These Here Are Crazy Times

is the second studio album by Australian rock group Boom Crash Opera, released in October 1989.

Both songs were re-recorded with producer Jimmy Iovine of U2 fame, after Bono from U2 became a fan of the band during the U2 Love Town tour of Australia in 1989.

It was suggested that mixing be done by Nick Launay, which the band had been hesitant to use due to comparisons to INXS.

Farnan said, "We used to obsess over the drum sounds he created on The Pleasure of Your Company and The Swing.

Richard Pleasance was less happy with Smith's production and the cost to fly him to Australia, saying, "We didn't really click with him.