Killer acts from Down Under
 

I'm starting this thread in honour of Terminal Pharmacy.

My top three acts from Oz:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Scientists
The Triffids

What Oz acts rock your world?

why thank you sonicl --

boys next door / birthday party / nick cave and the bad seeds
the scientists
the triffids
the dirty three
venom p stinger
lizard train
22nd sect
radio birdman
the saints
celibate rifles
exploding white mice
the hardons
grong grong
lubricated goat
massappeal
midnight oil

edit: forgot rowland s howard, the tren brothers and jon rose


current ones -- straight to video, vars

bit light on in my town at the moment, there is pretty much nothing etc emo and alt country.

if you want to cheat like that toxic you may as well say NIN with the aussie drummer

I need to give Dirty Three another try - I saw them support Nick Cave quite a few years back and I didn't get them. I'm a thousand times more tolerant of instrumental music these days though, so maybe the time is right.

The Saints are another band I want to give a try.

the dirty three are definately a small venue act to really get their intensity, and it depends how warren ellis is feeling he isn't so much of a loose canon anymore now he doesn't drink two bottles of red during their set.

"if you want to cheat like that toxic you may as well say NIN with the aussie drummer"

:) Well this is very true... but in this case the Austrailian guy is the lead singer and is perhaps a little bit more important within the band hierarchy!

Yeah, when I saw them he was knocking back the red wine in a big way, and each song was preceded by some long rambling speech about what it was all about. I'm not sure if the speeches would have been his, but which ever of them it was was clearly a very drunk man.

I guess I've seen the Bad Seeds with Warren about seven or eight times now, and he never fails to blow me away.

Everybody knows that Silverchair are the best aussie band ever :rolleyes:

Well of course AC/DC. A new band I really like of late is The Grates.

THE SAINTS - they have to be one of the most underrated punk bands around. I never hear them talked about and they were real innovative adding horns on their second record. They have a ton of classic songs.

The Birthday Party
Also Wolfmother, even though i've only heard one song by them

wolfmother are great muso's but no originality to anything they do they are good live though

i recall someone tellng me that new zealand has some good bands. anyone care to elaborate on this?

i have seen hdu and they were ok.

Saints
Birthday Party
Church
Tamam Shud
Tully

Some other good AU bands:
The Devastations
Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
Spencer P Jones

Good NZ bands for jon boy (good NZ bands could be a thread in itself):

The Dead C (noise/drone)
The Clean (indie rock)
Dimmer (indie rock)

(anything released on the Flying Nun label is also usually good).

Some NZ bands I like:

Bailterspace
Brother Love and the Homebacon Gang
Space Dust
Alastair Galbraith
The Clean (good call venom)
Roy Montgomery

...I like the Vines.

Good Australian bands that I think noone has mentioned yet:

Grey Daturas, drone/psyche trio. Japan has Boris, the US has Sun 0))) Asutralia has Grey Daturas. I'm pretty sure most sonic youth fans will enjoy them, especially there lastest album Dead in the Woods.

The Drones- good rock music along the lines of later The Scientists, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. They might be playign all tomorrows partys with mudhoney or something.

Kiosk- punk three piece who are touring the states in a few days, they dont really sound like anyone except maybe Huggy Bear.

Castings- Ambient/Drone six piece from Sydney. Their album 'allo hickory and a live CD are on sale at volcanic tongues I think.

Oren Ambachi- he is touring as a member of Sun 0))) in the states. RAD

Whitehorse- awesome awesome awesome doom metal band.
http://www.getonthehorse.com/whitehorse.htm

There is great shit going on in Australia that most people will be very unlucky not to hear. I've only known about it for about a year but we have too many awesome bands. Heaps of good bands (and some absolutely shit ones) are playing with Wolf Eyes when they come out so hopefully more people will see whats going on in there own backyard.

well, fuck you!!! i do like silverchair

Magic Dirt

Laughing Clowns, Ed Kuepper's band after he left the band in 77. Sounds a bit like early Saints but with trumpets and saxaphones. It gets pretty wild and loose in parts.

Aren't the Necks from Aus? Or have I imagined that?

