Hallelujah All the Way Home

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Hallelujah All the Way Home
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Studio album by
Released 1985
Recorded Mascot Studios, May–June 1985
Label Flying Nun Records/Homestead Records
Producer Phil Yule
The Verlaines chronology
Hallelujah All the Way Home
(1985)
Bird Dog
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Popmatters (8/10) [2]
Washington Post (mixed) [3]

Hallelujah All the Way Home is the debut album by New Zealand group, The Verlaines. First released in 1985 by Flying Nun Records, it was re-released by Homestead Records in 1989.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Graeme Downes.

  1. "It Was Raining"
  2. "All Laid On"
  3. "The Lady and the Lizard"
  4. "Don't Send me Away"
  5. "Lying in State"
  6. "Phil Too?"
  7. "For the Love of Ash Grey"
  8. "The Ballad of Harry Noryb"

Chart positions

Chart (1986)Peak
position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [4] 50

Reception

  1. Woodstra, Chris. Hallelujah All the Way Home - The Verlaines. Allmusic . Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  2. Fiander, Matthew (14 December 2013). "The Verlaines: Hallelujah All the Way Home / Juvenilia". Popmatters . Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  3. Jenkins, Mark (21 March 1990). "Raising Consciousness Down Under" . Washington Post . Washington. Retrieved 5 March 2024 via ProQuest.
  4. "Charts.nz – The Verlaines – Hallelujah - All The Way Home". Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 December 2013.


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