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"crash boom bang"the album from roxette or boom crash opera the aussie band ?

― onion skin, Sunday, 4 September 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure this question is a joke, and that BCO are considered horribly uncool, but I maintain that "Gimme" was a brilliant single.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 4 September 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

haha boom crash opera
a nice match up with roxette

i profer the BABY ANIMALS

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

to me this all links in nicely with that song 'the wild wild west'
and 'black velvet' by alannah myles, and maybe ratcat but maybe not

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

im also thinking of, in no particular order: those racing car beds, the colour red, and black & white, curly hair, crotches, white backgrounds, bros, four & twenty pies 'mexicana' flavour at 711, skateboards, oh that band that all wore black skivvies and had an upright bass, what were they called?

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

spiky fringes, girls called kristie, potted plants, marbled grey carpet

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

ikea, wigs, keith haring

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

The Sharp?

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah the sharp, i know they sound nothing like boom crash opera
but theyre just as funny

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

i saw BCO's richard pleasance playing with sophie koh on saturday night. bit of a rough performance.

the sharp's ghost will live forever in the performances of their drummer's latest band the Sandpebbles.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

(needs more turtlenecks though)

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

yes!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

hey wheres that person who's really obsessed with samantha fox and kate ceberano?? i want them to say something on this thread

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

to lure them, i say 'bedroom eyes', what a great song! that swoopy thing in the production is magic too

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

wait theyre probably the one who started it in the 1st place right

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

i demand 'onion skin' reveal their true identity! onion skin if you are also famantha sox, i am a fan of your 'only pick 11' from a while back

― minna (minna), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Is it wrong to think that "Pash" by Kate Ceberano is actually REALLY REALLY good? Yes? Good, then.

COME ON FAMANTHA SOX! WE LUV YOU.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

the sharp's ghost will live forever in the performances of their drummer's latest band the Sandpebbles.

hahaha I would never have picked that in a thousand years! also ed o is OTM about "gimme".

― haitch online poker (haitch), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

"Gimme" was about 10 years ahead of its time. Of course, I haven't listened to it in years, and my CD single of it (OMG TEH EMBARRASSMENT) is in another state.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

boom crash opera were the headline act on the last night at the scout jamboree I attended as a yoof. (opening night act: darryl braithwaite)

― haitch online poker (haitch), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

yikes

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

for some reason i'm reminded of Go-101

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I will never ever be able to think of the Sharp again without seeing the Late Show guys doing SKIVVIES! ARE! BAAAACK!!!!

This is perhaps a good thing.

I liked BCO. "Hands up in the Air" is a great anthemy tune. Reminds me of high school days sittin' by the VCR ready to tape everything off of the Noise and Rock Arena.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

I was just about to mention SKIVVIES! ARE! BACK! My brother, or was it one of his friends, this anecdote goes back, once met The Sharp and yelled that out to them. They weren't amused.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

I understand that adam almanac was quite a hardcore sharp fan at one point!

― haitch online poker (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Apart from "Scratch My Back" what were their other songs? I have a feeling I quite liked a few of them, if only I could remember them.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

they had "i know you" on a youngblood comp that i have somewhere

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

ooh

http://www.users.fl.net.au/~lyndenal/sharppage/shhistory.htm

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

"train of thought! woo woo!"

― haitch online poker (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

That was classic!

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

"Alone Like Me" - I liked that one too!

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

my boom crash opera tape melted in the car last year :(

― gem (trisk), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

could this thread lead to the compiling of a 1990s pig's arse???

― haitch online poker (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

i can't actually bring to mind any sharp songs i don't think. they were the skivvy band with the double bass and curly hair though?

― gem (trisk), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

also i think i had my first pash to 'dancing in the storm'. aaaah.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

o no a 90s comp in the spirit of pig's arse would be wretched beyond belief!!

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking of writing a book on the decline and fall of Australian pop. But I can't think of exactly the watershed point at which point things started to go wrong.

It wasn't when Robyn Loau left Girlfriend, though. The rot had well and truly set in before that.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

maybe it was when lycra fluoro bike pants went out of fashion, leaving kylie and collette without outfits for video

― gem (trisk), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

ed: when kylie went "indie", surely!

― haitch online poker (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

No, pop was crap before that happened. Indie kylie provided a bit of a reprieve, as the singles off her 1994 album are k-great.

Nobody has commented on the Roxette albun in the thread title. I loved Roxette. Yet, Crash Boom Bang was shit. OK, carry on.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh Ed, you pop fiend ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

AHA! I know it! Australian pop went down the shitter when Tina Arena tried to pretend she never recorded "I Need Your Body" and "The Machine's Breaking Down".

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

do you think she's hidden the sordid past from the french public? can we formulate a plan to let the cat out of the bag there??

― haitch wolf gave me haitch (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm quite sure she has. I'm told her "greatest hits" compilation is stingy on her days as a dance pop diva with bosoms til Tuesday.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 5 September 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

For reminding me of that atrocious Tina Arena song, you are so totally dropped now mister.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Mind you I met ms Arena once (when she were gettin' a passport), and she was a very very nice woman, took a lot of time to talk to the staff and sign autographs. She's very tiny.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

in height maybe!

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Haha =)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

to lure them, i say 'bedroom eyes', what a great song! that swoopy thing in the production is magic too
-- minna (girl_thursda...), September 5th, 2005.
i love " great wall" and "onion skin"
i have a milllion names.
i start kate ceberano,sam fox,sabrina salerno and army of lovers threads too.

― retroman, Monday, 5 September 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

AHA! I know it! Australian pop went down the shitter when Tina Arena tried to pretend she never recorded "I Need Your Body" and "The Machine's Breaking Down".
-- edward o (edwardo...), September 5th, 2005.
tina didn't include her debut single "turn up the beat "1985 or her four singkles from debut album.(i need your body,the machine's breaking down,a woman's work,stronng as steel).those were the best four singles/videos.

― retroman, Monday, 5 September 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

i need your body
i got to have your body close to mweeeee

that video made a huge impression on me! she had that little matador jacket, did it have dangly pompom things on it or am i imagining them? and the vast heaving white bosom

― minna (minna), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

anyway hi retroman!!! thank you for the memories

― minna (minna), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

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