Easy (Grinspoon album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Easy

| type = studio

| artist = Grinspoon

| cover = Easyalbum.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|df=y|1999|11|1}}

| recorded = August–September 1999

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Alternative metal
• nu metal
• post-grunge

}}

| length = 50:16

| label = Universal

| producer = Jonathan Burnside

| prev_title = Pushing Buttons

| prev_year = 1998

| next_title = New Detention

| next_year = 2002

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Easy

| type = studio

| single1 = Ready 1

| single1date = 18 October 1999

| single2 = Secrets

| single2date = January 2000

| single3 = Rock Show

| single3date = 5 May 2000

| single4 = Violent and Lazy

| single4date = 13 November 2000

}}

}}

Easy is the second studio album released by the Australian rock band Grinspoon. It was released on 1 November 1999,{{cite web | url = http://hem2.passagen.se/honga/database/g/grinspoon.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040118234738/http://hem2.passagen.se/honga/database/g/grinspoon.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 18 January 2004 | title = Grinspoon | website = Australian Rock Database | first = Magnus | last = Holmgren | access-date = 26 March 2012 }} debuting at No. 4 on the Australian album charts and remaining in the top 50 for 13 weeks.{{cite web | url = http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Grinspoon&titel=Easy&cat=a | title = Grinspoon - Easy | last= Hung | first = Steffen | publisher = Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung) | access-date=15 November 2009}} It eventually achieved platinum sales in Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2000.htm |title=ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2000 Albums |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=17 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611211848/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2000.htm |archive-date=11 June 2011 }}

Work on the album began in August 1999 with the producer Jonathan Burnside (Nirvana, Melvins, Depeche Mode, Meat Beat Manifesto).{{cite web|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120726191200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14231/20120727-0512/www.howlspace.com.au/en4/grinspoon/grinspoon.htm|url=http://www.howlspace.com.au/en4/grinspoon/grinspoon.htm|title=Grinspoon|last=Nimmervoll|first=Ed|author-link=Ed Nimmervoll|website=Howlspace|archive-date=26 July 2012|access-date=29 January 2014|via=Trove}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The album was recorded in Sydney and mixed in Melbourne. The initial release of the album included a bonus disc containing eleven live tracks from the band's New Year's Eve performance at the 1998 Falls Festival.

Four singles were released from the album, "Ready 1", "Secrets", "Rock Show" and "Violent and Lazy", of which "Ready 1" charted in the ARIA Singles Chart at No. 36, "Secrets" at No. 83 and "Rock Show" at No. 78. "Ready 1" was voted in at No. 33 on Triple J's Hottest 100 for 1999, with "Rock Show" and "Secrets" both polling on Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2000, where they reached No. 33 and No. 73 respectively.

The album received two nominations at the Aria Awards in 2000, "Best Rock Album" and "Engineer of the Year".{{Cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2000|title=Winners by Year - 25th ARIA Awards|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|access-date=22 March 2012}}