Aussie Rock - Who is Your favorite Band

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Here is a top 20 -plus some (not mine)

1.Midnight Oil – Diesel and Dust (1987)
2.AC/DC – Back in Black (1980)
3.Crowded House – Woodface (1991)
4.Cold Chisel – Circus Animals (1982)
5.The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional (1986)
6.The Easybeats – The Best of the Easybeats (1967)
7.Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls – Gossip (1986)
8.You Am I – Hi Fi Way (1995)
9.Skyhooks – Living in the 70's (1974)
10.The Avalanches – Since I Left You (2000)
11.INXS – Kick (1987)
12.The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane (1988)
13.Radio Birdman – Radios Appear (1977)
14.Daddy Cool – Daddy Who? Daddy Cool (1971)
15.Richard Clapton – Goodbye Tiger (1977)
16.Bee Gees – Best of Bee Gees (1969)
17.The Birthday Party – Junkyard (1982)
18.Hunters & Collectors – Human Frailty (1986)
19.Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night (2009)
20.The Saints – (I'm) Stranded (1976)

Others
25.Silverchair – Neon Ballroom (1999)
26.Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Boatman's Call (1997)
35.The Masters Apprentices – Master's Apprentices (1967)
44.Mental As Anything – Cats & Dogs (1981)
50.AC/DC – Highway to Hell (1979)
62.The Dingoes – The Dingoes (1974)
69.Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs – Aztecs Live at Sunbury (1972)
80.The Loved Ones – Magic Box (1967)
90.The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band – Smoke Dreams (1973)
92.Rose Tattoo – Rose Tattoo (1978)
99.Men at Work – Business As Usual (1981)
100.G. Wayne Thomas, Terry Hannagan, Tamam Shud, Brian Cadd, John J. Francis, Peter Howe – Morning of the Earth (1971)

 

[John Watt]

One of my favorite music, uh, trivias is Australian, kinda.
What do
Natalie Umbruglia, international hit single "Torn",
Nicole Kidman, also now a big Hollywood star,
and
Kylie Minogue, international hit singles,
all have in common?
They all credit Lenny Kravitz with sexing them up and making them an adult artist.

If I went to Australia I'd want to be the first person to make Ayers Rock, and roll.

Maybe I should declare a conflict of interest with my vote.
Of all the bands here, I only sang a Men at Work song in a band,
"Ghosts Appear and Fade Away",
unless singing "Tie me kangoroo down, Jack", as a child counts.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Alas, someone beat you to the Ayers rock thing, refer below- I'll postsome clips of the lesser known bands in the top ten below.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

One of my favorite music, uh, trivias is Australian, kinda.
What do
Natalie Umbruglia, international hit single "Torn",
Nicole Kidman, also now a big Hollywood star,
and
Kylie Minogue, international hit singles,
all have in common?
They all credit Lenny Kravitz with sexing them up and making them an adult artist.

If I went to Australia I'd want to be the first person to make Ayers Rock, and roll.

Maybe I should declare a conflict of interest with my vote.
Of all the bands here, I only sang a Men at Work song in a band,
"Ghosts Appear and Fade Away",
unless singing "Tie me kangoroo down, Jack", as a child counts.

Yep Lenny did the job......
Alas, someone beat you to the Ayers rock thingrefer above- I'll postsome clips of the lesser known bands in the top ten below.

 

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[teddy]

I have heard of DOWN UNDER. It was pl;ayed a lot in its time. As far as any other bands are concerned..........pass

teddy

 

[John Watt]

Midnight Oil wins out here for me.
They had a top ten chart hit here in Ontario a long time ago,
also gigging in Hamilton and Toronto.

The Easybeats reminds me of looking back to British Invasion, Carnaby Street times.
What I see now are very easy vocals, getting more hysterical as the hair got longer,
with a more prolonged acid use.
That would be heard as folk singing now.

"Bus Stop" by the Byrds was one of the better ones back then.
I don't know if you think the Mamas and Papas were part of that scene, but they were good with nice songs.

I'm going to listen to Alannah Myles again. I was typing her name Alana, thinking of her Holiday Inn photos,
but it really is Alannah.

 

[teddy]

You have re awakened some memories there for me John.

teddy

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

All good comments - with the Easybeats you may be surprised to know that the two guitars/ songwriters are the producers (Harry Vanda and George Young) and one of them the older brother of the two guitarists from AC/DC (Angus and Malcolm Young) - a bit spinal tap hey.............

The ten I chose are a selection of the most popular aussie rock bands (here in Oz), plus Captain Matchbox added for colour- they are popular and still perform here but would not make a general top 10. The top 20 listed is an "official" Aussie based listing thou.

Just to finish the Easybeats theme - here is their biggest Aussie (non AC/DC hit) - Evie written by Harry Vanda and George Young and sung by the Easybeats lead singer Stevie Wright.

[video=youtube;Z4wJbATKpEA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z4wJbATKpEA#t=78 s[/video]

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Ah might as well put up poor old Billy Thorpe last single too while I'm at it,,,,,,,,,,,

[video=youtube;C2otYUKVnSo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C2otYUKVnSo#t=0s[/video]

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

More Billy Thorpe as the last clip got cut.....
First his last single

and his biggest Aussie hit

 

[slim]

For me, it's The Bee Gees, INXS (whom I met in a restaurant once with some dude surnamed Rayne (?); t'was a long time ago) and Nick Cave...

 

[teddy]

The Easybeats Australian. I don't think so.

The Easybeats occupy a unique place in the pantheon of 1960s British rock acts. For starters, they were Australian, except that they really weren't -- they met in Sydney alright, and being based in Australia with the talent they had gave them a leg-up over any of the local competition. But lead singer Stevie Wright originally came from England (although he'd been in Australia for some years), and bassist Dick Diamonde hailed from the Netherlands, as did guitarist Harry Vanda, while the others, guitarists George Young and drummer Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, were recent arrivals from Scotland and England -- most significantly, Fleet was Liverpool born and raised, and had been a member of the Mojos, one of that city's more promising bands of 1963 and 1964. They all had talent, but he had a sense of style and an idea of what worked in rock & roll; it was Snowy Fleet who came up with the name "The Easybeats," and the sharp image for the early group, which made them a piece of authentic Brit-beat right in the heart of Sydney, 13,000 miles from Liverpool and as precious there as water on a desert.

teddy

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

For me, it's The Bee Gees, INXS (whom I met in a restaurant once with some dude surnamed Rayne (?); t'was a long time ago) and Nick Cave...

Bee Gees and Nick Cave yep good choices. Rayne, I guessing it was James Rayne from Australian Crawl (aussie rock band of the time), and who is still performing.