Boom Crash Opera discography

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Boom Crash Opera discography
Studio albums6
EPs2
Live albums1
Compilation albums6
Singles20
Box sets1

Boom Crash Opera are an Australian rock band formed in 1985. The band have released six studio albums, six compilation albums, two EP, one box set and twenty singles.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
[1]
Boom Crash Opera
  • Released: September 1987
  • Label: WEA (254927.1)
  • Producer:
19
These Here Are Crazy Times!
  • Released: October 1989
  • Label: WEA (256895.1)
10
Fabulous Beast
  • Released: March 1993
  • Label: EastWest (450992015-2)
15
Born
  • Released: February 1995
  • Label: BMG (76896401962)
37
Gizmo Mantra
  • Released: November 1997
  • Label: BMG (74321512592)
Dancing in the Storm
  • Released: 1 May 2009
  • CD+DVD
  • Label: Liberation (BLUE1642)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

TitleDetails
Live at The Tivoli Sydney 1986
  • Released: 4 October 2024 [5]
  • digital
  • Label: ACRA

Compilation albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[1]
Look! Listen!!
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: WEA (903173031-2)
47
The Best Things – Greatest Hits
The Essential Boom Crash Opera
  • Released: April 2007
  • Label: Sony BMG (88697069602)
The Best Things – Greatest Hits
The Lost Things
  • Released: 18 October 2013
  • Label: Liberation
Whole Shebang: Anthology
  • Released: 31 January 2017
  • Label: Liberation

Box set

TitleDetails
Rattle It Out
  • 4-CD set (featuring their first four studio albums)
  • Released: 18 October 2013
  • Label: Liberation (LM4CD002)

Extended plays

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[1]
Dreams on Fire 44
Kick it Out... Live
  • Released: 18 February 2022
  • Label: Boom Crash Opera

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions
YearTitlePeak chart positionsAlbum
AUS
[1] [6] [7]
US Mod
[8]
1986"Great Wall"5Boom Crash Opera
"Hands Up in the Air"16
1987"City Flat"42
"Her Charity"32
1988"Love Me to Death"72
1989"Onion Skin"118These Here Are Crazy Times
"Get Out of the House!"24
"The Best Thing"67
1990"Dancing in the Storm"21
"Talk About It"35
1991"The Best Thing (Listen! mix)"112Look! Listen!!
1992"Bettadaze"43Fabulous Beast
1993"In the Morning"36
"This Isn't Love"78
1994"Gimme"14Born
1995"Tongue Tied"25
"Dissemble"113
"Soundtrack (So Lonely)"148
1997"Dreaming up a Fire"178Gizmo Mantra
"All"
— denotes releases that failed to chart.

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References

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    • Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 19 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p. 42. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
    • Top 50 (ARIA Chart) peaks from 26 June 1988: "australian-charts.com > Boom Crash Opera in Australian Charts". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
    • Top 100 (ARIA Chart) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
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