Post – 1985

From St Kilda to Kings Cross
Incident On South Dowling
Looks So Fine, Feel So Low
White Train
Luck
Blues for Skip
Adelaide
Satisfy Your Woman
(You Can Put Your) Shows Under My Bed
Standing On the Street of Early Sorrows
Little Decisions

Originally released in May 1985 – Post is a stark, personal collection of acoustic songs that highlight Kelly’s broadly based songwriting skill. Australian Rolling Stone hailed Post as the best record of 1985. The album was produced by Clive Shakespeare (Sherbet guitarist) and Paul Kelly himself and recorded over two weeks in the summer of 1985.

Charting at #46 on release; the album has nonetheless gone on to be considered an Australian classic; boasting such tracks as ‘From St Kilda To Kings Cross’, ‘Look So Fine, Feel So Low’ and ‘You Can Put Your Shoes under My Bed’. Many have likened ‘Post’ to Springsteen’s Nebraska, where there is a beauty and delicateness in a raw production, with the emphasis on the words, the melodies, the song structures that are the defining elements of Kelly as a songwriter.

RELEASE DATE: 1 May 1985
PRODUCER: Clive Shakespeare and Paul Kelly

Post – 1985