Short Note (album)

Short Note is the debut album and title track by Australian band Matt Finish, released in January 1981.

Short Note
Studio album by
Matt Finish
ReleasedFebruary 1981
Recorded1980 at Paradise Studios, Sydney, Australia
GenreRock
Length38:20
LabelGiant Recording Company, CBS
ProducerPeter Dawkins
Matt Finish chronology
Short Note
(1981)		 Fade Away
(1981)

The album Short Note peaked at #14 in the Australian albums charts.[1] The title song peaked at #18. It was recorded by Wendy Matthews and appeared on her 2004 album Café Naturale, featured in Triple M’s Best Songs of the Eighties poll in 2005, in the 2007 Australian feature film The Final Winter, and on numerous compilation albums including Rajon Music Group's Australian Made Volume 2 (2001),[2] ScreenSound's Running In The Shadows (2004)[3] and Sony BMG's The Essential Australian series (2008).

A new version of Short Note appears on Matt Finish's 2008 anthology album 1978-2008.

The cover was designed by Eric Gradman.

Track listing

(All songs by Matt Moffitt except where noted)

  1. "Look At Me" (Matt Moffitt, Rick Grossman)
  2. "Hanging On"
  3. "Short Note"
  4. "Layman's Day"
  5. "Forecast"
  6. "Hot Cover" (Moffitt, R. Grossman, J. Clayton, J. Prior)
  7. "Mancini Shuffle"
  8. "Younger Days"
  9. "Respectable"
  10. "You Get So"

Charts
Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 18

Personnel

References
  1. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until Australian Recording Industry Association created its own charts in mid-1988.
  2. Australian music in Trove – Trove
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 195. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.


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