Hope Is for Hopers

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Hope is for Hopers
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Studio album by Philadelphia Grand Jury
Released 2009
Recorded 2009
Genre Indie rock
Length33:28
Label Normal People Making Hits/Boomtown
Producer Berkfinger
Philadelphia Grand Jury chronology
Hope is for Hopers
(2009)
Hope is for the Hopeless
(2010)

Hope is for Hopers is the debut album by Sydney indie rock band Philadelphia Grand Jury. It was released in 2009 and contains their hits "The Good News", "Going to the Casino (Tomorrow Night)", and "I Don't Want to Party (Party)". [1]

Sydney City in New South Wales, Australia

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, 40 local government areas and 15 contiguous regions. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". As of June 2017, Sydney's estimated metropolitan population was 5,230,330 and is home to approximately 65% of the state's population.

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

Philadelphia Grand Jury are an Australian trio from Sydney, New South Wales. The band's current line-up consists of Joel "MC Bad Genius" Beeson on bass, keyboard and guitar, Simon "Berkfinger" Berckelman on vocals and guitar and Dan "Dan W. Sweat" Williams on drums. They play a mix of indie, punk and soul.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ready to Roll" – 1:53
  2. "The Good News" – 2:59
  3. "When Your Boyfriend Comes Back to Town" – 3:09
  4. "Wet Winter Holiday" – 3:15
  5. "I'm Going to Kill You" – 2:29
  6. "Foot in My Mouth" – 2:01
  7. "Phillip's Not in Love with You" – 2:41
  8. "Growing Up Alone" – 3:21
  9. "Going to the Casino (Tomorrow Night)" – 2:54
  10. "No You Don't" – 1:32
  11. "The New Neil Young" – 4:01
  12. "I Don't Want to Party (Party)" – 3:08
    • "Dotty Don't" (bonus track)

Personnel

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
2009Australian ARIA Albums Chart#34

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