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A Sixpack of The Coldest 100

Jan 21, 2019 Maynard

The Coldest 100 was the creation of Andrew Sholl on Twitter in 2016 and has been the Giddy Uncle of Triple J’s Hottest 100 ever since. Anyone can have a guess at the hottest song of the year, but who has ever nominated the Bunnings theme or Kylie Minogue performing her version of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep?

Andrew only does this on Twitter (he has a real job) and releases his Coldest 100 in parallel with what ever number Triple J is up too.

The Coldest 100 can best be described as questionable songs by Australians and about Australia. So Andrew Sholl sat down with me at The Madame Frou Frou Cafe to sample a sixpack of his 100 cold ones.

Australian Kitsch on Twitter

Here are a selection of 2019 Coldest 100 entries on YouTube. A list of The Coldest 100 from 100 to 75 is below. You’ll have to wait till January 27th to find out the ~~worst~~ coldest of The Coldest 100.

https://youtu.be/Jl2YLuKjwBU

Japanese duo Peanuts – Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Spot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhF0dyK6LVU

Red Rubber Ball – Cilla Black (The Seekers)

The Rooty Hill RSL Club Band bring the 1973 funk to Tower Of Strength

Here is the entire Coldest 100 as a Youtube playlist. (you have been warned)

The Coldest 100 -75

100
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (2004)
Scared Little Weird Guys
https://youtu.be/HahOnU3WglM
99
Canberra, We’re Watching You (1975)
Dalvanius and the Fascinations
https://youtu.be/quZjurDmiGc
98
Toodle-oo Kangaroo (1956)
Frank Virtue and The Virtues
https://youtu.be/7QRBbuJ4qwk
97
What Next! (Rolf Harris Medley) (c.1966)
The John Charter Group
https://youtu.be/vQduPtA5wLc
96
Poltettu Humppa (Beds Are Burning) (2000)
Eläkeläiset (Finland)
Video: https://youtu.be/ilJJAaQ_ApY
Audio only: https://open.spotify.com/track/2WfU6TUISX6PVrBCuxFbjR
95
G’Day From WA (1986-87)
Mojo Singers
https://youtu.be/VNT1PUGG_IE
94
I Love You Fair Dinkum Dinky Di I Do (1955)
Danny Kaye
https://youtu.be/vsrDpDfhA2c
93
While the Billy Boils
Ann Sidney
https://youtu.be/1HTkr0nW-ZY
92

Georgy Girl (1967)
Mitzi Gaynor
https://youtu.be/tUPEVNKabGg
91
Sea of Heartbreak (1971)
Lionel Rose
https://youtu.be/-q7GXjh_kNc

90
Sport
Bowlin’ Shane
Haskel Daniel v Sideshow
https://youtu.be/3Mu3lkjC9pA
89
Kangourou (1980)
Plastic Bertrand (Belgium)
https://youtu.be/kAKMdtByMDo
87
Wake Up Australia (1973)
Bootleg Family
https://youtu.be/g769F94B7P0
86
Olivia Newton-John and Pat Carroll
https://youtu.be/C-DEZZ8a1rE
85
Click Go the Shears (Māori version, 1966)
Lou and Simon
https://youtu.be/rbU7nucfxmk
84
The Mighty Maroons (1984)
Rod Williams arr. Keith Urban
https://youtu.be/j0gL5jYSklc
83
Pack Up A Dream and Head for Hayman Island (1950)
John O’Connor and George Watson’s Hawaiians
https://soundcloud.com/nfsaaustralia/pack-up-a-dream-and-head-for-hayman-island-john-oconnor-and-george-watsons-hawaiians
82
I Just Wanna Yodel Like You (1981)
Mary Schneider and Melinda Schneider (8 y.o.)
https://youtu.be/FnLTnqLLmJE
81
Hector the Trash Collector (1968)
Frankie Davidson
https://youtu.be/HdfnvMdMNAs

