Views from Western Australia

Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis

Administrator — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:26:28 +0000

Two Men With The Blues

A country harmonica solo followed impeccably by a jazzy sax solo! Huh? Miles Davis once said he enjoyed listening to Willie Nelson because he had a jazz sense to his music. Nelson has always had jazz nuances in his vocal style and his off-the-beat phrasing. He is also an underrated guitarist who uses chords more common to jazz than country. This meeting of two of the most important musicians in contemporary country and jazz - Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis - who reveal their common love of the blues. The choice of backing musicians is great, with Mickey Raphael on harmonica from Nelson’s band and the Marsalis crew. Walter Blanding on sax is terrific and is given room to play. Dan Nimmer is in excellent form on piano and he carries the album along. Nelson has recorded "Night Life" countless times already, but the growling Marsalis trumpet solo reinforces the anguish of the lyrics. Nimmer’s piano accompaniment with Raphael’s superbly understated harmonica solo in "Georgia On My Mind" is magnificent. "Basin Street Blues" and "Rainy Day Blues" gets the Marsalis crew into a familiar groove, with latter featuring Blanding and Raphael playing off each other and Nelson’s unique guitar. "My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It" is performed as a Dixieland swing number with free playing by everyone; Ali Jackson contributes an attention-grabbing drum solo with Marsalis adding a lyric. "That’s All" has everybody contributing their all which results in some sizzling playing. The version of Billie Holiday’s "Ain’t Nobody’s Business", is looser with Nelson and Marsalis both soloing along with Blanding on sax and bass player Carlos Henriquez having a crack. Nelson, from Texas, and Marsalis, from Louisiana - have no problems finding common ground. Both men love the blues, and love to play it; this meeting of master musicians is special and it all sounds like great fun. This is a fascinating blend of country jazz and blues. If anything, this album demonstrates the common roots of all three traditions.

Released July 2008

Blue Note Records

Stevie Winwood - Nine Lives

Administrator — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:19:21 +0000

Steve Winwood was 16 years old when he led the Spencer Davis Group in 1963 and he is an excellent keyboardist who has remained an in-demand session musician for decades.

With ‘Nine Lives’ Winwood pulls together every style that he’s used since he began his career from old-school R&B to hard rock and jazzy progressive rock to progressive pop-rock to blue-eyed soul- and succeeds with every stylistic turn. The songs build on blues riffs, jazz, funk and folk-rock, all coupled with African and Latin influences. There is precision and style to almost every track on this album, without a single irrelevant note. The guitar has moved to the foreground on this new album, this is possibly influenced by his inclusion at the most recent Crossroads guitar festival (see other review). Winwood has put the guitar at the center of the two most compelling songs on the album, ‘I’m Not Drowning’ and ‘Dirty City’ it features Eric Clapton, and sounds as if it came right out of the Blind Faith era with a dirty guitar sound!. On ‘Fly’ Winwood brings together Brazilian and Celtic influences. ‘Raging Sea’ is a funky bass driven number and ‘Hungry Man’ is an African influenced song that grows on you with each listening.

The more I listen to this assortment of musical genres and grooves, the more I like it. Winwood turned 60 recently, his vocals are as strong and his musical sensee just as steady as it was in his teenage years.

Sony
April 2008

Buddy Guy: Skin Deep

Administrator — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:18:15 +0000

After playing the blues for forty five years blues boss Buddy Guy shows no signs of slowing down. Now, he has released ‘Skin Deep’, an album of 12 original songs where he is in outstanding form.

Don’t be put off by the fact that it’s yet another album with guest artists. The big differences are that Guy wrote all the material, his guitar and vocals are in top form and the guests don’t crowd the album like so often happens with tribute appearance albums.

The material is remarkable, from the set opening ‘Best Damn Fool’, with its scorching guitar complimented by the Memphis Horns section right through to the closing track ‘I Found Happiness’ with its screaming guitar and funky backbeat.

In between, Guy jams with Clapton on “Every time I Sing the Blues” and duels with Randolph’s fine pedal steel on the red hot ‘That’s My Home’. Possibly the finest moments are when Guy turns introspective on ‘Who’s Gonna Fill Those Shoes’ where he clearly grieves over the passing of the blues greats and when challenges racism on the title track ‘Skin Deep’. They’re both great songs and Guy delivers them with his trademark enthusiasm and grit.

