Saturday, April 04, 2009

A quiet house, apart from the Hunters & Collectors

The rest of my family is a couple hundred miles away (I work tomorrow, so I couldn't accompany them on this trip), so the pets and I are listening to music in an otherwise empty house.
I used an iTUNES card to purchase "NATURAL SELECTION," a greatest-hits compilation of one of my favorite bands, the Australians HUNTERS & COLLECTORS.
Led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour, Hunters & Collectors are a MELBOURNE band that have also featured John Archer on bass guitar, Doug Falconer on drums and percussion, Jack Howard on trumpet and keyboards, Jeremy Smith on French horn, guitars and keyboards, and Michael Waters on trombone and keyboards.
You've got to like bands that acknowledged their art designer a member, as Hunters & Collectors have done with Robert Miles.
I first heard Hunters & Collectors on SAN FRANCISCO alternative radio stations back in the 80s. Their singles "Back on the Breadline" and "When the River Runs Dry" both reached the Top 10 of the U.S. Modern Rock charts.
The band scored a number of hits Down Under (chart placing in parentheses):
1982
"World of Stone" (50)
"Talking to a Stranger" (59)
1986
"Say Goodbye" (24)
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" (49)
"Everything's on Fire" (78)
1987
"Inside a Fireball" (41)
"Do You See What I See?" (33)
1988
"Back on the Breadline" (41) (No. 6 on the U,S. Modern Rock chart)
1989
"When the River Runs Dry" (23) (No. 5 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart)
1990
"Blind Eye" (42)
"The Way You Live" (75)
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" (34)
1991
"Where Do You Go?" (33)
1992
"Head Above Water" (64)
"We the People" (70)
"True Tears of Joy" (14)
1993
"Holy Grail" (20)
"Imaginary Girl" (82)
1994
"Easy" (38)
The AUSTRALASIAN PERFORMING RIGHTS ASSOCIATION (APRA) named "Throw Your Arms Around Me" as one of the 30 greatest Australian songs back in 2001. As I listen to these songs today, I consider them among the top songs here, too.

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