"Dirty Deeds" Music From The Motion Picture 2002

Essential for fans of You Am I, as the band appears briefly in the film and backs up a number of great Australian rockers on this soundtrack. Tim Rogers wrote five of the songs (tracks 4, 7, 9, 11, and 16): Billy Thorpe sings one of them, and Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger sings two. The soundtrack also emphasizes Australian rock history. Tex Perkins sings the titular AC/DC anthem; Phil Jamieson from Grinspoon sings an Easybeats tune. Tim Rogers and Lisa Miller perform "Washboard Rock 'n' Roll" (the first rock song written and recorded in Australia). "Bom Bom" was a number one hit in Australia for Daddy Cool......The 2002 movie is well worth seeing: set at the end of the Swinging Sixties, with Bryan Brown as a stylish Sydney gangster. Toni Collette plays his wife. Sam Worthington has just returned from the Vietnam War, and becomes a reluctant apprentice to Bryan Brown's gang. Worthington appeared in this film a few years before his Hollywood breakthrough as the male lead in "Avatar".

John Goodman plays a Mafia figure who flies down from Chicago to get a piece of the action, but Bryan Brown outsmarts both the Americans and the Sydney police (led by Sam Neill). Brown is probably best known to American audiences from "Cocktail", but "Dirty Deeds" is a showcase for his talent and charisma. - jonder

trax:

1. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - You Am I (Vocals Tex Perkins) 2. Titles Sequence - Paul Healy 3. And I Heard the Fire Sing - Grinspoon 4. Trouble - You Am I (Vocals Bernard Fanning/Powderfinger) 5. New Flat - Paul Healy 6. I'll Be Gone - Palladium 7. Sometimes I Just Don't Know - You Am I (Vocals Billy Thorpe) 8. Wild About You - Dallas Crane 9. No Good Without You - Bernard Fanning (Piano Bruce Haymes) 10. Making Pizza - Paul Healy 11. Dragging' Yer Bones - You Am I 12. Everlovin' Man - The Loved Ones 13. Made My Bed, Gonna Lie in It - You Am I (Vocals Phil Jamieson) 14. Washboard Rock 'N' Roll - Lisa Miller, Jody Bell, Tim Rogers 15. Black and Blue - Powder Monkeys 16. Calendar Eyes - You Am I 17. Bom Bom - Daddy Cool 18. Losin' My Blues Tonight - Lisa Miller, Tim Rogers 19. Plane Leaves - Paul Healy

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