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thermalben started the topic in Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012 at 6:47pm

Alright, time for some discussion on what yr all listening too. My iTunes inventory is getting a little stale so I'm up for some inspiration.

Currently loving The Drones' album "Havilah".. incredible songwriting and some of the best recorded guitars and drum I've heard in a long time. I'm a little late to the party with this album but it's on high rotation at the moment and will probably stay there a while. I've seen these guys live once (Fowlers, Adelaide) and fortunately they're incredible on stage too. Can't wait to see them again.

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basesix Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 12:30pm

can't wait for mudhoney.. mixalot's nasal vocals work well, cheers WS. The king of snotty-white-boy-stream-of-consciousness-rap is doseone, adam drucker:

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blackers Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 5:13pm

Snotty white boy rap?

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basesix Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 5:24pm

yeh ok, I stand corrected, mike d is the king, doseone is maybe the prince : )

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blackers Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 5:36pm
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yeh ok, I stand corrected, mike d is the king, doseone is maybe the prince : )

Not questioning your judgement, your comment just brought them to mind is all. Like to think of them all being equals, wigging out together on a big stage somewhere.

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basesix Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 6:52pm

nice.. these Adelaide punkers would be there too.. the Packets, Run Swim Cycle... sounds like gremlins doing a beastie's cover about a fitness enthusiast. Who could want more?
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MLqkTnzRNCwT4hPBbUT6j

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groundswell Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 6:56pm

Probably none into techno on this website but even then, this track is so funky anyone will want to bust a move or get a groove on to this track..around 2001 track i think

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icandig Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 1:49pm

I never really got into techno - but never say never... always looking for new tunes. Dipped a toe into hip hop but can't relate much to GANGSTA rappers - Beasty boys are more my style - but even better - Oz rappers have some really good stuff out there. Here's something for a laugh from Butterfingers. Worth sticking with it to the end. See if you can follow the lyrics.

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indo-dreaming Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 7:09pm

I hate techno with a passion, i hated it when all my friends got into the whole rave scene and dropping E's phase and you would go somewhere for warm up drinks and the chicks would put on all this doof doof.

Some electronic music is okay though but only in moderation and at the right time.

I grew up on old school rap/hip hop so have a soft spot for that genre, although i cant stand Aussie rappers down right cringe, with maybe the exception of The Beastie Boys and Enemin Afro Americans kick arse in this genre.

This is probably my favourite electronic album

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icandig Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 8:19pm

I loved that album you sexy boy.

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blackers Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 8:35pm

It's a good un. So was this.

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basesix Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 9:11pm

dunno about that one blackers... toni basil and beck in a high school band? actually now I've said that, I get it.

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blackers Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 9:40pm

Fair call, not for everyone. Following in the footsteps of Essendon Airport, Melbourne electronic punk at its weirdest. Bass player is the son of Royal Commissioner Frank Costigan. But yeah, Toni Basil and Beck take some speed and put out a record.

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basesix Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 11:38pm

jeezers.. how've I never come across these guys? 30 years before pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows and don't hug me i'm scared... split enz in kindy. mad shit blackers, totally unlistenable. love it.

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blackers Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 9:19am

“I how've I never come across these guys? ….., totally unlistenable.” I think you answered your own question there.
On the topic. Essendon Airport with Anne Cessna on vocals.

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basesix Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 10:00am

I wormholed last night, their '82/83 stuff blew my mind. Only 8 years after Saints and Birdman, playing with junky minimalism loops you could dance to ..and dodgy super 8 filmclips : D
Check it out groundswell... proto-techno:

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basesix Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 10:04am

icandig's Butterfingers track was worth sticking out, what a cool Ween-style switch up. Like watching Dusk Till Dawn... just when it gets a bit boring - bam.

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AndyM Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 10:12am

Wow those guys were so ahead of their time.
Wonder if The Avalanches listened to much of them.

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icandig Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 10:39am
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icandig's Butterfingers track was worth sticking out, what a cool Ween-style switch up. Like watching Dusk Till Dawn... just when it gets a bit boring - bam.

Breakfast at Fatboys (Butter fingers album) is well worth a listen - a mash between punchy guitar riffs / a bit of electronic and cheeky hip hop lyrics. Funny you mention Ween. My 18 y/o son is into them. All I remember is the daisy song. I'll have to backtrack. I remember that one Essendon Airport song (Cleopatra) but have no memory of the band - I like that last one posted...ahh...music and surfing...the search never ends.

