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1. The Birthday Party
2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
3. AC/DC
4. The Saints
5. The Hoodoo Gurus
6. Radio Birdman
7. Split Enz (technically Kiwis, but....)
8. The Go-Betweens
9. The Bee Gees
10. Hunters & Collectors

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm gonna just have to pick the first ten i can see from my desk.

go betweens
the hummingbirds
clouds
underground lovers
even as we speak
the beautiful few
art of fighting
youth group
the scientists
the apartments

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i have made a grave error. take out youth group and replace it with severed heads

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

feedtime
lime spiders
king snake roost
radio birdman
walker bros.
hoodoo gurus
go betweens
walkabouts
scientists
beasts of bourbon

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ack! How could I forget the Lime Spiders. Beasts of Bourbon.

Also...New Gods!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, New CHRISTS I mean.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to do this and could only get to eight. My list overlaps a lot with Jim's.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

first ten i think of:

pel mel
reels
wirlyworld
apartments
andy rantzen solo
wrong kind of stoneage
feedtime
daly wilson big band
oren ambarchi
first two albums Hunters & collectors only.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

doh! the birthday party!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man the triffids and ups & downs definitely need their props here.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

What are the limits to this?

Until they're provided:

1) The Avalanches
2) Ed Kuepper
3) The Saints (early)
4) Go-betweens
5) Birthday Party
6) Scientists
7) Hoodoo Gurus
8) Clouds
9) Underground Lovers
10) - defensive teenage nostalgia choice - Custard

Xpost - oh and the triffids

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Where were the Clouds from? Melbourne or Sydney?

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

sydenee

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

THE TRIFFIIIIIDS!!!!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

and the Church are the big omissions from these lists.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My eight:

The Underground Lovers
The Church
The Triffids
The Go-Betweens
The Avalanches
The Paradise Motel
New Buffalo (but release some new material already!)
Clouds

Jim should I check out The Art of Fighting? I've always meant to...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and You Am I.

Xpost

Just out of curiosity, whatever happened to Paradise Motel? Last I heard they released a remix album and that was it.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim: 'wires' is an elegant and beautiful record, it's still quite slowcore but the songwriting is magnificent. i do believe they're up there with Low and Galaxie 500 as far as archetypal 'slow' bands go..

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck i forgot the avalanches too. haha i like MORE than 10 aussie bands.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Jedmond - The Paradise Motel split up after that remix collection. None of them seem to have gone on to do anything, which I find frankly astonishing.

Jim - I'll have to check out Wires and let you know what I think.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dirty three

― Rush Rhees (Rush Rhees), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I did a POXV. Because I wouldn't want to live without any of these bands:

AC/DC
Birthday Party
The Scientists
feedtime
Cannanes
Bee-Gees
Go-Betweens
Cosmic Psychos
Tamam Shud
Easybeats
Buffalo
The Victims
Master's Apprentices
X
Rose Tattoo

Sorry. I'm a rocker, I'm a roller, I'm a right out-of-control-er.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ahh the fucken cannanes, of course. still making brilliant records 21 years on..

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, I forgot Coloured Balls too.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the avalanches
new buffalo
underground lovers
cut copy
the mark of cain
go betweens
hilltop hoods
clandestein
koolism
nick cave

― Mil, Saturday, 12 June 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually does anyone know what's up with New Buffalo?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 12 June 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Birthday Party
Beasts Of Bourbon
Avalanches
Underground Lovers
Laughing Clowns
AC/DC
Easybeats
Snout (my own teen nostalgia pick)
Thug (on the strength of "Dad", heh heh)
Died Pretty

I wouldn't put him/them in the ten but that new Cut Copy album is really good.

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Saturday, 12 June 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaz you're a sweetheart.

Fans of Aussie rock should really do themselves a favour and check out Feedtime, one of the best rock bands ever to come out of this fair country. Oh yeah, and also X and early Rose Tattoo.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 12 June 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

col was first trumpet in daley-wilson for those who're wondering

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 12 June 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

bd party, gobetweens, & saints did their best stuff in britain, so...
moodists
apartments
redgum
duffy
cannanes
reels
masters apprentices
australian crawl
triffids
men at work [seriously. i love stuff like "i can see it in your eyes", "catch a star", "overkill", "upstairs in my house", etc]

...with honorable mention to daddy cool who are even sillier than australian crawl. and maybe jojo zep & the falcons.

― mig, Saturday, 12 June 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

man, this is pretty eighties.

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 12 June 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

1. AC/DC
2. Rose Tattoo
3. The Go-Betweens
4. The Birthday Party
5. Avalanches
6. The Saints
7. Foot and Mouth (Seymour! The Room's A Mess)
8. The Triffids
9. The Saints
10. erm, Men at Work?

Anybody who's heard that Foot and Mouth track will know they are one of the great lost bands of all time.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 12 June 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually does anyone know what's up with New Buffalo?

I've seen her/them (?) billed recently, I think.

Fans of Aussie rock should really do themselves a favour and check out Feedtime, one of the best rock bands ever to come out of this fair country. Oh yeah, and also X and early Rose Tattoo.

Not forgetting Lubricated Goat!

current stuff

bird blobs
treetops
snawklor
fuck.... I'm dead
cut copy
sneeze (just saw 'em this afternoon at the tote. Had forgotten how fond I am of that band!)
curse ov dialect
st. albans kids/lle/syndicate (situationist hc axis. I like the idea of these bands more than I like the music, but whatever.)
the sailors
oren ambarchi/sun

(although, the only ones I really care about/bother to see play are the first two, I guess.)

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 12 June 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Moles
Small World Experience
The Holy Ghosts
The Gatekeepers
Chris Smith
Ugly Ugly Ugly
Crabstick
Essendon Airport
Slugfuckers
Pimmon

― jwd, Saturday, 12 June 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Although it is important to note that Ed Kuepper is probably one of the five most devastating songwriters in the world, ever.

