The No Longer Random Chat Thread I

[ferball]

I just keep thinking of more I'd forgotten. LOL.

 

[ferball]

Paul Kelly has written some ripper songs but Everything's Turning to White is an absolute masterpiece, especially if you hear him sing it with one of the Bull sisters.

Its almost perfect.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Hard to argue with some of them songs MP. Maybe Dirty Deeds tho.

I forgot to vote in that but Shark Fin blues is an amazing song.

So is Hand of Law.

There's a bunch of songs by Slim Dusty and Chad Morgan that sound very similar but some are amazing.

Wide Open Road. Bow River. Khe Sahn... for all the cliches about that song I knew a bunch of guys who were in Vietnam. That song is about PTSD and they all love it.

Paul Kelly's "little" songs. Little Decisions, Little Things, Little Kings ... and Everything is Turning to White. He could probably fill the top ten on his own on the right day.

When you get into it there are sooo many good songs from Australia. About Australia too. My Island Home by Warumpi's. IN December I saw Shane Howard sing Solid Rock at Mannalargenna in a tent in a paddock at Cape Portland, behind Little Musslerow Bay, to about 100 people. That was spine chilling, hairs on your neck kind of stuff.

Bloody hard work narrowing it all down to 10.

Khe Sanh was two or three spots short of a placement. If Don Walker had picked an actual battle Australian army troops fought in instead, it would’ve made my top 10. I like good music but I hate historical inaccuracies.

The laughing clowns, the birthday party, sunnyboys, dirty three, the avalanches, and early midnight oil were all close contenders for me.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Paul Kelly has written some ripper songs but Everything's Turning to White is an absolute masterpiece, especially if you hear him sing it with one of the Bull sisters.

Its almost perfect.

Absolutely agree with this.

It’s Springsteen-esque in the best possible way.

 

[blackshadow]

If I'd done the list a dozen times each one would have been different.

 

[blackshadow]

I think this belongs here.

 

[ferball]

If I'd done the list a dozen times each one would have been different.

100%

 

[ferball]

Khe Sanh was two or three spots short of a placement. If Don Walker had picked an actual battle Australian army troops fought in instead, it would’ve made my top 10. I like good music but I hate historical inaccuracies.

Could have been a truck driver tho. They went everywhere. I had a mate who drove trucks in Vietnam. Died of one of the rarest blood cancer's on earth. Only two populations on earth get it. Vietnamese people and Vietnam Vets.

His name was Merv. He was a good guy. Deserved better.

That other Chisel's song, When the War is Over is also about PTSD in vets.

 

[ferball]

Absolutely agree with this.

It’s Springsteen-esque in the best possible way.

Paul Kelly can put lines in songs that just nail you. Just take the wind right out of you.

Bicentennial is another of my favorites.

Powderfinger will probably win it.

I listened to These Days the other. Hit like a freight train.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Paul Kelly can put lines in songs that just nail you. Just take the wind right out of you.

Bicentennial is another of my favorites.

Powderfinger will probably win it.

I listened to These Days the other. Hit like a freight train.

Yeah cool.

I don’t rate the finger much myself. The day you come was a decent song. But they didn’t really innovate much, and the more popular they got the more mundane I found them.

Paul Kelly is also often a bit pedestrian for my taste, but Everything’s turning to white always stops me in my tracks, like it’s from Springsteen’s Nebraska period. Love that kinda unique perspective narrative storytelling in music.

Gravy is another good example. perennially popular too. It’ll rank high.

 

[tazaa]

Question.

Anyone ever flown Iberia (Spanish airline) before and had a suitcase, not lost - but left off the flight because of weight.

Short flight from Ibiza to Nice and these idiots checked my bag on but not the mrs. And no we don’t have air tags (first time a bags ever gone missing)

I realise this happens all the time and is totally randomised, but as Australians we hop a lot once in Europe and don’t stay in the one location for long.

We’re in France until Monday and then off to Italy.

Anyone had a similar issue like this but more so - what are the do’s and don’t’s?
Any tips would be helpful but the lessons learnt, never ever book Iberia EVER and air tags compulsory.
Not worth the risk once you go through it once.

 

[Chip Scab1]

Question.

Anyone ever flown Iberia (Spanish airline) before and had a suitcase, not lost - but left off the flight because of weight.

Short flight from Ibiza to Nice and these idiots checked my bag on but not the mrs. And no we don’t have air tags (first time a bags ever gone missing)

I realise this happens all the time and is totally randomised, but as Australians we hop a lot once in Europe and don’t stay in the one location for long.

We’re in France until Monday and then off to Italy.

Anyone had a similar issue like this but more so - what are the do’s and don’t’s?
Any tips would be helpful but the lessons learnt, never ever book Iberia EVER and air tags compulsory.
Not worth the risk once you go through it once.

Yep.. they are the Copa/Viva Airlines of Europe.

