Ego Is Not a Dirty Word [Import]

ego is not a dirty word [import]

Track Listings
1. Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
2. Love on the Radio
3. Saturday Night
4. Love's Not Good Enough
5. Other Side
6. Smartarse Songwriters
7. Mercedes Ladies
8. All My Friends Are Getting Married
9. Horror Movie
10. You Just Like Me Cos' I'm Good in Bed

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Released in 1975, this is the follow-up to Skyhooks' enormously successful debut, Living In The 70s. Again, these songs seeped into national consciousness (and the charts) via the airwaves. 10 tracks. Mushroom. 2004.

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Ego Is Not a Dirty Word [Import]
Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Between Glam and Punk
  • "Ego" Is An Australian Classic!
  • Don't you believe what you've seen or you've heard: EGOOOOOO
  • A must have for anyone born between 1960 and 1980
 Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
Skyhooks
Manufacturer: Mushroom
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. Living in the 70's
  2. Skyhooks: The Collection
  3. Straight in a Gay Gay World

ASIN: B000007V94
Release Date: 1997-11-26

Tracks:

  1. Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
  2. Love on the Radio
  3. Saturday Night
  4. Love's Not Good Enough
  5. Other Side
  6. Smartarse Songwriters
  7. Mercedes Ladies
  8. All My Friends Are Getting Married
  9. Horror Movie
  10. You Just Like Me Cos' I'm Good in Bed

Album Description

Released in 1975, this is the follow-up to Skyhooks' enormously successful debut, Living In The 70s. Again, these songs seeped into national consciousness (and the charts) via the airwaves. 10 tracks. Mushroom. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Between Glam and Punk.......2006-12-13

Okay, much will be written about Skyhooks being important to the Australian Pop scene, but they are also important for documenting that period between glam excess and rude punk attitude. The band works best in short form content, snarky numbers like "You Only Love Me Cos I'm Good in Bed" and "Ego is not a Dirty Word".

I found these guys in a cut out bin at a record store in North Carolina in 1976. I bought it cause I thought the cover was cool it looked kinda punk, and it was hard to find punk stuff back then in NC.

Years later, it still works. Good stuff.

5 out of 5 stars "Ego" Is An Australian Classic!.......2000-06-09

Skyhooks were a radical change to an Australian rock scene used to apeing the international trends .Their first album,LIVING IN THE SEVENTIES,took the chart by the throat with songs that expressed the obsessions and frustrations of being a young Australian(six of the tracks were banned from radio).Feelings were ripe among the critics that the followup album would be anticlimatic at best. How wrong they were.Bassist and head songwriter Greg Macainsh had a swag of songs available due to constant gigging.EGO IS NOT A DIRTY WORD attained triple platinum status easily and spawned two hit singles.Macainsh was very good at writing satirical ditties on life,and love in the suburbs. LOVE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH refected the swinger set. EVERY CHASE A STEEPLE told of the ratrace. SMARTARSE SONGWRITERS was a payoff to all those rock lyricists who claim to write the meaning of life in their songs.MERCEDES LADIES showed the empty lives of rich society women.SATURDAY NIGHT was a typical night out for a surban youth.All through EGO,the biting wordplay was backed up by smartly arranged rock'n'roll.The vocal gymnastics of Graeme "Shirley" Strachan have to be heard to be believed.The tour to support EGO was a first for Australia;fifteen tonnes of equipment, including a giagantic mushroom(Mushroom was their record label)which exploded at the show's zenith. If you're looking for guitar boogie with intelligent lyrics,then latch onto the Skyhooks and EGO IS NOT A DIRTY WORD.

5 out of 5 stars Don't you believe what you've seen or you've heard: EGOOOOOO.......1998-12-30

For those unfamiliar with this Australia group, it must be said up-front that they were T-H-E band of the 70's. Although quintessentially suburbian Melbourne, they spoke for a generation of youth living in Australia's major cities throughout the 1970's. This album is full of many hits (Ego, Saturday Night, All My Friends, Love on The Radio...)however the epic "Love's Not Good Enough" with the HEAVY bass line is the pick of the tracks. This CD (with their first album "Living in the 70's) is a great introduction to raw Australian music and alot of bloody talent!

5 out of 5 stars A must have for anyone born between 1960 and 1980.......1998-12-02

The band Skyhooks are arguably the single most important Australian contribution to pupular music. While their potential was greater, Skyhooks split up before the Aussie Invasion sparked by AC/DC, Men at Work and INXS. Perhaps it is the very fact that Skyhooks were written into Australian folklore without the distractions of global success that led to them producing a sequence of albums without losing their unique style.

As ever, Greg Macainsh's quirky lyrics feature prominently on this album and are belted out in a way that only Shirley Straun can. Red Simons' famous coughing solo is there too - a true Skyhooks performance.

What once shocked and rocked and rocked a generation of Australians might be mild by today's standards, but there is an honesty in these songs which has never quite been matched elsewhere in this genre. Add to that the tunes and arrangements which are etched into all Australians and you have some idea of the reason why Skyhooks still sell out their occasional reunion tours.

If you have ever listened to Suzie Quatro, the Rolling Stones or the Eagles and want to try something new, Ego is the album for you.
Ego Is Not a Dirty Word/Living in the 70's
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    		Ego Is Not a Dirty Word/Living in the 70's
    Skyhooks
    Manufacturer: Festival
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0009IQLMO
    Release Date: 2005-07-11

    Tracks:

    1. Living in the 70's
    2. Whatever Happened to the Revolution
    3. Balwyn Calling
    4. Horror Movie
    5. You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed
    6. Saturday Night [Live]
    7. Carlton (Lygon Street Blues)
    8. Toorak Cowboy
    9. Smut
    10. Hey What's the Matter
    11. Motorcycle Bitch
    12. Why Don't You All Get [Live]

    Tracks:

    1. Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
    2. Love on the Radio
    3. Saturday Night
    4. Love's Not Good Enough
    5. Other Side
    6. Smartarse Songwriters
    7. Mercedes Ladies
    8. All My Friends Are Getting Married
    9. Every Chase a Steeple
    10. Private Eye

    Album Description

    2 CD set featuring two original albums packaged together in a slipcase. Festival. 2005.
    Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
      Skyhooks
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000254IF6
      Release Date: 2004-01-06

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