Young Australians in the early eighties fell in love with the passionate pop-rock songs of the Sunnyboys. The energy and effortless cool of the band, combined with the undeniable song-writing talent of singer/guitarist Jeremy Oxley, created a pool of deliriously happy bodies in pubs and clubs the nation over. The eponymous debut album is an undisputed classic. A gold record and top twenty album at the time, it has since gone on to reach platinum status with sales exceeding 70,000. That very same album was also recently voted into Blunt magazine's Top 10 Australian albums of all time, by a panel of contemporary Australian artists including Magic Dirt, Dallas Crane, Rocket Science and the like. Compiled by arch fan, Tim Pittman. THIS IS REAL features all the hit singles: Happy Man, Alone With You, You Need a Friend, This is Real, Show Me Some Discipline, Love in a Box and Comes as No Surprise. THIS IS REAL also includes all the b-sides (many of these taken from the 1st album recording sessions) the original four track EP, rare and unreleased versions and an entire disc of live radio broadcasts taken from the band's peak period of 1981-1982. Twenty-nine of the forty-two tracks previously unavailable on CD and all remastered for the first time.