Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[finbarr]

While we're on this tangent, what was Molly smoking when he said (and has reiterated) that Skyhooks would've been as big as or bigger than KISS had they got the breaks and cracked the US market? And yes, Dingle, the answer is ****. But seriously?

Moreover, finding out the Cold Chisel ditty 'you got nothing I want' is based on their calamitous Stateside foray and that MTV considers Midnight Oil a 'one-hit wonder' due to their fleeting new world fame makes me a touch maudlin.

The reason Australian bands of the time had little to no overseas success was because generally they were run of the mill and lacked substance. AC/DC proved that if you were prepared to work hard enough you could make it. They started at the bottom in every country they went to and were prepared to work their arses off up and down each country in the shittiest dives around. And their songs were good.

 

[Steve Dore]

I read it as 'Manure' too, but I read the 'Id' in the Freudian sense.

That is wayyyyy to deep.

 

[Janus]

The reason Australian bands of the time had little to no overseas success was because generally they were run of the mill and lacked substance. AC/DC proved that if you were prepared to work hard enough you could make it. They started at the bottom in every country they went to and were prepared to work their arses off up and down each country in the shittiest dives around. And their songs were good.

It's typical big fish in a small pond behavior. "I'm number one in Australia...why do I have to start all over again?"

Of course, AC/DC had the enigmatic front man and a guitarist that didn't give a **** about anything but creating killer riffs. Recipe for success right there. What did Cold Chisel have? A guy who seemed like he was always drunk and Tucker's Daughter.

As George Carlin says, **** Tucker, Tucker sucks.

 

[tribey]

It's typical big fish in a small pond behavior. "I'm number one in Australia...why do I have to start all over again?"

Of course, AC/DC had the enigmatic front man and a guitarist that didn't give a **** about anything but creating killer riffs. Recipe for success right there. What did Cold Chisel have? A guy who seemed like he was always drunk and Tucker's Daughter.

As George Carlin says, **** Tucker, Tucker sucks.

I like to think it was because Ian Moss was constantly moonlighting as Alain Prost.

 

[raman]

I like to think it was because Ian Moss was constantly moonlighting as Alain Prost.

THAT'S WHO IT IS I COULD NEVER PUT MY FINGER ON IT.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

...And yes, Dingle, the answer is ****....

Molly smoked ****? Well I never.

The reason Australian bands of the time had little to no overseas success was because generally they were run of the mill and lacked substance. AC/DC proved that if you were prepared to work hard enough you could make it. They started at the bottom in every country they went to and were prepared to work their arses off up and down each country in the shittiest dives around. And their songs were good.

Midnight Oils anti US lyrics didn't help.

 

[Trewth]

Holy lol's Tribey!

Ps 'Tribeyesque' is my iPads autocorrect default hahaha

 

[Eddie Dingle]

First time I saw this clip I was in a dark room on acid.

Fair to say it freaked me the **** out.

 

[I Dont Care]

They were that classic lightweight Australian band who were never destined to be popular outside of this country and they probably knew it. Why else would you write a song called "Howzat"?
They later changed their name to Highway in a forlorn effort to break into the US market.

I thought it was 'The Sherbs'

 

[manureid]

Always thought it was Manureid until it was pointed out by the glitterati that it was manureid. Real derp momento.

Whynothaveboth.jpg

 

[finbarr]

I thought it was 'The Sherbs'

I think you're right. But I'm pretty sure it was then Highway.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I think you're right. But I'm pretty sure it was then Highway.

Sherbs was the name for their Aussie "comeback" definitely Highway in the US.

 

[Dylan8]

It works both ways as a manure is a slang insult for manchester united

 

[I Dont Care]

It's typical big fish in a small pond behavior. "I'm number one in Australia...why do I have to start all over again?"

Of course, AC/DC had the enigmatic front man and a guitarist that didn't give a **** about anything but creating killer riffs. Recipe for success right there. What did Cold Chisel have? A guy who seemed like he was always drunk and Tucker's Daughter.

As George Carlin says, **** Tucker, Tucker sucks.

Cold Chisel were just too Australian with their songs, the only one the Yanks were interested in was My Baby as they saw it as a catchy FM song. Most Chisel songs would have been difficult for mainstream Yanks to understand, like with the vegemite...I read somewhere recently they shove it up their bunghole

 

[manureid]

I reckon my username has been discussed on about 3 different boards now....I is famous!

 

[I Dont Care]

Sherbs was the name for their Aussie "comeback" definitely Highway in the US.

So, that's how it went. I just don't remember them being Highway

 

[Steve Dore]

So, that's how it went. I just don't remember them being Highway

Very few people do.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

So, that's how it went. I just don't remember them being Highway

Most of the people associated with the band wish they could forget...

 

[finbarr]

Most of the people associated with the band wish they could forget...

Heroin helped Garth Porter to forget.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Heroin helped Garth Porter to forget.

Imagine how some old rock stars would look if meth was readily available back in the day.

Keith Richards wouldn't exist in human form.

 

[tribey]

Cold Chisel were just too Australian with their songs, the only one the Yanks were interested in was My Baby as they saw it as a catchy FM song. Most Chisel songs would have been difficult for mainstream Yanks to understand, like with the vegemite...I read somewhere recently they shove it up their bunghole

Also, Bruce Springsteen had the whole blue collar joe getting dicked by his boss/country/aunt martha with a second-hand strap-on after a hard day's graft market sewn up.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Pretty much all my t-shirts are band shirts. I still have a bunch of smaller ones from back when I had a metabolism that I'm holding onto for my girls, mostly local bands, distro leftovers. There are some cringeworthy ones too like a Mighty Mighty Bosstones checker print atrocity and a Testeagles shirt. Right now I'm wearing a Wu Tang logo tshirt with the sleeves cut off. Cos I'm from the mean streets of Modbury

Turn that shit up !

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Cold Chisel's "One Long Day" is ****ing awesome !

 

[chiwigi]

The only old shirts I have left are a Descendents 'Milo Goes To College' shirt that a friend got for me in the US in '84 that is almost completely see-thru now, an Adolescents '87 tour shirt that now has all the tour dates faded off, and an original Van Halen '1984' baseball raglan (black 3/4 sleeves). Everything else is gone. Had some amazing skateboard t-shirts too. All gone.

Where I come from if you wore a t shirt you'd probably get hypothermia. Unless you are lucky enough to get summer week.

 

[chiwigi]

Cold Chisel's "One Long Day" is ******* awesome !

My wife is regularly astounded that I haven't heard of random iconic Australian bands. Truth is apart from two songs by Inxs, the only Aussie song I knew was the men at work one. They just don't register on an international level where home grown bands suffice.

I certainly had never heard of midnight oil or cold chisel etc.