Tip; carry every thing you can't lose on you, in carry on... if possible upgrade, they tend to not lose their Premium/Bizo customers things.

Have fun, stay safe.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Triple J playing Highway to Hell at #31.

This song never gets old.

 

[tazaa]

Yep.. they are the Copa/Viva Airlines of Europe.

Tip; carry every thing you can't lose on you, in carry on... if possible upgrade, they tend to not lose their Premium/Bizo customers things.

Have fun, stay safe.

It showed up this morning.

Got an email that a courier was due to deliver it “shortly”.

Didn’t risk it and went and collected it from the airport.

Feel this is a massive win with some of the other experience’s I have read in relation to this.

Basketcase airline

 

[Chip Scab1]

It showed up this morning.

Got an email that a courier was due to deliver it “shortly”.

Didn’t risk it and went and collected it from the airport.

Feel this is a massive win with some of the other experience’s I have read in relation to this.

Basketcase airline

massive win.. huge.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Triple J playing Highway to Hell at #31.

This song never gets old.

Unsure if I want this countdown to finish before our game tonight.

Good ol' Northerner Johnny Farnham at #15

 

[Makeshift Park]

Unsure if I want this countdown to finish before our game tonight.

Good ol' Northerner Johnny Farnham at #15

Pretty confident the remaining songs are


Nosebleed section
my happiness
never tear us apart
scar
dumb things
don't dream its over
untouched

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Pretty confident the remaining songs are


Nosebleed section
my happiness
never tear us apart
scar
dumb things
don't dream its over
untouched

Long Way to the Top... if you wanna sausage roll? or have I missed it?

I didn't think Untouched would be that high, but they did get some promotion for this countdown, so you might be right.

 

[koshari]

Hottest 100 for Australian tracks tomorrow.

I fully anticipate its gonna be full of awful music.

But because Triple J meant a lot to me as someone growing up in regional Australia, prior to the internet, where there was one CD store for a 50km radius, I felt obligated to submit some tracks for old-times sake.

Easybeats - Friday on my Mind
(there's a Flemington straight between this and the next best Australian track for me - I could rant almost religiously about the incredible composition, structure and immaculate production for weeks. In a roundabout way, its the birth of AC/DC too)

Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
(Honestly hard pressed to pick the best song by this amazing band, the best Australian band in my lifetime, but this is the one I never get sick of)

INXS - Don't Change
(The market is wrong - this is far superior to any of their Kick-era singles. Also the best exercise song made by an Aussie band of all-time)

Total Control - Flesh War
(easily my favourite Aussie track of the past 15 years. Great Madchester vibes. Why didn't they continue???)

AC/DC - Highway to Hell
(yes they were incredibly immature, yes they became an even more preposterous caricature of themselves soon after, and yet the the rhythm section is incredible and this track always seems so prophetic to Bon Scott's destiny that it feels otherworldly decades later)

The Moles - Bury Me Happy
(Australia's answer to early-career REM who should have been huge, a local indie classic)

The Saints - Know Your Product
(Right up there with the best of the Clash as far as late 70s punk goes, still hits hard, Kuepper deserves an AO)

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Revel - Talking Straight
(love the jangly guitar tones, love the relentless and simple rhythm section, evokes modern Australian suburbia better than just about any track I know)

Stevie Wright - Evie
(I have a bonkers theory this was written by Vanda and Young ABOUT Stevie Wright- the third part always makes me dance wildly)

Nick Cave - The Mercy Seat
(You could pick so many by this bloke, got such an amazing discography, it was between Deanna and this, but I just couldn't leave this beauty out, have so many indelible moments getting wasted to this song as a teenager)

Missing a little bit of WPa

 

[Makeshift Park]

Long Way to the Top... if you wanna sausage roll? or have I missed it?

I didn't think Untouched would be that high, but they did get some promotion for this countdown, so you might be right.

Ok replace untouched with flame trees and I think that's it

 

[Makeshift Park]

Haha ok I was wrong

untouched

then
nosebleed section
never tear us apart

Port fans must be very excited about now

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Haha ok I was wrong

untouched

then
nosebleed section
never tear us apart

Port fans must be very excited about now

You were either looking at odds, or should change your name to Nostradamus. Oh wait!

Actually, it was Dumb Things that Flame Trees replaced. I'll still pay it.

 

[koshari]

You were either looking at odds, or should change your name to Nostradamus. Oh wait!

Actually, it was Dumb Things that Flame Trees replaced. I'll still pay it.

I actually reckon dumb things is cherry ripe for metal style cover.

 

[tazaa]

massive win.. huge.

Saved me cause the wife’s happy

100% can breath easily now

 

[ferball]

Haha ok I was wrong

untouched

then
nosebleed section
never tear us apart

Port fans must be very excited about now

Nosebleed section at no2 is probably spot on. Its a ****en unreal song. I haven't listened to it for years, forgot all about it.