Favourite New Zealand Band

flight of the conchordes!

tall dwarves vs. clean vs. chills

I forgot The Enemy and Toy Love sorry Chris Knox. If you want these just say
.I find this question very difficult. Might do an albums poll too, that might be easier.

ill go with the dwarves

this is the sort of question that would require me to write out little pros and cons chart

at least a third of these bands have a couple of songs each that are up there with the greatest ever written

my fave NZ album is by the verlaines, but i also think they have one of the more inconsistent careers here

it really comes down to the big three - clean, chills, bats. all three went on too long but have unassailable early work

gonna have to side with the bats

It's the Clean for me with the Verlaines as strong contenders.

able tasmans. verlaines are a close second but the humphreys keen record was utterly fantastic and the last verlaines not as much.

no snapper option?

oh there is a snapper option, sorry.

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Forgot Split Enz?

Damn i forgot Split Enz. O.K then if you want them then go for it and we can count those votes if they are significant. there does not seem to be a way of amending a poll.

VERLAINES 4-EVAH

hey--no Pin Group !

No OMC??? No Headless Chickens?

Guess I'll go with the Puddle.

at least a third of these bands have a couple of songs each that are up there with the greatest ever written

^this is otm and it kind of never ceases to amaze me.

i got all excited when i saw the tall dwarves option, forgot about them for a while, but the 3 eps compilation cd might be one of my favorite things in the world. looks like some people are voting for em, so i'm going with dead c.

seems like there's a bunch missing around the xpressway axis and such. there are people here who know a lot more about it then i do.. i love some one-offs on compilations. weren't nocturnal projections nz? there was also some guy called omit who released a huge album, quad, sort of dark ambient/musique concrete, really great stuff. and yes, pin group were fantastic.

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haha was the shihad typo intentional??

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Mint Chicks moved to Portland.

Thompson Twins moved to New Zealand.

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,470 for shibad. (0.19 seconds)

I ran across a noise band from down there called Light Years! that I thought was really great. Doubt they are still around though.

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seems i forgot a few. omc only really had a couple of songs- one in particu;ar obviously, headless chooks
the same although gaskrankinstation is superlative, i don't think we will miss these two.

split enz was a bit of a mistake as was probably toy love.

able tasmans. verlaines are a close second but the humphreys keen record was utterly fantastic and the last verlaines not as much.

Seconding the Humphreys/Keen record. Truly wonderful and utterly forgotten by everyone. As much as I want to vote for Look Blue Go Purple or Bailterspace, I've been loving all the Able Tasmans records lately and voted for them.

Not really familiar with the able tasmans, I guess I should rectify that. But I did think that the last verlaines record was really really fantastic.

My favorite Kiwi band is Shocking Pinks.

By the way there's no way to change your login email address on this board.

the dead motherfucking c you fucking children!!!

btw u forgot plagal grind/alastair galbraith.

Forgot lots it seems. all those lil' chief bands too i.e ruby suns, brunettes etc plus peter jefferies but not really a group but who cares right? this list surely covers most of the ones that should be there- it DOES have Shibad afterall.

No Split Enz no credibility.

Opted for TKoP but Dead C is as good. I never much cared for The Clean. Tall Dwarfs were pretty good as well. BUt a bit too cutesy some of those bands, like the Bats.

Proud Scum.

But in their absence I think I'll go with the Clean. Was just watching the Flying Nun documentary on Youtube last weekend, reminded me how much I like them.

My favorite Kiwi band is Shocking Pinks.

wow i can also remember when i'd only ever heard one new zealand band, although split enz don't totally fucking suck balls

Hardly heard any of these, but The Chills are one of the best indie bands of all time

Voted for This Kind Of Punishment who are hugely major lifelong favourites for me. Loads of great bands there though, will be sad if the Gordons get no votes.

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noisy and psychedelic and dark and strange and the first NZ band i got into.

ian otm

also no handful of dust or gate

Was listening to Omit this week... With The Aid Of An Automatic Weapon I Gun Down My Values. Dude rules.

But probably the Clean for me. Although I haven't heard all the earlier Dead C stuff.

also no shoes this high!

the Dead C it is

clean vs bailter space vs this kind of punishment

thread of missing peter jefferies

and I kinda wanna hear some terminals now

I voted for the Verlaines, but it was a tough call. Also The Cakekitchen isn't on the list.

ALISTAIR GALBRAITH GODDAMMIT

seriously inexcusable omission

O.K, O.K so maybe someone should do a more comprehensive list rather than my off the cuff thing. Feel bad about Peter Jefferies, Proud Scum, Cakekitchen Etc Etc..I sincerely apologise forever and ever Amen.

