Thursday, December 08, 2005

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.

1 Comments:

Blogger Marc said...

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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