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A song Kelly wrote for his side project Professor Ratbaggy, ‘Love Letter’ is unfairly overlooked in his discography — it’s a sturdy ballad, full of heartache and red wine. As old-school as Kelly has ever gotten. But a dozen songs a year is not a lot. The 2CD also features a brand new track 'When We're Both Mad & Old' with Kasey Chambers. A compilation of music videos spanning Kelly's career from 1985 to 2008. Kelly at his most direct, for better and for worse. Kelly’s never been one for self-mythologising, even in interviews or on record. There’s a reason, after all, that he’s remained important to a swathe of generations. Songs from the South, subtitled Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits, is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly.It was released on 13 May 1997 by Mushroom Records.. A song locked in a briefcase and then thrown off the edge of a cliff. A straight-up-and-down pop song — unabashed and plain. Oh, and it birthed an unbelievable cover, too. The start of a decades long obsession with Shakespeare — and a little underwhelming when compared to the places that Kelly would eventually go with the bard. An attempt to do Bob Dylan at his most wordy that misses just as much as it hits. It was certified 7× platinum by 2017. Points go to the King Kong reference, but for the most part, this one slips in and out of your head before you’ve even registered that it’s there. 10 with the next album Comedy from 1991 peaking at No. Mushrooms 10. Just bliss. A better pairing than nuts and gum, but not better than say, chocolate and peanut butter. A chirpy bit of doo-wop, grounded in the faith and spirituality that has long guided Kelly’s work. Weird! This was a shared single with Jo Kennedy's "Body and Soul" on one side and Paul Kelly and the Dots "Rocking Institution" on the other side. One of Paul Kelly’s most well-known songs, understandably this is a regular in his live sets, and a rocking sing-along. Little Wolf 5. About halfway through, this song splinters itself into absolute pieces, and it is artful to watch. Bluegrass Kelly meets pop-rock Kelly. RELEASE DATE: 1 … In the process, he recorded 140 of his own songs without repeating one. Whatever crime Joe committed doesn’t change the spare, elegant poetry of this song — an off-kilter piece of pure genius, melancholy and uplifting in equal measure. Kelly has often sung about his hermit-like nature; about his rejection of the world of humans. On this elegiac, slightly tragic song, he sinks himself back into the past. A frenetic work of classical composition, as insistent as anything in Kelly’s pub-rock phase. Tell you what, Paul Kelly sure knows what to do with a harmonica. A sweet-as-sugar Christmas Carol of a song. Given how perfectly suited his songs are for driving, it’s surprising that Kelly hasn’t written many songs about road trips — save this one, a gentle bop about heading out for the country with your mates. It’s a song about a movement, but it’s also a song about people — about the ways that we blossom and change. A series of lethal, shining hooks, arranged to spell out lines of poetry. The whole world exists in ‘To Her Door’. A Bastard Like Me 4. A musical apology. By mid-1985, Kelly had formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls and their first single was "Before Too Long" in June 1986, which peaked at No. [2][7] Australian releases still used Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. No other modern musician has managed to both reflect and alter the tastes of our nation. How are you meant to love someone who can’t love you back? This is a Bible verse, tattooed onto the back of a preacher’s sunburned neck. We have 6 albums and 96 song lyrics in our database. Let me live, Paul Kelly! New and old, at exactly the same time. Live performances by Paul Kelly for his A – Z Tours from 2004 to 2010. Tracks co-composed and performed by Kelly and others, Score composed by Kelly for the short film of the same name, directed by, Co-composed by Kelly, Stephen Hadley, Bruce Haymes and Peter Luscombe (also members of. Thrillingly by-the-numbers. Kelly’s relationship with faith is complicated, but this is the song that most clearly lays out how his spiritual universe works — a hymn to beauty, love, faith and kindness. It’s about love — like all Kelly songs are — but about the things that love can mean, and can do. More bossing. Paul did a lot of bossing about in the first half of his career. Dylan pastiche. Lacks some of the venom it needs