Redgum

Redgum - If You Don't Fight You Lose (1978)


Redgum were formed in 1975 when three students at Flinders University, John Schumann, Michael Atkinson (not the future Labor politician of the same name) and Verity Truman, collaborated for a musical assessment piece for their Politics and Art course. The trio quickly gained fame around the University community for their forthright songs, and by 1976 had been joined by violinist Chris Timms who had previously attended Flinders University.

The group were soon in demand for parties, pubs and rallies throughout South Australia and Victoria. Initially a part-time band, performing weekends and school holidays (two members were teachers), it was only after they released their second album, Virgin Ground (late 1980), to strong sales and critical acclaim, that the group became full-time and started touring nationally.

On the first album, If You Don't Fight You Lose (1978) Redgum showed it was one of the few Australian bands prepared to tackle domestic politics and culture. "One More Boring Night in Adelaide" for some will remain, despite some of its dated references, a classic analysis of Australian provincial parochialism. -Wiki


Tracks:

01 One More Boring Night In Adelaide
02 Carrington Cabaret
03 Critique In G
04 Beaumont Rag
05 Peter The Cabby
06 H.M.A.S. Australia
07 Raggin'
08 So Goodbye
09 Poor Ned
10 Killing Floor
11 Letter To B.J
12 Servin' U.S.A

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Redgum - Virgin Ground (1980)


For their second album Redgum added a bass player and drummer and produced four driving folk-rock classics: Michael Atkinson's "Virgin Ground" and "Ted", and John Schumann's "Long Run" and "The Money's No Good". "Ted" in particular was one of the finest songs the band was to produce: "He did his bit in the First World War, took the shilling to fight the Hun/ Mud up to his crotch in Flanders fields and the gas eating out his lungs/ He said "Me best mate died hangin' on the barbed wire and when the attack was through/ We took some prisoners to HQ, shared a fag and a yarn or two/ they were the same as me and you.'"


Tracks:

01 Virgin Ground
02 Maria
03 Stewie
04 Domination Quickstep
05 The Money's No Good
06 Nuclear Cop
07 Women In Change
08 Ted
09 It Doesn't Matter To Me
10 Long Run

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