Your Favourite Australian Albums + Recommendations

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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,797
    pljam said:

    John Butler Trio - April Uprising
    " " " - Flesh and blood
    " " " - Grand National
    Bonjah - Until Dawn
    " - Go Go Chaos
    Kingfisha - Kingfisha
    Screaming Jets - Hits and Pieces
    Bernard Fanning - Tea and Symhany
    Xavier Rudd - Spirit Bird

    D'oh, I forgot all about John Butler and Xavier Rudd!
    I'd go for JBT's 'Sunrise Over Sea' and Xavier's 'Solace' (because it has GBA and Green Spandex on it, my 2 favourite XR songs)
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    I don't have a list yet, but some great albums that haven't been mentioned:
    Cruel Guards- The Panics
    Making Mirrors- Gotye

  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Natashapearljamfan said:

    I don't have a list yet, but some great albums that haven't been mentioned:
    Cruel Guards- The Panics
    Making Mirrors- Gotye

    I owe a nod to you for quite a few on my little list up there! :wink:
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • Croos1226
    Croos1226 philly burbs Posts: 346
    Pretty City - Colorize
    Sleepmakeswaves - Love of Cartography
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    HesCalledDyer said:

    Natashapearljamfan said:

    I don't have a list yet, but some great albums that haven't been mentioned:
    Cruel Guards- The Panics
    Making Mirrors- Gotye

    I owe a nod to you for quite a few on my little list up there! :wink:
    Does that include Gossling? She is amazing live...I can't remember which other band's I suggested...Drapht?
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    edited February 2017
    This is too hard, there are too many great Australian albums! Here's part of my list (limiting to only one album per band)

    Double Allergic- Powderfinger (hardest choice, too many great albums)
    Frogstomp- Silverchair
    Cruel Guards- The Panics
    Ivy & the Big Apples- Spiderbait
    Tea & Sympathy- Bernard Fanning
    The Living End- The Living End
    Making Mirrors- Gotye

    The next three I can't decide on. I have too many favorites including: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit- Courtney Barnett; Breed Obsession- Gyroscope; Birds of Tokyo- Birds of Tokyo; Hourly Daily- You am I; Kick- INXS, Positions- Gang of Youths; Leave your soul to Science- Something for Kate; Chimneys Afire- Josh Pyke; Awake is the New Sleep- Ben Lee; Moo you Bloody Choir- Augie March; Temple of Low Men- Crowded House; Guide to Better Living-Grinspoon; Gravity Won't Get You High- The Grates; Highway to Hell- ACDC. I was also recently introduced to Karnivool and I'm loving Themata and Sound Awake. Oh I forgot Tough Love -Magic Dirt. I'm sure I've forgotten many others.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Natashapearljamfan said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Natashapearljamfan said:

    I don't have a list yet, but some great albums that haven't been mentioned:
    Cruel Guards- The Panics
    Making Mirrors- Gotye

    I owe a nod to you for quite a few on my little list up there! :wink:
    Does that include Gossling? She is amazing live...I can't remember which other band's I suggested...Drapht?
    Yep. Drapht was one. And I think you mentioned 360 which is, in turn, how I discovered Gossling. I'd love to see her if she ever comes to the States.
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    HesCalledDyer said:

    Natashapearljamfan said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Natashapearljamfan said:

    I don't have a list yet, but some great albums that haven't been mentioned:
    Cruel Guards- The Panics
    Making Mirrors- Gotye

    I owe a nod to you for quite a few on my little list up there! :wink:
    Does that include Gossling? She is amazing live...I can't remember which other band's I suggested...Drapht?
    Yep. Drapht was one. And I think you mentioned 360 which is, in turn, how I discovered Gossling. I'd love to see her if she ever comes to the States.
    I'm not sure what she's up to, I haven't heard anything about her for a while. She's going to be at Melbourne's comedy festival in April...If you fancy a trip to Australia :wink:
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    No Coder said:


    Was lucky enough to see Paul Kelly tour the Spring and Fall album. Such a great concert. He played the album from start to finish and explained that the concert would be like listening to a record. Side A was falling in Love and Side B was when the relationship encountered problems. After finishing those songs, he did another hour + of his other stuff. One of the best shows I've seen

    saw him in a tiny local club with no more than 60 people max for both shows on that tour and yup he did the whole cd from start to finish and then played some more!
    this clip is for you. there's more i took from those shows(7 songs total) ;)
    i felt extremely blessed to be in the room with such greatest. the bob dylan of down under for sure!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O6sIGCLDS0

  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    helplessdancer said:

    No Coder said:


    Was lucky enough to see Paul Kelly tour the Spring and Fall album. Such a great concert. He played the album from start to finish and explained that the concert would be like listening to a record. Side A was falling in Love and Side B was when the relationship encountered problems. After finishing those songs, he did another hour + of his other stuff. One of the best shows I've seen

    saw him in a tiny local club with no more than 60 people max for both shows on that tour and yup he did the whole cd from start to finish and then played some more!
    this clip is for you. there's more i took from those shows(7 songs total) ;)
    i felt extremely blessed to be in the room with such greatest. the bob dylan of down under for sure!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O6sIGCLDS0

    Wow - thanks for that. I wasn't lucky enough to see him in a venue that small, it was at QPAC in Brisbane, which is a great venue for sound.

