Well, above now is a
Satin Bowerbird, or for short just a
Bowerbird which is again from the John Gould's The Birds of Australia.
OK, last week was my one year anniversary of my blog which I started with a post about one of my classic albums and it was going to be series but I only did
one album. All these albums here could be in my classic albums series so maybe I'll get back to it after posting the A to Z: 100 Best Australian Albums list. I think I could write a lot more about each of these albums but I did promise to keep it short so I will.
The Best of the... by
Hard-OnsRight, here's a best of album which I think is justified because the
Hard-Ons always put out a lot of
7" singles, Mini-albums or EPs and was really a
D.I.Y. band when they started in the 80's. This compilation is of all the most important early work by them. The only band I've seen live which brought the ceiling down on the crowd, literally but that still didn't stop them playing, I have to tell that story in full at a later date.
Big Name, No Blankets by
Warumpi BandOne of the greatest bands from the 80's which are totally unfortunately forgotten now. In my opinion they should be remember like
Midnight Oil but are not, maybe just as their footnote which is totally unfair. At least no one in this band turned into a shit
politician, I don't know how people listen to them without thinking about that.
Warumpi Band have a long off-on history but have a very short recording out-put which can't help, I guess. This is thier debut album from 1986 and I recommend it to anyone who listened to that other band, this is better.
Blood Red River: 1982-1984 by
The ScientistsBefore these
reissues The Scientists albums were so hard to find with
Sub Pop in America having only one compilation album of their huge recording out-put but now in the last few years all of it became available. This one is of the middle years and the best, well maybe, at least the best place to start with but off course you should go get the
earlier and
later recordings as well.
Kim Salmon is very prolific but so underrated too and not the last time he will appear here.
Blue Trees by
Mick Turner/Tren BrothersAfter the
last Dirty Three album in 2005 and the violin player running off with someone who I don't need to name here.
Mick Turner released this in 2007,
underrated compilation album of recordings he and
Jim White recorded without that mad fiddle player bloke and I'll say here it's better than some of the
Dirty Three albums and proves these two are just as important as that other guy, what is his name anyway?
Body Language by
Kylie MinogueKylie really gets to much of a bad rap for being one of the biggest singers, if not the biggest music star ever from Australia, it's that
tall poppy thing. I love Kylie and I don't care what anyone says. Her 2003 album
Body Language is her masterpiece, in my opinion, which came two years after the run-away success of her single "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" and the previous album,
Fever plus a couple of years before her
cancer scare.
Stay tuned for the letter "C" soon...
So I watched Willard again last night which I showed to my girlfriend for the first time, it's a classic if you've never seen it. Crispin Glover stars as Williard who becomes best friends with a white rat who he saves from the traps he himself set, he names this rat Socrates. He starts to feed and train Socrates and all the other rats that live in his basement but it becomes clear another rat is the leader of them, who Willard names Big Ben. Anyway it's a totally great movie from the early 2000's and you should check it out yourself. I watched the extras which I don't normally do and found-out there was a film in 1971 from which this one was somewhat based. Also, there was a 1969 short novel called Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert which I never knew about so I wonder if they're hard to find. This video below is a DVD extra which is Glover's cover version of Michael Jackson's song , his first solo number one hit and now I know it was for the sequel of the original movie called, Ben.
