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Post by fange on Jun 20, 2020 10:23:57 GMT
A place to put your thoughts, questions, faves, dislikes and general chat about Australian music. Most Aussie bands probably wouldn't really get much interest in a stand-alone thread, so we can put them here and hopefully build up a good picture of the way music in Australia has been made and evolved.
Well, it makes sense for me at least to start at the beginning, with Australia's first and most influential rock and roller, Johnny O'Keefe. Most music fans might know JOK's most enduring hit due to Iggy's cover, but this track is a fundamental cornerstone of Oz rock and roll -
JOK would release scores of records in his lifetime, but in truth i think his best material was done in the first 5 years of his career, including a version of 'Shout' that also had a seismic effect on Australian music, and songs like 'She's My Baby' and 'Move Baby Move' that are still fun if not particularly outstanding. As an instigator and exemplar of the rock and roll lifestyle, JOK had no early peers though; his hard-living lifestyle of chemicals, booze, women, car crashes, violence, police trouble, etc. became legend, and he inspired many a young Aussie to pick up a mic or an instrument and hit the rock and roll road.
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Post by fange on Jun 20, 2020 10:50:23 GMT
Please feel free to talk about any Aussie music you want to.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 20, 2020 15:04:43 GMT
There have been some Australian bands I've really, really liked through the years, like AC/DC and Mental As Anything, but the overall quality seems pretty erratic to me. I've read how lots of Australian bands are forged in hard drinking bars, but I haven't really heard any hard rockin' bands that I've liked.
Unfortunately, when people say Australian music, one of my first thoughts is Men at Work's Who Can It be Now? In college, two offensive linemen from the football team lived right next to my dorm room. Every day, every fucking day, before they went to morning practice at 7 am, they would blast that damn song. These guys were both about 6' 4", 260-270 lbs, so neither me nor my roommate were going to tell them what what to do.
I also had a roommate, later, that loved INXS. I hate INXS. I don't know who is responsible, but whomever said to them, "You should do funky music," should be shot. The are about as funky as a wooden board. I always picture Bootsy Collins shaking his head if he ever heard them.
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Jun 20, 2020 15:15:07 GMT
INXS are better than Mental As Anything any day of the week.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 20, 2020 15:50:22 GMT
INXS are better than Mental As Anything any day of the week.  In the words of AC/DC, "Hell ain't a bad place to be." |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2020 16:07:24 GMT
I've read how lots of Australian bands are forged in hard drinking bars, but I haven't really heard any hard rockin' bands that I've liked. They're too drunk to ever rehearse. That's the problem. |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 20, 2020 19:11:00 GMT
I love that Hoodoo Gurus album.
The Vines were good for awhile too. One of my favorite neo-garage bands of the time.
I remember people hated them on the Mojo forum, but I have a lot of love for that Jet album.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jun 20, 2020 19:16:57 GMT
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Jun 20, 2020 20:24:33 GMT
We got this far without mentioning this?
and this?
and this?
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Post by Charlie O. on Jun 20, 2020 20:26:38 GMT
Split Enz were kiwis, yes?
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Jun 20, 2020 20:29:13 GMT
DAMN!
I always do that!
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Post by Charlie O. on Jun 20, 2020 20:32:00 GMT
I get 'em confused sometimes too.
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Post by fange on Jun 20, 2020 22:51:15 GMT
There have been some Australian bands I've really, really liked through the years, like AC/DC and Mental As Anything, but the overall quality seems pretty erratic to me. I've read how lots of Australian bands are forged in hard drinking bars, but I haven't really heard any hard rockin' bands that I've liked. The Angels? Rose Tattoo? Midnight Oil? Cold Chisel? Johnny Diesel and the Injectors? |
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Post by fange on Jun 20, 2020 22:53:48 GMT
Some current stuff, rootsy, soulful: The Teskey Brothers - Hold Me Good band. Not doing anything revolutionary, but there are a lot worse sounds to try and emulate than Otis and Stax. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2020 23:33:05 GMT
JOK wasn't a great singer IMHO. But he was JO bloody K though.
Something old
Something new, 'cause I can't have enough of that contralto
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