Awesome. Loved both.

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;)

Nice, keeping the theme. Cheers.

Not many songs in the last few decades stood out like this one as a classic from the first hearing:

The original (written when Bowie was 19):

The cover:

Both atmospheric classics.

^ there'd be 10 albums the kids and I know note for note, end to end, this is one of them. It's hunky dory @blackers. (man, Life on Mars goes well with BarbB's Cheyne Horan '79 clip in the McCoy article comments)

Same for me basesix,

Pulling out just one song that is not known by the mainstream: The Bewlay Brothers

As one comment on youtube said: "Such melancholy, joy, nostalgia and prescience all in one song"

yerp, indeed @frog, great quote.. such a precious time, the modern popular recording industry: the mid 60s till the mid noughties; the entire thing is a mere half-lifetime, albums, pub gigs, bands, posters, radio, record shops, punk throughout, pop popping, stoners styling, and all the things we all know. bricks-n-mortar-vibe will forever be there, but as a nostalgia, novelty thing. we just happened to live in the midst of the real thing. fucking unreal. go life.

If you read comments on youtube under lots of the old stuff, you come across many from later generations discovering these songs and being blown away and contrasting them to much of the modern pap and rehash. It can still be fresh to new ears. Great to see it is timeless.

But driving down a dusty road towards an isolated surf spot in the 70s with Station to Station or Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal blasting out on the car stereo being in the "now" of a never before rock n roll era, plus the feeling of being a pioneer of new waves, new boards and new moves with no internet clutter in your head can't be repeated. New can only happen once. Glad I was there.

Speaking of Lou Reed. An amazing live concert. Rock n Roll Animal.... A moment in time.

He had a couple of guitar players that were at the peak of their game on that tour, some of his best songs and his vocals were way more solid in the early years.

The guitars in that intro are so good, just so 70s.

The guitarists on Rock'n Roll Animal were Steve "the Deacon" Hunter and Dick Wagner, who later formed the basis of Alice Cooper's band.
Great choice there Frog.
Just an epic album and live performance, one of my "stranded on a desert island" live albums from that era, the others are Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, Rolling Stones, Live At The Regal, BB King and The Jimi Hendrix Experience/Otis Redding Live at Monterey.
All recorded between '67 and '70.
An epic era of rock'n'roll, blues and soul.

AndyM wrote:

The guitars in that intro are so good, just so 70s.

Guitars by Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner: and the two worked so well together.

Some killer bass in there as well.

Here is Bowie doing a fantastic version of Lou Reed's

Waiting for the Man.

Builds to a high energy peak and Mick Ronson rips on the guitar.

Bowie could rock when he wanted and knew how to build energy through a song

Something new(ish) that sounds oldish.
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Kinda like that Goyte song reminds me of this.
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Bowie's finest work?
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Placebo - a mid 90s surprise that was fresh and new when much was not

Fine Young Cannibals

Great vocalist and funky music:

Here's a song I stumbled upon the other day, and it solved a 40 year old mystery.

When I was growing up in Brisbane, Archerfield Speedway used a song in their ads - it was uptempo, had handclaps, Hammond organ, and a sharp vocal "hey!" as part of the intro.
Very exciting for a young lad.

So I finally found out only a few days ago that it was Jenny Take A Ride by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.

Of course!
As if you wouldn't use that song to promote speedway!

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AndyM I know that song but there is no way I could have named it or the artist. Nice work
Elvis’ version

Vegas Elvis, yeeew!

The C.C. Rider/See See Rider thing is kinda interesting, first recorded in 1924 and with roots possibly going back to the American Civil War.

Everyone's had a crack at it.

And speaking of roots, the song is a dirty blues number all about sex.

Saddle up all you easy riders.

Magoo was on ABC radio Sunny Coast last week(as every week) discussing Black Betty and all the iterations. Probably an old slave chant/singalong but no one knows exactly.
ps. Most of us already know this.

The Cars

First album was almost perfect - every song a classic. Played loud on a good stereo was just wow.

and to be played in the car heading out on the town....

+1 frog

Wow 1979 didn't realize it was that early.

From 82 this song never gets old.

Loved this song and movie too, i use to hang with guys a few years older, walking the streets or school yard with this big ghetto blaster, thinking we were so cool.

indo-dreaming wrote:

Loved this song and movie too, i use to hang with guys a few years older, walking the streets or school yard with this big ghetto blaster, thinking we were so cool.

Trackies tucked into your socks with hi top sneakers?

Classic. I remember a few of my mates got right into Breakdancing. We were that early teenage when everyone has gawky, awkward growing bodies and these guys were really fucken average at breakdancing. Really average. They were actually shit at it.

Didn’t stop them from putting on a display on a Saturday morning at a local shopping centre. I’m not sure how it came about but they were on the stage set up for proper events with their big bit of breakdance cardboard or Lino or whatever they had to do half-arsed and failed back spins.

This was the song they played. Fuvk it was funny.

Can’t remember if it was before or after we all did karate for a few weeks after Karate Kid came out ?

frog wrote:

The Cars

First album was almost perfect - every song a classic. Played loud on a good stereo was just wow.

and to be played in the car heading out on the town....

