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awesome - small world hey ... but as that saying goes - 'that's adelaide'
Was getting back into Dire Straits the last few days when this track:
Reminded me of this track by Hans Zimmer:
Both excellent but it seems Sir Zimmer did seem to be inspired by the first by Dire Straits, which wouldnt be the first time.
Loving the new long awaited Meanies album https://themusic.com.au/news/all/2015/09/25/exclusive-the-meanies-explai…
Stumbled across the River Mirrors album by Infinity Broke on the wild web. Great raw rhythms. This a track off the recent album.
And the award for "BEST USE OF A COW BELL IN A SONG INTRO" goes to;
And the runner up award for "BEST USE OF A COW BELL IN A SONG INTRO" goes to;
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I used to love the Oils until Peter Garrett sold out from all that is good and green to big politics aka the right aka Labour party. Then i heard he's a born again christian.
I find it hard to listen to them now without thinking what a hypocritic garrett is. Sorry for peter macginnie, rob hurst and the others in the band (sorry fellas, cant remember your names).
Still, they had incredible music and lyrics.
Lots see it that way, i don't..apart from the music still being good, he could have gone to the greens and wasted his time preaching to the converted or gone to a party with power and tried to make a difference, which he did, the fact is if Peter Garrett couldn't make much of a difference in major politics then i doubt no one could and i think it goes to show how little power and sway and how much compromise our leaders must make.
Anyway i think next week on 60 minute there is an interview with him…should be interesting watch.
I am sure Garrett meant well but he would have been a more effective agent of change staying with the Oils because he achieved nothing of any importance as a politician. He was never really a great artist as his lyrics were always so didactic so let's go back to where the thread started with The Drones. By far the most interesting and artistically successful Australian band of the last few decades and one whose work has more integrity than anything the Oils ever did. This song is more relevant than ever.
I guess he had to try.
Most people assume Peter was the oils major song writer but i believe from what I've read and songwriting credits Jim the guitarist was the major songwriter .
I like the Drones definitely one of the better Aussie bands of the the last 10+ but to me as good as their songs are like many bands its all kind of all one flavour, the Oils on the other hand are almost the opposite ever album sounds very different to the last and extremely unique.
If you think The Drones material has less variety than the Oils, I can't believe you have actually listened to more than whatever has been on the radio! Show me anything in the Oils repertoire to cover the range of 16 Straws, Dekalb Blues, Shark Fin Blues, Six Ways To Sunday, Are You Leaving For The Country through to I Am The Supercargo and Jezebel. All the way from pure folk to the hardest rock. I saw the Oils many times and they were a good act but had nowhere near the range of The Drones. Throw in Gareth's solo acoustic album and there is just no comparison.
Comparing Midnight Oil to the Drones is kinda like comparing INXS to Tame Impala -don't get me wrong I love the Drones - have seen them numerous times. I only saw midnight oil once - and it was towards the end and they were very midnight oilish
as for Garrett in politics
his recruitment was a well crafted (on paper) PR stunt that was about as effective as wet toast.
Not his fault though - he was hobbled by his maker. NOBODY got anything meaningful done while Rudd was the micromanaging hand-wringing panic-merchant-in-chief of the ALP. Look at Combet. A good brain forced to atrophy under the despotic rule of that little cane toad licking Mr Sheen bureaucrat
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Here ya go blindboy!
Mean, dirty and mighty unclean.
Still processing this one! I hope the rest of the album is close behind!
They are definitely annoying all the right people. Any song that can cause. Andrew Bolt to get his knickers in a knot and talk gibberish like this has to count as major achievement.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/oct/14/the-mixtape-the-…
...and one of my favourite surf writers, Peter Bowes, is currently writing a fictional account of the Tamam Shud case.
https://bennisonbooks.com/2015/08/21/out-now-lineage-for-kindle/#more-1185
Like an eagle, I swoop ....
Seeing as how you brought it up, blindboy old china, this 'Tamam Shud' mystery is something to behold; it is both a grand puzzle and one of the country's greatest <untold> espionage yarns.
And as Stu said, or meant, the finest bullshit minds in the writing business spend a lot of time in salt water sitting and watching the horizon. There are great benefits.
This is where it is.
Cheers Stu .. owe you one.
Tamam Shud! Interesting stuff...a lot more interesting than some mourning of the woodwind-huffer's drippydom...even though that is music (of a sort).
To wander further off the musical reservation, it is a popular tale in the Oz-lit landscape.
Jack Marx gives it a chapter in his book AUSTRALIAN TRAGIC: GRIPPING TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE OF OUR HISTORY. A worthy read, I may add.
The Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries writer, Kerry Underwood, has also written a book about it: TAMAM SHUD - THE SOMERTON MAN MYSTERY.
Actually, check this link about a Professor from Adelaide, one Derek Abbott (not related), and his interest in the case. Actually, read the comments and get sucked into the vortex!
It's from the Herald Scum, I know, but they do do crime and murder...and footy...well.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/portrait-may-hold-key-to-som…
Now back to the music...
Wow. I went to high school less than a kilometre from where they found the bloke, and I've never heard this story before. Fascinating!
That's what they all say, Ben ... would you be prepared to come down to the station and assist us with our enquiries?
So it was the spooks who did him in to prevent him using that code to send whatever he knew to his fiendish commie employers and then, instead of disposing of the body and giving the local white pointers a feed, they dumped it near his ex's place to scare the bejesus out of her so she wouldn't get any ideas about staying in the spy business! Does that fit the known facts?
the new drones song is great - a bit more interesting than their meat n potatoes rock stuff... certainly drifting in to CAN territory
as for Somerton Man - the murder case... get this - my mum lives in the apartment block (or possibly the one next to) where the nurse lived in Glenelg... the nurse that allegedly fathere's Somerton Man's child.
Fascinating story
and hey the 60s/70s Adelaide psych band Taman Shud are pretty cool too
Not new but worth a revisit.
"You just get the best barrels ever dude.."
poetry of a fookin' kind, coonts
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another Sleaford earworm, giving it some welly. The mon is a...
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...don't get much better
allied to the above, calling all pissed-off 40+ Australians
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/23/gareth-liddiard-of-the-dro…
New song and vid for local Thirroul/Austi band, Shining Bird. Snake poison is the best poison...
back to the future 66 by John Hillcoat (Aussie director of Ghosts of the Civil Dead...amongst other stuff)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/02/watch-the-video-for-bob-dy…
ACPAD : interesting engineering
turns your acoustic guitar into a full studio.
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ACPAD : interesting engineering
turns your acoustic guitar into a full studio.
has the potential to be quite naff
this bloke and these gals playing tonight at my local
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I hope C.W. puts on a good show...one and only time I saw C.W play he was on and off the nod the entire set, made for interesting viewing.
Alright, time for some discussion on what yr all listening too. My iTunes inventory is getting a little stale so I'm up for some inspiration.
Currently loving The Drones' album "Havilah".. incredible songwriting and some of the best recorded guitars and drum I've heard in a long time. I'm a little late to the party with this album but it's on high rotation at the moment and will probably stay there a while. I've seen these guys live once (Fowlers, Adelaide) and fortunately they're incredible on stage too. Can't wait to see them again.