Even more  #alternateFridayMusic 🎉

and the cue this week is:

that striped sunlight sound

I was originally going to finish with Head Full of Steam which has amazing lines like "she plays hard to get, along with" but it's Friday! and what better weekend vibe is there than:

The Go-Betweens - Surfing Magazines

https://youtu.be/m_dYciEMniQ

This song manages to drip with so many feels for a dune rat from Sydney like me. The video also includes many, many familiar sights from my youth. Yet while the song touches on what in other hands would be cringey nostalgia, they manage to imbue this song instead with a celebratory feeling, that striped sunlight sound:

🎶 We used to get our kicks
Reading surfing magazines
Some good looking people
Wearing Lee Cooper jeans
They're breaking on the headland
They're breaking on the shore
And when you're living in Hawaii
They're breaking at your door

We used to wet our fingers
On surfing magazines
Going to throw school
And follow those scenes
Going to get a Kombi
And go from beach to beach
Be the kind of people
The Authorities can't reach

We used to get our kicks
Reading surfing magazines
Wake up in the morning
And the waves are clean
Standing on the headland
Taking in the scene
Just like they do it
In surfing magazines 🎶

@dgar  @electric_gumball @Bishopjoey @fc

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4/4

Pauline Pantsdown - I Don't Like It! (1998)

https://aussie.zone/post/33826918

It's still #alternateFridayMusic 🎉

and the cue this week is:

that striped sunlight sound

I'm on real bend with this theme, there's a rich vein I've not tapped in a while and I appear to have strapped in for the ride:

The Go-Betweens - Finding You

https://youtu.be/iM8z47RvRf8

While the record version is much better, this live performance was captured less than a year before Grant McLennan died (20 years ago 😭). Not my favourite song of theirs but it's so insanely well crafted that I always find myself swept away with the flow...

🎶 What would you do if you turned around
And saw me beside you
Not in a dream but in a song?
Would you float like a phantom
Or would you sing along?
...
And then the lightning finds us
Burns away our kindness
We can't find a place to hide
Come the rainy season
Surrender to our treasons
Can we even find our tears?

Don't know where I'm going
Don't know where it's flowing
But I know it's finding you 🎶

@dgar  @electric_gumball @Bishopjoey @fc

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3/4

Hey it's  #alternateFridayMusic 🎉

and the cue this week is:

that striped sunlight sound

Dark lyrics with that striped sunlight music:

The Go-Betweens - Was There Anything I Could Do?

https://youtu.be/1qjn2XvV98E

There's an official video but the sound is muted and the director made it into a happy video, which this song, lyrically, is not. So I went for a high-quality audio version instead.

🎶 She comes home and she's happy
She comes home and she's blue
She comes home and then tells him
Listen baby, we're through

I don't know what happened next
All I know is she moved
Packed up her bags and her curtains
Left him in his room

She went out with a paintbox
Paints the chapel blue
She went out with her matchsticks
Torched the carwash too
I don't know where she's living
All I got is a card
A picture of her at the pyramids
A knife held to her heart

She came down from the mountain
Said goodbye to her guru
She went back to her room
Lost herself in voodoo
I don't say that I blame her
People don't know what they want
If you spend your life looking behind you
You don't see what's up front

Was there anything, I could do? 🎶

@dgar  @electric_gumball @Bishopjoey @fc

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2/4

Hey it's  #alternateFridayMusic 🎉

and the cue this week is:

that striped sunlight sound

In the late 70's a musical renaissance was happening in the authoritarian state of #Queensland. From the Saints at the forefront of punk, a musical movement started that continues to this day. One band went another way, crafting that #stripedSunlight sound, I give you the most perfect pop-song of all time:

The Go-Betweens - Spring Rain

https://youtu.be/U3aqDBmH__E

There's an official video but the sound is muted, so I had to dig and find a copy that was mixed correctly.

A few weeks later I came up with ‘that striped sunlight sound’. It was a #Brisbane thing, to do with sun slanting in through windows onto objects in a room, and the feelings that evoked. Years before, I’d taken photos of the Suzuki leaning against a wall with the sun on its honey-coloured body, and somehow all of this got linked to the sound The Go-Betweens made. We stuck this description onto the sleeve of our single as an answer to an imagined interview. The phrase endured, and became a term referencing a bright poppy Brisbane sound with winsome or witty lyrics attached
-- Robert Forster

🎶 Dressed in a white shirt with my hair combed straight
Here in my black shoes and me without a date
Me without hindsight, me without
When will change come, just like spring rain

Standing on the lawn with cousins and child brides
Caught for the camera on their best sides
Being caught forewarned their best sides
When will change come just like spring rain

Driving my first car, my elbow's in the breeze
With all these people that I never, never need
These people are excited by their cars
I want surprises just like spring rain 🎶

@dgar  @electric_gumball @Bishopjoey @fc

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1/4

WHITE DEVIL DESTRUCTION, by DISPOSSESSED

WHITE DEVIL DESTRUCTION by DISPOSSESSED, released 05 July 2019

WHITE DEVIL DESTRUCTION

White devil destruction

Car bomb Foundations shatter

Ocean floor
Twisted metal
Prove their warlords mortal

Warriors
Kill their gods
Hollow and false
Commit your souls