YES, they are. I've only heard Drive-By and its great. I hadn't heard them until about a month ago.

Alchemist!!!
Cog
Silverchair
Dirty 3 - fantastic live (record can be a bit dull)

Heard abt Grey Daturas recently in this forum and checked out their myspace...interesting band, would love to catch them live

Today:
the New Christs
Alastair Galbraith(i think he might be from New Zeland though)
Cut copy

I've just realised that at the very start of this thread I should have listed a top four and included Silver Ray (Guitar, Piano, Drums trio - like GYBE if they got to see the sum from time to time), whose New Love CD is beautiful.

Midnight Oil's ''Beds are burning'' is a fine and dandy tune to my ears

INXS were always pretty legendary

outside of australia

yes the brilliance that is the necks are from aus currently on this website for download is a set they played on telvision as an mp3 download http://www.abc.net.au/tv/set/1.htm

i was lucky enough to mix these guys about 12 months ago when they played at my work, im a bit spoilt

http://www.thenecks.com/

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/

INXS are the worst

junkyard yes atari, and inxs did make some good albums but on that scale they are nowhere as good as anything midnite oil put out, and all the early "garage / grunge" like the scientists, kim salmon and the surrealists, hoodoo gurus (70s / early 80s period) the hardons, the necks, the dirty three, nick cave and the bad seeds (albeit probably more of an international than anyone continent) kill anything inxs did

actually, sonic youth is one of the only bands i love every single thing they have released equally, it's also my ideal band, i think everything they do is genius and even their side stuff ranges from great to out of this world. i do love all of sonic youth's output, i just don't like dumbed down popularity contests (the ddn vs sis poll) and i was just pointing out the stupidity of the thread.

about avril lavigne, i might be one of the few people in here who actually enjoys to listen to (good) pop music, i don't have a problem with that kind of music at all and i'm surprised you don't like some of that stuff atari. i admit that imagewise, most pop music is horrible and the marketing behind it is pretty disgusting, but if you take that out of the picture (as i pointed out on the avril thread) i do like the songs, i like both the craft behind a song and the melodic treatments throughout. i'm certainly not into the whole mascara, faux-skater goth aspect of avril and her fans, but i count it as if i just listen to a cd-r without any notes or anything and popped it into a player, i would like the songs a lot (unlike, say, a lindsay lohan album, because the songs are not as well done).

about silverchair, most people fell for the image when they started, the whole "sassy teen nirvana", which is sad because they are a great band, especially their last two albums, neon ballroom and diorama, in which they started to expand their sound to include orchestral elements and electronica to their music, and diorama in particular, favors strange arrangements and different influences in each song. van dyke parks did most of the string arrangements in that one. they are very talented songwriters; i do like their first couple of albums even, which i find them to sound more like helmet meets black sabbath with a very melodic singing voice on top. again, it's not something everybody would like, but i find their music to be very creative and inspired, also very envelope-pushing.

that's a very sweet afri boot, just repaying some of what you've shared.

Silverchair?I normally do not judge people because of their taste in music but, Jesus on a horse,Silverchair suck so bad i can only imagine people who listen to them to be retarded office workers.Avril Lavigne is beyond any comprehension too.Unless you are in the business of just winding people up.

just curious about the envelope silverchair have been pushing, does it have an australia post post mark on it, i agree they a good, dont like their music and i don't believe any envelope has been pushed, licked, opened, closed, deglued, stamped, posted, received, addressed, retruned to sender. aussie rock really came to a fore in the early 80s and then created the path that the seatle movement followed in the early 90's. mudhoney are influenced by the scientsts quite a bit.

You rule the airwaves terminal pharmacy.Anyone who says they love the scientists gets a free green light from porkmarras.

I really like Radio Birdman and the Celibate Rifles, and the Saints. The Birthday Party is good too. Wolfmother is ok. There debut album was kinda all over the place, but Im sure with time, they'll be pretty good.

Silverchair catch a lot of undeserved flack. Their later records weren't much, but Frogstomp was pretty impressive. Especially if you think that they were only teenagers when that record was made. Give props where they are due.