Songs you haven't heard in years

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For some strange reason, this song came into my head today so I looked for it on youtube

An Aussie classic from 1971

Axiom featuring Glenn Shorrock and Brian Cadd…Oz rock royalty.

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Such a great band. So polished.

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Been a while given it’s not on streaming.

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Rod Stewart…He’s 80 this weekend… still fit as a fiddle according to his lovely wife Penny :upside_down_face: … playing Glastonbury again later this year. Looking forward to that one…

I loved the Faces. Ronnie Wood is a true guitar legend and an excellent painter.

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Black Swan - Thom Yorke

Just a brilliant pop song, every bit as good as things like Streets Of Your Town…
Shame about the very late 80’s-early 90’s drum machine though…

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He was batting above his average with Amanda Brown, wasn’t he ?

Fatal heart attack at age 48.
Fark…

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Grant’s solo albums are the equal of anything the Go Betweens put out, and I say that as a long time besotted GB fan.

I was at a warehouse party in North Melbourne one night when, lo and behold and not advertised, Grant and Amanda stepped up and played a wonderful set. She alternated between acoustic guitar and violin.

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Pretty epic

Oh man, did not like that at all. Felt shrill and screechy with no let up.

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Could be right… sounded alright to me last night. I was blotto lol.
I don’t mind cinematic type mixes but I got a lotta push back on an icehouse one.

Maybe I can destroy inxs for the peeps too.

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Sorry, destroyed a classic for me. Didn’t get to the end.

Edit: Wasn’t too keen on that Icehouse one, either

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Alright surely I can’t destroy another one….

Haven’t heard this for ages. Can’t say I’d ever heard any other song by them and this song isn’t even listed as one of its most popular songs on Spotify.

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All of Philip Glass’ music sounds the same. And it’s all extremely repetitive.

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Sounds like a que for @Albert_Thurgood

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Thanks for the alert!

Sparks is the most creative band in history. They have been making innovative music for over 50 years now.

Their music has spanned genres from rock to glam to techno to whatever, and always a year or two before the rest of the world caught up. When I say “band” it is two brothers, and one of them has written nearly all their songs.

In that time they have done only 3 cover versions - that is less than did the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. But one of those was “Do Re Mi” as a real rock song; another was “The Star Spangled Banner” as a protest against US invading Iraq. (They turned the chorus into “Baby, baby let me invade your country”.

And what really sets them apart are the lyrics. No other band has ever had the range of themes they have had. Off the top of my head: The Louvre singing in the first person; animals left stranded by Noah’s Ark singing “Bon Voyage” to their friends and foes; Albert Einstein’s relatives who were happy he named his big theories after him; a US tourist in Europe who was shocked, quite shocked, because the tour guide mentioned “Kant”- none of the girls where he was from would say that; someone who is in heaven (“where the people only sleep to awaken and to tell how gory and gruesome was their ends, and he does not have any friends” because his lover did not jump off the cliff with him. And so on and on - and those examples were just off their first few albums.

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I wanna put on
My my my my my footy boots
& tackle you

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That would be the 70’s @swoodley the most underrated decade ever

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