The 'quick glance at the rather large pile of cds on my desk at work' Top 5
Models - I hear Motion
Pollyanna - Lemonsuck
The Earthmen - The Fall and Rise of my Favorite Sixties Girl
The Clouds - Blade
Tall Tales and True - Summer of Love
The 'quick glance at my itunes playlist at work' Top 5
Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine
Little Birdy - Come On Come On
Bertie Blackman - Fast Bitch
Gyroscope - Fast Girl
Red Riders - Slide In Next To Me
What's all this GEN Y stuff?
What about some REAL Aussie music !
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs - Poison Ivy
Normie Rowe & the Playboys
Cold Chisel - anything
Choir Boys - Run to Paradise
Dragon - April Sun in Cuba (OK they were NZ)
Slim Dusty- Pub with no beer
mmmm, I'm dissapointed we haven't seen some bogun music mentioned yet. So I'll don my flanny, black tshirt and mullet. Here ya go...
AC/DC - [I don't know where to start] Back in black
AC/DC - Dirty deeds
Angels - Long line
Daddy cool - eagle rock
Ice House - great southern land (not quite as bogunny) 😏
Other might be; pleasure and pain, land down under, devil inside, the whole of 10-1 by the oils, unguared moment, under the milky way (yes I'm a closet church fan), short note (matt finish).
Geez where DO ya start!?! 🤪
Sorry I forgot an obvious one; am I ever gonna see your face again!
dog eat dog - ac dc (rock)
addicted to bass by? (beat)
eagle rock - daddy who......(sing along)
the nips are getting bigger - mental as anything (drinking)
sweetness & light - itchy & scratchy (rthymn)
my 2c worth
Gone by Antomnasia
Nurse, 100cc.... by Evolvar
Emotion sickness by Silverchair
Flame trees by Jimmy Barnes
Walls by Pacifier or Shihad as they are known again (NZ)
Russell Morris - The Real Thing.
The Models - Outta Mind Outta Sight.
Mental As Anything - Live It Up.
Hoodoo Gurus - My Girl.
Ronnie Burns - Smiley.
Ray Brown & The Whispers - 20 Miles. (ok i know its a cover but who gives a stuff its a good cover! 😂)
Normie Rowe - Que Sera Sera.
Marty Rhone - Popstar.
A little more than 5 but it's impossible to limit it to 5 cos there is so much good aussie shit out there from the past 40 years 👍😎
And I'll second the Saints and Nick Cave... very good shit indeed, altho I cant listenm to Nick all the time. 🙂
While I'm here I'll throw Van She's name into the ring... some have said they are sappy and a bit teenybop and limpwristed, but I love their style... 👍
hey type3kid antonamasia are a band that started very locally to me. in fact i ran a few of their first gigs (elderslie high schools Big Day In) if you know them, say hi to Cassie on lead vocals for me
DUBB61 - addicted to bass was sung my Amiel, but i forget who did the mixing of it.
70's:
Slade - Far Far Away
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Split Enz - Sweet Dreams
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Paul Simon - Loves Me Like A Rock
80's:
Europe - The Final Countdown
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Cheap Trick - The Flame
A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran
Crowded House - It's Only Natural
John Lennon - Jealous Guy
90's:
Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Rockin In The Free WOrld
Oasis - Morning Glory
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Fastball - The Way
Suede - Animal Nitrate
Powderfinger - Passenger
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
00's:
Van She - Kelly
Interpol - Obstacle 1
The Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
James Blunt - High
Shihad - Shot In The Head
Hilltop Hoods - Nosebleed Section
70's: Ronnie Burns, "Smiley" (actually recorded in 1969 but meh)
80's: Goanna, "Solid Rock"
90's: Chris Franklin, "Bloke"
00's: Midnight Oil, "A Crocodile Cries"
Late 60's, early 70's, anything by Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs.
Mid 70's to mid 80's, anything AC/DC, but only with Bon Scott up front. Can't take that welshman screaming.
I have to say I really don't listen to anything much later than that.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
Led Zeppelin, Son House, Elvis, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Radiators, Can, The Grateful Dead, AC/DC ...none of that wonderful music can be heard over the most MAGNIFICENT soundtrack that Germany has ever produced...the brilliant sound of a freshly tuned flat four at full song on your favorite stretch of Police free road...give me VW anyday! Thanks for an interesting thread. I will now be going for a drive in said Automobile. 12 points on a freshly printed license...how long will it last? Enjoy 🙂
