Entertainment & Music Dong contest part 3, host: Illinois Nazi, theme: gender, botes due 7:30pm ACDT

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Powderfinger made it due to one song on a movie soundtrack.
You're thinking of "These Days" from the Two Hands soundtrack. "My Happiness" was the lead single from Odyssey Number Five, which was released a year or so later.

Powderfinger was already pretty huge by the time Two Hands came out. Their songs "Pick You Up" and "D.A.F." were played to death on radio back in 1996. Both were top 20/30 singles and both were top 10 on the Triple J Hottest 100. The album "Double Allergic" went to number 4.

They followed this up with their best album: "Internationalist" which went to number 1 and won Album of the Year at the ARIA awards. "The Day You Come" was awarded Single of the Year and was also voted top 10 in the Triple J Hottest 100. "Passenger" was another big single off that album. Belter, Already Gone, Don't Wanna Be Left Out, Good Day Ray… Nah, that was a top album… I was a fan at that stage.

I suppose they were always pretty bland and radio-friendly, but I agree with you, they were horribly overexposed after the release of "These Days" in 1999. They became irritating and easy-to-hate with crappy songs such as "My Happiness", "My Kind Of Scene" and "(I've Got You) On My Mind" getting played everywhere.

D.A.F. and The Day You Come are good tunes and hold up pretty well.


 
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It would actually be pretty funny if you just walked away like Robert De Niro in 'Heat'. Just dropped everything; turned your back on us and sauntered off back to the SFA Board, leaving us all hanging for the next couple of days.

We've resorted to discussing Powderfinger, for f**k's sake..:D
 

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Glad you liked it.

The clip I nommed was the only one which sounded tip top. I didn't want to nom a crappy-sounding clip and short-change everyone else.
I was hoping someone would post that other clip for your benefit (thanks Ulahoopski )

edit: that harmonica player seemed to take the whole TV show performance with a grain of salt, walking around and chatting away to the drummer and not really giving a f**k about the presentation. I don't suppose he knew that clip was his 5 minutes of fame and he'd be forever immortalised that way.

Kudos to you, the fly and DroopStDanny for giving votes to a stone cold classic. Just 3 people of 25. [Sigh]. :rolleyes:
(…Says me who didn't get my votes in… :oops::$)
 
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