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Oceania (Goanna album)

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Oceania
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1985
GenreExperimental rock, art rock, post-rock, proto-grunge, proto-shoegaze
LabelWarner-Elektra-Atlantic (WEA)
Goanna chronology
Spirit of Place
(1982)
Oceania
(1985)
Spirit Returns
(1998)
Singles from Oceania
  1. "Common Ground"
    Released: November 1984
  2. "Dangerous Dancing"
    Released: May 1985

Oceania is the second studio album by Australian folk rock and alternative rock band Goanna, released in April 1985. The album peaked at number 29 on the Australian Kent Music Report.[1]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Oceania"Shane HowardBill Payne2:10
2."Common Ground"HowardPayne4:19
3."Zanzibar"Howard
  • Trevor Lucas
  • Payne
4:05
4."Dangerous Dancing"Howard
  • Payne
  • Lucas
4:41
5."Every Passing Day"HowardPayne6:33
6."Hideaway"
  • Howard
  • Bill Payne
Payne6:00
7."Utopia"HowardPayne4:36
8."This Time Yr' Runnin"Howard
  • Payne
  • Lucas
3:57
9."Some Kinda Magic"HowardPayne4:56
10."Jinny"HowardPayne4:25

Goanna

  • Roslyn Bygrave – synthesiser, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Peter Coughlan – bass guitar
  • Marcia Howard – backing vocals, synthesiser, lead vocals (track 4)
  • Shane Howard – guitar, synthesiser, lead vocals (except track 4)
  • Robert Ross – percussion, drums

Additional musicians

  • Joe Creighton – bass guitar (tracks 4, 9)
  • Venetta Fields – backing vocals (tracks 4, 9)
  • Ross Hannaford – electric guitar (track 4, 5, 8, 9)
  • Mal Logan – synth solo (track 8)
  • Ian Morrison – backing vocals (tracks 2, 5)
  • Alex Pertout – percussion
  • Bill Payne – keyboards
  • David Platchon – drums (track 6)
  • Eddie Rayner – keyboards (track 3)
  • Greg "Kenny" Sheehan – drums (tracks 5, 7, 10)
  • Sam See – electric and slide guitar (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 10)
  • Leland Sklar – bass guitar (track 6)

Charts

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Chart (1985) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 29

References

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  1. ^ "Rock and a Hard Place". Australian Story. ABC Television. 26 June 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.