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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: tuo2 on 04 May 2005, 04:14
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I couldn't help but notice in the latest update to recommended listening that Jeph has picked up not just Architecture in Helsinki, but one of my all time favourite CD's in "Since I Left You" by The Avalanches.
Jeph, where did you find these excellent Australian artists, given that it is often difficult to find them in Australia, let alone overseas?
Others, what other wonderful Australian music should be brought to the attention of all and sundry? I personally have been really enjoying the latest Machine Gun Fellatio album, and "Thousand Yard Stare" by The Fauves is an excellent album? Others?
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I like some Aussie bands....they're all Metal of couse, so not really fitting the aim of this topic.
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Robbo, I'd think that they are within the aim of this topic. I mean, all aussie music is within my intention... whatever that's worth.
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It's because Australia is secretly the home of music. We invented punk, don't ya know!
One of my all-time favourite Aussie albums would have to be Dream It Down by the Underground Lovers. Also anything by the Dirty Three.
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Heh, you asked for it then.
I like, ...Of The Human Condition, Alchemist, By Dawn Cursed, Deströyer 666, Devolved, Mozart on Crack, Fuck... I'm Dead, Post Life Disorder, Slaughter Lord, Corpse Carving, Grimlock, Earth (not the US Drone band)...are the ones I can think of at the moment.
I wonder how many of the posters from Australia have even heard of these bands.
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Yes! The Dirty Three are awesome! Also, the Cruel Sea are excellent. "Over Easy" was on high rotation for me in 1999.... Just an really excellent album.
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I have a feeling Halo are Australian, they were very impressive with Pig Destroyer. Drony, noisy, arty sort of thing. And yes, that is the worst description of a band ever. On a different note, Caustic Soda's 'Femalevolence' 7" on Crackle! is a classic bit of sadly-overlooked melodic punk.
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They come from down under, yes. But they've relocated to London now. Halo are in that Drone/Doom/Sludge relam. I need to check out more of their stuff really.
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In addition to those mentioned, I would like to champion Technodeathgrind champions The Berzerker, the Raw and nasty Depressive Black stylings of Abyssic Hate, the jocular death metal of Blood Duster, the bouncy industrial beats of Angelspit, and, though they are also relocated, I hate you all for not mentioning Dead Can Dance.
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Also Darren Hanlon, but everyone knows what a hopeless Dazza fanboy I am (seeing him this weekend! Woo-hoo!)
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I wasn't aware that The Cruel Sea were Australian...
If ppl want something a bit metal, a bit punk, (not sure what a real genre-ologist would call them) then Grinspoon are a pretty good act. One of their cooler (older) tracks is DCX3, short for Dead Cat Three Times :D
The Living End, also, a bit more towards the punk end, they got their big break opening for AC/DC I believe... I'm not usually a big plugger of the punk scene or what-have-you, but the Living End are actually impressively talented musicians.
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*mentions clann zu'*
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They come from down under, yes. But they've relocated to London now. Halo are in that Drone/Doom/Sludge relam. I need to check out more of their stuff really.
Me too, I'm actually rather apprehensive about buying any records since I'm worried it won't work on wax. Great news about them moving to London, I'll have more chance of seeing them again now.
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I listen to a lot of that stuff on cd and mp3, it does work. Though it's generally like being on the beach, with the waves at your feet. Rather than the feel of being under the water and the waves crashing over your head that you get live.
Unless you have some huge ass system, then it's pretty much the same.
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Alchemist are awesome. They're from my home town, too! If anyone's interested, look up their cover of Eve of the War (from Jeff Wayne's version of War of the Worlds)... Very talented.
Architecture In Helsinki are awesome... I think they're playing at the ANU bar sometime soon, I'll have to get down and see them.
Look, Australia has so many good bands that it's not funny. :) We have awesome hip-hop and funk (the Hilltop Hoods and the Cat Empire are two excellent examples), excellent alternative stuff (such as George, Silverchair, and the incredibly eclectic Machine Gun Fellatio), and a back catalogue of the best rock you will ever hear (Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil, and so on). Basically we rawk. ;)
EDIT: I know I used the word "awesome" at least three times above. I'm not going to change it cause I'm tired. :)
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I was just thinking if I had any Austrailian music and thinking about it I like the Birthday Party, Crime and the City Soloution (kinda trans-national) and the aforementioned Dead Can Dance. Probably some others too that I've forgotten. There were tons of bands in the 80s who started in Austrailia then moved to London.
