Not a Dirty Word

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Hip Church Hop

3. Summertime

4. Daddy's Whipp (Interlude)

5. Make It Better

6. Say What

7. Stay Ready Folk (Interlude)

8. Mother's Love

9. Baby Girl Praise

10. Bright Angel (Interlude)

11. Praise Him

12. Jesus Love

13. Don't Have to Be a Thug

14. Microphone Habit

15. (Never) Sneaky Sneaky

16. Downtown People

17. Days of Survival

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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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Living in the 70's
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ASIN: B000007V94
Release Date: 1997-11-26

Tracks:

Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
Love on the Radio
Saturday Night
Love's Not Good Enough
Other Side
Smartarse Songwriters
Mercedes Ladies
All My Friends Are Getting Married
Horror Movie
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:

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.

"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.

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!

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.

Tracks:

Living in the 70's
Whatever Happened to the Revolution
Balwyn Calling
Horror Movie
You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed
Saturday Night [Live]
Carlton (Lygon Street Blues)
Toorak Cowboy
Smut
Hey What's the Matter
Motorcycle Bitch
Why Don't You All Get [Live]

Tracks:

Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
Love on the Radio
Saturday Night
Love's Not Good Enough
Other Side
Smartarse Songwriters
Mercedes Ladies
All My Friends Are Getting Married
Every Chase a Steeple
Private Eye

Album Description

2 CD set featuring two original albums packaged together in a slipcase. Festival. 2005.

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wow
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Clean Cut album!

Not a Dirty Word
Incredible Crew
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000K0GV
Release Date: 1999-12-14

Tracks:

Intro
Hip Church Hop
Summertime
Daddy's Whipp
Make it Better
Say What
Stay Ready Folk
Mother's Love
Baby Girl Praise
Bright Angel
Praise Him
Jesus Love
Don't Have to be a Thug
Microphone Habit
(Never) Sneaky Sneaky
Downtown People
Days of Survival

Album Description

In a time when so much is negative, the Crew is setting a new direction with positive messages delivered via hot hip-hop. Fill your mind and your heart with something good. Take their lead, and make things better.

This, their debut record, contains 17 original tracks from talented producers, such as dd Red (from Another Bad Creation), Maurice Starr (creator of New Kids on the Block and New Edition), Dale Ramsey and Larry Reeves. The depth of this record will surprise you. The maturity of the Crew will amaze you.

The CD includes a 12-page booklet containing the lyrics and extra photos.

Customer Reviews:

wow.......2006-03-11

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That cd came out along time ago but it is a very great cd. I love them so much. victoria is the best in the group. Shes so pretty. If you good fine out where the incredible crew is now and give us an update on them i would love that. PleasE! Im there biggest FAN!

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TRISTEN

the CD is great.......2000-04-20

The Incredible Crew's CD is great. All of the lyrics are positive and send good messages. Everyone should go out and buy the CD!

This is a great CD.......1999-10-02

Hey! Well, i admit i havent bought this cd yet, but i have gone to the groups website and downloaded some waves. It is a great cd from what i have heard, and i am planning on getting a copy myself!

good cd.......1999-09-23

This CD ROCKS!!!! I love the songs and I LOVE The group!! they are soo awsome!!

Clean Cut album!.......1999-09-19

This is such a clean cut group who will go far in the future. This cd is so much better than the other music out there that desplay profanity! Get this CD! I recommend it!