A couple months back at Joe's Pub, Canadian bluegrassers the Duhks joked from the stage that they had "married" Canadian agit-folkers the Mammals, and would from here on be known as the Platypi. What a coincidence: There's also a platypus on the cover of the Little River Band's new best-of CD, which otherwise suggests said underappreciated Aussies were at least as proto-Men at Work as post-Eagles. As for Bob Seger, who may not even know the difference between a monotreme and a marsupial, the reissue of his 1972 mostly-cover-tunes set shares only one song with his three great ones on that new Cameo Parkway box. But as for Seger: The Punk Rock Years, which just might earn the Best Album in the History of the Universe Award if it ever materializes, we are still waiting.
Bon Scott would be proud.
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BADFINGER
Day After Day
(Rykodisc '70s live powerpop boogie reissue)
Stream "Sometimes" (Windows Media)
Stream "I Don't Mind" (Windows Media)
Stream "Blind Owl" (Windows Media)
CHEESEBURGER
Gang's All Here
(Kemado Nilsson-cover-parodying hard rock EP)
Download "Easy Street" (MP3)
Download "Saturday Nite" (MP3)
DEATH OF FASHION
"It's All Ours"/"These Days"
(Canarsie seven-inch Plastic Bertrand-biting neo-new-wave indie-rock single)
Download "These Days" (MP3)
Download "Oboe and Me" (MP3)
Download "It's All Ours" (MP3)
GRUPO EXTERMINADOR
El Hijo De México
(Univision/Fonovisa Mexican border-polka album)
Stream "Ven" (Windows Media)
HOWLING DIABLOS
Car Wash
(Alive badass boogie album)
Download "Car Wash" (MP3)
Download "Dope Man" (MP3)
Download "Prison Train" (MP3)
KILL THE THRILL
Tellurique
(Season of Mist French semi-industrial nuke-metal album)
Download "Us and Them" (MP3)
Download "Diaphragme" (MP3)
KOMA
Sinónimo De Ofender
(Locomotive Spanish power-metal en Español album)
Download "Aqui Huele Como Que Han Fumao" (MP3)
THE LITTLE RIVER BAND
The Definitive Collection
(Capitol/EMI '70s-'80s Aussie afternoon-rock album)
Stream "It's a Long Way There" (Windows Media)
Stream "Curiousity Killed the Cat" (Windows Media)
Stream "Emma" (Windows Media)
THE 101ERS
Elgin Avenue Breakdown (Revisited)
(Astralwerks '70s proto-punk pub-rock reissue)
Sample "Letsgetabitarockin" (Windows Media)
Sample "Silent Telephone" (Windows Media)
Sample "Keys to Your Heart"
BOB SEGER
Smokin' O.P.'s
(Capitol/EMI '70s hard rock reissue)
Stream "Bo Diddley" (Windows Media)
Stream "Love the One You're With" (Windows Media)
Stream "If I Were a Carpenter" (Windows Media)
RICK SPRINGFIELD
Written in Rock: Anthology
(RCA/Legacy '70s-'00s two-disc powerpop reissue)
Stream "Eleanor Rigby" (Windows Media)
Stream "Speak to the Sky" (Windows Media)
Stream "Jessie's Girl" (Windows Media)
SUPAGROUP
Rules!
(Foodchain Australian-sounding hard rock album)
Stream "Ready to Go" (Real Audio)
Stream "Hot Times" (Real Audio)
Stream "Bastard" (Real Audio)
