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Hot for the Orient (Audio CD),21 October, 1997
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Cold for this "Orient" / 2
1980 was a banner year for classic albums,with Cold Chisel's EAST,Split Enz's TRUE COLOURS and Australian Crawl's BOYS LIGHT UP.Unfortunately,it was a terrible year for Skyhooks.Having lost their charismatic frontman Graeme "Shirley" Strachan the year previously,the rest of the band decided to appoint a new singer,Tony Williams.Armed with a bunch of sparkly new songs and the producer of their previous album,GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INSANE (American producer Eddie Leonetti),they trooped into the studio with high hopes.These hopes were soon dashed when Leonetti,hoping to capture a slice of the American market,rejected a majority of songwriter Greg Macainsh's gems(on the grounds that the songs were too Australian flavoured) and demanded he write more.The results were rushed,and half-hearted at best.HOT FOR THE ORIENT is an album by a band struggling with a new lineup that the public simply did not take to.Only NO INSPIRATION,THIS TOWN IS BORING and KEEP THE JUNK IN AMERICA(if Leonetti wanted U.S. success,why release this track?) show any of the old Skyhooks' wit and power.Mercifully,Skyhooks broke up later in the year.If you are a novice Skyhooks listener ,ignore HOT FOR THE ORIENT . . .you'll thank me later!
Song "Jukebox in Siberia"
Well, way up on the Arctic coast there's a club that's just the most
It's the place where the Russians go when the party line's on hold
The best nightclub in the USSR, music, vodka, caviar
It's the cossacks local spot when they come in from the cold
To that jukebox in Siberia, poundin' out hysteria
Get down, get down, Vladivostock, drop a ruble in the slot
Of that jukebox in Siberia, jukebox in Siberia
In the land of the midnight sun Rasputin's having so much fun
Trotsky, Marx and Lenin too, they're all drinkin' at the bar
Kruschev, he's there lookin' cool, Michel and Breznev shootin' pool
Ivan's up from Gorky Park to hang out with the Tzar
At that Jukebox in Siberia, deep in the interior
Get down, get down, Vladivostock and all the Russians wanna rock
To that jukebox in Siberia, poundin' out hysteria
All the Russians wanna rock, drop a ruble in the slot
Of that jukebox in Siberia, jukebox in Siberia
When the needle hits that 45, all of Russia starts to jive
When Chuck Berry rings that bell
You know the revolution's alive and well
Well, deep beneath the polar ice the Yankee sailors are dressed up nice
Take the sub up to the top so they can get on down
Well, if you're CIA or KGB they might let you in for free
There's a Red Star on the door and you can hear the sounds
Of Balalaika's ringin' out, The Beatles singin' Twist and Shout
I love the West, I love their beer, I'm so glad Glasnost is here
At that jukebox in Siberia, poundin' out hysteria
Get down, get down, Vladivostock and drop a ruble in the slot
Of that jukebox in Siberia, jukebox in Siberia
All the Russians wanna rock, drop a ruble in the slot
Of that jukebox in Siberia, yeah that jukebox in Siberia
Yeah that jukebox in Siberia, yeah that jukebox in Siberia
That jukebox in Siberia, yeah that jukebox in Siberia
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Review of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mm/Dennett_review.pdf
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The New York Review of Books: Darwinian Fundamentalism
An article by Stephen Jay Gould from The New York Review of Books, ... Skyhooks,
on the other hand, are spurious forms of special pleading that reach down ...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1151
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea. (Daniel Dennett).
Review by Gert Korthof. ... Skyhooks would be wonderful things to have, great
for lifting unwieldy objects out of difficult circumstances, and speeding up ...
http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/kortho30.htm
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Amazon.com: Ego Is Not a Dirty Word [IMPORT]: Music
Editorial Reviews Album Description Released in 1975, this is the follow-up to
Skyhooks’ enormously successful debut, Living In The 70s. ...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007V94?v=glance
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