Monday Morning Coming Down...

Monday Morning Coming Down... is the first and only live album by Australian rock band Tex, Don and Charlie. It was released in February 1995 on the last day of their tour and peaked at number 96 on the Australian charts.

Monday Morning Coming Down...
Live album by
ReleasedFebruary 1995
VenueThe Gershwin Room, Esplanade Hotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
Length71:50
LabelRed Eye Records, Polydor
ProducerTex, Don and Charlie
Tex, Don and Charlie chronology
Sad But True
(1993)
Monday Morning Coming Down...
(1995)
All Is Forgiven
(2005)

In Tex Perkins' 2017 autobiography Tex he says "Originally recorded live as a bonus disc for a second run of promotion for Sad But True, we realised that would mean a whole lot of people who bought Sad But True when it first came out would have to buy the album again to get Monday Morning Coming Down... so we insisted it be released as an album unto itself. So basically it's a collision of record company logic and artist morality. It probably shouldn't exist at all, being comprised of most of the previous album and a few wobbly covers."[1]

Owen said, "It was a really special tour and the live album showed that to us. Every song of the gig was fantastic and we put every song on the album."[2]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fateful Day"Walker 
2."The Girl with the Bluebird"Walker 
3."Postcard From Elvis"Michael Dan Ehmig, Michael Smotherman 
4."Fake That Emotion"Glenn Dormand, Perkins 
5."Redheads, Gold Cards & Long Black Limousines"Walker, Smotherman 
6."Louise"Walker 
7."I Won't Do To You What I Done to Her"Owen, Perkins 
8."Dead Dog Boogie"Owen 
9."Sitting in a Bar"Walker 
10."Danielle"Walker 
11."Play with Fire"Nanker Phelge 
12."Still the Same"Perkins 
13."I Must Be Getting Soft"Perkins 
14."Bird on a Wire"Leonard Cohen 
15."Sing Me Back Home"Merle Haggard 
16."Sunday Morning Coming Down"Kris Kristofferson 

Personnel

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Charts

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Chart performance for Monday Morning Coming Down...
Chart (1995) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] 96

Release history

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Release history and formats for Monday Morning Coming Down...
Region Date Format Label Catalogue
Australia February 1995 2×CD Red Eye Records, Polydor REDCD43, 527089-2

References

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  1. ^ a b Perkins, Tex (July 2017). Tex. AU: Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 9781925481358.
  2. ^ Nicole Leedham. "Back for more fun times". Canberra Times.
  3. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 296.