I left the Brunettes off cos I am a mean guy who is on a campaign to taint their legacy forever.

Was gonna nom Shoes This High, if only for The Nose One, but see that GOTT PUNCH beat me II it (ha punch beat geddit). Anyway, yeah, great song.

Some worthy groups gone missing:

The Axemen's, "Three Virgins, Three Versions, Three Visions" is one of the greatest things ever. It's a two record set of messy, sprawling, and crudely recorded bedroom psych spazz right up there with anything by the Swell Maps. Re-issues are coming soon.

The Garbage and the Flowers combined free folk scrape, noise, drone, and over-heated guitar workouts into one fine racket. They often went from quiet, folky, campfire singalongs to full-bore noise assaults in the same song. Most excellent.

Trash were part of the expressway axis. Their lone CD gets that Kiwi Velvet Underground practice room vibe down perfectly. At their best, the band combined Velvet style drones with the crankiness of the Fall.

The Bilders, Vacuum, and everything Bill Direen deserve their own thread. Flying Nun re-issued most of their stuff in the early nineties. If you see any of it, snap it up. The Cd's are well worth investigating.

The Alpaca Brothers' EP has thumping almost funky bass anchoring a very nasty guitar squall. It's one of my favorite Flying Nun releases.

It amazes me how small places like Jamaica and New Zealand can produce so much good music.

Ha, I was just going to bitch about the Axemen not being there. Anyone know if the reissue of Virgins, etc. will be available on CD as well as vinyl? I never bothered to rip the whole thing, and now my stereo equipment is all packed away...

Of the people listed, it's going to be a tie (for me) between 3d's and LBGP.

The Garbage and the Flowers

this may be a stupid question, but did they ever have a cd/lp release? i remember seeing what looked like a lathe cut 2lp by them a long time ago and i made the mistake of not buying it.

fakexp: i just checked discogs, looks like a cassette, a 7" and that double LP.

Hee, man, remember there was that other thread that was exactly the same, but with more stuff on it? Whatever happened to that?

Yes there is another thread- see below- with most of the bands that people moaned about being left off on this one now included.

It was better in retrospect.

trash had three cd's and then bruce blucher did that cyclops stuff too which wasn't very good actually but peter jefferies was drummer. the first trash record was best. in truth all you really need is the 'on and on with lou reed' seven inch though 'heaviest head' and 'drug stance no. 7' are kinda cool.

I guess I'm going with the Clean, but of course I only know a fraction of these bands. It's either them or Tall Dwarfs.

Someone tell me about Bailterspace.

bailterspace used to be the gordons, well once hamish kilgour left. they had two sides there was the slow, dreamy side and the more agitated noisy side. so you had incredibly beautiful tracks like 'x' and 'make' and more potent songs like 'projects', 'get lost' or 'we know'. they were amazing live. they peaked at 'vortura' and then for some reason they seemed to lose all traces of menace and became a bit dull really. first four records and the accompanying ep's are all worthwhile, maybe it was 'the aim' that was their high point.

cool thanks I'll check em out!

Someone tell me about Bailterspace.

Also: The long overdue Gordons and Bailter Space thread

i used menace back then too. need a new thesaurus.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i've been really wanting to check out Snapper...I really don't know much abt NZ music outside of The Clean and a couple of Verlaines songs on No Alternative

Wait....why no Pumice? (Just one guy, I guess, but still.)

3ds

snapper ep is amazing, shotgun blossom was hit and miss, the vader single is great, adm is horrid. has he released anything since?

3d's!

I voted for The Dead C.
With The Clean,The Axemen, The Puddle, Victor Dimisich Band, Scorched Earth Policy, The Renderers and 100 others a very close second.

whatever happened to high dependency unit? not that they'd have a chance of winning, but good for a few good searing tunes. also, very very great at all tomorrow's parties in '02.

was once upon a time ILM member Duane Zarakov a member of any of these bands?

wasn't duane zarakov one of king loser's many, many drummers?

and whatever happened to g3org3 g0ss3t?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

the dead c outpolling all of these marvelous bands is a bit ridiculous. would people really rather listen to 'the white house' over 'bird dog','daddy's highway', 'a beard of bees', 'brave words',etc...?

yes.
i would. and so would lots of others. understand, people appreciate different values in art.

Man I need a copy of The White House.

Here's the bigger, better poll thread

Not really another thead for it, so - The Garbage & the Flowers' Eyes Rind As If Beggars is getting the deluxe reissue treatment on 2CD/2LP: http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00000000999