So many songs you should know but don’t. So many songs I should know but don’t.
The Celibate Rifles formed in 1979 and are/were one of a great generation of Aussie bands virtually unknown in America, also including Radio Birdman (dig their song about Hawaii Five-O).
I love this song, “Cycle.” Really tops. Go buy the studio version now.
My only connection to The Celibate Rifles is that sometime in the early 90s they slept on the floor of a house on Franklin Avenue in Seattle that was shared by my sister’s then-boyfriend Ed Fotheringham, Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner, PUSA drummer Jason Finn and Flop guitarist Bill Campbell.
We also had some wonderful Tuesday night poker games at that house, but that’s a different blog post.