― jwd, Saturday, 12 June 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Necks ffs!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 12 June 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

More of a current list than an all-time one, but:

The Cannanes
Smudge
The Go-Betweens
The Necks
The Hummingbirds
Sneeze - (OCP - I was also at the Tote this afternoon!)
Love of Diagrams
Underground Lovers
Decoder Ring
Architecture in Helsinki

― wombatX (wombatX), Saturday, 12 June 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sidewalk Regrets
bluehouse
Youth Group
The Church
Bohjass
NC & the Bad Seeds
Forster & McLennan (fuck the rest of em)
Sodastream
Thee Tigers
The Beasts of Bourbon

― Queen Giventop10sarehard, Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Are New Buffalo Australian? The New Buffalo I saw (a year or so ago, supporting Beth Orton, was just one woman who sounded very English..)

― wombatX (wombatX), Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

primitive calculators
the hi-god people
extradition
nazxul
kahvas jute (not a big fan, but...)
volvox
HOBBS' ANGEL OF DEATH
menstruation sisters
did anyone say purple vulture shit yet?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(i was trying to stick to ones that hadn't been picked yet for some reason. otherwise it would've been buffalo, rose tattoo, radio birdman, etc. also, that was 9, so one more: spear of longinus.)

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Are New Buffalo Australian? The New Buffalo I saw (a year or so ago, supporting Beth Orton, was just one woman who sounded very English..)

-- wombatX (wombat...), June 12th, 2004.

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Yes, New Buffalo aka Sally Seltmann (prev. Sally Russell) is Australian. The live lineup generally has three or four members I think?

BTW did anyone actually find it hard to come up with ten? I like all the ones I listed, but I'm truly passionate about only a few of them.

― Mil, Saturday, 12 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha--Feedtime! I'd forgotten about them entirely, Gaz.

Lipstick Killers
The Saints
Died Pretty
Screaming Tribesmen (for first few 45s only)
Go-Betweens
Bird Nest Roys (token Kiwis)
The Loved Ones
Triffids
AC/DC

― M Specktor, Saturday, 12 June 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

are there rules in this game? i'll just name the first ten i can think of that i like

the triffids
the falling joys
the panics
the avalanches
magic dirt
the saints
weddings parties anything
wicked beat sound system
the go betweens
deadstar

why do so many of them start with "the"... weird

― gem (trisk), Saturday, 12 June 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooooops...

I can't believe I left out the Birthday Party & New Christs. I'd like to say it was for lack of space, but really I just forgot. Here's a couple more: Died Pretty, God.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 12 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

also:
sea scouts
cat's miaow
phlegm
(I'm sure I'll think of a billion more as soon as I post this.)

already mentioned, but I'll second these:
pimmon
even as we speak
hilltop hoods
primitive calculators
go-betweens

Sneeze - (OCP - I was also at the Tote this afternoon!)

Wombat--strange, indeed!

we should have a Melbourne fap sometime. I never read ILE so maybe there's been one recently (?) but it'd be good to meet some more melb peeps.

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 12 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

New Buffalo (but release some new material already!)

Yeah, is it still just the one EP?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, unfortunately. apparently those four songs alone were a year in the making.

the cut copy album is great, and would appeal to Ned, for one.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

*ears prick up* Oh yes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 June 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

INXS!!!!

― gary garry beers, Saturday, 12 June 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll just say Birthday Party and the Saints and leave this thread, my knowlege of Aussie bands is dismally poor.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

uh...the lucksmiths.
the english clouds were much better than the aussie clouds who were/are? actually really horrible.
i like other people's children too.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 12 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

last i heard, sally [new buffalo] had an album recorded and was looking for someone to release it. that ep was bliss.....

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Saturday, 12 June 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

b(if)tek
antidiluvian rocking horse
gerling
dave graney and the coral snakes
slub
love gone wrong
blackeyed susans
magic dirt
the fuck fucks
the hard ons

― dish, Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

we should have a Melbourne fap sometime. I never read ILE so maybe there's been one recently (?) but it'd be good to meet some more melb peeps.

I would be up for that. Anybody going to the Popboomerang thing tonight at the Rob Roy?

Cut Copy are great and I can't wait to see them live. Also (mentioned way up-thread) Deloris and the GB3 album (Glen Bennie's new combo) are highly recommended.

― wombatX (wombatX), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunters and Collectors
Go-Betweens
Triffids
Huxton Creepers
Avalanches
Ups and Downs
Machinations
Hoodoo Gurus until after "Blow Your Cool"
Ed Kuepper
Scientists

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the necks yes yes. completely devastating live.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

no SPK love?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the scientists
the birthday party
pseudo echo
tugboat
ninetynine
the bites
the stabs
inxs
acca dacca
icehouse

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

o yeah tugboat. quite like to hear them ;)

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC
Natalie Imbruglia
AC/DC x 8

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 13 June 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

pseudo echo? love an adventure, oh dear

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 13 June 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

gem, you may enjoy this thread:

Pseudo Echo

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Sunday, 13 June 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm i never noticed this before

pseudo echo, the best band to cruise to?

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Sunday, 13 June 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone forgot to include the best Australian band of the 90s:

You Am I

― Walt, Sunday, 13 June 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

so little Severed Heads love!

Severed Heads
SPK
Primitive Calculators
Slugfuckers
Saints
Birthday Party
Go-Betweens

that's the most I can think of. Great stuff on Can't Stop This but don't remember any bands names.

Where's Philip Turnbull?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 13 June 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

phil can't pick ten

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 13 June 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and that's an order!

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Sunday, 13 June 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Apartments
Saints
The Church
The Birthday Party
AC/DC
You am I
Go-Betweens
Midnight Oil
Radio Birdman
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

― Rocco, Sunday, 13 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ammonia
Frente!

― John Cocktolstoy, Sunday, 13 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my. i'm afraid i'll have to leave the 970 odd posts of pseudo echo love until after my exams. i'd hate to let a hand held keyboard/guitar whatsit make me fail my torts exam

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 13 June 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

also, buffy the vampire slayer movie is on telly tonight and it has a DIVINYLS song in it.... blast from the past! i love you i love you i do boy but you ain't gonna cheat on me

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 13 June 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC
Angel City

Where's all the Angel City love? They're one of the all time greats!

