Torch the Moon | ||||
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Released | 22 July 2002 | |||
Recorded | 2001–2002 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 49:58 | |||
Label | Black Yak / Warner | |||
Producer | Daniel Denholm | |||
The Whitlams chronology | ||||
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Singles from Torch the Moon | ||||
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Torch the Moon is the fifth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2002. [2] It peaked at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart. [3] It received platinum album certification from ARIA. [4]
Initial prints of Torch the Moon contained a second CD, entitled Side 4. The track list contained:
A second print of the CD was released with the initial track listing, as well as "Don't Believe Anymore" (a cover of a track from Icehouse's 1984 album Sidewalk) and "Last Life".
A third release of the CD saw the thirteen initial tracks included, but none of the tracks from Side 4.
Finally, a fourth print of the CD saw a combination of the fifteen-track release as well as an exclusive 'Rarities' CD, collecting B-sides and unreleased tracks from the last nine years. The track list ran as follows:
Chart (2002–03) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums ( ARIA) [5] | 1 |
Chart (2002) | Position |
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Australian ( ARIA Charts) [6] | 49 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia ( ARIA) [7] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
The first verse of "Kate Kelly", [8] a song about Kate Kelly, younger sister of Ned Kelly, may have inspired Australian author David Hunt in his 2016 book "True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 2" in which he also describes Joe Byrne as having been "strung up" like a "marionette". [9]