johnunderstood: Favorite Australian Bands

Transient 10.29.09	carpathian, break even, eleventh he reaches london, hopeless all better than anything you've listed here
Transient 10.29.09	also laura, my disco, ohana, love like...electrocution, 50 lions and mary jane kelly
maqwep 10.29.09	eleventh he reaches london, love like...electrocution, .neath
maqwep 10.29.09	eh fuck it transients got it and then some
RedSky 10.29.09	Dead Can Dance.
maqwep 10.29.09	this is your captain speaking, dirty three, nick cave & bad seeds, powderfinger
Masochist 10.29.09	Damn right, Nick Cave. Also The Butterfly Effect, Sleep Parade, Karnivool, The Living End
Jethro42 10.29.09	Damn right, Dead can Dance!... Birds Of Tokio, with the Karnivool's singer
EVedder27 10.29.09	Silverchair is pretty good
Lions 10.29.09	Dirty Three rules. I agree with Closure in Moscow though.
FeralMemories 10.29.09	The Red Shore.
Dystopic 10.30.09	Human Error.
Dystopic 10.30.09	Be'lakor are good too.
maqwep 10.30.09	actually yeah silverchair rules
KritikalMotion 10.30.09	the red paintings + nick cave
Eclectic 10.30.09	Mammal Calling All Cars Sydonia Dead Letter Circus
Deviant. 10.30.09	The Living End Nick Cave Alchemist
Douchebag 10.30.09	The Living End, Gyroscope, old old old Grinspoon, Powderfinger among others all rape this list.
liledman 10.30.09	psycroptic miles away (new) carpathian the broderick in trenches the middle east quebec
CrackTheSkye 10.30.09	Universum, I Exist, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Talons, Extortion, Robotosaurus, and Lungs + all the bands you're been recd.
nevertoolate 10.30.09	Extortion, Robotosaurus
TheyTookOurJobs 11.06.09	oh my god, i think you are the first person to mention city escape on this site. they are so fucking good
Piglet 11.06.09	WTF 5?
TheyTookOurJobs 11.06.09	i think karnivool should be on here, jack the stripper, beneath the rising tide, against..........list could go on for years
pavygravy 05.28.10	parkway drive own the best frontman in the world !
Hecksplosion 05.28.10	Karnivool and Dead Letter Circus :)
Dryden 05.28.10	lol5
nevertoolate 07.04.10	Dead Kings Coma Lies As Silence Breaks
Douglas 07.04.10	Dream On, Dreamer = ughhhh You need some Something For Kate
kangaroopoo 07.04.10	Alchemist Cog Karnivool Dead Letter Circus The Butterfly Effect
Vooligan 07.04.10	Remove everything in your list and replace it with: 1. Karnivool 2. Cog 3. Dead Letter Circus 4. Sleep Parade 5. Twelve Foot Ninja 6. Eleventh He Reaches London 7. Nick Cave 8. Tangled Thoughts of Leaving
NEVERfade 07.04.10	British India and Gyroscope are my favourite modern australian bands
McCopper 07.04.10	Be'lakor
tombits 07.04.10	tame impala, parades, the middle east
SeaAnemone 07.04.10	why do Australians (mostly, but also others) feel the need to distinguish bands hailing from Australia as 'Australian bands'? Seriously, I don't get it and think it's a tad ridiculous. If a rapper is from Australia, he's an Australian rap artist, rather than just a rapper. More than any other country by far, nationality becomes SUCH a factor for them. Is it national pride, maybe? Like nothing against Davey, Vooligan, etc., but I don't understand why anyone concentrates so heavily on music from their native country... simply because it's from their native country. Maybe I'm missing something, but it also seems like the best bands from Australia often shed the 'Australian' label (Laura, love like..., Dead Can Dance, Red Paintings, etc.) while other bands basically rely on the label to survive, it seems (Karnivool, Cog, The Butterfly Effect, Dead Letter Circus, etc.)... I mean it's not that they're bad bands, but why the stupid label? Is it a shift in genre when music comes from Australia? Honestly, every time I hear 'Australian band' I think 'worse bands' simply because the term designates the music as something that needs like, a niche label, if that makes sense... you don't hear 'American rapper,' and you might hear things like the 'Scottish screamo band' but it never defines the band the way Australian bands seem to do. I'm full of questions. Someone help me.
Mordecai. 07.04.10	wolfmother
Mclovin 07.04.10	Psycroptic when the vocals were still guttural belches.
