|
|
|
 |
|
|
HOME | ABOUT | BIOS | EMAIL |
|
 |
| |
Friday, May 06, 2005
AM I EVER GONNA SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN
The Angels
1976
[buy it]
AM I EVER GONNA SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN (live)
The Angels
Liveline(?)
[buy it]
THAT AIN'T BAD
Ratcat
Tingles (EP)
Polygram : 1991
[buy it]
A quick jolt of superb Oz punkpop for the weekend.
The Angels (known overseas by some as "Angel City") were a Sydney-based Australian hard-rock band. Huge in their own land, but like vegemite and Aborigines, never really broke it big overseas. If they had, "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" would have been the song to do it. It was released as the band's first single in 1976 and remains their best-loved hit. An important rite of passage for bogans involves listening to this song, and after the chorus "Am I ever gonna see your face again?" yelling "No way get fucked fuck off!!"
The live performance captures this.
What are bogans you ask?
Bogans are the neo-rural moderns of Australia.
They are a droll breed of suburbanites from Eastern Australia. You know that dream you had about taking all the Jovi fans in Jersey and dropping them in the middle of the outback? Well it came true!
You may find gatherings of bogans in the parking lot of the Doncaster or Traralgon Shopping Centre, wearing form-fitted acid wash jeans, singlets, moccassins and grey cardigans, smoking Winnie Blues, drinking UDLs, threatening families and performing burnouts in Toranas.
A booming Australian real-estate market, along with the increased globalization of culture and Ugg Boots appearing on Oprah, has threatened the survival of the bogan.
But one man has single-handedly pulled them back from extinction.
That man is Russell Crowe.
Old bogan culture talks of a man with fire in his eyes and flannel on his chest who will one day come and bring their people to the promised land and dammit that man is Russell Crowe.
What Grand Mal is to seizures, Crowe is to bogans.
Crowe honors his culture every opportunity he gets. My two personal fav. moments:
#1 The 2001 Academy Awards
Crowe shows up wearing sunglasses AND a bolo-bow tie AND his grandfather's Member of the British Empire medal.
#2 Crowe Marries Danielle Spencer in 2003
For the wedding Crowe commissions the building of an enormous Italianate Gazeebo
A bogan primer here
Check out the great film "Sharpies" about OBs (Original Bogans) like the "Blackburn South Sharps"
An Angels bio here
The Angels have gone where all OZ punk bands go to die:
The Rooty Hill RSL
RATCAT rocked Melbourne in the late '80s/ early '90s, around the same time Nirvana and Green Day made their moves. I posted a song of their's last year. "That Aint Bad" was their biggest hit.
also...
Moistworks' RSS feed is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Moistworks
and the Wizznutzz have, not one, but TWO versions of Nils Lofgren's rare 1978 single "Bullets Fever" over at God Shammgod's Mix Tape.
Also check the Wizznutzz in McSweeneys
posted by James
LINK |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