‘Lyin’ Like a Dog’ is pure Guy with plenty of sizzling guitar on one of the best numbers; ‘Show Me the Money’ and ‘Too Many Tears’ have fine guitar work from Trucks and strong soulful vocals from Tedechi.

It’s a great Buddy Guy album and it successfully displays the searing guitar, passion and showmanship that have made Guy a true boss of the blues. In my view this is his best overall studio set since “Sweet Tea” in 2001.

(Jive/Silvertone)
July 2008

‘Funding Axe Hangs Over Remote Settlements’

Administrator — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:01:30 +0000

That was the headline over a lead story in the West Australian newspaper on 7.7.08; the story ran over two pages and it was covered in the editorial. The West was reasonably balanced in it approach, unfortunately the government is not.

The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Michelle Roberts, is considering closing Aboriginal communities; she was reported as saying "a Sustainable Indigenous Communities policy was investigating where money should be spent to promote sustainability."

However, further investigation shows the policy has not been written yet! But it appears a ‘Taskforce’ to do the work has been established. The growing momentum towards this point over the last twelve months or so has been very concerning; it appears to be following on from Vanstone’s agenda and builds on the disastrous reforms of the CDEP.

No doubt, the taskforce will meet and consider each community via some criteria that are carefully articulated in the yet to be written policy document. One would hope that the criteria includes actually going to the said communities and talking to the people concerned. People need to be involved in every community and outstation that is being considered; otherwise this smacks of being another government decision ‘for their own good’.

The process currently lacks transparency, which is really problematic when you consider it is potentially making major decisions over the future of people’s lives. This policy must be properly developed including a period where it is available for public comment. Otherwise, this becomes the inevitable broad brush response, to a few identified ‘problem communities’. It needs to be acknowledged that many remote communities and outstations function well. Clearly, this cannot consider and evaluate communities on only the basis of economic cost; but what other criteria are the bean counters going to use.

This has the potential to be the third wave of dispossession and flies in the face of government policy to increase the population in areas like the Kimberley. It goes without saying that these people want to be on their country and history suggests this is principally a commitment to family, law and culture. People just want to get on with their lives.

This also has native title implications and will undoubtedly impact on other government policies like Aboriginal involvement in land care through Natural Resource Management. Then again, maybe it is the next wave of dispossession; perhaps this is what the Deputy Premier, Eric Ripper, was getting at when talking about the communities on the Dampier Peninsular at the recent National Native Title conference in Perth.

There is an enormous diversity of communities in the remote areas of Western Australia; how can a Perth based taskforce of bureaucrats can understand this is they do not visit country and speak to the people concerned. It also should be noted that people also often live in communities because they want to get away from the towns that don’t really want them there! Look at news reports about Broome from earlier this year as a case in point. Closing communities will push people into towns that are already not coping. This naturally brings to mind a point of comparison with similar sized white welfare towns, or towns that receive what is called ‘industry assistance’; one could well ask, “how come they continue to receive all kinds of government services and assistance?”

This announcement by the Minister has ‘problems’ written all over it and it is definitely not the way to develop social policy. It is disturbing that the minister has announced this and tied it into economic indicators and an undefined, unwritten policy document.

Funding these communities is called paying the rent on Aboriginal land. It is simple, until we have a treaty we keep paying the rent.

What a way to start NAIDOC week!

Christmas Island Detention Centre

Administrator — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:30:37 +0000

Is the unused ‘purpose built’ detention centre on Christmas Island a white elephant, or does it serve another purpose?

The Christmas Island story is fascinating, the Poms ‘gave’ it to us just before Singapore gots its independence. This was supposedly to secure superphosphate supplies for the cockies.

The super has virtually dried up years ago and it is a politcal boil on the bum of Australia with its resident Malay, Chinese and Anglo population (non of whom are indigenous to CI which was uninhabitated once). The Japaenese liked it during the war and apparently shot one or two POW’s there.

Until now the most infamous recent fiasco there was Tommy Suharto’s Casino - which apparently had bucketloads of money going through it. That temple to greed, with its concrete dinosaurs, is gradually being re-claimed by mould and the jungle after it was abandoned over a decade ago.

now we have spent hundreds of millions to build an unused detention facility and pour in millions more every year to staff and maintain it. The question is why Australia keeps funding Christmas Island at all? What does it really cost the Australian economy to maintain this island mountain adjacent to Indonesia?

