''Torch the Moon'' is the fifth studio

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by Australian band

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, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2002. It peaked at number one on the

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. It received platinum album certification from ARIA.

Track listing

#"Cries Too Hard" – 4:11 #" Fall for You" – 3:47 #"The Lights Are Back On" – 3:44 #"I Will Not Go Quietly (Duffy's Song)" – 3:53 #"Kate Kelly" – 4:18 #" Royal in the Afternoon" – 2:58 #"Gone Surfing" – 2:12 #"

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" – 4:33 #"Start My Cellar Again" – 4:08 #"Coming Over" – 4:26 #"Out the Back" – 4:31 #"Breathing You In" – 2:56 #"Ease of the Midnight Visit" – 4:20

Re-releases

Initial prints of ''Torch the Moon'' contained a second CD, entitled ''Side 4''. The track list contained: #"

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" – 5:22 #"Last Life" – 4:45 #"Witness Protection Scheme" – 3:52 #"Back into the Wild" – 3:40 #"Still in Love with You" – 3:23 A second print of the CD was released with the initial track listing, as well as "Don't Believe Anymore" (a cover of a track from

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's 1984 album ''

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'') and "Last Life". A third release of the CD saw the thirteen initial tracks included, but none of the tracks from ''Side 4''. Finally, a fourth print of the CD saw a combination of the fifteen-track release as well as an exclusive 'Rarities' CD, collecting B-sides and unreleased tracks from the last nine years. The track list ran as follows: #"The Curse Stops Here" – 3:37 #"Where Is She? (Demo)" – 4:28 #"Tiny Girls" – 2:50 #"Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2) (Live)" – 4:53 #"Bring Me Back to Your Love (Full Band Version)" – 4:05 #"Coming up for Air" – 3:46 #"Fall for You (Perky Mix)" – 3:36 #" Never Fall in Love Again" – 3:36 #"No Aphrodisiac (MGF Remix)" – 4:22 #"400 Miles from Darwin (Demo)" – 3:20 #"Out the Back (Sculthorpe Variation)" – 9:43 #"I Make Hamburgers (Live Remix)" – 3:01

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end chart

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Certifications

In popular culture

The first verse of "Kate Kelly", a song about Kate Kelly, younger sister of

Ned Kelly Edward Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout wi ...

, may have inspired Australian author David Hunt in his 2016 book "True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 2" in which he also describes

Joe Byrne Joseph Byrne (21 November 1856 – 28 June 1880) was an Australian bushranger of Irish descent. A friend of Ned Kelly, he was a member of the "Kelly Gang" who were declared outlaws after the murder of three policemen at Stringybark Creek. De ...

as having been "strung up" like a "marionette".

References

External links

Official site
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