Description
Broken UFO is the fourth album by Australian rock band Icecream Hands. It was released in August 2002.
A single, “Rain Hail Shine”, was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Independent Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 2002.
Icecream Hands were a power pop band formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 1992 as “Chuck Skatt and His Icecream Hands” with Charles “Chuck Skatt” Jenkins as lead singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist, Arturo “Arch” Larizza on bass guitar, his brother Dom “Benedictine III” Larizza on lead guitar and Derek Smiley on drums. They shortened the name and after a year Douglas Robertson had replaced Arch on bass guitar.
Released: August 2002
Recorded: 2001-2002
Studio Yikesville, Melbourne
Genre: Rock
Length 52:49
Label: Rubber Records
Track listing:
(All songs by Charles Jenkins except where noted)
“Broken UFO” — 3:05
“Coming After You Again” — 4:42
“Beautiful Fields” — 3:15
“Head Down” (Marcus Goodwin) — 3:33
“Stay in the Same Room” — 3:35
“The Diplomat’s Daughter” — 4:00
“Why’d You Have to Leave Me This Way” — 3:27
“When the Show is Over” (Douglas Lee Robertson) — 4:05
“Because You’re Young” — 4:02
“Come Down Come Down” — 3:11
“Rain Hail Shine” — 3:44
“Waterproof” — 3:51
“Leaving All the Best” — 4:08
“Happy in the Sky” (Robertson) — 4:11
Personnel
Marcus Goodwin — guitar
Charles Jenkins — guitar, vocals
Douglas Lee Robertson — bass, vocals
Derek G. Smiley — drums, vocals
Additional personnel:
Garrett Costigan — pedal steel
Ian Whitehurst — saxophones
Eugene Ball — trumpet
Stephanie Lindner — violin
Caerwen Martin — cello
Shane O’Mara — guitar
Rebecca Barnard — backing vocals
Matthew Vehl — Hammond organ
Chart (2002) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA) 84
The follow up to their highly praised “Sweeter Than the Radio” album, “Broken UFO” includes the first two singles “Rain, Hail, Shine” and “Why’d You Have to Leave Me This Way?”