Album Review: Various - The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock Vol 2

The team behind last year's excellent The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock compilation return with another four-CD instalment paying testament to the halcyon days of our nation's live music scene, and fortunately they have a deep well from which to draw tunes and inspiration.

Most of the obvious culprits are back with another requisitely strong track - think big names such Cold Chisel, The Angels, Split Enz, Sunnyboys, Skyhooks, Divinyls, Midnight Oil, Rose Tattoo, Models, Weddings Parties Anything, Australian Crawl, Hunters & Collectors, Paul Kelly, The Johnnys, The Church and The Saints - this time joined by some notable absentees from Vol 1 such as Hoodoo Gurus and The Sports.

But it's the songs that you don't already know backwards that make these collections so fascinating. Here we're gifted a swag of relatively obscure gems including Fraternity's If You Got It (featuring Bon Scott on vocals), The Hitmen's Didn't Tell The Man and Stars' With A Winning Hand, as well as a swathe of long-forgotten bangers such as Do Re Mi's Man Overboard, Nick Barker & The Reptiles' Another Me and even Dynamic Hepnotics' Soul Kind Of Feeling which remind how good Aussie music lovers have had it for so long.