to truly sing. SO Much Water So Close To Home - 1989. Comedy - 1991. It’s just impossible to get over how strange it is to hear Kelly do Shakespeare — in the style of Tom Waits, no less. Bound To Follow (Aisling Song) 7. It’s Kelly and co-writer Kev Carmody, reducing an entire movement to one astonishing, understated sentiment. [4] "Dumb Things", another single from the album Under the Sun, was released in 1988 in Australia,[4][8] and the US. Also, about as melancholic as that exercise sounds. Like something dredged out of the past. This might be the most heartbreaking one. A dustbowl with a melody plonked right in the centre of it. Doesn’t really work. Kelly would do this brand of hopelessness much better, and very soon. Like I said. That introduction: an entire avalanche, dropping down precisely onto your head. Kelly at his most playful, finding great delight in pulling all of his toys out of their box. “Yeah you gotta have a thousand eyes/To keep from going under“. Nature (2018) After the bleeding vitality of Life is Fine, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that Kelly … Wanted Man - 1994. That title could be Kelly’s mission statement…. Charming. Spare, gutsick poetry. Like someone tried to strip out all the specifics from Paul Kelly, just to see what might get left behind. 15 and was followed by a double LP Gossip in September, which peaked at No. Songs from the South, subtitled Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits, is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. A spaghetti western theme song left to cool on a windowsill. The Trees Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for The Women at the Well: The Songs of Paul Kelly - Various Artists on AllMusic - 2002 Release date of compilation album announced on Paul Kelly's official website and by media release. Strange and aching. What am I meant to do now that I’ve heard Paul Kelly do that bluegrass, ‘hup’ sound? Maybe the prototypical Paul Kelly song. With Animals 6. Featuring a guitar solo that feels like ten miles of bad road. Only Paul Kelly would take one of the greatest short stories ever written — Raymond Carver’s ‘So Much Water, So Close To Home’ — and turn it into a paean to forgiveness and hope. Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: This page was last edited on 28 January 2021, at 12:00. He’s never sounded quite as vindictive as he does here, his voice cartwheeling all over the place, turning on itself. You’re 39, You’re Beautiful And You’re Mine’ “I don’t talk all that much,” Kelly sings, “about how I feel … The rare “angry Paul Kelly.” Crawls on all fours. He’s a meme. A hymnal, written from the point of view of the patron saint of rejection. Browse 266 lyrics and 154 Paul Kelly albums. Anybody in the world could have sung this song. Seven Sonnets & a Song - 2016. Deeper Water - 1995. Just sequester yourself away, and let it happen to you. A singer-songwriter listing all of the things for which he is thankful. Solo live performances on 10 May 1992 at the, Live performances by Paul Kelly Band from The Continental in. Disclaimer: We have dug as deep as we possibly can into the Kelly back catalogue in an attempt to find every song he’s released, but we reserve the right to say, “whoops, our bad” if we missed an obscure B-side somewhere. 14 on the Australian singles charts. One of the most successful iterations of Kelly’s rock personas, a straight-up-and-down belter that also happens to hold more emotional nuance than most musicians cover in their entire career. The tracklisting showcases some of this country’s most revered songs – ‘Before Too Long’, ‘Darling It Hurts’, ‘Leaps And Bounds’, ‘To Her Door’, ‘Dumb Things’, ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’ and the Christmas classic ‘How To Make Gravy’, alongside recent gems such as ‘Firewood & Candles’, ‘Rising Moon’, ‘With The One I Love’, ‘Every Day My Mother’s Voice’, and brand new track, ‘When We’re Both … Impossibly ambitious — an attempt to tell the story of an abusive love affair — and more proof that Kelly can smuggle pretty much anything into a pop song. [6] The Paul Kelly Band was formed in 1983, however by late 1984, Kelly had disbanded this group. The sound of Kelly lying on his back in a field, and singing every last thing he can see. A blues song with distorted guitar, ‘Darling It Hurts’ sounds a little different to most Paul Kelly songs. Spring and Fall - 2012. An entire relationship, reduced to one tiny, totally inconsequential detail. Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits: Songs From The South: Volume 1 & 2. “I don’t talk all that much,” Kelly sings, “about how I feel and such.” A paean not only to love, then, but also to the power of songwriting: of how it can provide a substitute, for when the spoken word won’t do. A strange, not entirely successful metaphor that hurts an otherwise sturdy song. Cribs from the eternal sadboi Hamlet to craft the eternal sadboi anthem. An ode to one of the most extraordinary entities in the world — the things that Charlie Owen can do to a guitar. He’s a trendsetter. ‘They Thought I Was Asleep’, a song about catching a glimpse of the adult world when you are still an innocent, ripples with that curiosity, as the man reflects tragically on the moment that he discovered what was going on behind the drawn curtains of his parent’s marriage. A new live version has just been released, which is more than worth your time. What’s there to love? It was released on 15 November 2019 through Gawd Aggie and EMI Music Australia, and debuted atop the Australian albums chart. “For every bird there is this last migration.”. Here then, is every single Paul Kelly song, ranked from worst to best. The closest that Kelly ever came to writing a hangout song. To paraphrase Voltaire, if there wasn’t a Paul Kelly song called ‘Ball And Chain’, it would be necessary to invent one. Released by Paul Kelly and the Dots (1978–1982). Hard Knocks. There’s the sadness that’s become a Kelly staple, and there’s the humour and the light, too. In which Kelly tries to go back to his pub-rock roots, and recapture the past. Bands include Paul Kelly Band, Paul Kelly and the Dots (1978–1982), Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls (1985–1988), Paul Kelly and the Messengers (1987–1991), Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions (2004–current) and Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys (2005). A fairy tale as retold by an old drunk in a beer froth-splattered pub. Released by Paul Kelly on CD but associated DVD released by Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions: Dan Luscombe, Peter Luscombe, Dan Kelly, Paul Kelly, Bill McDonald. Paul Kelly song lyrics collection. 12, but despite this success Paul Kelly and the Messengers disbanded in August 1991 with Hidden Things released in May 1992. Direct and unfussy, like a training manual on how to write a Paul Kelly song. Good Dylan pastiche, though. [4] Their single "Alive and Well", from the second album, Manila, had a video clip directed by Jack Egan in July 1982. Paul Kelly and a double bass = match made in heaven. Kelly goes traditional, stripping his songwriting down to its barest, most essential elements. That is, with the exception of ‘Dumb Things’. Few songs are this graceful; this elegant. In which Kelly surveys his own discography, and gives one of his biggest tunes a coda. A big old door, made out of varnished oak. Distinctly Australian, while also indebted to a whole host of European musical traditions. That’s not the only way the song breaks the mould, either. Let alone sneak a pretty damn unbeatable recipe for gravy in the middle, on top of everything else. That harmonica solo cuts like a dagger. A work of lopsided genius. Kelly trying to fold his bluegrass phase in on his minimalist one. Paul Kelly lyrics - Find all lyrics for songs such as From Little Things Big Things Grow, To Her Door, Before Too Long at LyricsFreak.com Kelly’s falsetto feels like a bath tub of shattered glass. More Guthrie homage, but full of the kind of sparkling wit and intelligence that is entirely Kelly’s own. And there’s the keen eye for detail — the ability to pick up on the tiny ways that we reveal ourselves, every single day, and to draw an entire relationship out of those miniature moments. "Sleep, Australia, Sleep" did not enter the. Another song born of Kelly’s obsession with verse, ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’ matches a Dylan Thomas poem with one of his most sprightly melodies. He’s a Shakespeare-obsessed balladeer. Kelly’s barest attempt to take the Woody Guthrie formula and make it Australian. Kelly in the Hank Williams mode, doing dusty songs of heartache. Another Kelly horny heartbreak song. More effective than it probably should be. "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. The most Cold Chisel song that Paul Kelly ever wrote, and proof that Cold Chisel songs are best written by Cold Chisel. There might be no other Australian musician who exudes empathy in the way that Paul Kelly does, particularly on this song. An attempt at