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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)

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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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