Australia Crawl

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I was recently exposed to this band and know nothing about them. Can someone fill me and the rest of us here on the NWO about them?

[SomebodySomewhere]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Nero Lance[/i]
<br>I was recently exposed to this band and know nothing about them. Can someone fill me and the rest of us here on the NWO about them?[/quote]

Well, uh, they're Australian...

...and they... crawl?

[n/a5]

[quote][i]Originally posted by SomebodySomewhere[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Nero Lance[/i]
<br>I was recently exposed to this band and know nothing about them. Can someone fill me and the rest of us here on the NWO about them?[/quote]

Well, uh, they're Australian...

...and they... crawl?



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BRILLIANT! We got this far...

Thanks dude....outside of increasing your post number this one is a wash. Thanks for coming...enjoy the show!

[coop41]

Check 'em out on the HUB, I have their greatest hits, I like them a lot!
coop41

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[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>Check 'em out on the HUB, I have their greatest hits, I like them a lot!
coop41
[/quote]

Yeah I got me some but I would like some background on them. I like what I heard so far. I love Aussie New Wave!

[Coen]

I can remember them from the time I was an Aussie.
But they've got very little/nothing to do with the 'Aussie new Wave'.
They were a plain Rock band.

[n/a5]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Coen[/i]
<br>I can remember them from the time I was an Aussie.
But they've got very little/nothing to do with the 'Aussie new Wave'.
They were a plain Rock band.
[/quote]

The term New Wave is loose around here...I agree they are Rock rather than New Wave.

[SomebodySomewhere]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Nero Lance[/i]
<br>BRILLIANT! We got this far...

Thanks dude....outside of increasing your post number this one is a wash. Thanks for coming...enjoy the show![/quote]

Well, if that's the way you feel, I should shut down on you, hey!

Okay, so what do we want to know that isn't revealed at allmusic? They were (usually) a sextet from Victoria, fronted by the impressively-unintelligible vocal stylings of James Reyne. They were known as the Aussie Beach Boys (for reasons that continue to elude me). They had a string of hits down under -- most notably "Reckless," "The Boys Light Up," "Errol," "Things Don't Seem," "Beautiful People," "Shutdown," and what I think is their best song, "Downhearted." They sold nothing in the U.S. They broke up around 1985, after which Reyne went solo. I don't own any of Reyne's solo stuff, and I'm not really familiar with it.

[n/a5]

[quote][i]Originally posted by SomebodySomewhere[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Nero Lance[/i]
<br>BRILLIANT! We got this far...

Thanks dude....outside of increasing your post number this one is a wash. Thanks for coming...enjoy the show![/quote]

Well, if that's the way you feel, I should shut down on you, hey!

Okay, so what do we want to know that isn't revealed at allmusic? They were (usually) a sextet from Victoria, fronted by the impressively-unintelligible vocal stylings of James Reyne. They were known as the Aussie Beach Boys (for reasons that continue to elude me). They had a string of hits down under -- most notably "Reckless," "The Boys Light Up," "Errol," "Things Don't Seem," "Beautiful People," "Shutdown," and what I think is their best song, "Downhearted." They sold nothing in the U.S. They broke up around 1985, after which Reyne went solo. I don't own any of Reyne's solo stuff, and I'm not really familiar with it.
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You could have said so from the beginning.

We got off to a bad start....I love Aussie rock/new wave and was suprised these guys passed me by. I like your name because I was somebody but at sometime....never managed somewhere. Somewhere could be anywhere very post modern. WORD!

[SomebodySomewhere]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Nero Lance[/i]
<br>You could have said so from the beginning.[/quote]

Shoulda woulda coulda. I mentioned them here before. Ah, no harm done. You can scold me in your office later.

[quote]We got off to a bad start....I love Aussie rock/new wave and was suprised these guys passed me by.[/quote]

I was wrong about the year. They disbanded in '86. Here's a decent bio...

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/crawl.htm

[quote]I like your name because I was somebody but at sometime....never managed somewhere. Somewhere could be anywhere very post modern. WORD![/quote]

It's a Platinum Blonde song. Not to say that they were ever my favorites, but it's more my own way of railing against the Home Theater F*rum first-name democracies in this, Al Gore's internet. What more info does anybody need to know about me beyond the fact that I'm somebody who lives somewhere?

[jaybag]

James Reyne's solo stuff is fantastic. I got into it by accident - found a used copy of his 2nd (and final) U.S. release "Any Day Above Ground"* in the discount bin, popped it in the listening station, heard 5 seconds of the first track "Some People" and bought it. I have all his solo stuff now and a few of the Aussie Crawl discs. His website is http://www.jamesreyne.com/home.php. Anyway, a lot of his solo stuff is out of print but is worth seeking out.

*The album was actually called "Electric Digger Dandy" in Australia, which was a parody of a Hendrix album with a nearly identical title except that the 2nd word started with N, not D. I think they thought the U.S. crowd wouldn't get it.