Who are your favorite bands from Oz? the land down under?

Freerepublic ^ | 7/24/2020 | mylife

[mylife]

AMERICA invented rock and roll, then there was the British invasion, but what about Oz?

[rigelkentaurus]

Little River Band
Men at Work
Bee Gees
Seekers

[mylife]

I had 3 Los by them

[Retrofitted]

AC/DC and Rose Tattoo.

[blam]

The NewBeats

[a fool in paradise]

Do The Pop 2CD compilation on Spotify, missing a few tracks by Radio Birdman and Kim Salmon of the Scientists

Playlist/album starts with I’m Stranded by the Saints (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWeX65b5dOk

Can you have horns in punk? Yes
Eternally Yours - The Saints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9M3b9lh-7s

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UIP8CDxEIC2Tmd8SAleYR

[a fool in paradise]

Beasts of Bourbon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOM5BUJ6fgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJ3dquxTdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4n1zAH4Jc

[mylife]

I love the saints, was lucky enough to see them.

[mylife]

Nice

[Buckeye McFrog]

Little River Band

Glenn Shorrock their original lead vocalist, was highly underrated. There was a schtick on the sitcom The Middle where Frankie Heck would go to a local joint to hear The Little River Band Cover Band.

Midnight Oil was interesting musically but politically they were to the left of Trotsky.

[Tennessee Nana]

The Bee Gees

[mylife]

Gosh I loved the Saints

[mylife]

Midnight Oil was interesting musically but politically they were to the left of Trotsky.

Spot on

[Tennessee Nana]

When you call a woman a ‘Sheila’ youre calling her a slut...

Yeah I know nowadays the definition has been lost but originally that’s what it meant...

and the Aussie soldiers were called ‘Diggers’ during WWI...Gallipoli etc...(trenches)

[mylife]

In the 80’s I applied to emigrate to Australia, I figured they are a lot like us and there is plenty of room for a man to roam.

I had a job lined up working on their Collins class submarines, I would have been living in the Melbourne/Adelaide area.

They rejected me Lol
I wound up in Texas

All was well, since Oz went hard left shortly after

[mylife]

OMG is there anyone Springsteen won’t rip off?

I despise the liberal runt

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Wellllll, if we can include New Zealand, Split Enz!

OH, YOU SO TOTALLY BEAT ME! Nice! I was gonna try to slip them in, too.

[mylife]

Well, I’m from America so the vernacular confuses me :)

[Cecily]

“Midnight Oil was interesting musically but politically they were to the left of Trotsky.”

“Let’s give it back!” You give your portion back, Peter.

[Buckeye McFrog]

When I was young I thought about applying for Oz too. It was a point in my life when I was adrift and feeling somewhat useless. Getting a letter from another country telling me I’d be useless there too would not have helped.

My mother used to go on rants about moving there in the 70’s so that none of her boys would be drafted and sent to Vietnam. This kind of talk would really upset my father.

[mylife]

Good band, I think They Johnny’s were also from Oz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PKMfVbEq4