Stranded Far From Home / The Australian Music Thread

[zeb]

I don't wanna be a fuckin' Christmas ham.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Midnight Oil was my number 2 most listened to artist on Spotify this year.

[Ello Sailor]

Hell yeah.

[spike]

ok boomer(ang)

[Higgs]

Midnight Oil was my number 2 most listened to artist on Spotify this year.

Nice.

[wease]

I guess AC/DC is touring next year. I thought Johnson’s voice was such that he couldn’t sing anymore. Didn’t Axl sub for some of the shows on the last tour?

[zeb]

Fingers crossed for a new Julia Jacklin record in 2025.

[zeb]

OK OK I'm super duper late on this.

[Freewheelin]

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1pVRk8 ... tuWakNUKgA

Still one of the greatest albums ever.

Whenever I go back to it I’m amazed by lots of things, Russel Hopkinson drumming is elite level

Podcasts includes interviews from Lee Ranaldo and Bernard fanning and more, top shelf listening.

[zeb]

Goddamn I love that album. Quite possibly the best Australian album of all time.

Saw them support Soundgarden a year or two before it came out - instantly one of my favourite bands.

[Freewheelin]

I didn’t see them that early but earlyish and still catch them whenever I can.
There is some great soundgarden anecdotes in there as well as sonic youth and Evan dando

The band is getting interviewed by Kingsmill as the backbone of the podcast and I could listen to Andy and Tim all day.

It’s a blast listening to them namecheck all the old Aussie bands from the 90s, I had completely forgotten about tumbleweed

[zeb]

Nice - the podcast is on my list of things to catch up on.

Saw Tim fronting the Hard Ons last year, shook his hand after the show and congratulated him on a great performance.

[zeb]

Also caught their amazing Spinal Tap tour awhile back, which was a big fat chef's kiss.

[ridleybradout]

Anyone voted in the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs yet?

I've created a playlist of my top 20 (in nice flowin' order, not rankin' order).

Somehow need to narrow down to 10 before next week...

Spotify link

1. Leaving Home - Jebediah
2. ! (The Song Formerly Known As) - Regurgitator
3. Get Free - The Vines
4. Down Again - The Superjesus
5. The Greatest View - Silverchair
6. Don't Go Now - Ratcat
7. Back In Black - AC/DC
8. Flame Trees - Cold Chisel
9. Pleasure And Pain - Divinyls
10. Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
11. Let It Happen - Tame Impala
12. These Days - Powderfinger
13. Distant Sun - Crowded House
14. One Crowded Hour - Augie March
15. Disco Biscuit Love - The Jezabels
16. Monsters - Something for Kate
17. The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil
18. You're The Voice - John Farnham
19. Run To Paradise - Choirboys
20. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly

[zeb]

Choosing ten is next to impossible.

Really lovely to see One Crowded Hour on your list, Rid.

[Freewheelin]

Sharkfin blues - the drones
How much is enough - you am I
These days - powderfinger (has to be the two hands version, for it is their hard to imagine/Chicago cab moment)
Black umbrella - even
One crowded hour - Angie March
Unsent letter - machine gun fellatio
Doused - died pretty
Hasten the blows - bluebottle kiss
Akula - art of fighting
Ducks fly together - smith street band

And so many more. This was tough

[coptheriotact]

Something For Kate - Monsters
Superheist - Bullet
Grinspoon - Black Friday
Hunters & Collectors - Talking To A Stranger
Gerling - Dust Me Selecta
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
You Am I - Berlin Chair
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
The Mark Of Cain - Lockdown
One Dollar Short - Board Game

Emma Louise - Mirrors
Single Gun Theory - I've Been Dying
Dead Letter Circus - Lodestar
The Birthday Party - Nick The Stripper
The Butterfly Effect - A Slow Decent
Boy And Bear - Walk The Wire
The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac
The Superjesus - Down Again
Rowland S. Howard - Pop Crimes
REMI - Sangria
Baby Animals - Early Warning
Silverchair - The Door

thats what i ended up with. i started only picking from the list.. but when superheist wasnt in there i went rouge

[Ello Sailor]

Australian Songs

Crowded House

*eye twitch*

[Ello Sailor]

I had no idea Machine Gun Fellatio were Australian. Awesome band.

[zeb]

Sharkfin blues - the drones
How much is enough - you am I
These days - powderfinger (has to be the two hands version, for it is their hard to imagine/Chicago cab moment)
One crowded hour - Angie March

Fully support these nominations.