The Whitlams

They're pretty good

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LOL! wooooohooooo I have a reply!

Do you know the Charlie trilogy Mark? espesh Charlie #2.. that's an amazing song

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Dear Lejjy sent me a song by the Whitlams, and I quite liked it.

Good lyrics, good piano-playing.

Wanting to hear more.

I don't mind a bit of whitlams, I'm a fan of "blow up the pokies" (which I noticed in your signature) and a couple of others, and I like the way they don't try to be too commercial and the fact they put some thought into their music.

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Pokies is gorgeous.. I saw them do it live cept Katie Noonan of George sang it with them.. it was quite special..
I love "Love is everywhere" and "Louis Brudett" on eternal nightcap.. You made me hard is an awesome song also..
There's a lot of thought in their music, or what I like to call social observation
There's a great line in Louis I think where he says "sex is everywhere, but nowhere near me"
brilliant

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This is for you Shaners.. I know you liked Charlie #2 so here are the lyrics to Charlie #1

Charlie No.1 Lyrics

We've seen her type before
Sandals and the hair
They fall in love with big dumb boys
And we sit and stare

So we walk the long way home
Glasses in our hands
When the last of the ice is eaten
Throw them as far as we can

There's a problem
There's no sleepy girl to wrap you in her loving arms
There's a lizard on the doorstep
And there is music in my head

We put the world on hold
Two young men growing old
We talk of years like lost weekends
And the harbour shrugs

Because friends are getting fewer
And we vow life will be fuller
But if the last of our dreams is broken
We'll walk the same way home

There's a gold star on your forehead
But there is trouble up ahead
Charlie what'll become of us?
I had my dreams for both of us
For both of us

You might be unworthy
But you remember what I remember
And that's enough to care
You don't fall off the rails


AND THEN CHARLIE #3

He'll need some time to get over this
But a moment is all he can spare
His buddies out there in the city lights
And he is trying to care

See him offering himself to the world
Staring down from the fifty-sixth floor
I'll be happy just to catch him again
We go out we don't always come back

The night pressing in on his weary mind
There's a half-eaten moon in the sky
Nothing is calling him back to bed
And no-one is saying goodbye

See him offering himself to the world
Staring down from the fifty-sixth floor
Yeah I'll be happy just to catch him again
We go out because we go back
And back and back


sigh.. so beautiful

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Nice.

glad you liked it.. my advice is.. go to your cd store and try and find eternal nightcap

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ok.. am bumping this baby up cos I've been listening to em heaps lately and I'm loving Kate Kelly at the moment, what a clever way to tell the story of Ned Kelly. Tim is a genius if ever i saw one

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I concur. The Whitlams will save the face of the musical planet, as I live and breathe!!

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I must now call my local minister and club 3 seals with the joy of it all on Tuesday.

Sir!

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yay!!
If only more people were aware.. I think they tried to break into the American market but it didn't work. Or maybe they didn't try hard enough. The Canadians liked them

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Yay Sydney! Thanks to Mark, you now have another convert to the Whitlams. If anyone on this site hasn't checked them out, it would certainly be worth your while.

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i think their first two albums are very overlooked. Eternal Nightcap is very good, but I missed Stevie Plunder's drunken melancholic rantings.

That said, Eternal Nightcap does have some of the most beautiful songs you'll ever hear on it. Did anyone mention Buy Now, Pay Later?

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