“Pleasure and pain can be experienced simultaneously,” she said, gently massaging my back as we listened to her Coldplay CD.
The Angel's weren't my favourite rock act. Still, it's always sad when someone of Doc Neeson's status shuffles off the coil.
The ABC had a documentary on him not long ago. Their biggest hit was "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?" Sometime during their career, people in the audience began to follow the sung title phrase by chanting "NO WAY! FUCK OFF!" and from that time on, that piece of "audience participation" became a standard feature of their concerts. Neeson was apparently delighted at how the fans had made the song their own.
In my country their albums were released as Angel City and with different covers. I owned two of them back at the times; No Exit and Night Attack. Pleasant but not essential and Neeson's vocals was the element that made the difference. I thought back then that his voice deserved a better/heavier backing...
Last edited by spacefreak; 06-05-2014 at 09:21 AM.
It's hard to find their stuff here in the US. I've got Face to Face, Two Minute Warning, and a compilation a friend burned for me. This was the real stuff, blistering hard rock with some brains behind the lyrics. RIP Doc, you were great.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
There were a number of "blistering hard rockers" type bands around at about the same time as The Angels. I never despised The Angels, but I found bands like Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil a lot more interesting. On the first two or three Midnight Oil albums they do not sound very different to the Angels, but later on their music evolved significantly (and their lyrical themes were also more interesting IMO).
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