Australia Day!
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st_aurafinaAustralia Day - a total bludge of a public holiday, in which I try to fail to celebrate the invasion of this continent, but instead aim to move around as little as possible (because it's usually stinking bloody hot), and listen to Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown on the radio. Now that I live in the wilds where Triple J's radio waves cannot penetrate, I'm happy they have a webcast. Go listen, for some great alternative music, (and some P!ATD that crept in there too), and to hear our glorious Aussie accents sprawling across the internet.
So, Aussie music. I'm using Boxnet for the first time - it seems to be a lot less clunky and ad-ridden than Yousendit and the incredibly evil Sendspace.
Sarah Blasko: Whimsy and a beautiful voice.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Sarah Blasko
From "Like a Version", Triple J's compilation of covers.
Don't Dream It's Over - Sarah Blasko
From "She Will Have Her Way", an album of Crowded House covers.
Sweetest November - Sarah Blasko
Which I first misheard as "Sweet-Ass November".
Nick Cave: the creepy boy from Wangaratta.
True story of reflected limelight:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lilacsigil knows someone who once met Nick Cave and offered him a cigarette. He refused.
Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
This is from Rogue's Gallery - a compilation of sea shanties by various artists.
Disco 2000 - Nick Cave
In which Nick turns Pulp's funky nostalgic song into a dirge. I love it.
Kylie Minogue - our little singing budgie.
It was very funny when she had a break though into the US market with "Can't Get You Out of My Mind", because people were calling it a come-back. She never had a come-back, because she never stopped putting out hits. Did people think she failed to exist if she wasn't charting in the US? *mind boggles* Anyway, here are a couple of tracks that she put out between "Locomotion" (the first song that charted in the States), and "Can't Get You Out of My Mind" (the second song that charted in the States.)
Confide In Me - Kylie Minogue
The first song after she broke away from her mega-pop producers, and the first time she put her sweet, whispery voice to good use.
Cowboy Style - Kylie Minogue
"Cowboy style, with a peaceful smile" - I love this song, and not just for the cowboy dancers in chaps from her show.
Chocolate - Kylie Minogue
Smooth and strange. And chocolatey. And actually, this is from after "Can't Get You Out of My Head".
Clare Bowditch:
She has a french horn in her band - automatic cool. If you like Sarah Blasko, you should give Clare a whirl. Not literally.
Lips Like Orange - Clare Bowditch
Yes, I Miss You Like the Rain - Clare Bowditch
New Buffalo: Maybe I should have just made a post of whimsical Aussie chicks?
Four Seasons In One Day - New Buffalo
Cover of a Crowded House song - really beautiful.
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
From Triple J's Like A Version again.
The Waifs: Aussie folk/country/rock
London Still
A sad long-distance phone call song.
Lighthouse
Lighthouse tall and grand,
Standing on that cold headland,
Shine your light across the sea,
For a wayward sailor girl like me.
The Avalanches:
What are they? Techno? Cool, though.
Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
That boy needs therapy, (purely pyschosomatic),
That boy needs therapy,
Lying down on the couch, what does that mean?
You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!
Undersea Communities - The Avalanches
A song with a Japanese tongue twister in it.
Aussie Hip-Hop:
There's something really awesome about hearing those flat Aussie vowel sounds against a beat.
Nosebleed Section - Hilltop Hoods
This is full of energy, has a great sample, and rhymes Mafia with Gaddafi.
These Kids - Joel Turner
Joel Turner, beat-boxer, rocked up to the auditions of the first Australian Idol and just wouldn't disappear. He didn't get into the competition, but he was so strange and talented, he kept popping up all over the place, and ended up making a record with Mark Holden, one of the Idol judges.
Karma - 1200 Techniques
This is here because it's a great song, and not because the lead singer once played a genie on an ad for Tim-Tams (the best biscuit in the country, if not the world.)
Pete Murray:
Soulful folk-rock with a bittersweet tone.
So Beautiful - Pete Murray
Feeler - Pete Murray
Irreverant humour - it's ubiquitous, mate:
Not The Sunscreen Song - John Safran
Famous for promoting atheism door-to-door in Salt Lake City, John Safran took Baz Lurhman's stupid song and made it so much better. Features the lyric "Never live in Adelaide; it's a hole."
(Sorry,trailingoff)
I'm So Post-Modern - The Bedroom Philosopher
You know you've met the guy in this song. Probably at university, or maybe online.
Sample lyrics:
I'm so postmodern I bought a round the world plane ticket,
And stuffed my clothes with eggplant and pretended it was me.
I'm so postmodern I've got a tattoo of my pin number,
In hieroglyphics on my neighbour's guide dog.
Shiny Disco Balls - Who Da Funk
ETA: Link fixed now - get your shiny disco balls here!
Life is not complete until you have this pointless song in your head. There are only four lines:
Drugs, rock and roll,
Bad-ass Vegas whores,
Late night booty calls,
Shiny disco balls.
I'm a Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
Oh, Pauline Hanson, our very own hater of everyone. Pauline Hanson was a brief political phenomenon - a racist, homophobic, rural politician, leader of the One Nation party. Famous for being xenophobic without knowing the meaning of the word when challenged on Aussie Sixty Minutes (Please explain?). Pauline Pantsdown, on the other hand, is a Sydney drag queen with a sound editing program and recordings of everything Pauline Hanson ever said. Pauline H. took Pauline P. to court, and had this song banned from airplay. So take it, play it everywhere. Share it with your friends. You'll be doing your bit to stop xenophobes everywhere.
Woah - look at all that HTML. I'm bound to have stuffed something up, so please tell me.
ETA: I did stuff something up - the link for "Shiny Disco Balls", but it's fixed now.
