Christchurch The Music
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Christchurch The Music is a New Zealand
compilation album released in 2005. A double-CD
set of 45 tracks created to celebrate Christchurch
music and artists from the 1960s to the present.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
compilation album released in 2005. A double-CD
Compact Disc
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set of 45 tracks created to celebrate Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
music and artists from the 1960s to the present.
Disc one
- Christchurch (In Cashel Street I Wait) - The Dance ExponentsThe ExponentsThe Exponents are a New Zealand rock group led by vocalist and songwriter Jordan Luck.Their major hits, including "Why Does Love Do This To Me", "Who Loves Who The Most", "Victoria", "I'll Say Goodbye " and "Whatever Happened To Tracey" have been taken up by successive generations of younger New...
- Accident Prone - The Newz
- Falling in Love AgainFalling in Love Again (Anika Moa song)"Falling in Love Again" is a single by New Zealand singer-songwriter Anika Moa. It features on her début album, Thinking Room.-Chart performance:...
- Anika MoaAnika MoaAnika Rose Moa is a New Zealand pop recording artist. In 2001 she signed to Atlantic Records in the United States and released her debut album, Thinking Room, the album reached the top of the New Zealand Singles Chart and was a commercial success.Moa was raised in Christchurch, New Zealand... - Do The Bluebeat - Dinah LeeDinah LeeDinah Lee is the stage name of New Zealand-born singer, Diane Marie Jacobs , who performed 1960s pop and then adult contemporary music. Her debut single from early 1964, "Don't You Know Yockomo?", achieved No. 1 chart success in New Zealand and, across the Tasman Sea, in Brisbane and Melbourne...
- Communicate - The FeelersThe FeelersThe Feelers are a New Zealand rock band formed in the early 1990s in Christchurch by James Reid , Matthew Thomas and Hamish Gee .-History:...
- Soothe Me - The SecretsThe SecretsThe Secrets were an American girl group from Cleveland, Ohio.The group first performed under the name The Sonnets, named after the Sonnet piano. They were offered a local gig supporting local ensemble The Starfires , and at one of these performances, talent scout Redda Robbins offered them a contract...
- Get Some SleepGet Some Sleep"Get Some Sleep" is a 2002 musical single by Bic Runga. It was Runga's lead single to her second album, Beautiful Collision, and her seventh single overall. RIANZ ranked "Get Some Sleep" as sixth in the New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2002. It spent 24 weeks on the weekly chart, peaking at number three...
- Bic RungaBic RungaBriolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM is a New Zealand pop recording artist whose first solo album, Drive, debuted at number one on the New Zealand RIANZ charts. She has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history... - Slipping Away - Max MerrittMax MerrittMax Merritt is a New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and guitarist who is renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B...
- So Strange - Hip Singles
- Living On My Heart - Louie & The Hotsticks
- What You Do (Bastard) - Stellar*
- Jumping Out A Window - Pop MechanixPop MechanixPop Mechanix were a New Zealand pop band that played from 1979 - 1988.They had a number of high profile fans during the course of their career, notable championed by fellow NZ band Split Enz...
- Stay Away - Narcs
- If I Only Could Hold You Once Again - Dolphin
- Down In The Mine - Peter Nelson & The Castaways
- Thing Called Love - Lindon Puffin
- Only Time Could Let Us Know - link
- Glorafilia - ZedZed (band)Zed were a New Zealand pop/rock four-piece band formed in 1998.-History:Originally formed while still students at Christchurch's Cashmere High School, Zed is the dream child of Nathan King, Ben Campbell and Adrian Palmer, along with manager Ray Columbus.King felt the band needed a second guitarist...
- Country High - Ticket
- Now You Shake - Ray Columbus & The InvadersRay Columbus & the InvadersRay Columbus & the Invaders were a rock group from New Zealand active from 1964 to 1966.The group was influenced by the early 1960s work of Cliff Richard and The Beatles. They scored a #1 hit in Australia and New Zealand with "She's a Mod" in 1964, a cover version of a song by The Senators. They...
- Say A Prayer - Chapta
- Theme From The Crusader - ScribeScribe (rapper)Malo Luafutu better known by his stage name Scribe, is a New Zealand hip hop rapper and recording artist of Samoan descent...
Disc two
- Getting Jumpy - The Androidss
- Sons Of The South - Dark Tower
- You Take Me There - Loves Ugly Children
- Bumble Bee Boogie - Tommy Kahi Group
- Columbia - The Pin Group
- I Want Her - Chants R&BChants R&BChants R&B were a rhythm and blues band from Christchurch, New Zealand, and are considered one best examples of garage rhythm and blues from Australasia during the 1960s. They won the Battle Of The Bands contest at Addington Showgrounds in 1964...
- Hole In The Sky - Cinematic
- Home - PumpkinheadPumpkinheadPumpkinhead is a 1988 supernatural horror film. It was the directorial debut of noted special effects artist Stan Winston. While Pumpkinhead received mixed reviews, the film has built up a cult following in the years since its release.-Plot:...
- Paint The Town Red - Newtones
- Angels In Silence - The Wastrels
- I'd Rather Be Asleep - Salvation
- Trouble in This Town - The BatsThe BatsThe Bats are an influential New Zealand rock band formed in 1982 in Christchurch by Paul Kean , Malcolm Grant , Robert Scott and Kaye Woodward...
- Alien - Six Impossible Things - (Bill Direen)
- Revival Radio - The Renderers
- Mistake - Butler
- Her Mind Holds You - SerenitySerenity (band)Serenity is a melodic power metal band from Austria with progressive, power and symphonic influences.- Biography :Serenity was founded in Tyrol, Austria in January 2001 receiving "fine reviews" for their first demo "Starseed V.R.". In 2003/2004, three of the original members left the band. The...
- I Like Rain - Jean-Paul Sartre ExperienceJean-Paul Sartre ExperienceThe Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, later renamed JPS Experience after a lawsuit by the estate of Jean-Paul Sartre, were an indie rock band on New Zealand's Flying Nun Records.-History:...
- Upside Down - Flying Wild
- Man With No Desire - The ExpendablesThe Expendables (New Zealand band)The Expendables were a 1980s band based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Based around singer-songwriter/guitarist Jay Clarkson, the band grew out of her former bands, They Were Expendable and The Playthings, and released a single and album in 1984 on the Flying Nun label.Clarkson was joined in The...
- That's What Friends Are For - Mainly Spaniards
- Who Killed Johnny? - The Johnnies
- Future Shock - The GordonsThe GordonsThe Gordons may refer to:*The Gordons - Folk/bluegrass duo consisting of Gary Gordon and Roberta Gordon.*Bailter Space - At one time, called "The Gordons".*The Gordons...
- Bleeding Heart - Ritchie Venus & The Blue Beetles