    He is our greatest storyteller, and has such a calmness about him. For as good as he is, I think he is massively under rated and under appreciated by the majority

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
    *BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
    *QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
    *Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    Natashapearljamfan said:

    This is too hard, there are too many great Australian albums! Here's part of my list (limiting to only one album per band)

    Double Allergic- Powderfinger (hardest choice, too many great albums)
    Frogstomp- Silverchair
    Cruel Guards- The Panics
    Ivy & the Big Apples- Spiderbait
    Tea & Sympathy- Bernard Fanning
    The Living End- The Living End
    Making Mirrors- Gotye

    The next three I can't decide on. I have too many favorites including: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit- Courtney Barnett; Breed Obsession- Gyroscope; Birds of Tokyo- Birds of Tokyo; Hourly Daily- You am I; Kick- INXS, Positions- Gang of Youths; Leave your soul to Science- Something for Kate; Chimneys Afire- Josh Pyke; Awake is the New Sleep- Ben Lee; Moo you Bloody Choir- Augie March; Temple of Low Men- Crowded House; Guide to Better Living-Grinspoon; Gravity Won't Get You High- The Grates; Highway to Hell- ACDC. I was also recently introduced to Karnivool and I'm loving Themata and Sound Awake. Oh I forgot Tough Love -Magic Dirt. I'm sure I've forgotten many others.

    I struggled massively, and left some great albums out. I can't believe I left out Tea and Sympathy - I must have worn that album out when it was released. Forgot about Grinspoon, the Living End Debut is killer and I loved Sunset Studies by Augie March (There's no such place is a beautiful song)

    I was stuck on which Powderfinger album to pick and went with Internationalist. Double Allergic was my runner up though. Same with Silverchair, although I think Diorama is there best work, Frogstomp was such a cool album

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
    *BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
    *QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
    *Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    This thread has made me pull out some old cds! I'm looking forward to the weekend and might have an Aussie band theme.
  • reesdog
    reesdog Auckland, NZ. Posts: 1,981
    In no particular order..

    AC/DC - Powerage.
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son.
    You Am I - Hi-fi Way.
    The Angels - Dark Room.
    AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It (Live Album).
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus.
    The Vines - Highly Evolved.
    You Am I - Hourly Daily.
    AC/DC - Back In Black.
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In.
    A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom.
  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    Natashapearljamfan said:

    This thread has made me pull out some old cds! I'm looking forward to the weekend and might have an Aussie band theme.

    Whilst doing some stuff around the house on Saturday, The Powderfinger catalogue got a good work out. Double Allergic is such a good album, as was the Mr Kneebone EP

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
    *BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
    *QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
    *Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    I don't think I've heard the Mr Kneebone EP. Was that their first? This thread has been lots of fun....ashame it's slowed down.

    I had an Aussie music weekend and I also pulled out Powderfinger, and Silverchair, Gotye, Gyroscope, Karnivool and Spiderbait.
  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    Natashapearljamfan said:

    I don't think I've heard the Mr Kneebone EP. Was that their first? This thread has been lots of fun....ashame it's slowed down.

    I had an Aussie music weekend and I also pulled out Powderfinger, and Silverchair, Gotye, Gyroscope, Karnivool and Spiderbait.

    Mr Kneebone was released later - Transfusion was their second EP in about 93 and then their first album, Parables for Wooden Ears came out in 94. They signed a record deal and then tried to change their sound to suit the grunge explosion on their first album, it's got a few good songs on it, but not really recognisable as "Powderfinger" compared to everything from Double Allergic. Thankfully they went back to doing what they do best when writing Double Allergic.

    Here's a link to part one of a doco/interview and they talk about the first album about half way through
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-W-WCpTUg

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
    *BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
    *QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
    *Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
  • pj8
    pj8 Posts: 408
    Pretty much every album The Church/Steve Kilbey has put out.
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,797
    Man I miss Powderfinger!
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    No Coder said:

    Natashapearljamfan said:

    I don't think I've heard the Mr Kneebone EP. Was that their first? This thread has been lots of fun....ashame it's slowed down.

    I had an Aussie music weekend and I also pulled out Powderfinger, and Silverchair, Gotye, Gyroscope, Karnivool and Spiderbait.

    Mr Kneebone was released later - Transfusion was their second EP in about 93 and then their first album, Parables for Wooden Ears came out in 94. They signed a record deal and then tried to change their sound to suit the grunge explosion on their first album, it's got a few good songs on it, but not really recognisable as "Powderfinger" compared to everything from Double Allergic. Thankfully they went back to doing what they do best when writing Double Allergic.

    Here's a link to part one of a doco/interview and they talk about the first album about half way through
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-W-WCpTUg

    Thanks for the video...I've got the DVD at home, but it was great to watch this again...thinking this weekend I might have to pull this DVD out and watch it. I'm thinking I'll also have to track down Mr kneebone and transfusion.
  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    goldrush said:

    Man I miss Powderfinger!

    Don't we all!
    But I'm enjoying Bernard's new solo music.

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