Antipodean
I take offence to an overabundance of mid/late-90s-Australian-heavy-Triple J-airplay-'alternative'-post-grunge. As a general rule, I go by the "one is plenty" notion.
In the consideration of some specific bands, let's commence with You Am I. I swear, despite all the platitudes, they really weren't that good. More than one disc is total no-no land, and even one needs brushing off with a "hey I was still in high school / university".
Same goes for Silverchair (are they currently capitalising their name?), but I will allow one album sans-excuse. After that comes a whole lot of thin ice though.
I was thinking about Grinspoon today and decided, yep, one.
Regurgitator, The Mavis' and Spiderbait follow suit.
I can't abide by Jebediah, and Eskimo Joe shouldn't really be cropping up, oh OK maybe one.
The Superjesus: ummmm... none. No wildcard can save this band either.
Underground Lovers get a very generous allowance of two discs, mainly because that Losin' it song is so, SO great... and they have only a tenuous link to this category anyway.
In total, this entire category should be represented by no more than 10 discs. I was a little generous because supporting local music does win some points, as long as you don't talk the talk too much.
In the consideration of some specific bands, let's commence with You Am I. I swear, despite all the platitudes, they really weren't that good. More than one disc is total no-no land, and even one needs brushing off with a "hey I was still in high school / university".
Same goes for Silverchair (are they currently capitalising their name?), but I will allow one album sans-excuse. After that comes a whole lot of thin ice though.
I was thinking about Grinspoon today and decided, yep, one.
Regurgitator, The Mavis' and Spiderbait follow suit.
I can't abide by Jebediah, and Eskimo Joe shouldn't really be cropping up, oh OK maybe one.
The Superjesus: ummmm... none. No wildcard can save this band either.
Underground Lovers get a very generous allowance of two discs, mainly because that Losin' it song is so, SO great... and they have only a tenuous link to this category anyway.
In total, this entire category should be represented by no more than 10 discs. I was a little generous because supporting local music does win some points, as long as you don't talk the talk too much.
posted by peter at
2:48 AM
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I would say that Australia has been a distinctly underwhelming force in popular music but are beginning to set things straight with electronic music (Lali Puni is Australian, yeah?).
Anyway, from a British perspective: INXS - Kick and Welcome To Wherever You Are are fine by me, anything else is not. Silverchair - Ugh! No! Frente - 1 disc is fine. Midnight Oil - unnecessary. Men at Work - Down Under is a classic so 1 disc, but I will say, going off on a bit of a tangent that if I see Men At Work, I definitely don't want to see 10CC. They are completely unrelated but I don't care. This is music, I can be irrational. Kylie - 1 prefab album and 2 serious albums are OK but you're treading a fine line. Jason Donovan - if you were between the ages of 6 and 11 when it was bought it's OK. Quireboys - no. AC/DC - 1 Bon Scott-era disc and only if you don't call them "Acker Dacker" even post-ironically. I've probably made some serious omissions but that's it for now. And I know I'm bad at emailing you Pete... sorry.
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