80
Bouzouki (1971)
Dawn Dixon
https://youtu.be/80HFasr-lUo
79
Red Rubber Ball (1969)
Cilla Black
https://youtu.be/VhF0dyK6LVU
78
Heart of The Sunshine Coast (1978)
Shorty Ranger
https://youtu.be/RwRaANZ-NBs
77

Woobinda (Italian) (1978)
Riccardo Zara con le Mele Verdi
https://youtu.be/tPVP-XJ7lvs
76

Especially for You (2001)
Kylie Minogue and Kermit the Frog
https://youtu.be/WY7I4Qxl4Xw
75
Waltzing Matilda (1960)
Enoch Light and His Orchestra
https://youtu.be/pLuJVAywuRo

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Bunga Bunga 51 – Maynard & Tim Ferguson

Jan 14, 2019 Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 51 brings you all the hope and excitement of 2019. Thus making you really nostalgic for 2018 almost immediately.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard or Maynard & Tim Ferguson, but probably all four of them, have the starts and the smarts to show you a good time in January as we venture into a very certain uncertain political landscape.

Maynard is starting a new Saturday night of retro grooves in Sydney at Red Bar in March and Tim is taking his new solo show on tour across Australia.

Bunga Bunga 51 also leads you down the comedy back alleys less travelled as we meet Richard Wilkins, an unattended chicken and wake up to smell the cupcakes (or is that onions?).

Our highly festive 2018 Bunga Bunga Xmas Xmas show (in case you missed it)

Groove to the scary sounds of The Vinyl Dungeon with Christopher Laird

Who Are These Podcasts? review an Australian vegan podcast.

Where you can see Tim’s live show.

The Ferguson Report in The New Daily – Fake News You Can Trust.

Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine meets TISM & Kylie

Bob, the painting Tim talks about in Crankmail.

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Patreon Pandering January 2019

Jan 7, 2019 Maynard

Patreon Pandering, every month, only for our important Planet Maynard Patreon supporters that no one else can hear.

This month Maynard and Tim Ferguson, crawl right up your altruism.

Start 2019 with flattery for the only listeners that matter, the Patreons.

Join the Patreons and get the ridiculous level of regular flattery you so richly deserve.

We want to make you feel wanted as a Patreon of Planet Maynard & Bunga Bunga.

Especially for the upcoming long weekend. Patreons can get a sneak peek at The Coldest 100, the most jingoistic and daggy music by Australians and about Australians from Andrew over at Australian Kitsch

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Listen to our Patreon Pandering suck up fest.

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Maynard Staff Xmas Party & Easter Bonnet Parade

Dec 11, 2018 Maynard

The annual Planet Maynard combined staff Xmas Party & Easter Bonnet Parade was just as wild as every other year.

I may have to get a permit for the parade next year. Which is a little regulatory overreach I think.

This is a behind-the-scenes look that non-industry types don’t usually see.

You can still enjoy the excitement and pageantry of a high class office social event, without anyone getting in trouble.

Xmas

A Very Maynard Xmas 2012

Dec 10, 2018 Maynard

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Maynard and Tony Push wander aimlessly around local bustops at Xmas trying to remember what was good about 2012 and wonder what else will go wrong in 2013. Random. With lots of Maynard’s favourite sounds.

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2019 Maynard calendar, free download

Dec 7, 2018 Maynard

The 2019 Maynard calendar has arrived to give you a year of frolicking on Planet Maynard.

Download this PDF and have it printed in A5, A4 or even A3 for a year of Maynard on the wall or desk of your choice. Click on this link and then save the calendar to your desktop.

Compiled by Richard Saunders, from photos found down the back of Maynard’s couch.

Not everyone has a Planet Maynard calendar, it’s average entertainment, for no apparent reason.

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Uncool Yule – Dave’s Dud Xmas Discs

Dec 7, 2018 Maynard

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Prepare ye for an Uncool Yule with Dave’s Dud Xmas Discs, Dave Mulligan brings you a poorly thought out selection of Xmas goose that made the 50s, 60s & 70s what they are today.

These tracks will have you singing, dancing & maybe prancing. But you will feel the secret shame of Santa and wonder about the power of Xmas to compel this kind of music creation.

