''Sing-Songs'' is the second EP by the Australian

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band The Church, released in December 1982. Unlike its polished predecessors, the material was quickly written and recorded as a demo for the band's U.S. label

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, who had rejected their previous album, ''

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'', as too uncommercial. Capitol remained unimpressed and dropped the band, but the recordings were released in Australia by EMI/Parlophone. ''Sing-songs'' was long considered the most difficult item in The Church's catalogue to obtain as it was only released as a fairly limited vinyl pressing. In 2001,

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released the compilation album ''Sing-Songs//Remote Luxury//Persia'', which contained remastered versions of all the tracks from the EP in their original running order.

Track listing

# "A Different Man" (Kilbey) # "Ancient History" (Kilbey) # "The Night is Very Soft" (Kilbey/R. Kilbey) # "In This Room" (Kilbey) # "

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Personnel

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

- bass, lead vocals, keyboards, bells *

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. ...

- lead and slide 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 ...

- 12- and 6- string rhythm guitars, backing 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 {{The Church 1982 EPs The Church (band) albums