''Remote Luxury'' is the first compilation album by the Australian psychedelic rock band the Church, released in 1984. The band had recently signed to

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in the United States and their new label decided to re-release the band's most recent Australian material, the ''

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'' and '' Remote Luxury'' EPs, as an album with a new running order. They also released "Constant In Opal" as a

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in the US. The version of "No Explanation" included here has a 20-second instrumental jam at the beginning. The album was re-released on CD by Arista Records in 1990, but has since been deleted, and it was re-released in 1988 on LP by carrere records, under the label RGE in Brazil. In 2001, EMI Australia released the compilation album ''Sing-Songs//Remote Luxury//Persia'', which contained remastered versions of all the tracks from the EPs in their original running order.

Track listing

# "Constant in Opal" (Kilbey) # "Violet Town" (Kilbey) # "No Explanation" (Kilbey) # "10,000 Miles" (Kilbey/Willson-Piper) # "Maybe These Boys..." (Kilbey) # "Into My Hands" (Kilbey) # "A Month of Sundays" (Kilbey) # "Volumes" (Willson-Piper) # "Shadow Cabinet" (Kilbey/Koppes/Ploog/Willson-Piper) # "Remote Luxury" (Kilbey)

Personnel

Steve Kilbey Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954) is an English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for the rock band the Church. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. As of 2020, Kilbey has released 14 solo albums and has col ...

- bass, lead vocals (1-3, 5-7, 9), keyboards *

Peter Koppes Peter Koppes (born 21 November 1955) is an Australian guitarist, best known as a founding and almost-continuous member of the independent rock band The Church. He is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica. ...

- guitars, backing vocals *

Marty Willson-Piper Marty Willson-Piper (born 7 May 1958) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as a former long-time member of the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church. He joined in 1980 after seeing an early gig where they were perform ...

- guitars, backing and lead (4, 8) vocals *

Richard Ploog Richard John Ploog (born 29 October 1962) is an Australian drummer, songwriter, producer and singer who was a member of rock band The Church between 1981 and 1990. Ploog also drummed for Beasts of Bourbon in 1983, Damien Lovelock in 1988 and with ...

- drums, percussion Additional keyboards by Craig Hooper and

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Remote Luxury (Album) 1984 albums The Church (band) albums Psychedelic music albums by Australian artists