''Roaring Days'' is the second studio album released by Australian rock band
Weddings Parties Anything
Weddings, Parties, Anything. was an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1999. Their name came from The Clash song "Revolution Rock". Musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Austr ...
. The title of the album was based on the poem, "Roaring Days", by
Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial perio ...
.
Track listing
All songs written by Mick Thomas, except where noted
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at the Australasian Performing Right Association
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website (search each song title)
# "Industrial Town" - 4:06
# "Under the Clocks" - 3:29
# "Gun" (Dave Steel) - 3:43
# "Brunswick" - 2:54
# "Tilting at Windmills" - 2:53
# "Sergeant Small" (Tex Morton) - 3:13
# "Sisters of Mercy" - 4:42
# "Roaring Days" - 2:54
# "Say the Word" - 3:21
# "Missing in Action" - 3:07
# " Laughing Boy" ( Paul Kelly) - 4:39
# "Big River" (Dave Steel) - 4:32
# "Summons in the Morning" - 3:17
# "Morton (Song for Tex)" - 3:18
Personnel
Weddings Party Anything
* Pete Lawler - bass guitar, vocals
* Marcus Schintler - drums, vocals
* Dave Steel - guitar, vocals
* Mick Thomas - guitar, vocals
* Mark Wallace - piano accordion, keyboards, vocals
Additional musicians
* Michael Barclay - vocals ("Under The Clocks")
* Barb Waters - vocals (Tilting At Windmills")
* Anthony Morgan - cello ("Sisters Of Mercy")
* Dave Docker - trumpet ("Missing In Action")
* Mick O'Connor - hammond organ ("Tilting At Windmills")
* Ian McKenzie - tin whistle ("Laughing Boy")
* Jason McDermid - brass ("Industrial Town")
* James Greening - brass ("Industrial Town")
* David Basden - brass ("Industrial Town")
Charts
References
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1988 albums
ARIA Award-winning albums
Weddings Parties Anything albums