early Tom Waits-style balladry, ‘Please Leave Your Light On’ reduces a relationship to these bare, broken phrases about “crawling in the dirt” and begging for forgiveness. Kelly made his public debut singing the Australian folk song "Streets of Forbes" to a Hobart audience in 1974, and two years later, he moved to Melbourne to join R&B pub band the High Rise Bombers. Beauty. Some real wild titles in the forgotten corners of Kelly’s career. What was going on for Paul that year? [1] In 2004, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Fireflies featured a score by Kelly and Stephen Rae,[9][10] the associated soundtrack CD Fireflies: Songs of Paul Kelly included tracks by Kelly, Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions, Professor Ratbaggy, Paul Kelly with Uncle Bill, and "Los Cucumbros" by the Boon Companions featuring Sian Prior,[11] which was later a track on Stardust Five. Odd, but wonderfully so. As a treat! [2] Paul Kelly, under various guises, has released twenty-seven studio albums, fifty-nine singles, forty-two music videos, and contributed to ten film / television soundtracks and scores. He then released the output later on cassette tapes. All of them. Paul Kelly Official Website. Pretty much every phase of his career is represented here, from his days as a pub-rock titan, to his softer, quieter latter work. Geddit? 13 more albums featuring this track Lyrics. [5] After the Dots folded in late 1982, Kelly was without a recording contract. A whole novel, compressed down into a six-minute long pop song. Paul, I love you, but you can’t just rhyme ‘street’ and ‘sweet’ like that. It’s a recipe for gravy, of course. A throbbing promise that things do eventually get better. Like diner coffee: a little thin, too sweet, but hits the spot just fine. With The One I Love 3. The last song you hear at the country fair, head pressed into the chest of your dance partner. Kelly does self-deprecation with more humour, light and life than any other Australian musician, save for maybe Courtney Barnett. Like a bit of metal, sharpened to a point, and shoved into the small of your back when you’re least expecting it. Oddly urgent, full of the spiky howls of Kelly’s voice at its most pained. Just unbeatable. Paul Kelly, under various guises, has released twenty-seven studio albums, fifty-nine singles, forty-two music videos, and contributed to ten film / television soundtracks and scores. An entire way of living, transformed into song. A prairie tune that never makes a good enough case for its own existence. By January 1985, he recorded the self-funded album—at a cost of $3,500—Post. If you've written three or four hundred songs you get called prolific. With Australia’s greatest and most enduring songwriter, Paul Kelly, brings fans ‘Songs From The South 1985-2019’, a collection of songs that spans the depth and breadth of his illustrious career including recent studio album releases, ‘Life Is Fine’ and ‘Nature’., UMA keep the … Like discovering something growing under the floorboards of your family home. It was released on 13 May 1997 by Mushroom Records. Saint Augustine is one of Kelly’s heroes, and here the debt that he owes the theologian is at its clearest, as he crafts a song of faith and devotion off the back of one of the key moments from Augustine’s Confessions. Want You Back. Written for the soundtrack of The Final Quarter, a documentary about the virulent racism that Adam Goodes faced throughout his career, this is a song that confronts the ugliness of Australia head-on, while finding resilience even in the pain. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls in the late 1980s. Kelly then moved into a flat with Paul Hewson (Dragon) in Elizabeth Bay. The image of the shepherd is key to the Kelly universe — a hard-working, lonely soul with strong connections to the Bible and faith. A song that gets smaller by the end of each and every line. [4] Gossip was trimmed back to a single LP for its 1987 international release on A&M Records under the name Paul Kelly and the Messengers. ‘Sonnet 18’ gains from borrowing from Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, and also from its simple, stripped-down production. Also, this song goddamn slaps. [2] Kelly was already touring as a solo artist and recorded Live, May 1992, he subsequently recorded further material under his own name, as the Paul Kelly Band, Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions, and Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys.
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