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at the pub, or at a party, whenever you're stuck, for what to say,
if
you wanna be dinky-di, why don't you give it a try,
look
'em right in the eye and say g'day..."
(Slim Dusty)
Show 171
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 Head
-
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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