tales from the australian underground

[sarah]

so this has been released for quite a while now and i only just picked it up today, but better late than never eh...

admittedly i knew nothing about a lot of the songs on this release, it was recommended to me as a bit of an oz music history lesson, and it's a real eye opener to how good oz rock was back in the 70's and 80's. it's a double cd, and if you've got a spare $30 or so it'd be well worth your time. it's great song after great song, and really gives you a whole new appreciation for the music of that era, just good solid rock without any polished slick production.

the tunes:

radio birdman - burned my eye
the saints - this perfect day
the victims - i'm flipped out over you
the riptides - sunset strip
psycho surgeons - horizontal action
the leftovers - cigarettes and alcohol
la femme - chelsea kids
the scientists - frantic romantic
numbers - government boy
tactics - standing by the window
lipstick killers - hindu gods [of love]
fun things - when the birdmen fly
the passengers - face with no name
the visitors - brother john
the birthday party - happy birthday
laughing clowns - sometimes
flaming hands - i belong to nobody
sunnyboys - love to rule
sekret sekret - new king jack
pel mel - no word from china
makers of the dead travel fast - tales of the saeghors
sardine v - sudan
do re mi - standing on wires

the scientists - we had love
the moodists - the disciples know
the triffids - beautiful waste
x - half way round the world
lighthouse keepers - ocean linter
the moffs - another day in the sun
died pretty - ambergris
the eastern dark - julie is a junkie
the new christs - no next time
ups and downs - the living kind
ed kuepper - also sprach the king of euro-disco
bamboos - with which to love you
wet taxis - sailors dream
thug - dad
venom p. tinger - walking about
god - my pal
the mark of cain - lords of summer
someloves - know you now
the celibate rifles - johnny
the cosmic psychos - lost cause
flunderers - i didn't see them at all
hard ons - just being with you

there's some more info here if anyone's interested:

www.feelpresents.com/label/768/releases/tales1/

[slushpup]

yeah i heard about this cd and it seems really interesting. the scientists are great...not noted for it but they are probably the first ever punk rock band (why should the UK get all the credit...)

[josha]

look i seriously cant be fucked reading what you just write, but your shit

[sarah]

yeah thanks for that josh.

[josha]

sorry sarah

do you want to be net boyfriend and girlfriend?

[sarah]

i've waited my entire life for such a proposal. i thought you tied cyber-nuptials with roller though? i'm not down with internet adultery.

[josha]

naaa we broke up in the winter of 2002, so its all good

[sarah]

fantastic.

[josha]

and the angels, had watched over you
as you crossed, over the bridge
and your mother, how she weeped for you
on the day, you turn your heart

[everlong]

Josh's frivolous self-prostitution is almost as bad as reading an armon swank topic.

[lucmeister]

josh you still suck