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[Music] Australian Non Hits Not At The BBC



Stato

Stato

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Dec 21, 2011
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I've just wound through most of the BBC's 'Australian Hits' programme. Some of it was good, some okay, but it was missing some great Australian music, so what are your favourite Australian tunes that weren't hits?

Answering my own question as everybody does on NSC music threads, let's begin with Forster & McLennan at their poppiest. This should have been huge. Released a decade later and it would have been

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HufrsUMIBA
 














Superphil

Superphil

Dismember
Jul 7, 2003
25,417
In a pile of football shirts
Was introduced to Parkway Drive by the missus a year ago or so, powerful band for sure , and amazing live.

https://youtu.be/WL_8ZY89dP4

Hoping their rescheduled dates in April will go ahead.
 


















Tyrone Biggums

Tyrone Biggums

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Jun 25, 2006
13,498
Geelong, Australia
GT49er said:
There was a time in the 80s when Australian record production was ahead of the world. Loads of bands put out some great sounding stuff.
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70's/80's was our golden era. Then the 90's came and they started closing down all the old pubs where live bands would cut their teeth and the quality of bands started drying up.
 


Pevenseagull

Pevenseagull

Anti-greed coalition
Jul 20, 2003
19,612
couple of documentaries (or 'docos' as they call them in 'Strayla')

The Go-Betweens highest charting LP in the UK "16 Lovers Lane" (#81) featuring the smash hit (#80) Streets Of Your Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5427Jo4nww&ab_channel=SinisaLemic



The Triffids "Born Sandy Devotional" which didn't chart but did yield a top 40 (#26) hit Wide Open Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keYoFOnuHMU&ab_channel=SinisaLemic

The Triffids only charting album 'The Black Swan' made it to #63.

They didn't even have a hit with 'Bury Me Deep In Love' despite it being used as Madge and Harold's wedding song in Neighbours.
 








GT49er

GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
46,716
Gloucester
Tyrone Biggums said:
70's/80's was our golden era. Then the 90's came and they started closing down all the old pubs where live bands would cut their teeth and the quality of bands started drying up.
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Guess it might have been. Pub rock was pretty good over here back then too! But the production quality on some of the Australian stuff around that time was awesome, especially the sound of the drums.
 






Tyrone Biggums

Tyrone Biggums

Well-known member
Jun 25, 2006
13,498
Geelong, Australia
GT49er said:
Guess it might have been. Pub rock was pretty good over here back then too! But the production quality on some of the Australian stuff around that time was awesome, especially the sound of the drums.
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Think it was the period of time in music where it was most Australian. 60's early 70's was very British influenced, then by the 90's it was heading very US influenced.
 




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