Topic: Jeph and Australian Music? (Read 22044 times)

tuo2 · « **on:** 04 May 2005, 04:14 »

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?

Robbo · « **Reply #1 on:** 04 May 2005, 04:23 »

I like some Aussie bands....they're all Metal of couse, so not really fitting the aim of this topic.

tuo2 · « **Reply #2 on:** 04 May 2005, 04:33 »

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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Inlander · « **Reply #3 on:** 04 May 2005, 04:34 »

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.

Robbo · « **Reply #4 on:** 04 May 2005, 04:38 »

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.

tuo2 · « **Reply #5 on:** 04 May 2005, 04:39 »

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.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #6 on:** 04 May 2005, 04:57 »

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.

Robbo · « **Reply #7 on:** 04 May 2005, 05:28 »

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #8 on:** 04 May 2005, 07:25 »

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.

Inlander · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 May 2005, 07:37 »

Also Darren Hanlon, but everyone knows what a hopeless Dazza fanboy I am (seeing him this weekend! Woo-hoo!)

Mockery · « **Reply #10 on:** 04 May 2005, 07:50 »

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

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.

yipjumpmusic · « **Reply #11 on:** 04 May 2005, 07:55 »

*mentions clann zu'*

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #12 on:** 04 May 2005, 07:59 »

Quote from: Robbo

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.

Robbo · « **Reply #13 on:** 04 May 2005, 08:03 »

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.

elcapitan · « **Reply #14 on:** 04 May 2005, 08:25 »

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.

El Opium · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 May 2005, 08:37 »

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.

Robbo · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 May 2005, 08:40 »

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.

OtterErotic · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 May 2005, 12:26 »

The Moles!!

Also, let's not forget New Zealand! The Clean! The Bats! Good bands!

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 May 2005, 13:35 »

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...

est · « **Reply #19 on:** 04 May 2005, 15:26 »

Quote from: tuo2

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.

Inlander · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 May 2005, 15:46 »

Quote from: El Opium

There were tons of bands in the 80s who started in Austrailia then moved to London.

A prime example being the Go-Betweens.

tuo2 · « **Reply #21 on:** 04 May 2005, 16:16 »

Quote from: est

(...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.

McTaggart · « **Reply #22 on:** 05 May 2005, 01:08 »

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.

peppy · « **Reply #23 on:** 05 May 2005, 03:46 »

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

Inlander · « **Reply #24 on:** 05 May 2005, 04:17 »

Quote from: peppy

aussie music is poorly represented... like kings of leon

Wh . . . Wha . . . What????

peppy · « **Reply #25 on:** 05 May 2005, 05:27 »

damn, i thought they were aussie. ok, scrap australian music. hahahaha

Inlander · « **Reply #26 on:** 05 May 2005, 05:29 »

Haha, don't worry - we've all made a mistake like that some time!

mabarosi · « **Reply #27 on:** 05 May 2005, 06:10 »

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.

Mockery · « **Reply #28 on:** 05 May 2005, 06:27 »

decoder ring = nice.

salada · « **Reply #29 on:** 05 May 2005, 07:53 »

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.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #30 on:** 05 May 2005, 09:05 »

Quote from: est

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.

Inlander · « **Reply #31 on:** 05 May 2005, 16:00 »

Quote from: salada

kings of leon

W.T.F. - again?? Have they done a Ben Folds and moved to Adelaide or something?

salada · « **Reply #32 on:** 05 May 2005, 18:15 »

hang on. i've done my housemate's trick (claim a foreign band as our own). they're not australian, are they?

Inlander · « **Reply #33 on:** 05 May 2005, 18:19 »

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!

Johnny C · « **Reply #34 on:** 05 May 2005, 19:25 »

Two words:

Midnight. Oil.

Inlander · « **Reply #35 on:** 05 May 2005, 19:34 »

You know, Peter Garrett's a Member of Parliament now.

(And I don't mean he's in a funk band!)

salada · « **Reply #36 on:** 05 May 2005, 20:11 »

oh man, peter garrett sold out so hard.

i mean, the labor party? really.

patch · « **Reply #37 on:** 06 May 2005, 05:56 »

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.

Inlander · « **Reply #38 on:** 06 May 2005, 06:26 »

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?

peppy · « **Reply #39 on:** 06 May 2005, 06:29 »

agreed - if theres one adelaide band that i cant stand, it's little birdy. SO WHINEY

peppy · « **Reply #40 on:** 06 May 2005, 06:30 »

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.

patch · « **Reply #41 on:** 06 May 2005, 07:08 »

little birdy arent from adelaide

paul kelly lived accros the road from me!
he hated it!

Inlander · « **Reply #42 on:** 06 May 2005, 07:12 »

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.)

normz · « **Reply #43 on:** 07 May 2005, 00:17 »

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)

McTaggart · « **Reply #44 on:** 07 May 2005, 05:59 »

There just aren't enough under-age gigs in my small town (Perth).

OtterErotic · « **Reply #45 on:** 07 May 2005, 12:59 »

Huzzah for Split Enz!

I will once again put in a call for "huzzah"s for the Moles.

tute666 · « **Reply #46 on:** 12 May 2005, 19:38 »

Quote from: yipjumpmusic

*mentions clann zu'*

clann zú is brilliant. rua especially. plus its quite political o wtf you want to call it

yipjumpmusic · « **Reply #47 on:** 12 May 2005, 20:05 »

Ah there is the "u" I am too lazy to make. Also *agreed*

Rhomboid · « **Reply #48 on:** 12 May 2005, 21:51 »

Goodshirt is one of the best bands out there in my opinion, Im not sure if they are aussie or new zealish though

muffy · « **Reply #49 on:** 13 May 2005, 03:12 »

I heard that M Ward was australian, and he's rather fantabulous,

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