
Odyssey Number Five
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Odyssey Number Five".
Oct 12, 2026
Episode 35 - Powderfinger
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5:59RichardHOST
dealUh, yeah, I'm ...
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6:03RichardHOST
Yeah, well, it was weird 'cause they did, their, one of their albums, Odyssey, was released on an independent label, but distribute, distributed through Polydor, so quite whether they just sort of negotiate, but they went back to Polydor for the next one, so who knows? They must've been, they must've been okay or happy about something.
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6:21MarioHOST
Now, I, I, I asked you about the Powderfinger bio- bio book, 'cause I have, I do own one, and have read it, but it was many years ago now, and I only remember vague details of it.
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6:32MarioHOST
But, uh, it just, I think that I, I don't read ...
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8:19Josh BarnettGUEST
I mean, I've seen Barnesy literally 20 times, but, uh, Powderfinger I've seen, I saw Powderfinger nine times, Bernard Fanning soli- solo once, and I saw them ...
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8:28Josh BarnettGUEST
So my Powderfinger fandom, I still remember the moment I became a Powderfinger fan, and it actually wasn't until 2003, uh, when they were on the Footy Show, and they, it was when they dropped On My Mind, Vulture Street had just dropped, and yeah, watching them on the Footy Show.
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8:46Josh BarnettGUEST
I, my dad had Odyssey Number Five in the car a bit, but it was, yeah, it was, I don't know, for some reason that night when they played On My Mind on the Foot- and On My Mind's not even, like, my top 20 favorite Powderfinger songs.
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8:58Josh BarnettGUEST
But, um, yeah, that's when my fandom started, and got started getting all the CDs, going back and listening to obviously Double Electric, Internationalist, Odyssey.
POWDERFINGER FRENZY: How radio covered the big music moment
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7:15speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Give me old stuff.
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7:16speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Give me Odyssey Number 5.
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7:18speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Give me some of this.
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7:19speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But as they said, the soundtrack to your life.
How They Got Us To Pay For Music Again
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10:08Chris KohlerHOST
Okay, but what kind of money? What would a solid, well-regarded, kinda top-tier Australian band have been making back then in late '90s, early 2000s Australian dollars?
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10:20Osher GünsbergSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I'd say the Powderfinger song My Happiness, right? That was a single off their album Odyssey Number Five.
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10:25Osher GünsbergSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let's just say Powderfinger's My Happiness, uh, the album sold around 550, 60,000, so it was a lot.
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10:32Osher GünsbergSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's 10 times, 11 times platinum.