Marc Hunter - Communication (1985)
Mother Goose – Don't Believe In Fairytales (1979)
Gary Young And The Rocking Emus (1982)
Rick Springfield – Beginnings (1972)
Russell Morris – Russell Morris (1975)
01 Pop Art - Tch-Tch-Tch
02 Hell Sucks - Sacred Cowboys
03 C'mon - Wet Taxis
04 Look At It - Seems Twice
05 Wild About You - Saints
06 I Only Panic When There's Nothing to Do - Leftovers
07 Animal World - Last Words
08 Task Force - Razar
09 More Suicides Please - Thought Criminals
10 My City of Sydney - XL Capris
11 I Never Thought I'd Find - Manikins
12 Sex Crimes - Boys Next Door
13 Column One - Seems Twice
14 Shivers - Young Charlatans
15 She's Got the Money - Young Modern
16 Family Name - Triffids
17 Girl with a White Stick - Sekret Sekret
18 Cool in the Tube - Surfside 6
19 State - Voigt/465
20 Long Story - Tactics
21 Red River - Whirlywirld
22 Do That Dance - Primitive Calculators
23 Mmmm - Systematics
24 Recurring Nightmare - Super-K
25 No Way on Earth - New Christs
26 Study for Falling Apart - Cough Cough
27 Death Take Me Now - Black Assassins
28 Last Kiss - Lonely Hearts
Disc Two
01 12 Ways To Go - Equal Local
02 Ghost Beat - Laughing Clowns
03 Over & Beyond & Through - Poles
04 This Is My Happy Hour - Scientists
05 Release The Bats - Birthday Party
06 Darlinghurst Nights - GoBetweens
07 Something To Do - Sunday Painters
08 Talking To Cleopatra - Essendon Airport
09 Dead Eyes Opened - Severed Heads
10 Average Inadequacy - Machinations
11 Stuck On You - Sardine
12 TV Glue - X (Sydney)
13 The Slab - Hunters & Collectors
14 My Confession - End
15 All Done In - Plug Uglies
16 All You Wanted - Apartments
17 Ghost Ships - Saints
18 Springtime - Lighthouse Keepers
19 Wild Down Home - Killer Sheep
20 Making Waves - David Chesworth
1 Boys Will Be Boys - Choirboys
2 Party - Christine Anu
3 Alone With You - Sunnyboys
4 Apple Eyes - Swoop
5 I Want You - Toni Pearen
6 Wanna Be Up - Chantoozies
7 Just Like Fire Would - The Saints
8 Barbados - Models
9 Happy Birthday Helen - Things Of Stone And Wood
10 Soul Kind Of Feeling - Dynamic Hepnotics
This is a collection of bonus and live tracks, cover versions, B-sides and some lesser known album tracks from various Australian albums. They cover hard rock, blues-rock, prog-rock, soul and rock'n'roll.
1 Red Hot Momma - Ariel - (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
2 No Dying In The Dark - Bakery - (Momento)
3 Boogie Man - Daddy Cool - (The Missing Masters)
4 Got A Feeling - Tamam Shud - (Evolution / Goolutionites (And The Real People)
5 Just Couldn't Believe It - Autumn - (Comes... Autumn)
6 Moon Dance - Renée Geyer - (Renée Geyer)
7 Bumper Bar Song (B-Side) - Madder Lake - (Stillpoint)
8 Hey Joe - Carson - (On The Air/Blown)
9 Hot Rod James - Skyhooks - (The Skyhooks Tapes)
10 Gimme Shelter - Blackfeather - (At The Mountains Of Madness)
11 We Need a Song (Single) - Wendy Saddington And The Copperwine - (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
12 Blow In D (single B-side,1971) - Chain - (Toward The Blues)
13 Dalmas (Theme) - Spectrum - (Milesago )
14 Roll Over Beethoven (Live At Sunbury 1974) - Buster Brown - (Something To Say)
15 United Nations (Live at Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, April 1974) - Buffalo - (Only Want You For Your Body)
10 All Along The Watchtower - The La De Da's - (Legend)
17 Bloodsucker - Bakery - (Momento)
18 Don't Let Go - Company Caine - (Dr. Chop)
19 Liberate Rock - Coloured Balls - (Ball Power)
20 Politician - Kahvas Jute - (Wide Open)
21 Who The Cap Fit (Nightmoves Live 1977) - Billy T - (No Definitions)
22 Down The River (Live At Sunbury) - Madder Lake - (Stillpoint)
23 Space Captain - Renée Geyer - (Renée Geyer)
24 Yeah Tonight - Ariel - (Rock & Roll Scars)
25 You Never Can Tell (Long Version) - Daddy Cool - (The Missing Masters)
26 Forging Ahead - Skyhooks - (The Skyhooks Tapes)
27 Forty Days And Forty Nights (Live At The Garrison 73) - Sid Rumpo - (First Offense [Reissue])
28 Don't Watch Me (Bonus Track) - Autumn - (Comes... Autumn)
29 Goolutionites Theme Part 1 - 2 - Tamam Shud - (Evolution / Goolutionites & The Real People)
