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#1
03-13-2004, 01:48 AM
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| The Whitlams Today's topic.. the whitlams. I don't know how well known they are in the US but I'm pretty sure Tim Freedman has some fixation with New York.. then again I could be talking out of my arse.. I could have dreamt it. Anyway, I'm just wondering who actually knows their stuff and who loves it as much as I do etc. Once again, like Coldplay, they're a piano driven,except they're nothing like coldplay The way Tim Freedman puts it "I like to write long winded songs that tell a story." so that's what he does. erm.. anyway.. opinions cheers  |
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#5
03-19-2004, 02:42 AM
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| 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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#6
03-21-2004, 05:49 AM
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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 cheers |
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#7
04-04-2004, 03:59 AM
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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 cheers |
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#10
08-01-2004, 08:01 AM
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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 cheers |
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#13
08-01-2004, 08:07 AM
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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 cheers |
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#14
08-01-2004, 08:23 AM
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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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#15
08-01-2004, 06:01 PM
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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? |