― Davlo (Davlo), Sunday, 13 June 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

We all forgot Gaslight Radio too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 14 June 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

they never really fried my socks all that much to be honest

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

1.AC/DC
2.Rose Tattoo
3.Celibate Rifles
4.Bee Gees
5.The Saints
6.feedtime
7.Radio Birdman

No love for Celibate Rifles, except from me?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 June 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

oooooh yes and damian lovelock, funny funny man. i loved them when i was an angsty teen. i may have to unearth them from the vault.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the stems were rather good too. or was that just a west oz phenomenon? and kim salmon and the scientists

― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the fucking bee gees! how could i forget????>

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

in reality though they're as australian as crowded house

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

am i retarded or has noone mentioned the clean yet?

― James.Cardis (james.cardis), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

new zealand isn't a part of aussie you moron.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ah my mistake. had them confused. everyone from the region's descendent from pirates, crooks, and perverts, though, anyway. what's the difference?

― James.Cardis (james.cardis), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

we're better at fuxoring sheep than they are.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yay for perverts!

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone needs something to be proud of
me, i'm retarded

― James.Cardis (james.cardis), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

On the contrary James, you are quite right to appropriate NZ acts for Australia. It is a time-honoured tradition, and we all practise it here anyway.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"7. Split Enz (technically Kiwis, but....)" Yeah, but you USA-ians gave us Neil Young, so I could forgive that.

1: Tall Dwarfs, 2. The Clean, 3. Toy Love, 4. Bailter Space, 5. The Gordons... What?

oh.

In no order (and without much thought)

The Meanies
Registered Nurse
Bastard Squad
The ICBMs (am I allowed to do this?)
Dirty Three
The Necks
The Birthday Party
Essendon Airport
Primitive Calculators
The Hard-Ons

I'd like a Melbourne meet-up too.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

no thirty odd foot of grunt love?

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't decide between them and the freaked out flower children

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

pox ten worst aussie bands

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

*sigh* where to start?

1. Altered Images

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

they weren't aussie they were scottish you twat

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Eastern Dark
10 that haven't been mentioned (much)

Ten Part Invention
Clarion Fracture Zone
The Catholics
Vindaloonies
Plunderers
Porcelain Bus
Gerling
1200 Techniques
Hermitude

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry.

1. Moving Pictures

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Shannon Noll

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone who mentions a band which contains an ILM member gets hit around the neck and shoulders weith a headless axe. Don't worry, it won't sever anything.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

what a bout a band that used to conatin an ILM member?

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

3. The chair that is made of silver

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

4. the lab

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Pig

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Best:

Tlot Tlot
TISM
Midnight Oil
Clouds
B(if)tek
Regurgitator
Hunters & Collectors
Mavises
Underground Lovers
Frente [exclusing Accidentally Kelly Street]

Worst:

Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel

― New No New Age Advanced Ambient Motor Music Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

what's wrong with chisels?

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I still come out in hives when I walk into a drinking establishment and hear Khe Sahn, cringe. Mind you Flame Trees is an OK song, not that I want to hear it.

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the chisels.

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with Accidentally Kelly Street? How can you dislike a song with a milk bottle solo in it?

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

with incredible ease

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Worst: Area 7

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Closely followed by the John Butler Trio.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

bad boys batacuda

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

john butler can eat my fuc

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

alex lloyd

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the living end is pretty annoying too

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

do you like the panics gemily?

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. recently converted, i didn't at first. why do you ask?

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dbmagazine.com.au/314/Jet%20-%20CD.jpg

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

no reason!

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i think they're tops now, i recently got "a crack in the wall" and it's one of my current fave recordings.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody heard the Small Knives album? 'Hardin your heart' has been one of my favourite tunes of the past few weeks.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

not yet but i'd quite like to..

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna say Alex Lloyd is usually really bad, but "Black the Sun" is a great song, so there you go

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

wot, no mention of Johnny Farnham?

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Seconded on Area 7.

You know, there was a moment between 2001 and 2003 when Triple J played a song that wasn't Area 7. It was brief. I think it was a commercial for Triple J tee-shirts.

― New No New Age Advanced Ambient Motor Music Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

my hatred of epicure is also growing by the day

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

epicure suck really rather hard.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a good thing isn't it? Sorry.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

what about whats-their-names with darren hayes in

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a nice moment during the 2003 Hottest 100, they had a listener on the line whilst they were doing a recap of the list so far, Adam Spencer was saying "...and at number blah we had Area 7 with 'Nobody Likes a Bogan'" at which point the listener chipped in, "Yeah, well nobody likes a fucken ska band either.."

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

what is it with the utter ubiquity and crapness of Pete Murray?

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooh pete murray, reminds me of when i wake up in the morning and can hear the traffic hum from the freeway near my house

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh I forgot Frente in my best bands list. Although they'd more properly slot into a "best Aussie albums" list with Shape, which I love to bits.

Does anyone else find the uni student trickery of the Pete Murray "You're So Beautiful" video clip incredibly annoying?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm pleased to say i've avoided it so have no idea what you're talking about tim

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

surely george are a worst-list contender too?

i have an allergic reaction to epicure also.

― Mil, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

george joined killing heidi on the train to mediocrity

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else find the uni student trickery of the Pete Murray "You're So Beautiful" video clip incredibly annoying?

-- Tim Finney

The whole thing is a tall poppy lyric - what about where he says, 'I would love to pull you down' - yeah, good for you Pete. We totally sympathise with you wanting to pull down this beautiful person. Are we meant to sympathise with this bitter charatcer who has rightfully been left in the dust with his crap song?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else find the uni student trickery of the Pete Murray "You're So Beautiful" video clip incredibly annoying?

-- Tim Finney (tfinne...), June 15th, 2004.

it looks like a very budget clip for an act who's gotten such a big commercial push. the thing i hate most about pete murray, would have to be the advertising slogan they're using for his record -> 'music this good doesn't come along often'. fucking hell.

― Mil, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't even know who he is!

