Australian Music

[CliffMcTainshaw]

RIP Marcie Jones from Marcie and the Cookies.
One of the very first live performers I saw when I started going to Q-Club.

 

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Hard to believe it's 30 years ago that Hi Fi Way was released, a must have 90s Aussie rock album

 

[Norwegian Blue]

Love The Neptune Power Federation, they should be better known.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

This is from the new album for DELSINKI & The Quiet Coachmen - Black & Faded Denim

 

[stax on the mull]

Moodists - Where The Trees Walk Downhill (7'', 1981, Australia, alternative rock)

On a recent listen, I still find some of their music heavy and impenetrable but this is their very catchy 1st single. Aust classic.

 

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This should be Straya's national anthem.

 

[stax on the mull]

The Moles - from sometime in the 1990's, maybe earlier, and sounding a bit like NZ band The Clean. "Bury Me Happy" is a song which they rerecorded for their "Untune the Sky" album. Their later stuff is a lot more hi-fi.

 

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[stax on the mull]

Obscure Brisbane band with some similarity to the folky post-punk of "Send Me A Lullaby" era Go-Betweens. I like both sides of this 45rpm.

 

[stax on the mull]

I'd forgotten about this Brisbane band. It's mid-80's guitar pop, similar to some of what was called "paisley pop", or a little like the early records by The Church but with better vocals - 60's influenced, maybe a little of R.E.M. influence as well. I bought it when it came out, but I don't have it anymore. I feel like if I own it again, I'll want to get rid of it for the same reason - but it's not hard ot find or too expensive to buy. Can't remember if their other stuff before this was better.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Vale Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie, guitarist with Skyhooks, from Leukemia. Very sad, only Greg Macamish and Red Symons remain.

 

[stax on the mull]

Aussie punk with murky production circa 1978.

 

[stax on the mull]

Another low budget Aussie punk/new wave single B-side from 1979. Canberra band who later moved to Sydney. Have listened to a couple of their later tunes from the 1980s and the sound is more polished, still not commercial radio friendly but missing some of the appealing amateurism that this one has.

 

[stax on the mull]

"Help" from the 1st single by The Apartments (1979)

 

[Matthew Jelley]

Some new Aussie rock is on the way

 

[stax on the mull]

Don't know what to say about this artist so I'll just quote from the bio on Discogs.com. Since 2012 they've recorded around 20 albums - some just as solo recordings credited to Adam Geoffrey Cole.

"Trappist Afterland was formed in 2010 and is the Psychedelic folk project fueled by the religious ruminations of songwriter and multi instrumentalist Adam Cole (oud,guitar, Lute,tanpura Bodhran,Vocals). The Band also features Phil Coyle (Tabla, Frame Drum, vocals) Nicholas Albanis (Bell Citern, Hammered Dulcimer, Bowed Psaltery) and Lachie Henderson (Acoustic Guitar)."

"Although the influence of folk music from various sectors around the world can be heard in Trappist Afterland's music (The British folk revival, 70's acid folk, Gamelan music, Middle Eastern music, Indian raga) they still maintain a unique and almost otherworldly quality, that sounds unlike anyone else. With lyrical explorations delving into Gnosticism, Christian mysticism and other esoteric themes."

The music is more accessible for me than the lyrics.

 

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