Sarah McLeod - 2005 - Beauty Was A Tiger FLAC

Let's Get Together/Never Enough/Private School Kid/Loveless/All But Gone/Back To Earth/Ava/Hit It Baby/Gutter Queen/Ashtray Sunrise/The Sinners And The Saints/He Doesn't Love You/Stand And Deliver



Sarah Yvette McLeod (born 1 February 1973) is an Australian singer-songwriter and frontwoman of rock band The Superjesus. The group won two ARIA Music Awards and they shipped over 300,000 units during their career. McLeod's debut solo album, Beauty Was a Tiger, was released in September 2005 and peaked in the top 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album's first single, "Private School Kid", a duet with The Living End's Chris Cheney (July 2005) also reached the top 40, on the related ARIA Singles Chart. In October 2007 McLeod was described as an "iconic Aussie rock chick" by Alison Stieven-Taylor.   

Sarah Yvette McLeod, was born on 1 February 1973, to parents Don and Rosemary. She grew up in Adelaide with her older sister Leah McLeod (born 1971), a former television presenter.

 McLeod attended St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School and began singing in her late teens. In 1990 she commenced a university course, doing a bachelor of arts at Flinders University in Adelaide. 3 months into the course she went on a holiday with friends to Bali, where she was invited to join a Balinese band. She enjoyed playing on stage and performed with the band every night during her visit. McLeod later remembered "I could already play a bit of guitar by then but did little more than sing and play to my buddies at home." Upon her return to Adelaide, armed with a new passion for performing, she quit university and formed her first group, Fallen Down Monster. She displayed her rock-chick character and honed her vocal and guitar skills, and fun-loving, energetic stage presence. Fallen Down Monster performed indie band covers, and McLeod wrote original tracks which were not recorded.

 Late in 1994 she joined Chris Tennent to form an indie guitar rock band, Hell's Kitchen, which later became The Superjesus. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described McLeod's "captivating voice and melodic rhythm guitar." In May 1996 the group issued their debut four-track extended play, Eight Step Rail, with all the tracks co-written by McLeod with her bandmates. Jonathan Lewis of AllMusic noticed McLeod's singing: "Sounding like a cross between Liz Phair and Catatonia's Cerys Matthews, McLeod's voice was a major drawcard; strong, confident and rarely lapsing into the girlishness that characterized some of The Superjesus' contemporaries."
 

 At the ARIA Music Awards of 1997 the Superjesus won Best New Talent and Breakthrough Artist – Single for Eight Step Rail. Then released their first full-length album, Sumo (June 1998). The group released two more albums, Jet Age (October 2000) and Rock Music (May 2003), before they split in 2004.

In 2005 Sarah McLeod launched her solo career, she signed with Festival Mushroom Records, releasing her first single, "Let's Get Together", in May. Her debut solo album, Beauty Was a Tiger, followed in September that year, it was co-produced by McLeod with Matt Lovell. All the tracks on the album were written either by McLeod or with Chris Peters, bass player from the Detroit band, Electric Six. It peaked at No. 31 on the ARIA Albums Chart. For touring her backing band, the Black Diamond Express, consisted of Patch Brown (guitar), Grant Fitzpatrick (bass guitar), Stu Hunter (keyboards) and Mick Skelton (drums).

Following the release of another single, "Private School Kid" (July 2005) – a duet with Chris Cheney from The Living End – McLeod parted ways with Mushroom Festival Records. It peaked at No. 33 on the ARIA Singles Chart. During 2006 she released two more singles, "All But Gone" as an independent EP, and "He Doesn't Love You"; both included remixes. During 2006 McLeod performed acoustic gigs with drummer Mick Skelton, which led to an Australian tour, playing tracks from Beauty Was a Tiger, some Superjesus material and several cover versions. This resulted in the release of the live album Live & Acoustic.

 In October 2006, the Hook n Sling remix of "He Doesn't Love You" reached No. 1 on the ARIA Club Charts. It was also released in the United Kingdom and the United States. She spent much of 2007 and 2008 first travelling in the US and then living in London, where she recorded songs for various projects. In November 2009 she released a single, "Tell Your Story Walking", a song influenced by the new wave sound of the 1980s, which became a surprise hit in the club scene.[citation needed] The second single, "White Horse", was a hit in clubs both in Australia and around the world.