― chappelli (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

he's shannon noll for grown ups

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The aggressiveness with which Aust labels promote breathtakingly mediocre stuff, calling it genius, brilliance etc, instead of what it is (ie, derivative folky shit), always staggers me. Obviously, a label's got to embiggen it's artists. That's perfectly cromulent. It's the intense, over-the-top violence of the promotional push of mediocre acts, occupying every available square inch of media space, deliberately shutting out all dissenting voices, which gets right up my goat.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

poor mandy

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

A perfect example. And it's not even his fault? No-one's to blame for having only a moderate talent. Decent artists are made to look like fools by these over-the-top campaigns.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Two great acts I have only just remembered:

Severed Heads
Scattered Order

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

What bugs is the way in which, post-Ben Harper/Jack Johnson, people like Pete Murray actually have some level of critical cachet, whereas ten years ago he would have been dismissed as the Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel he is.

Re Mandy Kane - I dunno, "Stupid Friday" and the first EP were both *really bad*. With the EP it was one of the few times I felt like being genuinely nasty in my singles column.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

scattered order were once great but my memory of them is spoiled by their unsatisfying later work

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

mandy kane's album sounds alarmingly like wa wa nee.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

And Jim Thirlwell / Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel is one of our best exports too surely. It pains me that someone like him could not have stayed in Oz and expected to even release a record.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Needless to say the Laughing Clowns should not be forgotten

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You could say that about Dead Can Dance too really.

(er xpost)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't say mean things about Laughing Clowns - Ed Kuepper was involved QED.

Apparently George is on the verge of splitting up (due to friction between Katie and her brother) - so I'll wait fo further developments before announcing my top ten worst Australian bands. + I promised myself I wouldn't be to negative about Australian music.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else find the uni student trickery of the Pete Murray "You're So Beautiful" video clip incredibly annoying?

Yes. I don't even know what the song sounds like, because as soon as I see the dumb 24-esque squares dissolving all over the screen, I turn it off.

― New No New Age Advanced Ambient Motor Music Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh come on, surely someone remembers Tlot Tlot...

― New No New Age Advanced Ambient Motor Music Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember em but i don't really love em all that much

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

DIVINYLS
...geez only one mention above for the divinyls? talk about no love for a band!Christina Amphlett!!!!

― william (william), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

red planet rockits

― inkadinkadoo, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/9736/ample.jpg
....nuff said!

― william (william), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Midnight Oil
Professor Groove & the Booty Affair
Sneeze
AC/DC
Nancy Vandal (for songs and live performances rather more than records)
Spod
Boys Next Door/Birthday Party/Bad Seeds
Gerling
Tlot Tlot
Noise Addict/Ben Lee (NON-EMI RELEASES ONLY. live performances of Modular catalogue spared, just.)

New Buffalo are playing at the Rob Roy sometime this month, according to the massive gig guide painted on the wall there.

"in reality though they're as australian as crowded house"

Crowded House: 2/3 members Australian, band based in Melbourne, management based in Sydney. VERDICT: singer Kiwi, band Aussie!

OCP and Wombat X probably each handed me five bucks on Saturday arvo.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hi kitbrash! i was planning to come to that sneeze gig but my plans were scuppered. hope to meet you in future tho!

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

is that a best or worst kit?

― chappelli (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm each time i glance at the new answers page i keep thinking this thread is called "poxY aussie bands" and feeling a renewed sense of indignance. pathetic really.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a best, hence the qualifiers. Well a "faves", not a best, I certainly wouldn't claim that about several of the entries. count yourself lucky I didn't try and mount a defence for the songwriting of Matt Ford balanced against the commercial instincts of his collaborators and offset by the live entertainment value of his main band!

actually I should qualify Midnight Oil as covering only Bird Noises -> Species Deceases, too.

hi jim! sorry you couldn't make it, but finding that there were ILX bods in attendance anyway is amusing enough to make up for it. after a zillion "you were the best band on tonight!" comments at the Popboomerang launch, they'll probably be coming back as soon as possible - if I'm tagging along again, looks like a three-setter could well turn into an Austral-FAP.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Kit! Thanks for saving the Sneeze album for me on Saturday.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Spod

I hope you are fucking kidding, Kit.

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

No love for Duffo here?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello Wombat - hmm, short-haired bloke with kinda-oval/rectangular glasses, sitting near the corner of the bar? Either way, you're welcome!

And I'm not kidding at all about Spod. I've only listened to the album twice and the single half of once, but I've loved the live shows since I first saw him supporting Gonzales. And the full band gigs he's been doing in NSW since January I'd recommend to anyone. All the comedy posturing and half-ironic '80s-popcult-celebrating lyrics made actually thrilling, instead of just amusing, by a synth-metal assault. The most fun I've had dancing and grinning (and getting onstage to sing BVs) all year!

Jeff Duff's probably too marginalised in terms of airplay and distribution (in any of his guises) to register strongly with many people. But speaking of emaciated sexually-ambiguous Sydney identities, The Reels probably deserve more respect in this thread.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

actually someone did mention "duffy" but probably meant "Duffo" rather than the not-very-Australian Lilac Time singer

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ahem, may I whip your asses for worst with the following: Tin Lids.
anf I forgot in my best to include the Uncanny Xmen and Indecent Obsession - oh how my heart swooned at those wetsuits. I once got my hair cut to look like that Dixon character.

― Queen Gonna boot yr balls, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Severed Heads!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

uncanny xmen - brian mann? that reminds me, i used to alternate their posters with scott carne and kids in the kitchen. and the chantoozies.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian Mannix.

Silverchair are worse than the Tin Lids. But then, they're worse than anything.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a random list in no order cos I'm lazy:

Falling Joys
TISM
You Am I
the Clouds
Space is Ace
Severed Heads
Ups and Downs
Underground Lovers
the Fauves (no one mentioned them before now... I hate you all)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(PS not really)

(PPS I was also going to list ItchE and ScratchE but only to suck up to COl ;P)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

So you wouldn't have put this band I've never heard of in on their own merits?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only heard one song! :( What a deprived, cruel, nifty techno-music ladenless life I have led. Or something.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you've upset me now. What are you going to do to make it better? I could use a new pair of shoes.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

what would a techno hippy do with a pair of shoes?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Keep them in the cupboard for when he graduates as a lawyer and joins daddy's firm.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Why in the cupboard and not in the closet? Because he's stoned of course.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

because his brothers still in the closet?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaha

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Dirty Three
Roy Montgomery (hey, if Alex can pick kiwis, so can I)
Alistair Galbraith
Look Blue, Go Purple
Sandra Bell
Scientists
Radio Birdman (ain't Deniz Tek an American?)
Split Enz
Pin Group
Dadamah

Hmm. Way more kiwis than aussies.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you've upset me now. What are you going to do to make it better?

