Also, should INXS sue?
Yes, it would be.
You ever wondered what the part two of Big Audio Dynamite’s The Bottom Line sounds like (you know, where he sings “Part 2, part 2, I’m gonna take you to part 2” before the fade…)?
I’ve got the 12" single. It’s terrible and adds nothing to the song.
Mediate’s the same.
Agree to wildly disagree.
Edit: although that does kinda make me want to take the 12” of Bottom Line out of my cart.
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It does and the production with that late 80’s gloss.
It’s weird getting into a band after the fact. In this case, quite a few years after Michael had died. In my teens, INXS were just a daggy 80’s band that I cared nothing for.
Then years later, I went on a road trip with a mate and his old man. After a few hours of us blasting metal and grunge on the car stereo, the old man put his foot down and put on some of his music. Me and my mate rolled our eyes at the idea of INXS.
Then, about half way through the album as I was half dozing off… It just clicked. “Fark, these guys are actually really good.” I was hooked from that point on.
Not long after I bought this “best of” album, which is how I got more into them, and then I started going back and buying individual albums. But it was a great starting point for me.
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You’ve ordered it?
It’s basically 4 minutes of Don Letts “toasting” over the instrumental track.
No, not yet.
I need to get a decent bundle before postage becomes worth it.
I thought The Bottom Line was a pretty long track anyway.
I want E = as well.
So you’d recommend the 7” then.
I suspect we’re a similar age. Coz I had the exact same belief. Oils as well. But I’ve never grown out of these feelings… (43).
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You see, reckon that’s most clearly not filler
41, and yes, I thought the Oils were daggy too (and Chisel), but mainly because my older brother liked them.
When I was about 23 I had a faze where I went back and listened to a bunch of stuff from the 80’s, and was surprised how much of it I actually liked.
The Aussie rock stuff, anyway. The pop and the ■■■■ rock is garbage
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This will sound extremely un-Australian, but if there was a triple header gig in my backyard consisting of Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil and InXS, id turn the hose on em.
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I came to Chisel reasonably late.
I loved FTWCM at the time and felt so betrayed when I relistened decades later and went…
’Why…this is all country! The whole thing is Keith friggin’ Urban! What witchcraft is this?!!’
That is pretty un-Australian.
At least sell tickets and make some cash.
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The problem for most of you youngun’s is that you never got to see these bands live.
The late 70s into the mid 80s was a glorious time for live music in Oz…I’ll never forget seeing Cold Chisel at Noosa showgrounds…Jimmy Barnes standing on top of the speaker towers, swilling from a bottle of vodka and all the fans wondering if he was going to fall…the band was tight as f*ck.
A week or so earlier watching The Angels at a pub in Mooloolabah on New Year’s Eve…still the best live band I’ve seen (including international acts)
Midnight Oil at the Showgrounds on a bill that started with The Sports, the The Flowers (b4 they changed their name to Icehouse), then Midnight Oil (just after they released A Place Without A Postcard) and finally The Angels…$10 for that…what a bargain
Midnight Oil again a few years later at Kooyong for their Species Deceases tour…at their absolute best.
A lot of you speak fondly of the acts you’ve seen live…that’s the part of these bands that you all missed…and I’m pretty confident that your opinions would change if you had seen them all live and at their peak.
(I saw INXS live at The Sports and Entertainment Centre…they might have been good but the pesky little screaming teenyboppers made hearing anything difficult so I can’t really talk about them as a live act)
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Absolutely, no doubt in my mind.
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Very jealous, Oils through the 80s at various times would’ve been great.
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Feeling abit better up here on the Goldy and this is the view from our room. I’ve been trying to get in for the last hour, been telling them I’m a DJ but they say they’ve never heard of MrJez.
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I guess it depends whether you like:
- Shaggy?
- what Astro brought to early UB40?
- what Shabba Ranks has brought to any song he’s ever guested on?
- what the rapper added to REM’s Radio Song?
Definitely not my cup of tea. I’d go for the 7" (the first part of the 12" version is identical to it).
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Oils at Kooyong in early 1986-ish (maybe 1985… can’t remember… Species Deceases tour) was one of my first gigs. What a night that was!..
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