Thoughts on my taste?

Forgot to mention something in my previous reply to TheGazzardian (I've got an earlier reply to you a little upthread)...this is going back to their reply here:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=77386&PN=8


You were mentioning "10,....,1" and saying (in an earlier post, I believe...keeping track is hard) that you liked "Tin legs and tine mines"...occasionally I'll look at customer reviews on sites like Amazon and look for American points of view...I think I may have come across such reviews where songs like "Tin legs and tin mines" gets mentioned as a better song off of the album. I'm wondering if that is an American thing or something. You American? It's weird, in a lot of those American reviews I'm dumbfounded...the songs which are part of Australia's classic rock landscape off of that album go unmentioned, and 'minor' songs like "Tin legs and tin mines" get mentioned! It's a bit like an Eskimo reviewing "Sgt. Pepper" and saying that whilst the album doesn't have any great songs, the best songs are "Lovely Rita" and "Fixing a hole"...sort of WTF? moments! To me, American's seem to be liking the 'wrong' songs!

I was Googling the lyrics for "Tin legs and tin mines"...thought it might have been about the Vietnam war, say...not confident that it is now...the subject matter seems a bit obscure for me...if it was about that, I would have listed the following track as one I like much better on the subject...I find the violins in it beautiful (it's an Australian song):

Redgum - I was only nineteen



This song came out before the Paul Hardcastle song with a similar name (US act). Same subject matter though...the Vietnam war.

You mentioned liking Rob Hirst's drum solo in "Power and the passion"...I remember liking a bit he did which was used as the theme to a tv series about da yoof:

Beatbox theme:



It's got 125 views...not sure how long the vid will be up.

Just by the by, Midnight Oil covered Russell Morris' classic "The real thing"...I prefer the original...don't know if you could call the original "proggy"...think it usually gets called "psychedelic"...here's the original...

Russell Morris - The real thing



That's the entire song, but there is a shorter clip actually featuring the singer...I prefer the long version...it's what gets played on classic hits stations here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8d2EB435Q

There is a You Tube which includes what some describe as a 3rd part to the song...but you never hear that '3rd part':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1RP9sy1-LQ

Not sure if you've heard the Oils version...original is the best from my point of view.

***** Did you get around to stating what genre you thought the Oils were? Or at least for particular albums? I think that Wiki describes them as "alternative rock" or something...to me they seem pretty straight pop/rock, for most of their classic hits. "Red sails" strikes me as a bit proggy...you agree? If not, how would you describe it? "Place without a postcard" strikes me as being Nu-Traditional or something...sort of folk-rock or roots-rock.

But, overall, I think Protest-Rock is the best description of their music...it pretty much describes what you get with their music.

Maybe I'm not surprised that 10-1 didn't really take in the US...it was very much an anti-imperial album and the US was often a target of their lyrics. "Diesel and dust" was mostly about Australia's treatment of Aborigines...maybe that was 'safer' for US radio/audience? Presumably Americans didn't really view "Beds are burning" as just as easily being about native Americans.

Like I said, this is my 2nd reply to you...didn't want to edit my first reply.

Edited by dfle3 - May 08 2011 at 02:49

Losendos wrote: I always thought it was prog   no 1 song in oz in 1969 a prog like track

This thread did not need to be bumped.

Not even a little bit.