Posted on 07/24/2020 8:00:43 AM PDT by mylife
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Some names I had forgotten...
Following the punk movement several influential bands of this post-punk era were The Birthday Party, led by Nick Cave, Foetus, The Celibate Rifles, The Go-Betweens, SPK, Dead Can Dance, These Immortal Souls, Crime & the City Solution, No, Louis Tillett, Laughing Clowns, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Beasts of Bourbon.
1980s
While many Australasian bands from the 1980s remained cult acts outside of Australia, some, including Little River Band, Men at Work, AC/DC, INXS, Midnight Oil, and later Crowded House found wide success throughout the decade. Groups with international hit singles included Real Life with “Catch Me I’m Falling”, “Send Me an Angel”, Divinyls with “Pleasure and Pain”, Big Pig with “Breakaway” and Rick Springfield with “Jessie’s Girl”. Moving Pictures had a hit album with Days of Innocence. Jimmy Barnes and Michael Hutchence performed “Good Times” a song by the Australian songwriting duo Vanda & Young and it was included on The Lost Boys soundtrack. Expatriate Mike Chapman continued his career as a prominent record producer and co-wrote “Mickey” which became a major hit when Toni Basil performed it.
Baby boomer acts
The 1980s was a boom period for acts whose members were usually born between 1946 and 1964 (baby boomers); this includes occasionally critically praised, popular acts such as The Party Boys, James Reyne, Models, Sunnyboys, Hunters & Collectors, Machinations, Johnny Diesel, Matt Finish, Hoodoo Gurus, Chantoozies, The Dugites, The Numbers, The Swingers, Spy Vs Spy, Eurogliders, Mental As Anything, Boom Crash Opera, I’m Talking, Do Ré Mi, Rockmelons, Stephen Cummings, The Reels, The Stems, Paul Kelly, Nick Barker, Jenny Morris, The Triffids, The Choirboys, Icehouse, Redgum, Goanna, 1927, Max Q, Noiseworks, GANGgajang, The Black Sorrows and The Zorros.
Wellllll, if we can include New Zealand, Split Enz!
Great Band
If that's the case then why not include groups from Denmark?
Like this one:
AC/DC, INXS, The Church
Eurogliders and Split Enz are top of my list.
The Birthday Party.
INXS, Bee Gees, Men at Work...
... If anyone says Midnight Oil I will post an ugly picture on this thread.
INXS, AC/DC, Men at Work
I really liked Wigwam
AC/DC, Men at Work, INXS.
If I had to choose one, AC/DC by a mile.
Ahh.. The Church
Ditto!
Topics for another day, but I used to collect rock from around the world, much of it was very good.
Of course there are many great bands beyond the USA & the UK. 8>)
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