Prayers Be Answered

Prayers Be Answered is the second album release and the first studio album by the New Zealand band The Dance Exponents, released in 1983.[1] The album peaked at #4 and spent 45 weeks on the New Zealand Album charts.[2] In May 2013, Universal Music re-released the album digitally in New Zealand in remastered standard and deluxe editions. The deluxe edition has twelve additional tracks of singles, B-sides, rarities and demos.[3]

Prayers Be Answered
Studio album by The Dance Exponents
Released	1983
Recorded	1983
Genre	Pop
Label	Mushroom Records
Producer	Dave Marett
The Dance Exponents chronology
Live at Mainstreet (1983) Prayers Be Answered (1983) Expectations (1985)
Singles from Prayers Be Answered
"Victoria" Released: 1983 "All I Can Do" Released: 1983 "Know Your Own Heart" Released: 1983 "I'll Say Goodbye (Even Though I'm Blue)" Released: 1984 "Your Best Friend Loves Me Too" Released: 1984

Track listing

1. "All I Can Do" (Luck)
2. "Know Your Own Heart" (Luck)
3. "Shattered Ornaments" (Luck)
4. "Victoria" (Luck)
5. "Your Best Friend Loves Me Too" (Luck)
6. "I'll Say Goodbye (Even Though I'm Blue)" (Luck)
7. "Checking To See That Your Kiss Is The Same" (Luck/Jones)
8. "Just Me And You" (Luck)
9. "Envy The Grave" (Gent/Jones/Luck)
10. "Swimming To The Table Of An Unknown Girl" (Luck)
11. "Gone Forever In Another Car" (Luck)
12. "Poland" (Luck)

Additional tracks on 2013 digital deluxe edition:

1. "Airway Spies" (Luck)
2. "Victoria" (original single version) (Luck)
3. "All I Can Do" (original single version) (Luck)
4. "Your Best Friend Loves Me Too" (original version) (Luck)
5. "Poland" (original version) (Luck)
6. "Can't Kiss The Lips Of A Memory" (Luck)
7. "I'm Not The One" (Luck)
8. "Social Life" (Luck)
9. "Perfect Romance" (demo) (Luck)
10. "My Date With You Was A Date With No One" (demo) (Luck)
11. "Walk Around The Roses" (demo) (Luck)
12. "The Empty Bunk In The Bunkhouse" (Luck)

Band members

• Jordan Luck (vocals)
• Brian Jones (guitar)
• David Gent (bass guitar)
• Michael "Harry" Harallambi (drums)

Additional musicians

• Peter Van Der Fluit (keyboards)
• Andrew McLennan (keyboards)
• Stuart Pearce (keyboards)
• Andrew Couston (saxophone)

Credits

• Produced by Dave Marett

Engineered by Dave Marett & Graeme Myhre

• Recorded at Mandrill Studios, Auckland, New Zealand
• Tracks 1, 2 & 5 mixed By Tim Kramer at Festival Studios, Sydney Australia
• Art direction & design: Alan Scholz, Mushroom Art

Awards

The album won the Best Album award at the 1984 New Zealand Music Awards.

References

1. "Album discography". The Exponents. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
2. "Charts: The Exponents: Prayers Be Answered". Archive. charts.nz. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
3. "Exponents news". The Exponents. Retrieved 1 May 2013.