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35 YEARS OF
SOUTH AFRICAN ROCK
1965 to 2001

100 songs from 35 years of South African rock. A very personal list compiled by Brian Currin, July to August 2001.

  1. 1999 - Freedoms Children
  2. Aimless Lady - Suck
  3. Avenue - McCully Workshop+
  4. Baby Baby - Pressure Cookies+
  5. Be Bop Pop - The Spectres
  6. Better The Devil You Know - Stingray
  7. Blue Water - The Julian Laxton Band
  8. Born To Be Wild - Buffalo
  9. Bowtie Boogaloo - Morocko
  10. Buccaneer - McCully Workshop+
  11. Bushman - Steve Kekana
  12. Cape Axe - Jorge Carlos
  13. Celebrate - The Julian Laxton Band
  14. Cheating - Off The Edge
  15. Competition Rules - No Friends Of Harry*
  16. Conquistador - Circus
  17. Crazy Over You - Zen Arcade
  18. Damsel (As I Went Out One Morning) - Tribe After Tribe *
  19. Dance Sum More - Mango Groove
  20. Dear Abbie (One Night Of Passion) - Little Sister
  21. Eclipse - Freedoms Children
  22. Evil In Her Eyes - Off The Edge
  23. Fairytales and Wishes - Mr.Jones
  24. Fever - Otis Waygood Blues Band
  25. Fight It With Your Mind - Asylum Kids
  26. Fooling Around - Off The Edge
  27. Foxey - Baxtop
  28. Give Me The Good News - Crocodile Harris+
  29. Goeienag Generaal - Piet Botha+
  30. Grips Of Emotion - Lesley Rae Dowling
  31. Guinevere - McCully Workshop+
  32. Hard Ride - Rabbitt
  33. Help - Hotline
  34. Here Comes The Sun - Hawk
  35. Hey Boy - Via Afrika*
  36. Hungry For Love - The A-Cads
  37. I'm Tempted To Stay - Karma
  38. Indigo Girl - Watershed
  39. Jo Bangles - Baxtop
  40. Johnny Calls The Chemist - Falling Mirror*
  41. Kilimanjaro - Juluka
  42. Lifeline - Rabbitt
  43. Liven Up The Night - Off The Edge
  44. Locomotive Breath - Rabbitt
  45. Locomotive Breath (single version) - Rabbitt
  46. Losing Control - Venessa Nolan
  47. Magic Man - Neill Solomon and the Uptown Rhythm Dogs
  48. Magical Touch - Petit Cheval*
  49. Makin' Out With Granny - Falling Mirror
  50. Mamma Blues - Valiant Swart+
  51. Man On The Moon - Ballyhoo
  52. Monster From The Bog - Psycho Reptiles*
  53. Mumbo Jumbo - Hawk
  54. Nightmare - Peach
  55. No Man Shall Fall - Little Sister
  56. No No No No - Asylum Kids
  57. Orang Outang - Hawk
  58. Playgrounds In Paradise - Finch and Henson
  59. Reflections Of My Life - Neil Cloud
  60. Roxy Lady - Neill Solomon
  61. Running - Off The Edge
  62. Samurai - Dr Jive & The Bluenotes
  63. Sarajevo - Jack Hammer+
  64. Scatterlings Of Africa - Savuka
  65. See Yourself (Clowns) - Ella Mental*
  66. Sex - Pressure Cookies+
  67. Shadows - éVoid
  68. Shine On Me - Watershed
  69. Shot - Springbok Nude Girls
  70. Since You Been Gone - Clout
  71. Sittin' - Toxic Shame
  72. Six String Razor - Mauritz Lotz
  73. Slow Dancing - Big Sky
  74. Slow Rain - Celtic Rumours*
  75. So Cold - Hotline
  76. Speedtrain - Frankie's Playground
  77. Stormsee - Mel Botes
  78. Story To Tell - Karoo
  79. Street Of Love - Jack Hammer+
  80. Sugar Man - Just Jinger
  81. Suitcase Vol Winter - Piet Botha+
  82. Taximan - éVoid*
  83. Taxman - Lucky Dube
  84. Tchaikovsky One - Omega Ltd
  85. Teddy Bear - The Spectres*
  86. The Boy And The Bee - Omega Limited^
  87. The Boys - Lancaster Band
  88. The Eagle Has Landed - Dickie Loader & Freedoms Children^
  89. The Return - Hawk
  90. Then It Turns Around - Falling Mirror+
  91. This Boy - Sweatband*
  92. Tribal Fence - Margaret Singana
  93. Waiting For The Dawn - Big Sky
  94. Weeping - Bright Blue
  95. What'you Gonna Do When The Reggae Breaks Your Heart - Beanstalk
  96. Who Killed Kurt Cobain - Koos Kombuis+
  97. Wild Warrior - Arapaho
  98. You're Living Inside My Head - John Ireland
  99. You're So Good To Me - Hotline
  100. ZX Dan - Radio Rats+

+Tracks available to download at Rhythm Online.

*Tracks released on Rocking Against The System CD in March 2002.

^Tracks released on Astral Daze CD in January 2006.

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