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Ringside (Cold Chisel album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Ringside

| type = live

| artist = Cold Chisel

| cover = Cold-Chisel-Ringside.jpg

| alt =

| released = November 2003

| recorded = June 2003

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| studio =

| genre = Pub rock

| length =

| label = Elektra

| producer =

| prev_title = The Studio Sessions 1978-1984

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = Standing on the Outside

| next_year = 2007

}}

Ringside is a live album released by Cold Chisel in 2003. Recorded over 4 nights in June 2003,{{cite web|work=coldchisel.com|title=Ringside |url=http://www.coldchisel.com/ringside/ |accessdate=5 August 2012}} it peaked at number 27 in 2003{{cite web|work=australian-charts.com|title=Cold Chisel - Ringside |url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Cold+Chisel&titel=Ringside&cat=a |accessdate=5 August 2012}} and peaked at number 16 following its vinyl release on 12 November 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.noise11.com/news/cold-chisel-to-release-ringside-of-vinyl-20211007|title=Cold Chisel to Release Ringside of Vinyl|website=noise11|date=7 October 2021|access-date=9 October 2021}}

Album details

The album contains two Steve Prestwich songs ("Lovelight", "All I Wanna Do") not released on any other Cold Chisel album, and "Fallen Angel", which was recorded by the band during sessions for The Last Wave of Summer but did not appear on the album, and later appeared on a solo Don Walker album. These were the first Cold Chisel songs to feature Prestwich and Walker on lead vocals.

Ringside features covers of Johnny Cash's "Big River", the standard "Cry Me a River", and Dragon's "Sunshine", written by Walker's friend Paul Hewson.

The concert was an attempt to feature the band, "performing in a smaller, intimate environment," and often, "in an acoustic format."{{cite book | author= Michael Lawrence |title=Cold Chisel: Wild Colonial Boys|year=2012|page=275 |publisher=Melbourne Books |location=Melbourne, Victoria|isbn=9781877096174}} Inspired by Elvis Presley's 1968 comeback special, there was a 360 degree view of the rotating stage, with the furthest seats from the stage being within 30 metres.{{cite news|work=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Cheap whine for another rock around the block |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/06/1049567563826.html |accessdate=5 August 2012|date=7 April 2003}}

Track listing

All songs written by Don Walker, except as noted.

=Disc 1=

  1. "Home And Broken Hearted" – 4:14
  2. "The Things I Love in You" – 3:06
  3. "Cheap Wine" – 3:45
  4. "Rosaline" – 6:19
  5. "Breakfast at Sweethearts" – 3:59
  6. "My Baby" (Phil Small) – 4:13
  7. "Houndog" – 4:59
  8. "Plaza" – 2:48
  9. "Fallen Angel" – 4:55
  10. "Shipping Steel" – 4:13
  11. "The Last Wave of Summer" – 5:49
  12. "Pretty Little Thing" – 3:18
  13. "Merry Go Round" – 4:25
  14. "Forever Now" (Steve Prestwich) – 5:32
  15. "Khe Sanh" – 4:47

=Disc 2=

  1. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 3:46
  2. "Four Walls" – 3:08
  3. "Lovelight" (Prestwich) – 3:33
  4. "When the War is Over" (Prestwich) – 6:00
  5. "All I Wanna Do (Steve Vocal)" (Prestwich) – 3:26
  6. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 2:43
  7. "Painted Doll" – 2:34
  8. "Saturday Night" – 5:42
  9. "You Got Nothing I Want" (Jimmy Barnes) – 3:12
  10. "Rising Sun" (Barnes) – 3:26
  11. "Flame Trees" (Prestwich, Walker) – 4:38
  12. "Bow River" (Ian Moss) – 7:12
  13. "Water Into Wine" (Prestwich) – 4:46
  14. "F-111" – 3:36
  15. "Sunshine" (Paul Richard Hewson) – 5:46
  16. "Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)" (Barnes, Walker) – 4:34
  17. "All I Wanna Do (Jimmy Vocal)" (Prestwich) – 3:34

Charts

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scope="col"| Chart (2003–2004)

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{{album chart|Australia|27|artist=Cold Chisel|album=Ringside|accessdate=15 December 2019|rowheader=true}}
scope="col"| Chart (2021)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

scope="row"| Australian Albums (ARIA){{cite web|url=https://www.aria.com.au/charts/albums-chart/2021-12-06|title=ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|date=6 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021}}

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Certifications

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References

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Category:Cold Chisel albums

Category:2003 live albums

Category:Live albums by Australian artists