30 Slowly Learning How - Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - (More Arse Than Class Remastered 2006)
70's Aussie Music Rarities Vol.1
1 Paul Kelly And The Messengers– Careless
2 Lucinda Williams– Passionate Kisses
3 Nick Barker And The Reptiles– Make Me Smile (Come Up and See)
4 James– Sit Down
5 Choirboys– Empire
6 Ian Moss– Mr Rain
7 Bell Jar – Burn
8 Hunters & Collectors– Ghost Nation
9 Easterhouse– Waiting For The Redbird
10 Kate Ceberano– Brave
11 Icehouse– Touch The Fire
12 Tina Turner– Steamy Windows
13 The Mad Turks*– The Last Time
14 Neil Murray– Let's Fall In Love Again (Just For The Hell Of It)
The Party Boys were an Australian rock supergroup with a floating membership that existed from 1982 until 1992. Created by Mondo Rock's bass guitarist, Paul Christie as a part-time venture for professional musicians with downtime from their other projects, the group had temporary members from acts such as Status Quo, The Angels, Sherbet, Skyhooks, Rose Tattoo, The Choirboys, Australian Crawl, Divinyls, Models, Dragon and Swanee plus international stars including Joe Walsh, Eric Burdon, Alan Lancaster and Graham Bonnet. In March 1983 their debut album, Live at Several 21sts, peaked at No. 9 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. In June 1987 they had a number-one hit on the related Singles Chart with a cover version of John Kongos' hit, "He's Gonna Step On You Again". It also peaked at No. 10 on the New Zealand Singles Chart.
Paul Christie was the bass guitarist for Australian rock group Mondo Rock, which he left in 1982. He put together the first line-up of The Party Boys in Sydney with guitarists Kevin Borich (ex-The La De Das, Kevin Borich Express), Harvey James (Mississippi, Ariel, Sherbet), and drummer Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup, who had recently left The Angels.Australian Crawl vocalist James Reyne was in Sydney shooting the TV mini-series Return to Eden and agreed to play some shows between filming. The band did a short run of shows performing cover songs chosen by various members. Recordings made of these gigs became the basis for the group's album Live at Several 21sts. When Reyne's filming schedule was over, he returned to his work with Australian Crawl in Melbourne and left the band. In March 1983, the album reached No. 9 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and spawned the single, "Bitch" a cover of The Rolling Stones' album track from 1971's Sticky Fingers. Christie, Borich and James were encouraged to continue with the project.
Richard Clapton was brought in as Reyne's replacement on vocals and Don Raffaele joined on saxophone. The band toured the east coast, again playing only covers from artists including Bob Dylan, Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones. A second live album, Greatest Hits (of Other People) (1983) was the result of that tour and the Bobby Fuller Four cover single, "I Fought the Law", was issued in November. Clapton and James left the group. Greatest Hits (of Other People) peaked at No. 25. The singer for the next tour was former Skyhooks vocalist and TV personality Graham "Shirley" Strachan with Rose Tattoo guitarist Robin Riley replacing James; this version of the band produced the album No Song Too Sacred, yet another live album of covers. The related single, "Kashmir", was a Led Zeppelin song.
The band's 1985 line-up saw Strachan, Riley and Bidstrup (who was now with GANGgajang) replaced by Marc Hunter from Dragon, ex-Divinyls drummer Richard Harvey and United States guitarist, Joe Walsh (ex-The Eagles). The sold-out national tour that followed formed the basis of the album You Need Professional Help that featured an extended guitar duel between Walsh and Borich on Walsh's track "Rocky Mountain Way". [extract from World eBook Library]
In 1986, Christie, Borich and Harvey teamed up with Rose Tattoo lead singer Angry Anderson, guitarist John Brewster from The Angels and ex-Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster to form a new version of The Party Boys. With Lancaster on bass, Christie switched to drums so the band now had two drummers. No recording was made of this line-up and following the tour, Anderson left.
