LeeBB

Jungle Love - Steve Miller (this is tuneless dog-whistling, like "Walk The Dog" and "Me And Julio"... I don't think the original poster's point holds at all for this kind of whistling) Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding (super cool!!!) The Stranger - Billy Joel Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel (spooky whistling) Centrefold - J. Geils Band Generals and Majors - XTC And let's not forget that John Lennon's original version of Jealous Guy featured him whistling. It wasn't just some weird thing that Roxy Music decided to throw in. LBBBbb

Ahh thanks... I have fixed my original post. And i found a link to the original studio version of the Jimmy Cliff ( ) thanks heaps, Lee.

Having trouble finding links for some of my songs, as ever, so here's two I can find: Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff (1972) My Baby Gives It Away - Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane (1979) LBB

A complete Aussie triumph!! Oi! Oi! Oi! LBB

WHoops!!! Stupid Aussie Alert!!

There must have been a clerical error at NME, because I can't see Robyn by Robyn on that list?!? That's doubly strange because NME's own review called Robyn "the most inventive pop album you’ll hear all year" ;-) LBB

I always liked the Monkees too. LB

Oh, I like Oasis, and love Live Forever, but I'm afraid that my fave BritPop band, and my favourite band of any kind in the last many years, is Blur ;-) LBB

I know I nominated them, but they're not my favourite BritPop band, not my favourite pop band of the last 20 years... LB

Because it's generally an ugly, unattractive, uncomfortable, graceless, crude, rough, disheartening job. Most men get sick of it eventually, and most women get sick of it before they even start. I suspect that this is changing as we move away from pay-your-dues-on-the-road-for-five-years-before-you-ever-make-a-record. If you don't have to hang out with roadies, it suddenly becomes a much more female-friendly business ;-) LBBB

But what about Wings? ;-)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps will surely do for the Beatles answer. Then there's the obvious Unplugged hits, especially Clapton and Nirvana. LBB

Keep The Customer Satisfied - Simon & Garfunkel (1970) The B-side of the 1970 single, "Bridge Over Troubled Water", and also included on the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, "Keep the Customer Satisfied" is perhaps Simon and Garfunkel's closest approach to "rock". The duo shares the lead vocals, harmonising every word from start to finish, and the song builds throughout reaching a wild climax on the back of the increasingly uninhibited brass section. That's my own quickie summary. It's hard to find much written about the song out there on the interwebs. LBB

Yes, but these are bands in which the woman is the front-person or it's an all-girl band. I think we can name squillions of these... Finding women instrumentalists in bands with men is much trickier. LB

There aren't any songs I dislike on Who's Next, but I think Behind Blue Eyes is overrated. I know I have to turn it off when my wife is around, as the promising start turns into something a little noisy for her ;-) Going Mobile is a nice change on Who's Next... Pete's voice is often a refreshing change.. LBB

Off the top of my head, bands with female instrumentalists... White Stripes Pixies Dandy Warhols New Order Pulp Elastica Go-Betweens Fleetwood Mac Lush Sonic Youth My Bloody Valentine Talking Heads Heart Prince and the Revolution, New Power Generation Velvet Underground Triffids ... But are these just exceptions that prove the rule? LBB

Farin, I suspect it's all about your perceptions, rather than the reality. There are certainly fewer women in bands than there are men, but of these, plenty are not fronting bands, but are instead working as backing singers and instrumentalists. You tend not to notice them any more than you notice the male backing musicians. I've personally worked with at least five female front-people, but over a dozen women backing singers. In well-known Australian bands, I could point to female drummers, keyboard players, piano players, bass players, and even violin and oboeists. Not many guitarists, I'll will say. But why are there fewer women than men in rock? Because it's a crappy, dirty, blokey job, where you spend much of your time (even at the top of the business) hanging out with the crew in dark, smelly, noisy venues, telling fart jokes, drinking and smoking, and pretending to have fun. I guess I'm saying that women are simply smarter than men. Am I nuts? LB

Ummm... you could go back to some very early classics: The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (1982) (check out the Kraftwerk influences) Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang (1979). Both wonderful. LBB

Incredibly hard list... 1. A Good Year For The Roses - George Jones (1970) 2. Live Forever - Oasis (1994) 3. Candy Says - Velvet Underground (1969) 4. Memory Motel - The Rolling Stones (1976) 5. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan (1965) 6. Box Of Rain - Grateful Dead (1970) 7. Going Mobile - The Who (1971) 8. Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats (1981) 9. So. Central Rain - R.E.M. (1984) 10.Rent - Pet Shop Boys (1987) LBB

Yeah, I'd certainly put Chisel's singer Jimmy Barnes in the same rough category as John Fogerty (with a fine Australian-Scottish accent). A big difference though, is that the classic Chisel songs are mostly written by the piano player, despite the fact that the real virtuoso in the band is the guitarist. The guitarist sometimes takes the lead vocal too, and he has a much sweeter, purer voice. A nice contrast when they harmonise. If you're interested, here is my fave... Flame Trees. LBB

I'm predicting that Evie will just miss out on Number One, probably beaten by Billy Thorpe, with everything else a long way behind. What do you reckon? LBB

Well, I'll be provocative... Peter Garrett, frontman for Midnight Oil, has retired from music, and is now Australia's "Minister for the Environment and the Arts" (this is true). Many people have found his performance in this new role a little disappointing/disconcerting. His support for wood pulp mills and plastic shopping bags, and his dismantling of performing arts colleges, are just examples of how Peter has apparently changed: The Chaser boys get stuck into Peter Actually, I feel kind of sorry for him, discovering that getting inside real politics is a little more complex than standing on the outside lobbing metaphoric hand-grenades. LBB

43 but not yet collecting your pension??? Come on down to Australia, the workers' socialist paradise. Pensions for everyone over 35 and a public holiday on Bon Scott's birthday!!

Why the head-smacking, Seeker? Am I missing something? LBB

Well, I know I said I'd nominate one well-known and one little-known, but it didn't quite happen... Good Year For The Roses - George Jones (1970) Live Forever - Oasis (1994) See ya, LBB