The Sweetest Taboo (album)

The Sweetest Taboo
Studio album by Katie Noonan
Released	8 May 2020
Genre	Jazz, pop[1]
Length	61:57[1]
Label	ABC Music
Katie Noonan chronology
Late Night Tunes with Noons (2020) The Sweetest Taboo (2020)

The Sweetest Taboo is a twentieth album by Australian singer and songwriter Katie Noonan. The album is described as a jazz collection of reimagined 80s classics and was released in May 2020.^[2] The album peaked at number 70 on the ARIA Charts.

Noonan said "For my twentieth album, I wanted to go back to the magic, the joy, the spark that first started my love affair with pop music. This was in suburban Brisbane, Ashgrove, in the mid-eighties. I decided to focus on a particular period of time, aged seven to eleven, from my first single to my first album, to albums that really changed our lives like The Joshua Tree. I picked bunch of tunes and reimagined them with my favourite Aussie jazz musicians, so, it's feels awesome."^[3]

At the AIR Awards of 2021, the album won Best Independent Jazz Album or EP.^[4]

1. "Don't Dream It's Over (Neil Finn) - 4:59
2. "Blue" (Vince Jones) - 4:22
3. "If I Could" (Garry Frost) - 6:03
4. "Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel) - 4:45
5. "True Colors" (Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) - 5:23
6. "Electric Blue" (Iva Davies, John Oates) - 4:33
7. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam) - 5:18
8. "When Tomorrow Comes" (Annie Lennox, Patrick Seymour, David A. Stewart) - 5:24
9. "Russians" (Sergey Prokofiev, Sting) - 4:41
10. "Sign Your Name" (Terence Trent D'Arby) - 6:08
11. "Take On Me" (Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar) - 3:54
12. "Running to Stand Still" (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) - 6:27

• Zac Hurren (saxophones)^[7]
• Sam Keevers (piano)^[7]
• Phil Stack (double bass)^[7]
• Evan Mannell (drums)^[7]