The details.

Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

Ivy & The Big Apples is the third album from Spiderbait, a loud, fast alternative rock record released on Polydor in October 1996 that became the band’s most successful album.

Recorded across March and August 1996 at Studios 301 in Sydney and Rockinghorse Studios near Byron Bay, it was produced by the band with Phil McKellar and Paul McKercher. The title comes from a woman named Ivy in Finley, New South Wales, who sold big apples.

‘Buy Me A Pony’ became the first Australian song to top the triple j Hottest 100, and ‘Hot Water & Milk’, ‘Calypso’ and the double A-side ‘Joyce’s Hut’ and ‘Horschack Army’ followed it as singles. The album peaked at number 3 on the ARIA chart, went double platinum and won the 1997 ARIA Award for Best Alternative Release. In 2021 Rolling Stone Australia placed it at number 72 on its list of the 200 greatest Australian albums.

The album first appeared on vinyl in 2016 for its 20th anniversary. This 30th anniversary edition from Universal Music Australia is pressed on red and black splatter vinyl, released alongside the band’s national anniversary tour.

It sits between The Unfinished Spanish Galleon Of Finley Lake and Grand Slam among the band’s studio albums, and remains the best place to start with Spiderbait.

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. Chest Hair
  2. Hot Water & Milk
  3. Buy Me A Pony
  4. When Fusion Ruled The Earth
  5. Calypso
  6. Goin’ Off
  7. Don’t Kill Nipper
  8. Horschack Army
  9. Conjunctivitis

Side B

  1. Joyce’s Hut
  2. Jasper
  3. Goosh
  4. Should Have Done What My Mum Always Told Me To
  5. Hey
  6. Hawaiian Nights
  7. Driving Up The Ceiling
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Gatefold

Vinyl colour

Red
Black
Splatter

Label
Universal Music Australia
Barcode

199957539074

Catalogue number
5753907
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
1996
Care and packaging.

All records are handled minimally and shipped factory sealed to preserve condition. Orders are packed in purpose-built LP mailers and dispatched within one to two business days.

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