Onka's Big Moka

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This article is about the Toploader album. For the anthropological film with a similar spelling, see Ongka's Big Moka.
Onka's Big Moka
Onka's Big Moka cover
Studio album by Toploader
Released 11 January 2000
Genre Alternative rock
Length 46:00
Label S2 Records
Producer Dave Eringa
Professional reviews
Toploader chronology
Onka's Big Moka
(2000)		 Magic Hotel
(2002)

Onka's Big Moka is an album released in 2000 by the rock band Toploader. The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight", a cover of the King Harvest song, was featured in a television commercial for supermarket chain Sainsbury's.

The title is a reference to a wonderful 1976 anthropological documentary Ongka's Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea. It was being much played in university anthropology departments in the mid-1990s, around when the band members would have been attending.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Let the People Know" – 03:54
  2. "Dancing in the Moonlight" – 03:52
  3. "Achilles Heel" – 04:18
  4. "Breathe" – 03:56
  5. "Do You Know What Your Future Will Be?" – 04:24
  6. "Only for a While" – 04:13
  7. "Just Hold On" - 04:01
  8. "Higher State" – 03:11
  9. "High Flying Bird" – 04:10
  10. "Summer Cycle" – 04:38
  11. "Just About Living" - 04:01
  12. "Floating Away (In the Bath Tub)" - 03:22

[edit] Singles

  • 1999 "Achilles Heel" #64 UK
  • 1999 "Let the People Know" #52 UK
  • 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight" #19 UK (King Harvest cover)
  • 2000 "Achilles Heel" (re-release) #8 UK
  • 2000 "Just Hold On" #20 UK
  • 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight" (remix) #7 UK
  • 2001 "Only for a While" #19 UK


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