35 years ago this was the sound of summer.

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  • AdultKing
    Raise Your Weapon
    • Jun 2003
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    #1

    35 years ago this was the sound of summer.

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    • j3rkules
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      #2
      Great Aussie song.

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        • AdultKing
          Raise Your Weapon
          • Jun 2003
          • 15601
          #3


          Jimmy Barnes & Cold Chisel.

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            • AdultKing
              Raise Your Weapon
              • Jun 2003
              • 15601
              #4
              The Angels and Doc Neeson (RIP)

              Saw the Angels live at Billboard in Melbourne in 1983, fucking awesome

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                • AdultKing
                  Raise Your Weapon
                  • Jun 2003
                  • 15601
                  #5
                  Russell Morris & The Rubes.

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                    • AdultKing
                      Raise Your Weapon
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 15601
                      #6
                      Midnight Oil

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                        • AdultKing
                          Raise Your Weapon
                          • Jun 2003
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                          #7
                          INXS before Michael Hutchence hung himself on a doorknob while in a drug induced and drunken state in a Sydney hotel while wanking or whatever he did.

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                            • AdultKing
                              Raise Your Weapon
                              • Jun 2003
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                              #8
                              Misex

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                                • dyna mo
                                  just a fucking jerk
                                  • Dec 2008
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                                  #9
                                  technically, this is on their 1981 LP, but it was released as a single in 1980



                                  1980 Aus music didn't get all the way over here, but by ~1982 it was hitting hard. my 2nd concert i attended was INXS shabooh shobaah tour in ~1982, small club venue, maybe 100 people. hutchence ate a rose on stage, i thought it was pretty cool.

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                                    • AdultKing
                                      Raise Your Weapon
                                      • Jun 2003
                                      • 15601
                                      #10

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                                        • AdultKing
                                          Raise Your Weapon
                                          • Jun 2003
                                          • 15601
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by dyna mo
                                          technically, this is on their 1981 LP, but it was released as a single in 1980
                                          Yeah I saw The Church for the first time at Festival Hall in Melbourne in 1980.

                                          They played this

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                                            • dyna mo
                                              just a fucking jerk
                                              • Dec 2008
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                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by AdultKing
                                              Yeah I saw The Church for the first time at Festival Hall in Melbourne in 1980.

                                              They played this

                                              that's a good tune.

                                              i didn't really get them on my radar until

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                                                • AdultKing
                                                  Raise Your Weapon
                                                  • Jun 2003
                                                  • 15601
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by dyna mo
                                                  that's a good tune.

                                                  i didn't really get them on my radar until

                                                  Yeah

                                                  That took them world wide that song.

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                                                    • AdultKing
                                                      Raise Your Weapon
                                                      • Jun 2003
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                                                      #14
                                                      Another from 1980

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                                                        • dyna mo
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                                                          • Dec 2008
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                                                          #15
                                                          i've always dug lrb!

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                                                            • dyna mo
                                                              just a fucking jerk
                                                              • Dec 2008
                                                              • 68184
                                                              #16
                                                              Originally posted by AdultKing
                                                              Another from 1980

                                                              that's a catchy track!

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                                                                • AdultKing
                                                                  Raise Your Weapon
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                                                                  #17
                                                                  Originally posted by dyna mo
                                                                  i've always dug lrb!



                                                                  LRB were great until John Farnham made them gay

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                                                                    • AdultKing
                                                                      Raise Your Weapon
                                                                      • Jun 2003
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                                                                      #18
                                                                      This hit the charts around December 1980.

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                                                                        • AdultKing
                                                                          Raise Your Weapon
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                                                                          #19
                                                                          MEO245 "Lady Love" October 1980 didn't make it into summer though



                                                                          was followed up by the much better "Other Places"

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                                                                            • dyna mo
                                                                              just a fucking jerk
                                                                              • Dec 2008
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                                                                              #20
                                                                              Originally posted by AdultKing
                                                                              This hit the charts around December 1980.

                                                                              i'm pretty sure they were my intro to hard rock, my school friend Mark W. got me into them ~1975/76 ish that TNT LP killed it for me. i don't recall too many of my friend's names from 1975 but i remember the one that introduced me to ac/dc. anyway. off topic.

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                                                                                • AdultKing
                                                                                  Raise Your Weapon
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                                                                                  #21
                                                                                  This was released in the 70's but it made it's way back into the charts during Summer 1980 and again in 1982.

                                                                                  It was filmed down Swanston Street, the main street in Melbourne.

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                                                                                    • AdultKing
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                                                                                      #22
                                                                                      Originally posted by dyna mo
                                                                                      i'm pretty sure they were my intro to hard rock, my school friend Mark W. got me into them ~1975/76 ish that TNT LP killed it for me. i don't recall too many of my friend's names from 1975 but i remember the one that introduced me to ac/dc. anyway. off topic.
                                                                                      I had the reverse experience, I was into AC/DC and someone introduced me to Kiss - The Destroyer album. I think I wore the fucking track out on Detroit Rock City.

