i have a favor to ask. i don't actually have time to get the greatest aussie music youtube thread of all time started. i have to go to this birds of prey open house at rufus's school and i won't be back for awhile. don't ask. but i'm listening to the god-like coloured balls right now and it hit me that this thread needs to happen. australia, what a country!
i want it all. 50's/60's/70's/80's and beyond. great stuff from beyond would be awesome cuz i have no idea what is great there now.
make one thing known: i love you roo-eating bastards. i love you tall and i love you small.
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/21/angry_narrowweb__200x333.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 7 February 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0kLDpK_YNo
― Pre-FAP Stout (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 7 February 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)
And with braces, no less...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5wRviAG5w&feature=PlayList&p=421E4F128E5677AA&index=38
― dlp9001, Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOhlZ6Wrw4&feature=related
― dlp9001, Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)
rather than repost the videos i'll just link these two threads
A Hard Ons Youtube Thread[ROCKTOBER II] The Day of The Triffids
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vT1W6bfzM
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)
^ Crime & the City Solution obv.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:19 (fifteen years ago)
I think we already have this thread: Bouncer Fucking Bouncer
― Tracy J0rdan S. (sic), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)
wow, you guys have really let me down. i guess i really do have to do everything myself around here. well, maybe later. right now i have to watch the american football 2010 super bowl game.
― scott seward, Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)
I gave you WARWICK CAPPER for god's sake. WARWICK. CAPPER.
― Pre-FAP Stout (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)
god, 'my pal' live on the telly
― CrazySexyFrog (haitch), Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)
iggy on countdown
― CrazySexyFrog (haitch), Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:33 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trfYjucLGj0
― estela, Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)
the alpha and omega of this thread...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLbyaNbhHdU
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHfbDrhc1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8vzQJ5egnQ
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:44 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRWSLTNPzGE
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)
Bands I can't find videos for:
The BitesThe Moles
― dlp9001, Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)
Wow, not to go off on a tangent, but 2CD God reissue this year!
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=74288662&blogId=494171525
― dlp9001, Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:59 (fifteen years ago)
50s - Johnny O'Keefe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnhCNiIxujw
60s - The Black Diamonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0aOQPZPKdw
70s - The Riptides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYyG1GOETc
80s - The Stems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWWMYqmN7oM
90s - Magic Dirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-59c1LAYE
00s - Eddie Current Suppression Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEfyptFzmOY
― Goldfoot, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Ot5As996U
― m the g, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:08 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwzNN4IMyx8
― badg, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG74cOf5-EM
― badg, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:13 (fifteen years ago)
oh, and another from the jets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4gSBxkhfw0
― m the g, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJLoYd8xak
― badg, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:15 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDXAZTONL4
― badg, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKatVlwYPJA
Has this^ been posted? I can't tell at work
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_nn90p-tIg
― badg, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)
Goldfoot! (hi, it's Kit)
I feel u Phil, can you believe he said that after the link to the BOUNCER thread? this is why Americans don't know most of our music, they don't DESERVE it
My Pal on The Factory is mimed IIRC
― Tracy J0rdan S. (sic), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)
bouncer is magical
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 01:33 (fifteen years ago)
Hey Kit,
I'll see your Capper and raise you a Jacko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Q5JFHrGNk
― Goldfoot, Monday, 8 February 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)
brace yrself skot, here comes the real stuff
Austen Tayshus - Australiana:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97YnGQE1q6M&feature=related
George Smilovici - I'm Tuff (volume is low on this one):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602B5AXT0GQ
Bruce Samazan from E Street (basically, our version of David Faustino's rap career):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tkm9DuhhMI
― WARWICK. CAPPER. (sic), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:03 (fifteen years ago)
I prefer Bruce Samazan's "rap" from the Coca-Cola advertisements.
― Pre-FAP Stout (King Boy Pato), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:06 (fifteen years ago)
I was looking for that, but found this. (I didn't listen.)
― WARWICK. CAPPER. (sic), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:34 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruMiVMeE8lU
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:43 (fifteen years ago)
lubricated goat doing 'in the raw' in the raw - crucial moment in the development of this nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qIK5PiSyk
― CrazySexyFrog (haitch), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:51 (fifteen years ago)
Excellent username H!
