Salty (album)

Salty
Studio album by The Mutton Birds
Released	April 1994
Recorded	November 1993
Studio	Shortland Street Studios, Auckland
Genre	Rock
Length	63:24
Label	Virgin/EMI
Producer	The Mutton Birds
The Mutton Birds chronology
The Mutton Birds (1992) Salty (1994) Nature (1995)

Salty is the second album by New Zealand rock band The Mutton Birds, released in 1993. Four songs—"The Heater," "Anchor Me," "In My Room" and "Ngaire"—reached the top 20 in the New Zealand singles chart; "The Heater" peaked at No.1.^[1]

"Don't Fight it, Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us" was originally recorded by an earlier band of McGlashan's, Blam Blam Blam. "The Heater" is used as a plot device in the Christopher Brookmyre novel Be My Enemy; two central characters bond over it, and it is used as a contrast against the manufactured pop music made by a minor villain.

Track listing

(All songs by Don McGlashan except where noted)

1. "The Heater" – 4.22
2. "Ngaire" – 3.52
3. "When the Wind Comes Round" – 5.30
4. "You Will Return" – 4.32
5. "Wellington" (Alan Gregg) – 3.07
6. "In My Room" – 4.35
7. "Queen's English" – 7.07
8. "Salty My Dear" – 1.22
9. "There's a Limit" (Gregg) – 4.13
10. "Esther" (Gregg) – 2.45
11. "No Telling When" – 5.28
12. "Anchor Me" – 4.27
13. "Too Close to the Sun" – 5.31
14. "Don't Fight It Marsha. It's Bigger Than Both of Us" – 4.38

Personnel

• Don McGlashan – guitars, vocals, euphonium, melodica
• Ross Burge – drums, autoharp
• Alan Gregg – bass, vocals, keyboards
• David Long – guitar, vocals, keyboards, banjo

Additional personnel

• Jane Dodd — backing vocals ("Anchor Me," "Queens English")

References

1. Charts.org.nz website