Album · Jebediah
Slightly Odway by Jebediah
Slightly Odway is an album by Jebediah, released in 1997. 6 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Leaving Home”, on 3 lists with a best position of #10.
Slightly Odway, the debut album from Perth's Jebediah, came out on Murmur on 8 September 1997, after the band had won the National Campus Band Competition and Triple J had hammered "Jerks of Attention" the year before. They cut it between March and May 1997 at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne with Neill King producing, and it bottles all that early buzz: scrappy, sugar-rushed guitar pop with hooks you could hang your coat on.
Kevin Mitchell sings and plays rhythm guitar, Chris Daymond peels off the lead lines, Vanessa Thornton holds down the bass and Kevin's older brother Brett pounds the drums. "Leaving Home" is all big-hearted rush, and "Harpoon" bristles with nervous energy. It climbed to number 7 on the ARIA albums chart and hung around the top 50 for 54 weeks, off and on.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Slightly Odway on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaving Home | 3 | #10 | – | 1997–2013 | |
| 2 | Harpoon | 2 | #7 | – | 1998–2013 | |
| 3 | Military Strongmen | 1 | #33 | – | 1997 | |
| 4 | Teflon | 1 | #42 | – | 1998 | |
| 5 | Jerks of Attention | 1 | #82 | – | 1998 | |
| 6 | Benedict | 1 | #91 | – | 1998 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.