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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: Rusco on February 06, 2015, 08:53:31 PM
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Well this topic raised to my mind when I saw the talk there about the band called Christian Death on NMA chapter. I didn't know much about them and searched a bit. I see there was a second, Australian form and line-up of this group originally from States.
Ok, so here we could talk about Australian bands that you know and are into. And most of all, please inform us about good stuff that others maybe don't know!
There are some Australian bands that I know mostly because at times I'm just curious to explore different scenes based on some nation or culture from some certain period in the history. (Before the Internet I went to libraries to loan cd's and vinyls or bought only some stuff from nations I was interested at the moment.) However I used to know a couple from Australia in 90's and they helped a lot to find some good stuff too.
Here's some bands that I really recommend:
Seminal Rats
Meanies
Psychotic Turnbuckles
What I know there use(d) to be a very liked band similar to RHCP's sound; Regurgitator.
Anyone other who listens to Aussie stuff?
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I really like The Triffids, 80s - 90s... I'd recommend you check them out... 'Born Sandy Devotional' and 'Calenture' are great albums... there might be better ones but I'm just digging into their stuff... I offer you 'Wide Open Road' as a kick-off point...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5akOOlGTI
Let's not mention all those 'Neighbours' stars who put out shitty singles in the late 80's... Stefan Dennis, anyone..?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trfYjucLGj0
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Hi Ray. Ok, I'll check them. :)
Here's a song from Seminal Rats called Ain't Dead Yet (https://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=GjzVVPr6LZPtaOmzgaAD&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCVADOCTW78c&ved=0CB8QtwIwAg&usg=AFQjCNG3Es4L5kGtPiVe1pMUiuF6WO4Ydg). They were an excellent punk band; like middle aged sweaty and dirty men with an attitude...
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Albuquerque (https://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=lkDVVI_LEdjWasj_gLAK&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dj115SH_hzKA&ved=0CCMQuAIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNFAsPLM1jV-xDuzKtov9vyw94bAkQ) - Psychotic Turnbuckles
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Nick Cave is Australian, I believe.
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Dead Can Dance
Cheers
jc
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Midnight oil were a great band,i've got about 12 CD's by them,well worth a listen,and I managed to catch them just before they split up.
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cold chisel my all time favourite band also love the oils plus colin hay from men at work plus mark lizzotte
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Vicious Circle - 80's punk.
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And the Angels the liveline album is one of the best live albums ever the aussies have definately had some ******* awesome bands
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Lime Spiders. When I 1st saw this bands video My favorite Room I was Hooked
Hunters & Collectors this was a band that was even more underground then Midnight Oil I saw an interview with a Aussie music critic who said if you like Midnight Oil check out H&C.
Hoodoo Gurus I saw this band on TV during a live concert and they just rocked the place a really good band plus they have one of the best album tittles Mars Needs Guitars. They do a version of the song I want you Back that is really good.
All these bands are from the early to Mid 80's. 8)
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I have an old lime spiders LP. Cool band.
Bombay royale......fairly new band...lots of fun.....indian/movie soundtrack/electronic stuff..very different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld5ShO2NyRE
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I like Youth Group:
http://youtu.be/P7BpDDtPw5A
For new groups, I like Violent Soho:
http://youtu.be/J6LM-5-oC-k
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Nobody got the baws to mention inxs then ( ok a lot of it was shit)
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You'd think I should know more about this, being an Aussie... but I have very little to add!
Agree with Hunters and Collectors, Men at Work, Midnight Oil, Mark Lizotte.
Also like The Badloves and Silverchair (from their teenage grunge-lite through to the mature prog rock/experimental stuff).
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I remember Australian acts being popular around about 1987 - 1988. Inxs, Crowded House, John Cougar Mellencamp, etc.
It was not really a surprise. If you remember the charts at the time, UK music had reached an all time low. The charts were dominated by the evil "stock-aitkin- waterman" trio. Filling the charts with truly shite acts like Rick Astley, Sinitta etc. Even established pop acts like Bananarama could not compete so joined in with the evil trio.