For this collection I have focused on individual Australian composers and their soundtrack scores.
Bordertown (music composed by Guy Gross)
Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries set in 1952 in a refugee camp located in a dusty, remote Australian town called Baringa. The story depicts a year in the lives of the camp residents, displaced persons from World War II who are learning English and awaiting jobs and new lives in Australia. The series stars Hugo Weaving as an English teacher and also features Cate Blanchett in a smaller role as an albino Italian migrant.
Guy Gross is an Australian film and television composer. He is known most for writing the award-winning music for the Australian science fiction series Farscape and the international hit film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. He also composed for the animated television series Blinky Bill and Dumb Bunnies. He has 91 credits as screen composer.
Underbelly (music by Burkhard Dallwitz)
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series which first aired on the Nine Network between 13 February 2008 and 1 September 2013, before being revived on 3 April 2022. Each series is based on real-life events. There have been six full series, with season 7 being a miniseries. The first series is based on the book Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld, by journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule. The series also borrows the title 'Underbelly' from a previously successful series of 12 true crime compilations by the same authors.
Burkhard von Dallwitz is a German-Australian composer. Since 1984, he has worked as a composer for feature films, television and commercials in Australia, Europe and the United States. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for his work on The Truman Show (1998).
For this series I'm listing albums by Australian artists that have been "lost and forgotten" in time for different reasons, but still worth a first time listen or revisit. Where possible I've included a link for more information about the relevant artist.
1-1 Hunters & Collectors– Throw Your Arms Around Me
1-2 Hunters & Collectors– Holy Grail
1-3 Hunters & Collectors– Do You See What I See?
1-4 Hunters & Collectors– When The River Runs Dry
1-5 Hunters & Collectors– True Tears of Joy
1-6 Hunters & Collectors– Blind Eye
1-7 Hunters & Collectors– Say Goodbye
1-8 Hunters & Collectors– Where Do You Go?
1-9 Hunters & Collectors– Everything's On Fire
1-10 Hunters & Collectors– The Slab
1-11 The Living End– Prisoner Of Society
1-12 The Living End– White Noise
1-13 The Living End– All Torn Down
1-14 The Living End– Roll On
1-15 The Living End– Second Solution
2-1 James Reyne– Reckless
2-2 James Reyne– The Boys Light Up
2-3 James Reyne– Oh No Not You Again
2-4 James Reyne– Five Miles Closer To The Sun
2-5 James Reyne– Motors Too Fast
2-6 James Reyne– Harvest Moon
2-7 James Reyne– Daughters Of The Northern Coast
2-8 James Reyne– Some People
2-9 James Reyne– Slave
2-10 James Reyne– Day In The Sun
2-11 The Angels– Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again
2-12 The Angels– I Ain't The One
2-13 The Angels– Comin' Down
2-14 The Angels– Take A Long Line
2-15 The Angels– After The Rain
2-16 The Angels– Marseilles
2-17 The Angels– Be With You
3-1 Baby Animals– One Word
3-2 Baby Animals– Early Warning
3-3 Baby Animals– Rush You
3-4 Baby Animals– Tonight
3-5 Baby Animals– Ain't Gonna Get
3-6 Baby Animals– How Do I Make You
3-7 Boom Crash Opera– Onion Skin
