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biggles04

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This evening I was involved in a discussion on MSN. It was a simple discussion. People just happened to turn to a conversation of what they were listening to, which turned to their favourite artists, and to my shock horror and absolute disgust, they did not name one decent artist. They simply named commercialised, mass promoted, mass produced artists who possess very-little-to-absolutely-no-talent what so ever.

This pissed me off so fucking much that I went and made a list of every AUSTRALIAN artist I could think of that deserves a mention from the almighty Biggles, king of the music industry.

I pulled out every single CD I own and to my little suprise, well over three quarters of my collection is, in fact, Australian.

So, without further ado, my list of notable Australian artists that you fuckwits should try to support once in a while;


Ed Kuepper - The original man of punk.
And his bands;
The Saints,
The Laughing Clowns,
and
The Aints.

Powderfinger
Hunters and Collectors
Hoodoo Gurus
The BeeGees
TISM
The Whitlams
INXS
Silverchair
Midnight Oil
AC/DC
Cold Chisel
John Farnham
Peter Allen
End of Fashion
Spiderbait
Daughterboy Jao
Machine Gun Fellatio
The Panics
On Inc.
Sarah Blasko
Jet
Custard
The Lucksmiths
Kisschasy
George
Little Birdy
Something for Kate
The Living End
Regurgitator
Skyhooks
Machine Translations
Grinspoon
Butterfingers
Eskimo Joe
Bluebottle Kiss
The Drugs
Downsyde
Crowded House
Darren Hayes
The Herd
Retrospect
You Am I
Speedstar
Killing Heidi
The Superjesus
Magic Dirt
The Spazzys
Miles From Nowhere
Pseudo Echo
Madison Avenue
Lo-Tel
The Divinyls
Cog
The Cat Empire
Goodshirt
Superheist
Paul Kelly
After The Fall
Architecture In Helsinki
Men at Work
Neon
Hilltop Hoods
Ben Folds
Front End Loader
The Avalanches
The Resin Dogs
Waikiki
Sonic Animation
Joel Turner & The Modern Day Poets
Gerling
Dead Ringer Band
Cut Copy
Love Outside Andromeda
Amiel
Darren Hanlon
Paul Mac
Shihad (Pacifier)
The Waifs
Icehouse
Gelbison
Wicked Beat Sound System
FourPlay
The Butterfly Effect
The Sleepy Jackson
Nokturnl
One Dollar Short
Kaleidoscope
Her Majesty's Finest
B(if)tek
The Cruel Sea
The Daisycutters
The Go-Betweens
Missy Higgins
John Williamson
Rolf Harris
Nick Cave / The Badseeds
Motor Ace
The Casanovas
Dallas Crane
The Hard Ons
Bodyjar
Faker
The Panics
LIOR
The Looks
The Wireflys
Mental As Anything
28 Days


I was so proud of my list that I saved it.

The End.
 
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What about Missy Higgins? And does anyone remember that cool band called Girlfriend? Early 90's. Also what about the Wiggles, Hi 5 and the Hooley Dooleys? I also think you missed John Farnham, and John Williamson. Also that guy that plays the wobble board and sings tie me kangaroo down sport. LOL.

But good list anyway. Hey are The Cranberries Australian? I can never remember?
 

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Good list.

Some that havn't been mensioned that I like-

Natalie Imbruglia
Vanessa amorosi
Missy higgins
Human nature
Finn brothers
 

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braindrainedAsh said:
What about Missy Higgins?
Woops.

braindrainedAsh said:
does anyone remember that cool band called Girlfriend?
No.

braindrainedAsh said:
Also what about the Wiggles, Hi 5 and the Hooley Dooleys?
I said 'notable Australia MUSICIANS'

braindrainedAsh said:
I also think you missed John Farnham,
No I didn't.

braindrainedAsh said:
and John Williamson.
Argh! Thank you!

braindrainedAsh said:
Also that guy that plays the wobble board and sings tie me kangaroo down sport.
Rolf Harris. Good idea, will add.

braindrainedAsh said:
Hey are The Cranberries Australian? I can never remember?
Irish.

OZGIRL86 said:
Good list.

Some that havn't been mensioned that I like-

Natalie Imbruglia
Vanessa amorosi
Human nature
Finn brothers
For good reasons, my dear ;)
 
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dirty three, the church, nick cave/bad seeds, the saints, the go-betweens, the slugfuckers, voigt 465, primitive calculators, dead can dance
 

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How about Stef?

ie me....

having a concert 31st October

arent i cool?

*looks around*

My lonely non-mainstream music I doubt you'll like my piano music....
 

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transcendent said:
where will you be playing? how much are they tickets? :p
Conservatorium of Music (where the Botanic Gardens are) East Recital Hall, 6:30pm, gold coin entry :) (cuz we dont give a shit, we're not famous yet) I think it's also going to have some "What's On" ad in some newspaper, I'm not sure, most of this is all so sudden.

It's all contemporary, avante garde music.

Piano...
 
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ur_inner_child said:
Conservatorium of Music (where the Botanic Gardens are) East Recital Hall, 6:30pm, gold coin entry :) (cuz we dont give a shit, we're not famous yet) I think it's also going to have some "What's On" ad in some newspaper, I'm not sure, most of this is all so sudden.

It's all contemporary, avante garde music.

Piano...
OMG, I'M SO THERE!!!!!



lessthanthree said:
nick cave/bad seeds
Can't believe I forgot Nick Cave.
The rest aren't going on there.

And you said I didn't have The Saints there...loser, they're first on the list, for VERY obvious reasons.
 

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omg, you have forgotten so many awesome australian bands (some of these arent as awesome as others):
something with numbers
the hot lies
ben lee
the cops
gyroscope
67 special
parkway drive
neon
the red paintings
in the grey
mere theory
trial kennedy
behind crimson eyes
further
the tourettes
the go set
bagster
rhubarb
unpaid debt
the amity affliction
elephant mojo
sunk loto
taking sides
transport


yeah...
 

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braindrainedAsh said:
And does anyone remember that cool band called Girlfriend? Early 90's.
haha, I had their tape, and my tape player ate it. I cried. My dad then got me the cd :uhhuh:
 

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boy is your face going to be red when you realise you forgot Mercury 4

check it
 

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