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Ghost Nation

Ghost Nation
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Studio album by Hunters & Collectors
Released 27 November 1989 (1989-11-27)
Recorded 1989
Platinum Studios, Melbourne
Genre Rock
Length 43:20
Label White/Mushroom
Producer Clive Martin, Hunters & Collectors
Hunters & Collectors chronology
What's a Few Men?
(1987)
Ghost Nation
(1989)
Cut
(1993)
Singles from Ghost Nation
  1. "When the River Runs Dry"
    Released: 25 September 1989
  2. "Turn a Blind Eye" aka "Blind Eye"
    Released: 8 January 1990
  3. "The Way You Live"
    Released: 23 April 1990
  4. "Love All Over Again"
    Released: August 1990
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic 2/5 stars

Ghost Nation is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band, Hunters & Collectors. It was co-produced by the band with Clive Martin and issued on White/Mushroom Records on 27 November 1989. It reached No. 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart, No. 29 in New Zealand and No. 31 in Sweden.

The album helped Hunters & Collectors win the award of Australian Band of the Year (1990) by Rolling Stone Australia. The band were nominated for six awards at the Fourth Annual ARIA Music Awards in 1990, but they won just one category – Best Cover Art for Ghost Nation by Robert Miles.

Hunters & Collectors line up in 1987 was John Archer on bass guitar, Doug Falconer on drums, Jack Howard on trumpet, Robert Miles on live sound, Mark Seymour on lead vocals and guitar, Jeremy Smith on French horn, and Michael Waters on keyboards and trombone. Early in 1988 Barry Palmer (also a member of Harem Scarem, ex-Stephen Cummings Band) joined the group on guitar.Ghost Nation, their sixth studio album, was co-produced by the band with Clive Martin. It was released in November 1989 on White Label/Mushroom in Australia and New Zealand and Atlantic in Europe and North America, and was their second Australian Top Ten appearance on the ARIA Albums Chart, peaking at No 10 in February 1990. In New Zealand it reached the top 30 and also charted in Sweden reaching No. 31 on the Sverigetopplistan. It provided four singles, beginning with "When the River Runs Dry", appearing in September and peaking at No. 23 in Australia in December and No. 5 on Billboard Modern Rock Tracks in 1990. The album also includes a cover version of Eric Gradman: Man and Machine's 1979 single, "Crime of Passion".


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