''Remote Luxury'' is the first compilation album by the Australian

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band the Church, released in 1984. The band had recently signed to

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in the United States and their new label decided to re-release the band's most recent Australian material, the ''

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'' and '' Remote Luxury''

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, as an album with a new running order. They also released "Constant In Opal" as a

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in the US. The version of "No Explanation" included here has a 20-second instrumental jam at the beginning. The album was re-released on CD by

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in 1990, but has since been deleted, and it was re-released in 1988 on LP by carrere records, under the label RGE in Brazil. In 2001, EMI Australia released the compilation album ''Sing-Songs//Remote Luxury//Persia'', which contained remastered versions of all the tracks from the EPs in their original running order.

Track listing

# "Constant in Opal" (Kilbey) # "Violet Town" (Kilbey) # "No Explanation" (Kilbey) # "10,000 Miles" (Kilbey/Willson-Piper) # "Maybe These Boys..." (Kilbey) # "Into My Hands" (Kilbey) # "A Month of Sundays" (Kilbey) # "Volumes" (Willson-Piper) # "Shadow Cabinet" (Kilbey/Koppes/Ploog/Willson-Piper) # "Remote Luxury" (Kilbey)

Personnel

Steve Kilbey Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954) is an English born Australian singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer and bass guitarist for the rock band The Church. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. As of 2020, Kilbey has r ...

- bass, lead vocals (1-3, 5-7, 9), keyboards *

Peter Koppes Peter Koppes (born 21 November 1955) is an Australian guitarist, best known as a founding and almost-continuous member of the independent rock band The Church. He is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica. ...

- guitars, backing vocals *

Marty Willson-Piper Martin Howard Willson-Piper (born 7 May 1958) known as Marty Willson-Piper is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter famous for his work as a former long-time member of the Australian ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, psychedelic rock band The ...

- guitars, backing and lead (4, 8) vocals *

Richard Ploog Richard John Ploog (born 29 October 1962) is an Australian drum kit, drummer, songwriter, producer and singer who was a member of rock band The Church (band), The Church between 1981 and 1990. Ploog also drummed for Beasts of Bourbon in 1983, Dami ...

- drums, percussion Additional keyboards by

Craig Hooper Craig Lincoln Hooper (born 23 November 1959) is an Australian musician who was a core member (with Dave Mason) of indie rock band The Reels (1977–1992), and was in bands The Mullanes (the initial incarnation of Crowded House Crowded Hou ...

and David Moor

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Remote Luxury (Album) 1984 albums The Church (band) albums Psychedelic music albums by Australian artists