Because sometimes I love music too much
And what else can you do at 4am when your body conspires to keep you awake?
I love studying other people's music collections (books and dvds are fun too) to see I how I can fit them into my frame of cultural reference. Can't help it, always do it. The iPod is not a great way to do this though, as the age of download means people can fill their iPods with music they never listen to.
Being from the Antipodes, indifferent to Triple J polls (or any other fucking radio station polls), I thought I'd list my favourite Aussie and Kiwi bands, for my own pleasure of course. To analyse myself, or to give you other music geeks (Mark Deniz, Ben Payne, no fingers pointed here..) out there an insight into what I like. I shall preface this by saying I own over 3500 pieces of music (be it cd, vinyl or dvd).
I've broken it down into:
Favourite - self explanatory
Current - artists still in rotation, alphabetical listing
Former - artisits I used to be into (by into I have more than one album of and were really into, yeah?) In chronological order of when I first discovered them. I still like them, I just don't play them regularly. A problem of having so much music.
Other - artists I liked one album of or perhaps only a greatest hits or missed the boat somewhat on. Also in chronological order.
AUSTRALIAN KIWI FAVOURITE FAVOURITE The Church / Steve Kilbey / Marty Willson-Piper The Chills / Martin Phillips CURRENT CURRENT All India Radio Bacherlorette Augie March Dimmer The Black Ryder Goldenhorse David Bridie Greg Johnson Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lawrence Arabia Cut Copy Don McGlashan Decoder Ring The Phoenix Foundation / Samuel Scott Flynn GB3 The Go-Betweens / Robert Forster / Grant McLennan The John Steel Singers Noctorum The Sleepy Jackson FORMER FORMER Men At Work Split Enz Mental As Anything Schnell Fenster Midnight Oil Straitjacket Fits Icehouse The Front Lawn Hoodoo Gurus The JPS Experience / David Yetton / David Mulchay V Spy V Spy The Bats Lime Spiders The Mutton Birds Painters & Dockers Jan Hellriegel Died Pretty Superette Jack Frost 3Ds Ratcat The Clean Falling Joys David Kilgour The Hummingbirds Stereobus Single Gun Theory Bike Underground Lovers Bressa Creeting Cake The Killjoys Good Shirt Peter Koppes Bic Runga Stephen Cummings Lanky Clouds Pitch Black Regurgitator Spiderbait The Paradise Motel Dead Can Dance Deadstar Not Drowning Waving My Friend The Chocolate Cake Gelbison Silver Ray / Cam Butler The Panics OTHER OTHER Pseudo Echo Mi-Sex Crowded House Blam Blam Blam Ammonia Sharon O'Neil Paul Kelly Dance Exponents The Lucksmiths DD Smash Icecream Hands Hello Sailor Faker The Dudes The Reels Dragon Gersey Glovepuppet The Tufnels Bailter Space Garageland The Ruby Suns
A lot of Kiwi bands only ever put out one album!
I love studying other people's music collections (books and dvds are fun too) to see I how I can fit them into my frame of cultural reference. Can't help it, always do it. The iPod is not a great way to do this though, as the age of download means people can fill their iPods with music they never listen to.
Being from the Antipodes, indifferent to Triple J polls (or any other fucking radio station polls), I thought I'd list my favourite Aussie and Kiwi bands, for my own pleasure of course. To analyse myself, or to give you other music geeks (Mark Deniz, Ben Payne, no fingers pointed here..) out there an insight into what I like. I shall preface this by saying I own over 3500 pieces of music (be it cd, vinyl or dvd).
I've broken it down into:
Favourite - self explanatory
Current - artists still in rotation, alphabetical listing
Former - artisits I used to be into (by into I have more than one album of and were really into, yeah?) In chronological order of when I first discovered them. I still like them, I just don't play them regularly. A problem of having so much music.
Other - artists I liked one album of or perhaps only a greatest hits or missed the boat somewhat on. Also in chronological order.
AUSTRALIAN KIWI FAVOURITE FAVOURITE The Church / Steve Kilbey / Marty Willson-Piper The Chills / Martin Phillips CURRENT CURRENT All India Radio Bacherlorette Augie March Dimmer The Black Ryder Goldenhorse David Bridie Greg Johnson Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lawrence Arabia Cut Copy Don McGlashan Decoder Ring The Phoenix Foundation / Samuel Scott Flynn GB3 The Go-Betweens / Robert Forster / Grant McLennan The John Steel Singers Noctorum The Sleepy Jackson FORMER FORMER Men At Work Split Enz Mental As Anything Schnell Fenster Midnight Oil Straitjacket Fits Icehouse The Front Lawn Hoodoo Gurus The JPS Experience / David Yetton / David Mulchay V Spy V Spy The Bats Lime Spiders The Mutton Birds Painters & Dockers Jan Hellriegel Died Pretty Superette Jack Frost 3Ds Ratcat The Clean Falling Joys David Kilgour The Hummingbirds Stereobus Single Gun Theory Bike Underground Lovers Bressa Creeting Cake The Killjoys Good Shirt Peter Koppes Bic Runga Stephen Cummings Lanky Clouds Pitch Black Regurgitator Spiderbait The Paradise Motel Dead Can Dance Deadstar Not Drowning Waving My Friend The Chocolate Cake Gelbison Silver Ray / Cam Butler The Panics OTHER OTHER Pseudo Echo Mi-Sex Crowded House Blam Blam Blam Ammonia Sharon O'Neil Paul Kelly Dance Exponents The Lucksmiths DD Smash Icecream Hands Hello Sailor Faker The Dudes The Reels Dragon Gersey Glovepuppet The Tufnels Bailter Space Garageland The Ruby Suns
A lot of Kiwi bands only ever put out one album!