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Nick Cave and Paul Kelly, together at last! 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. Unbearably romantic. With a large lineup and three songwriters, the band's splintering was inevitable and Kelly formed his own group, Paul Kelly & the Dots. 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. There are hints of regret and introspection in the lyrics, but overall, you get the feeling he is merely shrugging his shoulders and preparing to do those dumbs things all over again. Solo live performances on 10 May 1992 at the, Live performances by Paul Kelly Band from The Continental in. There’s no songwriter who could compress an entire life, a family dynamic, and a way of thinking about one another, into a song this compact and elegant. [2][7] Australian releases still used Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. He’s never sounded quite as vindictive as he does here, his voice cartwheeling all over the place, turning on itself. The start of something very special in Kelly’s career; a new kind of clarity and intention that he’d never shown before. 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. [4] Their debut album Talk followed in March 1981,[1] which peaked at No. 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. 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’. Only Paul Kelly could sing a whole song about cross-city transit and somehow make it the most moving thing in the entire world. Thrums with a love for other people. If you've written three or four hundred songs you get called prolific. Like discovering something growing under the floorboards of your family home. Lopsided, but catchy. In a similar way Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions released Ways & Means in 2004 and became Stardust Five to release Stardust Five in 2006. The first song on The Merri Soul Sessions to be sung by Kelly, ‘Righteous Woman’ is a paean to female desire, dropped right in the middle of a record dominated by the female voice. Beauty. Fall Guy. Kelly goes traditional, stripping his songwriting down to its barest, most essential elements. 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. Good Dylan pastiche, though. And he encourages his listeners to sink themselves into it too, becoming one with an entire body of work, and an entire way of understanding the world. This might be the most heartbreaking one. [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. It was certified 7× platinum by 2017. Not sold by any chorus that contains the line “I’m gonna fuck her right out of my head“, to be honest. Hard Knocks. It’s also joyously ugly. Stardust Five - 2006 ... Live at the Continental and the Esplanade - 1996. In both cases, he keeps the listener at something like arm’s distance, taking the Bob Dylan route of appearing like an enigmatic and slightly alien poet. Kelly rarely goes in for doom, but this is the song that sees him at his most troubled and agitated, pacing small circles in his backyard and predicting a collection of apocalypses, both personal and political. The reason for citing Hancock in a Paul Kelly review, particularly this one, is simply to establish the only precedent for this wonderful eight-disc live box set, the A to Z Recordings. Like someone tried to strip out all the specifics from Paul Kelly, just to see what might get left behind. Slowly builds itself to pure, existential heartbreak. 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. 14 on the Australian singles charts. More Guthrie homage, but full of the kind of sparkling wit and intelligence that is entirely Kelly’s own. And he’s one of the best of us. 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 Prince gone rusted, or The Divine Comedy set to music and coated in dirt. 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 … That’s not the only way the song breaks the mould, either. This is another Paul Kelly song about sex, so your enjoyment of it will be entirely dependent on how much you want to hear Paul Kelly singing about sex. It truly takes someone with Kelly’s skills to create a compelling and beautiful song out of a simple and direct description of the events of one single evening. Listen free to Paul Kelly – Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits: Songs From The South: Volume 1 & 2 (From St Kilda To Kings Cross, Leaps and Bounds and more). Wanted Man - 1994. A burnt-out car sitting by the side of an abandoned road. Opening up with the blazing harmonica of "Dumb Things," Under the Sun finds Paul Kelly singing both acoustically bright story songs and character-based tales with unlimited substance. Kelly’s element has always been water — what else for a man with a voice like a creek bed in the summertime? Shop new releases, music exclusives, limited edition merchandise and more on Paul’s Official Store. Kelly’s not just a mirror. But a dozen songs a year is not a lot. It’s Kelly and co-writer Kev Carmody, reducing an entire movement to one astonishing, understated sentiment. Both Walker and Hewson encouraged Kelly to continue with his song-writing. Pretty good! 13 more albums featuring this track Lyrics. All of them. Kelly goes alt-rock, combining the rantings of a Travis Bickle-type with reverb-saturated guitars. ‘Sonnet 18’ gains from borrowing from Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, and also from its simple, stripped-down production. The Trees It’s okay! Threatens to collapse completely under its own weight for the first minute, but eventually finds itself. A fever dream of a song, about the way that the centre of reality can drop clean out. Shouldn’t succeed, but somehow does. One of Paul Kelly’s most well-known songs, understandably this is a regular in his live sets, and a rocking sing-along. A Biblical verse, set to a chugging, solid melody. He tweets @Joseph_O_Earp. Lowdown. A strange, not entirely successful metaphor that hurts an otherwise sturdy song. One long list of the things that Paul Kelly hates himself for (again). Kelly at his most playful, finding great delight in pulling all of his toys out of their box. Indeed, ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’, the closest he ever came to writing an anthem, Kelly retains that macro-level view. 38 on the National singles charts. Mostly better. Another Paul Kelly cricket song. A bunch of cars pushed off the top of a skyscraper, it’s this big, impossibly rollicking thing, held in place by one of the catchiest choruses in the man’s back catalogue. More Kelly songs about sex! Released by Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys. What other Australian song is this visceral? The discography of Paul Kelly, an Australian rock artist, includes solo releases, those from various bands that Paul Kelly has led, and material from the related projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five which contain the same personnel as his bands. For the rest of us, it’s Kelly at his most baffling. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls in the late 1980s. Lacks some of the venom it needs to truly sing. While his colleagues have been relegated to the dustbin of musical history, Kelly has remained as urgent and as cutting edge as ever — perhaps a strange thing to say about a man best-known for singing a song constructed around a gravy recipe. More effective than it probably should be. album: "Talk" (1981) (as Paul Kelly And The Dots) Promise Not To Tell. Somewhere around the middle, it starts to sag. Oddly urgent, full of the spiky howls of Kelly’s voice at its most pained. Kelly at his most direct, for better and for worse. Sad, torn-up, and beautiful. 21,422 listeners. A whole novel, compressed down into a six-minute long pop song. A song about finding yourself, to your great surprise, genuinely happy. Possibly Kelly’s most impressive guitar solo. The rare “angry Paul Kelly.” Crawls on all fours. Never thought you’d hear a Paul Kelly song with a string of grunts carrying the melody, hey? A hymnal, written from the point of view of the patron saint of rejection. To paraphrase Voltaire, if there wasn’t a Paul Kelly song called ‘Ball And Chain’, it would be necessary to invent one. Morning Storm 9. Kelly does self-deprecation with more humour, light and life than any other Australian musician, save for maybe Courtney Barnett. The DVD or BD version of the live album of the. Doesn’t really work. Weird, and unpredictably horny, and really rather good? The image of the shepherd is key to the Kelly universe — a hard-working, lonely soul with strong connections to the Bible and faith. We missed you too. Here then, is every single Paul Kelly song, ranked from worst to best. 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. Nature (2018) After the bleeding vitality of Life is Fine, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that Kelly … What am I meant to do now that I’ve heard Paul Kelly do that bluegrass, ‘hup’ sound? [4] "Dumb Things", another single from the album Under the Sun, was released in 1988 in Australia,[4][8] and the US. A series of lethal, shining hooks, arranged to spell out lines of poetry. Love poetry written by someone suffering through a spell of vertigo. Kelly has often sung about his hermit-like nature; about his rejection of the world of humans. Odd, but wonderfully so. The story of Indigenous artists Queenie McKenzie and Rover Thomas, ‘The Ballad of Queenie and Rover’ mixes the political with the personal to charming and powerful effect. Want You Back. Anybody in the world could have sung this song. The banjo duel from Deliverance. Another Kelly horny heartbreak song. Release date of compilation album announced on Paul Kelly's official website and by media release. Released by Paul Kelly and the Messengers in all markets (1989–1991). Like something dredged out of the past. It’s a song about a movement, but it’s also a song about people — about the ways that we blossom and change. 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. That title could be Kelly’s mission statement…. See the latest tour news & information. 12, but despite this success Paul Kelly and the Messengers disbanded in August 1991 with Hidden Things released in May 1992. This was a single by The Dots, before the group transformed into Paul Kelly & The Dots. The most Cold Chisel song that Paul Kelly ever wrote, and proof that Cold Chisel songs are best written by Cold Chisel. ‘To Her Door’ isn’t just the best Paul Kelly song; it’s also the most Paul Kelly song. Kelly loves to chronicle the body, and this song, which sees the fallout from a love affair translated into a series of physical aches that get smaller as time goes on, might be his most successful attempt at making love something that is felt rather than thought. The songs are drawn from Kelly's previously released albums issued between 1985 and 1996. A beautiful song about pretending to be happier than you actually are. We have 6 albums and 96 song lyrics in our database. A compression of all of Kelly’s interests: history, poetry, religion, and faith. It’s just impossible to get over how strange it is to hear Kelly do Shakespeare — in the style of Tom Waits, no less. Kelly’s anger reduces everything to its most simple, basic form, here — it’s as clean as a prayer, as jagged as a joke scrawled on a toilet door. Kelly’s curiosity makes him a natural when it comes to writing from the perspective of children. This big, long unfurling mood piece. Scratchy and beautiful, like an elegy tapped into the top of a tin box. Draws an entire world, and then places you smack bang in the middle of it. Paul Kelly Official Website. [7] By 1989's So Much Water So Close to Home album the band were known as Paul Kelly and the Messengers in all markets, the album peaked at No. Comedy - 1991. Fairly binary — in more ways than one — but still, extremely effective, in its way. Spare, gutsick poetry. Kelly’s obsession with antiques can be hit and miss, but this song, which mires itself in Australian history and throwback melodies, is a handsome bit of