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Mint 400 by Ammonia
Mint 400 is an album by Ammonia, released in 1995. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Drugs”, on 2 lists with a best position of #27.
Mint 400, the debut album from Perth's Ammonia, came out through Murmur in Australia on 16 October 1995, with Epic taking it to the US the following March. The title nicks the off-road desert race from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the cover sports a custom 1968 Pontiac GTO. American producer Kevin Shirley, whose credits take in Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Slayer, cut it in ten days at Festival Studios in Sydney on analogue gear, going for the band's live sound and keeping overdubs and studio tinkering to a minimum.
That suits the songs: Dave Johnstone's guitar, Simon Hensworth's bass and Allan Balmont's drums mash grunge crunch into guitar pop hooks, a sound the band themselves called pop-metal. It debuted at No. 15 on the ARIA albums chart, fell out of print in March 2002, and returned as a limited vinyl reissue from Love as Fiction Records in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Mint 400 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drugs | 2 | #27 | – | 1995–1996 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.