Album · Choirboys
Big Bad Noise by Choirboys
Big Bad Noise is an album by Choirboys, released in 1988. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Run To Paradise”, on 1 list with a best position of #24.
Big Bad Noise is the second album from the Sydney hard rock outfit that renamed itself The Choirboys to make it, and it sounds like a pub band swinging for the arena. Peter Blyton (known for the Radiators and Machinations) and Brian McGee (the Rolling Stones, Cyndi Lauper) produced it alongside the band, and Mark Gable's howling lead vocal cuts through a wall of guitars, with Ian Hulme on bass and Lindsay Tebbutt on drums.
The engine was "Run to Paradise", the 1987 single that hit number 3 in Australia and remains the band's biggest success, all surging, fist-in-the-air chorus. "Boys Will Be Boys" reached 14 and "Struggle Town" 34, and the album climbed to 5 on the Kent Music Report, went double platinum and finished at 21 on the year's Australian chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Big Bad Noise on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run To Paradise | 1 | #24 | – | 2018 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.