girl folk band from Victoria, Australia.-Biography:Originally the three women, Amy Saunders , Lou Bennett and Sally Dastey combined their vocal talents as backing singers for Aboriginal band Djaambi, led by Saunder's brother Richard Frankland in 1990...

 song written by Dan Warner and Sally Dastey, which appears on their 1996 self-titled album, produced by Joe Camilleri

Joe Camilleri

Joseph Vincent "Joe" Camilleri, aka Jo Jo Zep or Joey Vincent, is an Australian vocalist, songwriter and saxophonist. Camilleri has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows...

.

Track listing

All songs written by Mick Thomas, except where noted.

1. "Away Away" - 3:51
2. "Woman Of Ireland" - 2:47
3. "Hungry Years" - 4:22
4. "Scorn Of The Women" - 5:24
5. "Industrial Town" - 4:07
6. "Under The Clocks" - 3:30
7. "Roaring Days" - 2:55
8. "Sergeant Small" (Tex Morton
   Tex Morton
   Tex Morton was a pioneer of Australian country music.-Early life:At age 14 he left home to launch himself into show business...
   
   ) - 3:13
9. "Ticket In Tatts" - 3:47
10. "A Tale They Won't Believe" - 7:00
11. "Knockbacks In Halifax" - 3:26
12. "Step In, Step Out" - 4:00
13. "Father's Day"
14. "Rain In My Heart" - 4:01
15. "Monday's Experts" - 2:54
16. "Wide Open Road" (David McComb
    David McComb
    David Richard McComb was an Australian rock musician. He was the singer-songwriter of the Australian band, The Triffids.-Early years in Perth:...
    
    ) - 4:19
17. "For A Short Time" - 5:13
18. "Anthem" (Sally Dastey, Dan Warner) - 4:17
19. "Traffic Goes By" - 3:05

Track listing

All songs written by Mick Thomas, except where noted.

1. "Been Coming Here For Years" - 4:17
2. "City Of Lights" - 3:49
3. "If You Gotta Go" (D Williams, M Duncan) - 3:20
4. "The Swans Return" - 2:48
5. "Tough Time" - 3:09
6. "All Over Bar The Shouting" - 3:04
7. "Everywhere I Go" - 2:48
8. "Nothing Left To Say" - 2:52
9. "One Perfect Day" (Roger Wells) - 4:57

Personnel

• Mick Thomas
• Jen Anderson
• Stephen O'Prey
• Paul Thomas
• Mark Wallace
• Michael Barclay
• Janine Hall
• Marcus Schintler
• Dave Steel
• Peter Lawler
• Richard Burgman

External links

• Trophy Night @ MusicBrainz
  MusicBrainz
  MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...
  
  
• Benched @ MusicBrainz
  MusicBrainz
  MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...