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Buffalo
Only Want You for Your Body
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. I'm a Skirt Lifter, Not a Shirt Raiser
2. I'm Coming On - Buffalo, Lee, Alvin [Rock]
3. Dune Messiah
4. Stay with Me
5. What's Going On
6. Kings Cross Ladies
7. United Nations
8. What's Going On [Single Version][*]
9. United Nations [Live][*]

CD Details

All Artists: Buffalo
Title: Only Want You for Your Body
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Aztec
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 11/21/2005
Album Type: Extra tracks, Import
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
Style: Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 9336043001072

Synopsis

Album Description

Buffalo's third album "Only Want You For Your Body", the last with the classic line-up of Dave Tice (Count Bishops), John Baxter, Pete Wells (Rose Tattoo) and Jimmy Economou, was released in 1974. With six further Tice/Baxter classics, including "I'm A Skirt Lifter, Not A Shirt Raiser" and "Kings Cross Ladies", the album cemented Buffalo's reputation as Australia's premier hard rock band. The wildly tasteless cover design featured an obese, screaming, semi-naked woman shackled to a torture rack. On the back cover, the band revelled in their role as leering, lascivious Aussie yob rockers, with Tice wearing a devilish grin while clad in his black leather strides 'n' braces and brandishing a bullwhip. It was just a bit of harmless fun, yet outraged record store managers across the land refused to stock the record, some eventually placing it in a brown paper bag to hide the offending images. Aztec. 2005.

CD Reviews

Great followup to Volcanic Rock

S. Wood | Washington DC | 02/25/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Buffalo created another fine hard rock album in 1974 with "Only Want You for Your Body." They were a confident group, coming off of their incredible Volcanic Rock lp, which was successful in Australia but not overseas. This album is tighter, faster and wilder, unlike the sludge heavy stoner rock tunes of the previous album. The opening track, "I'm a skirt lifter..." is a riotous, riff crazy anthem to the joys of chasing the ladies. "Dune Messiah" is a reference to the Frank Herbert science fiction novel. Other outstanding tracks are "Stay With Me," "What's Going On" (not the Marvin Gaye tune), "King's Cross Ladies," and "United Nations." All of these showcase heavy rhythms, blazing guitars, and fine vocals by Dave Tice. Unfortunately, the vocalist was forced out of the group by their management, as they were looking to reign in the band's "wildness" and change them into a more commercially viable and acceptable band. "Only Want You..." is a classic 70's hard rock album of a group in top form. Bonus tracks are a single version of "What's Going On," and a live version of "United Nations.""