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Future Spa by Fauves
Future Spa is an album by Fauves, released in 1996. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Dogs are the Best People”, on 1 list with a best position of #20.
Future Spa, the third album from Australian smart-alecks the Fauves, came out on Polydor in August 1996, and it's melodic pop-rock with a sharp tongue and a satirist's eye for Australian life. Andrew Cox explained at the time that the band were trying to stretch rock's narrow idea of what a song can be about, while insisting nobody in the group fancied himself a poet.
The songs are the proof: "Dogs Are the Best People" and "Self Abuser" are funny, catchy and just a little cutting, and Triple J listeners voted both into their Hottest 100 that year. The album picked up a nomination for Best Alternative Album at the 1997 ARIA Awards, losing out to Spiderbait's Ivy and the Big Apples, and with 15,000 copies shifted by November 2008, no Fauves record has sold better.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Future Spa on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs are the Best People | 1 | #20 | – | 1996 | |
| 2 | Self Abuser | 1 | #30 | – | 1996 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.