Well the answer is, not as much as it would cost to keep an aircraft carrier stationed in the Indian Ocean. You can bet your bottom dollar that this $380 million facility was built to military specifications for the same reason. Why would a detention facility need such dam thick concrete walls? Maybe one day the mould and the jungle will consume this facility as well.

To red crabs and ants!

4 deaths show us a lot about ourselves

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:50:16 +0000

We occasionally need to look in a mirror and take a reality check. On the weekend four very young Noongar boys died in a tragic accident in a stolen car just outside of Perth. The sunday Times opened up a comments page, which in effect became a temporary blog on that tragic event. By dinner time last night there were about 600 comments posted on it. Without any specific analysis of proportions I think it is reasonable to say the majority were unsympathetic and many were quite vitriolic. Some other voices of reason and sympathy broke through. Some Noongars, also wrote, along with people who knew the boys personally; by and large they also copped a barrage of abuse as well from the bloggers who remain anonymous. Many said they are not ‘racist’; nevertheless, one can only wonder what the comments would have been if they were four white boys? In addition, one can only guess if the newspaper concerned would post such a blog if the four boys were not Indigenous?

NATIVE TITLE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Administrator — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:30:44 +0000

Last week the Birriliburu people celebrated their strong connection to country in a native title determination covering 66,593sq km of their Central Desert land.

This comes relatively soon after the Federal Court upheld appeals made by both the State and Federal Government that left the Single Noongar native title claim in limbo on 23 April 2008 . This followed a dismissal in February 2007 of the Wongatha native title claim, fought in the Courts for over 10 years. In both cases the aspirations of native title claimants, their families and communities were put right back to square one.

The result of both these claims highlights the urgent need for a new approach to native title throughout Australia, particularly in Western Australia. The Federal Attorney General has recently indicated just that, announcing in February 2008 a new attitude and a new way of doing business in native title. He insists that native title can play a key role in forging a new relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The Attorney General acknowledged that native title is but one way of recognising Indigenous peoples’ connection to land, however it was time to move away from technical legal arguments about the existence of native title. In other words, it is time to move away from the often tortuous struggles that drag on through years of appeals and counter-appeals in the Courts and to look at the principle that the recognition of Indigenous peoples’ ongoing connection with their land should be resolved by negotiation and mediation not litigation.

Of course, we have heard this mantra before in Western Australia. The Labor Policy Platform on native title from 2001 has been “Mediation not Litigation” – yet we have only seen mediation in areas where rich industry companies were seeking access to land.

In the Pilbara for example we have seen the Burrup and Maitland Industrial Estates Agreement where the Government negotiated a deal with the Ngarluma Yindjibarndi, Yaburara Mardudhunera and Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo peoples to allow companies such as Woodside access to areas of land on the Burrup Peninsula – an area rich in ancient Aboriginal rock art. The agreement provides that in exchange for the peoples’ consenting to the surrender and permanent extinguishment of native title to the area, they would receive a number of substantial benefits. Rock art has since been systematically destroyed or moved to create space for Woodside’s Pluto gas project.

A more positive deal was negotiated by Argyle Diamond. In September 2004 Argyle signed a Participation Agreement with Traditional Owners of the Miriuwung, Gidja, Malgnin and Woolah peoples. This agreement included employment, training and business opportunities for Traditional Owners and their families for the expansion of the Argyle site. The Participation Agreement recognises Traditional Owners as the landlords of the Argyle mining lease, while recognising Argyle’s right to continue its current and future mining operations. The Agreement establishes a long term relationship between the company and the Traditional Owners.

More recently the focus has turned to the Kimberley with the State Government and several mining companies negotiating to develop a single gas processing hub on a site suitable to the Traditional Owners of the region. The Browse Basin off the West Kimberley coast is the site of massive gas reserves, reserves that have the potential to be the biggest resource development certainly in Western Australia, perhaps in Australia. Native Title claimants, through the Kimberley Land Council are engaged in a process of negotiation that will bring significant benefits to Kimberley communities. The KLC and the native title claimants they represent are pursuing a deal with the State Government and the resource companies to ensure Kimberley communities get the best possible deal. It is being seen not only as a challenge to protect the natural environment, but also as an economic opportunity for Indigenous people throughout the region.

