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Who are your favorite bands from Oz? the land down under?
Freerepublic ^ | 7/24/2020 | mylife

Posted on 07/24/2020 8:00:43 AM PDT by mylife

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


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KEYWORDS: australia; music; oz
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To: mylife
Lime Spiders - Weirdo Libido
81 posted on 07/24/2020 8:45:27 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: mylife
this really isn't what you were asking about but I found this OZ cover band awhile back and their stuff is really well done.

https://www.youtube.com/c/theHindleyStreetCountryClub/videos

82 posted on 07/24/2020 8:47:53 AM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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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.


83 posted on 07/24/2020 8:52:08 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Robert DeLong; shaggy eel

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


84 posted on 07/24/2020 8:53:18 AM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Great Band


85 posted on 07/24/2020 8:53:22 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Not if you are asking about bands from Oz. 8>)

If that's the case then why not include groups from Denmark?

Like this one:

Baby Woodrose - Caught in a Whirl 8>)

86 posted on 07/24/2020 8:57:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: mylife

AC/DC, INXS, The Church


87 posted on 07/24/2020 8:57:16 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: mylife

Eurogliders and Split Enz are top of my list.


88 posted on 07/24/2020 8:57:18 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: mylife

The Birthday Party.


89 posted on 07/24/2020 8:58:03 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: mylife
Or perhaps this one from Finland:

Leningrad Cowboys - Back In The USSR 8>)

90 posted on 07/24/2020 9:04:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Kazan

INXS, Bee Gees, Men at Work...

... If anyone says Midnight Oil I will post an ugly picture on this thread.


91 posted on 07/24/2020 9:04:21 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: mylife

INXS, AC/DC, Men at Work


92 posted on 07/24/2020 9:04:49 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Robert DeLong

I really liked Wigwam


93 posted on 07/24/2020 9:08:02 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

AC/DC, Men at Work, INXS.

If I had to choose one, AC/DC by a mile.


94 posted on 07/24/2020 9:09:10 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Ahh.. The Church


95 posted on 07/24/2020 9:09:12 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Or perhaps this group fro Poland:

Donatan & Cleo - My Słowianie 8>)

96 posted on 07/24/2020 9:11:16 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Ditto!


97 posted on 07/24/2020 9:15:35 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Black lies matter.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Topics for another day, but I used to collect rock from around the world, much of it was very good.


98 posted on 07/24/2020 9:16:17 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Wigwam - Grass For Blades
99 posted on 07/24/2020 9:17:17 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: mylife

Of course there are many great bands beyond the USA & the UK. 8>)


100 posted on 07/24/2020 9:18:56 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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