Regurgitator & Spiderbait (bands I loved when I was 14) C/D?

Wo! I can't believe I forgot about what may be Regurgitator's very best song, the last track on Unit 'It's a Beautiful Story', a heartbreaking Atheist hymn/love song:

[cheesy melancholy synths] "All I am and all I'll ever be/ Is a brain in a body/ Live til I die and then rot away/ It's a beautiful story./ [pom pom pom strings] All I've heard and it's true/ There ain't no God there's just me and you/ I don't see a point to this place/ But I'm happy to be floating in spaaace/ [orchestra swells, bring on big staccato guitar, vocals change from contented whisper to anguished yelp] I won't mind if you're holding my hand/ And life seems so fine if you don't understand/ That the world spins around and you don't give a damn/ If we all die away and we never come back again." [at some point there is an awesome triumphant synth-brass solo. At the end, after "never come back again" there is just the synth intro again, sounding very lonely]

Now that I think of this song, (I haven't actually listened to this stuff in preparation for this thread) I am totally convinced that Regurgitator were brilliant.

i'm listening to the regurgitator 'new' ep for the first time in at least 7 years. it's actually pretty good.

track 1 is as hilarious as it is rockin

they were pretty great for a while there - that ep ('blubber boy'!!), the first two albums and bits of the third. not afraid to be funny or make weird stylistic leaps. didn't they get an 18-minute single in the charts that was mostly some electronic noise with a 90-second hardcore track in the middle somewhere?? that 'crush the losers' single they put out around the time of the olympics was just awful "aren't we clever?" horribleness, though.

and they were pretty much gone after that, the jokes fell flat and the music sounded like bad nu-metal.

tim so right about spiderbait's knack for genre mimicry. even deep house! ('arse huggin' pants')

also i had my photo taken on the unfinished spanish galleon of finley lake.

I really should buy Grand Slam, all the singles from that were excellent.

I stand by the implication of my post above, which is that there was something very genuine and sincere about the way Spiderbait dabbled in pop. Like, their cover of "Our Lips Are Sealed" as "Alex the Seal" - not a joke so much as a tribute to the how good a pop song can sound when you're five years old even though you get the words totally wrong (I remember an interesting interview with that singer from Texas of all people where she talks about how she loved Rumours as a child but couldn't understand why Lindsay Buckingham compared himself to secondhand shoes...).

Spiderbait retreated back into rock a bit after that though didn't they? I get the impression they were somewhat peturbed by the rise of Jet etc.

I think these two bands, although they seem corny, are incredibly important for today's Australian local music scene. I remember a time when Triple J (National Alternative music station) played albums by these artists until they faded. 'Buy me a pony' and 'Blubber Boy' by Spiderbait and Regurgitator are great songs played with such enthusiasm that not many bands possess today.

listened all the way through flight of wally funk for the first time today.. such a good record. i understand why some people got off the bus after grand slam but this record deserved a better fate. i do suspect though that their desire to be all things to all people didn't do them many favours.