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Dumb Things - Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, from their album Under the Sun, a 1987 release.
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil, it was on their 1987 album Diesel and Dust.
Swampland, by Kim Salmon and his band the Scientists, a single from 1982, with This Is My Happy Hour on the flip side. This version is on the 1983 Scientists compilation Blood Red River 1982-1984.
Liar Liar - Mr Brown, led by Rusty Brown, from their 1998 album Four Foot Head.
Jonsey Lane
Recently the Melbourne bayside community St Kilda named a street Jonesy Lane after the late musician Spencer P. Jones. Along with playing as a sideman in groups such as Paul Kelly's band and the Beasts of Bourbon, Spencer produced several albums of his own. We heard
- World's Got Everything In It, from his 1994 album Rumour Of Death
- When I'm No Longer Poor, from 2007, it was on an album titled Fugitive Songs.
- Duplicity, from 2012, with a band he called The Nothing Butts, featuring members of the Drones and Beasts of Bourbon.
Into the vault
From 1973, here's the Marcus Hook Roll Band, Tales Of Old Grand-Daddy, their only album. Harry Vanda and George Young were plotting their next move after their band the Easybeats called it a day. Reportedly some of the guitar work on the album was supplied by George's young brothers Malcolm and Angus, who were in the process of launching their own band, AC/DC. We heard:
- Shot In the Headlights
- Moonshine Blues
- Silver Shoes
New stuff
By Water - Hedge Burners, from their new album Fall Out of the Future. Vandals setting fire to people's garden hedges was a thing in Melbourne in the early 1990s.
Fever Dream - Bagful of Beez, their single came out in April ahead of an upcoming album. The band is a project run by Link Meanie - aka Link McLennan - from the ever-reliable the Meanies.
You Can't Turn Away - Crow, a single from an anticipated album, their first in more than 15 years. In the early '90s Crow was called "the best band in Australia since the Birthday Party" by the music magazine Juice.
In Control - Baker Boy with a 2019 single. Danzal Baker is from the Yolngu people of Australia's Northern Territory.
Smash the Machine - Babe Rainbow, from their 2022 album The Organic Band.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
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