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Hmmm, at this point, I feel like mentioning this website.
http://www.mp3.com.au free and legal mp3 downloads from whatever bands want to put stuff on there. Covers pretty much all music. Mostly Aussie bands, but is other stuff there. So yeah, for those of you that like checking out demo stuff, have a loot.
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The Moles!!
Also, let's not forget New Zealand! The Clean! The Bats! Good bands!
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Well there is Nick Cave right? And those Powderfinger guys that played once in Denmark, something with our aussie princess Mary I guess. Pues, The Vines are australian right? Nicholls may be insane but I still like them...
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Jeph, where did you find these excellent Australian artists, given that it is often difficult to find them in Australia, let alone overseas?
i'll give some other aussie band recommendations later, but for now (and seeing that Jeph isn't really around much at the moment) i'll say that he found Architecture in Helsinki on an mp3 dvd i took over last summer. where he got Since I left you from i don't know for sure, but i do remember seeing a very high score for it on Pitchfork one time, so perhaps it's not as obscure as you would think.
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There were tons of bands in the 80s who started in Austrailia then moved to London.
A prime example being the Go-Betweens.
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(...seeing that Jeph isn't really around much at the moment) i'll say that he found Architecture in Helsinki on an mp3 dvd i took over last summer. where he got Since I left you from i don't know for sure, but i do remember seeing a very high score for it on Pitchfork one time, so perhaps it's not as obscure as you would think.
Ah, it all makes sense now. Thanks est. Maybe once we've wiped the remaining drool of the boards Jeph might find it easier to cope :).
As to further Australian music that I have been recently enjoying...
- Missy Higgins - an excellent young Australian singer/songwriter.
- Wolfmother - Saw these guys at the big day out. Really excellent show, and enjoyed their music as well.
- Dallas Crane - Straight up aussie pub rock. On AC/DC's record label.
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More to come later, I need coffee. Now.
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Cut/Copy, Gotye, Machine Translations (I think they're Aussies) all win. There's a hell of a lot more that I can't think of at the moment.
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aussie music is poorly represented. a quick look at the triple j hottest 100 shows you how diverse and awesome it can be... like kings of leon, john butler trio, powderfinger, eskimo joe, decoder ring.... the list goes on
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aussie music is poorly represented... like kings of leon
Wh . . . Wha . . . What????
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damn, i thought they were aussie. ok, scrap australian music. hahahaha
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Haha, don't worry - we've all made a mistake like that some time!
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Uh oh, PUN ALERT!!!:
The Grates are GREAT!
Ugh. Sorry, I couldn't resist. But I stick by it. Brisbane band which sound like a happier version of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Recently played at the South by Southwest conference in USA. Super fun!
There are heaps of awesome Australian bands, too many to list. Go to triplej.net.au and listen to the live streaming radio, or look at the album reviews and the Home and Hosed page.
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decoder ring = nice.
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australian artists i like:
hip hop, and a bit of related stuff
muph + plutonic
the herd (and component solo parts urthboy, unkle ho, ozi batla)
koolism
downsyde
hilltop hoods
tzu
pasobionic
combat wombat
curs ov dialect
hyjak n torcha
morganics
mc wire
katalyst
the avalanches
the alphabetics
rock/pop
regurgitator
the scorpion powerz of darkness, aka spod
architecture in helsinki
the undead against me
gerling
rocket science
decoder ring
machine translations
darren hanlon
drum and bass, noise, unlistenable shit
epsilon
toecutter
toydeath
thug
paul blackout
victim
sub-bass snarl
the pilfernators
mark n
passenger of shit
null object
misc.
biftek
resin dogs
the bird
prop
dirty three
i could go on, but this list is too long already. oh wait.
australian artists i despise
missy higgins
kings of leon
nick cave
powderfinger
...i think you get my drift.
