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A year later and still barely a peep anywhere about The Bites. Magic Dirt release a great album twice, and you'd never know here in the US of A. What other great rock 'n' roll are you Australians keeping secret these days?

― dlp9001, Saturday, 12 June 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Tugboat's triple CD concept album will rock your lame ass.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 June 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know you were Australian!

― dlp9001, Saturday, 12 June 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Much like our beer, Australian only exports shit ones to the rest of the world and keeps the (marginally) better bands to ourselves.

― Mil, Saturday, 12 June 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of the bites' lack of publicity is probably down to their recent lineup change. but they're going from strength to strength.

other good stuff you might have heard or might want to hear: deloris, sealifepark, further!, tides, the tucker b's.. all great, great stuff. melbourne is a bit lacking in decent stuff at the moment, but there are a handful of great bands up-and-coming.. and of course the fab Machine Translations.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know you were Australian!

Well I'm not but most of the Australian crew have seen fit to want to put me in a pot and boil me, for some reason.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 June 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

mid-state orange are also good but i don't love them quite as much as some.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend (with usually good taste) keeps harassing me to listen to Love of Diagrams.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

they have their moments of excellence, and their album captures their energy quite well, but they do have a limited palette that they draw from. definitely grab their album though, it's fast and short and quite thrilling in places.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

POX: Aussie Bands

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

see also trinkets, function, sodastream, the golden circles, youth group, purdy (live-played electronic-acoustic weirdness, denvar, turnpike - I write about a lot of this on Logged Off (http://www.loggedoff.net)

― Queen Geoff, Saturday, 12 June 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

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