What song are you listening to right now?

[Magna]

"You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb the hill in my own way
Just wait a while for the right day
And as I rise above the treeline and the clouds
I look down hearing the sound of the things you said today"

 

[Magna]

"A cloud of eiderdown draws around me softening the sound
Sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side and she's breathing low"

^Does it get much if any better?

 

[Callistemon]

@Callistemon
Australian Bands...my favourite is, personally: no, it's not acca dacca... not midnight ooil, those are good runners up, but, for me it's gotta be:

Spoiler

In Excess. - Need U 2night

There you go - that was the album where I felt the rot set in for them! That was when Michael Hutchence became insufferable. I had all their albums before this one - and then that was it for me. Still enjoy their early albums - but this, it's a precursor of Hutchence's subsequent egomanic response to fame. His behaviour in the 90s really made me embarrassed to be Australian. And the music suffered for it too, I think. The Swing, to me, was their last great album...

The Church, on the other hand - still marvellous. Saw Steve Kilbey & friends at a gig last year, excellent.

Similar subject matter to your song, but Kilbey's head isn't a weather balloon, and he doesn't give the impression that he thinks he's God's greatest gift to women...

 

[Magna]

100% I would be one of the people in the car rather than at the party. It reminds me of the kinds of things my friends and I would do at that age.

 

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A song about the movie Rosemary's Baby of all things.

 

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I love the harmonies in this song.

 

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[Slim Jim]

REM - Smell like teen Spirit

Something different...soemthing random.....oh look that cats underwater...or is it?

 

[Slim Jim]

There you go - that was the album where I felt the rot set in for them! That was when Michael Hutchence became insufferable. I had all their albums before this one - and then that was it for me. Still enjoy their early albums - but this, it's a precursor of Hutchence's subsequent egomanic response to fame. His behaviour in the 90s really made me embarrassed to be Australian. And the music suffered for it too, I think. The Swing, to me, was their last great album....

The Church, on the other hand - still marvellous. Saw Steve Kilbey & friends at a gig last year, excellent..

"The church" ah, I thought at first, well I don't know who they are.

I did a little inpromptu search, and got images of catholic priests and such.

"the church band australia" fixed that.

I finally recognized something I have actually seen them before in, this video.

Similar subject matter to your song, but Kilbey's head isn't a weather balloon, and he doesn't give the impression that he thinks he's God's greatest gift to women...

Yeah Hutchence, had attitude, no doubt. But you sure you're not projecting things?? (How is he any more arrogant than say Mick Jagger??) Charismatic rockstars performing at his level are going to have big egos. He was still down to earth. He played small venues after wembley, when he didn't have to. They were a pretty hardworking band , serious about their craft, overall. I think they said they played more gigs than any other Australian band. So they were very well practiced and driven, at least in the 80's. I know in the 90's he was embroiled in Paula Yates stuff, a career downturn. Personal drama. Punching out paparazi. Living in London. Felt he was being vilified by the press. He got knocked out in the street, on tour, in 92 in eastern Europe, apparently suffered some kind of severe concussion that damaged his brain, changed his personality. His band mates said he was not the same after that. I Know a fair bit about the band. (Maybe you know more! begin a native! who lived through it.) Like I said INXS is my favorite Australian musical export. I'd say their best era was mid 80's to early 90's, yes, no argument there.

 

[Slim Jim]

The Church - Reptile

They never did indicate what reptile they are talking about..... lizards, a gecko ?,a iguana ?, maybe even a newt ?. or could it be...SATAN! in the form of snake...I'll guess we'll never know...but the song is very biblical...Well they are called "the Church!... it all fits. Metaphors....it's all metaphor...or maybe they are big subscribers of David Icke. I'll guess we'll never know.