Neil Stickler - The Sydney/Hobart Song aka Heading from the Heads

A classic Waterways Records release from 1987 for the boys and girls at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (the C.Y.C.A.) This is yacht rock at its most serene - Tommy Moeller's songwriting is right on course, heading from the heads to the charts.
Neil Stickler - Heading From The Heads by Licorice Lounge

Mike Brady - You're Here to Win

A slightly racially insensitive piece of Australian anthemic rock, complete with a mid 1970s imitation Phil Spector intro for the theme to the 1982 Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane. They really don't make songs like these anymore.
Mike Brady - You're Here to Win by Licorice Lounge

"Good Evening Madam" Variations on a Theme by Smirnoff

Two squeaky, high-voiced bogans trying to grapple with Russian vodka with a well-spoken cocktail waiter as a falsch mock of Lou Reed's Berlin plays in the background. Everybody's drinking pink, darling!

Good Evening Madam, Variations on a Theme by Smirnoff by Licorice Lounge

Bruce Woodley - The ANZ Bank Travelling Man

Bruce Woodley goes baroque pop with his post Seekers promo 45, The ANZ Bank Travelling Man. This is believed to be from around 1971, and only given out to employees of the Australia New Zealand Bank. And weren't they lucky!

Bruce Woodley - The ANZ Bank Travelling Man by Licorice Lounge

Rusty - Sunshine Satire Volume One

In the days when Chryslers ruled the roads and shows like Kingswood Country proudly represented Australian television in the 1980s, releases such as these seemed to popped up on cassette tapes for the Voxson deck.

If anything, Rusty's Sunshine Satire Volume One is a postcard of Australian larrikinism at its most pathetically primal.

Backed by the Ayers Rockettes which once featured Keith Urban who is in fact rumoured to be on this recording, Rusty belts out a half-dozen risqué tunes that follow a line of humour as noticably seen by the likes of Rodney Rude and Kevin Bloody Wilson.

Tracks...

1. Goodbye Joh
2. Ain't No Fun in Darwin
3. Whatever Happened To Malcolm?

4. Dingo's Got My Baby
5. On Strike ....Again
6. Dolly Parton's Tits

January Mix CDR

1. ELMER BERNSTEIN - frankie machine
2. THE WILD CHERRIES - krome plated yabby
3. RICHARD HARRIS - a tramp shining
4. WIZZARD - ball park incident
5. BLACK SABBATH - never say die!
6. HAL BLAINE - topsy '65
7. PHIL MANZANERA - technicolour UFO
8. THE RED KRAYOLA - save the house
9. JOHN LEE HOOKER - big legs, tight skirt
10. THE ZEROS - wild weekend
11. BIG YOUTH - screaming target
12. PERE UBU - non-alignment pact
13. BEST COAST - sun was high (so was i)
14. PVC2 - put you in the picture
15. JACK PALANCE - the meanest guy that ever lived
16. THE QUICK - it won't be long
17. BLACK TAMBOURINE - throw aggi off the bridge
18. GUIDED BY VOICES - indian was an angel
19. BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL - lucifer rising part IV
20. BLUE ORCHIDS - bad education
21. THE FALL - stay away (old white train)
22. PETER JEFFERIES - world in a blanket
23. CULT FIGURES - zip nolan
24. THE KINKS - this time tomorrow
25. RONNIE SPECTOR - tandoori chicken

The scanner bulb gave up the ghost after many years of hearty service, so we're going to have to endure a format change for the time being.

There's a lot of weird and wonderful articles and mixes in my drafts folder that's been accumulating in the past few years, so hopefully 2011 is the year they'll all come out for all and sundry.

Meanwhile, I hope you find something new and interesting in this month's monthly.

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December Mix CDR

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