King Tide (album)

King Tide
Studio album by Weddings Parties Anything
Released 1993
Genre Rock / Folk rock
Label RooArt/East-West/WEA
Producer Paul Kosky / Weddings Parties Anything
Weddings Parties Anything chronology

Difficult Loves
(1992)		 King Tide
(1993)		 Donkey Serenade
(1995)
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Allmusic [1]

King Tide is the fifth studio album released by Australian rock band Weddings Parties Anything. Billy Bragg provides the vocals with Mick Thomas on "Island of Humour". "Stalactites" marks the first occasion when all members collaborated on the writing of a WPA song[2] and it refers to a well known Melbourne restaurant.[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Mick Thomas, unless otherwise noted.[4]

  1. "Monday's Experts" - 2:52
  2. "Live it Everyday" (Peter Lawler, Mick Thomas, Mark Wallace)[4] - 3:48
  3. "Money cuts you Out" - 3:13
  4. "The rain in my Heart" - 3:59
  5. "It Wasn't Easy" (Mick Thomas, Mark Wallace)[4] - 4:00
  6. "Keep talking to Me" - 4:56
  7. "Island of Humour" - 2:59
  8. "Easy Money" (Peter Lawler) - 2:17
  9. "In my Lifetime" - 4:03
  10. "Always Leave Something Behind" - 5:55
  11. "If you were a Cloud" - 3:07
  12. "The year she spent in England" - 4:38
  13. "Stalactites" (Peter Lawler, Marcus Schintler, Mark Wallace, Paul Thomas, Mick Thomas)[4] - 2:16

Personnel

Credited to:[5]

Weddings Parties Anything

Additional musicians

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Badgley, Aaron. "King Tide". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
  3. ↑ Genoni, Paul. "‘Since the Mine Closed Down’: Mining Town Closures in the Songs of Mick Thomas" (PDF). Curtin. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
  5. ↑ "Artist Direct entry on King Tide". Retrieved 2008-01-30.