This Isn't Love

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"This Isn't Love"
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Single by Boom Crash Opera
from the album Fabulous Beast
ReleasedAugust 1993
Genre Rock
Length3:32
Label East West
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Don Gehman
Boom Crash Opera singles chronology
"In the Morning"
(1993)
"This Isn't Love"
(1993)
"Gimme"
(1994)

"This Isn't Love" is a song by Australian rock band Boom Crash Opera. The song was released in August 1993 as the third and final single from their third studio album, Fabulous Beast . The song charted at number 78 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "This Isn't Love" – 3:32
  2. "Holy Water" – 3:55
  3. "Bettadaze" (acoustic) – 3:18
  4. "Don't Let On" – 4:04
  5. "Mindless" – 4:30

Charts

Chart (1993)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [1] 78

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References

  1. Kent, David (2010). Australian Chart Book 1993-2009 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p. 35. ISBN   978 0 646 52995 0.