"Shark Fin Blues" | ||||
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Single by The Drones | ||||
from the album Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By | ||||
Released | 27 March 2005 | |||
Recorded | 2005 | |||
Genre | Punk blues, garage rock | |||
Length | 9:14 | |||
Label | ATP In-Fidelity | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gareth Liddiard, Rui Pereira | |||
The Drones singles chronology | ||||
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"Shark Fin Blues" is a double A-side single taken from Australian rockers the Drones' second studio album, Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By (April 2005). The single was released on 25 September 2006. It also appeared as a limited edition, 7" picture disc, together with the band's fourth album, Gala Mill (September 2006).
The band's most popular song, "Shark Fin Blues" - "an anthem of sorts for the disenfranchised and melancholic" written after the passing of lead singer Gareth Liddiard's mother - was voted the greatest Australian song of all time by the band's contemporaries in 2009 and is now widely considered to be a classic.[1][2][3]