THE LIVING END DISCOGRAPHY & VIDEOS

1.The Living End (1998)
2. Roll On (2000)
3.Modern Artillery (2003)
4.State of Emergency (2006)
5.White Noise (2008)
6.The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating (2011)







The Living End 
Released October 12, 1998, Length 47:05, Label Modular/EMI

1.Prisoner of Society 3:52
2.Growing Up (Falling Down) 3:56

3.Second Solution 3:00

4.West End Riot 3:54

5.Bloody Mary 3:45

6.Monday 3:32

7.All Torn Down 4:09

8.Save the Day 2:56

9.Trapped 3:26

10.Have They Forgotten 3:13

11.Fly Away 2:53

12.I Want a Day 2:29

13.Sleep on It 2:58

14.Closing In 3:03

The Living End is the self-titled debut studio album by Australian punk/rockabilly band The Living End. It was recorded at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, Australia. The cover art, as described by frontman Chris Cheney, is taken from a photograph of the inside of a World War I all-female bomb factory.

The Living End achieved mainstream success with one of the singles "Prisoner of Society", and supported The Offspring on the Americana tour. ARIA publicised that The Living End had officially achieved 5x Platinum status in Australia in November 2007. It is still to date the band's most successful release. In October 2010, The Living End, was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.

The 6th track "Monday" is the band's epitaph to the 1996 Dunblane massacre.

Roll On

Released March 27, 2001, Length 47:57, Label EMI/Reprise

1.Roll On 3:09
2.Pictures in the Mirror 3:18

3.Riot On Broadway 2:56

4.Staring At the Light 4:08

5.Carry Me Home 3:12

6.Don't Shut the Gate 3:04

7.Dirty Man 3:36

8.Blood On Your Hands 4:14

9.Revolution Regained 2:46

10.Silent Victory 3:35

11.Read About It 3:16

12.Killing the Right 4:21

13.Astoria Paranoia 3:05

14.Uncle Harry– 3:24

15.Prisoner of Society (Live) (US bonus track)  4:37

Roll On is the second album by Australian rock band The Living End, released in Australia and New Zealand on EMI in 2000, and internationally on Reprise/Warner Brothers in 2001.

Musically, the album marked a change from the sound of their debut album, The Living End. Roll On had a notably more polished sound (as compared to the more garage-y sound of the previous album). Horn sections featured on numerous songs, such as Uncle Harry and Killing The Right. Whereas the previous album had displayed punk and rockabilly influences (by artists such as Green Day and Stray Cats), Roll On showed more Australian rock influences, particularly artists of the 80s Pub Rock era. The album even garnered comparison, by a few critics, to seminal punk band The Clash's creative breakthrough, London Calling. The album was recorded with producer Nick Launay, who had previously worked with artists such as Silverchair and Midnight Oil.

It also marked the last major work featuring drummer Travis Demsey. In the downtime following the album's release and subsequent tour, he would leave the band, to be replaced by Andy Strachan.

ARIA publicised that Roll On had officially achieved 2x Platinum status in Australia in November 2007. This was a great achievement as all of their other album releases were simultaneously awarded a higher accreditation. These new figures, however, indicated that sales of Roll On had been topped by the band's fourth studio release, State Of Emergency. This now means that the Roll On album now takes the position as the band's third most successful release.

The song 'Carry Me Home' from the album was also featured in the video game Guitar Hero II as a playable song.

Modern Artillery

Released October 28, 2003, Length 49:35, Label EMI/ Reprise

1.What Would You Do? 1:28
2.One Said to the Other 2:46

3.Who's Gonna Save Us? 3:21

4.End of the World 3:36

5.Jimmy 3:29

6.Tabloid Magazine 3:21

7.In the End 4:16

8.Maitland Street 4:07

9.Putting You Down 3:47

10.Short Notice 2:43

11.So What? 2:58

12.Rising Up from the Ashes" - 3:16

13.Hold Up 2:28

14.The Room 8:07

Modern Artillery (typeset as MODERN ARTillery) is the third album by the Australian Punk rock band the Living End. It was released twice for 28 October 2003 as an international release date and 2 March 2004 for a United States release date. It was the first album with Andy Strachan as drummer, since Travis Demsey had left after Roll On.

Who's Gonna Save Us? has been released as a single, and End of the World appears on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk's Underground 2. "Who's Gonna Save Us?" appeared in commercials for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.

ARIA publicised that Modern ARTillery had officially achieved Platinum status in Australia in November 2007. This was a great achievement as all of their other album releases were simultaneously awarded a higher accreditation.

