''The Essential Boom Crash Opera'' is the third
compilation album
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by Australian rock band
Boom Crash Opera, released in April 2007.
Reception
Marisa Brown from
AllMusic
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gave the album 3 out of 5, saying; "Most of the material on ''The Essential'' is culled from their 1987
self-titled debut and 1989s ''
These Here Are Crazy Times
''These Here Are Crazy Times!'' is the second studio album by Australian rock group Boom Crash Opera, released in October 1989. The album was the breakthrough album to the lucrative U.S. Market for the band & was released in the United States by ...
'', and includes nearly all the singles from both of these records. Tracked chronologically, the compilation shows the progression of the band's sound well, as it was shaped both by the passage of time and the departure of main songwriter and guitarist
Richard Pleasance. Said sound, unfortunately, becomes a lot more derivative and less interesting as the years pass, the college rock energy and grit that initially attracted fans not as well represented in songs like "All," "Bettadaze," and "Gimme." As ''The Essential'' is slightly more in-depth than the 1998 'best-of' ''The Best Things'', though some of the later tracks are different, it doesn't add much interest for a fan of the band, but it does—and is intended to—act as a primer on a group that was often overlooked outside of Australia, and in that it succeeds."
Track listing
# "
Great Wall
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" (Dale Ryder,
Richard Pleasance) - 3:46
# "
Hands Up in the Air
"Hands Up in the Air" is a song by Australian rock band Boom Crash Opera. It was released in 1986 as the second single from their self-titled studio album.
The song reached number 16 in Australia.
Track listing
7" single (0.258620)
# Hands U ...
" (Peter Farnan, Richard Pleasance) - 3:55
# "
City Flat
"City Flat" is a song by Australian rock band Boom Crash Opera, released in 1987 as the third single from their self-titled studio album. It was written by the band's two main songwriters: guitarist Peter Farnan and bass player Richard Pleasance ...
" (Peter Farnan, Richard Pleasance) - 4:09
# "
Her Charity
"Her Charity" is the fourth single by Australian band Boom Crash Opera, released in 1987. It was the fourth single to be released from the band's self-title album. It peaked at number 32 on the Kent Music Report. The song is about Miss America ...
" (Peter Farnan, Richard Pleasance) - 5:00
# "
Love Me to Death" (Richard Pleasance, Peter Farnan) - 4:28
# "
Onion Skin" (Peter Farnan) - 3:28
# "
Get Out of the House!
"Get Out of the House!" is a song by Australian band, Boom Crash Opera. The song was released in September 1989 as the second single from their second studio album, '' These Here Are Crazy Times!'' (1989).
Track listing
; 7"
# "Get Out of the H ...
" (Greg O'Connor, Dale Ryder,Peter Farnan; Peter Maslen, Richard Pleasance) - 3:19
# "
The Best Thing" (Richard Pleasance) - 4:14
# "
Dancing in the Storm" (Richard Pleasance, Peter Farnan) - 4:12
# "Mountain of Strength" (Dale Ryder, Peter Maslen, Richard Pleasance; Greg O'Connor; Peter Farnan) - 4:09
# "
Talk About It" (Richard Pleasance) - 4:03
# "End Up Where I Started" (Peter Farnan; Richard Pleasance) - 3:13
# "Holy Water" (Greg O'Connor, Peter Maslen, Richard Pleasance, Dale Ryder, Peter Farnan) - 3:56
# "
Bettadaze" (Peter Farnan, Greg O'Connor, Dale Ryder) - 3:59
# "
In the Morning" (Peter Farnan, Greg O'Connor) - 3:57
# "
This Isn't Love" (Dale Ryder) - 3:30
# "
Gimme
In golf, a gimme is a shot that the other players agree can count automatically without being played.
When a player has only a very short putt left to play, other players may grant a gimme (i.e., one stroke is counted), but the ball is not play ...
" (Ian Tilley, Peter Farnan) - 3:36
# "Dreaming Up a Fire" (Richard Pleasance, Peter Farnan) - 3:44
# "All" (Peter Maslen, Peter Farnan, Ian Tilley) - 4:12
References
2007 greatest hits albums
Boom Crash Opera albums
Sony BMG compilation albums
Compilation albums by Australian artists
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