Anyway I'm gonna shutup about that book now. There will be my 5 or 6 posts about the major omissions coming up soon. Apart from that these are my final words on the matter.
Where were these acts The New Christs, The Moodists, Celibate Rifles, The Hard Ons, The Stems, TISM, Diviynls, Spiderbait, Snout, Sea Scouts, The Frustrations Cosmic Psychos, King Snake Roost, The Fauves, San Hose Cow Muzak, Pray TV, The Glory Box, Harem Scarem, Max Merritt & The Meteors, The Atlantics, Purple Hearts, Spectrum, Madder Lake, Tamam Shud, Buffalo, Khavas Jute, Goanna, Fabulous Diamonds, Ooga Boogas, Sand Pebbles, Black Cab, Snowman, Machine Translations,Tumbleweed, Essendon Airport, Laughing Hands, Asphixiation, Severed Heads, Snog, Not Drowning Waving, Makers of The Dead Travel Fast, Laughing Clowns, Max Q etc. put your favourite band's name here ____________ from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the 00s.
I probably would have had Wa Wa Nee over Savage Garden, at least they had the funk. Apparently the authors can only deal with 80s synth pop/dance/funk/industrial with irony and from a distance of many years ie. Regurgitator, Empire of The Sun, Presets etc. Give me a fuckn' Eurogliders album over Missy fuckn' Higgins anyday. Anyone remember Vita Beats?
* I used to rate Midnight Oil highly. It was to such an extent that it was a battle between 10,9,8... and The Birthday Party'sPrayers On Fire for my favourite Australian album of all time. Ever since Peter Garrett joined the Labour party and become quite a shite politician I've lost all my respect for the man. He just seems to be a Muppet. This makes me wonder 'Was he also a Muppet in Midnight Oil?' Anyway I can't bring myself to listen to those albums from the 80s I loved so much back in the day. Should activists become politicians or would they be more effective remaining an agitator/lobbyist ? What does he actually stand for? Hero to Villain! Stll love the sleeves though.
This one goes out to member no. 2. I just bought Greil Marcus's Mystery Train, cant wait to read it. Particularly the Elvis chapter. I once won a karaoke comp doing a version of this.
Death Valley '69
Sonic Youth
This one goes out to member no. 1. I've never seen this video, how excitement!
If you become a member you too could have a clip put on for you. Wow.
The unknown 3rd author of The 100 Best Australian Albums, someone O'Donnell turns out to be a record company exec who signed Silverchair, Something For Kate, Jebidiah, Missy Higgins and Empire Of The Sun. So the other 2 authors didn't see a conflict of interest with this?! Fuck me if they didn't bury their heads in the sand, praying nobody would notice while their $$$ came in. Those aforementioned 5 acts were all included in the list and quite high.
I thought maybe I was being a bit harsh saying 'the book didn't ring true'. How fuckn' wrong I was!
In my You Gotta Be Kiddn' Me Category I listed 12 examples of 'Pure Shite'. Funnily enough this O'Donnell signed at least 4 of the acts included in that category. It's like Eddie commentating on Collingwood games. Not acceptable! It's worse than that. This O'fucknDonnell is just tryin' to boost his reputation by sayin' 'look at these acts I signed, they're in the top 100 of all time.
This is a fuckn' OUTRAGE!
Bon Scott's ACDC records miss out, so this o'donnell's signings get a place in a joke 100 album list.
Just catching up on these as they were Xmas presents. Both probably would have been in the 2011 list had I heard them in time.
Kourosh Yaghmaei Back From The Brink
Fabulous Middle Eastern psych folk/funk/rock.This is from Iran in the pre-revolution 70s era. If you loved the Pomegranates and Googoosh compilations on Finders Keepers or have an interest in Turkish Psych/Anadolu pop you are gonna dig this. Beautiful book/2 cd package on Now Again. Thanks to the Mrs for this bewdy.
Ekoplekz
Intrusive Incidentalz
I've got Volume 1, the Pontone tape and the epic Memowrekz but this could be their best yet. BBC/Cabs influenced sinister electro sonic smears from deep within a crumbling empire.
