New Zealand music
In response to the spate of recent jingoistic National Day posts (i enjoyed the Aussie playlist, honest), I thought I'd throw this playlist from NZ at you all. Perhaps some of you have more time to listen today because of snow, but if no-one listens, I couldn't give a flying nun... it's been a labour of love.
The guitar - of a jangly disposition - is the weapon of choice here, and you'll find many of the usual suspects, but i hope you'll also find other things to enjoy. Anyhoo, here goes and as the game goes, throw some of your own favs at the list. It goes in pretty much chronological order from 1980 until the present day... apart from the last vid from Trinity Roots which pretty much sums up the entire thing.
There's no Connan Mockasin, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Liam Finn or Dad Finn here because... er.. I don't like 'em as much as what's here.
Split Enz - 'Shark Attack'
Gordons - 'Adults and Children'
The Verlaines - 'Death and The Maiden'
The Clean - 'Point That Thing Somewhere Else'
The Chills - 'Pink Frost'
The Bats - 'North by North'
Straitjacket Fits - 'She Speeds'
Chris Knox - 'Not Given Lightly'
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - 'Inside and Out'
The 3Ds - 'Outer Space'
Headless Chickens - 'Juice'
Supergroove - Sitting Inside My Head'
The Mutton Birds - 'A Thing Well Made'
DLT feat. Che Fu - 'Chains'
Darcy Clay - 'Jesus I was Evil'
Bic Runga - 'Sway'
The D4 - 'Party'
HDU - 'Schallblute'
The Brunettes - 'Boy Racer'
Phelps and Munro - 'Horse Winning Without Rider'
The Phoenix Foundation - 'Going Fishing'
Scribe - 'Not Many'
The Tokey Tones - 'Glitter and Paste'
Shapeshifter feat. Joe Dukie - 'Long White Cloud'
Ghost Club - 'Suicide Train'
Bachelorette - 'On the Four'
Fat Freddy's Drop - 'Wandering Eye'
Opensouls - 'Turn It Up'
Coco Solid - 'Crime Fighters'
Mint Chicks - 'Funeral Day'
Voom - 'B Your Boy'
The Reduction Agents - 'Waiting for Your Love'
Shocking Pinks - 'End of the World'
SJD - 'Beautiful Haze'
The Ruby Suns - 'Tane Mahuta'
The Naked and Famous - 'Serenade'
Surf City - 'Canned Food'
Lawrence Arabia - 'Apple Pie Bed'
James Duncan - A Obvious
Dimmer - 'Degrees of Existence'
Sharpie Crows - '15 Golden Balls Pt. 2'
Ladyhawke - 'Magic'
Kimbra - 'Settle Down'
Mt. Pleasant - 'II Tough II Dance'
The Adults - 'Nothing To Lose'
Bannerman - 'Howling Wind'
Trinity Roots - 'Home, Land and Sea'
It's a YouTube playlist because there's some cool vids... Here goes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2dslwQ29w&list=PL8B310230A51AB9A8&feature=plpp_play_all
And there's this...
Shihad - 'Alive' here because i don't know how to drag it on to YT... http://www.contactmusic.com/video/shihad-alive
And a couple from Flight of the Conchords... couldn't choose b/n 'Business Time' and the Bowie space one, so i'll chuck 'em both in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJqYRffUTNA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZcYPEszN8
Happy Waitangi Day! Tihei mauri ora!
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I really like the Cut Off Your Hands album released last year
It's a huge step up from their old stuff and definitely fits the jangly vibe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAJBwXcexxc
Good call. I like it.
Thought it was The Smiths!
sigh
Bands arrive at the same 'place' without doing it by accord or on purpose. If language wasn't a barrier, for example, they'd listen to Duncan Dhu - a band form Spain that like Cut Off Your Hands and The Smiths was in the same place at the same time
sweet
darcy clay - RIP
we invented indie rock BTW
everyone knows this.
