THE AUSTRALIAN ROCK AND ROLL INDUSTRY
From the Correct Weight album this track is a snapshot of the Australian rock industry at the time – 1979. It was just before the likes of INXS, Men At Work and others began to make a major impression overseas. Essentially a call to arms for all those in the Aus Rock Industry to band together and celebrate just how good we were; even if the rest of the world wouldn’t acknowledge that then. (Hit the title above for the Spotify track)
THE AUS ROCK AND ROLL INDUSTRY
We’re part of the heart of the record that turns
The dunce in the classroom who never learns
We’re part of the same thing good and bad you and me
We are part of the Aus Rock’n’Roll industry
We’re the struggling musician who can’t pay his rent
The part of the weekend where the week’s wages went
We’re the shedders of tears the scourge of ears
We are part of Aus Rock and Roll industry
We are Dylan and Ferry and Presley and Bowie
We’re all of those places out money does go
We’re the lead chasing roady who’s searched high and lo
We’re the people who pay at the door every night
For the right to get pissed and then picked for a fight
We’re bored and adored and ignored by the sweetie
Pulling beers for the Aus
We’re an unstable lot we’re a nation of sheep
Sheep without stables means shit on your feet
We’re Mark Holden Molly Shirley and Angry
We are part of the Aus rock and roll industry
We’re the sense of despair felt like losing a friend
When a good band breaks up we say it’s happened again
We’re the fans who buy posters the clowns who toss coasters
We are part of the Aus rock and roll industry
We’re the Car-o-Tel’s clientele Devo and Blondie
The Flombay at Bombay, the Swap out at Bondi
The dud cheque you got from Evans Gudinski
We are part of the Oz rock and roll industry
We’re part of the heart of the problem that makes
Must of broke and the Poms and Yanks great
We are dwindling crowds caused by government greed
We are part of the Aus rock and roll industry
We’re the butt of the jokes of the Poms’ music press
Who write more and more and say less and less
We put hope in the scrote of a barren old B
I refer to the world rock and rock industry
We’re the accident of birth that makes some who deserve
To be wealthy rock heroes play pubs to be heard
O’Keefe, Ross Wilson, Macainsh are these
They are part of the Aus rock and roll industry
We’re part of the start of our own revolution
It’s up to us now if we follow or lead
We’re the love and the hate the success and the failure
The rock and roll industry of Australia
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