Cool Bananas

Cool Bananas
Studio album by
DD Smash
ReleasedApril 1982
RecordedMushroom Records
StudioHarlequin Studios (Auckland)
GenreRock
Length39:36
LabelMushroom
ProducerIan Morris
DD Smash chronology
Cool Bananas
(1982)		 Live: Deep in the Heart of Taxes
(1983)
Singles from Cool Bananas
  1. "Repetition"
    Released: 1981
  2. "Devil You Know"
    Released: 1982
  3. "Solo"
    Released: 1982

Cool Bananas is the first album by the New Zealand band DD Smash led by Dave Dobbyn, released in 1982. It entered the charts at number 1, purely on tour exposure.

In 2015, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the New Zealand Music Charts, Recorded Music NZ honoured Cool Bananas as being the first album by a New Zealand artist to debut at No.1 on the album chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dave Dobbyn, Lisle Kinney, Peter Warren and Rob Guy.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Devil You Know"3:25
2."Bury That Gun"4:05
3."Solo"4:52
4."Blue Note"4:40
5."Repetition"3:18
Total length:20:20
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."Silence"3:01
7."Save Yer"4:33
8."White Water"3:42
9."Say"2:50
10."The Gambler"5:10
Total length:19:16 39:36

Personnel

Personnel as listed in the album's liner notes are:

DD Smash

Additional musicians

Production

Awards

The album won Best Album at the 1982 New Zealand Music Awards. DD Smash won the same award the following year with their follow up live album, Live: Deep in the Heart of Taxes. The band also won top group of the year, and Dobbyn won Most Promising Male Vocalist and Top Male Vocalist.

Year Nominee / work Award Result
1982 Cool Bananas 1982 New Zealand Music Awards – Album of the Year Won
1982 Ian Morris for Cool Bananas 1982 New Zealand Music Awards – Producer of the Year Won
1982 Paul Streekstra and Doug Rogers for Cool Bananas 1982 New Zealand Music Awards – Engineer of the Year Won
1982 Wayne Robinson for Cool Bananas 1982 New Zealand Music Awards – Sleeve Design of the Year Won

Charts

References

  1. ↑ "Dave Dobbyn: Homegrown". Documentary. NZ On Screen. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "40 years of chart-topping music". Stuff. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Cool Bananas (liner notes). DD Smash. Mushroom Records. 1982.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. 1 2 3 4 "1982 Winners". NZ Music Awards. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
  5. ↑ "Charts.nz – DD Smash – Cool Bananas". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Top Selling Albums of 1982 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand. Retrieved 1 February 2022.