cchris

Hey troit glad you like.

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Spungfoo

One band I'd really recommend is Lacrimosa. Classical music mostly with metal tinges - about half their songs are actually structured like genuine classical (Baroque) instead of just an orchestra/synths replacing guitars found in bands like Therion. I think their album "Echoes" is done entirely in a classical style. Definitely worth checking out.

And now for something completely different - try Impaled Northern Moon Forest." This band is Seth Putnam from Anal Cunt's take on tr00 norwegian black metal. Recorded in a tr00 fashion, this was recorded in a bedroom with a acoustic guitar and someone slapping their knees for the drums. As usual, Putnam continues the tradition for Best. Song. Titles. Ever. Here's a few:

- GRIM AND FROSTBITTEN MOONGOATS OF THE NORTH
- GAZING AT THE BLASPHEMOUS MOON WHILE PERCHED ATOP A VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY FORSAKEN CREST OF THE / NORTHERN MOUNTIAN
-AWAITING THE BLASPHEMOUS ABOMINATION OF THE NECROYETI WHILE SAILING ON THE NORTHERNMOST FJORD OF XZFGIIIZMTSATH
- LUSTFULLY WORSHIPPING THE INVERTED MOONGOAT WHILE SKIING DOWN THE INVERTED NECROMOUNTAIN OF NECRODEATHMORTUM
- GRIM AND FROSTBITTEN GAY BAR

It might be hard to find, but should be a quick download - the album's only 11 megs (the longest song's about a minute long)

sw1tch

Lollipop Lust Kill - Hard rock, not very well known at all
Nonpoint - Pretty well known, great group imo.
Adema - Again, pretty well known, still a great band.
SR-71 - Quickly gained popularity, good 'almost punk but not quite'
Opeth - Again well known, awesome progressive metal
StereoMud - Great vocals/guitars, not well known.
Ill Nino - Good stuff, metal.

Sorry guys, but I tend to listen to borderline mainstream stuff

//Edit: Finch is another good band. Goddamn my Maxtor for crapping out, else I'd have a whole shitload of bands to list.

Xiphias

Check out some....

.hopesfall. (Great melodic hardcore)
Boy Hits Car (as someone mentioned before, they are great)
The Slackers (REAL ska, not crappy third wave stuff)
Jimmie's Chicken Shack (Highlight: "Sitting with the Dog")

cchris

Hunters And Collectors carved a unique path and place for themselves in Australian rock culture. The group was originally formed in post-punk 1981 in Melbourne as a collective rather than a band, an excursion into funk-rock rhythms and industrial Kraut-rock. (They named themselves after a song by Can). They ended up the thinking man's pub band.

I saw them many times live and fuck did they go off.

Sadly,they are no more.

LINK

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“I guess I’d like to say that this is a dirty, soulful album about imperfection”

BEN LEE

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Archie Roach's story has been told many times - most powerfully and gracefully in his own songs, such as Took The Children Away. His fourth album, Sensual Being, tells a dozen earthy, voluptuous stories which resonate with optimism and the joy of being in tune with family, spirit, soulmates and self.

LINK FOR MORE INFO

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All Homeboys Are Dickheads:

I know his dad's abusive
And his mum prefers the daughter;
I know he's got an attention
Deficiency disorder;
He is culturally excluded
And genetically inbred:
But the reason he's a homeboy
Is because he's a dickhead.

We all support empowerment
And positive discrimination
When your class, your race, your age, your face
Determine your social station;
A baseball cap and a love of rap
Might need sympathy - yet, still,
Possibly a homeboy could be
A dickhead pure and simple.

"Know your enemy well enough
And you will pity them instead" -
In The Brothers Karamazov
That's what Dostoyevsky said;
And pity soon will turn to love
Is what Jesus Christ once knew:
They both changed their minds the day when
They met a homeboy crew.


TISM LINK

AND HERE

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After the departure of second guitarist Tim Henwood in mid-2002, there were serious doubts flying around about the fate of Adelaide rockers The Superjesus.

But just one listen to the raw energy of their latest offering, Rock Music, reveals the band are fully recharged and revelling in their reincarnation as a three-piece.

LINK FOR SUPERJESUS

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Four school friends from the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria) formed The Fauves. The band took its name from the art movement Fauvism, which was characterised by both its intensity and infatuation with colour. Andrew Cox and Philip Leonard were entirely self-taught, managing to eschew standard musical formats and conventional guitar tunings in the process. The band's early sound was an energetic distillation of garage-punk rock riffs and surreal lyrics.


