“I’ll give you a million dollars to go and record another album. This is not happening, this is shit.”- The initial reaction of Doug Morris, then-president of Atlantic Records, after listening to what became INXS’s Kick album
The late Michael Hutchence of INXS was born on this date in 1960. A handful of the group’s songs are included on today’s playlist.
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Today’s playlist celebrates the September 13 birthdays of Fiona Apple, MC5’s Fred “Sonic” Smith, Blood Sweat & Tears’ David Clayton-Thomas, Chicago’s Peter Cetera, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine, The Church’s Steve Kilbey, Aterciopelados’ Andrea Echeverri, Was (Not Was)’s Don Was, Swizz Beats, and Hooverphonic’s Geike Arnaert; and the September 14 birthdays of a-ha’s Morten Harket, Amy Winehouse, Nas, Algiers’ Franklin James Fisher, The Marcels’ Cornelius Harp, Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Ed King, and Akinyele.
Inspired by the September 13 birthdays of Fiona Apple, Don Was, Chicago’s Peter Cetera, Blood Sweat & Tears’ David Clayton-Thomas, The Church’s Steve Kilbey, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine, and Swizz Beats.
Today is Australia Day, unless you are in Australia, in which case it was yesterday, because by the time I post this it will be tomorrow there, which is their today but our tomorrow. Therefore, our today is Australia Day, which makes no sense, really, as the holiday is celebrated in Australia, where, as I pointed out, today is tomorrow, the day after Australia Day.
Australia Day commemorates the day the British proclaimed sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of the country/continent, or at least that’s what someone entered in Wikipedia.
Today’s playlist is made up of twenty acts that hail from Australia. Before anyone asks, AC/DC’s music is not on Spotify, hence their exclusion.
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