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Recorded
  
Planet Studios, Perth

At First Sight, Violets Are Blue(1987)
  
Heads Up(2007)

Release date
  
August 1987

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Length
  
41:33

Artist
  
The Stems

Label
  
White Label Records

Released
  
August, 198723 March 2003

Producer
  
Guy Gray, Alan Thorne, Dom Mariani

Similar
  
Heads Up, Weed Out!, Mushroom Soup: Th, Buds

At First Sight, Violets Are Blue is the debut album by Australian alternative rock group, The Stems, released in August 1987 through Mushroom Records' White Label on vinyl, the album only saw limited CD release at that time. The title track "At First Sight" gained mainstream airplay and a position on the Young Einstein sound track. "At First Sight" became the band's signature track and the album is still rated as one of the best Australian guitar pop releases. In the early nineties Rolling Stone Magazine in fact included it in the top 100 Australian releases of all time.

Contents

The album was re-issued by Mushroom Records on 23 March 2003 and included a bonus disc with 14 additional tracks.

In 2007 the album was certified gold (with sales of over 35,000 units).

Original release

  1. "At First Sight" 4:02
  2. "Sad Girl" 3:20
  3. "Rosebud" 3:38
  4. "Man with the Golden Heart" 4:04
  5. "Running Around" 3:30
  6. "For Always" 3:06
  7. "You Can't Turn the Clock Back" 3:15
  8. "Move Me" 3:26
  9. "Mr Misery" 3:37
  10. "Can't Forget That Girl" 3:23
  11. "Never Be Friends" 2:54
  12. "Otherside" 3:12

Re-issue bonus disc

  1. "Sad Girl" (Single version) (Dom Mariani) 3:35
  2. "Grooviest Girl In Town" (B-side of 'At First Sight' single) (J Matthews/D Mariani) 4:39
  3. "My Beach" (B-side of 'Sad Girl' single) (D Shaw/J Matthews/D Mariani) 3:26
  4. "Can't Forget That Girl" (Original demo, previously unreleased) (D Mariani) 3:18
  5. "Rosebud" (Live*) (R Lane/J Matthews) 4:03
  6. "Make You Mine" (Live*) (D Mariani) 6:28
  7. "Mr Misery" (Live*) (D Mariani) 3:21
  8. "Under Your Mushroom" (Live*) (R Lane/J Matthews) 2:44
  9. "She's A Monster" (Live*) (D Mariani) 3:41
  10. "Love Will Grow" (Live*) (D Mariani) 3:17
  11. "Otherside" (Live*) (R Lane) 3:02
  12. "Does It Turn You On" (Live*) (D Mariani) 4:37
  13. "All You Want For Me" (Live*) (J Matthews) 2:24
  14. "Stepping Stone" (Live*) (Boyce/Hart) 2:58

*Live at the Old Melbourne Hotel (Perth, Western Australia), 18 April 1986.

Songs

1At First Sight4:03
2Sad Girl3:21
3Rosebud3:38

References

At First Sight, Violets Are Blue Wikipedia
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