100% Xmas and 100% shameless, we love it.

Hooray For Santa Claus – Milton De Lugg & the Little Eskimos

Wonderful Day – The Chipmunks

Santa Teach Me To Dance – Debbie & The Darnells

Jingle Bell Imitations – Chubby Checker & Bobby Rydell

Monster’s Holiday – Buck Owens

Monster’s Holiday – Bobby Boris Pickett

Surfers Christmas List – Surfaris

Santa Bring Me Ringo – Christine Hunter (1964)

Where Were You Daddy? (When Santa got stuck in the chimney chute) – Christine Hunter (1964)

A Very Maynard Xmas season 2017 has begun!

Get tickets to A Very Bunga Bunga Xmas live show 19th December in Glebe 2037.

Great Xmas title. Where Were You Daddy? (When Santa Got Stuck In The Chimney Chute) Christine Hunter

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A Very Bunga Bunga Xmas 2014 – Part 2

Dec 3, 2018 Maynard

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Another Xmas show that isn’t for children. In Part 2, Tim Ferguson and Maynard bring you a Xmas show too far. There are more Xmas tunes to play and more friends of Bunga Bunga to wish us all a Merry Shatmas. Guests; Floyd Vincent, Christopher Laird, Rob Darby & Skeptical Richard Saunders, who helps me out with my annual Xmas joke.

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Get some Herb Alpert into you with Tijuana Taxi

Nov 26, 2018 Maynard

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Tijuana Taxi the Sydney sensational Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass cover band are returning to The Camelot Lounge in Marrickville to blow your bolero jacket off.

Tina Harris has been a fan of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass since hearing her parents’ vinyl records as a child.

Great instrumental tracks like Spanish Flea, The Lonely Bull, Casino Royale and This Guy’s In Love With You.

As a party was winding down a few years ago, she put some of those 60s albums on again and was inspired to form Tijuana Taxi. An eight piece band (with marimba) that plays a handful of shows every year to packed houses of people who can’t get enough Herb either.

Maynard quizzed Tina on what to wear to the gig and the best Herb Alpert track to play at a sexy party.

Learn about the inner workings of an eight piece band (with marimba). Including the correct use of latin percussion and the psychology of keeping eight musicians together in the cauldron of the Sydney music scene.

They play The Camelot Lounge in Marrickville on Saturday 8th December.

Tijuana Taxi’s Facebook page

Tickets for The Camelot Lounge

Herb Alpert singing This Guy’s In Love With You 1968 (with Herb’s preamble)

Tijuana Taxi live at Camelot Lounge in 2017 – Casino Royale

Whipped Cream & Other Delights album cover from 1965. — Whipped Cream & Other Delights album 1965. It sold over 6 million. That’s shaving cream, not a dairy product.

Tina Harris talks serious Herb Alpert talk

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Fiona Patten from sex to reason

Nov 21, 2018 Maynard

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Fiona Patten, outspoken member of the upper house in Victoria has changed the name of her Sex Party to the Reason Party.

One thing we know is that everybody wants to be reasonable, but no two people can agree on exactly what it is.

Her recent book, Sex, Drugs & The Electoral Roll chronicles her career from Canberra to sex worker to sex industry lobbyist to Sex Party to Reason Party (with photos).

But why didn’t Fiona get married under a fish tank to the B-52s Rock Lobster, isn’t that every girl’s dream?

As a lobbyist for the Eros Foundation, for over 20 years she learned a lot about the inner workings of politics. You get to meet a lot of people and see a lot of things in that job.

Since being elected, she has successfully instigated physician assisted dying laws, an inquiry into drug reform, and the introduction of a bill for both a medically supervised injecting centre and pill testing.

Fiona answers the big questions here as well, such as; “What happens if you sit on the “Queens Chair” in the Victorian parliament?”

AND when will you be able to buy a gram of cocaine from the chemist? (spoiler, not in time for Xmas)

Fiona Patten’s official website.

Reason Party website

Fiona’s debate on Sunrise with Family First in 2010

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