The Chair of the National Native Title Council, Mr Brian Wyatt, stated in a speech delivered at the recent Native Title Conference that “there has never been a better time for creative thinking in relation to native title, and tinkering around the edges of the system will not deliver meaningful outcomes for traditional owners. Nor will it allow Australia to hold its head up on the international stage. How we deal with native title is a fundamental test of who we are”.

The native title system should rather be seen as an avenue of economic development. What is needed is some policy and legal imagination that can close the gap between current understandings of economic development and the traditional rights to hunt, fish and gather. If we begin with the assumption that traditional owners have the right to benefit from the exploitation of all natural resources in their country, as stated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, then Indigenous economic development will need to be seen in an entirely different light.

It would not simply be a matter of enhancing economic rights as they were conceived two centuries ago. We would expect to see a range of options in local settlements that specifically promote non-native title outcomes, benefit sharing agreements, effective consultations regarding land use, joint environmental management regimes and sustainable development.

Native title is no longer just about fighting in the Courts to prove their ongoing connection to country, it is being recognised as a significant opportunity for claimants and their communities to gain real economic benefits. The current mining boom is creating opportunities for negotiating agreements for access to land and this means creating access to training, employment and business development.

It is time for native title to be viewed as one of the key opportunities for closing the disadvantage gap for Indigenous Australians.

It is time for the just and proper settlement of native title in Australia.

Top Blues Songs

Administrator — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:53:23 +0000

This is a work in progress and it has a lot of big gaps. It should also be noted that it does not include much early acoustic blues, an important area that almost requires a chart of its own.

These songs are not in any order of priority, rather, they are listed alphabnetically:

