Forgot to post this last week.
The Andrew Oldham Orchestra was a musical side project in the mid-1960s created by Andrew Loog Oldham, the original manager and record producer of the Rolling Stones. There was no actual orchestra per se. The name was applied to recordings made by Loog Oldham using a multitude of session musicians, including members of the Rolling Stones.
You might find this version of ‘The Last Time’ familiar. Very, very familiar!
Decent auspop set list tonight.
Love the Mark Edwards track.
However, one of these things is not like the others.
TONIGHT on The VAULT we’re closing out Ausmusic Month with some of the nation’s greatest hit from 1985! Catch a lineup of Aussie legends including Men At Work, Divinyls, Machinations, Koo De Tah, Mental As Anything, Eurogliders and more!
The fun kicks off late this Sunday night (early Monday!), November 30, from 12:33am on ABC TV!
PLAYLIST
CATS UNDER PRESSURE Let Me Be
GUY MCDONOUGH My Place
ICEHOUSE No Promises
DIVINYLS Pleasure and Pain
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Soul Kiss
FLASH and THE PAN Midnight Man
MACHINATIONS My Heart’s On Fire
VITABEATS Boom Box
SOLID CITIZENS Singing In The Shower
KOO DE TAH Too Young For Promises
RENEE GEYER All My Love
GOANNA Dangerous Dancing
MODELS Barbados
DYNAMIC HEPNOTICS Gotta Be Wrong (Way To Love)
BEARGARDEN I Write The News
MENTAL AS ANYTHING Live It Up
MEN AT WORK Everything I Need
GANGGAJANG Sounds Of Then
AUSTRALIAN CRAWL Trouble Spot Rock
DO RE MI Man Overboard
SPY VS SPY One Of A Kind
THE STEMS Tears Me In Two
HOODOO GURUS Bittersweet
THE CHURCH Already Yesterday
INXS This Time
AIR SUPPLY Just As I Am
EUROGLIDERS We Will Together
ELECTRIC PANDAS Missing Me
I’M TALKING Love Dont Live Here Anymore
GEISHA Fool’s Way
REAL LIFE Face To Face
MARK EDWARDS Worlds Away
FULL MARKS Break Down The Walls
JIMMY BARNES Daylight
THE ANGELS Look The Other Way
ROSE TATTOO Born To Be Wild
: Colin Hay performs live with ‘Men at Work’, 1985 (Photo by Peter Carrette Archive/Getty Images)
Ha! A band that rarely enters my memory.
But when it does it’s invariably connected to an Under 11 football grand final. The coach picked a few of us up pregame and he had “we can’t be beaten” playing over and over on the way to the ground. We lost , as I recall, in the range of 56 to 7 or 8. Additionally, it was a comp where interchanges were restricted and permanent. I started on the bench. I was still on the bench at half time. He told me during the third that I’d be on at 3/4 time. Then he “forgot”. Then a few minutes into the last he looked at me, the shock on his face I recall vividly. Not as vividly as him telling me to just go on now , which would have made me a 19th player on the field , and my horror / terror / embarrassment at the whole thing.
At 10 years old, that day shaped me. It definitely shaped how I later coached junior sport, and even my attitude to “less gifted” players at senior level in my own teams. And it probably blotted Rose Tattoo from my musical taste 
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Both outcomes, in hindsight, might have been positive overall, in some sense. 
Bast ards ripped off The Verve!!!..
What an incredibly random selection of tracks… definitely some lesser known ones there.
Don’t think I’ve ever heard the Goanna track.
The Dynamic Hepnotics failing to follow-up the hit single…
Mark Edwards failing to be a solo star despite getting pushed hard by Countdown.
Ditto Electric Pandas (re getting hard sold by Countdown).
Real Life with the problematic second album.
Michael Hutchence’s incredibly flat singing on This Time.
Grace Knight and Bernie whateverhisnameis frolicking in the shallows in the embarrassing Eurogliders clip.
Very poor representation of Australian Crawl.
Who on earth are Full Marks?
Love that Beargarden track.
I could fanboi about that list but I’d need a minute…
Well I’ve done my own research on Cage the Elephant. Their output is a bit uneven in that they have a mix of great songs and what I call filler songs, and there is some sameiness with some of their songs, but all the band members appear to be top musos, and live in concert they look fantastic. The singer is lively and gives off Jagger vibes with his performance. Check out the attached gig in Bonnaroo, but be warned it goes for an hour.
What happened to the Dandy Warhols?
They were ‘cool.’ Songwriting like that doesn’t just disappear.
But they did. Seems a little odd.
Don’t make me do stuff.
You could just tell me.
My own opinion is that they got complacent after getting enough royalties from Bohemian Like You to build and own their own studio.
One things young bands hate is the price they pay to use studios for recording, I think in the States it’s like $1000 per hour or more. So owning your own studio can be like a dream come true. Maybe once they achieved that goal, that was enough to satisfy them,who knows.
They did record their last popular album there with the bloke from Duran Duran, with the banana on the cover, and had the We Used to be Friends song which gets used in lots of TV ads.
After that all their albums got quite self indulgent with 8 and 10 minute songs that just meandered along. I think they needed a more disciplined engineer/recording producer/manager, to get them to stop with the endless nonsense songs (probably due to their well known drug taking) and get back to their catchy 3 or 4 minute songs like they had on Come Down and 13 Tales.
Love that.
Thank you.
Duuuuuude.
You wanna talk about best covers.
Confession; so many people pushed Disturbed on me. Saying, oh, you’ll love this.
I do not love that.
They added Nothing. It’s so Farking Lazy.
Fark those guys for taking everything brilliant and incredible that they didn’t create about that song and just growling over it.
This, though.
These guys have taken an absolute banger dance track and said, wait a minute, there’s an actual song here.
These are probably the best lyrics they’ve written since Joy Division and nobody listens to them.
That was staggeringly bad. It sounded like a Jack Black parody. I cant believe it’s not meant to be satirical.
Not only did they not add anything, they took the best bit about it away.
'“Hey guys how can we improve on one of the great two part harmony songs ever?”
“I know, let’s remove the harmonies”.
