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at the pub, or at a party, whenever you're stuck, for what to say,
if
you wanna be dinky-di, why don't you give it a try,
look
'em right in the eye and say g'day..."
(Slim Dusty)
Show 152
From
where we're sitting in the time/space continuum it's right up at the
pointy end of the year 2025. Music has helped us arrive battered but
not broken, and we're dancing right up to the edge, to the year's
final moments, and doing pirouettes.
Hepnobeat
- the Dynamic Hepnotics, a 1981 single that was also on their 1982 EP
titled Strange Land. This version from a 2016 compilation, Hepnobest.
Lygon
Street Meltdown -
the Melbourne
Ska Orchestra, from their self-titled 2013 album.
Lygon Street is a cultural and economic district in central
Melbourne.
Fancy
Dan -
Ralph White.
This version was
reissued on the Austudy
label in April 2025 as a compilation titled Disco.
Ralph White was a
musician and producer in Sydney
when he was approached
by a
label to create four
songs for two 12-inch
singles of a popular
new dance music called
disco. Over two days at the Alberts Studio in Sydney
(home of the Easybeats and birthplace of AC/DC),
White and a handful of local studio players, including renowned
guitarist Tommy Emmanuel, laid down four disco tracks.
Break
It Bought It
- Confidence
Man,
it
was on their 2022 album
Tilt.
Move
- First Nations rapper
Danzal Baker, better known as Baker Boy, from his 2021 album Gela.
Children
of the Man -
Bananagun, from their
2024 album Why Is the Colour of the Sky?
Everything
I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On) - Tex
Perkins and the Fat Rubber Band,
a 2021 single, covering a song by New Orleans legend
Allen Toussaint.
What's
That Sound? - Snout, the title track of their 1994 album.
Gimme
Some Lovin’ -
GANGgajang, using
the familiar title for their own
single from 1984. It
was also on their 1985 album titled GANGgajang. This version from a
compilation, The Glory Days of Aussie Pub Rock, vol.1, 2016.
Keep
Your Monster On
A
Leash -
Grand Wazoo, from a 2007 album titled Soul Monster, recorded
live at the Rainbow Hotel in Melbourne, covering the Tower of Power
song from 1991, which was written by Huey Lewis.
Cracks
- by a young man who goes by the name Flash Poetry, from his album
Reality, Now, a November 2025 release.
Here
- Briggs,
a single from 2017, with
Caiti Baker singing.
Briggs wrote the song to go with a TV campaign for the Australian
National Rugby League.
Swampland
- the Scientists, a
1982 single
by the band led by Kim Salmon.
This version from the 1983 Scientists compilation Blood Red River
1982-1984.
Under
The Milky Way -
the Church, it
was on their 1988 album
Starfish
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.