Send some free samples?

Wait, that came out all wrong...

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, if you send some freebies, then I wont have only heard one... ahhhrr *swallows foot*

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

shall i send you one to your GMAIL account Trayce?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah ok, i'm always up for new listenin!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

is there anyone here who might represent itch-** and object?

no?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure they wouldn't object, not that I would know.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh. Ta, whoever ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

still...would they actually own the mechanical rights?..would it even be for them to say?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure they wouldn't mind, really.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

scratch-e walked past me in the street on the way to breakfast in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon. he looked content enough with his lot.

― sleb spot (kit brash), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

is scratch-e paul mac? he always looks freakishly happy. it's unnatural if you ask me.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

omgomgomg I just realised this thread doesn't have Bachelors from Prague for some reason.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, well, that's cos they're from Prague. And Trout Fishing in Quebec are of course from Quebec.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

He's freakishly happy... Daniel Johns... you do the math somethingsomehting.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Johns vibrates a lot these days.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dubrovniks of course were from Dubrovnik

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Were Grong Grong from Grong Grong? Or was that a pack of lies as well?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone rate Paul Kelly these days?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

mac is happy cos the bank jobs he's been planning look set to go...

(obscure mongrel joke)

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

did anyone EVER rate kelly?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved him when i was at school. in the 80s/90s.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i am a sad old git. i have been watching fireflies. i keep getting THAT song stuck in my head. i actually kind of like how sloppy it is.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

fireflies eh, oh dear. you may need to get out more hehehe

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

undoubtedly.
still sunday 7.30.
its not like i watch big brother!

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i can never watch something with john waters in it without having disturbing flashbacks to all the rivers run interspersed with playschool. shudderworthy.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - its kinda like all the rivers run interspersed with playschool! with added fires. and paul kelly tunes.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

throw jeremy sims into the mix and it sounds just like a nasty recurring bad dream

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

kelly is undeniably a shit-hot songwriter, but there's lots of reasons the best-of is his only big seller.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmmm 100% tony squires has got james reyne playing tonight. lyrics still utterly indecipherable.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rising damp... something about a nappy rash... thanguvrymuchgnightwoooahh"

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Kelly is beloved of lefties obv. Sometimes I wish I could escape from this numbing merrygoround of breathless praise for Paul Kelly/Cat Empire/TZU etc. etc. etc. AKA "No I DON'T want to see TZU live again for the fifth time OKAY?!?!"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ok tim, don't forget to breathe

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim, you are like brother in hatred to me.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim i wonder what critical circles you swim in sometimes. I don't even know who Cat empire or TZU are!

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

He's ten years younger than either of us, is my guess. You'd know who Cat Empire were, gaz, if you lived in Bondi or watched Video Hits.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, that annoying song, 'Chello Chello'

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, i appear to have blanked out the world.

arg...actually WHY were they showing this on sbs in between programs as if the film clip were an ad?

o wait...

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha university/student union circles.

Cat Empire are a live jazz/funk/rap/reggae/salsa/etc./etc./etc. combo. They're not bad really and their live shows are indeed great but they're the musically aware lefty equivalent of Machine Gun Fellatio - uni students love them disproportionately.

TZU are a live hip hop duo with authentic Aussie accents (eg. their biggest hit goes "Ay mate! Ay mate! Wot u reckon?") while avoiding the uncomfortable echoes of Fat Pizza that such tendencies usually evoke; combine that with a sort of bedraggled lefty pseudo-hippie cool quotient and doubtless songs of some socio-political resonance and they're like the fill-in group for intervals between Jurassic 5 tours. They strike me as being a bit like a rap Things of Stone & Wood. Again not bad but you can always tell hip hop groups with no rhythm because none of the audience ever seem to dance in time to the grooves. Y'know, like when you see someone trying to do the Melbourne Shuffle to "In Da Club" or something.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That last thing is one of my MOST HATED THINGS IN THE WORLD. Wow I'm turning into Alex in NYC!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The melbourne shuffle? Please explain. In steps if possible.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i actually do know TZU then. whats the melbourne shuffle ~~alex~~ Tim?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that high stepping thing is it? I saw a guy doing that in Melb recently and thought it very strange.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe thats the melbourne high step colin?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno. Is it? Yo melbourne clue me up ta thanx

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey I'm from Melbourne and I have no effin' idea, but if its a techno thing I guess I wouldnt.

I can, otoh, name you at least a dozen goth dance styles ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim has gone away to b r e a t h e calmly before he turns into Alex.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Exhale, exhale, exhaayyealll!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Trayce, I've started a thread for you to name goth dance styles on.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In Melbourne a lot of clubbers and most ravers do this weird shuffle dance thing - lots of foot movement, a bit of spinning around, almost no use of hands or arms (only very small repetitive moments like "the box"). I think it came out of the odd prevalence of breakdancing at early nineties melbourne raves. When done well and to the right music (techno or trance mostly) it looks really really good. Bad practitioners look crap, as does any attempt to do it to non-rave music - because at this point you realise that the dancers are so intent on their rigid formula of little movements that they're not really paying attention to the music or the groove at all, and I personally find nothing more annoying than people who dance but not to the music.

Generally speaking, whether doing the shuffle or not, the rule in Melbourne is arms down; the rule in Sydney is arms up; the rule in Canberra is arms horizontal, like you're waving a baton or something. The last is the silliest of course.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the rule in Canberra is arms horizontal

it's all fun and games till someone loses an eye

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

That makes intuitive sense. Melbournites are depressed, Sydneysiders are high, and Canberrans are just so-so.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

so the rule in Albury is arms half way between down and horizontal then

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. And in Brisbane they point straight up at the sky.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the shuffle sounds suspiciously like the post-pogo dance favoured by indie fans turned on to dance by the likes of pel mel in the early 80's. the arms by side thing came from the close environment of rock gig "get close to stage" hangover. single arm moverment was allowed when drawing deep on a smoke.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that style where you make your right hand into a fist, put your left hand around it, spread your legs, and with your two joined arms describe a movement from your crotch to your forehead and back? Because that's the dance I do.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

this CAN work if you get the hips going appropriately and you TONGUE your fists as they pass by.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ha found it - the last one on the list:

http://very.net/~nikolai/gothic/gothD.html

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

this CAN work if you get the hips going appropriately and you TONGUE your fists as they pass by.
-- gaz

This, I feel, is the extra finesse my style really needs. Thanks.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Melbournites are depressed, Sydneysiders are high, and Canberrans are just so-so.

