X-Aspirations

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = X-Aspirations | type = [[Album]] | artist = [[X (Australian band)|X]] | cover = X-Aspirations.jpg | alt = | released = 1980 | recorded = 1979 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Punk rock|Punk]] | length = | label = X Music (1979 release) Aztec Music (2009 reissue) | producer = [[Lobby Loyde]] | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = [[At Home with You]] | next_year = 1985 }} '''''X-Aspirations''''', sometimes simply called '''''Aspirations''''', is the debut studio album from Australian rock band [[X (Australian band)|X]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last='Enthal |first=Andrea |date=December 1986 |title=Underground |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FL-rqqrDxb8C&pg=PA45 |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|SPIN]] |volume=2 |issue=9 |pages=45 |via=Google Books}}</ref> It was recorded in a single afternoon in 1979 at Trafalgar Studios in the band's hometown of [[Sydney, Australia|Sydney]] and released the following year on the band's own label.<ref name="Mess+Noise, 2009">{{cite web|last1=R.|first1=Andy|title=X-Aspirations|url=http://messandnoise.com/releases/2000277|website=Mess+Noise|access-date=1 January 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002551/http://messandnoise.com/releases/2000277|url-status=dead}}</ref> In October 2010, ''X-Aspirations'' was listed in the book ''[[100 Best Australian Albums]]''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | author-link1 = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref>

==Original LP track listing== # "Suck Suck" # "Present" # "Simulated Lovers" # "Police" # "Revolution" # "Turn My Head" # "Good on Ya Baby" # "Delinquent Cars" # "I Don't Wanna Go Out" # "Dipstick" # "It Must Be Me" # "Coat of Green" # "Waiting" # "Batman"

==Reissues==

The original album has been re-released numerous times, often with bonus tracks taken from the band's 1984 single. The short-lived Australian Ultimate Record Company was the first to reissue the album on vinyl and compact disc with the [[John Lennon]] song "[[Mother (John Lennon song)|Mother]]" as the lead track. The CD version also inserted the B-side "Halfway 'Round the World" midway through the album. In 1992 the [[noise rock]] label [[Amphetamine Reptile Records]] was the first to release ''Aspirations'' in the United States. More recent re-releases either omit the single, or tack it onto the end of the CD as bonus tracks, including an alternate take of "Mother".''<ref name="Discogs">{{cite web|title=X|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/215239-X-10|website=Discogs|access-date=1 January 2016}}</ref>''

==Personnel==

===Musicians=== * Steve Lucas – guitar, vocals * [[Ian Rilen]] – bass * Steve Cafiero – drums

===Technical=== * [[Lobby Loyde]] – producer * Cover by Kit

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821112936/http://www.rubandtugrecords.com/aztecmusic.net/043.htm Aztec Music reissue page]

[[Category:1979 albums]] [[Category:X (Australian band) albums]]