Bands from Australia

[Austin Maxi]

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Another vote here for The Go-Betweens. '16 Lovers Lane' is a great album. I'm a particular fan of 'Streets Of Your Town'.

Also, I only know one song by a band called 1927 (I think they're Australian) - 'That's When I Think Of You' was a minor hit in the late '80s and was excellent.

[zip55]

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Yeh RIP ... Bad Boy for Love ... absolute classic.

[sixtyten]

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Rose Tattoo

RIP Mick Cocks

[zip55]

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My favourites were:

I Got You by Split Enz (reminds me of my last year at school)
& Who Can It Be Now? by Men at Work

Blasphemer ... ! Split Enz are Kiwis ....

[sixtyten]

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Were the Cardiacs Australian? I quite liked them.

Cardiacs are British

[stud1al]

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Were the Cardiacs Australian? I quite liked them.

I've not heard of them but then,there's a lot i've never heard of.
Sure you don't mean the cardigans?If so, they were not aussie.

[tonstu04]

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There was a great rock band called Kings Of The Sun, I saw them when they supported Kiss in 1988.

[Fifi62]

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My favourites were:

I Got You by Split Enz (reminds me of my last year at school)
& Who Can It Be Now? by Men at Work

[mazzer]

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Were the Cardiacs Australian? I quite liked them.

[Popsicle]

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I loved the Go-Betweens too, in particular "16 Lovers Lane", although I have most of their albums. I really liked Grant McLennan's solo stuff too-I still play his "Fireboy" CD a lot.

[sixtyten]

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I know the divinyls are Aussie legends, but that seems to be their only UK hit

[grubsmum]

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Ooh and I forgot to mention the AMAZING Cold Chisel.......fantastic Oz band!

T

[grubsmum]

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My faves are:

Mondo Rock!!! Daddy Cool!!! (both featuring the legendary Ross Wilson)

Also Pseudo Echo (Funkytown, Listening) and Wa Wa Nee (Stimulation, Sugar Free). They supported Go West on their tour down under in May 2008 and they were fab.....as of course were Go West!

The Divinyls weren't a one-hit wonder.....along with their song 'I Touch Myself' they also had hits with 'Boys In Town' , 'Science Fiction', 'Pleasure and Pain' and 'Only Lonely'...and as far as I know they're still around.

Trish
Aussie living in the UK

[sixtyten]

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Radio Birdman!

[stud1al]

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I liked most of the bands mentioned so far.
Also quite liked OL' 55. (ON THE PROWL,LOOKING FOR AN ECHO,RUBY,2 FACES HAVE I,and the number one hit ROCKIN" CHRISTMAS)