What song are you listening to right now?

Yeah, I know the feeling of just wanna get back to normal life again, when your body is all of a sudden not all up to it. As it feels like time stands still, when one gets caught up in having a bad few weeks or more. I guess killing off time, is a bit "easier" these days, with such a huge selection of tv-shows, movies and all kind of entertainment, going on 24/7. Yet the best feeling, is surely that of getting better and stronger, for each day which goes by. 

I will guess that by the latest 10-12 months, with everything going on, and having so many people locked up in their homes/apartment, for most of the daytime, and learning and reading of all the horrible and sad/tragic news, many have probably done a bit of Dr. Google, which could easily make things, way worse. 
As it seems like, you can type in, almost everything, and only end up with so much terrible "facts", and yeah, it is the wisest, to instead book an apoitment with a doctor/expert, rather than browsing through all kind of horrible stuff online.

Oh yeah, without the internet, I guess I would still have found great music and movies, but damn, there would also be so many, that I would most likely never have heard of, or found by myself. And while I have never heard of Melodic Rock (might have to check in on it) I often found that Youtube, AllMusic, RateYourMusic and of course, the best ones, is probably through many different visits/chats with other music lovers, on forums/message boards, over the past 10-15 years, or more.

There is just so much out there, and so little time. But it is always nice, when those special artists, albums or songs, appear out of "nothing", and I guess that does not happen too often with me, these days, but when it does, it feels like an old lost friend, who has returned once more, into your life.   
Oh yeah, the artist mentioned, specially Judas Priest and Rush, I wonder how they would have survived, much later on, if not getting the final chance, to succeed, as if they had gotten dropped by their record contracts/studio, we would never have some of the all time great rock and metal acts of the 70s and 80s.
But this could also be not always a good thing, to deliver a big selling hit album, as your very first release. As very few, manages to back that up, with their following albums.

Still, some, like Rush and Judas Priest, rarely put their foot wrong, and even then, hearing so many dismiss albums like Turbo or the later 80s more synth-dominated Rush albums, as being "bad", well, I am glad people have divided taste in music, but if those albums is considered among the "worst" albums from the bands, then I guess they are kind of spoilt rotten, or so I believe.   Since Turbo is anything but a bad album (includes some incredible songs, like Reckless), and I love the 80s Rush albums, specially Signals and Moving Windows. 

Yep, picking up movie soundtracks, after hearing a certain song/songs from a film, is rarely ever gonna be the "complete" version, as I have done way too many of those purchases, and only realizing that so much were missing out, and then I had to pick up a whole bunch of albums, containing that song, and another one. But, in a good way, I did find some new favorite albums and artists, by doing so. But yeah, it is a bit annoying, when you have some films, with huge collection of great songs and music, and only one third of what got into the film, is left on the official soundtrack album.

Of tv-shows, that I believe have surely suffered, big time, from not getting a complete and worthy DVD/Blu-ray release, is shows like Married with Children, where I have read and heard, that not only the main theme, but many other songs featured, caused it to be put on ice, for so long. I am still not sure, if the entire series, is out on a fully DVD/Blu-ray release box-set, containing all the music and songs, but if one is going to wait for that to happen, I guess it will be until hell freezes over, or so it feels at times. 

Two very soothing and upbeat tunes, you posted there. Again, never heard, until now. But still feels very comforting and strangely familiar.
I guess my 70s music "knowledge", has its limits.   

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

I will reply to more of this post and your other one when I am on next time and have more time to write a longer reply 'cause I don't want to rush out short replies to you but I wanted to let you know the Psychedelic Furs did have a new album out last year and there were a few bands that released new albums last year that hadn't for a long time and Blue Oyster Cult released their album, 'The Symbol Remains' which was their first studio album of brand new material since 2001 and I really liked that one and it is worth checking out if you are a fan. Journey, Heart, Night Ranger  and the Scorpions are all said to be having new albums coming out this year and Cheap Trick recently released a new one called 'In Another World' and two of the members of Toto released new solo albums and I was curious if you listen to new albums by many Rock bands or mostly stick to their classics 'cause I think some of them are still putting out good songs that are very underrated 'cause mainstream radio stations only seem to promote their classics which Deep Purple addressed in one of their songs. Two Classic Rock bands that are not very well known here but I really like are Magnum and UFO and have you heard of any of their songs 'cause I think you might like them judging on the Artists and Bands you do like and I am surprised both of them were not bigger.