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basesix Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 11:13am

I'll check it out... here's proto-nihilistic '78-punkers Black Chrome's famous dirge, to put your RN link in context. Lyrically still holds up today. Kinda ties in with the social-media/political threads too. Where will tomorrow's rage-against-the-status-quo-kids come from? Have we lost that? Greta?

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basesix Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 11:26am

icandig, your son might like the les claypool/sean lennon collaboration.. It sounds, well, kinda like a cross between the beatles and primus. My kids dig it.

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basesix Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 11:52am

Great show blackers. Holy cow - Voigt/465. Mr Bungle much?

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blackers Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 12:05pm

"..ahh...music and surfing...the search never ends."
Too true. Have been introduced to some great things in the various music threads here on Swellnet. Much nicer vibe than the shouty threads. Keep it coming.

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basesix Sunday, 2 Apr 2023 at 12:20pm
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Dive deeper. A good primer.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/do-that-dance-au...

This RN show's a cracker blackers, cheers.. half way through. Compare punk in '77 silly-sydney to '77 boradelaide: (this '77 news clip shows the above posted band 'black chrome' and a legend dj and a dickhead dj from the time)

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basesix Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 6:30am

nice udo, very elvis costello.
for anyone with traffic to battle, here's a warm bath in a bamboo forest:

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AndyM Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 8:48am

Good stuff udo, the sound around that scene was great.
Graham Parker sounding heaps like Stephen Cummings and The Sports (or vice versa) which is not a bad thing at all.

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thermalben Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 1:12pm

Been enjoying ZZ Top these last few weeks.

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seeds Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 1:39pm

Great album hey Ben! Their first was great too.

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thermalben Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 2:13pm

Rio Grande Mud is a fav of mine too (their second), not familiar with ZZ Top's First Album though. Will give it a spin!

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seeds Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 2:36pm

First album is imaginatively named ZZ Top’s First Album
Edit. Of course you’re right. I was thinking Tres Hombres was 2nd

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Johknee Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 2:47pm

Tres Hombres is flawless!

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seeds Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 2:52pm

There is a song on Tres Hombres that everyone knows but this isn’t it

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basesix Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 5:02pm

So 12-bar... yet... so... good... (urgh...!) feelings.. conflicted...
Nice idea for a wet, flat, onshore easter weekend with the small people though... B2F marathon!

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seeds Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 6:16pm

Nothing wrong with that, basesix.

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blackers Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 8:30pm
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basesix Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 8:54pm

Yep.. that's terrific blackers!!
I was just reading some Noise for Heroes zines this arvo from that period.

this guy does kurt cobain's solo from teen spirit!

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blackers Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 9:21pm

Haha, Fred goes off.

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blackers Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 9:23pm
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basesix Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 9:35pm

AAahhh!..
well there you go.. 'zztop to corpse grinders' presents: 12-bar blues - the great leveler : P

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blackers Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 9:54pm

This will do me.

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basesix Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at 10:06pm

Love it - I appreciate you posting some really interesting stuff blackers.. I bought that wet ones lp on ebay an hour ago.. there's another one still there if anyone dug the song. Just joshing about 12 bars, they're fine i guess, in certain contexts ; )
I quite like how this trashmen song plays with the 12-bar in an unexpected way, going into the chorus.
the Exploding White Mice covered it..

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basesix Tuesday, 4 Apr 2023 at 7:52am

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basesix Wednesday, 5 Apr 2023 at 5:45pm

aww WS, I thought you might continue the swell analogy. Damned are touring June, seems to be a year for watching glorious skeletons dance in smallish theatres... stranglers, scientists, mudhoney..

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velocityjohnno Wednesday, 5 Apr 2023 at 8:40pm

Rub me I'm your blubber boy

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truebluebasher Wednesday, 5 Apr 2023 at 10:09pm

2023 Chix Only Resolution Revolution continues with a Wildcard
Pommie Punk Chix "Maid of Ace" (Turn it Up!)

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basesix Wednesday, 5 Apr 2023 at 10:41pm

they kill! singer's got some hella dirty fry tones that reminded me of dickless' singer


and hey! another 12-bar segment in song, haha

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Snuffy Smith Thursday, 6 Apr 2023 at 10:16am

Get bent