See also: David Kilgour's solo work. His album (w/ the Heavy Eights, I believe) is wonderful. And he should have a new album coming soon (along w/ a new Clean album, both available via Merge Records in the US of A).
I was always under the impression that Garageland (radio-friendly & popular, in relation to other FN bands - supposedly Pixie-esque to a fault) was horribly blah. Am I wrong? (I've only heard one song of theirs off a - surprise! - Pixies tribute.)
― David Raposa, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
AK79 is a patchy, but sometimes brilliant compilation of Auckland punk. And that reminds me - Toy Love by Toy Love.
Recently an Auckland label Kog Transmissions have been putting out some impressive dance stuff, Pitch Black, Concord Dawn.
― david in NZ, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― keith, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― AP, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― lady die, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― guy pretending to be a student in the law library, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Maryann, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dan, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
ummm /rant
― Kim, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gracie C Russlyn, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dottee doeswell, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Destroy: pretty much all FN stuff post 1990, all the KOG stuff ( wow we can make dance music just as crappy as the rest of the world can)NZ music in general has become increasingly influenced by overseas trends and very little seems to be interesting. Their seems to be more interest in copying genres (rap-metal bands popular, lame Californian punk etc) than developing an original voice. Garageland/Zed/Stellar*/HDU/etc anyone.And as David Cohen said "Neil Finn is about as exciting as porridge"...
― David, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Stacey Winteringham, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bats - any of their recordings up to and including The Law of Things.
Chills - Heavenly Pop Hits and most of Brave Words
3Ds - Hellzapoppin'
Pretty much the entire of the Getting Older and Tuatara compilations.
Look Blue Go Purple - everything
Chug - Sassafras
Straitjacket Fits - Melt
The Verlaines - Bird Dog (my fave NZ LP ever)
The Clean - evereeeething. especially At The Bottom (that guitar sound!!!!!)
I'm sure there are heaps more but I'm sleepy..
Destroy: Garageland, most FN releases post Garageland (exception: The Subliminals first EP, released a couple of years ago)
― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As for non-FN, Roy Montgomery is my fave. I adore it when he sings, too. Dead C have their moments, but I'd be hard pressed to say I actually like them all that much.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alasdair, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DUANE, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― XStatic Peace, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alasdair, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As long as this thread's being revived.....Search: Renderers "A Dream of the Sea" from 1999.
― Curt, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alasdair, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
how about:
the clean - getaway weta - geographica blair parkes - the end range - all the way to lunch the wrong records dollar mixture compilation letterbox lambs - not a private joke poultice - three beefmeisters and a french movie cloudboy - down at the end of the garden
can't find 'em? try noizyland.com
― James Guthrie, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Good luck finding much worth buying in New Zealand. I certainly didn't have much luck when I was there.
I did, however, get a very funny Dead C story. I wound up dropping off a hitchhiker at a friend's house and began talking with a person there. (In Christchurch, as I recall.) Anyway, I mentioned that I felt like I'd do okay meeting people if I moved there or something, because I have specific interests, like New Zealand music ... like the Dead C. ...
her eyes lit up, and she took me next door. Next door was a musician and recording engineer. He was not in the Dead C. Nor was he related to the Dead C. in any way. However, he had a Dead C. record that he couldn't get rid of, and both of them were absolutely delighted that an American had come all the way from Texas to take the Dead C. CD in question off their hands.
They were so delighted I couldn't bear to tell them that the CD, TRAPDOOR FUCKING EXIT, was one of the only Dead C. CDs I had at the time. I wound up giving it to the radio station when I got home. I think they also gave me a copy of Pieters/Russell/Stapleton's LAST GLASS, which I also already had.
On the other hand, I got to see Fence and Sandoz Lab Technicians at a club Alastair Galbraith runs in Dunedin (the Arc), and I went to the museum Michael Morley works at there as well.
Search: Omit, instrumental Roy Montgomery, Alastair Galbraith, Dead C., Doramaar, Surface of the Earth, Chris Knox, Tall Dwarfs, some Peter Jefferies.
Destroy: Flies Inside The Sun, and the Bilders records don't do much for me.
forgetting a bunch.
― doug, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― hamish, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Curt, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― , Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mel, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― , Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Darryl, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fritz, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Currently I really enjoy thrashing Goodshirts power pop albulm "Good",
― kiwi, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh, the Sferic Experiment are awesome too.
Who gets the obscure prize?
― Andrew, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Benjamin Morgan, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
oh yeah, & the upcoming Clean Anthology looks to be the BEST THING EVER.
― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 08:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
If anyone's interested, there's an entire concert by The Enemy available here. Not great sound quality, but "Iggy Told Me" at the very least is worth hearing.
I'd also like to stick up for the Bats' Couchmaster - excellent album, with some really nice use of textural feedback that doesn't appear in much else that they've done.
― clotpoll, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tDBjJGnfrY
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiddntlexkY
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFI2yqyYO4
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:56 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxalI6Mg6w
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 08:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tdOCYQo_qQ
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdoNzewx3ko
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4zTSG7k1M
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGy4e_UZ9Y
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Saturday, 15 October 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoCuTMfJa8
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYAa09jIn0o
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE7NYEZLYY
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
These guys! From my 2008 Voice review, when they were coming to NYC:
..."Blue Skies" is the last stop on Die! Die! Die!'s second album, Promises, Promises. The Steve Albini–recorded, self-titled 2006 debut's flying shards of impulsive/compulsive encounters were caught by walls thrown up, tracks tightened till they imploded: 10 songs, in just over 20 minutes. But now, all through this Shayne (of Straitjacket Fits) Carter–produced set, walls are pushed out as inner space-junk expands; shards reappear as pieces of Andrew Wilson's personal blue skies, of old hopes and dreams. Breathing room is found, yes, though his shattered, scattered voice and guitar can't help planting some bizarre memory garden of l-o-v-e and more, despite it all. The eloquent guts of Lachlan Anderson's bass will never digest such seeds very easily, and drummer Michael Prain's Keith Moon-schooled soloing-as-accompaniment dents craters in today's glazed maze, where Wilson and "You!" grapple in reflective gear. Die! Die! Die! play the Music Hall of Williamsburg March 29 and Highline Ballroom March 30.
― dow, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhfU8YfzOi4
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Friday, 21 October 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/ladi6/ladi6-guru-mp3?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20C19KmI03g
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGoqsAoKvI
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siBurrXFJ3g
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 09:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIbSdnbgOE
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Sunday, 23 October 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9uru4LJkps
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Friday, 28 October 2022 08:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJY95_Kj9E
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:33 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayV0dlQNMMA
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:35 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyObGLciBRA
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:38 (six months ago) link
Hey do rag I was thinking of you - and George Gossett - when xyzzzz and I saw the Dead C in London this summer - good times
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:49 (six months ago) link
takes all sorts i guess
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 06:54 (six months ago) link