no. also the Celibate Rifles light tune was ace 
Okay, wait.
Everyone should vote no.
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(Unofficial)
But based on past experience, I ain’t good at counting.
I never got this tune. My period of not listening to commercial radio spans about 1979-now. To me it’s a Sydney bogan tune with zero relevance.
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Is that @hambo still struggling with the skin cream?
All jokes aside, hope you’re going ok hambo.
I loved this track for many years. Along with a few others of theirs so I have to vote Yes
I can’t farking stand it now though just for the record.
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True that I have been very cranky and sore but definitely on the mend, got a facial dandruff thing going on. For a while there I was worried about going out in public, now I’m pretending I’ve been on a tropical holiday and have really bad sunburn. P.S. have booked month long tropical holiday
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Touring southern Viet Nam back in 2010 with my dad and a bunch of his army buddies + family. We visited a bunch of significant sites from the war and one of the young blokes (mid 20s or so) asked about Khe Sanh.
“So what was so significant about Khe Sanh?”
“It wasn’t. At least not to the Aussies”.
“Yeah Khe Sanh was all about the Yanks, nothing to do with us”.
“But what about the song?”.
“Jimmy Barnes wouldn’t know his ■■■■ from his elbow”.
“That bloody song. Barnsey’s got a lot to answer for. Bloody idiot”.
Amen.
NO
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Cold Chisel came onto the scene in my mid to late teens at a time when radio was still largely dominated by international acts.
Their debut album which includes Khe Sanh is one of the best Oz Rock albums of all time.
Khe Sanh rightfully takes it’s place as one of Australia’s Rock Anthems…it is, and has always been, a cracking track.
And live…they were farking brilliant.
Easy Yes
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Pity they didn’t realise that Khe Sanh was written by Don Walker…not Jimmy Barnes
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Yes
6-5 it’s happening
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Yes… it fkn is.
That’s a yes for Don Walker and Ian Moss, not for Jimmy Barnes. He can go fk himself.
His solo stuff is utter balls. All of it. Well, except Bodyswerve when he was still (kinda) singing. Then, he went and re-recorded a lot of that album and dumbed it down for America, started screaming, added a whole bunch of ■■■■ written by US songwriters and titled it Working Class Man. It sucked big, hairy balls, and everything after has too.
He and Farnham should’ve both been put against the wall for their screaming, yelping utter desecration of When Something’s Wrong With My Baby…
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Easy mistake to make I guess. I mean, I don’t mind Chisel and up until a few years ago I thought the lyrics were Barnesy’s.
But then, I mostly work under the assumption that the singer has written the lyrics until I see otherwise.
You’d probably be surprised how many singers are mainly just the mouth piece for the band.
In Cold Chisel, Don Walker was the main writer followed by Ian Moss.
It’s a yes from me, if it needs one.
It’s a no from me if it needs one. Songs like this coming on at bars and parties from Essendon to North Melbourne, watching drunk jerks all screaming the words with arms around each other, and me not fitting in and wishing I could slip out and go a little further on that 59 tram to reach The Arthouse.
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No from me. I second Jez’s sentiments. It was all the ■■■■■■■■ i knew who peaked in high school, singing this and a few other pieces of crap
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But that was 25 years ago…
I mean if we were voting on experiences of a lifetime ago with fans of the music I’d have voted no to every Metallica song ever played.
(I haven’t checked my voting history, so perhaps I have voted no to every Metallica song ever played?)
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