Don’t mind a bit of heavy, rock-oriented dance music. Yes, this comes from a proud owner of the late 70’s single Death to Disco….
Last Train To Trancentral (The KLF, 1991)
Who knows what all the samples and references mean, this was a great, fast-paced dance song. Sample at last.fm From the team that bought you Doctorin’ the Tardis too.
Blue Monday [Techno remix] (Orgy)
Hard and heavy re-doing of this classic dance number. Play loud. Clip at You Tube.
Out of Control (Chemical Brothers)
Wow. First time I heard this, it just grabbed me. The full, album version has a great instrumental break too. You Tube clip.
Don’t mind a bit of heavy, rock-oriented dance music. Yes, this comes from a proud owner of the late 70’s single Death to Disco….
Last Train To Trancentral (The KLF, 1991)
Who knows what all the samples and references mean, this was a great, fast-paced dance song. Sample at last.fm From the team that bought you Doctorin’ the Tardis too.
Blue Monday [Techno remix] (Orgy)
Hard and heavy re-doing of this classic dance number. Play loud. Clip at You Tube.
Out of Control (Chemical Brothers)
Wow. First time I heard this, it just grabbed me. The full, album version has a great instrumental break too. You Tube clip.
Now this was a spectacular and challenging walk. I’d rate it as medium/difficult - for the steepness and terrain - but well worth it. The only hiccup for me was the smoke. A controlled burn-off and still conditions conspired to have the smoke linger for days, so the views were smoke-limited.
Parks Victoria has a web page ,but my main reference was the excellent book Daywalks Around Melbourne, Walk 70, The Farmyard. Please use that for details. The essence is: start at the ground and walk up the ziz-zagging and steep track that runs along one side of the ranges, to the very top. You are pretty much under cover and it’s one of those cool ‘work-reward’ walks; you do all the work (climbing) and it’s only when that’s all done you get the spectacular views. In this case it’s the views from the rock formations known as the Jawbones; actually two sets - North and South.
An added bonus for me was a pair of courting Lyrebirds on the way back down. It’s pure magic to hear the male one doing his impressions of many bush sounds - mainly other birds. Indeed part of this walk takes you through an area known as The Farmyard. Names because the Lyrebirds do imitations of the farm animals sounds, from way below in the valley.
A highly rated walk. You really should wear sturdy boots and take a walking pole. Some of my photos are available too.
Another pleasant walk from Daywalks Around Melbourne ; walk 42 - Hunts Dam and Argyle Spring. Did this as a day trip; drove to Hepburn Springs, did the walk and drove home. Not problems at all.
Not a real ‘gee whiz’ walk and rated medium/difficult not because of terrain or steepness, but navigation. A few tracks don’t have names so instructions say things like about 1 km along turn left into un-named side track. I confess to getting a bit lost, but found my way back on track again. As I said, pleasant and worth the slight challenges of the navigation.
Virginia Plain (Roxy Music, 1972). Sample at last.fm.
Was used a few times in the excellent TV series Life on Mars. At first it did slightly annoy me, with it’s repetitive x-y, x-y chords, but then it grew on me. Early Roxy, with Ferry and Eno. And lots of eye shadow.
Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac, 1969). Sample at last.fm.
Well before Rhiannon and Sarah and Stevie and Lindsey (and, to be fair, the big financial rewards that commercial pop brings), this is a much heavier, more guitar-oriented Mac. 1969! Wow. But what’s with the strange little percussive breaks? “Hey Mick, we’ll all stop playing and you hit your drum stand a few times” : methinks Mick, John and Peter et al have been visiting the Court of the Crimson King.
Smiley (Ronnie Burns, 1969). Youtube video via last.fm.
The recent repeat of ABC TV’s Love is in the Air documentary series, covered this song and its story. Written by Johnny Young, it’s a (somewhat disguised) anti-war song, like Russell Morris’ excellent Rachel was as well. Young wrote it for his mate Normie Rowe, who was indeed off to a certain “Asian War”.
One (Johnny Farnham, 1970). (can’t find a clip)
Stuck in an 1969/72 timewarp with this bunch of songs. This was a slightly more down song from the King of Pop. It also reminds me a bit of The Real Thing with it’s swirling, rising/falling chord runs. Mmm. The second Russell Morris reference today.
This is all my own doing, as in I didn’t use a book for this one. Rather than drive to the lovely Steavensons Falls, it’s more fun to walk up to them from the main street of Marysville. Then a fun climb up the mountain, reveals great views at the Lookout
Basic route:
- From tourist centre in main street get map of Tree Fern Forest walk
- This walk starts from right there at the centre ; behind it
- It goes near the ornamental lake with its fountain
- Track crosses river and is signed all the way to the Falls (about 1 hour)
- Visit Falls per se and if required, the toilets back at the Falls Cark Park
- Then, between the Car Park and the Falls take the Keppel Walking Track. It will probably say “De La Rue Lookout 1 km”
- This 1km is steep, but made easier by a number of zig-zags (switch-backs) in the track, rather than going directly up the mountain.
- Great views from the Lookout, including Marysville, the ornamental lake and Cathedral Ranges.
- Turn around and return back the same way.
There are walks that continue ‘forward’ rather than returning the same way, but - to be honest - they didn’t add much in terms of interest and the distance was almost identical.
“Stray Cat Blues” - Rolling Stones (1968 UK) classic-period blues/rock, play LOUD
“I’m Waiting for the Man” - Velvet Underground inc Lou Reed (1967 ! USA ) driving, simple song about, umm, heroin dealers
“Appetite” - Prefab Sprout (1985 UK) pop, just sweet pop
“Where Is the Love” - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway (1972 USA) sweet soul pop
“Fall” - Single Gun Theory (1994 AUS) gentle and relaxing. Youtube clip.
“I Saved the World Today” - Eurythmics (1999 UK) well crafted, high quality & thoughtful.
“Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” - Looking Glass (1972 USA). High standard white soul/pop
“I Wish You Were Here” - Ed Kuepper (1993 AUS) Longing ballad from ex-guitarist of The Saints. Amazon sample.
“Like a Rolling Stone” - Bob Dylan (1985 USA) How does it feeeeeel?
