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Neon Ballroom
Studio album by Silverchair
Released	March 16, 1999
Genre	Alternative
Length	49:36
Label	Sony US Murmur AU
Producer(s)	Nick Launay
Professional reviews
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Silverchair chronology
Freak Show (1997)	Neon Ballroom (1999)	Diorama (2002)

Neon Ballroom is the third album from the Australian band, Silverchair. The twelve song album was released on March 16, 1999, and was seen by some as a sign of maturation on the part of the band members. "Anthem for the Year 2000" was the first single from the record - making it to No. 3 on the ARIA charts.

Johns described Neon Ballroom as a concept album, being an 'audio diary' of the bands lives at the time. Nonetheless, it's stark, experimental musical style drew huge contrast with prior albums (Freak Show and Frogstomp), and such a change in the artistic direction of the group provoked mixed responses from fans. The commercially successful Anthem for the Year 2000 was perhaps received so well because it retained much of the band's youthful rock energy, whereas all other singles marked huge musical leaps from the style then associated with Silverchair and thus were somewhat alienating.

However, the album's marking of the second stage in Silverchair's career also, to an extent, ushered in an entirely new fanbase, one that appreciated the more experimental and musically dense works on Neon Ballroom such as the fan favourite Emotion Sickness and the fusion-based underdogs like Black Tangled Heart and Dearest Helpless. The musical direction Neon Ballroom was perceived as taking would later continue in their 2002 album Diorama, as well as some of Daniel John's experimental collaborations with fellow Australian artist Paul Mac (Johns and Mac would later form The Dissociatives).

The record's title was apparently created with the attempt of conveying the album's musical theme of combining new, tecnological, experimental devices and instruments with traditional, classic, orchestral devices and instruments. "Neon", of course, representing the new, and "Ballroom" representing the traditional.

1. "Emotion Sickness"
2. "Anthem for the Year 2000"
3. "Ana's Song (Open Fire)"
4. "Spawn Again"
5. "Miss You Love"
6. "Dearest Helpless"
7. "Do You Feel the Same"
8. "Black Tangled Heart"
9. "Point of View"
10. "Satin Sheets"
11. "Paint Pastel Princess"
12. "Steam Will Rise"