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Australian music - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-09-2011
SteveO Wrote:Thanks for Part One of Aussie music...brilliantly done as usual, CH !!!
Finally my wife's copy of Santana's Greatest Hits crapped out tonight...played it continually for a long time(CDs do wear out...I mean two years of continual playing !!!!...don't ask me ...always on in the background...she said " damn ..what do we listen to now ? I quickly grabbed the 20 song Live set by the BeeGees...and she always liked them as I do...so we're cool !!!!! Aussie group now playing - I Started A Joke Live !!!).
Oh oh...she said she's going to get another Sanatana Hits cd tomorrow....I tried !!! ..lol...apparently this segment of the BeeGees is "too folky" and she doesn't care for it ....???
the Engish born Gibb Brothers are brilliant, im just not keen on the disco/dance material, but i can still listen to it.
but i agree, they were fairly 'folky' in their early years and their harmonies are simply great.
Australian music - CRAZY-HORSE - 20-09-2011
just another footnote to the Farnham thing....
"whispering jack" album sold 1.7 million copies here in Oz in 86/87 to be the biggest selling album in Aust music history.... now 1.7 million may not seem like much but put it in context...our population was around 15 million back then which equates to approx 12% of the population owning a copy...now equate that to the US population of 350 million, if 12% of that population bought a particular record what would equate to nearly 40 million sales in the US alone....and when you think MJ's "thriller" is the only album to have sold that quantity in the US alone, then "whispering jack" was real huge back in the day!
Australian music - SteveO - 21-09-2011
Good news for me ! The wifey poo wants to keep the BeeGees on ....yes !!!...Celine Dion is on this 24 song live concert as a guest !!!!
Always loved the BGs...especially pre Fever songs but I also like the disco stuff !...great harmonies...Have you heard and I am sure you have ...Holiday and Israel by them !!!!!
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:the Engish born Gibb Brothers are brilliant, im just not keen on the disco/dance material, but i can still listen to it.
but i agree, they were fairly 'folky' in their early years and their harmonies are simply great.
Australian music - CRAZY-HORSE - 21-09-2011
those songs ring a bell, but i cant recall SteveO?....surprisingly though, i only own three seperate 'best of' sets by the BG's, but i have heard most of their post disco albums, and several pre disco albums.....
believe it or not i have never had the chance to see them in concert???...one of the biggest regrets, music wise , for me ever.
Australian music - mtthwibrahim - 21-09-2011
A thread on Aussie music that has yet to mention Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds?
Australian music - gater - 21-09-2011
I remember getting promo copies of Cold Chisel albums. Jimmy Barnes solo stuff got a little US air-play. And Rose Tatoo was one of those bands that just... almost... not quite got played outside of college radio in the States.
BTW, what ever happened to that on-line video channel The Basement in Australia? Just wonderin'...
Australian music - SteveO - 21-09-2011
Murder Ballads is awesome !
mtthwibrahim Wrote:A thread on Aussie music that has yet to mention Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds?
Australian music - Music Head - 21-09-2011
SteveO Wrote:Murder Ballads is awesome !I'll second that
Australian music - mtthwibrahim - 22-09-2011
Yeah, Murder Ballads is pretty good, but in my opinion, the Bad Seeds best album is very (and I mean very) easily "The Good Son"
Australian music - CRAZY-HORSE - 22-09-2011
gater Wrote:I remember getting promo copies of Cold Chisel albums. Jimmy Barnes solo stuff got a little US air-play. And Rose Tatoo was one of those bands that just... almost... not quite got played outside of college radio in the States.
BTW, what ever happened to that on-line video channel The Basement in Australia? Just wonderin'...
"so-and-so live at the basement" still appears on out MTV channel every so often
i will cover Barnesy/Jon Moss solo careers when i get round to Cold Chisel....
been a bit slow off the mark with this one, sorry, but im really busy at work and too knackered to think too much when i get home.
someone mentioned Nick Cave, i wasnt going to do him as he is quite well known outside Australia...but i'll do him since his name came up