Postby fange » 01 Dec 2014, 07:01
Supernaut - I Like It Both Ways
As is often the case, i woke up this morning with no recollection of what i may have dreamed last night, but as i drifted slowly back into consciousness the guitar riff and chorus to this tune - Supernaut's one and only Top 10 Aussie hit if memory serves - was fading up inside my head. A little worrying, possibly, but that's another therapy session.
Australia in the '70s was a strange and often frightening place, a humongous country still feeling a sizable cultural cringe from its British colonial days, as well as being the U.S.'s slightly weird but ever-so-helpful friend in the South Pacific. For me, so much of what made Australia what it was can be summed up by my first memory of this song, being played at deafening levels as it floated out of the open windows of a yellow and black XB Falcon coupe in the carpark of the Springvale Safeway in late-'77. As my mum and i walked past the drivers door, shopping bags in hand, i got a look at the driver: a young Vietnamese guy with his mirrored shades pushed up on his head, lit smoke hanging from his lips, who was carefully ignoring the stream of irrate-sounding Vietnamese coming from the young lady in the passenger seat. As i trudged past a few metres from his window, it's possible that my childishly-open staring sparked the guy into action, or he may have just had enough of the earbashing, which the blasting Supernaut did little to drown out; either way, he suddenly gunned the engine, leant out the window towards me, yelled 'Fuck off, you little prick!', and burned off a metre of rubber as he took off for the Balmoral Ave exit.
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