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Do you all mostly agree that the 'Oz' style of music with it's disticncive sound is dead ?

I mean things like Goanna, INXS, 'This is Australia' Chisels, Oils etc ( I know hte Oils are still going but who's picking it up today ? I like Killing Heidi but I wouldn't call them distinctly Australian.

How did it start and why did it end ? (I only arrived here in late 88 although I did visit a few times from '84 onwards
 
I look at it this way Pess :

The Rest of the World has 'caught up' with the Australian sound and copied it ad nauseum, but because the sound is still a little raw and lacks the slick production values of British or American Pop, it is still referred to by the Rest of the World as 'alternative'

Meanwhile Pop music in Australia has moved onto fresher territory, like all the different styles of Dance Music and electro-pop going around these days.

If you still want to hear good Oz Rock 80's style then

FLY ANSETT !!!!

- its an instant time warp back to 1983 as soon as you step on the plane and put the headphones on ....
 
I wouldn't have called INXS a distinctly Australian sounding band either...didn't their best album, The Swing, have a distinct Japanese influence on the sound?

The other month I was at the Corner Hotel in the public bar (think dark, dusty, plenty of jugs of beer everywhere) with some friends, and we were watching Marty Donald do a solo set followed by a couple of people from the Mabels. My friend commented that the Mables were part of this new era of Australian-country-pop bands. Bands like the Mabels, Golden Rough, and the Lucksmiths put plenty of Australian references in their lyrics (always interesting to explain the meaning of "and dear old St. Kilda, and I'm red and black and white" from a Lucksmiths song to friends overseas!....to Saints fans, the CD is called "What Bird Is That?" and it's track 3) and I guess that is what gives a song an Australian feel. Think of some of Paul Kelly's lyrics and he couldn't be singing about anywhere else in the world apart from our home.
 

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Good call BSA it is a crack up.

"and now I'm in a night club in Hamburg, and they're playing La Vida Loca once again, and I can't believe I'm dancing to this crap but I'm a chance here..."
 
favourite bands would have to be

icp, tupac, korn, jebediah, nirvana, metallica pearl jams older stuff...
KLINGER and limp bizkit!
 
bsa paul kelly's new song is a pisser, it almost sounds like kevin bloody wilson

another great band people have either missed or just dont like is U2
had some great hits but went down hill abit about the time of the zoo tv tour but there new single is good and more like their older stuff
 
Shinners GreenDay and Buzzcocks? Thats a reach but Powderfinger and Chisel???

Im a Reznor fan but he is the first to admit he rips from everywhere. I still like his stuff though, but Ian Curtis was the GOD of introspective music. The last genius RIP.

BSA the classics are cool, hell i like swing from the 40's big band stuff, Goodman and all that. Jolson,Ragtime Scott Joplin. I say give it a go at least once to see if you like it, then once more just to see if you were wrong the first time around for not liking it.

ps that applies to more than just music
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Favourite Bands of All-Time:
1. Offspring (although since Ixnay on the Hombre their only good song has been Pretty Fly)
2. Led Zeppellin
3. ACDC
4. Green Day
5. Queen
6. Nirvana
7. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
8. Pearl Jam
9. Angels
10. Australian Crawl


As you can see i love my rock.
My top 10 songs of all time would have to be:
1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Semisonic - Closing Time
3. Area 7 - Second Class Citizen
4. Led Zeppellin - Stairway to Heavan
5. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6. ACDC - Thunderstruck
7. Lenny Kravitz - My Way
8. Offspring - Come Out and Play
9. Bush - Glisterine
10. Eagles - Hotel California
As you can see theres quite a good mix from classic rock, to grunge, to punk rock, but all of those songs are played on Triple M.

Theres to many great songs to mention. But i am planning on burning a Double CD set of all my favourite songs on them. Although this will take a while, but hows this for a rock album playlist.
At the moment i have 56 songs which i need to cut out 21, because i will have 35 songs on 2 CD's.
ACDC - Dirty Deads, Done, Dirt, Cheap
ACDC - High Voltage Rock and Roll
ACDC - Highway to Hell
ACDC - Thunderstruck
ACDC - TNT
The Angels - Dogs Are Talkin'
Area 7 - Second Class Citizen
Australian Crawl - Boys Light Up
Blink 182 - M and M's
Bush - Glisterine
Collective - Where the River Flows
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Eagles - Hotel California
Faith No More - Epic
Green Day - Good Riddance
Green Day - Hitchin' A Ride
Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last
Green Day - When I Come Around
Gunners - Knocking on Heaven's Door
Hunters and Collectors - Holy Grail
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
KISS - I Was Made For Loving You
KISS - Rock and Roll All Night
Led Zeppellin - Black Dog
Led Zeppellin - Kashmir
Led Zeppellin - Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppellin - Whole Lotta Love
Lenny Kravitz - My Way
Lit - Worst Enemy
Men at Work - Down Under
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Midnight Oil - Armistace Day
Nirvana - About a Girl
Nirvana - Come as You Are
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Offspring - Come Out and Play
Offspring - Gone Away
Offspring - Nitro
Offspring - Pretty Fly
Offspring - Self Esteem
Offspring - Smash
Pearl Jam - Better Man
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
Pink Floyd - Brick In the Wall
Presidents of the USA - Lump
Queen - Bohemain Rhapsody
Queen - We Are the Champions
Queen - We Will Rock You
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Soul to Sell
Screaming Jets - Better
Semisonic - Closing Time
Silverchair - Anthem For the Year 2000
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