What little completion there was sought out acts from as far away as Australia to find some light relief from that evil S.A.W. sound of wimpy electronic drum beats. I remember also during this period with the current pop scene being so bad, some companies released songs from the distant past to help us get away from the evil SAW with acts like Jackie Wilson, the Righteous Brothers and others.
So yes, some Aussie bands from that time were quite good and a much better alternative to S.A.W. The only other good thing about the S.A.W. **** up of the charts is it lead to "Indie" as a backlash
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What`s that? I`m not allowed to quote or to reply to some of the ostings here - logged?
What is wrong to post "I remember INXS, I like some of their songs, saw this some days ago, but had not the time to answer `til now"? :o
Mellencamp isn`t from australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mellencamp
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What`s that? I`m not allowed to quote or to reply to some of the ostings here - logged?
What is wrong to post "I remember INXS, I like some of their songs, saw this some days ago, but had not the time to answer `til now"? :o
Sorry, I don't understand. You mean you can't quote some post here? Sounds strange. :(
I've found out a bug here at the forum that it's not possible to put out more than three url-links at once. If you'll try it says that "you don't have the access".
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What`s that? I`m not allowed to quote or to reply to some of the ostings here - logged?
What is wrong to post "I remember INXS, I like some of their songs, saw this some days ago, but had not the time to answer `til now"? :o
Sorry, I don't understand. You mean you can't quote some post here? Sounds strange. :(
I've found out a bug here at the forum that it's not possible to put out more than three url-links at once. If you'll try it says that "you don't have the access".
What`s that? I`m not allowed to quote or to reply to some of the ostings here - logged?
What is wrong to post "I remember INXS, I like some of their songs, saw this some days ago, but had not the time to answer `til now"? :o
Sorry, I don't understand. You mean you can't quote some post here? Sounds strange. :(
I've found out a bug here at the forum that it's not possible to put out more than three url-links at once. If you'll try it says that "you don't have the access".
Sorry, that perhaps was only my personal pc/provider problem - if this quoting works, problem is solved
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Mellencamp isn`t from australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mellencamp
Thanks Lotus, don't know why I thought he was, maybe because he was around at the same time. Liked his song "Paper in Fire"
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"Paper And Fire" was the one to check out more of Mellencamp - and yes, I like some of the songs
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words and music double cd by john mellencamp is one of the best collection of songs ever by him and you can get it for a fiver on amazon a real bargain to be honest im a big fan and rate it best collection by anyone 35 tracks and no fillers
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John Cougar Menstrual Cramp is American and for most of his career he was thought of here as a lame hack. His early songs like "I Need A Lover That Won't Drive Me Crazy" and "Hurts So Good" were so, so bad. He was seen as a record company creation that was designed to hit the charts. They gave him the name "Cougar" because Mellencamp sure wouldn't make the charts (and he bent over and took that name change), and the company made sure he released the most simplistic crap.
But then he did something most in the record biz do not -- he rejected what his record comapny was doing to him. He released records back with his real name and made records that were important to him -- songs that said something. I always hated the guy because of his early stuff, but when his album "Scarecrow" came out, it was "Wow." Some incredible songwriting on that album, and he has continued to be a very good songwriter since then.
He's said to be a first class prick, but his song "Scarecrow" is a first class song. A dark look at the plight of American farming and, by extension, a look at what America had sadly become.
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space you should read born in a small town john mellencamp the story by heather johnson well worth a read
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space you should read born in a small town john mellencamp the story by heather johnson well worth a read
What's in it?
I'm not going to read a book about John Cougar Menstrual Camp. I'm not really a fan of his music or him as a person (I know he also did the typical rock star thing of marrying a model that was in his music video). I heard him interviewed on the Howard Stern radio show a few years ago and Mellencamp came across honestly about the jerk he was (some people say he still is a jerk). At least he is man enough to admit he's been a real tool, not many in rock every get around to admitting that.
