Continuing through the M's. I have one album by Mental As Anything, but never really got that band, so I'm following up a live version of the fourth best Aussie song of all time with an unplugged live version of the third best, countdown style.
Of all the follically challenged Australian musicians I've featured this month (from Paul Kelly to Dave Faulkner to the late Grant McLennan) nobody stands above Peter Garrett (literally, the dude is huge!).
Back in the 80s, Garrett ran for parlaiment on the far-left Nuclear Disarmament Party, but now he's Minister of the Environment for the mainstream Labour Party, appeasing the mining companies he derided in his songs twenty years ago and pissing off the environmentalists that used to support him. They're getting back at him by leaving snarky comments on Midnight Oil youtube videos.
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