LINK FOR THE FAUVES

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Named after former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, The Whitlams became one of Australia's more successful alternative acts of the late 1990s with their piano-driven pop.
Forming in Sydney in 1991, The Whitlams was originally a side project for local musicians Stevie Plunder and Tim Freedman
In 1996, Plunder died after falling over a cliff in the Blue Mountains near Sydney.
In late 1997, The Whitlams returned with Eternal Nightcap, an album dedicated to Plunder, which won them three ARIA Awards in 1998.

LINK TO THE WHITLAMS

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From an interview with Carmine Pascuzzi


"Tumbleweed has had the reputation of being a "drug-influenced" band. What are your thoughts on drugs now"?

I think it has its limitations. It’s up to you whether you want to be trapped in that lifestyle forever or just give it away. Everyone is different though and follows their own path. I find that it does me no good, so I stopped. Other people choose that lifestyle.
(guitarist Lenny Curley).


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Telepathic Cat

hey stranger, spellweaver, vampire, still teething
illusion photograph, a telephathic cat
she sees the astral plane and hears the silence break
tunnel between the eyes,
going to hypnotise
hey stoner, you're older, times frozen, boughs broken
illusion photograph, a telephathic cat
she sees the astral plane and hears the silence break
never forget the time you had to let it go
bury the reason til you really gotta know
balance the spinning head just in the nik of time
drive off the mountainside to see if you can fly
trying to read my mind
she's going to hypnotise
hey, preacher, long after, time lingers, new creatures



LINK FOR TUMBLEWEED

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whelming

Mr. Cchris, you struck a melodic nerve, I'd say! Thanks.

cchris

Thanx whelming for your interest my friend.

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TIO

And yours truly has been on stage with them!

Great thread, Cchris!

May I add a suggestion? Head to the Coffee Jar Slide site and get the samples for some acoustic rock that'll blow your mind.

cchris

Thanks for the tip TIO.



Gerling only played one song, but they rocked the place anyway, with waste-paper baskets as hats and impromptu breakdancing.


GERLING

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Scratch

Jumping in a bit late on this - but seeing all these Aussie bands brought back some fond memories some of the lessor known (eg not INXS, Hoodoo Gurus) from the 80's

Angels (Angel City in the States)
Skyhooks
Rose Tattoo
Goanna
Icehouse (Early stuff - NOT Electric blue!)
Cold Chisel
Lime Spiders

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Mr.Deflok

Just because I love rubbing it in, I interviewed KILLING HEIDI on two seperate occasions for a magazine and got kissed by Ella Hooper. I'm da man man.

TIO

Been on stage with Gerling, too, Chris!
They both played my uni

(And I've been on stage with MGF twice)

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bundy

OMG!

Chris, how could you forget about Peter Andre??

just kidding - i do not recommend this to anyone, at anytime.

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cchris

Don't encourage me

Closet fan ay?

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OK, they're from the Seventh State, but I'd still like to wave a flag for <B>Crowded House</B>. They play some great stuff, acoustic rock, a sound not unlike the Crash Test Dummies or even some of REM's stuff. They would've done a lot better in the States if only they hadn't led their first album with the jibe at American consumerism, Chocolate Cake.

KAZZAA suggestions: Distant Sun, Weather With You, It's Only Natural, and, of course, Chocolate Cake. If you go out and buy their greatest of album, Recurring Dream, you won't regret it.

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Donkeypuncher

I recently burned a copy of Spirit of Place for a friend! Loved, loved, loved that band. Shane's been putting out solo music since they broke up and it's pretty darned good.

cchris

Crowded House ROCKED with one of the best live outdoor events ever witnessed at the "Opera House" a few years ago and they are adopted Ozzies.

How can we discriminate?

Inspirational.

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The hardest working band in Australia

To say that this band goes off is an understatement.


PICTURE LINK BELOW




I wish that I was 7teen again

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Don't remind me. I was in Sydney 2 days too late.

siogo

For me its always been JIMMY BARNES I think he's one of the worlds most underated artists. I had the pleasure of seeing him three times, once with COLD CHISEL and twice solo in Perth and London.

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COLD CHISEL were the ultimate to see live.
They had raw passion that few bands could match.

