Sons of Beaches

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}} {{Infobox album | name = Sons of Beaches | type = Album | artist = Australian Crawl | cover = Sobs.jpg | alt = | released = July 1982 | recorded = March–May 1982 | venue = | studio = Sea West, Hawaii and United Western, Hollywood<br> Music Farm Studio, near Byron Bay, Australia | genre = Rock | length = 47:44 | label = EMI | producer = Mike Chapman | prev_title = Sirocco | prev_year = 1981 | next_title = Semantics | next_year = 1983 | misc = {{Singles | name = Sons of Beaches | type = studio | single1 = Shut Down | single1date = June 1982 | single2 = Daughters of the Northern Coast | single2date = August 1982 | single3 = Runaway Girls" / "Santa Claus is Back in Town | single3date = December 1982 }} }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r29556|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> }} '''''Sons of Beaches''''' is the third studio album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl,<ref name="Holmgren">{{cite web| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131022063048/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/a/australiancrawl.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/a/australiancrawl.html | last1 = Holmgren | first1 = Magnus | first2 = Stefan | last2 = Warnqvist | first3 = Oliver | last3 = Draper | first4 = Bill | last4 = McDonough | title = Australian Crawl | publisher = Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) | archivedate = 22 October 2013 | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 23 March 2014 }}</ref> released in July 1982. It became the band's second #1 in the Australian albums charts (for 5 weeks).<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.</ref> The album was recorded in Hawaii with ex-pat Mike Chapman, who had also produced Blondie and The Knack.<ref name="McF">{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofau00mcfa |format=doc |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |author-link=Ian McFarlane |publisher=Allen & Unwin |year=1999 |isbn=1-86448-768-2 |access-date=2008-04-10 |url-access=registration }}</ref>

==Reception== ''Cash Box magazine'' said "Recorded in Hawaii with studio mastermind Mike Chapman, the Aussie sextet can boomerang from brooding songs about 'Daughters of the Northern Coast' to a silly bop tune like 'King Sap (and Princess Sag)' with ease."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1982/CB-1982-08-14.pdf|title=Album Reviews|magazine=Cash Box|via=World Radio History|page=12|date=14 August 1982|access-date=3 December 2021}}</ref>

==Track listing== #"Runaway Girls" (Guy McDonough) #"Daughters of the Northern Coast" (James Reyne, G McDonough) #"Mid-Life Crisis" (Reyne) #"Shut Down" (William "Bill" McDonough) #"King Sap (and Princess Sag)" (Reyne) #"Letter from Zimbabwe" (Reyne) #"Downhearted" (Sean Higgins, G McDonough, W McDonough) #"Live Now, Pay Later" (Reyne) #"Dianne" (G McDonough) #"Grinning Bellhops" (Reyne) #"Waiting" (Brad Robinson, G McDonough) #"(Not So) Happy Song for Problem Children" (Reyne)

Songwriting credits from Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).

==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1982) !Peak<br>Position |- |Australia (Kent Music Report) |align="center"|1 |}

===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" ! Chart (1982) ! Peak<br />position |- ! scope="row"| Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{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=434}}</ref> | 11 |}

==Certifications and sales== {{certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Australia|artist=Australian Crawl|title=Sons of Beaches|award=Platinum|relyear=1982|certyear=1982|certref=<ref>{{cite web|title= Platinum and Gold Singles 1982 |publisher= Kent Music Report |issue= 453 |via= Imgur |date= 28 February 1983 |access-date= 10 November 2021 |url= https://i.imgur.com/totLqGG.jpg}}</ref>}} {{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}

==Personnel== Credited to:<ref name="Holmgren"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://music.msn.com/album/?album=10028868 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712140840/http://music.msn.com/album/?album=10028868 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-12 |title=MSN entry on ''Sons of Beaches'' |publisher=MSN |accessdate=2008-03-05 }}</ref> * James Reyne – lead vocals * Simon Binks – lead guitar, slide guitar * Guy McDonough – rhythm guitar, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Runaway Girls", "Dianne" and "Waiting" * Brad Robinson – rhythm guitar * Paul Williams – bass * Bill McDonough – drums, backing vocals, percussion * Producer — Mike Chapman

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Category:Australian Crawl albums Category:1982 albums Category:Albums produced by Mike Chapman