| Author | Message | ||
     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 306 Registered: 10-2008 |
Dont think we've done this before, maybe we did? Anyway, to be honest my knowledge of Aus/NZ albums is fairly shocking apart from the obvious - GB's, Cave, Triffids and Chills. So this is my way of picking your brains for nuggets I may be unaware of. Mine are predictable 1. GB's - Before Hollywood 2. Cave and The Seeds - Your Funeral... 3. Triffids - BSD. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 307 Registered: 10-2008 |
damn, what was i saying about edit function, or lack of - that should of course read ..from Aus or NZ. Mr Moderator, are you listening - how's about an edit function? | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 141 Registered: 08-2005 |
Yep, mine's going to be pretty obvious. The majority of my Antipodean music listening would be the Go-Betweens, Chills, Ed Kueppper/Saints, with honourable mentions for Emily Barker (from Western Australia but now based in the UK) and Jimmy Little Spring Hill Fair - Go-Betweens Submarine Bells - The Chills Everybody's Got To - Ed Kuepper | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2934 Registered: 05-2005 |
1 The Chills - Soft Bomb (my favourite ever record) 2 The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane 3 The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional (until the last couple of years I'd always preferred Calenture as it was the first Triffids record I ever bought - on vinyl as it happens - but BSD has finally superceded it) | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 517 Registered: 05-2005 |
1. The Church - Remote Luxury/Persia eps 2. The Go Betweens - Liberty Bell and the Black Diamond Express 3. The Tiffids - Born Sandy Devotional 4. Crowed House - Temple Of Low Men 5. Jimmy Barnes - Working Class Man.....just kidding!!!!!!! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 518 Registered: 05-2005 |
...not spelling too good tday...to bluddy cold! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 666 Registered: 07-2006 |
triffids - calenture go-bs - i really don't want to pick. for today, let's say liberty belle. frente! - marvin the album | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2052 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've been avoiding this thread because listing only three isn't any fun. But listing favorites rather than "best" records IS fun. A reliable favorite for me is Jimmy Little's "Messenger." Great songs, great arrangements, great interpretations. It's a timeless record, for me the ultimate single presentation of Australian music. Then GoBees' "Liberty Belle" and Triffids' BSD. And there are the three. Now for the fun . . . here are my perfectly plausible alternative candidates, not counting other GoBees or Triffids records: Apartments--"The Evening Visits . . . " (Sometimes my choice is "Fete Foraine.") Augie March--"Strange Bird" or "Moo You Bloody Choir" ("Bird" works better as an album but "Moo" ultimately has the stronger collection of songs.) The Bats--"Daddy's Highway" Bee Gees--"Monday's Rain" (Their first plausible album with a glorious no-budget production.) Cannanes--"Arty Barbecue" Kev Carmody--"Eulogy" Chulls--"Submarine Bells" Richard Davies--"There's Never Been a Crowd Like This" (but could just as well be "Telegraph.") Easybeats--"Good Friday" (could just as well be "Volume 3.") Robert Forster--"Calling From a Country Phone" Paul Kelly--"Post" Ed Kuepper--"Character Assassination" Panics--"Sleeps Like a Curse" Saints--"Prehistoric Sounds" Marty Willson-Piper--"Spirit Level" (more disciplined and song-oriented than Church records.) And I suspect that as they slowly filter into my brain one of the Tactics' albums may get onto the list as well as one of the Disaster Plan albums. And if I had albums (rather than anthologies) by bands like the Plug Uglies, the Moodists or the original 1960s lineup of the Masters Apprentices they would surely also be in the running. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1674 Registered: 10-2004 |
Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle Chills - Submarine Bells Saints - Prehistoric Sounds runners up: Split Enz - Time & Tide Church - Seance Verlaines - Bird dog Apartments - Evening Visits | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 520 Registered: 05-2005 |
O.K. then Randy, game on for the top 10! Another 6 would be: Ups and Downs - Sleepless Big Heavy Stuff - Dear Friends and Enemies The Panics - Sleeps Like a Curse Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos The Apartments - Drift Go Betweens - Before Hollywood | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 668 Registered: 07-2006 |
go the gurus geoff! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 523 Registered: 05-2005 |
Any album with songs of personified cyclones, death ships and obscure episodes of Get Smart gets my vote any day! When I was at Uni, Stoneage Romeos and the first Violent Femmes were mandatory at any party! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 313 Registered: 10-2008 |
now vioent femmes, theres another of my "bands that i dont get....." - just awful. and i echo padraig on the other thread with joanna bloody newsome - just pure unlistenable. like bjork, christ im on a roll!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1675 Registered: 10-2004 |
I should add Birthday Party's "Prayers on Fire" to my list. The Bats' Daddy's Highway is definitely up there for me as well. | ||
