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It has a good beat but can you dance to it?
Alone With You - Sunnyboys, a single from their self-titled debut album, from 1981. It's sort of a new release because they've just given it the reissue treatment, a four-LP vinyl-only box set version of the album, to mark 45 years since it came out. Sunnyboys were from New South Wales and were led by brothers Jeremy and Peter Oxley.
Don’t Tear It Down – v Spy v Spy from their 1986 album A.O. Mod. TV Vers , which is an abbreviation for Adults Only Modified Television Version, a censorship notification on Australian television at the time. This version from the 2016 compilation The Glory Days of Aussie Pub Rock, vol. 1.
Rooms For The Memory - Michael Hutchence, the dynamic frontman from INXS, singing a song from the soundtrack to Dogs in Space , a 1986 Australian film set in Melbourne's post-punk music scene in 1978. It was written and directed by Richard Lowenstein and starred Hutchence. The song was written by Melbourne musician Ollie Olsen.
Maybe you can dance to this
What Is Ashwagandha - the Babe Rainbow, from their 2025 album Slipper Imp And Shakaerator. FYI, ashwagandha is a multi-purpose herbal remedy, and the Slipper Imp and Shakaerator are mechanical farming implements used in plowing.
Rattle My Chain - the Basics, a band featuring Wally De Backer, better known as Gotye, from their 2007 album Stand Out/Fit In.
Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, it was on their album Polygondwanaland, which was number four of five albums they released in 2017.
Into the vault
Rose Tattoo, one of the hardest rocking Aussie bands of the 1970s and 80s, featuring Gary "Angry" Anderson singing and Pete Wells on slide guitar, from their first album, released in 1978, produced by Harry Vanda and George Young of Easybeats fame. We heard three songs from the LP:
- Rocknroll Outlaw
- Nice Boys
- Bad Boy For Love
Nice Boys was covered by Guns N' Roses in 1986 on their Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide EP and re-released on their 1988 EP G N' R Lies. Rock & Roll Outlaw has has also been covered a number of times.
The US had Lassie the dog and Flipper the dolphin
Australia had Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo, who had a series on Australian TV from 1968 to 1970. We started the set with the closing theme music from the show.
Chewing Gum - Amyl and the Sniffers, from their 2024 album Cartoon Darkness.
The Big Beat - Young Modern, a 1979 single. and it's on their 2023 best-of set titled It's Automatic.The lead singer in the band is John Dowler, who continues to write and record music.
Mingle - Georgia Knight rockin the autoharp in 2025 from her album titled Beanpole.
Concert tour of the decade?
In 2013 Paul Kelly and Neil Finn joined up for a 20-date tour that peaked at the Sydney Opera House on March 10, 2013. In November 2013 it was released as an album and DVD titled Goin' Your Way. We heard:
- Distant Sun
- Private Universe
Both songs are originally by Neil Finn from the 1993 Crowded House album Together Alone.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
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