The Sweetest Taboo (album)

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The Sweetest Taboo
The Sweetest Taboo by Katie Noonan.png
Studio album by
Released8 May 2020
Genre Jazz, pop [1]
Length61:57 [1]
Label ABC Music
Katie Noonan chronology
Late Night Tunes with Noons
(2020)
The Sweetest Taboo
(2020)

The Sweetest Taboo is a twentieth album by Australian singer and songwriter Katie Noonan. The album is described as a jazz collection of reimagined 80s classics and was released in May 2020. [2] The album peaked at number 70 on the ARIA Charts.

Contents

Noonan said "For my twentieth album, I wanted to go back to the magic, the joy, the spark that first started my love affair with pop music. This was in suburban Brisbane, Ashgrove, in the mid-eighties. I decided to focus on a particular period of time, aged seven to eleven, from my first single to my first album, to albums that really changed our lives like The Joshua Tree . I picked bunch of tunes and reimagined them with my favourite Aussie jazz musicians, so, it's feels awesome." [3]

At the AIR Awards of 2021, the album won Best Independent Jazz Album or EP. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Don't Dream It's Over (Neil Finn) - 4:59
  2. "Blue" (Vince Jones) - 4:22
  3. "If I Could" (Garry Frost) - 6:03
  4. "Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel) - 4:45
  5. "True Colors" (Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) - 5:23
  6. "Electric Blue" (Iva Davies, John Oates) - 4:33
  7. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam) - 5:18
  8. "When Tomorrow Comes" (Annie Lennox, Patrick Seymour, David A. Stewart) - 5:24
  9. "Russians" (Sergey Prokofiev, Sting) - 4:41
  10. "Sign Your Name" (Terence Trent D'Arby) - 6:08
  11. "Take On Me" (Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar) - 3:54
  12. "Running to Stand Still" (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) - 6:27

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA Chart) [5] 70
Australia (ARIA) Jazz and Blues Chart [5] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2020)Position
Australian Top Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA) [6] 7

Musicians

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia8 May 2020ABC Music0878447

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