Music flashback

[thrihyrne]

I'm house- and cat-sitting for my friends down the road. I'm definitely loving my own house to hang out in, and be quiet, and only talk to myself or the cats. That said, I've not brought a lot of music over, so last night while typing things in, I hung out at youtube and searched for a long-lost Australian band song that had come to mind, "Heaven (must be there)" by Eurogliders. In doing so, I found some kind soul had compiled whole groups of Australian and New Zealand hits by year. Tonight as I was making dinner, I found myself aching to hear some early Split Enz, and have listened to "One Step Ahead" several times now. Unbelievable to realize that that song came out in 1980, six years before I went to Australia to live for a year and was first introduced to so much formative music.

So for those of you who also have a hankering for early 80's Oz/NZ rock, here's the youtube link. It's so funny: as soon as I saw it, I remembered the video from my first MTV days back in '83, so I must have known about them before I was gifted with my year abroad.

Comments

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! As a Kiwi, it's hard to resist commenting! I loved Split Enz (and still do, along with Crowded House & the Finn Brothers), and have the fondest memories of thsat song when it came out. (I have the single on 45: vinyl!).

And... OMG! The Eurogliders! Awesome; I remember loving that song too, though I don't remember how it goes now!

(I'm only sorry I couldn't play your video here, either - I don't have the plug-in yet)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Comment away! I definitely loved each permutation of their band as well as the brothers individually. And yeah, the Eurogliders! I'm not sure why that one song came to mind, but youtube provided me with the song. :)

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

OMG! And I just realised your icon at the top is the Stranglers' Aural Sculpture - awesome album! ;-)

[koshweasley.livejournal.com]

Excellent. You tube does have some great finds on there.

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