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Megathread: Long Lost Aussie Bangers

Next Friday I'll make another thread on a different topic. Suggestions welcome.

Feel free to contribute to this list.

Enjoy and 'ave a good weekend. 🍺

Almacca - 4mon

Murder Ballads is a great album. I like Stagger Lee from that one.

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

My favourite Nick Cave song

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zero_gravitas - 4mon

I don’t think any of this is lost.

It's subjective, of course. Personally, my criteria for 'long lost' is that it didn't get into the Hottest 100 Australian Songs list or the 200-101 list, just because it's a convenient standard to apply.

Stranded is the only one of these that got in got in there - at #124 - so I think your selections are fair enough!

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

Doing my best, Nath 👍

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Catfish - 4mon

Not onion Skin?

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

Onion skin is the best.

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Nath - 4mon

Honestly, I love that whole album. My personal favourite track is Dancing in the Storm. I was disappointed that they didn't even rate a nomination for people's shortlists in the Hottest 100.

Neither did 1927, with If I could finishing at #21 for the year in 1989 on the ARIA charts. I would have shortlisted both bands, not I'm sure I'd have put either in my final top-10.

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Almacca - 4mon

That debut album from 1927 was HUGE on release.

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Almacca - 4mon

IIRC, Grinspoon were the winners of the very first Unearthed competition on Triple J back in the day.

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Almacca - 4mon

Another album I forgot I loved. Fortitude Valley off that is another banger. I can't find a link anywhere. I'm sure it was on that album, but apparently not.

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Almacca - 4mon

I honestly haven't heard that before. Nice. I'm having a good time on my Friday night with this thread and some Boag's Premium.

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

Fuck yeah. You guys are amazing.

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

Me too

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Almacca - 4mon

All those unconventional chords and lovely harmonies. Mmmm...

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Almacca - 4mon

Also - EVERYTHING ELSE BY TISM.

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anotherspringchicken - 4mon

Today’s anthem!

(Except I’m going home these days, not to the city)

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Almacca - 4mon

Holy shit! That's amazing. I don't know how I've never heard of them before.

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Eagle - 4mon

Great song!

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Almacca - 4mon

To this day I regret not going to see them perform live at St Paul's Tavern when I had the chance when I first moved to Brisbane and didn't know shit from fuck.

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

Stuff you don't hear all the time now.

Screaming Jets are legendary.

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Catfish - 4mon

Frenzel Rhomb. David Benuik.

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Almacca - 4mon

Playlunch - Keith https://youtu.be/7PTvxw4fc9M

This track is probably too new to be featured on any classic Aussie hit list, but in the future, it should be.

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Almacca - 4mon

What an amazing debut album. The highlight for me is The Wine Song

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Almacca - 4mon

Juice - Sky High https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2W4Axb74CA4 My go-to album (Wine of Life) for many years when I want to hear amazing guitar work.

Edit: I'm listening through it now for the first time in a while, and it's still amazing,

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

You're just trolling now 😂

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zero_gravitas - 4mon

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug 😆

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eureka - 4mon

Playing bingo with these comments againt the tracklist on old CDs my cousin would rip for me. You've already hit a few, including Rollercoaster and Nosebleed Section. There are also a couple being mentioned that I didn't even know were Australian.

How about some Hoodoo Gurus? Although I have heard Like Wow - Wipeout! and Miss Freelove '69 a few times at bars in the past year or two so maybe not that long lost.

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

Love Mondo Rock

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Almacca - 4mon

I can't believe Shannon Noll's cover of 'What About Me' made the list, but not the original Moving Pictures one. That song was no. 1 for months.

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No1 - 4mon

Didn't see them nominated yet, so:

Australian Crawl - Hoochie Gucci Fiorucci Mama and I'd like to dedicate it to all the vacuous show pony influencers

The theme also contrasts nicely with the other song I posted XD

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

Love this song.

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Taleya - 4mon

I don't believe any more is the top shelf por moi.

Or the entirety of Code Blue

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Eagle - 4mon

Showing my age here.... I have Alone Like Me on a CD single....

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Almacca - 4mon

His Merry Men - Super Secret Spies https://youtu.be/tfOdCbFiATk

Saw these guys in support of The Cherry Poppin' Daddies at Dooley's in The Valley many years ago and immediately bought the album. Also on the bill was Bullhorn. Amazing night.

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Almacca - 4mon

Pseudo Echo - Funkytown https://youtu.be/uE-itlGNap4

I'm back on the beers (with some nice, wet biltong) and ready for another afternoon of Aussie classics.

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Taleya - 4mon

Outta mind outta sight

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No1 - 4mon

Ahem - motion, not emotion

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4mon

You're right.

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Taleya - 4mon

Also like wow wipeout and miss freelove '69

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No1 - 4mon

Jump Incorporated - Sex and Fame

I don't think this band or song was ever much known, so maybe doesn't qualify. Can't be long lost if it was never found to start with....

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Nath - 4mon

A guy from my high school (5-6 years older than me, I didn't know him) connected up the muffler to the inside of his car and listened to this song on repeat until he fell asleep when I was a teenager. I always associate this song with that event.

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Catfish - 4mon

That's a big memory. Mine is Night like This but he didn't succeed

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