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Just A Man (The Cruel Sea Song)
"Just a Man" is a song by Australian indie rock band The Cruel Sea. The song was released in March 1995 as the second single from the band's fourth studio album, ''Three Legged Dog ''Three Legged Dog'' is the fourth studio album by Australian indie rock band The Cruel Sea. The album was released in April 1995 and peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Charts. The liner notes of the album lists “For Pandora”, Gormly’s daught ...''. The song peaked at number 39 on the ARIA Charts. Track listing # "Just a Man" # "Down the Stairs Backwards" # "See Ya Later" # "Moby Dick" Charts References {{authority control The Cruel Sea (band) songs 1994 songs 1995 singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cruel Sea (band)
The Cruel Sea are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney, New South Wales formed in late 1987. Originally an instrumental-only band, they became more popular when fronted by vocalist Tex Perkins (Beasts of Bourbon and solo) in addition to Jim Elliott on drums, Ken Gormly on bass guitar, Dan Rumour on guitar and James Cruickshank on guitar and keyboards. Their albums include ''The Honeymoon Is Over'' (1993), '' Three Legged Dog'' (1995) and ''Over Easy'' (1998). Some of their best-known songs are "Better Get a Lawyer", "Takin' All Day", "The Honeymoon Is Over" and "Reckless Eyeballin – an instrumental track from their debut album '' Down Below'' that became the theme of Australian TV police drama, ''Blue Heelers''. The band has won eight ARIA Music Awards including five in 1994 for work associated with ''The Honeymoon Is Over''. History Formation and early years Danny Rumour (aka Daniel John Atkins) was a member of punk rock bands Blackrunner, Urban Guerrillas, Friction, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Legged Dog
''Three Legged Dog'' is the fourth studio album by Australian indie rock band The Cruel Sea. The album was released in April 1995 and peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Charts. The liner notes of the album lists “For Pandora”, Gormly’s daughter, pictured in the liner notes. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995, the album was nominated for four awards; winning the ARIA Award for Best Group, Engineer of the Year for Tony Cohen and Paul McKercher's work, and Producer of the Year for Cohen's work. Note: this source states that Cohen's 1995 ARIA Artisan Awards were both for the Cruel Sea's album, ''Three Legged Dog''. He shared Engineer of the Year with Paul McKercher. Composition ''Three Legged Dog'' was the first Cruel Sea album with writing contributions from all members of the band. Previously, most songs has originated from home demos recorded by Danny Rumour. Perkins said, "We have been playing together for so many years getting to know each other that creating music as a uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Cohen
Anthony Lawrence Cohen (4 June 19572 August 2017) was an Australian music record producer and sound engineer. He worked with Nick Cave's groups the Birthday Party, and then the Bad Seeds from 1979 to 2001. In mid-1986 he had followed Cave to London and then onto Berlin, in January 1987, to continue to work on their material. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Cohen won Producer of the Year for The Cruel Sea's second album, ''The Honeymoon Is Over'' (May 1993). At the 1995 ceremony he won Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year for the Cruel Sea's '' Three Legged Dog''. Cohen had been a long-term alcohol and drug user, his health deteriorated in the 2010s and he died in 2017 at Dandenong Hospital, aged 60. In November 2017 he was posthumously inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. Biography Anthony Lawrence Cohen was born on 4 June 1957 in Melbourne. His father, Philip Cohen, was an Australian son of Jewish migrants from Manchester, Philip had converted to Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Better Get A Lawyer
"Better Get a Lawyer" is a song by Australian indie rock band The Cruel Sea. The song was released in November 1994 as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album, ''Three Legged Dog''. The song peaked at number 29 on the ARIA Charts. The track borrows lyrics heavily from Jon Wayne's "Texas Jailcell" giving Jon Wayne a songwriter credit. "Better Get a Lawyer" was polled a number 14 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 1994; the fifth highest placing by an Australian artist. The CD Single contained an unlisted song after the final track that contains a spoken-word piece containing lyrics concerning the 70s TV show Charlie's Angels ''Charlie's Angels'' is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 115 episodes. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and was produced by Aa .... Video The black and white music video depicts Perkins being arrested and the band being placed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cruel Sea (band) Songs ''
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The Cruel Sea or Cruel Sea may refer to: * ''The Cruel Sea'' (novel), 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat * ''The Cruel Sea'' (1953 film), a 1953 war film made of the above book, starring Jack Hawkins * ''The Cruel Sea'' (1972 film), a 1972 Kuwaiti film and the first Kuwaiti film to be produced *The Cruel Sea (band), Australian indie rock band formed in the 1980s * "The Cruel Sea" (song), 1963 instrumental by The Dakotas; in the U.S. aka "The Cruel Surf" *"Cruel Sea", television series episode of ''Walking with Dinosaurs ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Envi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Songs
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
