Shark Fin Blues

"Shark Fin Blues"
Single by The Drones
from the album Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
Released27 March 2005
Recorded2005
GenrePunk blues, garage rock
Length9:14
LabelATP
In-Fidelity
Songwriter(s)Gareth Liddiard, Rui Pereira
The Drones singles chronology
"Bird in a Church"
(2002) 		"Shark Fin Blues"
(2005) 		"Jezebel"
(2006)

"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]

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