State of Emergency

Released February 4, 2006, Length 51:45, Label EMI

1.Til the End 4:27
2.Long Live the Weekend 2:54

3.No Way Out 2:40

4.We Want More 3:41

5.Wake Up 4:31

6.What's on Your Radio 3:02

7.Nothing Lasts Forever 4:52

8.One Step Behind 4:20

9.Reborn 3:49

10.Order of the Day 3:38

11.Nowhere Town 4:06

12.State of Emergency 2:58

13.Black Cat 3:45

14.Into the Red 3:08

State of Emergency is the fourth studio album by Australian punk rock band The Living End. It was released in Australia on 4 February 2006, in New Zealand on 6 February and in Japan in May 2006. The album was released in the United States and Canada on 11 July 2006. It debuted in the number one position on the ARIA charts. The first single off the album was "What's on Your Radio" which was released on 20 November 2005. The follow-up single, "Wake Up" was released on 18 February 2006, and debuted at number 5 on the ARIA charts, making it the highest single debut position for The Living End (not including the double A-side "Second Solution" / "Prisoner of Society").

The limited edition comes with a DVD, documenting the stages of making the album and shows footage of their performances, including the band as The Longnecks and at Splendour in the Grass. The band also released a live DVD of the State of Emergency Tour, Live at Festival Hall. A limited edition vinyl of the album was released and is limited to 500 copies worldwide.

ARIA publicized that State of Emergency had officially achieved 2x Platinum status in Australia in November 2007. This was a great achievement as all of their other album releases were simultaneously awarded a higher accreditation. The album is now their second highest selling behind the efforts of their record-breaking debut.

Before recording

In December 2005, The Living End, as The Longnecks, played gigs in Sydney featuring tracks from the album. This was to test out audience reactions to new songs in order to ready themselves for the Big Day Out. Tracks were also given a live airing in festivals of late 2005 and early 2006, such as the 2005 Homebake festival at The Domain, Sydney.

The Living End played at Splendour in the Grass, a music festival in Byron Bay the day before they were due to start recording State of Emergency. 301 Studios was literally across the road from where they were playing. Band members decided that if they got positive reactions during their performance, they'd do well producing the record and be in the right frame of mind to do so.

White Noise

Released July 19, 2008, Length 44:26, Label Dew Process

1.How Do We Know?  4:14
2.Raise the Alarm 3:37

3.White Noise 3:44

4.Moment in the Sun  4:22

5.Waiting for the Silence  5:01

6.Make the Call  4:00

7.Loaded Gun  4:57

8.Kid  3:33

9.21st Century 3:28

10.Hey Hey Disbeliever 3:37

11.Sum of Us 3:49

White Noise is the ARIA Award–winning fifth studio album by Australian punk rock band The Living End, released in Australia on 19 July 2008. It was their first album released by their new record label Dew Process. It was also released with a limited edition bonus DVD, which was recorded at ACDC Lane, Melbourne, featuring six live songs, four of which were songs from White Noise. The album debuted at number two on the Australian Album Chart, achieving a Gold certification in its first week. It has since gone on to achieve a Platinum accreditation.

The album was nominated for Best Rock Album & Album of the Year at the 2008 ARIA Awards, winning the ARIA Award for Best Rock Album 2008.

Background

Pre-recording

After a live show in late 2006, the band was placed on hiatus due to the fatigue of lead vocalist Chris Cheney. Cheney took a number of months off, doing yoga for relaxation and consequently, inspiration. White Noise got its first real kick-start when he came up with the guitar riff from the first track "How Do We Know?", saying he "took it to the guys and they said ‘That's the direction, write another 12 of those'". Cheney has said the brief departure "was the turmoil that had to happen", but he "was back on track".

In February 2008, The Living End, under the alias of The Longnecks, played a small tour across Victoria to road-test songs they had written for their fifth studio album. They played a handful of dates and used the audience's reaction to the new material as a guide to which songs sounded better in a live environment

Recording and production

The Living End's new label suggested and assigned producer John Agnello, who has formerly done work with Sonic Youth and The Hold Steady. Band manager Rae Harvey selected Brendan O'Brien to mix and master the album. O'Brien begun work with The Living End literally a day after completing production on AC/DC's latest album Black Ice, and is notable for his work with high profile bands such as Pearl Jam. These two were selected to help replicate their live sound inside a studio. The album was recorded by producer Agnello in April 2008, in New Jersey, United States.

Promotion

Only four days after the mastering of the album was completed, The Living End released a taster track titled "How Do We Know", which was posted on the Triple J website for download on 23 May 2008, available for one week only. Also as a promotion for the album a "White Noise Gizmo" was made available through the Nova Radio Station webpage, which Windows Vista users were able to download a taster of the album. This allowed two tracks a day to be heard from 14 July to 18 July.

