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Can anyone recommend any good australian music that I might like?
pistachio_love:
--- Quote from: valley_parade on 26 Nov 2007, 09:02 ---It took this long before someone mentioned the Avalanches?
What's wrong with us?
--- End quote ---
*giggles*
I wasn't going to say anything, but my thoughts exactly...
The Viz:
My personal favorite Australian band is The Living End, a band that fuses psychobilly with punk, resulting in some very good stuff. Check out their album "Modern Artillery," it's their best in my opinion.
RaptorShadow:
(Woo finally found a reason to post)
The Living End are great. The Aussie band I have to offer is Vanishing Point. Prog-metal, and damn good at it. I saw them front for Dragonforce when they toured in May. In all honestly they were better than Dragonforce were. Of course the fact that DFs set sounds like the same song played in slightly different ways doesn't help =p.
Lono:
AUSTRALIAN BANDS PEOPLE HAVE TO LISTEN TO THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN LISTED:
1. Machine Gun Fellatio
Good Aussie rock/techno/wtf band. They do strange music and really don't have a definable genre aside from "alternative". Youtube the song "Unsent Letter" if you have any doubts.
2. The Veils
Not really an Aussie band, but close enough: New Zealanders. The lead singer, Finn Andrews, is the son of some guy who was in the band XTC (I think, not sure). Finn Andrews is also a ridiculously pretty man. Think young David Bowie with Angelina Jolie lips. They sing indie stuff, really light and airy.
You also HAVE to watch THIS video. Probably one of my favorite songs ever, and an excellent video that reminds me a lot of Kevin Drew's video for "Backed out on the..." A lot of energy in the Veils. I would pick up their album--or Soulseek it--The Runaway Found.
3. The Whitlams
They're alright. They did a song called "No Aphrodisiac" which is really all by them I've heard.
4. The Go-Betweens
Aussie indie stuff. They sing folk rock and had a spell of new wave. Get their 'best of' album if you want a good taste, "Bellevue" something or other.
Of course, The Avalanches (think UNKLE but a lot prettier) is probably the best and most well known alternative band to come out of Australia, ever. I just fucking die whenever I hear Since I Left You. Rad video, too.
Lono:
Oh, well, it looks like a few of the bands I put there WERE already listed.
Uh...my bad, and stuff.
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