Cream of The Crate: Album #106 - The Nylons: One Size Fits All

"With seven gold & platinum recordings, this four member vocal group is a true international success story." (singers.com)

"it is the original quartet of Claude Morrison, Arnold Robinson, Paul Cooper, and Mark Connors that created their most beloved recordings. One Size Fits All" (allmusic.com)



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This is album number one hundred and six in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and Cd albums in my collection. The series ...

It is generally thought that science helps good ideas triumph over bad. The weight of evidence eventually pushes false claims aside.

But some ideas march onward despite the evidence against them. The discredited link between vaccines and autism continues to cause mischief and climate change sceptics continue to resurrect dead science.

Why, then, are some bad ideas so hard to kill?

A striking example of such a “zombie theory” comes from personality psychology....

"We were the epitome of the hard-working. hard livin' rock & roll band."(Pat Simmons - Doobie Brothers)
"The Doobie Brothers are a mainstream rock band with a few crucial limitations and a knack of making good records despite their flaws." (Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, May 1973)
"If you want the hits and only the hits, then this is the Doobie Brothers album for you."(This review)



This is album review number One Hundred and Eighty Four in the series of retro-reviews...

Lost Bloke’s Home
Still a Place For Ageing White Men


Melbourne’s Inner City is the domain of IT Professionals, upwardly mobile sorts of all persuasions, and that ubiquitous Lifestyle Loitering Lot. Laurie Davis isn't one of them. He was born and grew up in a Carlton light years from its present Lifestyle Hotspot. His formative years were a time long before Sushi Bars replaced Milk Bars. Holdens ruled the roads and John Nicholls was biffing blokes behind play at Carlton h...

We all have a poster we remember. Mine was taped to a bookshop window in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran. A stark black and white image of a boy as young as I was then, about 13, stared out at me. He was naked from the chest up. He looked at me with sad eyes. The skin on the lower part of his face and neck had flowed into his chest. The scarring was horrific. The poster had two words on it. Above the boy, “Vietnam”, and below, “Napalm”.

Modern posters were invented at the end of...

"The reality of Plastic Ono Band is that it contains eleven of Lennon’s most accessible and gorgeous melodies and riffs." (Gerry Mullholand - BBC review 2010)
"An album that will be as much analysed as Sgt. Pepper over the years." (Billboard - 1971)
"It remains one of the most audacious, iconoclastic albums in all of rock and roll." (Guitar World 2016)
"The album certainly shows that he had yet to work through many unresolved matters, and that he still had much anger...

Over the last two decades we have seen the unprecedented politicisation of immigration. Many Australians remember the wave of immigration after World War II when our rapidly developing industrialised economy addressed its labour shortage. Yet, like many Western countries, since the end of the Cold War we have worked to prevent refugees from seeking asylum by making our borders impenetrable.

Today, we distinguish between migrants, who arrive via our Migration Program (currently up...

Amazing Aussie Psychedelic Album Just released!

Released by Warner Brothers, this amazing 35 track, 2 x CD release has been in the planning and assembly stage for almost two years.

The Wizards Of Oz is devoted to the rich heritage of cosmic space music from Aus & NZ. To understand what it's all about, you'll need to open your mind & come with us on a cosmic space journey from 1966 to now!

AN ANTIPODEAN COSMIC SPACE MUSIC ODYSSEY FROM 1966 TO NOW! FEATURING...

Dance Performance-Art Family Ballad
Deborah Leiser-Moore

Review by Peter Seaborn



Performance 17^th July Carlton La Mama Theatre Faraday Street.

'quests to prove love, find secrets and speak unspoken names'

Hot Braziers in a courtyard then benches in a dim space. Taverna lighting. Paper-roll screens upstage like long paper leaves and to our right...sand at their feet - to draw and throw and wipe a boundary to the past, our...

The long awaited EP Launch of Nicolette Forte is set to shake the Latin Room at Topolino's Restaurant for a special one-night-only event on Wednesday the 25th July.

Tickets: $20 (includes your own copy of the EP)
Bookings: online here or at the venue http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/Bo...aspx?eid=27176

Where: Topolinos
When: Wed July 25th
Time: Doors 7.30pm Bands from 8pm

Hosted by the salacious duo from 'Sexytime!'...

“HUBBLE BUBBLE, TOIL and TROUBLE” [Manfred Mann]

This is Part 7 of an ongoing series of articles on: “I Remember … when it was great to be . . .”

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