Gossip (album)

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Gossip
Gossip cover
Studio album by Paul Kelly
Released September 1986 (AUS LP/Cassette)
1987 (AUS CD; USA)
Recorded Trafalgar Studios, Sydney (March-May 1986)
Genre Australian Rock
Length Various
Label Mushroom/White (Australia)
A&M (U.S.)
Producer Alan Thorne and Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly chronology
Post
(1985)		 Gossip
(1986)		 Under the Sun
(1987)

Gossip is a double album recorded by Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls and originally released in September 1986.

It was released on Mushroom Records in Australia and was the debut album for Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls.

It has been released in several different configurations. Initially a double album with 24 tracks, it was edited down to a single 15-track LP for North American release (with a handful of tracks being remixed, and the running order changed). When released on CD in North America, Gossip featured 17 tracks. All North American releases were credited to Paul Kelly & The Messengers, rather than Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls, it being feared that the "Coloured Girls" name might offend some Americans.

Meanwhile, the initial 1987 Australian CD release and the 1993 Australian CD re-release contained 21 tracks. Once the Gossip LP fell out of print, the 1993 release was the only commercially available version of the album from the mid-1990s until 2005. In 2005, a special deluxe 2-CD version was released in Australia which contained all 24 tracks.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Last Train To Heaven"
  2. "Leaps And Bounds"
  3. "Before The Old Man Died" Remixed by Scott Litt for North American issues
  4. "Down On My Speedway"
  5. "White Train"
  6. "Randwick Bells"
  7. "Before Too Long"
  8. "Adelaide" Omitted from North American LP and CD issues
  9. "I Won't Be Torn Apart" Omitted from North American LP issue
  10. "Going About My Father's Business" Omitted from North American LP issue
  11. "Somebody's Forgetting Somebody (Somebody's Letting Somebody Down)"
  12. "The Ballroom" Omitted from North American LP and CD issues
  13. "Tighten Up" Remixed by Scott Litt for North American issues
  14. "I've Come For Your Daughter" Omitted from North American LP and CD issues, 1987/1993 Australian CD issue
  15. "So Blue" Omitted from North American LP and CD issues
  16. "The Execution" Remixed by Scott Litt for North American issues
  17. "Incident On South Dowling"
  18. "Maralinga (Rainy Land)" Omitted from North American LP and CD issues
  19. "Darling It Hurts"
  20. "Look So Fine, Feel So Low"
  21. "Stories Of Me"
  22. "Don't Harm The Messenger"
  23. "Gossip" Omitted from North American LP and CD issues, 1987/1993 Australian CD issue
  24. "After The Show" Omitted from North American LP and CD issues, 1987/1993 Australian CD issue

[edit] Credits

  • Produced by Alan Thorne and Paul Kelly
  • Engineered by Alan Thorne

[edit] Releases

Format Country Label Catalogue No. Year
LP AUS Mushroom L45961/2 1986
Cassette AUS Mushroom C45961/2 1986
LP USA A&M SP 5157 1987
CD AUS Mushroom D45961/2 1987
CD USA A&M CD 5157 1987
CD AUS Mushroom/White MUSH32282.2 1993