Fave Aussie Music

[Jerry_Atrick]

This is not quite a song - but I like it (it is based on a song, of course!)

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Thanks Jerry. That's proper music!

 

 

[Phil Perry]

@Yenn - I recall our family having a Seekers album.... Hop onto yootoob and find your favourite clip and link it here... TBH - I can't recall a song of theirs (I was relatively young at the time).

What about 'Morningtown Ride' . . .I often wondered if this referred to Mornington,. . .South of Melb on the Mornington penninsula. . .but never found out. . .

 

I once bumped into Athol Guy, at a Pizza place North of Melbourne one afternoon, after breaking one of Keith Hatfield's Berwick based Cessna 150s at Tulla, ( Serious Engine prob - VH-RXV - had to divert there on the way back from Nhill ) . . He was then the Minister of Youth, Sport and Recreation. . .Back in the 70s,. . .really NICE bloke I thought. . .very Mr. Average, no bullcrap about the man. Told him I'd been a fan for years. . . .Nice Guy ( ! )

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

What about 'Morningtown Ride' . . .I often wondered if this referred to Mornington,. . .South of Melb on the Mornington penninsula. . .but never found out. . .

I once bumped into Athol Guy, at a Pizza place North of Melbourne one afternoon, after breaking one of Keith Hatfield's Berwick based Cessna 150s at Tulla, ( Serious Engine prob - VH-RXV - had to divert there on the way back from Nhill ) . . He was then the Minister of Youth, Sport and Recreation. . .Back in the 70s,. . .really NICE bloke I thought. . .very Mr. Average, no bullcrap about the man. Told him I'd been a fan for years. . . .Nice Guy ( ! )

Wot? Not deafened by loud amps and burnt out by drugs and orgies?

 

He can't have been a proper muso!

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Wot? Not deafened by loud amps and burnt out by drugs and orgies?He can't have been a proper muso!

Drug fuelled rock orgies and being the player of a double bass don't really go together I guess,. . .woulda looked a bit incongruous ?

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

I am in two minds about posting this..

 

Eddie Vedder is the vocalist for Pearl Jam - one of the biggest names in the 90's... and a very good band. A band from Seattle, but of the genre of NE US grunge (something I like, actually, having worked in the late 90s throughout the region). However, it is a song from the Hunters and Collectors - a great Aussie band that should have achieved much greater international success than it did. Compare the vocals from Vedder vs Seymour - I know (unbiased, of course), which one I prefer....

 

 

(BTW, I am pretty eclectic with my music tastes - only Opera really causes me to cringe)...)

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Drug fuelled rock orgies and being the player of a double bass don't really go together I guess,. . .woulda looked a bit incongruous ?

They were too pure for the times, Phil. Surely Judith Durham's sweet voice and the Seekers's churchy harmonies were hiding some dark secret.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

They were too pure for the times, Phil. Surely Judith Durham's sweet voice and the Seekers's churchy harmonies were hiding some dark secret.

You could well be right there. . . .OK, contrast them with this. . .Obviously not 'Pure' but Beautiful harmonies and a tongue in cheek video too. . .( Initially, I couldn't see where the Fiddle sound was coming from ). . .Worth a watch - - - 3 mins 55 run time. . . 'Old Crow Medicine Show'

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

That's what I like to see: good, wholesome revival music.

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Great news for musos: they've found the lost chord!

 

How mathematics revealed a Beatles secret

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

The third - but best rendition... Ironically, an[edit] Irish Scottish [/edit] couple (ahem, gay by the looks of it) wrote it.. Bluddy good..

 

 

Poets..

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Another little river band song... Has a certain ring about it since as of today I am officially out of work.. intentionally

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

OK - back to listending to Aussie music - forums have been a bit heavy lately ;-)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJLoYd8xak

 

 

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[Phil Perry]

OK - back to listending to Aussie music - forums have been a bit heavy lately ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJLoYd8xak

In my early days as a rock God. . ( ! ) it took me AGES to learn the guitar riff in that bloody song ! sounded easy. . . . .

 

 

[willedoo]

Let's not forget the Legend:

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

You blokes are NOT going to believe this, but one of the favourite songs for my 11 year old English (yes, English, where they like house music and other genres I don't even know about) daughter.. But here ya go.. Who says its nurture???

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Ahhh yes .. JoK... though he did stuff up his US business by playing something a little too far ahead of its time on the Johnny Carson show, as I recall...

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

@red750 - agree.. Fantastic..

 

Came across this... Not too bad at all...

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

OK - to resurrect this thread..

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

A little vanilla - but I like them...

 

 

[red750]

Not Aussie, but a tenuous link - the new Fleetwood Mac, with ex Crowded House front man Neil Finn (Kiwi) replacing Lindsay Buckingham on male vocals, and Christine McVie is back.

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Another Cold Chisel classic - can't believe I was indifferent to them when I was in my prime (and they were)