Episode 10: Australia

07/10/09 • 62 min

At long last, a new episode....Everybody knows about Nick Cave and the Birthday Party coming from Australia--but what other bands came out around that time, and just after? Here in the US, we heard more about Australia at the end of the 80's with the Paisley Underground / New Psych sound ( Guano Bats, Lime Spiders, --) coming from Down Under. Australia had a TON of punk and post punk bands that we only heard a few of in the US-( like Midnight Oil and Shriekback). Check out the book Inner City Sound : Punk and Post Punk in Australia 1976 - 1985 for a more complete overview-- This episode features Bagavahd Guitars, Radio Birdman, Voight 465, Crime and the City Solution, The Laughing Clowns, The Apartments, The Church, SPK and Severed Heads.

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Japanese Postpunk

Sorry to have taken so long with a new episode. This one features some known bands like YMO and Plastics, and some not so known ones like The Willard, Gille Love's, Sekima II, Hlmens and Yapoos. There are videos of these goups on Youtube, so you should check them out. There are many groups like P-Model ( a direct influnece on Polysics), Sandi and the Sunsets, Sheena and the Rockets and many others that I didn't have room to include. Japanese 80's music is hard to find in the US, but it is wort seeking out--get out there and search!

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There would be no Electronic music as we know it today without Kraftwerk, but there are some other bands we take for granted that really pushed electronics to the forefront, and , many who still used guitars, but in interesting and devastating ways. Simplicity and directness are what Sheffield was all about, and ART, with a capital A. Revenge of the Nerds, indeed. This episode holds a few surprises, a quiz ( are you up for it? )along with mind altering songs from Artery, Vice Versa, The Future / The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, I'm So Hollow, In The Nursery, Comsat Angels and others.