I posted a song by the Stems earlier called Tears Me In Two and they recorded this song at the same session. They released their first EP Rosebud Volume 1 in 1985 and it included Love Will Grow.
The EP reached #72 in the Australian charts in 1986.
The Stems were a garage punk band formed in Perth, Western Australia in late 1983. They were hugely popular in Australia. The band broke up in 1987 and reunited in 2003 and are still together. The still have three of the original members. Dom Mariani, Julian Matthews, and David Shaw.
They are very popular to this day in Australia. Their debut single “She’s a Monster/Make you Mine” reached the top of the independent charts and also sold 500 copies in England. The single was to be the 2nd highest selling independent single for Australia in 1985, second only to the Hoodoo Gurus.
They were one of the few indie bands that sometimes made it on the mainstream charts.
Love Will Grow
Feeling down and not so bright
Another lost and lonely night
I try so hard not to feel this way
I could not fight these blues away
Then you came along and you made me know
How it is our love will grow
How it is our love will grow
Yesterday I could not speak
My days were sad, confused, and weak
A cut was bleeding deep inside of me
Anxiety that I could not hide
Then you came along and you made me know
How it is our love will grow
How it is our love will grow
How it is our love will grow
How it is our love will grow
Then you came along and you made me know
How it is our love will grow
How it is our love will grow
How it is our love will grow
How it is our love will grow
Cool backstory Max. Never heard of The Stems just like a lot of people outside of Canada never heard of the Tragically Hip
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Thanks Deke…you have a good point. There are bands in the States where they are popular in certain states as well.
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Another group that sounds a lot like the Byrds.
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They do on this one…usually they are harder
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I like it. Has a nice retro feel to it. You mentioned the Hoodoo Gurus…haven’ t thought of them for some time. They had some really good singles back then too
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I have one of their songs in my draft folder…
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good! I’ll look forward to that one
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Nice tune, quite melodic. Also like the retro guitar sound. It reminded me of The Byrds as well.
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I seem to have a Byrds theme going on
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This has an R.E.M. feel to me. I like it!
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Yea and you throw in the Byrds…they were usually harder than this.
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True.
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I like this.
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