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Can anyone recommend any good australian music that I might like?
Tom:
I really do agree with you on that.
McTaggart:
--- Quote from: pistachio_love on 10 Dec 2007, 22:41 ---Australia is the only country where (even local) knowledge of the music scene is exceedingly limited, lending itself to being viewed as 'narrow' or 'sparse'.
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huh?
pistachio_love:
Sorry. Re-read the sentence and I've typed quicker than my brain's thought; the result being an incomprehensible, grammatically incorrect jumble.
What I meant to say was that very few people (even locals) know much about the Australian music scene. Everyone knows international acts like The Living End, etc, but knowledge about local bands is fairly marginal. The stuff that's actually worth a listen remains undiscovered.
McTaggart:
I'm not sure it's actually that different from anywere else really. I actually thought it was a bit better considering we have a pretty mainstream radio station with a large focus on australian music, especially little kinda maybe big for a local band bands. And I'm sure each city has it's RTRFM with a lot of talking up and advertising for local acts and events. The reason I know about what I do is through a conscious decision to listen to RTR more so that I can find out more about what's happening here in Perth. I think you just have to look for it a little if you want to find it.
I don't think the vast majority of people really want to find local music.
Tom:
I really do but gigs tend to be for adults and FBi is near unbearable to listen to because the play an excessive amount pf electronica and hip-hop which does not appeal to me in any way. It's funny, usually when some indie band band on the east coast gets some notice they are branded as the next best thing but they're music is quite shite.
Examples include Operator Please, Wolfmother, Jet, The Sick Puppies, The Scare, Silverchair and some hard rock trio from Sydney Grammar.
On a side not Sydney Grammar has produced some rotten bands, rich boys with a lot of time on their hands as well as the aforementioned band with a name i forget and Midnight Oil. Dappled Cities Fly are at least halfway decent.
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