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Space - Mellencamp wasn't a record company creation, in fact he got the nick name Little Bastard because he was such a pain the ass to the company. He started releasing albums with his real name because he was proud of his family and family name. I like the entire first album released, and found most of his records quite good, up until about record 8 or 9. 7 or 8 solid albums way more than you'd get from most folks.
He was born, raised, and still keeps a house in Southern Indiana. I'm sure he also has homes in NY and LA, but whatever, he's a rock star. And yeah - he does have a rep for being a jerk, but again, whatever.
As for the Stern interview; one humongous tool interviewing another.
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Oh - Back to Australia. I like some of INXS too.
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Oh, please carry on. It's interesting to read all this stuff. :)
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cold chisel are my favourite band of all time plus jimmy barnes they are legends in aussie rock history every album by chisel and barnesy is a classic like to hear your comments on them space Don walker one of the best songwriters ever i like inxs as well
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cold chisel are my favourite band of all time plus jimmy barnes they are legends in aussie rock history every album by chisel and barnesy is a classic like to hear your comments on them space Don walker one of the best songwriters ever i like inxs as well
Apart from INXS, I have never heard of any of the musicians you mentioned.
INXS were weak as hell. Sure they had some catchy songs that I did like, but as a band I have no idea what they stood for. Their lyrics were so nothing. All those albums and all those songs and the band amounts to a big nothing because lyrically they were completely vapid.
Best Aussie bands:
The Church
-- I can't even begin to write about them because they are so great in so many ways
Hunters & Collectors
-- "Throw Your Arms Around Me" is a modern folk classic. I have seen Pearl Jam cover that song, everyone in music from Taylor Swift to New Model Army should do a version of that song. No matter who does it, it will still be great; the song is that good.
-- "The Slab or Betty's Worry" has the nastiest bass line in history. Insanely great song. For those here who have never heard it, youtube it and behold a bass line that could win wars.
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There used to be a band call John Cougar Concentration Camp. Not Australian, but related to a side thread on this one. Don't know anything about them, but remember seeing an album in the store and laughing out loud.
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Hellhounds
Dirt River Radio
La Bastard
Adalita
Harry Howard and NDE
Shilad-from NZ
Drones
Beaches
Delta Riggs
Dark Shadows
all worth a listen
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BUMP!
From Australia I really love...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAl82W0GvfM)
the Church (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm4IsePmdik)
Icehouse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekufPK0pGvE)
Hunters & Collectors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON9sg6ADjQ)
Crowded House (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVs04Yd1AU)
the Bee Gees (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5FxEs1aR0) (yes, seriously!)
INXS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_h7xsAhhk)
78 Saab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV80qi-NzIk)
From New Zealand I really love...
Split Enz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUC_jE78FNE)
the Chills (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpUPLeT89mM)
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BUMP!
From Australia I really love...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAl82W0GvfM)
the Church (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm4IsePmdik)
Icehouse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekufPK0pGvE)
Hunters & Collectors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON9sg6ADjQ)
Crowded House (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVs04Yd1AU)
the Bee Gees (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5FxEs1aR0) (yes, seriously!)
INXS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_h7xsAhhk)
78 Saab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV80qi-NzIk)
From New Zealand I really love...
Split Enz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUC_jE78FNE)
the Chills (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpUPLeT89mM)
An offtopic: bloody hell have you solved out the issue how to adhere more than 3 links into a thread at once?? There used to be a bug with it and no one knew how to work it out. Has there been some update or... ???
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King Gizard & The Lizard Wizard Some orient influenced psychedelica alternative rock band from Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-i1XZc8ZwA
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An offtopic: bloody hell have you solved out the issue how to adhere more than 3 links into a thread at once?
There used to be a bug with it and no one knew how to work it out. Has there been some update or... ???
I don't know, :-\ I'm just posting the way I've always done. If it helps people any, you've got to treat each and every link, within the post, as a separate entry. Just test quote my post and look at how I did it. It's just time consuming, though, lol. But, it's pretty convenient, once completed. :)