Sydney people are ker-razy. It's like they pump caffeine directly into the water supply. Nearly everyone I've ever known who's needlessly confrontational and objectionable is from Sydney.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I went to a techno nite at Twofloors up I was dancing like I always do - just bouncing around randomly having a great time... and I wondered why everyone was looking at me funny.

I wasnt facing the DJ. There they all were, in lines, like some fucked up alien Achy Breaky Heart.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

you can bet your sweet bippy the last thing i would be looking at in a club would be the dj

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

thats just not true adam, you prat.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Nearly everyone I've ever known who's needlessly confrontational and objectionable is from Sydney.

-- Lo Boob Almanac

Yeah, well f*** you buddy!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I perceive that gaz already made this joke.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

well the prick did say everybody

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

No I didn't. I have proof.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

he's been doing the pumping

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a glass of water, dammit! I'm getting caffeine withdrawal.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

it's almost like we follow a script on these aussie threads

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

endearing to us, probably highly irritating to the rest of the world

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck em

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

everybody/everyone - melbournites are so fucking anal.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU ARE

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

pats almy on head, smirks.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

*does another line of coke*

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

gaz and adam, yesterday

http://www.wesleynet.co.uk/images/stu2.jpg

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

no one will ever return now jim

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I certainly won't.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Nearly everyone I've ever known who's needlessly confrontational and objectionable is from Sydney.

that's untrue, now fuck off will you

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"is anyone in the audience from sydney!"

*chorus* "FUCK YOU!!"

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

*does another line of coke* Hey listen up everyone. I went to Melbourne a few weeks ago and everyone, and i mean everyone, was wearing a little black beret.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. And in Brisbane they point straight up at the sky

I see more stabby, poking motions with the arms up here.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha did anyone see Skithouse last week (or maybe the week before) with the guy "why did I want to become a City of Melbourne tour guide?" and it shows him swearing at asian tourists and punching someone and various aggresion then cuts back to him saying "cuz I'm from SYDNEY!" and storms off with this evil look.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god I was thinking I was on the sheepfuxxors thread just now, I really have sidetracked this thread havent I? whoops.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup. We've sheepfuxored another thread. Everyone else has now left. Remember, though, that the Sheepfuxuring series was itself begun by an American posting about an Australian act (Pseudo Echo).

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

so is this thread exclusively for east coast australians?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

All threads about grunge, murder and psychedelia are of course referred to Adelaide; while all threads about yachts, Nazis, rave culture or Bon Scott's former bands are referred to Perth.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

what about emo, there seems to be a heavy over-proliferation of annoying emo kiddies growing at an exponential rate in perth. we could probably handle that too.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Proof that Sydney's a dud root.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Cat Empire are a live jazz/funk/rap/reggae/salsa/etc./etc./etc. combo. They're not bad really and their live shows are indeed great

I just fucking hate the idea of them, their bullshit 'arty' musical hyrbid.

so is this thread exclusively for east coast australians?

yes.

― OCP (OCP), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Cat Empire are the worst thing in Australian music since Manky Kane

― E.S.P (ipsofacto), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you're in perth gemily?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe you know my "friends"

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

you have friends gaz? you're a bit lucky. well only 1.6 million people live here so there's EVERY chance i do know your "friends". who are they?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, you haven't made every non-Australian run away just yet. Gaz, is that actually you in that photo upthread?

― M Specktor, Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

What was that band Nic Dalton was in? Godstar?

― Shooz (shooz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean what was that band nic dalton wasn't in, surely? there aren't many.

no matthew but there's a scary resemblance.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to like Deadstar quite a bit.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha...yeah, I figured that was an in-joke I was missing.

― M Specktor, Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

deadstar had two great songs, possibly three but i never heard that "dirty water" song (or whatever it was called). "run baby run" is beautifully constructed. written by the same guy who wrote "cry" for the mavis's, indeed.

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

nic dalton's in everything, yes. he's on m*no too these days

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

really? whats his moniker?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It was called 'deeper water', how i know that i have no idea considering I always thought they sucked some rather expansive ass.

― E.S.P (ipsofacto), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

barry palmer. he was in harem scarem and later hunters & collectors

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Harem Scarem were pretty good, I saw them once.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

If I wanted retarded posts from Australians, I could go to Mono.

Back to the point, does anyone know Thesaurus Rex?

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

why not go to mono sasha?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

kidding ;)

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Could we have like a hostage swap with mono? We can give them Sasha, they can give us...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

nic dalton?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

No, we don't negotiate with terrorists.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It was called 'deeper water', how i know that i have no idea considering I always thought they sucked some rather expansive ass.

I agree but with an arse.

The Mavises didn't write Cry? That's ruined my whole life.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

well it was a 'co-write' but considering how different it is to the rest of their stuff..

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah.

I miss the Mavises. All my friends think I suck.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Becky Mavis was penfriends with me when we were in year 8 or something and she still lived in Ballarat. I am pretty sure I have now told the whole world this useless fact.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i really liked deadstar. all my friends laughed at me for it.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Cry was the product of one year's Gudinski Songwriting Workshops (where Mushroom publishing writers were sent on retreat to collaborate with each other), Happiness was the following year's. Then they stopped happening and the band stopped having hit singles and, indeed, existing.

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the thing that annoyed me most about the mavis's (even more than their music) was the wrongness of the apostrophe in their name. why did they do it?