(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
10 A.M. Automatic - The Black Keys
Ain’t No Sunshine Buddy Guy & Tracy Chapman
Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone - Bobby "Blue" Bland
Albert’s Shuffle - Michael Bloomfield
All Your Love - Magic Sam
As The Crow Flies - Rory Gallagher
As The Years Go Passing By - Gary Moore
At Last - Etta James
Baby Please Don’t Go - Big Joe Williams
Baby Scratch My Back - Slim Harpo
Back Door Man - Willie Dixon
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Ball and Chain - Big Mama Thornton
Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang - John Lee Hooker
Beaver Slide Rag - Peg Leg Howell
Black Cat Bone - Albert Collins
Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton
Blues Before Sunrise - Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago (1980)
Boogie Chillun - John Lee Hooker
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
Boom Boom Out Go The Lights - Little Walter
Boot Hill - Johhny Winter
Born in Chicago - Michael Bloomfield
Born In Chicago - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King
Born Under a Bad Sign Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan
Bumble Bee - Memphis Minnie
Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
CC Rider - Ma Rainey
Cherry Red - Luther Allison
Cold Shot Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Come In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson
Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
Crossfire - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Crossroads - Robert Johnson
Cryin’ Shame - Lightnin’ Hopkins
Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) - Blind Willie Johnson
Déjà Voodoo Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Dust My Broom - Elmore James
Every Morning - Keb’Mo
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - The Blues Brothers
Everyday I Have The Blues - B.B. King
Evil - Willie Dixon
Eyesight To The Blind - Sonny Boy Williamson II
Feels Like Rain Buddy Guy
Five Long Years - B.B. King
Forty Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
Further On Up The Road - Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland
Georgia Blues - Jimi Hendrix
Girl Is On My Mind The Black Keys
Give Me Back My Wig - Hound Dog Taylor
Givin’ It Up for Your Love - Delbert McClinton
God Moves on the Water - Blind Willie Johnson
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson I
Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
Graveyard Dream Blues - Ida Cox
Grinning In Your Face - Son House
Groove Me - King Floyd
Grown So Ugly The Black Keys
Hard Luck Blues - Roy Brown
Harvey’s Tune - Michael Bloomfield
Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Eric Clapton
Heatwave - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
Hideaway - Freddie King
Highway 49 - Big Joe Williams
Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
How Blue Can You Get? - B.B. King
How Long, How Long Blues - Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
How Many More Years - Howlin’ Wolf
Howling Wolf - Killing Floor
Hummingbird - B.B. King
I Ain’t Superstitious - Willie Dixon
I Can’t Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
I Can’t Make You Love - Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Quit You Baby - Otis Rush
I Could’ve Had Religion - Rory Gallager
I Got My Mojo Working Morganfield - Michael Bloomfield
I Just Want to Make Love to You - Etta James
I Know What You’re Putting Down - Louis Jordan
I’d Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
I’d Rather Go Blind Etta James Etta James
If I Had My Way I’d Tear the Building Down Blind - Blind Willie Johnson
If Trouble Was Money - Albert Collins
If Trouble Was Money - Albert Collins
ife Is Beautiful - Keb’ Mo’
I’m a King Bee - Slim Harpo
I’m In The Mood - John Lee Hooker
I’m Ready - Muddy Waters
I’m Tired - Savoy Brown
I’m Tore Down - Freddie King
It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James
It’s Bad You Know - R.L. Burnside
It’s My Own Fault - B.B. King
It’s Tight Like That - Tampa Red
John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
Key To The Highway - Freddie King
Killing Floor - Michael Bloomfield
Let The Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan
Let Your Light Shine on Me - Blind Willie Johnson
Lie to Me - Jonny Lang
Little Red Rooster - Luther Allison
Juke - Little Walter
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Look over Yonders Wall - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Lord, I Just Can’t Keep from Crying - Blind Willie Johnson
Love In Vain - Robert Johnson
Love Me Like A Man - Bonnie Raitt
Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
Mary Ann R- Michael Bloomfield
Mary Had a Little Lamb Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Matchbox Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Me and The Devil Blues - Robert Johnson
Memphis Blues - W.C. Handy
Messin Around - Memphis Slim
Messin’ With The Kid - Junior Wells
Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time - Blind Willie Johnson
Mustang - Sally Buddy Guy
My Head’s In Mississippi - ZZ Top
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out - Bessie Smith
Nobody’s Fault But Mine - Blind Willie Johnson
On The Road Again - Canned Heat
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
One Hundred And Ten In The Shade - Hans Theessink
Paying The Cost To Be The Boss - B. B. King
Pine Top Boogie - Pine Top Smith
Pockets - Eric Bibb
Pony Blues - Charley Patton
Praise God I’m Satisfied - Blind Willie Johnson
Preaching The Blues - Son House
Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
Red Devils - Devil Woman
Red House - Jimi Hendrix
Red Light - Jonny Lang
Riding with the King B.B. King & Eric Clapton
Rock Me Mama - Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
Rollin & Tumblin - Elmore James
Room To Move - John Mayall
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Shake Your Moneymaker - Elmore James
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Joe Turner
Sleepy Time, Time (Live version) - Cream
Smokestack Lightnin - Howlin’ Wolf
Smoking Gun - Robert Cray
Something to Talk - Bonnie Raitt
Soul Man - The Blues Brothers
Spoonful - Willie Dixon
Statesboro Blues - Blind willie McTell
Statesboro Blues - Taj Mahal
Still Got The Blues (1990) Gary Moore
Stone Crazy - Buddy Guy
Stop - Michael Bloomfield
Stop - Lonnie Mack
Stop Breakin’ Down - Robert Johnson
Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
Stormy Weather - Etta James
Superstition Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Sweet Black Angel - Robert Nighthawk
Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
Sweet Sixteen - B.B. King
Taint Nobody’s Bizness If I Do - Bessie Smith
T-Bone Blues - T-Bone Walker
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
The Little Red Rooster - Willie Dixon
The Messiah Will Come Again - Roy Buchanan
The Messiah Will Come Again - Gary Moore
The Same Thing - Willie Dixon
The Seventh Son - Willie Dixon
The Sky Is Crying - Elmore James
The Sky Is Crying Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim
The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King
The Walkin’ Blues - Taj Mahal
Third Degree - Eric Clapton
Three O’Clock Blues - B.B. King
Tight Like That - Tampa Red & Georgia Tom
Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson
Too Much Alcohol - Rory Gallagher
Up All Night Thinking - Dave Hole
Walking By Myself - Gary Moore
Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
We’re Gonna Make It - Little Milton
West Coast Blues - Blind Blake
When Love Comes to Town B.B. King & U2
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Leadbelly
Whole ‘Nutha Thang - Keb’ Mo’
Worried Life Blues - Sleepy John Estes
You Don’t Love Me - Michael Bloomfield

