I know that Cresswell did a great review of Diesel and Dust in Rolling Stone, and wrote a fairly fawning article on the band just before Blue Sky was released, and reading both of these pieces he certainly seemed a big fan of the band..... That may have changed.


                                     I made a comment earlier about Mushroom's involvement precluding an Oils appearance but i meant it more in the cynical terms of Gudinski only wanting to plug a Mushroom affiliated album that might reignite sales of the back catalogue, rather than the Oils being unpopular with them. 


                                  I know that at least 6 of the 8 albums featured in the 2 series are Gudinski's babies..... The only 2 i am unsure of are silverchair - diorama and crowded house - woodface ...but he may well own their publishing too.....If he DOES own the publishing to those 2 albums then the Oils are NO CHANCE....but if he doesn't,then he may just sneak a outside band in here and there.  



                                        Rick



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: hooperadrianr 
  To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au 
  Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:52 PM
  Subject: [powderworks] Re: LMOC - Hunters Greatest OZ Albums


  Earlier this year the series aired episodes on The Triffids' Born 
  Sandy Devotional, The Saints' I'm Stranded, Crowded House Woodface, 
  and yes, some god-awful silverchair rekurd (minus any mention of 
  mogine - i'm assuming that's the reason this most over-rated of 
  australian groups ever gets a mention here). In the latest 
  installments we saw The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane, Nick Cave and The 
  Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads and Hunters' Human Frailty. IMO, with the 
  exception of SC, this was fairly well put together series, though 
  certainly a doco on 10-1 would be a welcome addition (along with The 
  Church Starfish, Radio Birdman Radios Appear, Skyhooks Living in the 
  70s, Hoodoo Gurus Stoneage Romeos etc).

  I found an earlier comment about Mushroom's involvement maybe 
  precluding any featuring of the Oils interesting. Both Mushroom's 
  Gudinski and aussie music uber-jurno Toby Cresswell were instrumental 
  in the series. If not snubbed by Mushroom, I wonder whether the Oils 
  very unpopular (within the local industry) anti-establishment stance 
  in their earlry years has done their dash?

  Adrian

  --- In powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au, "Jeff and Jane Scott" 
  <jscott@...> wrote:
  >
  > > -----Original Message-----
  > > From: Anna Offler
  > > 
  > > Workers,
  > > 
  > > SBS have a new series of Great Aus Albums. Tonights was Human 
  > > Frailty by Hunters and Collectors.
  > > 
  > > For the ladies that's the one with Throw Your Arms Around Me.
  > > 
  > > Doubt we will see the Oils on it as it appears to be a 
  > > Mushroom co-production.
  > > 
  > > But I hope I am wrong. 
  > > 
  > > Would have to be 10 > 1 if it is 
  > 
  > 
  > I saw a piece a while ago about this series, and it listed all the 
  albums
  > they will be covering (six episodes all up I think it was).
  > 
  > Sadly, no Oils. And before anyone asks, no I can't remember what 
  else was
  > on it. There was one Silverchair album I think, other than that 
  nothing
  > that interested me.
  > 
  > 
  > jeff...
  >



   

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