Beat Club (album)

Beat Club is the ninth studio album by Australian rock band The Black Sorrows. The album was released in November 1998. Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane described it as containing "R&B-tinged jazz and blues tunes" ^[1]

Beat Club
Studio album by The Black Sorrows
Released	5 November 1998 (1998-11-05)
Recorded	1998
Studio	Woodstock Studios, Melbourne
Genre	Blues rock folk rock funk
Label	Mushroom
Producer	Joe Camilleri, James Black, Kerryn Tolhurst
The Black Sorrows chronology
The Very Best of The Black Sorrows (1997) Beat Club (1998) One Mo' Time (2004)
Singles from Beat Club
"New Craze" Released: July 1998

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, Beat Club was nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album, losing to Messenger by Jimmy Little.^[2]

In 1998, The Black Sorrows were Joe Camilleri, James Black, Tony Floyd, Stephen Hadley, Joe Creighton and Nick Haywood. They were joined on the album by numerous special guests: Renee Geyer, Sam Keevers, James Sherlock, Rick Formosa, Phil Burston, Stuart Fraser, Ian Chaplin, Ed Bates, Peter Luscombe, Kerryn Tolhurst, Robert Burke, Strings of the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra, Anthony 'Tok' Norris, Paul Williamson, Nick Smith, Wayne Burt and Michael Barker.^[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Sydney Morning Herald

The Bulletin called the album "His best The Black Sorrows album in a decade!" Rip It Up in Adelaide said: "Beat Club is one of the great Black Sorrows records and also one of the best Australian releases this year". Rave from Brisbane said; "The best thing Joe has done in his long and distinguished career". Time Off Brisbane said: "Hats off to Joe Camilleri. Who would have thought that at this stage of The Black Sorrows' career Joe would have come up with an album to just about rival the definitive Hold On To Me. Beat Club is a triumph!"^[4][5][6]

Track listing

CD track listing (MUSH33167.2)^[7]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"New Craze"	Joe Camilleri Nick Smith James Black	4:44
2.	"Here She Comes"	Camilleri Smith	4:16
3.	"Fool Notion"	Camilleri Smith	5:27
4.	"98 Degrees"	Camilleri Smith	3:27
5.	"Crazy 'bout the Way You Move"	Camilleri Smith	4:41
6.	"Soul Free"	Camilleri Smith	3:54
7.	"When You Say My Name"	Camilleri Smith	5:05
8.	"Walkin' Like a Drownin' Man"	Camilleri J. Griffin	3:46
9.	"Who Do You Think You're Foolin'?"	Don Van Vliet	3:13
10.	"Poor Boy Blues"	Camilleri Smith	3:48
11.	"That's What I Get for Lovin' You"	Camilleri Smith	4:04
12.	"Favourite Son"	Camilleri Smith	3:57
13.	"You Can't Wear Another Man's Hat"	Iola Brubeck Paul Desmond	4:16