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6 November 2016

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Revenge by Ministry. 1983 single from their debut album, With Sympathy. Oddly, I heard this song on the online radio program, Underground ‘80s, which plays UK synth pop…but they are American. Apparently, lead singer Al Jourgensen liked to sing with a fake British accent in homage to his favourite British bands.

+You Spin me Round by Dead or Alive. For Pete Burns, who died the week before last of a heart attack. He was just 57! Apparently he was a surgery addict and claimed the only body part that was untouched were the soles of his feet. I’m sad both for his life and his death…

+Brand New Lover by Dead or Alive. 1986

+I don’t wanna be your Boyfriend by Dead or Alive. 1989

+Rebel Rebel by Dead or Alive. 1995 cover.

Donald Trump (Black version) by The Time. Request.

*Boy in the Moon by Margret Urlich. Request.

Fernando by Abba. Request.

Hanging on a Heart Attack by Device. 12” single version. Device is listed as an American band but all songs were produced and co-written by Australian Mike Chapman. The other writer was Holly Knight, powerhouse pop writer of such songs as You Better Be Good To Me and Love is a Battlefield. Device put out just the 1 album, 22b3, in 1986. Knight was also the keyboardist, bass player and singer in the band.

Aussies from NT

*Treaty by Yothu Yindi: composed by indigenous NT band Yothu Yindi in collaboration with Paul Kelly and Midnight Oil to protest the failure of the Australian Government to honour Prime Minister Hawke’s 1988 promise of a treaty with Indigenous Australians, made to them at the Barunga Festival. The song was remixed in Melbourne by Filthy Lucre in 1991 and rapidly climbed the Australian charts as did the album on which it was released, Tribal Voice (1992).

*Jailanguru Pakarnu by Warumpi Band. Coming from Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia. The band was formed in 1980 by Neil Murray, a Victorian “whitefella” working in the region as a schoolteacher and labourer, George Burarrwanga, from Elcho Island, and local boys Gordon and Sammy Butcher but has had many different lineups thru the years. In 1983, the band recorded this track, the first song using an Aboriginal language in a rock music format.

*Arunta Man’s Dream by Herbie Laughton. He was a country singer from Alice Springs, Northern Territory. He was born in 1927 in a creek bed and was a member of the stolen generation. This track is from his 1982 album, Desert Songs I.

*Old Aboriginal Stockman by Kasper Gus Ntjalka Williams, known as Gus Williams. I can’t find a year on this but his whole discography ranges from 1992-94, all 6 albums, so I’m assuming it’s ok…

*Western Wind by Warren Hedley Williams. Title track from his 1995 album. He’s Gus Williams’ son and was born in Hermannsburg in the NT.

*Bebe Song (maybe?) by Isaac Yama and the Pitjantjatjara Country Band. It’s in the Pitjantjatjara language and basically tells the story of lots of Anangu Pitjantjatjara people walking around. He names all the Pit communities starting central and heads west into Western Australia. This is a live recording from the Festival of Aboriginal Rock Darwin in 1988.

To cut a long story Short by Spandau Ballet. Their debut single (1980); it appeared on their first album, too, Journeys To Glory (1981).

The Touch by Kim Wilde. 1984 single from Teases and Dares, her 4^th studio album. She’s coming to Australia with Howard Jones in November.

DNA by A Flock of Seagulls. Instrumental track from their self-titled debut in 1982.

Goodbye by John Ruth. First track on his 1981 album, I am a Model, his only album. He goes by John Ruskan now and is a therapist and author specialising in Integrative Processing Therapy…whatever that is.

Everything will Change by Near Paris. Near Paris hailed from Columbus, Ohio and was composed of Gerald F. Nelson and Dana Riashi. These two, in addition to Robert Crise, had previously made up the band Post Industrial Noise before they disbanded in 1983. This is from their only EP, released in 1985.

Chamber of Hellos by Wire Train. From their first full length album: In a Chamber, released in 1983. It was also the first single from the album. SF band.

Heaven Knows by When in Rome. Their second single from their only album, a self-titled affair from 1988.

Peanuts by Telex. Released on the compilation album: I Don’t Like Remixes – Original Classics 78-86. But originally it’s from the band’s 5^th studio album, Looney Tunes, released in 1988. They’re Belgian.