Album · Grinspoon
Easy by Grinspoon
Easy is an album by Grinspoon, released in 1999. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Ready 1”, on 1 list with a best position of #33.
Easy, the second album from Lismore post-grunge upstarts Grinspoon, dropped on 1 November 1999, and it's the sound of a young band bulking up. Work began that August with producer Jonathan Burnside, whose resume took in Nirvana and the Melvins, and the band tracked it in Sydney before mixing it in Melbourne. Phil Jamieson howls and croons over Pat Davern's guitar, Joe Hansen's bass and Kristian Hopes' drums, and the riffs come thick and sticky.
"Ready 1" led a run of 4 singles that also took in "Secrets", "Rock Show" and "Violent and Lazy". The album went in at number 4 on the Australian chart, hung around the top 50 for 13 weeks and eventually went platinum, picking up 2 ARIA nominations in 2000, for Best Rock Album and Engineer of the Year. Early copies came with a bonus disc of eleven live cuts from the band's New Year's Eve set at the 1998 Falls Festival.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Easy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ready 1 | 1 | #33 | – | 1999 | |
| 2 | Rock Show | 1 | #33 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Secrets | 1 | #73 | – | 2000 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.