Riff Raff on the live album, If You Want Blood; You've Got It, is absolutely sensational. In fact the whole album is sensational but the way it starts with Riff Raff is out of this world.
Powerage is awesome as well. Downpayment Blues; what a song.
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The Music Thread
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Powerage is awesome as well. Downpayment Blues; what a song.
I saw them in a pubs in the 80s; 1986 to be exact. It was dubbed the "Oils in your backyard" tour. Saw them at the Excelsior Hotel in Thomastown; awesome show. Also saw them at the Venue in St. Kilda around the same time. Shame it is no longer there; great place to see a band. Saw the Oils and The Angels on consecutive Friday nights at the Venue in late 1986. The Excelsior gig was either just before or just after. The good old days.
Other small venues at which I saw the Oils was the Forum in the CBD around 2001 and St. George Leagues Club in Sydney in the late 90s. Always loved seeing them anywhere but the smaller venues were the best. I'll never forget the nights at the Excelsior and the Venue.
I reckon that Kooyong concert was my first Oils concert. 1984 or 1985. It was unreal. Species Deceases had just been released. Distinctly remember Hercules.
Don't mind You Am I but never seen them live. Really like Berlin Chair and Jewels & Bullets.
Interesting. Must say Blue Sky Mining is down the list of albums for me. I love Forgotten Years and Bedlam Bridge but not Blue Sky Mine and King of the Mountain.
It's really hard to say how I'd rank the others. 10-1 is obvious for most people but I really rate Diesel and Dust. Not too mention Head Injuries and Place Without a Postcard. I'd probably have those 4 ahead of Red Sails.
Booooo! Stand in Line makes up for it; cracker. Thanks JB great set list.
Just thought it might have been too slow and quiet for live gigs. Love all the songs jimbob except for the butchered Beds are Burning.
It's all personal preference of course, and I'd say 'from day 1' fans would have different views to someone like me. Place Without a Postcard is still their early post-punk, hard rock days. Blue Sky Mining is more melodic, and those two songs way poppier than anything they'd done before.
I reckon their peak was 10-1 through BSM, those four albums and EP hit a perfect mix of rockin rage and sing-along melody.
Earth and Sun and Moon was too soft for me.
Just listened to D&D again, great album. I'll slot it in third between BSM and Red Sails. Not a lot between them.
Yeah, my fave is probably 10-1.
But Diesel and Dust holds a special place as a bunch of us had it on high rotation on a tape in a mini van on the way to get arrested at Pine Gap in 1987.
Aah, the good old days.
DS
Even though I saw them again recently have to say I'm more than a bit jealous. Enjoy jimbob.