In 2009 Sarah McLeod posted further material including "Love to Last". In August 2010 she released a single, "Double R", with remixes by John Roman, Autoerotique and Grandtheft. It was followed by a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark". Her third album, Madness, appeared in November that year, which included both "Double R" and "Dancing in the Dark".

Aliens - 1980 - Follow That Girl (Single) FLAC

Follow That Girl/The Hyding Of Dr. Jeckyl



The Aliens were an Australian new wave band which formed in April 1978. They were one of the first local bands of the late 1970s to adopt a "uniform" of "black clothes and skinny, white ties". Two of their singles, "Confrontation" AUS No. 36 and "Follow that Girl" AUS No. 48, appeared on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart top 50. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, noted their "sound embraced guitar-oriented pop rock with the emphasis on 1960s melodies".

The Billy Adams Singles FLAC

 Slow Down Sandy/Alone/I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself/Shirley Lee/ Lookin' For Love/All Time Loser/ Dancing In Your Eyes/Come Dance With Me/Change Your Mind/Fall To You



Billy -- whose real name was William Tregonning -- started his pop career as lead singer of Melbourne rock'n'roll band The Checkmates from 1961-63 At various times The Checkmates comprised Adams, Jeff Bedford (guitar), Tony Daly (guitar), Ian Allen (bass), Graham Bloomfield (sax), Roger Scott (sax), Ron Chapman (drums) and Eddie Chappell (drums). After Adams went solo, Ron Fletcher joined as lead singer.. He became popular on the local dance and disco scene in the mid-60s, and this led to regular appearances on The Go!! Show and a recording contract with the Go!! label. He recorded five pop singles for the Go!! label: `Slow Down Sally'/`Alone' (1965), `I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself'/`Shirley Lee' (1965), -`Lookin' for Love'/`All Time Loser' (1966), `Come Dance with Me'/`Dancing in Your Eyes' (1966) and `Change Your Mind'/`I Fall to You' (1966). Billy was perhaps not the greatest singer, but he was a competent and personable performer. 

His trademark was his outlandish bouffant hairdo which, according to Noel McGrath, he was eventually obliged to trim back after hundreds of letters of complaint from Go!! Show viewers. Billy's only hit was a cover of Eddy Quinteros' 1960 hit "Slow Down Sandy". His four subsequent singles failed to chart and he eventually left the music scene and took a job in promotions with a major Melbourne department store.

Adams's version of Buddy Knox's I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself was a minor hit in Melbourne (1965, #49) and another single Dancing In Your Eyes (1966) charted in Brisbane (#24) and Perth (#37).   

Lee Conway - 1980 - Big Iron FLAC

 Big Iron/The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/A Boy Named Sue/Don't Take Your Guns To Town/Wanted Man/Bonanza/The Hanging Tree/Rawhide/The Gambler/Ballad Of Ringo/High Noon/Ride Again Cowboy/Gunfight At OK Corral/Cool Water/Johnny Yuma/Streets Of Laredo


 Country artist Lee Conway was born in Poland in 1940. The family emigrated to Australia and Lee was brought up in Fitzroy. Lee started playing guitar in his early teens and in the late 50s he joined local Melbourne band Bobby Cookson and The Premiers as their bass player. Around the mid sixties this came to an end when Lee entered into the trucking business which he was very successful. He would later move in to the management side of music. Lee was the manager of 'The Laurie Allen Revue' in the sixties giving the band major success especially in Adelaide, at the then popular Twenty Plus Club.

In 1968 he was dared to get up and sing at the Twenty Plus Club and from then on he has never looked back. In the early 1970′s his single “Wanted Man” made the charts. Lee’s ability to craft songs was recognized by the Australian Federation of Broadcasters when his 1973 album 'Stories We Could Tell'  won “Best Album, Single and song.”

Jerry Lee Lewis regarded Lee as his own personal discovery and recorded him. It wasn’t long before Lee headlined the prestigious “International Festival of Country Music” at Wembley together with Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lyn, Bobby Bare and Rick Nelson. The charismatic style and distinctive voice was applauded by British audiences and Lee was presented with the “Most Promising Performer of Great Britain” Award at the London Palladium.

Lee’s single “All I Want to Do in Life” went #3 on the US and Canadian music charts with the top places filled by the Johnny Cash classic “Ghost Riders in the Sky” and “California” by Glenn Campbell – No mean feat for a boy from Downunder! .

