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Don't Throw Stones is the second studio album by Australian rock and pop band The Sports, released in February 1979; a limited edition with a bonus 7" promotional single of "Reckless". The album peaked at number 9 on the Australian Kent Music Report and was certified gold.[1]

Don't Throw Stones
Studio album by
The Sports
ReleasedFebruary 1979
StudioArmstrong Studios, Melbourne
Genre
  • New wave
  • rock
  • pop
LabelMushroom
ProducerPeter Solley
The Sports chronology
Reckless
(1978)		 Don't Throw Stones
(1979)		 O.K, U.K!
(1979)
Singles from Don't Throw Stones
  1. "Who Listens to the Radio"
    Released: October 1978
  2. "Don't Throw Stones"
    Released: February 1979
  3. "Suspicious Minds"
    Released: April 1979

In 2010, the album was listed at number 51 on the 100 Best Australian Albums.[2]


Reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

Luis Feliu from The Canberra Times felt "plenty of admiration for their punchy and melodic rockabilly sound, [he] found the change to the more diverse, bigger-breath songs of new a wee strange but acceptable."[4]


Track listing


Vinyl/cassette (L 36844)
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Suspicious Minds"Martin Armiger3:29
2."Live Work & Play"Stephen Cummings, Andrew Pendlebury2:54
3."Don't Throw Stones"Cummings, Pendlebury3:40
4."Thru the Window"Cummings, Pendlebury2:48
5."Who Listens to the Radio"Cummings, Pendlebury3:13
6."Tired of Me"Cummings, Pendlebury5:53
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Step By Step"Cummings, Bates3:39
2."Worst Kind"Cummings, Pendlebury, Joe Camilleri2:46
3."So Obvious"Cummings, Pendlebury3:02
4."Hit Single"Armiger3:14
5."Terror Hits"Armiger3:34
6."Big Sleep"Cummings, Pendlebury2:42

Bonus 7" Single


Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Reckless"Cummings, Bates, Pendlebury4:13
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mailed It to Your Sister"Cummings, Bates2:48

Personnel


The Sports

with:


Charts


Chart (1979) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[5] 9
United States Billboard Hot 200[6] 194

References


  1. "The Sports". Mushroom Music. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. Brandle, Lars (3 November 2010). "The 100 Best Australian Albums". Music Industry. The Music Network. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  3. "The Sports - Don't Throw Stones". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  4. Feliu, Luis (23 February 1979). "Acceptable Change by The Sports". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). National Library of Australia. p. 7. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 238. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  6. "The Sports Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2017.


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