Love This City by The Whitlams

Love This City, the Whitlams' follow-up to Eternal Nightcap, came out on Warner in November 1999 and climbed to number 3 on the ARIA albums chart, their best showing yet. By then the Australian band was very much Tim Freedman's vehicle: the keyboard player and singer was the one constant through a lineup that had changed again and again, and that had lost founding member Stevie Plunder, who died in January 1996. Warwick Hornby on bass and Terepai Richmond on drums were alongside him now.

Freedman's keyboard-led songs are witty, rueful and big-hearted, and "Chunky Chunky Air Guitar" shows the band's lighter, cheekier side. Torch the Moon would follow in 2002 and go one better, all the way to number one.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.