Nai Noswad
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Took a while but this was hit number. 2
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone.
Giving “One Hit Wonders” A Second Chance
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recgord27
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The Motors -Their hit -
Another attempt
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BeatleMatt
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Sister Hazel
I’m sure many of you have heard “All For You”, one version or another. It still has life on radio and you can hear it played somewhere at least once a week. It’s definitely the only song of theirs that I had heard.
Today I listened to the entire album, …Something More Familiar, which spawned arguably their only hit, “All For You” and for whatever reason, that song remains the only thing barely interesting to me on that album. I’ll likely never listen to the album it again.
I’m sure many of you have heard “All For You”, one version or another. It still has life on radio and you can hear it played somewhere at least once a week. It’s definitely the only song of theirs that I had heard.
Today I listened to the entire album, …Something More Familiar, which spawned arguably their only hit, “All For You” and for whatever reason, that song remains the only thing barely interesting to me on that album. I’ll likely never listen to the album it again.
Nai Noswad
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Very good band and tracks, very little airplay - shame(Icehouse another?)
Midnight Oil - Bed's Are Burning.
Aero
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I love the synth intro to this song but the vocals are a bit of a letdown. In fact, they don't even seem to go with the synth part at all as I expected something slower and pensive in nature and got something entirely different.
recgord27
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The whole album is a bit like that. Very bad production imo. It's just a song from the soundtrack of my youth that I sort of liked at the time. Pure nostalgia on my part
BeatleMatt
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I agree that these days, “Beds Are Burning” rarely gets airplay on American radio but “The Dead Heart” was also relatively massive on MTV and top 40 radio its day. “Blue Sky Mine” and “Truganini” were played often as well on radio in the US.
I saw the band on a bill that also included Matthew Sweet and Jude Cole way back when.
I saw the band on a bill that also included Matthew Sweet and Jude Cole way back when.
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The whole album is a bit like that. Very bad production imo. It's just a song from the soundtrack of my youth that I sort of liked at the time. Pure nostalgia on my part
Yeah, it sounds like they had disparate parts that belonged in separate songs. A better producer would've stopped them halfway through rehearsal and said, "Uh guys...this isn't working."
BTW...I've been humming and singing this song to myself the whole day; the synth part because it's so catchy and the "Airport!" line because it's fun to mock.
