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Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

Oface — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:13:49 EDT

Veronicas weren't too shabby when they first came out. They were more punky/pop. Now they've sold out too. *sigh*

Oface

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

el smrtmnky — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:11:04 EDT

that was the prettiest douche commercial i've ever seen.

el smrtmnky

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

NotPop — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:55:41 EDT

@okiedoke: Ha, INXS anyone?

NotPop

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

okiedoke — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:22:54 EDT

Mental As Anything could outdo them all.

okiedoke

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

NotPop — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:07:20 EDT

strange this double post bug init?

NotPop

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

NotPop — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:05:48 EDT

Easybeats
Coloured Balls
AC/DC
Dead Can Dance
Midnight Oil
Nick Cave
The Saints
The Church
Go Betweens
The Triffids
Paul Kelly
Hoodoo Gurus

oh, and recently

Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males
Augie March
Sleepy Jackson
The Drones
Midnight Juggernaughts

come on idiots, that's off the top of my head, and I don't even live there!!

Melbourne is a music capital of the world, isn't it?

NotPop

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

NotPop — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:58:30 EDT

Easybeats
Coloured Balls
AC/DC
Dead Can Dance
The Saints
Midnight Oil
Hoodoo Gurus
The Church
Nick Cave
Go Betweens
Triffids
Paul Kelly

..Oh, and recently

Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males
Sleepy Jackson
Augie March
The Drones
Midnight Juggernaughts

Come on idiots, that's off the top of my head, and I don't even live there!!

Melbourne is a music capital of the world, isn't it??

NotPop

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

oheag2 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:23:21 EDT

"Goodrem is engaged to a former member of banal British boy band Westlife"

Westlife are Irish, not British. Tsk.

They certainly are banal though

oheag2

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

Lawson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:53:19 EDT

Your Veronicas quote is amazing - and yes, Aus does have pale pop simulations of many overseas acts, often far 'nicer' like Delta. We also have a habit of recruiting innumerable pop stars from television soaps, like Delta. But apart from that there is some amazing pop and more alternative stuff here - pop you've got Silverchair, umm... But yeah, underground stuff too many to mention. And we're like the king of that terrible electro crap you Americans still seem to think is highly original - Presets, Midnight Juggernauts, Muscles, etc.

Lawson

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Maura Johnston — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:43:58 EDT

as all this Aussie talk is making me miss Ratcat.

Maura Johnston

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

cerulgalactus — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:55:53 EDT

@HomefrontRadio: Iron On out of Brisbane are good, as are Bernie Hayes/The Shouties out of Sydney. Whatever Pinky is working on is usually worth a few listens. But asides that, yeah, Aus music is a pale imitation of the rest of the world.

And galt forbid one of these acts actually breaks it in the US (to any degree at all) - they will be hailed as YOUR NEW MUSICAL SAVIOURS (regardless of talent).

cerulgalactus

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HomefrontRadio — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:36:03 EDT

When I was a kid, i wondered why our bands here sounded like they were in b&w compared to the rest of the world, especially the dull meathead world of 'pub rock'.

Anything that gets a big push by the record companies here is stuff they consider commercial enough to be played overseas, which means less polished imitations of American (never English) acts. Anyone from the 'artistic' side of rock emmigrated to England at the first available opportunity.

Aside from my Go-Betweens and Triffids records, and my Augie March cds, that's about it for Aussie music in my collection, since Split Enz were from New Zealand.

HomefrontRadio

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

bbernardini — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:03:35 EDT

Without TISM working on anything new, I can't even be bothered to care about Australian music.

bbernardini

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:50:35 EDT

@GhostOfDuane: I'm not your friend, guy!

Midnight Oil rules.

It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

GhostOfDuane — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:10:33 EDT

I'm not your buddy, fwend...

But The Church does rule.

GhostOfDuane

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

Clevertrousers — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:04:07 EDT

@Clevertrousers: Did I mention the Kevin Rudd apology? That's what happens when actual work interrupts my timewasting on the internets...

Clevertrousers

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

Dead Air ummm Dead Air — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:00:32 EDT

"duo made up of identical twins who are sort of a less interesting version of t.A.T.u."

I take it they aren't nihelists. Beautiful, beautiful nihelists.

Dead Air ummm Dead Air

Australian MTV Awards Make Me Feel Better About America

Clevertrousers — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:31 EDT

Try Senegal or Mali. Australia is hopeless. Although that Archie Roach/ song about the Kevin Rudd apology to the Aboriginies for the "Stolen Generation" was kind of moving and had a nice comeback this year thanks to the Kevin Rudd apology:

Clevertrousers

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NickEddy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:43:28 EDT

Is Delta Goodrem an anagram of "nice Roger Dean video artwork"?

No?

NickEddy