Bonk is the debut studio album by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n rock

Rock music

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 band Big Pig

Big Pig

Big Pig were a seven-piece Australian pop/rock band that existed from 1985 to 1991.-Biography:In 1983 Australian drummer Oleh Witer, frustrated over playing in a string of unsuccessful groups, travelled from Australia to London....

. It was released in March 1988 on White Label Records. The album went gold, then platinum in Australia with three top-twenty singles ("Hungry Town", "Breakaway" and "Big Hotel"). The album was released in America by A&M Records

A&M Records

A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...

 in 1988, and the music video for "Breakaway" was played on MTV

MTV

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. "Breakaway" was featured on the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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 soundtrack and "Hungry Town" on the Young Einstein

Young Einstein

Young Einstein is an Australian comedy film directed by and starring Yahoo Serious, released in 1988.-Plot:Albert Einstein, the son of an apple farmer in Tasmania in the early 1900s, splits a beer atom with a chisel in order to add bubbles to beer, discovers the theory of relativity and travels to...

soundtrack. "Breakaway" and "Money God" were used in the Miami Vice TV series in the 1980s.

It was re-issued in 1992 by Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...

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Track listing

All songs written by O. Witer, A. Scaglione, N. Disbray and S. Abeyratne excepted where noted, according to Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA).

1. "Iron Lung" - 3:34
2. "Hungry Town" - 3:06
3. "Tin Drum" - 4:22
4. "Breakaway" - 3:38
5. "Boy Wonder" - 3:26
6. "Big Hotel" (O. Witer, A. Scaglione, N. Disbray and T. Rosewarne) - 4:14
7. "Hellbent Heaven" (O. Witer, S. Abeyratne, A Antonaides and N. Baker) - 3:27
8. "Nation" - 3:34
9. "Charlie" - 4:03
10. "Fine Thing" - 3:22
11. "Money God" - 4:28
12. "Devil's Song" - 5:27
13. "Breakaway" (Popper Mix) - 6:01
14. "Hungry Town" (Grub Club Mix) - 6:27

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1988	Australian Kent Music Report Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998...  Albums Chart	5

Personnel

Credited to:

Big Pig

• Tony Antoniades - Harmonica, Vocals
• Neil Baker - Drums
• Nick Disbray - Percussion, Vocals
• Tim Rosewarne - Keyboards, Vocals
• Adrian Scaglione - Drums
• Sherine Abeyratne - Percussion, Vocals
• Oleh Witer - Drums, Vocals

Additional musicians

• Como String Quartet - Strings (Track 9)

Recording details

• Producer — Nick Launay
• Engineer — Nick Launay
  • Assistants — Heidi Cannave, Noel Haris, Michael Wickow
• Mixer — Nick Launay

Art work

• Art Direction & Design - Oleh Witer, Jeremy Pearce
• Photography — Eric Watson
• Video Photography - Eric Watson, Robert Ogilvie

Notes

• A "Boy Wonder" was recorded in Sydney separately to the album which was recorded in Melbourne, Nick Launay was assisted by Heidi Cannova on this track