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"Down
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 174

Decades


Just
Like Fire Would -
the Saints,
1986,
from their album All Fools Day.
At this point singer-songwriter Chris Bailey and drummer Ivor Hay
remain from the original foursome. Guitarist and co-songwriter Ed
Kuepper is well into a solo career.


If
We Can't Get It Together -
Tim Rogers and his band
You Am I,
1996,
from the
album titled Hourly
Daily. In 2021 the
album came in at No. 11 in Rolling Stone Australia’s list of "200
greatest albums of all time."


What's
That Sound -
the Dolly Rocker
Movement;
2006, from their album
Electric Sunshine.


Totality
- the
Peep Tempel (no that's
not a typo), 2016,
a song on their album
titled Joy.


If
2026 was a glass would it be half full or half empty?


Irresponsible
- Peter
Black, from
his new album A
Bowl of Spiders, a
February release. Fans
of Australian punk rock will know Peter
Black as Blackie, from
the Hard-Ons.


Cross
My Heart And
Hope To Die
- Yumi
Zouma, from New
Zealand,
it's
on their album No Love Lost To Kindness,
a January
arrival.


Fever
Dream -
Bagful of Beez, a
single that came
out in April. The band
is run by Link Meanie -
aka Link McLennan -
he's been around for
awhile with his other band the
Meanies.


Into
the vault


Three
tracks from Midnight Oil's 1982 album 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1


-
Outside World


-
US Forces


-
Power And The Passion


More
2026 - it's like they never left


Swimming
Hole - Eddy Current Suppression Ring, a band that's been doing the
rounds for 20 years, with a new album titled In Light Of Recent
Events.


Seein'
Spots - Kim Salmon, he's been banging around the Australian music
scene since the 1970s, here he is with a band he's inevitably calling
Smoked Salmon, and a new album, Totally Sick!.


Our
idea of classic rock


Older
Younger -
Belles Will Ring, a
Sydney band, it
was on their
2007 album album Mood Patterns.


Destination
- the
Church,
from 1988, it
was on their album Starfish.


Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.


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