work. Paul Kelly and John Keats, together at last. Kelly's memoir, Live performance by Kelly and Neil Finn at the, Compilation of Kelly related material over the ten years since the earlier compilation. That is, with the exception of ‘Dumb Things’. But ‘Life is Fine’ bucks that trend. Shockingly effective. Like I said. In this song, one of our country’s most accomplished and talented musicians looks back over his entire career, and considers his impact on the world around him and the people that he loves. Maybe the most tragic, pathetic song in the entire Paul Kelly back catalogue. Songs from the South, subtitled Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits, is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. Paul Kelly - From Little Things Big Things Grow Lyrics. An entire relationship, reduced to one tiny, totally inconsequential detail. No other modern musician has managed to both reflect and alter the tastes of our nation. You’re 39, You’re Beautiful And You’re Mine’ “I don’t talk all that much,” Kelly sings, “about how I feel … "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. Pretty baller. [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. With its complex production and poppy chorus, this barely feels like a Kelly song at all — but it really works, brimming with light and energy. The song was later re-recorded by Paul Kelly & The Dots and included on their 1981 album. Cause his band was called The Messengers! Charming. An attempt to do Bob Dylan at his most wordy that misses just as much as it hits. [2] Kelly toured with both Uncle Bill and Professor Ratbaggy. In which Kelly surveys his own discography, and gives one of his biggest tunes a coda. Kelly’s not always a politically-minded singer-songwriter; his music examines very basic human relations, not the things that happen when we get together and start legislating each other. 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. Another Kelly song about trying to make something of yourself during trying times. Is this… Is this Paul Kelly doing hip hop? Like the end of the world. An ode to one of the most extraordinary entities in the world — the things that Charlie Owen can do to a guitar. Kelly writes with acute insight about the concerns of indigenous Australians in songs such as From Little Things Big Things Grow, about the 1966 strike by stockmen on Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory and subsequent land rights battle, co-written with Kev Carmody. In the process, he recorded 140 of his own songs without repeating one. The 2CD also features a brand new track 'When We're Both Mad & Old' with Kasey Chambers. He then released the output later on cassette tapes. “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. Joseph Earp is a staff writer at Junkee. There’s a reason Kelly never returned to this style again — it’s not exactly in his wheelhouse — but as a one-off curio, it is surprisingly effective and mean. A dustbowl with a melody plonked right in the centre of it. Session musicians included Michael Barclay (Weddings Parties Anything) on harmonies, guitarist Steve Connolly (The Zimmermen), and bass guitarist The sound of Kelly lying on his back in a field, and singing every last thing he can see. As old-school as Kelly has ever gotten. The discography of Paul Kelly, an Australian rock artist, includes solo releases, those from various bands that Paul Kelly has led,[nb 1] and material from the related projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five which contain the same personnel as his bands. A chirpy bit of doo-wop, grounded in the faith and spirituality that has long guided Kelly’s work. He’s a Shakespeare-obsessed balladeer. By January 1985, he recorded the self-funded album—at a cost of $3,500—Post. 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. Deeper Water - 1995. [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. ‘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. Kelly doesn’t always excel when he goes for uncomplicated kinds of sadness — subtle melancholy is his better beat, and this overzealous song proves it. It’s about love — like all Kelly songs are — but about the things that love can mean, and can do. The Merri Soul Sessions - 2014. A song locked in a briefcase and then thrown off the edge of a cliff. Mushrooms 10. Weird! SO Much Water So Close To Home - 1989. Kelly’s barest attempt to take the Woody Guthrie formula and make it Australian. 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. Gather round people, let me tell you're a story An eight year long story of power and pride British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiarri Were o Kelly at his most contemplative. Heartbreaking. 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. Not as effective as his others. 105 tracks are listed alphabetically, they were typically performed over four nights. Like a roadmap to his entire world. A whole person laid bare. After all, pretty much every song that Paul Kelly ever wrote is about the same thing — how to care for other people — and this is the song that makes that explicit. A prairie tune that never makes a good enough case for its own existence. He’s a trendsetter. Some real wild titles in the forgotten corners of Kelly’s career. Possibly one of the strangest songs in the Kelly back catalogue, this song strips down a relationship solely to its ugly parts, as a vindictive lover recounts the flu that her partner is suffering through. Listen free to Paul Kelly – Songs From the South: Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits 1985-2019. But like, way sadder. 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. [2] His next solo release was the single "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" in April 1985, with the associated album Post.[4]. A song about absence and loss, set to some of the prettiest, most gentle music that Kelly would ever write. 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. 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