VA - Pub Rock Aussie Style (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1 + CD2 REPOST

 

PUB ROCK AUSSIE STYLE

VA - Pub Rock Aussie Style (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1 + CD2    REPOST

The emergence of the Australian version of the pub rock genre and the related pub circuit was the result of several interconnected factors. From the 1950's to the 1970's, mainly because of restrictive state liquor licensing laws, only a small proportion of live pop and rock music in Australia was performed on licensed premises (mostly private clubs or discotheques); the majority of concerts were held in non-licensed venues like community, church or municipal halls. These concerts and dances were 'all-ages' events—often with adult supervision—and alcohol was not served.  During the 1960s, however, Australian states began liberalising their licensing laws. Sunday Observance Acts were repealed, pub opening hours were extended, discriminatory regulations — such as the long-standing ban on women entering or drinking in public bars — were removed, and in the 1970's the age of legal majority was lowered from 21 to 18. Concurrently, the members of the so-called "Baby Boomer" generation — who were the main audience for pop and rock music — were reaching their late teens and early twenties and were thus able to enter such licensed premises. Pub owners soon realised that providing live music (which was often free) would draw young people to pubs in large numbers, and regular rock performances soon became a fixture at many pubs.

Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980's, and still influencing contemporary Australian music in the 2000's decade. The term came from the venues where most of these bands originally played — inner-city and suburban pubs. These often noisy, hot, small and crowded venues were not always ideal as music venues and favoured loud, simple songs based on drums and electric guitar riffs. The Australian version of pub rock incorporates hard rock, blues rock, and/or progressive rock. In the Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999), Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described how, in the early 1970s, Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Blackfeather, and Buffalo pioneered Australia's pub rock movement. Australian rock music journalist Ed Nimmervoll declared that "[t]he seeds for Australian heavy rock can be traced back to two important sources, Billy Thorpe's Seventies Aztecs and Sydney band Buffalo". (Wikipedia)

I saw every one of these bands live growing up and I have to say that Cold Chisel were amazing even when they weren't. There are some fantastic artists here and many stories to be remembered. It's funny how when I see these names on this list, I can almost remember the taste of the rooms they played in and the fun I had listening to them. What never goes away is the enjoyment of seeing them master their craft.

Presented here are 60 tracks by 58 Bands that were all pub acts during the pub rock days. Of course, there were many more bands that could be included, so there should be another volume at some stage.

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Track list 1

01    Cold Chisel - Choir Girl    3:14    1980
02    Saints - Just Like Fire Would    3:25    1986
03    Cruel Sea - Better Get a Lawyer    3:01    1994
04    Masters Apprentices - Turn Up Your Radio    3:34    1970
05    Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail    3:49    1992
06    Little Heroes - One Perfect Day    3:40    1982
07    Dingoes - Way Out West    3:50    1974
08    Loaded Dice - Groovy Sunglasses    3:46    1979
09    Levi Smith's Clefs - I Can Only Give You Everything    2:46    1970
10    Huxton Creepers - I Will Persuade You    3:11    1986
11    Australian Crawl - Errol    3:29    1981
12   Kush - All Right in the City    2:54    1974
13    Buffalo - Dead Forever    5:32    1972
14    Ferrets - Janie May    4:23    1977
15    Died Pretty - Ambergris    4:24    1986
16    Ed Kuepper - Also Sprach the King of Euro-Disco    3:20    1986
17    Skyhooks - Living in the 70's    3:42    1974
18    Arial - Worm-Turning Blues    2:56    1973
19    Ted Mulry Gang - Heart of Stone    3:40    1978
20    Screaming Jets - Better    4:39    1991
21    Midnight Oil - Back on the Borderline    3:11    1979
22    Chain - Black and Blue    3:53    1971
23    Badloves - Lost    3:31    1997
24    Zimmermen - What Realy Hurts    4:02    1989
25    Noiseworks - No Lies    3:54    1987
26    Sunnyboys - My Only Friend    3:26    1981
27    Dragon - Rain    3:28    1984
28    Angels - Marseilles    4:50    1978
29    Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs - Movie Queen    2:52    1974
30    Swanee - If I Were a Carpenter    3:33    1981

Track list 2

31    AC/DC - Have a Drink on Me    3:52    1980
32    Church - Almost With You    4:14    1982
33    Choirboys - Run to Paradise    4:08    1988
34    Blackfeather - Boppin' the Blues    3:14    1972
35    Taxiride - Get Set    3:13    1999
36    Madder Lake - 12lb Toothbrush    3:53    1973
37    Matt Finish - Short Note    3:57    1981
38    Lobby Loyde - Rock and Roll Sunset    1:58    1976
39    Elks - Party Girl    3:31    1981
40    Broderick Smith's Big Combo - Faded Roses    4:32    1981
41    Baby Animals - Painless    3:41    1991
42    Painters & Dockers - Die Yuppie Die    3:00    1988
43    Kevin Borich - Lonely One    4:10    1977
44    Rose Tattoo - Bad Boy for Love    3:07    1978
45    Kahvas Jute - Free    5:07    1972
46    Scientists - We Had Love    4:49    1986
47    Finch - Where Were You    4:07    1978
48    Sports - Who Listens to the Radio    3:16    1982
49    Divinyls - Back to the Wall    4:39    1988
50    Dallimore - We Are the Kids    4:00    1980
51    Beasts of Bourbon - Finger Lickin'    2:09    1990
52    Spectrum - I'll Be Gone    4:12    1971
53    Lime Spiders - Weirdo Libido    3:39    1988
54    Buster Brown - Something to Say    5:30    1974
55    Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet    3:48    1995
56    Carson - Boogie    6:55    1972
57    Richard Clapton - Down in the Lucky Country    3:42    1978
58    Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock    4:10    1971
59    Masters Apprentices - I'm Your Satisfier    3:16    1974
60    Cold Chisel - Goodbye (Astrid, Goodbye)    2:51    1978

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