Vaping in bed. I’m going to live tweet my Australian music playlist because I still need to transfer it over from Spotify. Lots of details in this thread.
Number one is the song that always plays first when I shuffle: King of the Mountain by Midnight Oil: https://music.apple.com/us/album/king-of-the-mountain/557442982?i=557443504">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Fun fact: “Yellow bellied black snake sleeping on a red rock waiting for the stranger to go” is a sly reference to the Aussie Aboriginal flag:
I sang along to this song in a bar in Newtown once. Classic great war jam from Hunters and Collectors: https://music.apple.com/us/album/holy-grail/745372790?i=745386002">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
I think this song is about getting really sick of dating all the mediocre men in a tiny town in NSW: https://music.apple.com/us/album/boys-in-town/1444109389?i=1444109402">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
I choose to remember Adelaide as the hometown of Sia instead of the hometown of Rupert Murdoch: https://music.apple.com/us/album/chandelier/882945378?i=882945383">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
The Easybeats were big in Australia in the 60s, and their rhythm guitarist went on to be one of the main producers of AC/DC: https://music.apple.com/us/album/friday-on-my-mind/290646704?i=290646712">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Speaking of AC/DC, I think the best not-obvious pick there is Gone Shootin’: https://music.apple.com/us/album/gone-shootin/574050248?i=574050395">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Something a bit more contemporary: Big Jet Plane by Angus and Julia Stone https://music.apple.com/us/album/big-jet-plane/358822273?i=358822692">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Another easy listen; Streets of Your Town by the Go Betweens. It sounds like a walk through downtown Monterey to me, because that’s my hometown: https://music.apple.com/us/album/streets-of-your-town/1027457527?i=1027457539">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
(I would hope Monterey has fewer “battered wives” though)
Paul Kelly is Australia’s resident raconteur musician: https://music.apple.com/us/album/dumb-things/460188029?i=460188081">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
I read an interview with him, and he was saying some bullshit about being born in a taxi cab, which is definitely some Bob Dylan nonsense I’d expect from Paul Kelly
If you ever get in a bar fight in Australia, be sure to queue up Cold Chisel on the jukebox before things get heated, and you’ll diffuse it immediately: https://music.apple.com/us/album/my-baby-2011-remastered/1443845175?i=1443845321">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Make sure you queue up Khe Sanh though. This is crucial: https://music.apple.com/us/album/khe-sanh/1443225770?i=1443225779">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
I don’t really like Cold Chisel, but I’m including it so if some Aussie stumbles on this thread, I won’t get a ton of shit for it.
Guy drinking a bottle of XXX or VB: “Fair dinkum, mate”
Here’s something dancier; Sneaky Sound System: https://music.apple.com/us/album/pictures/178324505?i=178326011">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...