Matchbox - Slightly Troppo (1978) 320kbps {FP}

The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band was an Australian band, active throughout the 1970s. It was based in Melbourne and centred on singer and multi-instrumentalist Mic Conway ("Captain Matchbox") and his brother Jim Conway, who is widely regarded as one of Australia's finest exponents of the blues harmonica.

Inspired by early jazz recordings and the jug band music they heard on reel-to-reel tapes as teenagers, they formed a band which grew within a couple of years from an underground art school band to a national icon, with film and television appearances and regular appearances in the charts. Their debut LP Smoke Dreams (1972) was released in the USA in the DynaQuad quadraphonic format. Their second LP Wangaratta Wahine featured a cover illustration by noted Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig.

The brothers continued the group through many lineup changes until a tragic truck crash while on tour in 1979 which ruined the band financially and emotionally, and after paying off their debts they disbanded.

Slightly Troppo 1978 (as Matchbox)
Track Listing

Side 1:
"Gearshift Shuffle"
"Lowest Common Denominator"
"Sleep"
"Automaton" (called 'Automation' on the sleeve)
"Home"
"The Joint Is Jumping"
Side 2
"Chiropodist Shop (Shoe, Shoe)"
"Victim Of Circumstance"
"Airmail Special"
"Slumming (On Park Avenue)"
"Sloppy Drunk"
"Never Mind The Scallops"