Agreed first album was shit hot, especially listening to it as an actual album.
Second album was almost as good, but felt a bit darker with a hint of dirty New York cocaine.
Candy O rocks.

Slackjawedyokel wrote:

Classic. I remember a few of my mates got right into Breakdancing. We were that early teenage when everyone has gawky, awkward growing bodies and these guys were really fucken average at breakdancing. Really average. They were actually shit at it.

Didn’t stop them from putting on a display on a Saturday morning at a local shopping centre. I’m not sure how it came about but they were on the stage set up for proper events with their big bit of breakdance cardboard or Lino or whatever they had to do half-arsed and failed back spins.

This was the song they played. Fuvk it was funny.

Can’t remember if it was before or after we all did karate for a few weeks after Karate Kid came out ?

Glad I was into punk, so missed most of that rap, break dance stuff. Haha

Lympic sport now the ol breakdancing. Funny how things go.

seeds wrote:

indo-dreaming wrote:

Loved this song and movie too, i use to hang with guys a few years older, walking the streets or school yard with this big ghetto blaster, thinking we were so cool.

Trackies tucked into your socks with hi top sneakers?

Yep but we were kinda semi cool in that for some reason at least towards the end of the fad we wore Beach Crew tracksuits with converse hi tops well mine were cheap knock offs. (bright aqua blue)

I think the beach crew thing came about as even though we lived an hour from the coast there was a surf shop in town (Bondies surf & fun) and skateboarding was also taking off so they sold heaps of skateboard stuff, so we hung around the shop annoying the owner especially on Saturday mornings.

It was probably my first exposure to surfing, him telling us his hero stories of surfing down the coast and breaking boards etc.

Then this album came out, i remember that was a big moment it was kind of rap/hip hop but different, there was a guy that was quite a bit older than us he had dtopped out of school and got his first job he was a bit weird but not in a creepy way more an outsider on some spectrum way anyway he had this huge stereo and obsessed with electronics and i remember his cranking this for us when he got it and the bass just rumbling through our bodies. (I also remember the big topless posters of Samatha fox on his walls)

And we also got right into this album both aged well for what they are.

I went through same fad clothes wise. Moved to Darwin in summer of 84/85. Dropped the look real quick… too bloody hot.
Was only one other guy in the whole high school that was into hip hop. I suppose we were ahead of the times. It all changed once Beasties released that album. White boys got into rap.

andy-mac wrote:

Glad I was into punk, so missed most of that rap, break dance stuff. Haha

I tried spinning on my back and doing some Robot style poppin and lockin but I was pretty crap at it - never wore the clothes though.
This one might interest you @andy-mac - My brother introduced me to the Buzzcocks back in the day. I might check them out in Lorne.
https://davidroywilliams.com/tours/buzzcocks2024/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0C…

icandig wrote:

andy-mac wrote:

Glad I was into punk, so missed most of that rap, break dance stuff. Haha

I tried spinning on my back and doing some Robot style poppin and lockin but I was pretty crap at it - never wore the clothes though.

This one might interest you @andy-mac - My brother introduced me to the Buzzcocks back in the day. I might check them out in Lorne.

https://davidroywilliams.com/tours/buzzcocks2024/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0C…

seeds wrote:

I went through same fad clothes wise. Moved to Darwin in summer of 84/85. Dropped the look real quick… too bloody hot.

Was only one other guy in the whole high school that was into hip hop. I suppose we were ahead of the times. It all changed once Beasties released that album. White boys got into rap.

We moved to the coast in 87, so with my beach crew gear and high tops i still fitted in, but moved on to guitar based alternative/Indie music, and with little concrete ditched the skateboard for a surfboard.

I did get to see Beastie Boys at Livid in 94 though.

That was a good Livid that year.

Great line-up seeds.
My housemates and I were a bit bored in Adelaide in 1995, so we spontaneously decided to do a road trip to Melbourne, stay at the Nunnery or somewhere near Fitzroy and Brunswick Street. We took of 13th April, a Thursday, stuffed into a station wagon, stopped at the Ballarat Backpackers on the way, and saw in the street press, we had stumbled into Melbourne when Alterative Nation happened to be on.. we couldn't believe the line-up..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_Nation_festival

Fortuitous. I never got to the Brisbane one.

The melbourne one rained to shit, and was pretty disorganised, but fun as for us as tshirt-over-longsleeve alt yoofs...

Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Lou Reed, Tool, Pop Will Eat Itself, Dreamkillers, Insurge, Body Count, Ice-T, Pennywise, Andy Prieboy, Skunkhour, Therapy?, Primus, The Tea Party, Powderfinger, Cosmic Psychos, Regurgitator, Supergroove, Horsehead, Don Walker's Catfish, Downtime, L7, Live, The Flaming Lips, Ween, Def FX, Fur, Nitocris, Custard, Chalk, Budd

Yes by then I had well and truly untucked my tracky dacks from my socks and gone skinny black jeans and t-shirt over long sleeve.
Absolutely nuts line up!!

basesix wrote:

Whaaaat???? The CRANKER to become OS developer student accommodation?????

https://www.indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/2024/04/08/city-council-urged-…

(I think there's links at the bottom of the article)

yeh, there is: https://savethecranker.com.au/?blogcategory=Campaign+News

Abc news
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/crown-and-anchor-redevelopment-p…