Flash And The Pan Collection

The best-known alter ego of the Harry Vanda/George Young songwriting team (the creative force behind the Easybeats), Flash and the Pan began simply as a between-production project in 1976. By 1979, the project had turned out a novelty hit with the single "Hey St. Peter." A second single, "Down Among the Dead," also became a hit throughout Australia and Europe, inspiring the release of the album Flash and the Pan. American radio began playing import copies which led to a deal with Epic Records. The album would soon reach the Top 100 in the U.S. despite the lack of a supporting tour.

Weighing in at 19 tracks, Repertoire's 2005 collection Ayla: The Best of Flash and the Pan is the most generous compilation yet assembled of Harry Vanda and George Young's impish post-Easybeats new wave creation, Flash and the Pan. Not only is it four tracks longer than the previous best F&P comp, 1994's plainly titled Collection, but it's more carefully assembled too, boasting good liner notes from Chris Welch and eye-catching comic book artwork. If F&P didn't have any other song as immediate or memorable as "Hey St. Peter," their gloriously ridiculous new wave novelty, they did have a number of good oddities and robotic new wave pop before sinking into coldly slick anthemic pop at the end of the decade.

Hits Of The 70's is a comprehensive three-CD compilation released by EMI Records Australia in 1988, capturing the vibrant and eclectic soundscape of a transformative musical decade. Spanning fifty-two iconic tracks, this collection highlights both international powerhouse acts and defining voices from the Australian music scene. Listeners are treated to global chart-toppers from Elvis Presley, Elton John, ABBA, and Rod Stewart alongside Australian rock and pop staples from Daddy Cool, Little River Band, Stevie Wright, and John Farnham. Covering a vast sonic territory that moves seamlessly from classic rock riffs and pop hooks to acoustic folk and smooth country melodies, this vintage box set serves as an excellent historical retrospective, illustrating the musical cross-currents that defined radio airwaves throughout the 1970s.

Growing up in the 70s, unless you were a musical aristocrat, Frank Sinatra was simply old. He was a white-haired man, who seemed to spend his days endlessly retiring and singing ''My Way''. There was a vague notion that he had once been young and cool, but that was several lifetimes away. Then, suddenly, in the mid 80s, Sinatra's Capitol recordings were reissued and it slowly dawned on NME readers that he was indeed the man who all the Costellos, McCullochs and Bonos had spent their formative years listening to…

Fast rythms, loud guitars, big successes, are the components of The Rock Party collection. Enjoy hearing it loud! Because, successes as: Sweet home Alabama of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Passenger of Iggy Pop, Somebody the Love of Jefferson Airplane, American woman of Guess Who, Poison of Alice Cooper, All of you zombies of Hooters wants high intensity!