Since we seem to have broken the 70's topic, I'm starting a new one. Did anyone other than me watch Love Is In The Air last night?

I ment to record it cause it was on at the same time as Oz Idol.

Was it any good?

Well, it was interesting, especially for someone with my background. It covered a lot of ground from the mid-1950s through to the early 1970s. It's a parallel road to "Long Way To The Top", but looking at the phenomenon of pop music in Australia. We went from Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra through the early days of rock, when Bill Haley dissed us, through the sixties when the Beach Boys were huge and Harry M Miller got away with paying the Rolling Stones a pittance. On the Aussie side, we went from JO'K through the Bee Gees to Ross Wilson, Brian Cadd, Glen Shorrock. I'll definitely be taping the series.

Mind if I rename this to be part 2 of the 70's thread so it can be all inclusive?

Apparently some of the Saturday Night Live writers are still living in the '70s, too. This week there was a long sketch in which the Bee Gees had a talk show, and Barry Gibb asked all the questions in a high singy voice. The hair and the leisure suits were also in top form.

I did think, wow, this isn't the freshest subject for parody. But I think it may be the influence of VH-1 retrospectives like I Love The '70s.

From ninemsn this morning:



There was a whole lot more to the article, but that's enough, isn't it?

Now seriously, I always though Leo's appearance was due to an affro. Now I see was wasn't hair; it was a very big head.

The guy responsible for these lyrics:

Of course I can dance
Of course I can dance
I'm sure I can dance
I'm sure I can dance

is a hero in Australia? Between this and your country's obsession with Abba, I have to say, I'm getting the impression that your country is filled with those American Bandstand contestants who give a song a high rating because "it has a good beat and you can dance to it." Now I know where they all went.

But then, there's the other side mj, Cold Chisel, AC/DC, INXS...the list is long, varied and oftentimes scary.

Then there's Nick Cave, The Go-Betweens, Kylie, Yothu Yindi, Olivia Newton-John ... Peter Andre?

Well, as he sang, Leo is a "one man band, nobody hears or understands".

And what exactly is wrong with being obsessed with Abba?

Uh, nothing, absolutely nothing.

::slowly backing out of the room, not making direct eye contact with beej::

Good plan there, mjforty. Self-preservation is a very good plan.

I love me some Abba.

I have a fondness for ABBA myself.

Mind you, I could have done without Peter Andre. Both times...

The irony about Peter Andre is that he was/is pretty much purely an export. No-one liked or listened to him in Australia.

Not quiet true VP his first single was kind of catchy and did alright on our charts, although after that we pretended we didn't know him.

Actaully that's the way it works with alot of our pop tarts one single sucess in Oz and then off to the UK and we never have to see them again.

And isn't that a shame?

/sarcasm

You know, gloating is not nice.

Y'know, shipping our "talent" off to the UK is a time-honoured tradition. Think back to the early sixties (Rolf Harris, Frank Ifield), the mid-late sixties (the Bee Gees, The Seekers), the seventies (Olivia Newton John), the eighties (James Freud, Kylie, Jason, Dannii and entire cast of Neighbours and Home & Away), the nineties (Peter Andre and more soapie starlets). What we don't understand is why you sent most of them back...

Who wants to be nice?

*smirk*