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

education in ballarat is minimal

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Well what about UK's 'Audio Bullys'? I'm sorry, I will not buy a record from a band with a misspelled name unless they're Japanese.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

quite right music mole, i feel it's of great importance to have some pedantic prejudices against bands for no reason other than their annoying spelling or lack thereof

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

like the beatles for instance

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I would kill to get my hands on Rapture. Poor grammar be buggered.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This is an insanely wonderful thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well what about UK's 'Audio Bullys'?

whats wrong with that spelling?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

quite right music mole, i feel it's of great importance to have some pedantic prejudices against bands for no reason other than their annoying spelling or lack thereof
-- gem

We are agreed then. OR ARE YOU BEING SARCASTIC?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone points out to me that I was also in a band with a misspelled name once, I will get very, very tart.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

lemony

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I will get browned off on your asses.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

313 posts - give thanks to Detroit.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, didn't your mum ever tell you that? we are agreed. i extend it to song titles - witness my fury at that stupid little birdy song, which was in itself incredibly stupid (being as how it was a little birdy song), but made more so by its "should of known" lyrics/title. i don't know what band you were in so i can't comment on that.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh you haven't been initiated!! someone get the paddles

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

should i don my paddle-proof vest?

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Apply the paddling cream!!!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone points out to me that I was also in a band with a misspelled name once, I will get very, very tart.

Was it called 'Asses'?

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

he used to be in the mystaken

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It was Wa Wa Nee. Of course the correct spelling is 'Wah! Wah! Knee!' We got the idea of the band when I was pushed down a flight of stairs one day.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

hangon weren't you in koo de tah?

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

no no it was rhythmx chymyx wasn't it?

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

you're les gock aren't you?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't someone promise me a copy of 'ear bitten' a while back?

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It was one of the LPs my dad sold for $1 at a Bondi record sale recently. Also sold on that day were all my Nurse With Wound records.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

did you ask your dad to do this?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I FORGOT ABOUT THE MOFFS.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

did they eat all your clothes?

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

colin was in the moffs too?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha i was just trying to come up with a suitable moth quip. too slow

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

bloody hell poor colin must have been pretty tired during the 80s.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

you should see him now

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

he wakes up only to post on ILx and occasionally make music

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and snort cocaine

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

he does that in his sleep

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

did you ask your dad to do this?
-- gaz

No. He thought he was doing me a favour.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

hey jim speaking of the ten best aussie bands ever...whats happening with pigs arse?

xpost col did you hit him?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

fuckit i'll just send you one minus 'sex symbol'. that way any vinyl imperfections are down to you 8-)

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Col could very well have been in the Moffs, they were a bunch of damn HIPPIES.

I saw them at the Old Greek and everyone was sitting down, mannn and this guy like, stood up, to get the vibe happening with a sort of neil-like wobbly dance, and everyone shouted "sit down man! We cant see!" and like, yeah. Wo.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Useless fact: I never went to the Old Greek, ever. I was supposed to go not long after it burned down, which in turn was not long after I turned 18. I think.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It burned down? I didnt know that. I went there maybe twice I think? I saw the Moffs/Triffids (ace show.. I should put my photos up some time), and I saw Jesus Jones before they went crap. This was when I still lived in Canberra so it was all terribly exciting.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, no - I think I saw Died Pretty there once as well.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(this is when I was 18-19 and Im your age innit?)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

o! sorry jim: i thought the flame fortune was sorted!

hey! my vinyl transfers are, um, done with professional equipment.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The Melbourne one burned/burnt [?] down, yeah. Where was it again? Do you remember?

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, xpost, yeah same age I think, I'm 30.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

they sounded better than mine possibly could at the moment. must get new needle & cartridge and get my amp fixed.

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

On the topic of useless facts, yesterday I played all three Jesus Jones albums back-to-back. Not as good as I remember them being.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

haha ...thread TOTALLY derailed.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

JIM YOU MUST PUT ON THE VENETIANS INSTEAD OF FLAME FORTUNE OK THX BYE

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, wait, according to this the Old Greek was still there in 1994. I'm looking for information on the defunct bit.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I kept looking for the building on the way to work (I work in richmond) and wondering why nothing looked like I remember... if it burnt down that'd explain it haha. I loved that place *sniff*

The gigs I saw were in 1988/89 if I recall. I'm 34. Wait.. 33. Wait.. fuck! I forget how old I am. How embarrasing.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

you probably wasted 2 hours of your life listening to those Jesus Jones albums

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to mention the time I spent watching the Jesus Jones Best Of DVD.

Bet I'm the only one who knew that existed. Hah.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Scarily, this thread has prompted me to do research. Watched "Fireflies" last night, evaluated middle-period Hunters and Collectors LPs in the car. Hmmmmmmmm...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone heard the new Mark Seymour? The last one was a bit pox apparently, but I've heard nothing about this year's.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

My opinion of Mark Seymour is about level with Ron Hitler Barrassi's opinion of him.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god i was talked into attending a mark seymour gig at the civic in inglewood a few weeks ago. it was truly truly awful. i used to love hunters when i was a youngster too, i was quite disappointed.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I shook Ron Barrassi's hands a few weeks ago

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Early hunnas is grebt in excelsior

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, don't be bagging Hunters Trayce, or face the wrath of me and my angry keyboard. :)

Hunters >>>>>>>>>>>> Mark Seymour

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ok you may have to translate "grebt in excelsior" for me colin. i am new, take pity on my.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

on my ignorance i meant to type.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

it means 'rather good really'

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

it means grate

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

jolly good show. google asked me if i meant "rent in excelsior"

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey I said my opinion of Mark Seymour, not of the Hunnas! I happen to love "Talking to a Stranger" and "the Slab" thanks very much ;P

(why dont they make wacko mad max filmclips like that anymore?)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Man it's like when the CIA shot Kennedy - I remember exactly where I was when I first saw Talking To A Stranger. In front of the TV.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

any deadly hume fans? perano was the real genius in early hunnas.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw some Deadly Hume gigs. They did seem to have the oily, dirty funk thing that early Hunnas had, more so than Hunnas after he'd left. So yeah.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

was this up at that place on vict street tha cross?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

At the Hoey.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

rock against work???

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha yes, probably. I preferred Box of Fish though. Grunge, they called it.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone catch the kylie tour when the backing band was all old indie fuxs (courtesy yer inxs man) ? i believe perano played "percussion" (does that mean he bashed on metal cylinders a'la early hunnas?)

