Onion Skin (song)

"Onion Skin"
7 inch single cover
Single by Boom Crash Opera
from the album These Here Are Crazy Times
Released5 June 1989
Length3:26
LabelWEA
Songwriter(s)Peter Farnan
Producer(s)Peter Smith
Boom Crash Opera singles chronology
"Love Me to Death"
(1988) 		"Onion Skin"
(1989) 		"Get Out of the House!"
(1989)

"Onion Skin" is a song by Australian band Boom Crash Opera. The song was released in June 1989 as the lead single from their second studio album, These Here Are Crazy Times! (1989), and reached number 11 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The following year, the song was released in the United States and reached number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart that July.

Track listings

7 inch single

  1. "Onion Skin" (Peter Farnan) – 3:26
  2. "Rocks Are in My Head" (Peter Farnan, Peter Maslen, Richard Pleasance, Dale Ryder) – 3:42

12 inch single

  1. Onion Skin (extended mix) (Peter Farnan) – 5:05
  2. These Here Are Crazy Times (Boom Crash Opera) – 4:08
  3. Rocks Are in My Head (Peter Farnan, Peter Maslen, Richard Pleasance, Dale Ryder) – 3:42

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Boom Crash Opera – Onion Skin". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Alternative Airplay". Billboard. 28 July 1990. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  3. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
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