I am going to add a couple more Chilli Pepper songs that i cant remember the titles of, then i will cut it back to 35. Of course if anyone here wants to buy a couple i would be more than happy to burn more than 1 copy.

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Heres my favourites and hopefully someone recognizes one or two bands :

- Fear Factory
- Pennywise
- Bad Religion
- Slick Shoes
- No Idea
- Guttermouth
- NOFX
- Mid Youth Crisis
 

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I don't think anyone's mentioned Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds yet.

But I regard Nick Cave as one of the most charismatic performers I've ever seen.

In the early 1980s he was in a band called The Birthday Party. Now, this band was seriously "alternative". By that I mean it was alternative to anything I've ever seen before or since. A Birthday Party gig was a genuinely dangerous place to be.

I also saw them in their early days when they were called the Boys Next Door. I have an idelible memory of Nick Cave clutching a set of rosary beads singing "I've been contemplating suicide", the opening line line of guitarist, Rowland Howard's classic, "Shivers". Burnside Town Hall, Adelaide, 1978. And the song is as moving today as it was then. More so, in fact.

You just had to be there, I guess.

**release the bats**
 
for oldies,
the doors-riders of the storm
the who-my generation

and today,
The offspring- all there songs rock
cypress hill-insane in the brain
limp bizkit-break stuff
blink 182-apple shampoo
red hot chilly peppers-scar tissue & californiacation.

And to Alf, i like Nick Cave's song "red right hand."
 
Well my fav bands would be...
1. AC/DC (can't wait for the concert!!)
2. Matchbox 20 (also can't wait for the concert)
3. Def Lepard
4. Hunters and Collectors
5. Whitesnake
6. Live
7. Pearl Jam
8. Jimmy Barnes
9. Aerosmith
10. Guns 'n' Roses

Shit I better stop now or I will go on forever about my fav bands

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Grendel

The point my friend was making was that in the same way that Cold Chisel were seen as a sort of icon band in the 80s (y'know, they'd release and album, the critics would wet themselves and every household would have a copy), Powderfinger are the current equivalent.

Alf

I'm jealous now that you got to see the Birthday Party. I was too young and didn't get into them until the mid 80s, but I haven't listened to any of their music for years now. "Shivers" is a classic though...everyone should hear it....and go for the original, not the awful cover done by those AC/DC wannabes, the Screaming Jets. Incidentally, a friend of mine interviewed Rowland S Howard earlier this year for her fanzine.
 

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my god someone with a decent taste in music- got to luv the jam and the buzzcocks- dont forget the clash, the jesus and mary and chain


Originally posted by Grendel:
Joy Division,Beatles,BeachBoys,Most mowtown stuff but Martha and the Vandellas are stand outs,Elvis *COSTELLO*,VelvetUnderground,
the Jam,Buzzcocks,Pixies,ThinWhiteRope,Early R.E.M,DEVO,Cure,SplitEnz,Hunters&Collectors,
Madness,Shonen Knife,NIN,Bowie,CCR god it just goes on and on.

Not much around now that i like, but Westy glad to see someone else has picked the true depth of the Vengas, now back to that Kahlua milkshake you taught me...
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Fav Aus. artists;Stephen Cummings;Chris Wilson;Richard Clapton (inc.new stuff);Colin Hay;Archie Roach;Chocky Cake;Karma County.

Int.stuff current;Coldplay;Warren Zevon (new album-classic);Travis;Van Morrisson;Elvis Costello;
Just to name a few.
 
My favourites:

Dozadells, Harry Connic Jr., Metallica, Pearl Jam, Savage Garden, Jimi Hendrix, Pixies, Cows on the Roof, the Living End, matchbox 20 and Brittany just to name a few!!

I've got a wide taste of music.
 
grendel powderfinger is the australian equivilent of cold chisel but i think there music is more like U2, if the crack it overseas they could become that big

another great band at the moment is fuel, cant wait to see the in dec
 
You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world - KISS. Sound familiar? The may be old & fat but they can still rock and should be out here late this year hopefully. Just bought their Second Coming DVD which is very interesting.

Also like Fastball from Austin, TX they have a great sound.
 

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