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Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive
Studio album (reissue) by The Angels
Released	July 1992
Genre	Hard rock
Length	101:25
Label	Mushroom
Producer	Steve James, The Angels
The Angels chronology
Red Back Fever (1991) Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive (1992) Their Finest Hour... and Then Some (1992)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10

Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive is a double album by Australian hard rock band The Angels, released in July 1992. The album is a re-issue of 1991's Red Back Fever with a disc, titled Left Hand Drivewhich is a disc of remixes, rarities, unreleased and deleted songs and B-Sides. This was later released as the second disc of Greatest Hits - the Mushroom Years with the addition of the track "Blue Light" from the deleted Hard Evidence Tour E.P..

The set peaked at number 28 on the ARIA Charts.

Track listing

Disc 1 – Red Back Fever

1. "Tear Me Apart" (Bob Spencer, Richard Brewster, Brent Eccles) – 5:15
2. "Some of That Love" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 3:51
3. "Once Bitten Twice Shy" (Ian Hunter) – 4:38 (Ian Hunter cover)
4. "Child in You" (Amanda Brewster, R. Brewster) – 3:28
5. "Lyin' Awake in Bed" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 5:42
6. "Bedroom After Bedroom" (A. Brewster, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 3:58
7. "Red Back Fever" (Spencer, Eccles, Doc Neeson, James Morley, R. Brewster) – 3:59
8. "Don't Need You" (Spencer, Eccles, Morley, R.Brewster) – 2:20
9. "Natural Born Woman" (Steve Marriott) – 3:40 (Humble Pie cover)
10. "High and Dry" (Spencer, Eccles) – 5:53
11. "Hold On" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 6:12
12. "No More Words" (Spencer, R. Brewster, Eccles) – 1:42

Disc 2 – Left Hand Drive

1. "Don't Waste My Time" (Spencer, R. Brewster) – 5:15
2. "Junk City" (Neeson, R. Brewster, Spencer) – 6:23
3. "Dead Man's Shoes" (R. Brewster) – 4:37
4. "Backstreet Pickup" (Lipstick Remix) (Spencer, Neeson, R. Brewster, Morley, Terry Manning) – 7:25
5. "Don't Break Me Down" (Spencer, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 4:48
6. "Tear Me Apart" (Spencer, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 3:33
7. "Straight Aces" (Neeson, Jim Hilbun, Eccles, R. Brewster) – 4:02
8. "Blood on the Moon" (A. Brewster, R. Brewster) – 3:02
9. "Take an X (Neeson, R. Brewster, Spencer) – 6:37
10. "Man There" (R. Brewster) – 5:05

Personnel

The Angels

• Doc Neeson – lead vocals
• Rick Brewster – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Bob Spencer – guitar, backing vocals
• James Morley – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Brent Eccles – drums

Production

• Steve James – producer, engineer, mixing
• The Angels – producer
• David Hemming – mixing engineer
• Don Bartley – mastering engineer
• Craig McGill – design, illustration, artwork

Charts

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
3. The Angels - Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive at Rate Your Music
4. The Angels – Red Back Fever/Left Hand Drive
5. "Australiancharts.com – The Angels – Red Back Fever / Left Hand Drive". Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 November 2021.

• 1992 albums
• The Angels (Australian band) albums
• Mushroom Records albums