Daddy's Highway

All songs are Scott's. Kean engineered and mixed, plays organ on the title track and guitars on two songs, and Grant drew the sleeve and Polaroids. Galbraith plays violin on "Treason", "Sir Queen" and "North by North". The CD adds five bonus tracks including the three songs of the Made Up in Blue EP. It may be the only Bats album recorded in both Christchurch and Glasgow and was one of the last Flying Nun albums pressed in New Zealand before the Lower Hutt plants closed. Scott said "North by North" came from a practice-room jam and "Block of Wood" was written on a piano in 1980, and told Cyclic Defrost that "North by North" is probably their most popular song, with a strong hook.

AllMusic gave 5 stars per Wikipedia, Christgau a B-plus, and Everett True of Melody Maker called it a minor masterpiece; Rip It Up put it 88th in its 2000 New Zealand top 100 albums, and Slipcue called it one of the landmark albums in the kiwi canon. Trouser Press took the contrary view, a disappointment, less identifiably Batlike. Kean remastered it for an October 2010 reissue.