3-8 Boom Crash Opera– The Best Thing
3-9 Boom Crash Opera– Dancing In The Storm
3-10 Boom Crash Opera– Great Wall
3-11 Boom Crash Opera– Hands Up In The Air
3-12 Boom Crash Opera– Get Out Of The House
3-13 Boom Crash Opera– Bettadaze
3-14 Killing Heidi– Weir
3-15 Killing Heidi– Mascara
3-16 Killing Heidi– Superman/Supergirl
3-17 Killing Heidi– I Am
3-18 Killing Heidi– Outside Of Me
1-1 Sherbet– Rock Me Gently 3:40
1-2 Rick Springfield– Hooky Joe 2:43
1-3 Jon English – Get Your Love Right 3:30
1-4 Allison Gros – Naturally 2:23
1-5 The Bootleg Family Band– Your Mama Don't Dance 3:03
1-6 Mark Holden– Reach Out For The One Who Loves You 2:59
1-7 Vanda & Young– Lazy River 3:35
1-8 Dragon – April Sun In Cuba3:29
1-9 Smacka Fitzgibbon– The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie 3:11
1-10 Ol' 55– Looking For An Echo 3:26
1-11 John Farnham With Allison Durbin– Baby Without You 2:28
1-12 Stevie Wright– Guitar Band 2:28
1-13 Drummond – Daddy Cool 2:41
1-14 Ted Mulry– Marcia 3:15
1-15 Skyhooks– Ego Is Not A Dirty Word 3:00
1-16 Healing Force– Golden Miles 3:25
1-17 Marcia Hines– What I Did For Love (2004 Remaster) 3:20
1-18 Marty Rhone– Star Song 2:51
1-19 Jeff St. John & Copperwine – Teach Me How to Fly 4:08
1-20 Jon Blanchfield– Lucy's Place 3:02
2-1 Hush – Rough Tough 'N' Ready 3:49
2-2 Miss Linda George – Mama' Little Girl 3:40
2-3 Digby Richards– People Call Me County 3:31
2-4 Mi-Sex– But You Don't Care 4:43
2-5 Ronnie Burns– Smiley 3:30
2-6 Hot City Bump Band– Do What You Wanna Do 3:31
2-7 Russell Morris– Sweet Sweet Love 4:29
2-8 Flash & The Pan– Down Among The Dead Men 4:49
2-9 Harry Young And Sabbath– The Wheat In The Field 3:15
2-10 S.C.R.A. – Roly Poly 3:18
2-11 Monalisa & Terry Young – I Wanna Make It With You Tonight 3:39
2-12 Carol Lloyd Band– All The Good Things 4:04
2-13 The Mixtures– The Pushbike Song 2:33
2-14 Greg Anderson – No Roses For Michael 3:54
2-15 Daryl Braithwaite– Cavalry 3:36
2-16 Air Supply– Do What You Wanna Do 3:46
2-17 Ted Mulry Gang– Crazy 3:28
2-18 Troupadours – By The Devil (I Was Tempted) 2:58
2-19 John Paul Young– Keep On Smilin' 3:00
2-20 Robin Jolley– Do You Wanna Boogie 3:16
1-1 Brian Cadd– Keep On Rockin' 4:39
1-2 Doug Ashdown– Winter In America (Leave Love Enough Alone) 3:18
1-3 Autumn – Yellow River 3:05
1-4 Daryl Braithwaite– Old Sid 3:25
1-5 Ariel – Jamaican Farewell 2:50
1-6 Stars – Back Again 4:13
1-7 Marcie Jones– Gonna Get Married 3:40
1-8 The Strangers – Melanie Makes Me Smile 3:03
1-9 Ray Burton – Too Hard To Handle 2:57
1-10 Johnny O'Keefe– So Tough 2:24
1-11 Fielding & Dyer– The Ghost 3:18
1-12 Ted Mulry Gang– My Little Girl 3:37
1-13 Kevin Johnson – Man Of The 20th Century 4:12
1-14 Russell Morris– Live With Friends 3:40
1-15 Flake – Under The Silent Tree 3:52
1-16 Ol' 55– Stay (While The Night Is Young) 4:08
1-17 Railroad Gin– Do Ya Love Me 3:16
1-18 Ray Burgess– Touch Me 4:27
1-19 Digby Richards– Raincoat In The River 3:02
1-20 John St. Peeters– So Many Ways 3:33
1-21 Stuart & McKay– Hey Billy 2:59
1-22 Finch – Short Changed Again 2:55
2-1 Sherbet– You're All Woman 2:54
2-2 Lotus – Lotus 1 (I'll Be Gone) 3:47
2-3 Doug Parkinson & The Southern Star Band– I'll Be Around 3:18
2-4 William Shakespeare – Just The Way You Are 3:10
2-5 Jon English – Handbags And Gladrags 5:22
2-6 Richard Clapton– Down In The Lucky Country 3:38
2-7 Abigail – Je T'Aime (I Love You) 3:19
2-8 Moscos & Stone– Trouble In The City 3:07
2-9 Mississippi – Kings Of The World 2:31
2-10 Sinclair Bros.– Yesterfool 4:11
