Album · Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls
Under the Sun by Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls
Under the Sun is an album by Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls, released in 1987. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “To Her Door”, on 2 lists with a best position of #22.
Under the Sun, the second album from Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls, came out on Mushroom in December 1987, and it's a set of lean, literate Australian rock from a songwriter who had settled in Sydney and put this band together by 1985, with Jon Schofield on bass and Peter Bull in the lineup. When A&M issued it in North America and Europe in 1988, the band was billed as Paul Kelly & the Messengers, with a reshuffled track list; the new name was meant to steer clear of racial readings of "coloured".
Kelly writes like a short-story man with a guitar. "To Her Door" became his highest-charting single at home in 1987, and its video won an ARIA Award in 1988; APRA later named it among the Top 30 Australian songs of all time. "Dumb Things" landed in the film Young Einstein and reached 16 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Under the Sun on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To Her Door | 2 | #22 | – | 2018–2025 | |
| 2 | Dumb Things | 1 | #105 | – | 1988 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.