#australian rock

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Tracklist:

Beds Are Burning • Put Down That Weapon • Dreamworld • Arctic World • Warakurna • The Dead Heart • Whoah • Bullroarer • Sell My Soul • Sometimes

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Friday, February 16: AC/DC, "Squealer"

R.I.P. Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (1946-1980), Malcolm Young (1953-2017)

Before they blew the doors off with Let There Be Rock, AC/DC was a much slinkier and gnarlier affair.  Yes, they had a way with hooks and groove from the beginning, but there was also a seediness that, while never totally disappearing, did seem to get sanded away a bit and replaced with more mischievous good cheer.  But “Squealer” gave off real menace, beginning with its lurching backbeat and ominous chords and extending to Bon Scott’s threatening whisper and a chorus that wasn’t so much chanted as coughed and belched.  This sounded especially unwashed, even for AC/DC, and actually lent some credence to the perception that these guys really were hooligans that quite possibly worshiped Satan.  It was unkempt and shaggy, and not inconsequentially one of the last times they would sound quite this squalid, since just one year later they would tighten up considerably and begin a remarkable hot streak.

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rowland's bio on the 2006 birthday party website

​i went to the pop crimes rowland tribute show recently and some guy behind looked at me and told his mate "he looks like he knows shivers" 🫤

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Had attended Swinburne Free School from which many key figures in the late 70’s Melbourne scene emerged.

Rowlands legendary band The Young Charlatans played only 13 shows before dissolving through internal competitiveness (Ollie Olsen being the other singer and writer).

He joined The Boys Next Door shortly afterwards, bringing with him a swag of great songs including “Shivers”, which 20 years on has come to be considered a classic.

With his addition the band took an enormous leap forward musically and Rowland began developing a guitar style as unique as the band would later become.

His influence on guitarists around the world has probably been as significant as The Birthday Party’s has been in general.

But Rowland was also a singer and frustrations with not getting to sing very often and Nick wanting to sing only his own lyrics became contributing factors in the internal breakdown of the group.

He has subsequently worked on many projects with Lydia Lunch and exercised his vocal chords extensively with These Immortal Souls.

His brilliant first “solo” album “Teenage Snuff Film” came out in 1999

[sillyrabbit81]

Its almost 5pm and its still 40 degrees (104 fahrenheit) and all I can think about is this song

[dav3sgahan]

the wrapped is out, and the mental illness was really illnessing this year :,)

[andypartridges]

the church performing on italian tv, 1988

[musicsourcedaily]

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - Girl Sports

[samtheangelfox]

Black Fingernails, Red Wine - Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine (2006) [MA15+ Video] Dir: Nash Edgerton

[scaryrabbit]

The Angels | Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again | The Melbourne Music Show (1988)

[bestfrozentreats2]

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Tracklist:

The Opener • How to Socialise & Make Friends • The Face of God • Anna • Sagan-Indiana • The Omen • Animal & Real • UFO Lighter • I've Got You

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𝔞𝔠/𝔡𝔠  - 𝔱.𝔫.𝔱.

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nicks biography from the 2006 birthday party website

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Nicks history is well catalogued, his ever burgeoning success and notoriety fueled by a variety of achievements since the early, wild Birthday Party days.

After his family moved to Melbourne from the country town of Wangaratta in 1973, he met some of his future band mates (Mick, Phil, and Tracy) at Caulfield Grammar School and began performing singing duties with them at weekend rehearsals and occasional school dances.

By 1977 the band, now called The Boys Next Door, were slipping untidily into the new “movement” of Punk/New Wave and Nick met Anita Lane who would become his (un)steady girlfriend for the next 10 years. His writing at this time was still maturing but after the move to London in 1980 it went from strength to shrink and found its own unique mode of expression within the Birthday Party.

Nicks untamed stage manner and fierce vocal delivery were the conduit through which the band's crazed performances flowed. Since the groups demise Nick has developed unhindered as his work with The Bad Seeds, his novel “And The Ass Saw The Angel”l and his various involvements in film work (writing, acting and composing) amply demonstrate.

A biography of Nick called “Bad Seed” written by Englishman Ian Johnston was released in 1995.

[satin-carmin]

You, the only light in the room Yours, the only blood I can taste

Starbenders, Blood

[onryou-onryou]

Magic Dirt - Pace It (Official Video)