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Australian rock band discography
Boom Crash Opera discography
Studio albums6
EPs2
Live albums1
Compilation albums6
Singles20
Box sets1

Boom Crash Opera are an Australian rock band formed in 1985. The band have released six studio albums, six compilation albums, two EP, one box set and twenty singles.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
Boom Crash Opera
  • Released: September 1987
  • Label: WEA (254927.1)
  • Producer:
19
These Here Are Crazy Times!
  • Released: October 1989
  • Label: WEA (256895.1)
10
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum
Fabulous Beast
  • Released: March 1993
  • Label: EastWest (450992015-2)
15
Born
  • Released: February 1995
  • Label: BMG (76896401962)
37
Gizmo Mantra
  • Released: November 1997
  • Label: BMG (74321512592)
Dancing in the Storm
  • Released: 1 May 2009
  • CD+DVD
  • Label: Liberation (BLUE1642)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

Title Details
Live at The Tivoli Sydney 1986
  • Released: 4 October 2024
  • digital
  • Label: ACRA

Compilation albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
Look! Listen!!
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: WEA (903173031-2)
47
The Best Things – Greatest Hits
The Essential Boom Crash Opera
  • Released: April 2007
  • Label: Sony BMG (88697069602)
The Best Things – Greatest Hits
The Lost Things
  • Released: 18 October 2013
  • Label: Liberation
Whole Shebang: Anthology
  • Released: 31 January 2017
  • Label: Liberation

Box set

Title Details
Rattle It Out
  • 4-CD set (featuring their first four studio albums)
  • Released: 18 October 2013
  • Label: Liberation (LM4CD002)

Extended plays

Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
Dreams on Fire 44
Kick it Out... Live
  • Released: 18 February 2022
  • Label: Boom Crash Opera

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions
Year Title Peak chart positions Album
AUS
US Mod
1986 "Great Wall" 5 Boom Crash Opera
"Hands Up in the Air" 16
1987 "City Flat" 42
"Her Charity" 32
1988 "Love Me to Death" 72
1989 "Onion Skin" 11 8 These Here Are Crazy Times
"Get Out of the House!" 24
"The Best Thing" 67
1990 "Dancing in the Storm" 21
"Talk About It" 35
1991 "The Best Thing (Listen! mix)" 112 Look! Listen!!
1992 "Bettadaze" 43 Fabulous Beast
1993 "In the Morning" 36
"This Isn't Love" 78
1994 "Gimme" 14 Born
1995 "Tongue Tied" 25
"Dissemble" 113
"Soundtrack (So Lonely)" 148
1997 "Dreaming up a Fire" 178 Gizmo Mantra
"All"
— denotes releases that failed to chart.

References

  1. ^ Australian chart peaks:
  2. ^ "Boom Crash Opera & Nat Col & The Kings plus Copal Deep Tickets". Mosh Tix. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Absolute 80s". Absolute 80s. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  4. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1993 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  5. "Boom Crash Opera Live at The Tivoli Sydney 1986 Coming Friday". noise11. 30 September 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  6. "Bubbling Down Under Week commencing 14 January 2021". 14 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  7. "Boom Crash Opera singles chart history 1994-1997, received from ARIA in May 2024". ARIA. Retrieved 7 July 2024 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  8. "Boom Crash Opera | Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
Boom Crash Opera
  • Dale Ryder
  • Peter "Bungie" Farnan
  • Peter "Maz" Maslen
  • John Favaro
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Extended plays
Singles
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