2-11 Colleen Hewett– Carry That Weight 2:53
2-12 Mark Holden– I Wanna Make You My Lady 2:41
2-13 The Flying Circus– Turn Away 3:42
2-14 Col Joye– Heaven Is My Woman's Love 2:47
2-15 King Harvest – Wichita Lineman (Introducing By The Time I Get To Phoenix) 4:16
2-16 Supernaut – Too Hot To Touch 4:04
2-17 Samantha Sang– You Keep Me Dancing 2:53
2-18 Gerry & The Joy Band– Ongo Bongo 3:34
2-19 Pat Carroll– All Kinds Of Everything 3:03
2-20 Ronnie Burns– Prophet 4:20
2-21 Renee Geyer– Stares And Whispers 3:25
2-22 Reg Lindsay– Armstrong 2:41
2-23 Rabbit– Too Much Rock 'N' Roll 3:24
1-1 Skyhooks– Let It Rock
1-2 John Paul Young– Yesterday's Hero
1-3 The Musick Express– Jackie's Thing
1-4 Rumour– Play Mama Play
1-5 Daddy Cool – Bom Bom
1-6 Stylus – Work Out Fine
1-7 Shepherd – Birmingham Station
1-8 Ted Mulry– Falling In Love Again
1-9 Emma Hannah– Waiting For The Rain
1-10 Erl Dalby & Pyramid– Can't Wait For September
1-11 Gerry & The Joy Band– Rave On
1-12 The Aztecs – Believe It Just Like Me
1-13 Daryl Braithwaite– Love Has No Pride
1-14 Tony Cole– The Hook
1-15 Marcia Hines– Fire And Rain
1-16 Flake – Life Is Getting Better
1-17 Jamie Dunn– Jamie Come Home
1-18 Normie Rowe– Hello
1-19 Doug Parkinson– Everlasting Love
1-20 Doug Ashdown– The Saddest Song Of All
2-1 Sherbet– So Glad You're Mine
2-2 Renee Geyer– Heading In The Right Direction
2-3 Chain – Judgement
2-4 Carol Lloyd Band– Storm In My Soul
2-5 The Love Story – Neanderthal Man
2-6 Jon English – Words Are Not Enough
2-7 Gary Young With Daddy Cool – Rock 'N Roll Lady
2-8 Ted Mulry Gang– Naturally
2-9 Dave Allenby With Autumn – She Works In A Woman's Way
2-10 The Seekers– Sparrow Song
2-11 Digby Richards– Little Suzuki
2-12 Hush – Nothing Stays The Same Forever
2-13 G. Wayne Thomas– Open Up Your Heart
2-14 Moonlight – The Light
2-15 Kevin Johnson – Over The Hills And Far Away
2-16 Lobby Loyde & The Coloured Balls – Liberate Rock
2-17 Ross Wilson – Living In The Land Of Oz
2-18 Dragon – Are You Old Enough
2-19 Don Lane– We Were Lovers Then
2-20 Max Merritt And The Meteors– Good Feelin'
1-1 Sherbet– Summer Love
1-2 Mississippi – Will I
1-3 Mi-Sex– Computer Games
1-4 Robin Jolley– Marshall's Portable Music Machine
1-5 Ferrets*– Don't Fall In Love
1-6 The Master's Apprentices– Think About Tomorrow Today
1-7 Rick Springfield– Speak To The Sky
1-8 Moscos & Stone– Captain Captain
1-9 Bob Hudson – The Newcastle Song
1-10 Matt Taylor – I Remember When I Was Young
1-11 Colleen Hewett– Superstar
1-12 Marty Rhone– Denim & Lace
1-13 Axiom – My Baby's Gone
1-14 Silver Studs– Happy Days
1-15 Digby Richards– New York City
1-16 William Shakespeare – Can't Stop Myself From Loving You
1-17 Air Supply– Love And Other Bruises
1-18 Stylus – World Of Make Believe
1-19 The Mixtures– In The Summertime
1-20 John Farnham– Everything Is Out Of Season
2-1 Little River Band– Curiosity Killed The Cat
2-2 Hush – Glad All Over
2-3 Brian Cadd– Ginger Man
2-4 Skyhooks– Million Dollar Riff
2-5 Bjerre*– She Taught Me How To Love Again
2-6 Linda George– Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
2-7 Finch – Where Were You
2-8 Ted Mulry Gang– Darktown Strutters Ball
2-9 Cheetah – Walking In The Rain
2-10 Supernaut – I Like It Both Ways
2-11 Marcia Hines– From The Inside
2-12 Bluestone – Wind And Rain
2-13 Daddy Cool – Come Back Again
2-14 Russell Morris– Let's Do It
2-15 Stars – Look After Yourself
2-16 Allison McCallum*– Superman
2-17 The Sports– Who Listens To The Radio
2-18 Gene Pierson– Reach Out
2-19 Dragon – Get That Jive
2-20 John Paul Young– The Love Game