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Is highway to hell - acdc on the list yet GE?
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Sid wrote:Is highway to hell - acdc on the list yet GE?
What a tune

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Great song NR!
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Manbush wins

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The winner of Australia's best Christmas Carol category is 'How to Make Gravy - Paul Kelly'
also wins the category for 'Best Song About Gravy'.

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Whoever said "Goanna - Solid Rock" won. That whole album was excellent.

Close seconds would be anything by Midnight Oil or Something for Kate
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greeneyed wrote:I reckon we should run this vote too. Fui over to you!
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I guess I won’t be able to nominate “Pope song” by Tim Minchin.
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Never Meant to Fail - Alex Lloyd
The Weight - Jimmy Barnes and the Badloves
Harley and Rose - The Black Sorrows
Days Like These - The Cat Empire
Overkill - Colin Hay
A Tale They Won't Believe - Weddings, Parties, Anything.
I'm a Ghost - Hilltop Hoods


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Has to be "Wide Open Road" by The Triffids or "Cattle and Cane" by The Go-Betweens...
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Go-Betweens achieved every bands dream, performing at the opening a toll bridge in Brisbane that's kinda named after them. Probably more traffic that day than the bridge has seen since.
Gina Riley: Oh, come on, John. That’s a bit old hat, the corrupt IOC delegate.
John Clarke: Old hat? Gina, in the scientific world when they see that something is happening again and again and again, repeatedly, they don’t call it old hat. They call it a pattern.
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Captain Punish wrote: April 3, 2018, 8:35 pm Never Meant to Fail - Alex Lloyd
The Weight - Jimmy Barnes and the Badloves
Harley and Rose - The Black Sorrows
Days Like These - The Cat Empire
Overkill - Colin Hay
A Tale They Won't Believe - Weddings, Parties, Anything.
I'm a Ghost - Hilltop Hoods


Just to add a few more.


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"A Tale They won't believe" is a cracker - I heard it the day it was written, as it happens. I was visiting Mick T(along with WPA drummer Marcus) and heard him inside his house just punishing an acoustic and shouting for several minutes until he stopped . We knocked again. He came out in stubbies and a sweated through Tshirt just beaming "I've just written a really good song!". Indeed he had.
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Chicka's shoe wrote: May 10, 2018, 4:35 pm
Captain Punish wrote: April 3, 2018, 8:35 pm Never Meant to Fail - Alex Lloyd
The Weight - Jimmy Barnes and the Badloves
Harley and Rose - The Black Sorrows
Days Like These - The Cat Empire
Overkill - Colin Hay
A Tale They Won't Believe - Weddings, Parties, Anything.
I'm a Ghost - Hilltop Hoods


Just to add a few more.


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"A Tale They won't believe" is a cracker - I heard it the day it was written, as it happens. I was visiting Mick T(along with WPA drummer Marcus) and heard him inside his house just punishing an acoustic and shouting for several minutes until he stopped . We knocked again. He came out in stubbies and a sweated through Tshirt just beaming "I've just written a really good song!". Indeed he had.
I don't believe that tale.
Gina Riley: Oh, come on, John. That’s a bit old hat, the corrupt IOC delegate.
John Clarke: Old hat? Gina, in the scientific world when they see that something is happening again and again and again, repeatedly, they don’t call it old hat. They call it a pattern.
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reptar wrote: May 10, 2018, 4:41 pm
Chicka's shoe wrote: May 10, 2018, 4:35 pm
Captain Punish wrote: April 3, 2018, 8:35 pm Never Meant to Fail - Alex Lloyd
The Weight - Jimmy Barnes and the Badloves
Harley and Rose - The Black Sorrows
Days Like These - The Cat Empire
Overkill - Colin Hay
A Tale They Won't Believe - Weddings, Parties, Anything.
I'm a Ghost - Hilltop Hoods


Just to add a few more.


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"A Tale They won't believe" is a cracker - I heard it the day it was written, as it happens. I was visiting Mick T(along with WPA drummer Marcus) and heard him inside his house just punishing an acoustic and shouting for several minutes until he stopped . We knocked again. He came out in stubbies and a sweated through Tshirt just beaming "I've just written a really good song!". Indeed he had.
I don't believe that tale.
then it's the axe for you.
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they may have been "ruggers" rather than stubbies but it was 30 years ago
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