Favourite Australian / Kiwi band.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

I've got a few, so here's the order
1. The Go-Betweens
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (not all Australian, of course)
3. Crowded House
4. The Church
5. Split Enz
6. The Avalanches
7. Straightjacket Fits
8. You Am I
9. Hunters and Collectors
10. The Mutton Birds
11. Dirty Three

[Superfly]

1. Men at Work?

Weren't they Aussies?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Yup.

[Superfly]

5. Ooh, ooh, ooh...Midnight Oil

Always one of my faves.

[grannylib]

10. Oh yeah! I liked them...Men at Work were pretty fun too, while they lasted

[grannylib]

2. I am woefully out of touch with Aussie/Kiwi music, I must say...I only

recognize 3 of them!
I am a long-time Split Enz/Crowded House/Neil Finn fan...

[MaineDem]

3. Anything with Neil Finn

Crowded House, Split Enz, Finn Brothers

Dave Dobbyns is cool too.

[Fovea]

23. So many good bands

But left to one vote, Split Enz.

[SiouxJ]

6. I always liked The Church

Finn & CH, and Hunters & Collectors. Geez! I haven't thought about them in ages. I was really into them back in the 80's.

On edit: Oh man, how could I forget Midnight Oil! One of the greatest live bands ever!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. How the hell could I forget that the Church were Aussie.

My serious bad.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Midnight Oil, Man At Work nt

[muchacho]

8. AC/DC

Rock, no filler.....

11. Juluka

Johnny Clegg's band

or were they South African? the sound is similar to some Aussie bands.

on edit: I looked it up, they were South African.

[SiouxJ]

12. Now you're bringing back memories

I saw them at the Hollywood Palace back in the day. I didn't know who they were but someone gave me free tickets and backstage passes so I went. What a show!

[Whitacre D_WI]

13. Don't forget...

Chris Knox/Tall Dwarfs

[corarose]

14. Angel City, AC/DC, Crowded House/Split Enz, Ice House and

Flash in the pan.

[Kolesar]

15. Icehouse, the Reels

Icehouse had a great album (they were Flowers before that). The were an early MTV band. The Reels were this obscure poppy contrapunctal proto-Ska band on Polydor/Polygram.

[dolo amber]

16. Dirty Three

With an honorable mention to the aforementioned not entirely Aussie Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

Dirty Three is a 3 piece...guitar, drums and violin. ROCK violin. No kidding, Warren Ellis plays like a man posessed. I saw them once in Chicago opening for...I don't even remember who, some supposedly *up-and-coming* Touch and Go artist....anyway, whoever it was didn't show so DT ended up playing for like 3 straight hours. I was emotionally drained afterwards, walked out in a complete daze. They're so good it's scary. I highly recommend "Horse Stories", if that helps. ;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Damnit, there's my eleventh favourite Aussie band.

Horse Stories is marvellous.

[HEyHEY]

18. oooo

I'm not sure they (Aussies/Kiwiws)would like being grouped together.

;-)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Well, if I put Australian, people would include Kiwi bands

like Crowded House or Split Enz. If I put Kiwi, no one knows any.

I'm on the Kiwi side of that particular pissing match btw.

[HEyHEY]

21. haha

me too....it's a lot like the Canada/USA one only a bit more balanced and severe.

19. not yet mentioned

are INXS.
Not everybody's cup of tea, not exactly mine either.
But I did go seem them once in order to see the opening band Steel Pulse, and had to acknowledge that INXS were actually pretty good -live at least.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. Yeah, I have a definite bias against INXS, at least post-Kick INXS

[RandomKoolzip]

29. Ick. INXS.

Hey, I agree with you on somethin'! What a feeling!

Early INXS was okay for being such a milquetoast attempt at "NewWaving" AOR rock.

[bif]

24. Not drowning, waving

I love their name.

[Loonman]

25. 1. Midnight oil

2. Nick Cave
3. Split Enz
4. The Ears
5. Ollie Olsen and Whirlywind
6. The Church
7. The Primitive Calculators
8. Pre-1989 INXS
9. The Primitives
10. The Marching Girls

[RandomKoolzip]

26. Chris Knox.

And all of his projects, ie. Toy Love, Tall Dwarves, etc. One of the best songwriters in the world-very Lennonesque.

Plus Split Enz. I LOVE early Split Enz. I used to get high and listen to "Dizrythmia" every night after work for a year. I'm still in love with that album.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. He's a Kiwi, isn't he? Name rings a bell from my time down there.

[RandomKoolzip]

33. Yeah, he's a Kiwi, and a damn good Kiwi at that.

His story is inextricable from the whole Flying Nun story.` Helped the label grow into what it became in the late 80's.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Ahhh, Flying Nun. Fabulous label. Christchurch's finest.

[myrna minx]

27. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

and of course the Birthday Party.

[myrna minx]

28. Now I have Stagger Lee running through my head.

What would my co-workers think. tee-hee/

[Redbear]

30. Midnight Oil for sure.

"Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground."

[NashVegas]

31. Tell Me More About the Dirty Three, Someone

I was DL-ing some unreleased Nick stuff and found a cut that had him singing with them. Sounded amazing. ]

PS - nice to see someone else besides me remembers Hunters & Collectors.