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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
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
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
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
This is the cover of this playlist btw
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
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
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
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
(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
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
Make sure you queue up Khe Sanh though. This is crucial: https://music.apple.com/us/album/khe-sanh/1443225770?i=1443225779
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
