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Last good song you listened to?

gandalfe said:
Somehow I had never heard this song in the 80's, even tho I knew Talking to a Stranger and When the River Runs Dry. It has become one of my favorites from the era, altho I must say I hate the Eddie Vedder version.
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There's footage of him singing it with Mark Seymour floating around too which isn't bad. I was going to say isn't it a 90's release but no its 1984!! Wow!!! Hunters and Collectors kinda lived in the shadow locally of Cold Chisel, Crowded House, Midnight Oil and INXS. And then you had the 90's 'grunge' bands that went on to displace them on commercial radio. Throw your arms around me and holy grail are both pub anthems which is probably the only reason they're still remembered.
 
Rubashov said:
There's footage of him singing it with Mark Seymour floating around too which isn't bad. I was going to say isn't it a 90's release but no its 1984!! Wow!!! Hunters and Collectors kinda lived in the shadow locally of Cold Chisel, Crowded House, Midnight Oil and INXS. And then you had the 90's 'grunge' bands that went on to displace them on commercial radio. Throw your arms around me and holy grail are both pub anthems which is probably the only reason they're still remembered.
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Speaking of Midnight Oil, this is a great video. It's definitely from a US perspective, obvs, as they were definitely not a One Hit Wonder down there, but he really kind of digs into the meaning and explains it to Americans.

"You know how in America, we have this thing, where we tend to screw over black people and screw over the natives? Well, in Australia, the black people ARE the natives, so they were able to screw them over MUCH more efficiently than we did."


View: https://youtu.be/jucengVNyDk?si=KUhW2SJNP09Hphcj

(I may have posted this before. Deal with it.)
 
gandalfe said:
Speaking of Midnight Oil, this is a great video. It's definitely from a US perspective, obvs, as they were definitely not a One Hit Wonder down there, but he really kind of digs into the meaning and explains it to Americans.

"You know how in America, we have this thing, where we tend to screw over black people and screw over the natives? Well, in Australia, the black people ARE the natives, so they were able to screw them over MUCH more efficiently than we did."


View: https://youtu.be/jucengVNyDk?si=KUhW2SJNP09Hphcj

(I may have posted this before. Deal with it.)
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That's funny that the Oils are looked at as a one hit wonder, Jack Howard from Hunters is a bloke I've had a few jars with over the journey, I remember when the Oils did their last world tour he was in the band said it was amazing, business class tickets, 5 star hotels, Europe, North America, South American, he took a whole year off for the gig. Said it was a great payday.

That video sent me down a rabbit hole of great Australian albums, the Rolling stone top 200 is interesting, I've got at least 40 of those albums, I think the Rolling Stone list is actually better than the book mentioned.
 
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