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These groups were actual groups whose music I think is pretty cool... I love to the moon and back and truely, madly, deeply-Savage Garden...and Your a God..and He's everything you want-Vertical Horizon...does anyone else like those songs??
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There is another song they did called The Animal Song- I loved it too. Where did they up and go to, they weren't around long either. I mean gee..you get 1 band that comes out half decent, they do a few songs, and split. Bummer.
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OK, look, this is not the coolest thing for any guy to admit but...yeah, 'Savage Garden' were a good band. Biggest band in Australia for awhile (from 'INXS' to this?...never mind ) btw Isis 'The Animal Song' was used in a movie called 'The Other Sister' with Juliete Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi.
Darren Hayes went solo, and though he can sing, managed to churn out stuff that was even sappier than Savage Garden at their sappiest (which they can be at times). His biggest solo hit was an annoyingly catchy little tune called 'Insatiable'..I'm outta here before I sound too much like a fan or something Posts: 2041 | From: The Ice Planet Hoth | Registered: Jul 2001 | Site Updates: 0
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I admit i like Savage Garden and have both of their albums. My favourite song is "I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You"
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Kashter, my friend...I AM surprised at this admission from you but will accept it cuz that's just the kinda gal that I am...~shivers at the thought of listening to Savage Garden
OTOH I do like Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want" CD.
IMHO the biggest bands to come out of Australia were Midnight Oil and Crowded House, even though they are really New Zealanders.
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I absolutely love Everything You Want by Vertical Horizon. I was in America when I first heard it and when i came back to the uk I had to get it imported. it stayed well below the radar here but I did manage to get 2 of my friends hooked on it.
Savage garden were ok I like most of their songs but they were a bit to cheesy at times.
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quote:Kashter, my friend...I AM surprised at this admission from you but will accept it cuz that's just the kinda gal that I am...~shivers at the thought of listening to Savage Garden
No no, 'INXS' I like 'INXS', when did I say I liked 'Savage Garden'...(scanning old posts)...Hunter S. Thompson style: "ah...it must've been the mescalin talking, or the ether...righty oh man, righty oh".
Calling a New-Zealander Austrailian always results in the offended party going off into an amusingly angry rant about the very disticnt differences between the two, must call New-Zealander Russell Crowe an Aussie next time I see him.
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Nice attempt at saving face...it was getting dangerously close to asking you to turn in your Hipster Card.
Crowded House performed its farewell concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, so they are Aussie by association.
Speaking of down under, what's your opinion on their cinema scene? While I believe we [in the US] get the best of the best from all around [meaning every country's cinema produces junk but only the good stuff gets worldwide release], what I see that comes out of Australia is some 'dang good stuff' [B-52s ref].
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I love the Aussie sense of humour Hipstermom, and yes, they do have a good industry out there: ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ was a film I wasn’t expecting to like, but its actually very dark and quite funny, I’ve been meaning to see ‘Angel At My Table’ for years, as everyone seems to think it’s a good movie.
I really liked the recent ‘Ned Kelly’ and Gregor Jordan’s heist comedy with Heath Ledger and Brian Brown; ‘Two Hands’ was also surprisingly good, Aus films are always a little rough around the edges but nonetheless interesting and different.
Another one that worked (though I doubt I’d want to see it again) was ‘Chopper’, the films a bit weak overall but it boasts an excellent performance by Eric ‘Hulk’ Bana as imprisoned celebrity killer Mark ‘Chopper’ Read. ‘The Castle’ is a little seen but amusing comedy, as is ‘The Last Word’ with Rachael Griffiths and Guy Pierce. Posts: 2041 | From: The Ice Planet Hoth | Registered: Jul 2001 | Site Updates: 0
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I will look for those mentions during my surfing of independent flicks.
Back over across the ocean, the film "Once Were Warriors" is spectacularly compelling and disturbing.
I didn't know much about the aborogines until I started to watch movies like "The Piano" and "Rabbit Proof Fence". Also a few years back, I read "The Fatal Shore" which documents the English settling of the penal colonies. I find this all very interesting -- again, compelling and disturbing -- in light of race relations in the U.S.
In particular, after I saw RPF, I went online and found the human rights commission site, all about the reparations efforts made on behalf of aborogines who were taken to the orphanages. Wow...I simply had no idea.
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'Once Were Warriors' is another one I've been meaning to see for ages, but somehow never got around to it, everyone whose seen it says its excellent.
'The Fatal Shore' (will have to track that one down) another book you may want to check out is 'The New Rulers Of The World' (a collection of essays by verteran Aussie journalist John Pilger) he covers a variety of topics (Iraq, globalisation etc) and his essay 'The Chosen Ones' reads like a comparitive timeline of race relations in Australia from the past to the present day.
I saw 'Rabbit Proof Fence' in a double bill with 'The Quiet American' (also a great film), its a sobering, but nonetheless, very compelling work.
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My favorite scene was when Kenneth Branagh's character was lecturing to the white lady do-gooders about how the natives didn't take proper care of themselves, hence the need to remove the racially impure half-breeds 'for their own good.'
I turned to my Sig Other and whispered something to the effect "why not lecture to the white men in the bush about using a condom so as not to create more misguided half-breeds" -- as a person of what he calls 'stiff upper lip Brit' ancestry, he loves any time we poke fun at life's absurdities.
We must be psychic together, you and me..."Muriel" was on HBO last night.
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