Roaring Days

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Roaring Days
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1988
Genre Rock / Folk rock
Label WEA
Producer Alan Thorne
Weddings Parties Anything chronology
Scorn of the Women
(1987)
Roaring Days
(1988)
The Big Don't Argue
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Roaring Days is the second studio album released by Australian rock band Weddings Parties Anything. The title of the album was based on the poem, "Roaring Days", by Henry Lawson. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mick Thomas, except where noted [3]

  1. "Industrial Town" - 4:06
  2. "Under the Clocks" - 3:29
  3. "Gun" (Dave Steel) - 3:43
  4. "Brunswick" - 2:54
  5. "Tilting at Windmills" - 2:53
  6. "Sergeant Small" (Tex Morton) - 3:13
  7. "Sisters of Mercy" - 4:42
  8. "Roaring Days" - 2:54
  9. "Say the Word" - 3:21
  10. "Missing in Action" - 3:07
  11. "Laughing Boy" (Paul Kelly) - 4:39
  12. "Big River" (Dave Steel) - 4:32
  13. "Summons in the Morning" - 3:17
  14. "Morton (Song for Tex)" - 3:18

Personnel

Weddings Party Anything

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [4] 46

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Johnston, Chris (18 December 2006). "Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing". The Age.
  3. APRA database at the Australasian Performing Right Association website (search each song title)
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 334. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.