''Born'' is the fourth

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released by Australian rock group

Boom Crash Opera Boom Crash Opera are an Australian pop rock band formed in late 1984. Initially based around the songwriting partnership of Richard Pleasance and Peter Farnan, the band was later joined by Dale Ryder (vocals), Peter 'Maz' Maslen (drums) and Greg ...

. The album was released in February 1995 and peaked at number 37 on the ARIA Charts.

Reception

Australian music journalist

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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

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said; "With

Richard Pleasance Richard Arnold Pleasance is an Australian rock musician and producer. He was a founding member of Boom Crash Opera on guitar, bass guitar, vocals and as a songwriter in 1985; they released three albums before Pleasance left in 1992. Their hit Au ...

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

, 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

# "Essence" – 4:28 # "When She Gets There" – 4:11 # "Move Over" – 3:32 # "Wired" – 3:35 # "Dissemble" – 4:11 # "Get Me Happy" – 3:28 # "Oh So Cool" – 5:14 # "

Gimme Gimme may refer to: Music * "Gimme" (Alice Cooper song), 2000 * "Gimme" (Banks song), 2019 * "Gimme" (Boom Crash Opera song),1994 * "Gimme" (One song), by the Cypriot boy band One, 2002 * "Gimme" (Sam Smith, Koffee, and Jessie Reyez song), 2023 O ...

" – 3:52 # " Tongue Tied" – 2:56 # "Crush" – 3:49

Personnel

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

Charts

References

1995 albums Boom Crash Opera albums Ariola Records albums Bertelsmann Music Group albums {{1990s-pop-rock-album-stub