Noiseworks (album)

Noiseworks
Studio album by Noiseworks
Released 20 July 1987
Genre Pub rock
Label CBS
Producer Mark Opitz
Noiseworks chronology
Noiseworks
(1987)		 Touch
(1988)
Singles from Noiseworks
  1. "No Lies"
    Released: 1986
  2. "Take Me Back"
    Released: 1987
  3. "Love Somebody"
    Released: 1987
  4. "Welcome to the World"
    Released: 1987
  5. "Burning Feeling"
    Released: 1988
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Allmusic [1]

Noiseworks is the debut album by Australian rock band, Noiseworks. It was released by CBS Records on 20 July 1987. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart,[2] with the introduction of the ARIA Album Charts in the beginning of 1988, the album was still in the charts at No. 37.[3] "Love Somebody" and "Welcome to the World" were also lifted from the album, but neither made the Top 40.[2] Noiseworks sold more than 210,000 copies (3× platinum) in Australia.[4] "Burning Feeling" was released as the album's fifth single in early 1988, which failed to chart.[2]

Contents

Track listing

Noiseworks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Burning Feeling"   Jon Stevens, Stuart Fraser[5] 3:56
2. "Love Somebody"   Stevens, Fraser[5] 4:24
3. "Take Me Back"   Stevens, Brent Thomas[6] 3:27
4. "No Lies"   Stevens, Thomas[5] 3:54
5. "River of Tears"   Stevens, Fraser, Justin Stanley[5] 5:17
6. "Welcome to the World"   Stevens, Fraser, Stanley, Steve Balbi, Kevin Nicol[5] 5:08
7. "Edge of Darkness"   Stevens, Fraser, Stanley[5] 3:45
8. "Little Bit More"   Stevens, Thomas[5] 3:19
9. "Only Loving You"   Steve Balbi[5] 4:02
10. "It's Time"   Stevens, Balbi, Stanley, K. O'Reilly[5] 4:51

Charts

Year Chart Position
1987 Australian KMR Album Chart 2[3]
1987 New Zealand Album Chart 31[7]
1988 Swedish Album Chart 43[8]

Personnel

Credits

External links

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.  NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.
  3. ^ a b "Discography Noiseworks". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Noiseworks. Retrieved 8 July 2010. 
  4. ^ McFarlane, 'Noiseworks' entry. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) search engine". APRA. http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt. Retrieved 7 July 2010.  Note: requires user to input song title e.g. BURNING FEELING
  6. ^ "Take Me Back". The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) search engine. ASCAP. http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=500400202&search_in=i&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=25&start=1. Retrieved 8 July 2010. 
  7. ^ "Discography Noiseworks". New Zealand charts portal. Hung Medien. http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Noiseworks. Retrieved 8 July 2010. 
  8. ^ "Discography Noiseworks". Swedish charts portal. Hung Medien. http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Noiseworks. Retrieved 8 July 2010.