| bongo billy Member Username: Bongo_billy Post Number: 2 Registered: 06-2008 |
Here Come The Cars - David Kilgour Always The Bridegroom - Love Gone Wrong Before and After Love - Mark C Halstead Plus all Go-B's and Triffids, natch | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 142 Registered: 10-2006 |
Tim Finn-'Escapade' Go-B's- '16LL' Ladyhawke. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3244 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Moodists - Thirsty's Calling GB's - Liberty Belle Cave 0 Let Love In | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1532 Registered: 01-2005 |
Go-Betweens - Liberty Bell and The Black Diamond Express Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional Crowded House - Woodface Another three: The Chills - Soft Bomb Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call The Church - Seance | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 672 Registered: 07-2006 |
seance seems to be a popular one. is the general consensus that it's preferable to the blurred crusade? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1685 Registered: 10-2004 |
Joe, I would say so. Blurred Crusade has a few good songs, but to me it fell victim to the "sophomore slump" syndrome. I think Seance is a lot better. Plus, Seance has a way cooler album cover! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 526 Registered: 05-2005 |
Boy, I wish I could "slump" an album like The Blurred Crusade!!!!!!!!! Seance has the Nick Launay imposed Pseudo Echo (don't ask!!!) drums all over it wrecking a great album. I would love Kilbey to excise those drum effects and re release it a la Macca and Let it be nude. If you are not reeling after the first 2 songs on the Blurred Crusade, you do not like guitar music! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1686 Registered: 10-2004 |
Geoff, to these ears, the first two songs on Blurred Crusade are the only good ones! After that, it's all downhill. The songwriting on Seance is way more consistent. Still a couple duds, but overall far more engaging (despite the silly gunshot snare effect) songs than on Blurred. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 673 Registered: 07-2006 |
i don't know it well, i'll have to revisit. you've got me intrigued. after heyday, blurred is my preferred church listen. pseudo echo in 83? by a few months geoff! poor boys. all they wanted to do is live out their melbourne-cum-ultravox fantasy. and who can blame them?!? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2057 Registered: 03-2005 |
Interestingly I've never heard either Heyday or Seance. I haven't played Blurred Crusade in a long time, so I'm playing it now to see what I think. I DO have Hindsight. One of my favorite moments on that whole set is "It's No Reason." Is that from either of those albums? I think I'm in the minority, however, because I tend to favor some of the later Church records, e.g. "Priest=Aura" and "After Everything Now This", over the earlier ones. I'm guessing you guys are referring to the dreaded gated snare drum sound. I suspect that effect is usually printed onto the original track, i.e., the gate is applied to the snare at the input that then goes onto the tape rather than to the output from the recorded track. Assuming I'm right there's nothing that can be done except perhaps for some EQ tweaking to make it less jarring. So many 80s records would be enormously improved by reversing the gate effect or, at least, altering its operating parameters. Sigh. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1687 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, first of all, I'll send you some Seance tracks (but not the two on Hindsight, obviously). After the Remote Luxury comp (which collects two EPs), Seance is my favorite Church album. Yes, there's a dreadful effect on the snare that sounds like a fake, echoey shotgun, but if you can get past that, the songs themselves are quite excellent. Very melodic, understated, atmospheric, contemplative type stuff. Excellent electric 12-string, too! Heyday is really good, as well. Some people reckon it's their best 80s album. It's really solid, consistent and definitely worth having. I quite like the debut album, too, but only the US version as it appends "Tear It All Away," one of my favorite Church songs ever. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 527 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, can't believe you haven't got Seance! Wow...do your self a favour! Very Byrds!!!! I even, presumptiously, told Peter Koppes that he had taken a riff from "Feel a whole lot better" and used it in "Disappear?" in my yoof! Normally I'd be the first to stick up for it but I've finally gotten around to learning the solo to Almost With You so it's the Blurred Crusade at the moment. Jeff, Skins and Hearts never had "Tear it all away" on it here in Auz. It was released as a "double single" with the other "A-side" being "Too fast for You". I think the original of it had the cover that graced the US frist album. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1536 Registered: 01-2005 |
I sprang for the double disc Oz version of Seance three years ago. One of my better purchases I must say. It's a tough choice though for my second favorite Church album between Blurred Crusade and Heyday. Hearts and Minds and Priest=Aura would fill in the last two slots of my top 5 Church albums. To be fair though, I haven't bough any new Church albums since 2002's After Everything Now This. |