Mental as Anything

The story

Mental As Anything are an Australian new wave and pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976. Its most popular line-up was Martin Plaza on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne de Lisle on drums; and Andrew "Greedy" Smith on vocals, keyboards and harmonica. The group's original hit songs were generated by Mombassa, O'Doherty, Plaza and Smith, either individually or collectively; and it also had success on the Australian charts with covers of songs by Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Wreckless Eric.

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Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

Watch

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Records

• Mental As Anything At Play · 2019 · live
• Surf & Mull & Sex & Fun · 2019 · compilation
• Live It Up: The Collection · 2016 · compilation
• Greatest Hits Vol.1 · 2015 · compilation
• Essential as Anything · 2009 · compilation
• Best Of · 2003 · compilation
• Chemical Travel · 1993 · compilation
• Aussie 4 Pack · 1992 · compilation
• Live It Up · 1987 · Single · soundtrack
• Greatest Hits! Volume 1 · 1986 · compilation

Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.

Members

• 2002 to 2013
  Mike Caen
• James Gillard
• Reg Mombassa
• Peter O'Doherty
• Martin Plaza
• Greedy Smith
• Murray Cook
• Jacob Cook
• Martin Cilia
• David Twohill
• Robert Souter
• David Barraclough
• Declan O'Doherty

Members past and present, each with their own page. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with Mental as Anything in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with Mental as Anything in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like Mental as Anything

• Cold Chisel3 sources agree
• Hunters & Collectors3 sources agree
• Noiseworks3 sources agree
• The Black Sorrows3 sources agree
• Boom Crash Opera3 sources agree
• Mondo Rock2 sources agree
• Split Enz2 sources agree
• Australian Crawl2 sources agree
• Models2 sources agree
• Hoodoo Gurus2 sources agree
• Flowers2 sources agree
• Divinyls2 sources agree

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of Mental as Anything’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.