Redgum - Everything's Legal Anything Goes

The last official release by the band before John Schumann
left, Everything's Legal Anything Goes takes its name from
the single Asio of the last album before it and is a compilation
album with tracks spanning their career.
The thing about is the number of tracks that are previously
unreleased versions of some of their greatest songs.
Also 3 singles that never made it to albums.
Robert sent me these tracks but I have tracked down the
entire LP for this post. For you Redgum completests its
well worth having.

Track List
01-just another moment on your own
(single only release)
02-i've been to bali too
03-the diamantina drover
04-gladstone pier
05-i was only nineteen
(single only release)
06-the long run
(Previously unreleased version)
07-it doesn't matter to me
(Previously unreleased version)
08-killing floor
(Previously unreleased version)
09-a.s.i.o.
10-where ya gonna run to
(Previously unreleased version)
11-poor ned
12-the drover's dog
(single only release)


Asio - Redgum

White door, ninth floor, silent number,
it's autumn on a cold avenue
Telex intercept, he sips a cigarette,
warms up his V.D.U.

He gets his kicks from microchips,
orders from the C.I.A.
Birobugs and lasers, casual surveillance,
boardrooms and communiques

Don't use your phone and don't use mine
Don't speak treason, they're tapping the li-ine

Break-in, stake out, tell it in code
Everything is legal, anything goes
The nights gettin' darker and the ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO

Trained in the ghettos of the Lebanon,
truncheons and an M16
Selling skag, a U.N. flag,
now he's trading in securities

Darwin rendezvous, a B-52,
trenchcoat slightly creased
From a coup in Asia, A U.S. Air Force major
Buying dirty laundry, swearin' it's for peace

Infiltration, we'll never know
Just like Chile but the bruises don't show-ow

Break-in, stake out, tell it in code
Everything is legal, anything goes
The nights get darker and the ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO

Spook behind the bar, unmarked car,
rumour hangs like stale perfume
Flushing under beds, sniffin' out the Reds,
nobody can feel immune

No names, no stress, no blame, no press
Clean when the dirty work's done
Allocate a budget, special branch thugs
Do it for the practice, do it for the fun

Midnight, flashlight, crash on the door
Rats on the table, blood on the floor-oor

Break-in, stake out, tell it in code
Everything is legal, anything goes
The nights get darker and the ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO

This was based on what we knew of ASIO’s techniques
in 1984. They were much more physical then.
That’s now unnecessary: the song’s references to extensive
IT surveillance have proved to be rather prescient.
Incidentally, public servants later impressed upon us
how bulky our own ASIO files were. –Michael Atkinson.

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