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Grand Slam by Spiderbait
Grand Slam is an album by Spiderbait, released in 1999. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Shazam!”, on 1 list with a best position of #40.
Grand Slam, Spiderbait's fourth album, arrived on Polydor in 1999 and threw a curveball at anyone expecting another round of the alternative rock of Ivy and the Big Apples. The trio from Finley, New South Wales handed a big share of the record to bassist Janet English, whose songs come wrapped in glossy, heavily produced pop, while drummer Kram still hollers his way through the rock numbers just as he had on the earlier albums. Guitarist Damian Whitty keeps both halves tethered, and a streak of electronica fizzes through the rest.
It's a restless, sugar-rushed record, and it still went top 20 at home. The single "Glockenpop" won the band an ARIA for its cover art in 2000, and the song found a second life a decade later in the PlayStation Portable edition of LittleBigPlanet.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Grand Slam on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.