NEVERfade 07.04.10	yeah Im from Australia and I love it here, but our pride is ridiculous
tombits 07.04.10	i think it's just an effort to try and cover up our generally shitty music scene.
Vooligan 07.04.10	I dunno, i guess in some respects, Tom is right. It is an attempt to cover up our generally crappy scene. And yes, there are bands that do use it as a way of making them sound 'Unique' etc. But you look at the other side of things, a lot of the smaller scale bands like TBE, Karnivool etc. When they start out the can only ever afford to tour in Australia, therefore you get bands all forming little niches because they never get exposed outside of Australia without some major backing. Main reason being is that Australia is so fucking far away from the larger music scenes (Europe/America) and hence expensive. So yeah, you are going to get bands labelling themselves as 'Australian' as an attempt to make themselves more unique in the world market. And most will agree, the main example being alternative rock, is that Australian bands all have a similar sound that is somewhat a quality unique to Australia alone. (look at Dead Letter Circus, Karnivool, Cog, TBE etc) yeah, they're all from the same country, but they also have a pretty similar sound and you'll find most of the time that people who are into one of the band will be into all of them. Therefore you get people manufacturing the "Australian" genre, even though it might only be a group of bands that have a similar sound as opposed to just being from the same country. As for me, the main reason why im into so many Aussie bands is because a) the music's decent, b) all of these decent bands tend to tour together, so its very easy to get embedded in the music scene as there is always someone touring with someone, so its easy to see a lot of bands, and cheaply. Anyways, i guess theres really a few parts to it. Its an attempt by bands to differentiate themselves from similar bands in other parts of the world, (cos Australia is seen as a somewhat 'different' country from what i can gather - could be completely wrong) and also it just makes it easy to group similar sounding bands. And yeah, there's also the whole national pride thing. We seem to be a pretty proud nation overall. Although i'm probs in the minority when i say i disagree with a fair whack of things this country is doing/has done. . Bleh, end rant. Hopefully it makes sense.
kangaroopoo 07.04.10	Australia has had inferiority complex since Federation 1901 as new, small country, far from US + UK. We've always lapped up any sport, music, film notoriety we can get overseas. OZ bands like Cog, DLC, Karnivool are quality bands and should be plauded. Majority of music market is US + UK which reflects my music collection. Few OZ bands make it big o/s, so the ones who do succeed really stand out. Ultimately I listen to music I enjoy and it doesn't matter where it comes from. Mind you, 99.9% of my music has English lyrics. Americans most patriotic of all, so shouldn't knock us for showing pride in our successes. US have infinite entertainment successes so they're a dime a dozen. For a population of 22 million, Australia produce a lot of successes in many endeavours. Per capita, Australia is most successful sporting nation.
Douglas 07.05.10	something for kate
Satellite 07.05.10	The music scene down under is looking pretty bleak if this is all you've got to offer, mates.
Dryden 07.05.10	lol
paxman 07.05.10	Australians are descended from criminals.
sspedding 07.05.10	the amity affliction
acorncheese 07.05.10	I've truthfully never gotten into any of the Aussie bands I've listened to before.
tombits 07.05.10	the middle east the middle east the middle east tame impala tame impala tame impala
kangaroopoo 07.05.10	Vigin LOL - had to write it once to know what it was like to feel young again. Now for some good/bad oz nostalgia for an old fart:- Johnny O'Keefe, Easybeats, John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John Bee Gees, AC/DC, Cold Chisel, Skyhooks, The Master's Apprentices, Air Supply INXS, Midnight Oil, Icehouse, Men At Work, Crowded House, Noiseworks, Hunters + Collectors, Hoodoo Gurus, Mental as Anything Regurgitator, You Am I, Spiderbait, Silverchair, Grinspoon, Powderfinger, Jet, The Vines, The Living End, Cosmic Psychos Kylie, Nick Cave, Savage Garden, The Presets, Empire of the Sun, Rogue Traders, Something For Kate Damaged, Segression, Christbait, Alchemist, Parkway Drive, Be'lakor Karnivool, Cog, Dead Letter Circus, The Butterfly Effect, Birds of Tokyo, Sleep Parade
kangaroopoo 07.05.10	Fogot Kevin Bloody Wilson - 'Mick me mate the master farter', 'Can I feel your t... or will you show em to me', 'Double decker dog' etc.