Last time I told you my top five or so favourite NZ albums I could only post links to the albums – and I sensed you all passed quickly past. Now YouTube has changed all that, so here for your listening and reading pleasure in NZ Music Month are my own top ten all-time favourite NZ albums in, ah, 'autobiographical' order. Now with clips! (Some of them sometimes even related to the albums listed!)
- Hello Sailor: Hello Sailor – thrashed this to album to death when I was about thirteen. And as Jennie could tell you, "my life was saved by rock n’ roll.”
- AK79 – and then there was punk
- Toy Love: Toy Love
- Graham Brazier: Inside Out
- Hammond Gamble: Plugged in & Blue
- Luke Hurley: Reha – not much decent video of old Luke. This looks to be about it.
- Kiri te Kanawa: Four Last Songs – music to live up to
- NZ's opera knight Donald McIntyre singing in Wagner’s Die Walkure
- Kiri: Songs of the Auvergne – bonus point if you know in which unforgettable local movie it was used in
- Little Bushman: Pendulum (can you spot old Big Nose down the front?)
10 comments:
My best classic Kiwi singles are:
#1) Tim Finn - Fraction Too Much Friction#2) Dr. I like your medicine (alcohol) (no youtube for this).
Jordan Reyne - Passenger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hyWMugMZ8
Respect on the Little Bushman, PC. We were listening to Trinity Roots 'Home, Land, and Sea' last night, the title track to which I challenge any ex-pat Kiwi to listen to and not get a bit moist-eyed.
Anyways, my co-called favourite Kiwi albums (as of a couple of minutes of consideration, ie very likely to change on reflection) are as follows:
Cloudboy: Down At The End Of The Garden
Trinity Roots: True
Hasselhoff Experiment: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
The Clean: Unknown Country
Dam Native: KDRU
Trinity Roots: 'Little Things' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0W09rX1BuA
Hasselhoff Experiment: Live, starting with 'High On Destruction' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhmGiMOhg44
The Clean: 'Beatnik'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPPSOGr4aI
Dam Native: 'Behold My Kool Style' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZpczgUCuxg
Hello Sailor Gutter Black - played incessantly by my two boys (5 & 8 yrs old) and a firm family favourite.
Shihad Factory
The Swingers Counting the BeatKatchafire Frisk Me DownProud Scum Grafton BridgeThe Chills Leather JacketBrilleaux I Am...........Seriously - get in touch with Graham Clark if you haven't heard his band Brilleaux, and rectify the situation. I take my blues really seriously, and these guys are GOOD.
Any album by the Chills...
Bailterspace have been a favourite for many years now. I don't listen to them that much these days. Skeptics are also great.
I still love Shihad's Churn and Killjoy, but not their later stuff, and was very disappointed upon attending a concert, hear Jon indirectly attack Capitalism, when what he was doing was a Capitalist act i.e. having punters voluntarily pay to see them play.
Awesome Post. I guess I head Dunedin way for The Chilla verlaines et cetera. Basically anything Chris Knox and/or Flying Nun!
How about Crowded House, "Don't Dream It's Over" and maybe some Splti Enz. So Finn Bros.
The little else I know about Kiwi tunes learned from you over th years!
:^)
SPLIT ENZ – MENTAL NOTES
KING LOSER – CAUL OF THE OUTLAW
ABLE TASMANS – NICE CUPPA TEA & LIE DOWN
PINE – LONG PLAYER
THE CLEAN – TALLY HO
THE TERMINALS – LAST DAYS OF THE SUN
SKEPTICS – SENSIBLE SHOES
SUBLIMINALS – UNITED STATE
FETUS PRODUCTIONS – FETAL MANIA
Depends on 'where my head is at?'
Cloudboys album is excellent as well - what are they up to thesedays?
By the way Proud Scums song with the lyrics about Grafton Bridge is 'Suicide 2'.
Ta.
Paul
Kenny Pearson's "Power Band" album . Kenny was killed that year by a drunk on the Auckland Motorway coming home from a gig and we never got to hear the rest of his music.
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