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More nostalgia? I used to live ia stone's throw from Dominion Road. In those days there were fewer Dumpling Houses but more choices are good, right?
DARTZ - Dominion Road (Dumpling House) - their version of The Muttonbirds' song. Video has a brief visit by Don McGlashan
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After my parents retired to Otaki, it became my other home.
The Fourmyula - (I'm going down to) Otaki
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Muttonbirds - Wellington
I wish I was in Wellington, the weather's not so good
The wind it cuts right through you and it rains more than it should
But I'd be there tomorrow, if I only could
I wish I was in Wellington, the cafes and the bars
The music and the theatre, and the old Cable Car
And you can walk everywhere 'cause nowhere's very far
Oh I wish I was in Wellington
there's so much more to do
Last one from my TΔmaki Makaurau youth:
For about a year, I lived one floor above Progressive Music Studio on Anzac Ave. Every Sunday night, Shihad practiced until about midnight. It was good β¦
Shihad, "For What You Burn" (1995)
Imagine something like that coming through your floor at seven minutes to midnight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQR3etFlDM8
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So we were growing up in AKL and all the good music was coming from Dunedin (Flying Nun), including β¦
Look Blue Go Purple, "Cactus Cat" (1985)
From their second EP, "LBGPEP2". The Byrds retired after that π . LBGP called it quits at the end of 1987 β¦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jgVQ-KunSg
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So from earlier days in my callow youth around the Waitemata Harbour, the original 1982 cut from the "Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-so Sounds So-so, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten" EP β
The Clean, "Beatnik" (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3JHWlSRzc
Damn, YouTube, the ads are longer than the track!
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More from my wasted youth in Auckland, but this band was from Wellington β
Head Like a Hole, "Beatnik" (1997)
Yeah, they're covering The Clean's 1982 "Beatnik" (next post, you impatient sods!).
How much do you recognise in the video, Aucklanders?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1n15UBTXkw
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In the book "When The Pakeha Sings Of Home" and in this article,
https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/when-the-pakeha-sings-of-home
Mike Harding mentions a few songs I learned growing up. Not just "Now Is The Hour" but also,
"Come All You Tonguers" here sung by the Wellington Sea Shanty Society.
https://youtu.be/NZuSy_JCiJ8
Gotta put in a plug for the new album from Luke Hurley https://lukehurley.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-war
AFAIK recorded before all the latest war going on in Ukraine & Palestine
Back to school in the Eastern suburbs of Auckland:
This is someone I went to school with, same class and all, who eventually settled in Adelaide and starting performing with Micheala Burger β
Michaela Burger and Greg Wain, "La Vie En Rose" (2015)
I've called a lot of places home so there's a lot of directions I could go with this one. But I've been checking out Aotearoa country and bluegrass music lately so I'm going with that. Here's a song about loving to travel, even as you still love the home you came from.
Jenny Mitchell - Travelling Bones
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Fly My Pretties with A Girl Named Mo - Closer
Moana Ete (aka A Girl Named Mo) penned this love song to Wellington, including a reference to the coffee at Deluxe cafe, just next to Embassy Theatre on Kent Terrace. Wellington is a very walkable city! πΆββοΈ π£
Sibling rivalry meant that my brother favoured John Foxx, while I stuck with Ultravox! (exclamation mark required).
Ultravox! released the single "My Sex" in 1977, and apparently Steve Gilpin took the name for his new band β¦
Mi-Sex, "People" (1980)
30 years since this, and it is sadly relevant again
Razorgang by Ross Mullins & the Snaps
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Here's a love song to Aotearoa New Zealand!
Fred Dagg - We Don't Know How Lucky We Are
Stretching this week's theme of Aotearoa Music Month a bit, Gary Thain from New Zealand joined Uriah Heep in 1972, but heroin got him in 1975. Sad. But true.
Uriah Heep, "Why" (1972, alternate single mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYJ5H6-NXbo
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Obviously, you won't have to cut off my leg and count the rings to find out how many summers I've been through. More from AK79, the seminal compilation β
The Scavengers, "True Love" (1978?)
"I met her outside the IGA β¦" is just a time and place.
I could just put up a link for the entire AK79 album and be done for tonight. I will, and I won't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VTGXmCXFvg
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Link to AK79 album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fwEyQvwzYM
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If you're in Aotearoa New Zealand and can't think of a local song, here's a handy map with song links.
I found this song there. I can almost see my home in the video too!
Poor Sailors Arts Collective / Lake South - Mount Victoria/Tangi-te-keo
Most of Lake South's songs are tributes to local NZ places. Here's a playlist link
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsVb3mZq-KLkFFCtk2FsN9KGrkmXfYUgL&si=GE9s6U9CZOdi5i-E
For #JukeboxFridayNight, the theme is #SoundsOfHome
For people in or from Aotearoa New Zealand, great if you can share NZ music and tag that
for #AotearoaMusicMonth
For people from other lands or wanting a broader scope, posting songs about your home or reminders of home are fine.
Now we can combine Sounds of Home and Aotearoa Music Month for Jukebox Friday Night β
Suburban Reptiles, "Saturday Night Stay At Home" (1978)
Elam! AU! Who pulled the plug in the Quad?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGnhniCVOpw
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