Dark End of the Street (Moving Hearts album)

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Dark End of the Street
Dark End of the Street Moving Hearts LP.jpg
Cover of the studio album (vinyl LP)
Studio album by
Moving Hearts
Released1982
Recorded Ridge Farm Studio
Genre Irish folk
Length36:33
Label WEA
Producer Dónal Lunny
Moving Hearts chronology
Moving Hearts
(1981)		Dark End of the Street
(1982)		 Live Hearts
(1983)

Dark End of the Street is the second studio album recorded by Irish Celtic rock band Moving Hearts. The album features folk singer Christy Moore on most of the songs, except "Let Somebody Know", written and sung by Declan Sinnott.

Contents

Two versions of Dark End of the Street, with identical front covers, were released simultaneously as vinyl LPs in 1982: one was a studio album and the other was released in some countries as a compilation album, with a different track listing. The original studio album was re-released on CD in 1995.

Studio album

The studio album was released as a vinyl LP in 1982. [1] [2]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Remember The Brave Ones" Barry Moore 4:34
2."Dark End Of The Street" Chips Moman, Dan Penn 4:59
3."All I Remember"Mick Hanly4:00
4."Let Somebody Know"Declan Sinnott6:01
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."What Will You Do About Me"Jesse Oris Farrow5:53
6."Downtown"Davy Spillane2:30
7."Allende"Don Lange3:29
8."Half-Moon"Eoghan O'Neill5:07

Compilation album

Dark End of the Street
Dark End of the Street Moving Hearts LP.jpg
Cover of the compilation album (vinyl LP)
Compilation album by
Moving Hearts
Released1982
Recorded
Genre Irish folk
Length52:05
Label WEA
Producer Dónal Lunny
Moving Hearts chronology
Moving Hearts
(1981)		Dark End of the Street
(1982)		 Live Hearts
(1983)

In some countries (US and Canada), a vinyl LP was also released in 1982 with the same title and front cover, but a different track listing, [3] [4] [5] as a compilation of tracks selected from the following studio albums: [3]

The catalogue number for this compilation album was: 'WEA 1802' in the US and 'WEA MH15' in Canada. [5]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette" 4:25
2."Before the Deluge" 5:40
3."Let Somebody Know"Declan Sinnott5:54
4."McBrides" 3:10
5."What Will You Do About Me"Jesse Oris Farrow5:07
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."No Time for Love" 7:20
7."Downtown"Davy Spillane2:25
8."Dark End of the Street"Moman-Penn4:53
9."Half-Moon"Eoghan O'Neill5:02
10."Remember the Brave Ones"Barry Moore4:27

Re-release of the studio album on CD

Dark End of the Street
Dark End of the Street Moving Hearts CD.jpg
Cover of the re-released studio album (CD)
Studio album by
Moving Hearts
Released1995
Recorded Ridge Farm Studio
Genre Irish folk
Length36:33
Label WEA
Producer Dónal Lunny
Moving Hearts chronology
Moving Hearts
(1981)		Dark End of the Street
(1995)		 Live Hearts
(1983)

The studio album was re-released on CD in 1995, with the original track list. [6] [7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Remember The Brave Ones"Barry Moore4:34
2."Dark End Of The Street"Moman-Penn4:59
3."All I Remember"Mick Hanly4:00
4."Let Somebody Know"Declan Sinnott6:01
5."What Will You Do About Me"Jesse Oris Farrow5:53
6."Downtown"Davy Spillane2:30
7."Allende"Don Lange3:29
8."Half-Moon"Eoghan O'Neill5:07

Personnel

The two versions of the 1982 album featured the following musicians:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sleeve notes from Dark End of the Street (studio LP), WEA IR 58718 LP, 1982.
  2. ↑ "Dark End of the Street (studio LP) – Track listing (1982)". discogs.com. 1982. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sleeve notes from Dark End of the Street (compilation LP), WEA 1802, 1982.
  4. ↑ "Dark End of the Street (compilation LP) – Track listing (1982)". progarchives.com. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Dark End of the Street (compilation LP) – Track listing (1982)". discogs.com. 1982. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sleeve notes from Dark End of the Street (studio CD), WEA 2292–50144–2, 1995.
  7. ↑ "Dark End of the Street (studio CD) – Track listing (1995)". theballadeers.com. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
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