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Roxanne Walsh
My record collector's life started in the 1960s with compilation albums from Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones that I urged my parents to buy for me. Myself, I just could afford singles from my pocket money. If I recall correctly, the first album I bought myself was the Doors debut album, although that was in 1968 already - prior to that I had recorded their songs with a hand held microphone and a cassette recorder from the family radio. I have not stopped listening and collecting since then.
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When I was 18, The Clash were called "the only band that matters". Today the title may go to Midnight Oil. Their mini album last year already proved they still have something to say.
The song that moves me the most is At the Time of Writing...this is what my generation has done all these years - thinking that problems will resolve on their own, that there is still so much time etc.
The other thing for me is that all the places they use as examples e.g. Tarkine, Darling River are right next door to where I live.
Open up the floodgates to the rising seas - they started to warn us already 40 years ago and they were always loud and powerful enough to be heard...it just all seemed to be so far away, on the other side of a planet for some who did not notice that it still was the very same planet, the only one we have.
Apart from all of this there is also the best rock 'n' roll any band is able to produce these days. Peter Garrett will be 70 next year, he and the band have learned their trade.
This will be their final album and they go out with a big bang.
The song that moves me the most is At the Time of Writing...this is what my generation has done all these years - thinking that problems will resolve on their own, that there is still so much time etc.
The other thing for me is that all the places they use as examples e.g. Tarkine, Darling River are right next door to where I live.
Open up the floodgates to the rising seas - they started to warn us already 40 years ago and they were always loud and powerful enough to be heard...it just all seemed to be so far away, on the other side of a planet for some who did not notice that it still was the very same planet, the only one we have.
Apart from all of this there is also the best rock 'n' roll any band is able to produce these days. Peter Garrett will be 70 next year, he and the band have learned their trade.
This will be their final album and they go out with a big bang.
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