Headlining major country music festivals, touring nationally and working on his 42′ boat gave Lee more time to write, relax and record 'Cowboys & Engines' but the lovingly crafted album was never released after a major management blunder and problems saw thousands of copies warped and ruined! It wasn’t too long before Lee Conway was back in the limelight again hosting the nationally and Internationally popular “Conway Country” television show.

 Lee Conway has enjoyed many memorable moments in his long career and being selected to perform at the Royal Command Gala before H.M. Queen Elizabeth was a definite highlight. Lee’s prolific songwriting ability is not confined to country music, for many years Lee has written and produced many Award winning television and radio jingles. Teaming up with funny man Col Elliott to write and record the comedy song “Gone Fishin” became one of the most popular clips to be shown on CMTV. In 1982 he was inducted into the Tamworth Hands of Fame.He has been regarded as one of Australia’s most loved and respected country music artists and carved a special place in the hearts of all music fans. Kimbo.

James Taylor Move - 1967 - Magic Eyes (Single) FLAC

 Magic Eyes/And I Hear The Fire Sing



James Taylor Move formed in early 1967 when an Adelaide discotheque-owner wanted a house band. The original line-up was Kevin Peek on guitar (ex-Hurricanes, John E. Broome and the Handels), Trevor Spencer on drums, Alan Tarney on organ and bass guitar (John E. Broome and the Handels), and Robert John Taylor on lead vocals. John E Broome and the Handels was an R&B group from Adelaide that relocated to the United Kingdom, Peek and Tarney had returned to Australia. Not long after forming they won the South Australian finals of the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds and in July they traveled to Melbourne to compete in the national final.

James Taylor Move supported fellow-Adelaide group, The Twilights, and followed them to relocate to Melbourne. In August 1967 James Taylor Move issued their debut single, "And I Heard the Fire Sing" / "Magic Eyes", which peaked at No. 33 on the Go-Set National Top 40 Singles Chart. According to Ian McFarlane, Australian rock music historian, the "Hendrix-derived 'And I Heard the Fire Sing' was too much for local radio of the day, but programmers flipped the single over to reveal the more radio-friendly psychedelic pop of 'Magic Eyes'". The group followed with a second single, "Baby Jane", in October that year.

 In May 1968, Peek was replaced by John Pugh on guitar (ex-Roadrunners, Delta Set, Eighteenth Century Quartet, Cam-Pact) and Lance Dixon joined on organ and saxophone (Rockwell T. James and the Rhythm Aces). The next month Taylor left to go solo as R.J.Taylor and Wendy Saddington (Revolution) joined on lead vocals. By the end of the year the group had disbanded.


After James Taylor Move broke up, Peek, Spencer and Tarney formed the Kevin Peek Trio (1968–69) and travelled to the UK. They joined with ex-The Twilights guitarist, Terry Britten, to form Quartet (1969–70). Subsequently Spencer and Tarney teamed up in Tarney/Spencer Band (1975–79). Peek was later a member of Sky (1978–91). Saddington joined Chain (1968–69), Copperwine (1970–71) and then had a solo career.

James Taylor Move's track "And I Heard the Fire Sing" was covered by Australian alternative metal group, Grinspoon, for their 2005 compilation album, Best in Show, on a limited edition bonus disc. Lancashire progressive group, Earthling Society, recorded it as the B-side of their 2011 single, "The Green Manalishi", which is a cover of an early Fleetwood Mac song.

James Taylor Move - 1967 - Baby Jane (Single) FLAC

Baby Jane/Still I Can Go On



James Taylor Move was a short-lived Australian/British psychedelic pop, progressive rock group from Adelaide. It was formed by Kevin Peek on guitar (ex-Hurricanes, The Twilights, John E. Broome and the Handels), Trevor Spencer on drums, Alan Tarney on organ (John E. Broome and the Handels), and Robert John Taylor on lead vocals and bass guitar.

Early in 1967, the group won the South Australian finals of the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds and traveled to Melbourne to compete in the national final. During that year the group released two singles, "And I Hear the Fire Sing" / "Magic Eyes" and "Baby Jane". "Magic Eyes" peaked in the Go-Set National Top 40 Singles Chart. In June 1968 Wendy Saddington, a blues vocalist, replaced Taylor but the group disbanded by the end of the year.