Powderfinger Breaking Up

[Cleavy]

Peaked at Double Allergic for me, then I ceased caring.

 

[nobbyiscool]

loooved powderfinger in the 90s... i should be sad about this, but i'm not really. it's at least 5 years too late - all they've done in the last 10 years is "nobody sees" which has been used for inspirational montages on every semi-sad tv show in the last 5 years.

double allergic, internationalist (why are people putting "the" at the start?!?!) and odeysey number 5 are great albums that still hold up today.

but the bono references are apt - the fact that the group's headliner became a complete douche takes away from the music a lot. i can barely listen to u2 any more, powderfinger is nearly in the same boat.

 

[hawk for 37]

Showing a bit of class to end it now. Time is right.

Could be a good example for many other bands who still trot out the same guff album after album.

 

[XFactor1979]

dont be surprised if they get back together just to play their back catalogue live...

a la crowded house

it seems the go these days with musicians, especially ones in the australian scene

even rage against the machine got back together to play old material recently... no new songs

 

[BarneyBent]

A few years too late, but oh well. At their best, had a somewhat original and very well executed sound. Vulture St, their last worthwhile album, was a decent listen, far, far from groundbreaking but energetic and a solid product. Dream Days was generic and boring as batshit, Golden Rule seems to be better but still meh, though I haven't heard it all the way through.

 

[Bombers_Forever]

The fact one of the news stories last night said they were Australias "biggest band" says it all. Has the music talent got that bad that they are regarded as the biggest?

Agree with the comments - I liked the earlier stuff, when it was actual rock. The newer stuff is just predictable and boring.

 

[Dippers Donuts]

This is just devastating news.

 

[mr_cellotape]

Bye bye generic dogshit.

 

[Jimmy_the_Gent]

I thought I was going to be so contraversal when I said I was happy they broke up and that they haven't realsed anything good for a decade but judging by this thread it's common knowledge.

 

[dylan123]

Seems like I am one of the few that have a bit of Powderfinger love here, I will agree that their new stuff is not near their old stuff but I still don't mind it and find it much better then most new music coming out these days...

Anyways, does anyone have any ideas when ticket pricing will come up?

 

[Naitawhoey]

They are a good band live. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant

 

[XFactor1979]

to put aside the allusion that people think you can be in the music industry longer than you can be in another industry such as - sports. the existence of any band is finite! no matter how many huge hits it makes

my favourite bands ones are the ones that have a limited lifespan!
nirvana, manic street preachers (with richey edwards), jeff buckley.
of the ones where all the members are still alive today: The Police were a brilliant band- Sting and andy summers were at each other's throat; the english band Blur had a tense chemistry between damon albarn and graham coxon.
fleetwood mac made an incredible album called Rumours and there was plenty of bitchiness and infighting with that bunch of people....

usually any band that exists longer than 15 years tends to lose its edge. and critics and fans feel indifferent towards the band over their latter work. for the most part a band that exists longer than 2 decades tends to just repeat itself, and churn out numbers to satisfy the record company it works for

EDIT - on the theme of bands breaking up, Supergrass - another power group in the britpop era (with hits such as Alright, Pumping On Your Stereo) has called it quits as well... that band has also been filling out time for quite some time as well, so much so i didnt even know they were still around!

 

[The Passenger]

don't mind a bit of the finger. but they've been pretty flat for a while.

sunsets was the only decent tune of vulture street, but even that isn't covering any new ground is it.

internationalist probably my fave album from them.

can definately see how people dislike them so much - they became massive pretty much just doing very generic same-ish dull songs. for that reason is why i only listen to them in small doses. dream days was a terrible album.

these days is a corker of a tune though. depressing, but still excellent IMO.

 

[XFactor1979]

as much as i hate to say this:

but back in the day; powderfinger is a australian generation defining kind of band. any current person aged in their late 20s-nearly-30-year old person will say they grew up to records such as double allergic, internationalist

kind of like crowded house in the 80s.

but calling it quits NOW is the right thing to do. should have done it after Odyssey number 5 .. actually

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Should have busted up back when Custard and the 'Gurge went too, damn bein up here 10 yr ago would have been good!!!

 

[Lazix]

Good.

Now apologise.

 

[XFactor1979]

Should have busted up back when Custard and the 'Gurge went too, damn bein up here 10 yr ago would have been good!!!

mind you, we all know music- like life goes on

theres always plenty of fresh new bands with fresh ideas that come along, and there are still plenty of good and relevant bands out there to enjoy

music gets repetitive in terms of the styles, what can be sung about etc, the key element to making a band relevant is its energy. and powderfinger lost that edge. it was merely making records to serve the record company...

rock music is meant to be edgey and exciting and only angry young people can make it! unless you want sad bastard music like belle and sebastian... oh heck! even they broke up

case and point, triple j play lots of bands that get mixed opinions but they have that rock energy, to name a couple: british india, children collide, dappled cities all that crap stuff that has angry young men with long floppy hairstyles. do you expect bands like that to exist when they lose that boyish appeal? but hey, THAT is rock and roll folks

ps - girls like it

 

[Bomber Bears]

I think Children Collide are a shitload better than British India

 

[mr_cellotape]

They are a good band live. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant

Quality pisstake post right there.

 

[omit]

I hope Silverchair does the same soon.

 

[krisholio14]

I hope Silverchair does the same soon.

Nice Booby

 

[FRUMPY]

Silverchair are aband that should have broken up long ago...

Was a big fan of powderfinger but sort of lost interest after Vulture Street. Their albums after that were very light on and after a few lsitens i lost interest.

Still great aussie band who did well to last around 15 years. Odysee #5 my favorite album

 

[lincsPJ]

I hope Silverchair does the same soon.

arent they in the studio at the moment writing a new album? without having any idea whats on it, i can safely say it's absolute rubbish. they shouldve changed their name.. or kept it as "the dissociatives - with joannou and gillies". but that wouldnt sell nearly as much.

 

[XFactor1979]

heaven forbid the day silverchair started singing in major chords

nirvana impersonators all the way!

 

[lincsPJ]

heaven forbid the day silverchair started singing in major chords

nirvana impersonators all the way!

as opposed to open 5ths for the first 2 albums? still love those albums though.. and ballroom. diaroma was certainly different with a lot of complicated arrangements which he tried to better in YM. more complicated and more weird doesnt make it better, daniel.