Saturday, December 26, 2009

Rockinghorse - Grand Affaire




So Do I/Tell You 'Bout A Feeling/Richard Alpert/Gypsy Lady/On A Friday Night/Turn On The Light/River Running Deep And Wide/You Don't Need An Answer/Oh! Marimba Go!/Call It A Day/Grand Affaire





A big thanks to Rex for sending me the vinyl for this one.



Line-Up: Clint Brown (Bass Guitar) Keith Norris (Drums) Bruce Robinson (Lead Guitar) Carl Evenson (Percussion / Vocals) Wayne Mason (Guitar / Vocals)


Rockinghorse were a Kiwi band who formed in 1973. Keith Norris and Clint Brown had been members of Taylor while Wayne Mason and Carl Evenson joined them from Formyula the last to join was Bruce Robinson who had originally been in the Pleazers. They released 2 albums Thoroughbred 1975 and Grand Affaire 1976.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Spiderbait - Stevie



Stevie/Buster (remix)/When you win the Brownlow (demo)/Eleven Foot Six (demo)





Spiderbait is an Australian rock band who have had two top ten albums and another three albums reach the Australian top 40. Their song "Buy Me a Pony" was #1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 1996, and the group enjoyed success with their 2004 #1 Australian hit cover of "Black Betty".
The three band members Mark Maher better known as Kram (drums/vocals), Damian Whitty or "Whitt" (guitar) and Janet English (bass/vocals) come from the small town Finley
in southern New South Wales where they formed Spiderbait before moving to Melbourne.
Stevie is a non charting single taken from the #10 album Grand Slam.

Cold Chisel - The Things I Love In You




The Things I Love In You/Smalltown Motel Blues/Yakuza Girls/The Things I Love In You (Joe Bishara Remix)



The Last Wave of Summer released in 1998 was a reunion album for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. It reached #1 for one week in October 1998. "The Things I Love In You" was lifted from the album and made it to #10 on the charts.

Baby Animals - Impossible To Fly



Impossible To Fly/Waste Of Time (Live)/Big Time Friends (Live)/ Impossible To Fly (live)




Baby Animals formed in 1989 and went on to huge success with their debut album Baby Animals The album debuted at number six on the Aria Charts and spent six weeks at number one, eventually going eight times platinum .


This is a non -album single released in 1992 that charted at #48