The #Choirboys from Australia deserve to be remembered for more than just the band's huge anthemic hit RUN TO PARADISE and the playfully machoistic BOYS WILL BE BOYS.
From their same definitive and breakthrough album BIG BAD NOISE is the song JAMES DALE.
A real Irish tale.
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1. Rendezvous
The first single (2nd if you count Empire rejigged) scraped top “40” but deserved better; a riotous mix of soulful rock & cheeky insight. Love it every time. Tv clip is the band in fun rebel mode at end.🤣
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2. Going Home ( For Cathal)
This quasi-ballad pop rock wonder was the soundtrack to my ill-fated leaving home - returning home- leaving home adventures; Mark’s emotive vocals still chill me with memories.
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3. Midnight Sun
The fantastic opening title track, one of the best launch songs, a wild and provocative hard rock anthem, so good. An underrated Choirboys classic
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4. Our Empire Falls
The re-recorded/renamed 1991 version of 1989 single “Empire” has a rockier intro and sound than the original single. The original in comments with video directed by Kriv Stenders (“ Red Dog” fame)
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5. Place with no Love
The 2nd Single (3rd if you count Empire as 1st single f/ 1989 but the album version is “Our Empire Falls” - more on that later) is a heartfelt power ballad which i love, very raw/tough stuff!
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6. Battle Boulevard
I struggled to rank these next 6 as i love them all in sentimental ways. This is a rock out reminder of my younger days in Western Sydney watching the worlds unfold.
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7. Rise Up
The fourth track on side A was another anthemic stomper and comes to me randomly in times of strife. An inspirational encouragement track for “those” days when they come along to visit.
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8. Romance Street
A dark lyrical curiosity from the band who wrote and composed the rollicking, compulsive song in California; “…out along inspiration street, oh yes, oh yes one more time down lonely street…”
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9. We Believed
An driving fiery anthem about breaking free of illegitimate “conventions”, that seems as much of this moment as it did for teen me in 1991.
“Every lie that we’ve been told cuts closer to the bone”
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10. Only in America
Track 7/12 in original listing (last of side 1 LP) was an outsider Aus-view of late Reagan-Bush era USA; still resonates.
“You won't ever be alone Then why do I feel so lonely? Yeah
I am so lonely”
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The #Choirboys should have been so much bigger and more successful in Australia with their brand of pub rock, which was certainly influenced by #RoseTattoo
Most Choirboys songs never gave #MarkGable a chance to prove he could actually sing, but this unusual song is different.
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📆July 7, 1498 Emperor Maximilian I orders appointment of a #conductor, two #basssingers and six #choirboys, establishing the Vienna Court Music Ensemble; later includes Vienna Boys Choir
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