Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2021 7:47:30 GMT
Apr 21, 2021 6:37:30 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:
I was curious if you have any favourite Aussie Artists and Bands or songs 'cause I know a lot I could introduce you too and these are three from the 90s I really like. 
Then I really loved the song, Great Southern Land, by Icehouse. Another group, I have often been thinking of, check upon further.
But beside that, I guess I am not that "updated".

However, I do sure love the Aussie films of the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Specially withing the cult-movie genre, and so many great talents arrived out of that period, yet few of the films the directors, writers or actors made, reached quite the same "edge" or "style", when they moved onto Hollywood, and got bigger money to work from. Their earlier films, just had a certain special to them, which few of the Hollywood produced ones, managed to re-capture. Not saying they turned all "bad", but something was kind of missing.
By the way, thanks for your recommendations.
I guess the one I prefered, were again the last one from your post, Leonardo’s Bride - Even When I'm Sleeping.
Never heard any of them before, but the latter one, reminds me of the days of 1996-97 and early morning MTV videos, just before school started.
I guess another Aussie name, that hit off big around that time, were Natalia Imbruglia, with Torn. So many versions of that song, but few enjoyed more success than the 1997 version.
Thank you for answering my question and it is good to see you already know some of our Artists and Bands and I thought you would have heard of AC/DVD and INXS ‘cause they were popular in multiple countries and you have probably heard of Olivia Newton John too who was also acted in movies such as ‘Grease’, ‘Xanadu’ and ‘Two of A Kind’ and she started out as a Country Music Artist but have you heard of Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, Skyhooks, Sherbet, The Divinyls, The Seekers, Rose Tattoo, Australian Crawl, The Bee Gees, Air Supply, Helen Reddy, Rick Springfield, Dragon, Jamie O'Neal, Orianthi, Tina Arena, Shane Yellowbird, Mental As Anything, The Vines, Powderfinger, Silverchair, Something For Kate, You Am I, Jebediah, The Cruel Sea, Kate Ceberano, The Living End, Grinspoon and Jet? Some of those were very popular here in the 70s, 80s and 90s and have had success outside of Australia and I don't think some people know Air Supply are Australian since I have seen them listed as an American Rock band on some lists. I like Savage Garden and sadly they were short lived and broke up after their second album and while lead singer, Darren Hayes went on to release a few solo albums they were never as the two Savage Garden albums. I would recommenced checking them out though 'cause they had a lot of good songs and 'Truly Madly Deeply', 'I Want You', ' The Animal Song" and 'I Knew I Loved You' were some other hits they had here and Kirsten Dunst was in the music video for 'I Knew I Loved You.' I am glad you enjoyed the songs and I will post some more below and I am a big fan of Natalie Imbruglia and have met her a few times. My Aunt went to School with her Mum and she still talks to her now but she moved to the Entrance so I never knew Natalie growing up until she become famous or her sister, Laura Imbrgulia who is also a singer.
I surprisingly haven't watched many Aussie films and I have seen a few but I have watched more of our TV Shows than movies and most of the movies I watch are American, Canadian or British and I love Horror movies the most and have you seen the movie, 'Wolf Creek' 'cause that is Australian and is one of our most successful Horror movies.

Chelsea Basham – I Make My Own Sunshine
John Farnham – Burn For You
The Superjesus – Down Again
Killing Heidi – Outside of Me
Midnight Oil – Dreamworld