My Girl - Hoodoo Gurus
(notable because a) It's one of the few songs I can sing and play bass to at the same time) and b) It reminds me of Herman's Hermits song/movie 'Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter' because the girl being sung about is a greyhound according to the video
When talking ballads I find it hard to go past Sick Nick
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Mon 22 May, 2023 10:39 pm
My fave Saints track - gets the blood pumping while the world goes FOOM!
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Mon 22 May, 2023 10:44 pm
Australia says 'We can do post-rock too!'
One Day I Will Teach You To Let Go Of Your Fears by Sleepmakeswaves
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Tue 23 May, 2023 08:30 pm
@Wilso,
I've not heard that Anthony Warlow and John Farnham combo. Enjoyed that.
I haven't been a great fan of John Farnham. just an incidental listener. He does turn out a good song. Interesting that the last Johnny Farnham farewell tour may have been his last farewell tour.
I still love this song 40 years on. Fairly obscure - they had some bigger hits that I'll probably get to eventually
Average Inadequacy - Machinations
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Tue 23 May, 2023 09:36 pm
@margo,
margo wrote:
I've not heard that Anthony Warlow and John Farnham combo. Enjoyed that.
I haven't been a great fan of John Farnham. just an incidental listener. He does turn out a good song. Interesting that the last Johnny Farnham farewell tour may have been his last farewell tour.
It's from The Main Event tour. Farnham, Warlow, and Olivia Newton John. The resulting album was the biggest selling of that year.
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Sun 28 May, 2023 12:10 am
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Sun 28 May, 2023 12:14 am
Not strictly 100% Australian, but the timing’s appropriate
Another track that I thought had 'world wide hit' written all over it. (not to mention fellow Perthians Dave Faulkner and Kim Salmon were behind it). No chart action anywhere (I bought the single), just an unlinked mention in Dave Faulkner's wikipedia entry.
Come On Spring - Antenna
Not the official clip, but had the best music quality.
I have a lot of love for this bit of Leftfield pop (that apparently did much better in the US than Australia (kudos if that's true) - definitely one of those tunes that leaves me in a better mood than it found me in
Heart It Races - Architecture In Helsinki
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Sun 18 Jun, 2023 06:10 am
@Wilso,
Do you think naming her Mahalia was a bit of nominative determinism?
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Wilso
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Sun 18 Jun, 2023 06:16 am
He never made any secret of the fact that he named her after Mahalia Jackson. I’ve heard him mention it in interviews
