1st track from "First Under The Wire" (1979). If you haven't heard "Lonesome Loser," you just weren't listening to AM radio in 1979.
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This was the last time this popular Australian band released an album that matched the earlier Sleeper Catcher and Diamantina Cocktail. With a mix of harmony-drenched pop tunes and unthreatening rockers, they appealed to a wide audience. This album features some of their most poignant lyrics. You can empathize with Glenn Shorrock when he earnestly sings about the albatross and the whales being his brothers in "Cool Change," this release's standout track. If you haven't heard "Lonesome Loser," you just weren't listening to AM radio in 1979.
~Review by Mark Allan
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Arguably up with the best of the LRB albums...simply, very polished and classy AOR and essential for LRB fans. For me, Lonesome Loser, Hard Life, Middle Man, and Mistress of Mine rank with the best of the LRB catalogue, but I think this album showed LRB at its most mature, both in terms of songwriting and playing (Clive Harrison and Barry Sullivan covered the loss of George McArdle superbly, but both are/were in the very top league of Australian rock bassists, so that shouldn't be a surprise).
~excerpt from a review by wayne (Adelaide)
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Image Credits (other than album art, in order of appearance): Ulf Liljankoski / Ulf Liljankoski / Ulf Liljankoski / Michela / Veronica Sheppard / Daniel Coomber / Wendy / Sam Davis / Michela / Nicu Buculei / Marina Alam / David Blackwell / Mateus Lunardi Dutra / Frank Kovalchek / Marie Coleman / Juliane Bjerregaard / Daneila Hartmann / Joshua Barnett / Melissa Segal
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