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Born (Boom Crash Opera album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Born

| type = Studio

| artist = Boom Crash Opera

| cover = Born by Boom Crash Opera.jpg

| alt =

| released = February 1995

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Pop rock, alternative rock

| length =

| label = Ariola Records, BMG

| producer = Peter Farnan, Neil Wiles

| prev_title = Fabulous Beast

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Gizmo Mantra

| next_year = 1997

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Born

| type = studio

| single1 = Gimme

| single1date = September 1994

| single2 = Tongue Tied

| single2date = January 1995

| single3 = Dissemble

| single3date = March 1995{{cite web|url=https://imgur.com/a/nB6ppST| title=Boom Crash Opera singles chart history 1994-1997, received from ARIA in May 2024|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|access-date=7 July 2024}} N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.

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Born is the fourth studio album released by Australian rock group Boom Crash Opera. The album was released in February 1995 and peaked at number 37 on the ARIA Charts.

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}{{cite web|first=Kelvin|last=Hayess |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/born-mw0001255907|title=Album Review: Boom Crash Opera – Born |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=21 February 2017 }}

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Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane declared the album as a "tougher affair which found the band embracing hi-tech pop, techno-metal and all manner of sound effects and cyberpunk studio trickery".

Kelvin Hayes from All Music said; "With Richard Pleasance gone, the job of creative director fell to BCO's other figurehead, Peter Farnan. While Farnan is a highly resourceful writer, his scrappy production skills take the band into more experimental waters. The intro cliché of the crying baby is naff as the vapid synth sound, yet "Essence" is still engaging. "When She Gets There" is classic Boom Crash Opera, a rousing rocker with a tight bassline from Tilso and Dale Ryder firing on all cylinders. From then on its a downer. Born nods toward Icehouse in its multimedia ethic and, as sure as the glam rock stomp of "Baby You're So Strange" was a career revival for Iva Davies in 1986, so too was "Gimme" for BCO in 1995. Not so much that it could rescue its parent album though. "

Track listing

  1. "Essence" – 4:28
  2. "When She Gets There" – 4:11
  3. "Move Over" – 3:32
  4. "Wired" – 3:35
  5. "Dissemble" – 4:11
  6. "Get Me Happy" – 3:28
  7. "Oh So Cool" – 5:14
  8. "Gimme" – 3:52
  9. "Tongue Tied" – 2:56
  10. "Crush" – 3:49

Personnel

  • Dale Ryder — lead vocals
  • Peter Farnan — guitars, backing vocals
  • Ian Tilley — bass, backing vocals
  • Peter Maslen —lead vocals

Charts

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scope="col"| Chart (1995)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

{{album chart|Australia|37|artist=Boom Crash Opera|album=Born|rowheader=true|accessdate=18 February 2017}}

References

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{{Boom Crash Opera}}

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Category:1995 albums

Category:Boom Crash Opera albums

Category:Ariola Records albums

Category:Bertelsmann Music Group albums

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