Body Blow by Headless Chickens

Body Blow, the Headless Chickens' second album, first appeared on Flying Nun in 1991 and was reshaped for Australia in 1993, when "Crash Hot" and "Road Train" were cut to make room for "Mr. Moon", "Juice", "Choppers" and a clutch of remixes.

On a label ruled by the Dunedin sound, these New Zealanders went the other way and loaded up on electronics, and this is where the gamble paid off: three top-10 singles, double platinum, their most successful album. Rolling Stone Australia noted that the first single, "Gaskrankinstation", refused to fit any category, a slow-tightening tale of a heartless dope stuck in a dead-end job and a loveless marriage. Fiona McDonald was in the band by then, and the Chickens also cover the Stridulators' "The Inside Track", trimmed to "Inside Track". An extended reissue followed in 2019.

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