anyway, my favourites would probably be fela kuti, fushitsusha, & the dead c.

honourable mention to Queen Meanie Puss.

and merzbow.

Surely you listen to non-US/UK bands?

Nope, never found anything I like. Except Bjork I spose. And also Frenzal Rhomb. Hang on, I'll look at my last.fm artist list.

EDIT: Nope, all US and UK

Not going to mention any 'stralian bands either, that'd be too easy.

Taj Mahal Travellers
Celtic Frost/Hellhammer
Darkthrone
Witchcraft
Turbonegro (Ass Cobra era)
Parson Sound
The Clean
Lasse Marhaug (what i've heard is great anyway)

What about The Scientists? They're Australian.

i admit i like wolf parade. and bjork

edit- and sigur ros i guess, tho i havent listened in a while

look at all you people being like "can/neu/etcetcetc"
ash ra tempel were far better than can and neu

bjork is my main bitch up in iceland.

Yeah they are good, but I can't find any of their stuff, just a live album.

Overhang Party. Yep.

False.

For my current non UK / non US artist, I'd probably pick Supersilent. I'm listening to their "6" and it is a delicate listen, I'm telling you.

you fail.

Who knows, maybe I do, it's just a matter of taste anyway, isn't it?

weed
beer

Who Made Who from Denmark (highly danceable)
Current crave on the Mojomatics from Italy (two guys for a dry country garage rock'n'roll)

But most non UK/US bands I listen to use English
Fave no English singing band :

Gito Gito Hustler - titles are in English, but what these Japanese girls sing doesn't sound like English

Does Nick Cave count? He's English really now isn't he?

Other than Cave and Bjork, any non UK or US acts are second choice for me.

There are a gazillion great bands who aren't from the US or UK, with my favourite probably being Boredoms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CFDsG_oxg I love their new single.

how is that possible? he still lives in melbourne.

die toedliche doris, acid mothers temple, melt banana

erm he is from the u.k.

northern ireland is part of the united kingdom.

I thought he lived in the Brighton area.

Apparently he hasn't lived in Australia since 1980 (I read this on the internet so it must be true).

virvel - serbia (one of my favourite bands overall)

allroh - gemany (mindblowing!)

yugoslavia had a really good music scene in the 80s from what i can gather, and the ex-yugo countries produced some good stuff after that too.

it did, it had some really cheesy hard rock but then there was stuff like EKV, elektricni orgazam, paket aranzman and some other stuff, you could youtube it.

the ones that i've heard that i liked were sarlo akrobata, disciplina kicme (earlier stuff only), SCH, obojeni program (ditto earlier stuff), supernaut, majke, satan panonski, termiti, paraf.
a few years ago there was a montenegrin girl who posted on this board and she wised me to that stuff. there were more things she turned me on to but i can't remember what they were all called now. i've tried searching for more of yugo stuff out on the net, and there's information out there but it's really difficult if you can't speak serbian/croatian

^ yes exactly, sarlo akrobata are pretty cool, so is disciplina.

but some new stuff is also great; my uncles band is also pretty badass http://www.myspace.com/darkwooddub, they've been around for about 10 years and theyve got a pretty big fanbase by now.

but whats good with all these bands in this scene is that they all have something special and they really sound different than anyone else. i dont know if that makes sense.

ok, you may be right.. i read recently he wakes up at dawn and brings his guitar to the beachto write songs, easier than lugging a piano around so i presumed he was speaking of a melbourne beach cuz he mentioned good weather but you could be right...

anyway, he is an aussie nonetheless.....

i've heard disciplina kičme and satan panonski (thanks to the board i might add), and they are great.

The Notwist
Serge Gainsbourg
Can

Canada:
Aids Wolf
CPC Gangbangs
the Nymphets
Smoke Judo
Matthew Good
Controller.Controller
Arcade Fire
Fucked Corpse
Soul Jazz Orchestra


Japan:
Cibbo Matto
Boredoms
Hanatarash
Acid Mothers Temple

Germany:
Can
Neu!

Ireland:
My Bloody Valentine

Australia:
Birthday Party

Africa:
Fela Kuti
Pitch Black Afro

Acid Mothers Temple
My Bloody Valentine
U2*


*note sarcasm

club moral is a label, no?

oh!

actually, club moral are pioneers of noise, started in the 80's and appear in tons of compilations.

just found out a couple of days ago.

If I listed them all they would fill at least three pages of this thread.

Well since we are apparently only supposed to pick one band, it would be have to be Einstuerzende Neubauten.

joan of arse

Reynols!