At First Sight, Violets Are Blue is the debut album from The Stems, released in August 1987 through Mushroom Records' White Label on vinyl, the album only saw limited CD release at that time. The title track "At First Sight" gained mainstream airplay and a position on the Young Einstein sound track. "At First Sight" became the band's signature track and the album is still rated as one of the best Australian guitar pop releases. In the early ninet...
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At First Sight, Violets Are Blue is the debut album from The Stems, released in August 1987 through Mushroom Records' White Label on vinyl, the album only saw limited CD release at that time. The title track "At First Sight" gained mainstream airplay and a position on the Young Einstein sound track. "At First Sight" became the band's signature track and the album is still rated as one of the best Australian guitar pop releases. In the early nineties Rolling Stone Magazine in fact included it in the top 100 Australian releases of all time.
The album was re-issued by Mushroom Records on March 23, 2003 and included a bonus disc with fifteen B-sides and ten live recordings from a live show at the Old Melbourne Hotel (Perth, Western Australia) on April 18, 1986.
In 2007 the album was certifed gold (with sales of over 35,000 units).
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