Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard is three-disc box set by Australian glam rock band Skyhooks, subtitled '40 Years of 'Hooks Hysteria!'.
The box set includes Skyhooks' first two albums Living in the 70's and Ego Is Not a Dirty Word which both peaked at number 1 in Australia in 1975. The set includes bonus original B-sides and unreleased demos. The third disc is called Skyhooks in Concert: 1974–75. it features 14 previously unreleased live tracks from 1974 and 1975. The album was packaged with a deluxe 8-panel digipak and a 36-page booklet with numerous never-before-seen images and a new essay from former Rock Australia Magazine editor and Skyhooks confidant Anthony O'Grady.[1][2]
Reviews
Patrick Emery of Beat magazine gave the album 4 out of 5 saying; "For a couple of years, there was nothing bigger in Australia than Skyhooks. To hear this compilation is to realise just why that was", adding, "The classics come thick and fast [...] But to get a sense of just how culturally significant Skyhooks were in the mid '70s, it's best to skip to the live tracks. The opening strains of 'Horror Movie' live at Festival Hall in July 1975 are accompanied by a wave of teenage hysteria; by the end of 'Love on the Radio' it's verging on madness."[3]
Track listing
All songs written by Greg Macainsh except where noted
