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Nature (The Mutton Birds album)

Nature is a compilation album by the New Zealand rock band The Mutton Birds.[3][4] The album, a selection of songs from the band's first two albums, was released in 1995 in the UK.[5][6]

Nature
Compilation album by
The Mutton Birds
ReleasedSeptember 1995
GenreRock
LabelVirgin Records[1]
ProducerWayne Connolly
The Mutton Birds chronology
Salty
(1994) 		Nature
(1995) 		Envy of Angels
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]

Another compilation, Box of Birds, a double CD repackaging of the entire two albums, was released in New Zealand two months later with an almost identical cover. Box of Birds spent three weeks in the New Zealand album charts and peaked at No. 42.[7]

Track listing

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(All songs by Don McGlashan except where noted)

  1. "Nature" (Wayne Mason) — 3:40
  2. "Dominion Road" — 3:48
  3. "Anchor Me" — 4:30
  4. "The Heater" (McGlashan, Alan Gregg, David Long, Ross Burge) — 4:25
  5. "Giant Friend" — 3:50
  6. "Your Window" — 4:16
  7. "White Valiant" — 5:11
  8. "In My Room" — 4:34
  9. "A Thing Well Made" — 4:38
  10. "Queen's English" — 6:27
  11. "There's a Limit" (Gregg) — 4:17
  12. "Too Close to the Sun" (McGlashan, Long) — 5:35

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. p. 91.
  2. ^ "Nature - The Mutton Birds | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ "The Mutton Birds | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. ^ "The Mutton Birds - AudioCulture". www.audioculture.co.nz.
  5. ^ "Mutton Birds". Trouser Press. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Virgin to Let Kiwi Act Mutton Birds Fly in U.K." Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 22 March 1997 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "charts.org.nz - The Mutton Birds - Box Of Birds". charts.nz.
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