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

box the jesuit!!!!!!!!!111111

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

here we are again. round and round we go.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 June 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fauves

So many perfect singles.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still kicking myself for selling my copy of their first 12". great record that is.

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

They have the funniest most vitriolic website going. Anyone who detests John Butler the way I do is OK.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't everyone detest john butler?

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah The Fauves website is good value. To me they've always been a singles band, but they haven't managed to come up with even a decent one for many years now.

― Mil, Friday, 18 June 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Libby Lavella (My favorite Australian Artist)
www.LibbyLavella.com

― Kelly Jo, Friday, 18 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i went to high school with barry palmers daughter. we went to their holiday house in torquay, it was fun! the kids were allowed to get drunk

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 19 June 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked deadstar too and i used to namedrop the 'friends with barry palmers daughter'!! thing all the time

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 19 June 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

argh i lost my 'camp amity acres' tshirt at that beach house, i still want it back
we also had a scary teen movie moment when the phone kept ringing and the person at the other end ws heavy breathing, so we unplugged the phone from the socket and THEN IT RANG AGAIN

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 19 June 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait ok actually we just took it off the hook, and the little hangup pins got stuck

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 19 June 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep hearing hyperbolic critiques of Augie March. Any good?

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 19 June 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

they seem to attract quite hardcore fans. i find them too fiddly.

― are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Saturday, 19 June 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Has anyone heard New Buffalo/Sally Russell's previous band Lustre 4? There's an EP (not sure of the format/s) called 'Double Happiness' and I'm extremely curious about it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i've heard some of it, i think. i don't recall it being anything more special than your garden variety indie pop.

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I forget whether you liked New Buffalo at all?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. saw them play two nights ago, the new stuff is very strong.

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray!! Actually, that news pacifies the part of me that wanted to hear Lustre 4.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread made me angry

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it made me laugh

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There's an EP (not sure of the format/s)

CD, on Kinda Shiny Records (KS001)

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone's talking about this New Buffalo band. I ran into a friend at the station and he was talking about New Buffalo band.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha they might be my sole remaining bit of token parochialism!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

For me, that would be The Cosmic Psychos, hahaha.

I know I've been going on about Rank Sinatra lately, but this is surely the thread to mention him again. Rank Sinatra on V/Vm:

http://www.brainwashed.com/vvm/releases_vvm_/vvmtcd17.htm

Listen to 'Take On Me'.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Anyone heard the Her Name in Lights album? I'm curious because of the Galloway connection, and the description of the music (http://www.laughingoutlaw.com.au/store/product.asp?pID=180) is kinda intriguing.

― wombatX (wombatX), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

timberyard is about to reissue the victims 'all loud on the western front' and box the jesuit 'looney sappy tune' on cd, sweeeeet

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Anyone buy the Summer Suns cd yet? I just did. I only had the first two 7 inch, how is the rest?

― svend, Thursday, 27 November 2008 04:50 (seventeen years ago)

i didn't know it was out. i only have those two 45s too, but i'd be keen on hearing the lot

still waiting for the rainyard retrospective..

that box the jesuit reissue was cancelled :( luckily i got a victims cd before they were withdrawn..

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

lol @ me saying 'youth group' upthread. vomit.

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:00 (seventeen years ago)

I found the Summer Suns retro in an old firefox boxmark I made last summer. A Rainyard one would be great, I only know the stuff from the Slumberland release, Just A Taste, oh and on the Summershine - Tomorrow's Hits Today. Then I want a Charlotte's Web cd :)

― svend, Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:03 (seventeen years ago)

the first rainyard tape is more of the same great stuff as those two cds. their CDEP is still great tho a lot more beefy and slick, and less like early velvet crush

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:07 (seventeen years ago)

i got that victims cd too, why was it withdrawn?

― fela cooties (haitch), Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:12 (seventeen years ago)

i understand that mr. t1mberyard didn't entirely have the permission of the people involved. i imagine his rights had probably expired by that point. although i believe it was an attempt to reissue the first you am i EP that started the dominoes falling

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:16 (seventeen years ago)

Let’s face it, if you wipe out the entire musical history of Australia in a chemical warfare testing error, but leave The Reels and Severed Heads, you’re doing alright

― did the buskers have shooz (sic), Thursday, 27 November 2008 06:26 (seventeen years ago)

I seriously doubt I could get to four.

― Germany's second-favourite Australian fat leg spin bowler (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 27 November 2008 08:46 (seventeen years ago)

after short, drunken consideration:

1. gobe-tweens
2. bros of the occcult sisterhood
3. church
4. loved ones
5. slugfuckers

― ▧_▨ (wilter), Thursday, 27 November 2008 09:33 (seventeen years ago)

The Fauves
So many perfect singles.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:12 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

what happened to the fauves btw?

― ▧_▨ (wilter), Thursday, 27 November 2008 09:36 (seventeen years ago)

they're still around. s dogg went to an espy gig of theirs earlier this year

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2008 09:41 (seventeen years ago)

unless that's more of a comment on their quality, to which i'd say god only knows

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2008 09:42 (seventeen years ago)

lol

― ▧_▨ (wilter), Thursday, 27 November 2008 09:47 (seventeen years ago)

1. gobe-tweens

lol, they could be like devo 2.0, going for the tween market

― fela cooties (haitch), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:26 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

I have no idea how history regards them, especially in Australia, but I just reignited my short-lived 1988 obsession with Big Pig's Bonk album after 21+ years of not thinking about it. I didn't even know until now that they released a second album in 1990. Listening to it now, and it's totally not bad.

Thank you, Australia.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:54 (fifteen years ago)

Sherine Abeyratne's vocals are kind of like the bridge between Annie Lennox and Róisín Murphy. hm.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:59 (fifteen years ago)

saw the keyboard player and Sherine's sister, still alive, in a very odd lineup of Models a couple of years ago

(I was only there to see the Reels supporting, lol cross-reffed w/ me two years ago in this thread, plus with January interstate fap)

― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 12:34 (fifteen years ago)

six years pass...

HOBBS' ANGEL OF DEATH

yes! \m/

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 27 July 2017 02:45 (eight years ago)

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