Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2021 6:39:08 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.
Yeah. Both Olivia Newton John and John Farnham identify as Australian even though they were born in England ‘cause they moved here with their families when they were very young and spent most of their lives here in Australia and have you ever seen the TV Movie/ Miniseries ‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’ ‘cause if you are a fan of Olivia Newton John I would recommend seeing it ‘cause it is about her life and has Delta Goodrem playing her who is probably our most successful female Pop singer of the past 20 years and done a great job playing her and performing the songs and I will post the trailer for it below along with Delta recently performing a cover of John Farnham's 'You're the Voice.' Yes. The Vines were pretty big here in the early 00s and along with Eskimo Joe and Jet were seen as one of our best Rock bands of the new decade at the time and had a number of hits like ‘Get Free’, ‘Homesick’, ‘Ride’, ‘Winning Days’ and Outtathaway’, that were heavily played on radio and Channel V here and I liked their first two albums but the lead singer was apparently a prick and he got a bad reputation for being violent and was always on the news for assaulting people including his Mother and having illegal drugs and that took a toll on the band and they stayed together and released more albums but were never able to recapture the glory of their early years, so to speak and fell off the radar.
That has happened to a few Artists and Bands and their personal lives being in the spotlight has gone onto have a negative impact on their careers and overshadowed their music and it’s a shame when it happens ‘cause some of the Artists are very talented but are nasty individuals but there were a lot of good Aussie Rock bands in the late 90s and early 00s that went on to have a lot of success here and I think Eskimo Joe ended up being the best of the three but Powderfinger were the biggest Australian Rock band of the 00s here and had hit after hit but I don’t think they had any success overseas which is surprising and some of our smaller Artists and Bands did manage to achieve success in America and the UK while our bigger ones didn’t and and INXS and Little River Band are two of our biggest selling Rock bands of all time worldwide but they weren't as big as Midnight Oil or Cold Chisel here and both of them are usually listed on top of the Greatest Aussie Rock Bands of All Time lists 'cause they had a lot of hits here. One of our biggest selling bands (The Wiggles) is a children's band and some of its original members started out as a Rock band called the Cockroaches but when they discovered they could make more money performing to children they formed the Wiggles and the Wiggles are still going today but there is only one original member left in the band and they replaced the others with younger members including their first female member, Emma who has been very successful on her own too and we often see that happen with older Rock bands and Uriah Heep has only got one original member left now but not to the popularity the Wiggles are still having and the Wiggles are guaranteed to still be around for many more years to come. Will talk more on Saturday and hope you are having a good week.
