{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Roaring Days | type = Album | artist = Weddings Parties Anything | cover = Wpa-roaringdays.jpg | alt = | released = May 1988 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock / Folk rock | length = | label = WEA | producer = Alan Thorne | prev_title = Scorn of the Women | prev_year = 1987 | next_title = The Big Don't Argue | next_year = 1989 }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r365609|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> }}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot--> '''''Roaring Days''''' is the second studio album released by Australian rock band Weddings Parties Anything. The title of the album was based on the poem "Roaring Days" by Henry Lawson.<ref name="sure thing">{{cite news|title=Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing|publisher=The Age|last=Johnston|first=Chris|date=2006-12-18}}</ref>
==Track listing== All songs written by Mick Thomas, except where noted<ref>[http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworks.stm APRA database] at the Australasian Performing Right Association website (search each song title)</ref> # "Industrial Town" – 4:06 # "Under the Clocks" – 3:29 # "Gun" (Dave Steel) – 3:43 # "Brunswick" – 2:54 # "Tilting at Windmills" – 2:53 # "Sergeant Small" (Tex Morton) – 3:13 # "Sisters of Mercy" – 4:42 # "Roaring Days" – 2:54 # "Say the Word" – 3:21 # "Missing in Action" – 3:07 # "Laughing Boy" (Paul Kelly) – 4:39 # "Big River" (Dave Steel) – 4:32 # "Summons in the Morning" – 3:17 # "Morton (Song for Tex)" – 3:18
==Personnel== ===Weddings Party Anything=== * Pete Lawler – bass guitar, vocals * Marcus Schintler – drums, vocals * Dave Steel – guitar, vocals * Mick Thomas – guitar, vocals * Mark Wallace – piano accordion, keyboards, vocals
===Additional musicians=== * Michael Barclay – vocals ("Under The Clocks") * Barb Waters – vocals (Tilting At Windmills") * Anthony Morgan – cello ("Sisters Of Mercy") * Dave Docker – trumpet ("Missing In Action") * Mick O'Connor – hammond organ ("Tilting At Windmills") * Ian McKenzie – tin whistle ("Laughing Boy") * Jason McDermid – brass ("Industrial Town") * James Greening – brass ("Industrial Town") * David Basden – brass ("Industrial Town")
==Charts== {|class="wikitable |- !scope="col"| Chart (1988) !Peak<br />position |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=334}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|46 |}
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Category:1988 albums Category:ARIA Award–winning albums Category:Weddings Parties Anything albums