How can you claim to have released an album if nobody can buy it? I looked. I spent hours (10 minutes actually) searching for ‘Spirit Returns’, Goanna’s long awaited follow up to Spirit of Place. I did find an obscure album review here, and despite his Geocities handicap, blogger Jake makes a keen observation: “It will..inevitably annoy with its manifest political baggage.”So: if you’re going to combine social protest and pop rock you better be bloody good at the rock part. Guns and Roses did it, so did Silverchair, and they haven’t been shelved by their labels for being boring.
Back in the day, Goanna's début album Spirit of Place won the ARIA for Best Album of ‘82, with their first (and only) major hit "Solid Rock" winning Best Single. Solid Rock struck that magic balance, with a chronicle of Aboriginal displacement by European settlers. This song went down a treat at Oz for Africa (Live Aid) in ’85 and remains one of my all time favorites.
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