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Indecent Obsession
Indecent Obsession (also seen as Obsession) were an Australian pop rock band formed early in 1987 in Brisbane with founding mainstays Daryl Sims on drums and Michael Szumowski on keyboards. By 1988 the line-up also included Andrew Coyne on lead guitar and David Dixon on lead vocals. They released three studio albums, ''Spoken Words'' (November 1989) and '' Indio'' (August 1992), both reached the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart. In 1990 ''Spoken Words'' was repackaged for United States market as ''Indecent Obsession'', which reached the ''Billboard'' 200. In May 1989 they issued their debut single, " Say Goodbye", which peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart – their highest position in Australia. Their second single, " Tell Me Something" (September), reached No. 17 nationally. When issued in the US it peaked at No. 31 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It reached No. 1 in Indonesia and Hong Kong, and Top 10 in Japan and South Africa. For the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spoken Words (album)
''Spoken Words'' is the 1989 debut studio album by Australian pop group, Indecent Obsession Indecent Obsession (also seen as Obsession) were an Australian pop rock band formed early in 1987 in Brisbane with founding mainstays Daryl Sims on drums and Michael Szumowski on keyboards. By 1988 the line-up also included Andrew Coyne on le .... It was released in Australia in November 1989. It includes two singles which reached the top twenty in Australia: " Say Goodbye" and " Tell Me Something". The album was released in North America and Europe in 1990 as a self-titled release. ''Indecent Obsession'' peaked at number 148 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Track listing ;Australia ''Spoken Words'' release (105221-1) # " Tell Me Something" - 4:19 # "Believe" - 4:30 # "Nowhere to Hide" - 4:11 # "Dream After Dream" - 4:21 # "Spoken Words" - 3:31 # "Never Gonna Stop" - 3:58 # "Going Down" - 3:53 # " Come Back to Me" - 4:49 # "Survive the Heat" - 5:25 # " Say Goodbye" - 4:07 # "Say Goodbye" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indio (album)
''Indio'' is the second studio album by Australian pop group, Indecent Obsession. It was released in Australia in August 1992. Track listing ;Australia # "Rebel With a Cause" - 4:24 # " Kiss Me" - 4:35 # "Paula Forgot" - 0:08 # "Maybe You" - 5:09 # "Indio Indio may refer to: Places * Indio, Bovey Tracey, an historic estate in Devon, England * Indio, California, a city in Riverside County, California, United States People with the name * Indio (musician), Canadian musician Gordon Peterson * Índio ..." - 4:06 # "Gentleman Style" - 4:25 # "Billionaires Learn to Swing" - 0:22 # "Hunger" - 5:02 # "Cry for Freedom" - 5:10 # "Poperotica" - 0:11 # "One Woman Man" - 4:23 # "Talking in Venice" - 0:17 # "Living in a Fishbowl" - 5:03 # " Whispers in the Dark" - 4:47 # "Pray For Rain" - 4:52 Written by – * Coyne (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 10, 12, 13, 15), * Sims (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 10, 12, 13, 15), * Dixon, Wolf (tracks: 1 to 10, 12 to 15), * Szumowsky, Wolf (tracks: 1 to 10, 12 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss Me (Indecent Obsession Song)
"Kiss Me" is a song by Australian pop group Indecent Obsession. It was released as their first single from their second studio album, ''Indio'' (1992). The song peaked at number 27 on the ARIA Chart The ARIA Charts are the main Australian record chart, music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA beca .... Track listing ; 7" (MCS 17876) # "Kiss Me" - 4:35 # "Mystery" - 3:42 ; Maxi (MCD 17877) # "Kiss Me" - 4:35 # "Kiss Me" (Extended Version) - 6:13 # "Mystery" - 3:42 Chart performance References External links "Kiss Me" by Indecent Obsession" Songs about kissing 1992 songs 1992 singles Indecent Obsession songs {{1990s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tell Me Something (song)
"Tell Me Something" is a song by Australian band Indecent Obsession. The song was released as the second single from their debut album ''Spoken Words'' (1989). The song peaked at number 17 on the Australian ARIA Chart The ARIA Charts are the main Australian record chart, music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA beca .... Early in 1990, "Tell Me Something" peaked at No. 31 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 91 in the United Kingdom. Track listing ; 7" single (102091-7) # "Tell Me Something" # "Why Do People Fall in Love" ; 12" single # "Tell Me Something" (Dance Mix) # "Tell Me Something" (Extended Mix) ; Minidisc (Japan) # "Tell Me Something" # "Never Really Loved You" (Live) ; UK single # "Tell Me Something" (7" Version) - 3:54 # "Never Really Loved You" (Live) - 3:19 # "Tell Me Something" (The Decent Mix) - 4:16 Chart p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Say Goodbye (Indecent Obsession Song)
