Ultimate Australian artists

[leftlegger]

TISM
Midnight Oil
Cosmic Phsychos

[Pseudo]

Wondering which artists people consider to be the ones that most represent Australian-ism?

In direct answer to the question, Crowded House gets my vote, successfull here and overseas and yet kept an element of australianism in their music right till the end..

and Neil Finn was a Kiwi. What could be more quintessentially Australian than claiming a Kiwi as one of our own?

[Gozu]

I was just listening to TISM the other day and one of the better songs off of 'www.tism.wanker.com' was 'The Parable Of Glenn McGrath's Haircut'. Here's the lyrics:

My mate Roger got a girl pregnant when he was fourteen
He was so s__t scared he told me, and when he said that her dad was a cop I thought he was joking
I told him he's got to tell someone, and so he went and told a teacher and the girl eventually got an abortion
He was f__king s__tting himself, let me tell you but six months later he was f__king around as always

Ooh, aahh, Glenn McGrath

"You better watch it" I thought to myself. But Roger was pretty f__king sure of himself
He was the guy who first brought a bag of hash to a party. Because I was his friend
I was there when he first showed it to people and we all went down the backyard and he rolled a joint.
Where did he get it from? My parents would've killed me if they knew.
I thought we'd all turn into junkies or something if we had too much.

The last time I saw Roger was last year at the Boxing Day test. He'd turned into such a fat, normal, yobbo c__t.
"The wife nearly didn't let me out today" he said and he did all that chanting yobs do like "Ooh, Aahh, Glenn McGrath".
"It got you in the end" I thought to myself as I looked at Roger.
"Life got you in the end, pal. You were such a cocky, successful winner when we were 16, but now, you're just another
sad fat prick sitting in the MCG, high-fiving in self congratulation as if it it's you that had the skill and determination
to play for Australia". It's the c__ts with the bad haircuts that you've got to watch out for.
There's never been a popular teenager yet who's done rat's with their life.
It's the f__king dorks that give it a real go. Glenn McGrath got 5 for 50 that day.

[JK]

Wondering which artists people consider to be the ones that most represent Australian-ism?

In direct answer to the question, Crowded House gets my vote, successfull here and overseas and yet kept an element of australianism in their music right till the end..

and Neil Finn was a Kiwi. What could be more quintessentially Australian than claiming a Kiwi as one of our own?

In which case can I claim Dragon?

[MatteeG]

The Meanies
Nursery Crimes

Also- local:
Force Fed Nine
Price of Silence

Larger scale-Midnight Oil, Diesel (The Injectors CD has some rockin tunes)

On a world stage- AC DC

Pseudo- if KBW gets a nod, surely rodney Rude gets a gig?

[A Mum]

I really do have a mixture as my choices of ulimate Australian artists....lol.
I love them all and think they have their own bit of unique 'Australianism'

Jimmy Barnes
Cold Chisel
INXS
Shannon Noll
Noiseworks
John Farnham
Paul Kelly
Casey Chambers
John Williamson

[brod]

TMOC

[Gozu]

Liking the TMOC.

[Q.]

Was waiting from someone to name them.


Hmmm, I'll go with Frenzal Rhomb.


I don't get a million bucks for getting out of bed,
I don't get a million f*cks when I punch folks in the head,
And even if we know we never get a billboard top 10 hit,
At least we know Russell Crowe's bands a ******* pile of sh*t.

I don't get olympic athletes to my barbecue,
I don't get extortion threats from the Coffs Harbour saloon,
and even if our pay checks may as well as be counterfeit,
at least we know Russell Crowe's bands a ******* pile of sh*t.

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

COSMIC PSYCHOS
BORED!
POWDER MONKEYS
HARD-ONS
RADIO BIRDMAN
THE SAINTS
etc.

[Leaping Lindner]

COSMIC PSYCHOS
BORED!
POWDER MONKEYS
HARD-ONS
RADIO BIRDMAN
THE SAINTS
etc.

Nah they all are shit bands

[CK]

Little River Band?

[JK]

Scared Weird Little Guys?

[Magpiespower]

Not one mention of Rolf Harris yet?

A true Aussie superstar!

How very un -

Almost said it...

[BALLHOG]

AC DC
The Fauves
The Vines
Area 7
Bodyjar
Kevin Bloody Wilson

[Pidge]

Grinspoon
The Living End
Powderfinger
KARNIVOOL
BIRDS OF TOKYO

[Strawb]

In No order
JO'K
The Easybeats
The Masters Apprentices
Rolf Harris
Cold Chisel
The Angels
Little River Band
The oils
Divinyls
Icehouse

[CK]

Was browsing in a bookstore this arvo and a new book just released about Australian music and artists (very remiss of me not to note the title ).

A chapter in there looked at Australian anthems, and songs that best illustrate Australia. Some of the usual suspects in there that have already been covered here - until Shaddup you Face got a run . The thought was that it summed up the larrikinism of Australia at the time.

[gadj1976]

Chantoozies
Dynamic Hepnotics
The Dugites
Austen Tayshus
Collette

Closely followed by

Hunters & Collectors
J O'K
Paul Kelly
The Bee Gees

I used to have time for Midnight Oil, but PG sold out for mine and undermined everything they stood (still possibly stand for).

[Dirko]

The Venetians
1927
Icehouse
Hunters & Collectors
Rose Tattoo
Choirboys