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                                                                                        • AdultKing
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                                                                                          #23
                                                                                          We all thought Split Enz were a pack of poofters, but they went on to Crowded House and made big bucks

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                                                                                            • AdultKing
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                                                                                              #24
                                                                                              And the Sports, had this track in the charts for most of 1980.

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                                                                                                • dyna mo
                                                                                                  just a fucking jerk
                                                                                                  • Dec 2008
                                                                                                  • 68184
                                                                                                  #25
                                                                                                  Originally posted by AdultKing
                                                                                                  I had the reverse experience, I was into AC/DC and someone introduced me to Kiss - The Destroyer album. I think I wore the fucking track out on Detroit Rock City.
                                                                                                  you'll prolly think i'm full of shit but i segued from ac/dc to kiss with destroyer. those first 2 AC/DC Lps still resonant with me though, more than anything they've done since, even though they've always been huge and cranking out killer rock. prolly more than any kiss song too even.

                                                                                                  it's always struck me as an interesting transition, the no frills ac/dc compared to the over the top kiss.

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                                                                                                    • AdultKing
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                                                                                                      Darryl Cotton was also a bit of a poof, but you had to pretend you liked him to get in with the chicks.

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                                                                                                        • AdultKing
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                                                                                                          #27
                                                                                                          Originally posted by dyna mo
                                                                                                          you'll prolly think i'm full of shit but i segued from ac/dc to kiss with destroyer. those first 2 AC/DC Lps still resonant with me though, more than anything they've done since, even though they've always been huge and cranking out killer rock. prolly more than any kiss song too even.

                                                                                                          it's always struck me as an interesting transition, the no frills ac/dc compared to the over the top kiss.
                                                                                                          Kiss were fucking huge here. The MCG was the venue for their concert here when I was 13. When my parents expire all the photos of me going to that concert are going in the fire.

                                                                                                          This was 1980



                                                                                                          Norman Gunston released a funny track picking on the people going to that concert in 1980

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                                                                                                            • AdultKing
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                                                                                                              She came from London but became our own here

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                                                                                                                • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                  This band had to change their name and became pretty big.

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                                                                                                                    • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                      Dugites 1980. The first Aussie band to own a Fairlight CMI (which for music nerds was the ultimate sampling synth of the 80s)

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                                                                                                                        • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                          #31
                                                                                                                          Melbourne got hit by new wave big time toward the end of 1980

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                                                                                                                            • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                              #32
                                                                                                                              Sumer of 1980/81 Australian Crawl owned the airwaves



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                                                                                                                                • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                  #33
                                                                                                                                  Then Mental as Anything

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                                                                                                                                    • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                      #34
                                                                                                                                      My mates considered this lot poofters also, but had to pretend to like em for the girls.

                                                                                                                                      Air Supply were the biggest grossing Aussie band in the early 80s - go figure

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                                                                                                                                        • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                          Jo Jo Zep second time this year.

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                                                                                                                                              Why does music suck so hard these days?

                                                                                                                                              No one can sing, no one has a distinctive voice, no one can play their instruments. WTF?
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                                                                                                                                                • drclockwork
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                                                                                                                                                  35 years ago, on the 23rd of this month (Sept.) ..... I was born.

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                                                                                                                                                    • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                                      #38
                                                                                                                                                      The twin girls out of this 1980 hit were later in Neighbours

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                                                                                                                                                        • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                                          Dunno how this got in the charts in November 1980 but interesting trivia is that I rooted a girl who rooted a guy who used to root the lead singer [Apologies to TISM]

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                                                                                                                                                            • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                                              Flowers became Icehouse and Iva Davies became huge.

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                                                                                                                                                                  For the sake of completeness



                                                                                                                                                                  This was back in the days where Italians were wogs.

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                                                                                                                                                                    • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                                                      Late November 1980

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                                                                                                                                                                        • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                                                          And this is where Midnight Oil shook their way into the consciousness of generations

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                                                                                                                                                                              The last big Aussie [ok NZ if you must but they came here because NZ sucked in the 80s] hit of 1980.

                                                                                                                                                                              Split Enz became Crowded House the rest was history.

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                                                                                                                                                                                • j3rkules
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Originally posted by AdultKing
                                                                                                                                                                                  For the sake of completeness



                                                                                                                                                                                  This was back in the days where Italians were wogs.
                                                                                                                                                                                  They just don't make classics like this any more, it's all that manufactured X Factor crap in the charts now, and Justin "I suck" Bieber.

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                                                                                                                                                                                    • AdultKing
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                                                                                                                                                                                      Nowadays, this dude has it nailed!

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