Prayers Be Answered Explained

Prayers Be Answered
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Dance Exponents
Cover:	Prayers Be Answered Thumb.jpg
Released:	December 1983
Recorded:	1983
Studio:	Mandrill Studios
Genre:	Pop
Label:	Mushroom Records
Producer:	Dave Marett
Prev Title:	Live at Mainstreet
Prev Year:	1983
Next Title:	Expectations
Next Year:	1985

Prayers Be Answered is the second album release and the first studio album by the New Zealand band the Dance Exponents, released in December 1983.^[1] The album peaked at #4 and spent 45 weeks on the New Zealand Album charts.^[2]

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

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]

Track listing

1. "All I Can Do" (Luck) 2:40
2. "Know Your Own Heart" (Luck) 3:30
3. "Shattered Ornaments" (Luck) 3:30
4. "Victoria" (Luck) 3:47
5. "Your Best Friend Loves Me Too" (Luck) 2:40
6. "I'll Say Goodbye (Even Though I'm Blue)" (Luck) 2:44
7. "Checking To See That Your Kiss Is The Same" (Luck/Jones) 2:44
8. "Just Me And You" (Luck) 3:43
9. "Envy The Grave" (Gent/Jones/Luck) 4:06
10. "Swimming To The Table Of An Unknown Girl" (Luck) 2:50
11. "Gone Forever In Another Car" (Luck) 3:04
12. "Poland" (Luck) 2:18

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

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

1. Web site: Album discography. The Exponents. 21 April 2013.
2. Web site: Charts: The Exponents: Prayers Be Answered. Archive. charts.nz. 21 April 2013.
3. Web site: Exponents news. 29 April 2013 . The Exponents. 1 May 2013.
4. Web site: Top Selling Albums of 1983 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart. Recorded Music New Zealand. 2 February 2022.