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Whitlams - Truth Beauty And A Picture Of

August 6th 2008 23:15

The Whitlams are an ARIA award-winning Australian band featuring band members Tim Freedman (founding member), Jak Housden, Warwick Hornby and Terepai Richmond.

The band - named in tribute to former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam - has been a mainstay in the Australian music scene for the past 16 years and are best known for their hit songs "No Aphrodisiac" and "Blow Up the Pokies". In total, the Whitlams have released six studio albums including the multiple award-winning album, Eternal Nightcap, which won three ARIA awards (out of 8 nominations) and achieved 4-times Platinum in sales.

The Whitlams Truth Beauty And A Picture Of

Although the band's commercial success have waned over the past years, they are still one of the country's best loved and most respected bands. Their latest release is a "Best of" compilation album - the title is taken from the lyrics of "No Aphrodisiac" - exploring The Whitlams' musical history including the band's rise from humble beginnings, the tough times and finally success while featuring twenty tracks including favourites such as "Gough", "I Make Hamburgers", "No Aphrodisiac", "Blow Up The Pokies" and "Thank You (For Loving Me At My Worst)".

A great addition to the CD rack.

Truth Beauty And A Picture Of Track Listing

1. Blow Up The Pokies
2. Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2)
3. Fondness Makes The Heart Grow Absent
4. No Aphrodisiac
5. Beauty In Me
6. Fall For You
7. Thankyou (For Loving Me At My Worst)
8. You Sound Like Louis Burdett
9. I Will Not Go Quietly (Duffy's Song)
10. I Make Hamburgers
11. Gough
12. Following My Own Tracks
13. Shining
14. Royal In The Afternoon
15. Melbourne
16. The Road Is Lost
17. Keep The Light On
18. The Curse Stops Here
19. Out The Back
20. There's No-one

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Spice Girls

January 31st 2008 22:05

The Spice Girls are arguably the world's most successful all-girl pop group.

The band was formed in 1994, but the girls initially met in 1992 through auditions while chasing work in shows and as TV extras. Four of the girls, Melanie C, Mel B, Victoria Adams and Geri together with Michelle Stephenson later became part of a girl group called Touch, the brain child of Bob & Chris Herbert and Heart Management Ltd.

Michelle's participation in the group was short-lived and was later replaced by Emma Bunton and the Spice Girls as we know it, was formed - unofficially. (Spice had been Geri's idea of a new name for the girls but that was scrapped - a US rapper had already used that name).

Under the tutelage of Simon Fuller, the girls officially became the Spice Girls and were signed to a recording deal with Virgin Records. In July 1996, a feature in 'Top of the Pops' magazine gave the Spice Girls their nicknames - Posh, Baby, Scary, Sporty and Ginger - and in that same month, the group's first single "Wannabe" (widely regarded as their signature song) was released, entering the UK charts at No.3. Just a week after its release, the single rose to No.1 where it stayed for seven weeks making them the first all-female group to top the charts with their debut single.

The single became an international smash hit and pushed the anticipation for their debut album to fever-pitch. In November 2006, the girls delivered Spice which sold two million copies in the first two weeks of it being released. Spice became the biggest album of 1996 in the UK, and the biggest album of 1997 in the US, selling 10 million copies worldwide in less than seven months. Spice Girls became the first british group to score a No.1 debut single and debut album in the US - a feat that not even the legendary Beatles could manage. Later updates put the UK sales figure around three million and worldwide sales at some 23 million.

The group's sophomore album, Spiceworld, was released in November 1997 and shot straight to No.1. It produced 3 top twenty singles in the US, four top 2 singles (including 3 number one singles) in the UK, and 5 number one singles in Asia. It has sold 18 million copies worldwide.

However, just six months later, Geri aka Ginger Spice left the group citing 'differences' as the reason for her departure. The girls soldiered on with their US tour and in October 2000, they released Forever - their last album of new material and their first without Geri Halliwell.

In 2001, the girls parted ways to pursue their own interests and after a six-year hiatus, all five girls including Geri re-formed in June 2007 to launch a World Tour alongside the release of their Greatist Hits album, featuring two new songs "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" and "Voodoo".

Spice Girls are currently on the US leg of their World Tour.

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Led Zeppelin reunion rocks like 60-year-old men playing in a rock band

December 12th 2007 02:02

I suppose that's unfair.

To be honest, all the hype about Led Zeppelin's monumental reunion concert seemed to have been justified... at the peak, the site selling tickets saw around 2 billion hits, with 80 000 visitors a second.

I grew up listening to Led Zep, playing along Jimmy Page's riffs on my dusty acoustic guitar. Pretending I was a rock star. Imagining that I could play as fast or as fluidly as Page. It was tragic that John Bonham died, splitting up the band, but I remember thinking it was fitting that they refused to play out of respect for Bonham.

Well, respect has gone out the window, as the cha-ching of cash registers made the sound that brought them all together, replacing Bonham with his son.

There's been a lot of talk about the concert, though... Slate asked:Will Led Zeppelin play 'Stairway to Heaven'?, justly targeting the super-ultra-hit as something of a joke in the modern music world.

Last night, Led Zeppelin brought the house down, giving the fans what they wanted: the old songs, with the same energy, but less pretentious meandering through 45-minute solos.

From the AP:

"The New York Times reviewer Ben Ratliff said Plant "was authoritative; he was dignified."

"As for Mr. Page, his guitar solos weren't as frenetic and articulated as they used to be, but that only drove home the point that they were always secondary to the riffs, which on Monday were enormous, nasty, glorious," Ratliff wrote."

They opened with 'Good Times, Bad Times':

And even played 'Stairway to Heaven':

*this image is from Wikipedia

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