History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop culture junk and oddities of yesterday and today. Saved from the landfill of time...
This is the original independent Australian self-release of "Down Under" by Men At Work. It was the B-side to their first local single titled "Keypunch Operator", released before the band signed with CBS Records.
This version of "Down Under" sounds almost entirely different from the worldwide famous hit version, which is upbeat and poppy. This original version is much slower, almost reggae in tempo.
Interesting tune from Opus. Austria is usually one of the last places on
Earth you'd look for reggae. But this one hit wonder scored a massive
new wave hit with this flytape catchy tune.
Instant '80s Pop Culture Fact: "Live Is Life" was the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's favourite song. It also came out at the height of his cult's popularity.
Imagine a bobblehead of this guy if you want a visual of how the Bhagwan danced.....
Here's a nifty little compilation of some of Bob Marley & The
Wailer's earliest recordings (with Peter Tosh.) Released in 1977 as Bob
Marley was making his mark on American FM rock stations and people
everywhere were discovering this strange new music called "reggae".
Whereas back then, punk was loud, fast and snotty, reggae was the
mellow, laid back stuff your stoner next door neighbour played loudly on his stereo every
Sunday morning.
While on the surface, this might look like your
typical major label budget compilation (Calla was the hard
funk/Caribbean music imprint of CBS Records) to cash in on a big trend
by reissuing a current superstar's early material, this album is
surprisingly well mastered with some instantly catchy tunes ("Wings Of A
Dove", "I'm Still Waiting") and excellent liner notes on the back
cover.
On this one, you hear more of a '60s soul influence (these
sessions were recorded in the late '60s, before Marley's more
rock-influenced Island albums in the '70s that made him a superstar) and
Bob Marley could have easily scored a few '60s US hits if CBS were
actively looking in Jamaica for exciting new music. Which they weren't
(NOBODY outside of Island and a few specialty labels were doing that.)
These recordings are reissued material Bob Marley & The Wailers
recorded for New World Disc Records. It's a necessary companion to Bob
Marley's greatest hits album Legend.
And the perfect soundtrack for a Sunday morning.....