― Department of Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification (S-), Monday, 8 February 2010 06:02 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8VdmkbBEJE
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 08:14 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzK7pWS7p5Q
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 08:15 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURrBtB5O58
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 08:17 (fifteen years ago)
on the awesome garage rock tip
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:33 (fifteen years ago)
o damn someone already posted it :(
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:34 (fifteen years ago)
have this instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUt-FgFhZxQ
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:35 (fifteen years ago)
not a proper video but an incredible tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b701jGQ3uD0
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:37 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-3VWFL23Y
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:41 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCq8aAiJeTg&feature=related
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:43 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gP-HXdjSS8
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:44 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RyOQf0AoFc
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:45 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x97HT54SvI4
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 08:48 (fifteen years ago)
adore this video (& song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17f1MpUVvhk&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWPJ87T-bE
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:31 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAoXltHRpeM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpJrtCmcoq0
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:33 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWArUaViXsA
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:34 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BnN9xV21iU
^^first song i remember really loving (i was 5)
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:36 (fifteen years ago)
since i can't find "dad", this will have to do instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRyUZYIvPM&feature=related
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:37 (fifteen years ago)
Was always going to post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYG63G1-lqw
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 10:40 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PeGHeF2AHc
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:40 (fifteen years ago)
loooove this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KofUP7jPkMc
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:41 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRwuhuyUmw
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:43 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7l8rlnMpCI
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:52 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzDUcPfZoJ4
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:54 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUmtSpGhMEs
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 10:55 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFedv7ZoV7M
pretty heavy for RICK SPRINGFIELD
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:56 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiSK0xTDA0U
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:58 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrHoEx7cpDM
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:00 (fifteen years ago)
no olde version of boy on the run :(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVKyfVeRI-g
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 11:01 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5x6qTh1DR4
― wilter, Monday, 8 February 2010 11:08 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5PF73ZTCyQ
with Dave "I could've died and been replaced by Brian Johnson!" Evans.
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2010 11:21 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6e_mk0O24&feature=related
For when you want AC/DC, but AC/DC just aren't available
― ithappens, Monday, 8 February 2010 12:17 (fifteen years ago)
Lobby Lloyd, 74'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcdUbVWH8E
― meisenfek, Monday, 8 February 2010 14:11 (fifteen years ago)
thanks for all that awesome stuff guys.Fungus Brains and Feedtime are my new favourite bands.
― Zeno, Monday, 8 February 2010 15:14 (fifteen years ago)
feedtime rule.
wowee, i'm listening to the reissue of the first X album right now and i love it. i'd always wanted to hear them and they are as good as i thought they'd be.
and yeah thanks everyone. i knew you had it in you. i'm gonna watch everything on here eventually.
― scott seward, Monday, 8 February 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)
i got to review the new Grong Grong reissue for Decibel Magazine, so hopefully a couple of american metalheads will take my advice and seek it out. love that thing.
― scott seward, Monday, 8 February 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)
that Sharpies film by the not-yet-Skyhooks bloke is fantastic
more hair archeology can be done on Paul Clarke in The Factory's playing of The Plunderers' Christo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge8uBsvAKmw
― WARWICK. CAPPER. (sic), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3IUASoqfM
― Gorgeous Ladies Of Curling (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:01 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8d2EB435Q
^YES
― eau de humanity (haitch), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:02 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAX1A4mQvNY
― Gorgeous Ladies Of Curling (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:03 (fifteen years ago)
live version of 'evie': pts 1+2, 3
― eau de humanity (haitch), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:05 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IR5DykkpnE
― eau de humanity (haitch), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:07 (fifteen years ago)
it'd be nice if any version of 'slave girl' on youtube was any good, head lime spider's voice is rooooooted
― eau de humanity (haitch), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:11 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gqZ9gfaso
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfjRIf91Wg
^got kicked in the head by a crowd-surfer seeing these dudes in about '96, fun times
― eau de humanity (haitch), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZT2sijQB4
lol
― eau de humanity (haitch), Monday, 1 March 2010 03:23 (fifteen years ago)
"key" lime spider, shurely
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Monday, 1 March 2010 04:06 (fifteen years ago)
oh i see what you did dere
― eau de humanity (haitch), Monday, 1 March 2010 05:36 (fifteen years ago)
Welcome back!
Surprisingly more than half of the old links here are still active, and they are uniformly amazing. From the cheesy '80s videos, to Dirty Three's great 9-minute track "Everything Is Fucked", and from the thread's 1st reply, the moment when it becomes apparent what Warwick Capper's real job is. Thanks to all posters. (Note, links are visible in a logged-out browser)
You can post more music here that you like or love, especially if it's something unlikely to get its own thread or get famous overseas. And also, I wanna ask, "What's New?/New-ish?" (does that remind u of anything) ... The Australian musicians with ILM threads mostly tend to be Pitchforky bands, with the rare exceptions like Ngaiire - Blastoma (June 10 2016)
I'd be really interested to find out about Indigenous Australian musicians – the final album by Gurrumul Yunupingu, Djarimirri: Child of the Rainbow, was fantastic and was a nominee on ILM's 2018 poll, but many of us probably don't have much context for his music. Gurrumul died in 2017 aged 46.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKC-Jd7KN64
Posts don't need to be Youtube links, just whatever you want.
