Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 26, 2021 8:44:17 GMT
Apr 26, 2021 7:47:30 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:
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.
Looking at your list, of course, I totally forgot about The Vines, who seemed to be on quite a hype-train, around 2002-03, being tried sold of as "the next Nirvana", them along with every other week of the next "big rock thing" in british music magazines during the early 00s. However, The Vines and their debut album Highly Evolved (2002), I really dug during winter of 2003, some cracking upbeat and melodic songs, yet also some truly beautiful and more downbeat songs as well, Autumn Shade were my favorite of that record. Then I picked up their following release, Winning Days or something similar, around winter 2004, but sadly, by then it seemed like they had started to "believe" in their own hype, or so it felt, and I guess due to their rather eccentric performances, specially at certain american Talk shows, they kind of become more known for "breaking and thrashing" stuff, instead of their music, which is a shame.
Speaking of Aussie films, I truly admire and love the Hitchcock themed Road Games (1981) by Richard Franklin, where Stacy Keach plays a lonesome trucker, who starts playing these innocent games, to kill of time, and stay awake. However, when the news of a serial killer hits the radios, and he learns that the killer might be on the same trail, as himself, the games begin to get way more serious and unpredictable.
A very beautiful shot and well written/acted road trip thriller, which plays out like Rear Window (1954) meets Duel (1971), and where also a young Jamie Lee Curtis manages to finally break free of her days as "scream queen", in several similar themed american/canadian slasher titles, and prove that she could do more, than just scream and run from some lunatic with a huge knife/axe.
Franklin also did another tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, not long after, and one which of course, surely is a lot more closer to the original source, yet one I feel is among the best examples of doing a follow up, in a very respectable way, but also adding in some new ideas, which I thought worked very well.
Anyway, Psycho II (1983) arrived during the heyday of the american slasher era, but instead of just focusing in on handing out, as much blood, gore and sex/nudity, as possible, Franklin put in a very good and gripping updated story, of how Norman Bates coped, with being released, after so many years behind bars, and yet, something is clearly haunting him, and yeah, I am not gonna spoil too much, but a really good, even great I would say, psychological horrorfilm, and loved Anthony Perkins back in action, and it is both creepy, yet comes with some hilarious use of dark comedy as well.
One of my more newer favorite Aussie films, were the charming and very funny/likeable mockumentary, Kenny (2006). Which follows the daily struggles, of a toilet plumber and his crew, who tries their best, to make sure that things go as smooth as possible, yet for all their hard and dedicated work, so few seem to take notice or respect their hard work. This is my kind of mockumentary, it is never cruel or nasty, just for the "shock effect", but very sweet and funny, but in a way that you really cheer for the main character, and only wish him well.
I have not yet seen Wolf Creek, think I was somewhat reminded of that, a few weeks ago, by another Aussie member of this board, but of a few other horror films, from the land down under, I sure do enjoyed the visually impressive Razorback (1984).