Hidden Things

Hidden Things
A range of audio tapes are strewn across the dark floor. Some are in their boxes or loose nearby. Other boxes are unopened. At the top left is an open red doorway showing yellow light shining into that side of the room. The artist's name is at the top right with the album's name below it. The graphic artist has signed the work at bottom right.
Studio album by
Paul Kelly & the Messengers
Released22 March 1992 (1992-03-22)
Recorded1986 (1986)–1991 (1991)
GenreFolk rock
Length70:43
LabelMushroom, White
ProducerGuy Gray, Alan Thorne, Paul Kelly, Gavin Mackillop, Steve Gordon, Paul Petran, Steve Connolly
Paul Kelly & the Messengers chronology
Comedy
(1991) 		Hidden Things
(1992) 		Live, May 1992
(1992)
Singles from Hidden Things
  1. "When I First Met Your Ma"
    Released: March 1992[1]

Hidden Things is an album by Australian folk rock group Paul Kelly & the Messengers released in March 1992 on Mushroom Records, which reached No. 29 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It also reached the Top 40 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. It is a collection of tracks recorded by Kelly and both his backing bands, the Coloured Girls and the Messengers, from 1986 to 1991, but were not issued on previous studio albums (except for "Bradman" and "Pastures of Plenty"). The album spawned a single, "When I First Met Your Ma", which was released in March. Messenger band members provide lead vocals on "Hard Times" from its writer Steve Connolly, and "Rock 'n' Soul" from its writer Jon Schofield. "Sweet Guy Waltz" is a slower version of "Sweet Guy" which was on 1989's So Much Water So Close to Home. The album was re-released in 2011 as Hidden Things: B-sides & Rarities.

  1. ^ "Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 9 March 1992". Bubbling Down Under. Retrieved 10 March 2023.