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where he got Since I left you from i don't know for sure, but i do remember seeing a very high score for it on Pitchfork one time, so perhaps it's not as obscure as you would think.
I don't know about the US but that record seemed to do very well here in the UK, you'd hear it all over the place.
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kings of leon
W.T.F. - again?? Have they done a Ben Folds and moved to Adelaide or something?
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hang on. i've done my housemate's trick (claim a foreign band as our own). they're not australian, are they?
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It was more specifically the fact that somebody else had made the same claim for the same band only a few posts ago in this very thread that was making my brain implode!
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Two words:
Midnight. Oil.
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You know, Peter Garrett's a Member of Parliament now.
(And I don't mean he's in a funk band!)
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oh man, peter garrett sold out so hard.
i mean, the labor party? really.
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jet are australian.
god i hate them.
there is some good mucis in aus, but not relaly here in adelaide.
even tho i should be advertising our local talent due to my community radio thing, i just cant. too much atonal wailing over an acoustic guitar.
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And we haven't even started yet on all the New Zealand bands that Australia somehow claims as its own . . . Split Enz, anyone? Crowded House?
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agreed - if theres one adelaide band that i cant stand, it's little birdy. SO WHINEY
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lol hey, i was RAISED on crowded house. as far as i'm concerned, they're the best thing australia and new zealand have been in on as a team, ever.
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little birdy arent from adelaide
paul kelly lived accros the road from me!
he hated it!
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Heh heh heh, he suuuuuure did:
All the king's horses, all the king's men
Wouldn't drag me back again to Adelaide
Has Ben Folds been living in Adelaide long enough for us to consider him an Aussie yet?
(Holy crap, I've made a lot of posts in this thread - sorry everyone, I'll try to restrain myself.)
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Yeah nothing like homegrown music! I think that Australia has a really cool diverse range of music and no matter where abouts you are in Australia you will usually find a thriving music scene which totally rocks coz even though you may live in a smallish town alot of the bigger bands like Magic Dirt and Killing Heidi and Silverchair and Machine Gun Fellatio and Grinspoon etc will tour (just listing a few of the bands that have come to my lil home town in the past few years)
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There just aren't enough under-age gigs in my small town (Perth).
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Huzzah for Split Enz!
I will once again put in a call for "huzzah"s for the Moles.
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*mentions clann zu'*
clann zú is brilliant. rua especially. plus its quite political o wtf you want to call it
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Ah there is the "u" I am too lazy to make. Also *agreed*
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Goodshirt is one of the best bands out there in my opinion, Im not sure if they are aussie or new zealish though
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I heard that M Ward was australian, and he's rather fantabulous,
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Really? Hmm...I saw him play (he was the main act but I came for one of the openers)...walked out halfway through...respectable music but too much a reminder of the "I can't sing but I can play really good-folk" I can see why people like him but it does nothing for me personally. Anyways, he did not look UNaustralian....but I cannot confirm for sure.
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I really can't stress how much I adore Kid Kay Ferris. I've seen them play live a dozen times or so and I cannot pimp enough Danny and Joey.
The Phil Colins (Keep on Running) EP was awesome and the Colour me Badd album was amazing. Seeing them perform a live set between Miss Kitten & The Hacker and Kazu Kimura was the highlight of my live music experiences.
(Oh yeah, and if by some cruel act of fate you haven't heard Kazu Kimura? Oh my fucking god. Live or on 3 decks, the man is a techno* God.
* By techno I mean the specific sub genre of electronic music, rather then the overall basket term applied to all electronic dance music. But he's a god at that as well.
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Goodshirt is one of the best bands out there in my opinion, Im not sure if they are aussie or new zealish though
They are indeed from New Zealand but tour here a lot. THey are one of my favourite bands. They write excellent songs.
The Living End are a fantastic Aussie band. Great rockabilly sounds...everyone should check them out. The Sleepy Jackson, Eskimo Joe, Jebediah are another few that overseas people should look into. I wish though that more people could've heard the band Cartman before they split (and Cain going into The Avenues). Their one and only album Go! was freakin' great.