The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating

Released July 22, 2011, Length 40:09, Label Dew Process

1.In the Morning 3:17
2.Heatwave 3:08

3.Machine Gun 3:29

4.For Another Day 3:15

5.Song for the Lonely 3:16

6.Ride the Wave Boy 3:52

7.Resist 4:42

8.Away from the City3:43

9.United 3:34

10.Universe 3:45

11.The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating 4:08

The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating is the sixth album by Australian rock band The Living End, released on 22 July 2011 on Dew Process.The album was produced by Nick DiDia.


Composition and recording
In early 2010, Chris Cheney went to New York for three months to begin writing songs for the album. While in New York, he met up with The Hold Steady singer Craig Finn, who he met through John Agnello who had produced the band's previous album, White Noise. With Finn, he cowrote the song "The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating". Cheney said that for the new album he "wanted to meet different people and gather some fresh resources and influences to hopefully take my writing and add a different element".

Later in the year, the band regrouped to begin rehearsals in a South Melbourne recording studio. The band performed as The Safety Matches to road test new material. Cheney said that they had performed "a week's worth of gigs playing only new songs to see which ones would sink or swim" and that they had recorded fewer studio demos than for previous albums. They then went into the studio to record the album.They spent four or five weeks in Byron Bayand a further two to three weeks recording in Melbourne.

Cheney said that the album took "like a year and a half of writing" and that they always seem to "go through 30-40 songs" in rehearsal. He said that during writing the album they had "amassed something in the vicinity of 40-plus songs to choose from". During the writing stage he said he would be "working on 30 songs at the same time." When asked in a live webchat on what was different about this album, he replied, "I believe that there was a sense of not being able to top what we achieved with White Noise, so I was determined we'd create the best songs we've written. We ended up with more songs and at the end of it we went through every tune and picked the best ones that fit together."

Scott Owen has said that for the album they "have taken a lot of inspiration from U2 and INXS, particularly the ‘dancey’ rock stuff. Rage Against The Machine as well. Something that those three bands share is the ability to get on a groove and stay on it, letting it pulsate and grow in a tribal sort of way, making it quite transfixing without changing the basic formula of each song."

Recording of the album, with Nick DiDia, who came out from Atlanta to produce the album, was completed in May 2011 after which it was sent to Brendan O'Brien for mixing.

Music and lyrics

Chris Cheney has said that for the album, the "aim has been to construct something more direct, simple and therefore tougher and bigger sounding than anything we've done before." He also said that the band "spent a lot of time experimenting with the parts of the songs to achieve this. Also and most importantly this will be an album, not just a bunch of songs."

The album's producer, Nick DiDia, suggested to the band that keeping the songs slower would increase their impact. "He taught us that in slowing the tempo down it makes the song have so much more impact and be so much more direct", said Cheney. "There was an openness and air surrounding the tunes that we didn't want to clutter up playing it too fast or trying to be too fancy with our parts."

Musically, Cheney has said that he used various effects to get a broader sound; "I have used more effects on this record vs others. There was the chorus peddle [sic] which gave songs an '80s flavour we were excited about. The good thing about a new guitar peddle [sic] is when it influences your writing. it's important for our songs to grow and sonically there's a broader spectrum now."

Cheney said that the album title "doesn’t mean anything, but it certainly suggests a theme. Everything must rejuvenate, everything goes in cycles, and we are all going through the same thing, really. It doesn't make exact sense, which is why I kind of like it"

For the first time, with the new album to promote, the band has hired a second guitarist to play live with them. When asked about this, Cheney said, "the songs on the new album aren't more complex but we felt there were some sounds and elements missing from our live show that are on our records. We plan to use him for some of the songs but not all, the idea is that it creates a fuller sound and you will hear parts of our record that have not been executed on stage. It will free me up to play some parts that have been missing from our gigs."

Release and reception

The title track and lead single was premiered on triple J Breakfast on 3 June 2011. The single was then made available to stream on the band's official website. "Machine Gun" was also made available to download via the band's Facebook page. The whole album was made available to stream to members of the band's mailing list for 24 hours on 18 July 2011.

The album debuted at number three on the ARIA Album Chart. It received four and a half stars from Rolling Stone, saying it would "be fitting if this became the Living End's defining record". The album was Radar's record of the week.

However, Doug Wallen of The Vine was not so glowing. Labelling the work a 'buffed clean record deprived of heft and depth', he criticises Cheney's lyrics, stating that they are generic and clichéd. Citing a 'radio gloss' on the songs, he feels that the record lacks the 'the boiling blood of the best anti-establishment music'.