"Say Goodbye" is the debut single by Australian pop rock band Indecent Obsession, released by Melodian Records in May 1989. The song was included on their debut album '' Spoken Words'' (released internationally as ''Indecent Obsession''. The single peaked at No. 6 on the Australian ARIA Chart The ARIA Charts are the main Australian record chart, music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA beca .... Track listing Chart performance Weekly charts Year-end charts References External links * {{Authority control 1989 debut singles 1989 songs Indecent Obsession songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South East Queensland metropolitan region, which encompasses a population of around 3.8 million. The Brisbane central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea. Brisbane is located in the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges. It sprawls across several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane, Australia's most populous local government area. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Traditional Owners of the Brisbane a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relativity (Indecent Obsession Album)
''Relativity'' is the third and last studio album by Australian pop group Indecent Obsession Indecent Obsession (also seen as Obsession) were an Australian pop rock band formed early in 1987 in Brisbane with founding mainstays Daryl Sims on drums and Michael Szumowski on keyboards. By 1988 the line-up also included Andrew Coyne on le .... Released in 1993, it is notable for minor hits such as " Fixing a Broken Heart" and "Lady Rain" in South Africa and parts of Asia, with "Fixing a Broken Heart" becoming most popular in the Philippines. Track listing # "Fall from Grace" (4:49) # "Waiting for Me" (4:08) # "Glory of Burning" (4:07) # "Lady Rain" (4:12) # "Healing Water" (4:25) # "Changes" (4:12) # "One Bad Dream" (4:10) # "Feel It" (3:37) # " Fixing a Broken Heart" (3:33) # "My Reflection" (4:17) # "Taste Your Heaven" (4:07) # "Alaskan Soul" (5:49) # "Whispers in the Dark" (Acoustic 94) (4:44) References 1993 albums Indecent Obsession albums MCA Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apartheid In South Africa
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on '' baasskap'' (boss-hood or boss-ship), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Indians and Coloureds, then black Africans. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day. Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into ''petty apartheid'', which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and ''grand apartheid'', which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race. The first apartheid law was the Prohibition of Mixed Marria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of Australian Rock And Pop
''The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' or ''Rock and Pop'' by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s. The book has a similar title to the 1978 work by Noel McGrath, '' Australian Encyclopaedia of Rock and Pop'', but is not otherwise related. Publishers, Allen & Unwin described McFarlane's encyclopedia as containing over 870 entries and an "essential reference to the bands and artists who molded the shape of Australian popular music ..in an A-to-Z encyclopedia format complete with biographical and historical details. Each entry also includes listings of original band lineups and subsequent changes, record releases, career highlights, and cross-references with related bands and artists." The first edition is out of print, but was for a time available on the whammo.com.au online record store, and is still in the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. It went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century and to establish an Australian subsidiary in 1976. In 1990, Allen & Unwin was sold to HarperCollins and the Australian branch was the subject of a management buy-out. George Allen & Unwin in the UK George Allen & Sons was established in 1871 by George Allen, with the backing of John Ruskin, becoming George Allen & Co. Ltd. in 1911 and then George Allen & Unwin in 1914 as a result of Stanley Unwin's purchase of a controlling interest. Unwin's son Rayner S. Unwin and nephew Philip helped run the company, which published the works of Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley, Roald Dahl, Lancelot Hogben, and Thor Heyerdahl. It became well known as J. R. R. Tolkien's publisher, some time after publishing the popular children's fantasy novel '' The Hobbit'' in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Leonards, New South Wales
St Leonards is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. St Leonards is located north-west of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of Municipality of Lane Cove, North Sydney Council and the City of Willoughby. History St Leonards was named after English statesman Viscount Sydney of St Leonards. Originally, St Leonards applied to the whole area from the present suburb of North Sydney to Gore Hill. The township of St Leonards in 1883 is now North Sydney. The oldest railway station on the North Shore line opened in 1890 in St Leonards and originally only ran to Hornsby. The Gore Hill cemetery was established on the Pacific Highway in 1868 and was the main burial site for the area until its closure in 1975. It is still maintained as a heritage site by the Department of Local Government and Lands, Willoughby Municipal Council and the Heritage Council of New South Wales. Heritage lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