I'd like to back up the person with the pun about The Grates. They are indeed great :D Is their album out? The EP 'The Ouch. The Touch.' is superb.
The Avalanches are working on their next album! Yay! They're one of the most inventive groups out there. They won Triple J's unearthed..in I think 2000? Or 2001.
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The Phil Colins (Keep on Running) EP was awesome and the Colour me Badd album was amazing. Seeing them perform a live set between Miss Kitten & The Hacker and Kazu Kimura was the highlight of my live music experiences.
Is this a piss-take? After two people in a row thought Kings of Leon were Australian I just can't tell any more . . .
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And another fantastic Aussie band is Augie March. Their album Strange Bird is one of my all time faves in my collection..
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There just aren't enough under-age gigs in my small town (Perth).
I didn't realise there were any at all. The overage scene is fairly good though
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Actually all the underage shows are those big, packed festivals.
Only 9 months until it's not a problem though (for me anyway:P)
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Yeah Perth really has a killer music scene :)
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Where are the Dirtbombs from?
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ooh oooh oooooooooh!
The Dirtbombs are from Detroit, they're part of the same 'scene' as White Stripes - the drummer is Meg White's flatmate and they're all mates and they're really good...
I get really excited when people mention them as the bassist is a quality bloke and I may have pulled him when they played Brighton, but I would like to clarify that I am NOT A GROUPIE. They just gave me loads of the booze off their rider and we talked about music for ages.
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Rocket Science=sex.
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I forgot about them!
I saw them a couple of years ago, they were one of the best, least pretentious bands I've seen, and lovely blokes to boot...
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The Phil Colins (Keep on Running) EP was awesome and the Colour me Badd album was amazing. Seeing them perform a live set between Miss Kitten & The Hacker and Kazu Kimura was the highlight of my live music experiences.
Is this a piss-take? After two people in a row thought Kings of Leon were Australian I just can't tell any more . . .
Uhh - that depends. I know Danny and Joey of Kid Kay Ferris, I have met Kazu Kimura several times at after parties and I'm confidant that they are both Brisbane exports.
Miss Kitten & The Hacker are obviously not australian. They did however headline a gig that also featured KKF and Kazu that was an all timer.
What exactly did you think was a pisstake?
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The Phil Colins (Keep on Running) EP was awesome and the Colour me Badd album was amazing.
Perhaps these are actual titles of records, rather than recommendations of those two bands? Given that I never listen to radio of any kind I'm so far out of the loop you wouldn't believe it.
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For me, Perth is the music capital of Australia. we rock.
Eski Joe have been around for YONKS, been seeing them since i was in year 5 or something ridiculous (year 11 now)
Despite what has been said on this thread, i love Little Birdy. I've said this a billion times before in other threads, and here i go again- i've seen em live three times, and they are brilliant.
Jebediah- their new style is great. love it. great live too.
The Flairz!!! McTaggart, please tell me you've heard of them! if not, check them out. they're fantastic.
and although these guys are from pretty darn far away, i like to claim them for myself- NZers "Evermore". also great live, even if the keyboard player's dancing/eratic swaying scared some of the youngsters.
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If ppl want something a bit metal, a bit punk, (not sure what a real genre-ologist would call them) then Grinspoon are a pretty good act. One of their cooler (older) tracks is DCX3, short for Dead Cat Three Times :D
Yes, Grinspoon are great! trouble is, their new stuff isn't as 'hard' as their old. one of my faves of theirs is "Pedestrian". Their new stuff is pop/rock really. old stuff is just rock.
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Heh, you asked for it then.
I like, ...Of The Human Condition, Alchemist, By Dawn Cursed, Deströyer 666, Devolved, Mozart on Crack, Fuck... I'm Dead, Post Life Disorder, Slaughter Lord, Corpse Carving, Grimlock, Earth (not the US Drone band)...are the ones I can think of at the moment.