Son of ETA: And the link to "Feeler" was wrong, but it's fixed now. I left a slash in there, where no slash ought to be. *is bad slasher*
Bastard grandson of ETA: These links have been inactivated now, but if you've wandered across this post, and want them re-uploaded, just leave a comment.
So, Aussie music. I'm using Boxnet for the first time - it seems to be a lot less clunky and ad-ridden than Yousendit and the incredibly evil Sendspace.
Sarah Blasko: Whimsy and a beautiful voice.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Sarah Blasko
From "Like a Version", Triple J's compilation of covers.
Don't Dream It's Over - Sarah Blasko
From "She Will Have Her Way", an album of Crowded House covers.
Sweetest November - Sarah Blasko
Which I first misheard as "Sweet-Ass November".
Nick Cave: the creepy boy from Wangaratta.
True story of reflected limelight:
lilacsigil knows someone who once met Nick Cave and offered him a cigarette. He refused. Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
This is from Rogue's Gallery - a compilation of sea shanties by various artists.
Disco 2000 - Nick Cave
In which Nick turns Pulp's funky nostalgic song into a dirge. I love it.
Kylie Minogue - our little singing budgie.
It was very funny when she had a break though into the US market with "Can't Get You Out of My Mind", because people were calling it a come-back. She never had a come-back, because she never stopped putting out hits. Did people think she failed to exist if she wasn't charting in the US? *mind boggles* Anyway, here are a couple of tracks that she put out between "Locomotion" (the first song that charted in the States), and "Can't Get You Out of My Mind" (the second song that charted in the States.)
Confide In Me - Kylie Minogue
The first song after she broke away from her mega-pop producers, and the first time she put her sweet, whispery voice to good use.
Cowboy Style - Kylie Minogue
"Cowboy style, with a peaceful smile" - I love this song, and not just for the cowboy dancers in chaps from her show.
Chocolate - Kylie Minogue
Smooth and strange. And chocolatey. And actually, this is from after "Can't Get You Out of My Head".
Clare Bowditch:
She has a french horn in her band - automatic cool. If you like Sarah Blasko, you should give Clare a whirl. Not literally.
Lips Like Orange - Clare Bowditch
Yes, I Miss You Like the Rain - Clare Bowditch
New Buffalo: Maybe I should have just made a post of whimsical Aussie chicks?
Four Seasons In One Day - New Buffalo
Cover of a Crowded House song - really beautiful.
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
From Triple J's Like A Version again.
The Waifs: Aussie folk/country/rock
London Still
A sad long-distance phone call song.
Lighthouse
Lighthouse tall and grand,
Standing on that cold headland,
Shine your light across the sea,
For a wayward sailor girl like me.
The Avalanches:
What are they? Techno? Cool, though.
Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
That boy needs therapy, (purely pyschosomatic),
That boy needs therapy,
Lying down on the couch, what does that mean?
You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!
Undersea Communities - The Avalanches
A song with a Japanese tongue twister in it.
Aussie Hip-Hop:
There's something really awesome about hearing those flat Aussie vowel sounds against a beat.
Nosebleed Section - Hilltop Hoods
This is full of energy, has a great sample, and rhymes Mafia with Gaddafi.
These Kids - Joel Turner
Joel Turner, beat-boxer, rocked up to the auditions of the first Australian Idol and just wouldn't disappear. He didn't get into the competition, but he was so strange and talented, he kept popping up all over the place, and ended up making a record with Mark Holden, one of the Idol judges.
Karma - 1200 Techniques
This is here because it's a great song, and not because the lead singer once played a genie on an ad for Tim-Tams (the best biscuit in the country, if not the world.)
Pete Murray:
Soulful folk-rock with a bittersweet tone.
So Beautiful - Pete Murray
Feeler - Pete Murray
Irreverant humour - it's ubiquitous, mate:
Not The Sunscreen Song - John Safran
Famous for promoting atheism door-to-door in Salt Lake City, John Safran took Baz Lurhman's stupid song and made it so much better. Features the lyric "Never live in Adelaide; it's a hole."
(Sorry,
trailingoff)I'm So Post-Modern - The Bedroom Philosopher
You know you've met the guy in this song. Probably at university, or maybe online.
Sample lyrics:
I'm so postmodern I bought a round the world plane ticket,
And stuffed my clothes with eggplant and pretended it was me.
I'm so postmodern I've got a tattoo of my pin number,
In hieroglyphics on my neighbour's guide dog.
Shiny Disco Balls - Who Da Funk
ETA: Link fixed now - get your shiny disco balls here!
Life is not complete until you have this pointless song in your head. There are only four lines:
Drugs, rock and roll,
Bad-ass Vegas whores,
Late night booty calls,
Shiny disco balls.
I'm a Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
Oh, Pauline Hanson, our very own hater of everyone. Pauline Hanson was a brief political phenomenon - a racist, homophobic, rural politician, leader of the One Nation party. Famous for being xenophobic without knowing the meaning of the word when challenged on Aussie Sixty Minutes (Please explain?). Pauline Pantsdown, on the other hand, is a Sydney drag queen with a sound editing program and recordings of everything Pauline Hanson ever said. Pauline H. took Pauline P. to court, and had this song banned from airplay. So take it, play it everywhere. Share it with your friends. You'll be doing your bit to stop xenophobes everywhere.
Woah - look at all that HTML. I'm bound to have stuffed something up, so please tell me.
ETA: I did stuff something up - the link for "Shiny Disco Balls", but it's fixed now.
Son of ETA: And the link to "Feeler" was wrong, but it's fixed now. I left a slash in there, where no slash ought to be. *is bad slasher*
Bastard grandson of ETA: These links have been inactivated now, but if you've wandered across this post, and want them re-uploaded, just leave a comment.