For the 2010s... these were some critics' choices. It'd be nice to know your favourites too.
"The 50 Best Australian Albums Of The Decade"- https://junkee.com/longform/best-australia-albums-decade
"100 Best Australian Tracks Of The Decade 2010-2019"- https://www.ripemusic.com.au/100-best-australian-tracks-of-the-decade-2010-2019
"The 100 best Australian songs of the decade"- https://themusicnetwork.com/best-australian-songs-decade-
Threads of The Past – Sydney bands / Best record shops in Australia / the recent Australian 70s and 80s compilations / Great Australian albums - a new TV series / Aussie bands in London 1980s / Recommend to me books about Australian music (no genre restrictions) / Greatest Album / Greatest Single / Greatest EP / POX: Aussie Bands / Oasis soon to be illegal in Australia?
― sbahnhof, Friday, 24 January 2020 06:04 (five years ago)
I can't see any evidence that the greatest song of the 70s was posted in the past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcmLq83gTk
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 24 January 2020 09:31 (five years ago)
Nice bump. My favourite Australian records of the decade are the Royal Headache albums, Twerps self titled and Alex Cameron's Forced Witness. I think the most influential Australian album of the decade (in terms of its impact on Australian music and the industry) was probably Flume's debut. Whether it was the main catalyst of not, I think around the time it was released was a turning point for young people in Australia caring more about electronic music and the culture associated with it over rock music.
― triggercut, Friday, 24 January 2020 10:48 (five years ago)
re indigenous singer-songwriters, Archie Roach happens to be Victoria's nomination for Australian of the Year this very evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aywDT6yHMmo
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:33 (five years ago)
A couple of indigenous acts amongst Triple J's predominantly youthful audience's 100 best of 2019, as rolled out yesterday. Five tracks between them, apparently.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J_Hottest_100,_2019 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExMjEwymQ3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9LM77xvcXo
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 26 January 2020 03:08 (five years ago)
Number of ballots exceeded 3 million for the first time. Blimey!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 26 January 2020 03:15 (five years ago)
A few weeks ago, I heard "Better in Blak" in a franchised newsstand at the Sydney airport. It's glorious (and quite jarring) as an American, where radio doesn't permit such risque language, to walk into the blandest of corporate outlets, only to hear Thelma emphatically state "FUCK THAT!", then have that phrase shouted by backup singers afterwards!
Their track "Clumsy Love" is great, too, especially the way it lifts off in the chorus (a la Kacey Musgraves' "High Horse").
― Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:22 (five years ago)
Oh yeah, I forgot this is the thread where we're allowed to swear uncontrollably. Might save that up for later. I didn't know about Thelma Plum, she's fantastic - thanks for the recommendations!
Their track "Clumsy Love" is great, too
TUBE IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwJHmdxGec
Flume's debut. Whether it was the main catalyst or not, I think around the time it was released was a turning point for young people in Australia caring more about electronic music and the culture associated with it over rock music.
Judging by the music videos posted to this thread in 2010, Aussie rock bands did have a hell of a run at the top... Like, spanning the millennia and the epochs, there was every kind of rocker imaginable, including all-nude bands. Well, I'll give this electrical music a try and see if this guy's any good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLBSbat2bW8
(or album link if the video's blocked)
― sbahnhof, Monday, 10 February 2020 08:46 (five years ago)
Youtube is watching this thread and deleting anything it likes
WE SAID,
The Moir Sisters - Good Morning How Are You? (1974)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUc909NKnn0
― sbahnhof, Monday, 20 April 2020 05:31 (five years ago)
holy shit I have not heard that in 40+ years, it freaked me out
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 20 April 2020 05:46 (five years ago)
Haha, cheers sbahnhof. Still the best song of the 70s. Maybe.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 20 April 2020 13:07 (five years ago)
It does feel like it *could* have been systematically suppressed for 40 years. I mean, people with firsthand recollections of 70s radio seem to remember it (eg. my parents; I actually checked!) but I only became aware of its existence around 2008, via RYM of all places.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 20 April 2020 13:29 (five years ago)
Another actual earwitness reporting in, here
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:07 (five years ago)