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 December 1983.^[1] The album peaked at #4 and spent 45 weeks on the New Zealand Album charts.^[2]

Prayers Be Answered
Studio album by The Dance Exponents
Released	December 1983
Recorded	1983
Studio	Mandrill Studios
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: June 1982 "All I Can Do" Released: May 1983 "Know Your Own Heart" Released: October 1983 "Your Best Friend Loves Me Too" Released: December 1983 "I'll Say Goodbye (Even Though I'm Blue)" Released: April 1984

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

Weekly charts

Chart (1983–84)	Peak position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[4]	4

Year-end charts

Chart (1984)	Position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[5]	14

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. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
4. "Charts.nz – Dance Exponents – Prayers Be Answered". Hung Medien. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
5. "Top Selling Albums of 1983 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand. Retrieved 2 February 2022.