Jump to content

Noiseworks (album)

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Tobyjamesaus (talk | contribs) at 03:39, 25 March 2016. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Untitled
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Noiseworks is the debut album by Australian rock band, Noiseworks. It was released by CBS Records on 20 July 1987. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart,[2] with the introduction of the ARIA Album Charts in the beginning of 1988, the album was still in the charts at No. 37.[3] "Love Somebody" and "Welcome to the World" were also lifted from the album, but neither made the Top 40.[2] Noiseworks sold more than 210,000 copies (3× platinum) in Australia.[4] "Burning Feeling" was released as the album's fifth single in early 1988, which failed to chart.[2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Burning Feeling"Jon Stevens, Stuart Fraser[5]3:56
2."Love Somebody"Stevens, Fraser[5]4:24
3."Take Me Back"Stevens, Brent Thomas[6]3:27
4."No Lies"Stevens, Thomas[5]3:54
5."River of Tears"Stevens, Fraser, Justin Stanley[5]5:17
6."Welcome to the World"Stevens, Fraser, Stanley, Steve Balbi, Kevin Nicol[5]5:08
7."Edge of Darkness"Stevens, Fraser, Stanley[5]3:45
8."Little Bit More"Stevens, Thomas[5]3:19
9."Only Loving You"Steve Balbi[5]4:02
10."It's Time"Stevens, Balbi, Stanley, K. O'Reilly[5]4:51

Charts

Year Chart Position
1987 Australian KMR Album Chart 2[3]
1987 New Zealand Album Chart 31[7]
1988 Swedish Album Chart 43[8]

Personnel

Credits

  • Mastering - Leon Zervos
  • Engineer - Alan Wright
  • Assistant Engineers - Heidi Cannavo, John Darwish, Mark Roberts, Paul Kosky, Paula Jones
  • Photography - Gary Heery
  • Produced - Mark Opitz

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.
  3. ^ a b "Discography Noiseworks". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  4. ^ McFarlane, 'Noiseworks' entry. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) search engine". APRA. Retrieved 7 July 2010. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. BURNING FEELING
  6. ^ "Take Me Back". ASCAP. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  7. ^ "Discography Noiseworks". New Zealand charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  8. ^ "Discography Noiseworks". Swedish charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noiseworks_(album)&oldid=711825283"