Songs of Australia

Administrator — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:37:52 +0000

These are a selection of almost 200 great Australian songs. They are listed alphabetically (by artist) and they are great for a whole range of reasons (that does not mean that I like them all!)

so here goes:

It’s A Long Way To The Top      by AC/DC
You Shook Me All night Long  by AC/DC
Highway to Hell  by AC/DC
Jailbreak  by AC/DC
The Crucifixion  by Aragon
They Took the Children Away   by Archie Roach
The Boys Light Up  by Australian Crawl
Reckless   by Australian Crawl
My babies gone  by Axiom
A little ray of sunshine  by Axiom
Rush  by Big Audio Dynamite
Breakaway  by Big Pig
Most People I Know  by Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
Children of the Sun  by Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs
Poison Ivy   by Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs
Seasons Of Change     by Blackfeather
Brown Skin Baby   by Bobby Randall
I Remember When I Was Young  by Chain
Run To Paradise     by Choirboys
Bridges  by Chris Bailey
Cheap Wine  by Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh  by Cold Chisel
Don’t Dream it’s Over  by Crowded House
Eagle Rock   by Daddy Cool
Hi Honey Ho too  by Daddy Cool
Come Back Again  by Daddy Cool
One Summer  by Daryl Draithwaite
Alive and Brilliant  by Deborah Conway
Way Out West  by Dingoes
I Touch Myself     by Divinyls
Science Fiction   by Divinyls
That Hanging Business   by Do Re Mi
Without You     by Doug Parkinson In Focus
April Sun In Cuba     by Dragon
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda  by Eric Bogle
Hey St. Peter     by Flash & The Pan
Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)     by Ganggajang
King of Wishful Thinking  by Go West
Solid Rock   by Goanna
What’s My Scene     by Hoodoo Gurus
Bitter Sweet  by Hoodoo Gurus
The Right Time  by Hoodoo Gurus
Breakneck Road  by Hunters & Collectors
Throw Your Arms Around Me   by Hunters & Collectors
Talking To A Stranger     by Hunters & Collectors
When the River Runs Dry  by Hunters & Collectors
Get Rocked!     by Hush
Tuckers Daughter  by Ian Moss
Telephone Booth  by Ian Moss
Great Southern Land     by Icehouse
Electric Blue  by Icehouse
Original Sin   by INXS
Need You Tonight  by INXS
Burn For You  by INXS
Along the Road to Gundagai  by Jack O’Hagan
I’m and individual  by Jacko
Motors Too Fast  by James Reyne
You I Know     by Jenny Morris
Are You Gonna Be My Girl  by Jet
Undecided  by Jim Keays
Working Class Man     by Jimmy Barnes
Quasimodo’s Dream   by Jimmy Little
Royal Telephone  by Jimmy Little
Hit & Run     by Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons
Shape I’m In   by Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons
Hit & Run  by Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons
Yill Lull   by Joe Geia
The Wild One   by Johnny O’Keefe
Rebel Rock     by Johnny Rebb & The Rebels
From Little Things, Big Things Grow   by Kev Carmody
Gonna See My Baby Tonight     by La De Das
One Perfect Day  by Little Heros
Cool Change   by Little River Band
Help Is On It’s Way  by Little River Band
Living in a Child’s Dream  by Masters Apprentices
Elevator Driver  by Masters Apprentices
Because I Love You  by Masters Apprentices
Turn Up Your Radio     by Master’s Apprentices
It’s Because I Love You  by Master’s Apprentices
Western Union Man     by Max Merritt & The Meteors
Down Under  by Men at Work
Who Can It Be Now?     by Men At Work
The Nips Are Getting Bigger     by Mental As Anything
Computer Games  by Mi Sex
You Just Don’t Care  by Mi Sex
Don’t Wanna Be The One     by Midnight Oil
Blue Sky Mining  by Midnight Oil
Put Down that Weapon   by Midnight Oil
River Runs Red   by Midnight Oil
Beds Are Burning  by Midnight Oil
Power and the Passion   by Midnight Oil
Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight     by Models
State of the Heart  by Mondo Rock
Summer of ‘81  by Mondo Rock
Chemistry  by Mondo Rock