Also who was your first favourite band? Mine was Bon Jovi and I am still a big fan of theirs now and own all their albums and seen them in concert more times than I can remember and I didn't have MTV in the 80s and it wasn't until getting Foxtel after Galaxy went broke I had MTV but by then it had started to change and was playing a lot of Reality TV Shows and I heard MTV was the best in the 80s 'cause it played music videos all day long and they ruined it by putting too many non music programs on the channel.   

No worries, and I am just happy to chat about music and all or "nothing", as it is nice to see others, who love and care so much for their favorite music, and also are very updated on what is taking place in recent time, as well. 

I only have two Blue Oyster Cult albums, Secret Treaties and Agents of Fortune, and where the latter one, is probably a bit stronger, or so I believe. Yet some of the tracks on Secret Treaties, are just amazing, so I guess I will have to dig a bit further in, with a few more of their releases.
Also, I do not listen to that much new music, even by some of my favorite artists, which I guess is kind of a weird way of being a bit "afraid" of being let down, but if I am gonna play it out like that, I guess I will never get to know if would have loved the new stuff, nor not. 
I guess I never got that into music and favorite albums/bands, until I hit around 12 years of age, and by then, we are talking 1996-97, so for me, it was dance and techno, which dominated my music taste of that period, so I will say that the german dance/techno act, Scooter, where surely my favorite band, for much of 1997-2002, but I guess we kind of "parted" ways, naturally, as my taste began to shift towards rock and metal music, around 2002, and just would become a bigger and bigger impact on me.
However, I still do own several of Scooter and their 90s albums, which I gotta say, is not all terrible, even though they never became the critics "darlings".
While they probably are most famous for their more upbeat party-dance/techno sound, they also provided lots of very beautiful and surprisingly well made instrumental and b-sides, which for me, were another important reason to why I fell so much in love with their music back then.

I think they are among the best selling german act, along with Modern Talking, and I guess are still alive, even though the only original member left, is the vocalist/front man H.P. Baxxter, where as the former members would drop of, from time to time.
For me, I guess the period between 1994-1999 is where I feel they had their creative and commercial heyday, of course they would still be very productive and delivering probably even bigger hits, than ever, the years following, but it was just not quite the same, as earlier.

They actually started out during the 80s, as a new wave or synthpop act, called Celebrate the Nun, had a few hits, but then re-started into the early 90s, as a dance/remix project, known as The Loop!, but decided that whay make music for other artists, who then go on and have success, while they could just as easily make their own hits and enjoy the same success, so Scooter were born around 1993-94, and I guess the rest is history.

They often reference, sample and cover 70s and 80s hits and artists, specially Kiss, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, Supertramp and a whole bunch of new wave and synthpop artists as well, but I think they did it best, when they put out instrumental songs, which sadly often were overshadowed by the vocal stuff.

Anyway, what I love about their earlier and more instrumental music, is how they combined soothing and relaxing melodies with some incredible upbeat and very dancable music and beats. Layer upon layer of great stuff, and where some I feel, sounds way more impressive, after all these years, than their more famous hit singles.
Of course, it helps out, that I played these till almost "death", back in the days, but they still have so much warm and feel-good atmosphere to them, that I just never tire of re-listen to them.

Rhapsody in E (1994)

Back in Time (1995)

Different Reality (1995)

Beautiful Vibes (1995)

Coldwater Canyon (1996)

Tonight (1997)

Bon Jovi, I gotta admit, I have not heard that many albums of them, but they were surely among the 80s bands, who survived the "grunge attack" in the early 90s, and seemed to come out even stronger, which surely could not be said, of many of the other 80s rockers, who either fell apart, or just got completely "wiped out".