I wonder how many of the posters from Australia have even heard of these bands.
i've heard of fuck...i'm dead
this thread has made me very home sick, i was having a browse on the triple j site the other day, looking at the net 50, thinking how i'm missing all this fine music, sigh. i mean it's very hard to get your hands on music while drifting round europe, i only have a minidisc player and thus my listening pleasure is confined to bjork, the 5678's, james holden and nick warren...poo.
but aussie music is fabulous, i don't think i've seen Augie March mentioned yet, they are pretty darn fantastic, and thankyou salada, it is nice to find someone who also despises missy higgins, i was at work listening to the hottest 100 count down, in a bad mood, and i decided for every song missy gets in the top 10 i'd maim an annoying colleague, so 2 in the end, charges are pending.
not to be forgotten is the brilliant aussie folk scene, Fred Smith from good old Canberra can write a song like few people these days, saw him play at tilley's on election night, twas a bitter sweet affair, but i do love him. and QLD band Doch are just awesome, time signature madness ahoy!
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Another fine Perth band - finer, indeed, than any of those mentioned thus far - is the Panics.
Saw them for the second time last night - fucking hell. What a band.
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As i clicked on this thread i was listening to Alchemist, not having any idea that they where Aussie at all.
I'm not really into the local music scene (Perth), but i'm thinking it's about time i did. Only really local band i know of is The First Flight, and they are just a bunch of guys i went to school with, who happen to be pretty good at writing and playing poppy emo punk.....
They also have awsome parties.
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I hear that "JET" band is pretty good.
And the one named after the batteries or whatever... "ACDC?"
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oh no... not jet. they're so boring! shame that. good vocals.
and please don't get me started on missy higgins! it's such a tragedy!
i loved the first song i heard of hers, "Scar", but the rest of her stuff is so boring too! VARIETY PEOPLE!!! for gods sake, in "the special two" she takes the concept of repetition i bit too far.
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Still, there's one good thing you can say about Missy Higgins: at least she sings in an Aussie accent instead of putting on a fake American one.
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but is it really aussie? when you listen, it isn't even aussie. i love it though.
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I don't know, I've only ever really listened to "Scar" and the way she sings the chorus of that is definitely Aussie.
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yeah, it is an Aussie accent. i have some friends who talk like a bit like she sings. ie: they'd probably sound the same if they sang (and were good at it)
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okay aussies here- think about how you say "wine". say it. think again.
NOW think of how she sings it. understand?
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I don't know - how does she say "wine"?
But also, don't forget there are differing degrees of Australian accent. For all our talk of not having any regional accents, the way a person speaks in Adelaide is likely to be very different from the way a person speaks in Mount Isa.
EDIT: anyway, the point remains that Missy Higgins, when she sings, sounds a hell of a lot more "Aussie" than most Australian pop/rock singers out there.
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Augie March are awesome. One of my all time fav bands. I love Strange Bird. I can't decide on my favourite song ebcause they're all good...but Little Wonder is just...fantastic!
Missy Higgins...it's strange because her album feels so..restrained. She has the ability to write excellent songs (as we saw with her unearthed entry and that other EP which I can't remember the name of. Greed For Your Love?) but her album seems so...samey. Scar is definately a great song, despiute it being flogged by everyone...which gets annoying. So blah, second album hopefully she lets loose and isn't so...boring.
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boring is definately the word. however good, it is just boring. as i think i've said, scar was great, and 'ten days'
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Also Darren Hanlon, but everyone knows what a hopeless Dazza fanboy I am (seeing him this weekend! Woo-hoo!)
Hey, how was he? I saw him in Canberra a few weeks ago. Just awesome; one of the best shows I've been to.
Anyhoo, some other fun aussie bands I don't think have been mentioned that I like:
Frenzal Rhomb
The Spazzys
The Tremors
And Holly Throsby, who supported Darren Hanlon when I saw him: gorgeous.
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He was fucking awesome - of course! He had a bit of a cold so he's voice wasn't at its best, but all the same the man's a born entertainer. A Darren Hanlon gig is the ultimate feel-good experience - so damn good, in fact, that I went again the next night!
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Anyhoo, some other fun aussie bands I don't think have been mentioned that I like:
Frenzal Rhomb
The Spazzys...
ah! the spazzys! how could i forget?