Come Said the Boy  by Mondo Rock
Cool World   by Mondo Rock
What About Me?     by Moving Pictures
The Ship Song   by Nick Cave
We Have Survived   by No Fixed Address
Take Me Back     by Noiseworks
Shakin’ All Over     by Normie Rowe & The Playboys
On The Prowl     by Ol’ 55
To Her Door   by Paul Kelly
Reckless   by Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls
Before Too Long     by Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls
Going Back Home  by Pigram Brothers
The Day You Come   by Powderfinger
Aloha Steve & Danno     by Radio Birdman
Decent Into Maelstrom  by Radio Birdman
That Ain’t Bad     by Ratcat
Running With The Hurricane   by Redgum
I Was Only Nineteen   by Redgum
Girls On The Avenue     by Richard Clapton
Deep Water  by Richard Clapton
Every Little Bit of Australia   by Rod Boucher
Maybe Midnight  by Rose Bygrave
Bad Boy For Love     by Rose Tattoo
The Real Thing   by Russell Morris
Truly Madly Deeply  by Savage Garden
Broken Down Man   by Scrap Metal
Better     by Screaming Jets
Don’t Give Your Heart Away   by Scribble
For Your Eyes Only  by Sheena Eastern
Howzat     by Sherbet
Summer Love  by Sherbet
Anthem for the Year 2000   by Silverchair
Tomorrow   by Silverchair
Horror Movie     by Skyhooks
Lygon Street Limbo  by Skyhooks
Women In Uniform  by Skyhooks
Jukebox in Siberia  by Skyhooks
Living in the 70’s  by Skyhooks
Pub With No Beer   by Slim Dusty
Always and Ever   by Southern Sons
Hold Me In Your Arms  by Southern Sons
Heart in danger  by Southern Sons
I’ll Be Gone  by Spectrum
On My Way     by Spiderbait
I Got You     by Split Enz
History Never Repeats  by Split Enz
Dont Tear it Down  by Spy Vs Spy
Evie Pt 1,2 &3  by Stevie Wright
Alone With You  by Sunnyboys
Jump In My Car     by Ted Mulry Gang
I Ain’t The One   by The Angels
Face The Day   by The Angels
Mr Damage  by The Angels
No Secrets  by The Angels
Shadow Boxer   by The Angels
Take A Long Line   by The Angels
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again  by The Angels
Bombora     by The Atlantics
Green Limousine     by The Badloves
Chained to the Wheel  by The Black Sorrows
Harley and Rose  by The Black Sorrows
Shivers  by The Boys Next Door
Under The Milky Way  by The Church
Unguarded Moments  by The Church
Wait Up   by The Cockroaches
She’s The One     by The Cockroaches
The Honeymoon Is Over     by The Cruel Sea
Gee     by The Delltones
Good Times  by The Easybeats
She’s so fine  by The Easybeats
Friday on My Mind  by The Easybeats
Sorry  by The Easybeats
Don’t Fall in Love  by The Ferrets
Cattle and Cane   by The Go-Betweens
Big Time Operator     by The Id (With Jeff St. John)
Elvisly Yours   by The Johnnys
Second Solution     by The Living End
The Loved Ones   by The Loved One
In the Summertime  by The Mixtures
Out Of Mind Out Of Sight  by The Models
Barbados  by The Models
I Hear Motion  by The Models
Gimme Head  by The Radiators
Quasimodo’s Dream   by The Reels
(I’m) Stranded  by The Saints
No,Your Product  by The Saints
Dont Throw Stones  by The Sports
Who Listens To The Radio?     by The Sports
Runaway Boys  by The Stray Cats
Wide Open Road   by The Triffids
Get Free     by The Vines
No Aphrodisiac   by The Whitlams
Someday, Someday     by Thirsty Merc
Everlasting Love  by Town Criers
My Island Home  by Warumpi Band.
Woman     by Wolfmother
Treaty  by Yothu Yindi
Jewels & Bullets   by You Am I
Berlin Chair     by You Am I
The Freak  by Zoot

and finally, You’re the Voice by John Farnham for the lamest Aussie song of all time!

comments are welcome and might even be appreciated…

Collingwood

Administrator — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:24:08 +0000

HMS Collingwood was a battleship of the Royal Navy. It participated in The Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of World War I and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was also the largest naval battle in history. It’s always handy to have Collingwood trivia to annoy the odd Wester Roller coaster supporter!