"Star Hotel"

All last night we were learning
Drank our cheques by the bar
Somewhere bridges were burning
As the walls came down at the Star
Squadcars fanned the insanity
Newsteams fought through the crowd
Spent last night under custody
And the sun found me on the road

At the Star Hotel
At the Star Hotel
They better listen cause we're ringin' a bell
Ain't no deals, we got nothing to sell
Just a taste of things to come at the Star Hotel

(Here lies a local culture
Most nights were good, some were bad
Between school and a shifting future
It was most of all we had)
Those in charge are getting crazier
Job queues grow through the land
An uncontrolled Youth in Asia
Gonna make those fools understand


LINK TO SITE

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bundy

that was such an incredible night.
best music.
best atmosphere.
what a show.

ok, for a little something different... try George.. or Elixir... or anything else Katie Noonan does.

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HunterDevourer

For a bit of grind mixed with trendy riffs, try some Blood Duster. They've got some hilarious lyrics if you can understand what they're singing, and some really rocking tunes with crunching guitars.
http://www.bloodduster.com
They've got some mp3s on their site.

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Updated and cleaned up most links.

Deserves a "BUMP" I reckon.


The Ghostwriters' first played dark acoustic pop, producing the hit Someone's Singing New York New York off their debut album, but the next two releases were heavily textured affairs.

The track below is off the latest. "Fibromoon".


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THE GHOSTWRITERS

NEON GARDEN
Tempo - Relaxed
Tune bottom guitar string to 'C' for verse
The who, the what, the when, the where, the why
My life is spinning fast and so am I
I'd like to know some answers before I die

Oh why
In my neon garden
All the lights are shining
We could ride the lightning
The clouds collect in my mind
The who, the what, the when, the where, the why
I'm like a house that stands burnt out inside
I'm just a child with questions, who asked too many times

Oh why
In my neon garden
All the lights are shining
We could ride the lightning
The clouds collect in my mind
The who, the what, the when, the where, the how
I'm not the only sinner, who's killed a sacred cow

Oh why
Oh why
Oh why
In my neon garden
On the beach at Byron
You can hear the sirens
Clouds collect in my mind
In my neon garden

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frozenstellar

COG - damn awesome stuff.

www.cog.com.au - download their tracks, my fav - STRETCH. simply amazing stuff.... check it out.

K-Wise

You guys are talking about Aussie artists and you haven't mentione INXS and Silverchair yet? 2 of the best bands of our generation homies.

Asta!!

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Those are a bit too obvious, K!

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Well neither are/were(RIP) too huge outside of Australia. INXS mighta been if they hadn't lost the poor guy. But Silverchair has basically been completely flat out forgotten about outside of Australia. They're in the same boat as all the other bands mentioned right now.

Asta!!

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cchris

I remember the first time I saw INXS live just before they became anything.
An old school hall that held about 200 people.

Jumping Lyrics:

Say when you get down
Look to your left
Say when you get up
Look to your right
Figure out the puzzle
Make sure the pieces fit tight

Jumping jumping
All night long
Jump and jump and it’s up to you

There is no surefire way baby
It’s just the first star you see at night
Don’t walk around feeling hazy
If you need a taste take a bite

Some day they’ll catch you when you’re walking
Don’t you put up no fight
Draw back that look of confusion
Say you don’t believe in straight lines

What a great memory.

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His website does him no justice but Alex Lloyd is brilliant.

Playing his latest offering Distant Light up full noise and on TFP.

It doesn't get any better.

Alex Lloyd website

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Soda_BoB

I don't mind Jet atm, they're Australian aren't they? Melbournian even, I think, well If I'm wrong, I've made a complete fool of myself..

Hey Rollover DJ, say whatever you say, yadda yadda etc etc....

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I really like the new Something For Kate Album.

Also a few other bands i am not sure have been mentioned yet are:

The Sleepy Jackson (not just a cool name )
The Waifs
The Panics (Jae Laffer, i think Drew Wooten? and his younger brother went to my school. Also jae's brother Craig used to play in my basketball team and i know him pretty well )
linkage: http://www.thepanics.com.au/

high_way

isnt this forum ment to be a forum for australian bands? sorry dont wanna be picky, but i have seen a number of overseas bands named in here... but all of them are good

some good aussie bands


grinspoon (fav band in the world)
28 days
jebediah
the butterfly effect (they have released an ep and an album titled begins here)
magic dirt
australian crawl
candice alley
delta goodrem
eskimo joe
frenzal rhomb
jerk
men at work
midnight oil
pacificer (althought they are from new zealand)
the screaming jets
silverchair
powder finger
superheist
super jesus
the vines
zed (another new zealand band, also very good)


thats all that i can remember now that hasnt been mentioned

will post more when i remember

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