Re: Bands / Singers you don't get or maligned Bands / Singers

by embee Thu 15 Dec 2011, 03:02

Plus I remember having an argument as to who wrote the songs? Barnesy or Mossy.

Must have been a good argument ....

Don Walker

by Paul Keating Thu 15 Dec 2011, 03:19

My best Oz/NZ singers/groups/bands

Crowded House
Nick Cave
INXS
Midnight Oil
Abby Dobson
Ice House

by skully Thu 15 Dec 2011, 03:30

No Hunters?

by Big Dog Thu 15 Dec 2011, 03:31

Paul Keating wrote:My best Oz/NZ singers/groups/bands

Crowded House
Nick Cave
INXS
Midnight Oil
Abby Dobson
Ice House

I think you've misunderstood the title of the thread although there are a couple there that could stay. Wink

by JGK Thu 15 Dec 2011, 04:19

embee wrote:Plus I remember having an argument as to who wrote the songs? Barnesy or Mossy.

Must have been a good argument ....

Don Walker

Walker and Prestwich I think.

by Big Dog Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:19

Going back to the thread title, i cant understand the popularity of Nick Cave.
He has a crap voice & his songs are so depressive.
He is the musical equivalent of a Dentist Drill.

by WideWally Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:28

I'm probably the only forummer who was a Railroad Gin fan.

I think it might be a Brisbane thing. I also think Ian Healy is a comic genius.

by Fred Nerk Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:36

Coincidentally I think I might have been in Brisbane for that ten minutes also. Besides RG the other Next Big Thing around at the time was 'Rabbit', whose name was not enough to breed success.

The RG singer's name was Carol something, she sounded vaguely like Janis Joplin. If they'd ever had a reunion gig and Carol something couldn't make it, Ian 'Bawling Shine' Healy would have been an adequate stand-in.

by skully Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:37

WideWally wrote:I'm probably the only forummer who was a Railroad Gin fan.

I think it might be a Brisbane thing. I also think Ian Healy is a comic genius.

I think horrie likes a bit o' Railroad Gin, espesh when the kero runs out.

by skully Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:38

WideWally wrote:I also think Ian Healy is a comic genius.

So does he, unfortch.

by WideWally Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:42

Just had a look on YouTube to see if they had any Gin & found A Matter Of Time.
And .........

...... at the side, in the "related" videos, there was one of Clodagh Rodgers singing her 1971 hit "I've got the Jack in My Box". Haven't heard that in ages. They don't write songs like that anymore!

by WideWally Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:48

Then there was The Purple Hearts with Mick Hadley up front.

by Big Dog Thu 15 Dec 2011, 07:57

You'd be a fan of the 'Loved Ones' i'd guess Wally.

I am.....

by lardbucket Thu 15 Dec 2011, 08:13

skully wrote:
taipan wrote:
G.Wood wrote:Radiohead - what beige sounds like

U2 - rather stick a fork in my ear

Nickelback - bastard seppo child of Radiohead and U2

I have never understood the appeal of U2, rate Nickelback though
Cheers taips. I'm not afraid to say I like Nickelback, even though I'll be howled down by a couple of Billy Joel loving mates (FFS), and headbanger RD. And a Canadian band would find it heinous being called "seppo".

And lardy and I had a discussion about Coldplay, another band I like. Needless to say, he feels they are no Little Feet.

Lardy attempted to "educate" me in real music on a pissy Friday night in Hobart, as he proudly showed me the 7,700 songs he had on his Macbook. I think we listened to bits of about 5000 of them. [awaits lardy's indignant response ]

I think we worked out that other than a few Beatles songs, the only song we had in common on our respective mp3 playlists was Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.

I knew you were drunk, but not that drunk.

by Big Dog Thu 15 Dec 2011, 08:14

Big Dog wrote:You'd be a fan of the 'Loved Ones' i'd guess Wally.

I am.....

This rare clip has only just surfaced on youtube.

by skully Thu 15 Dec 2011, 08:14

And there it is. Cool

by lardbucket Thu 15 Dec 2011, 08:19

Queen fan.

by skully Thu 15 Dec 2011, 08:35

Most would think "Nickelback fan" is more insulting.

by lardbucket Thu 15 Dec 2011, 08:38

Nickelback are like the town idiot; you can feel sorry for them, but you can't really hate them.

by skully Thu 15 Dec 2011, 08:50

Haters gonna hate.

by Fred Nerk Thu 15 Dec 2011, 09:14

Eminem.....foul-mouthed, ADD-addled waste of space.

by lardbucket Thu 15 Dec 2011, 09:18

Big Dog wrote:
Paul Keating wrote:My best Oz/NZ singers/groups/bands

Crowded House
Nick Cave
INXS
Midnight Oil
Abby Dobson
Ice House

I think you've misunderstood the title of the thread although there are a couple there that could stay.

some big omissions; surely you can't believe Ice House are better than all of:

Masters Apprentices
Chain
Spectrum/Ariel
ANGELS!!
Hunters And Collectors
Split Enz
Loved Ones
AC DC
Streets
Ayers Rock
Coloured Balls
The Church
Powderfinger
Regurgitator
The Triffids
Australian Crawl
Dragon
Cat Empire

etc etc

Anyway, as skully says, to each his own

by Fred Nerk Thu 15 Dec 2011, 09:31

Not to mention Black Sorrows, Redgum, Little Heroes, Goanna, the various Paul Kelly vehicles, or from an earlier era Axiom, Country Radio, the Aztecs, Daddy Cool, countless Broderick Smith outfits....Icehouse had one classic (Walls), one very good song (GSL) and about 321 hours of elevator music.

by lardbucket Thu 15 Dec 2011, 09:33

relevant breaking news:

Molly Meldrum apparently in a critical condition

by lardbucket Thu 15 Dec 2011, 09:34

When did Red become Magenta, Fred?

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