The Future's Bright and Frend
both from Auckland
http://thefuturesbright.bandcamp.com/
http://frendmusic.bandcamp.com/
Nice!
Verlaines-death and the maiden is a stone cold classic.
there's a couple of dead c songs on spotify too...
gordons are awesome too.
Jakob for your post-rock needs.
Good to see no sheep-haired Dobbyn on there. I hate that guy...
Aren't Salmonella Dub from New Zealand?
They should be on there.
Add Tui Dub on there for good measure
Agreed, Dobbyn is dung.
Couldn't find anything to love from Salmonella Dub... Quite like Minsnap's 'Crooked Mile' but not on YT.
he's not
"whaling" = tune.
DD Smash = wrote several Kiwi national anthems.
Truth - The Fatman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ecggoj3tGs
Nice
Forgot Truth. A worthy inclusion
One for the Hood fans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3yrdHKKp8
and the Bats song that I wish was on Spotify -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ugksca1luw
Bressa Creeting Cake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PY8E59Wis
Best pop band nobody ever heard of
Flying Saucer Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9QanWsIdg
What's this doing here?
FSA are from Bristol...
they collaborated with roy montgomery
that's all i can think of
O shit you're right
I'll just be leaving now
The Clean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN22YbLHSfI&feature=related
Tall Dwarfs?
Been ages since I heard them, but they were ace.
Obviously Australia will claim all of these as soon as they so much as cast a glance at Bondi. Funny though, The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, HTRK, among others all continued to be claimed as Australian despite moving to the other side of the world.
that's just
That's just how it is. I was born in the same country Christina Aguilera's (estranged, i think) father is from. To this day she is claimed as being from there by some people. She, i think, hasn't seen her dad for half her life and couldn't place the country on the map if her life depended on it. Or for example, Canada (i'm half Canuck) reminds you whenever it comes up that Superman is technically part Canadian. Or Winnie The Pooh. People grab at what they can. ...on the other hand, i've met USians that have no clue as to what the real nationalities of Neil Young or all but one member of The Band are.
Chris Knox had a stroke a while back
still hasnt recovered fully.
sad.
This made me laugh from the Mutton Birds wiki page
"In late October 2011 it was announced that The Muttonbirds would temporarily reunite to play a series of performances at New Zealand wineries in February and early March 2012"
Meanwhile, here in Oz you can go to your local winery to catch:
* Noiseworks, Choirboys and "other special guests"
* The Class of 81 - Every Song a Hit (includes Dragon and Mental as Anything)
* Hall and Oates supported by Icehouse
Dragon's an interesting one - isn't Marc Hunter dead (and a Kiwi actually)?
that first Icehouse/Flowers album
Hey that first Flowers album is quite good! Before Iva's evil mullet appeared on the scene and all :P
I agree, they're great
and Great Southern Land is spectacular.
for a bit of nostalgia/cultue clash...
there's always the dead c appearing on sports cafe.
It's not from Sports Cafe
but an older music show called Ground Zero. It is nevertheless wonderful footage.
right you are...my bad.
a link would help...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyYzyUPGs8
discovered this the other day...
http://shessorad.bandcamp.com/album/in-circles
rather good
you are missing:
The Jefferies, Peter and his brother Graeme Jefferies. Either as solo artists or, more importantly, as mebers of This Kind Of Punishment and Nocturnal Projections. Graeme solo as The Cakekitchen would count too. Great great great post-punk music that a lot of people outside of NZ are not familiar with.
Upper Hutt Posse !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2u7yHD_d-o
also, some good watching
Also, a good documentary on some of the bands on your list - "Friends Of The Enemy" http://youtu.be/4PZ7xGX33QQ pt1 and http://youtu.be/Npz8W6kgmEw pt2
(my apologies if somebody already listed this, didn't check all YT links)
The Dead 'fuckin' C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyYzyUPGs8
Shit, this is funny....
Just imagining the spilled cups of tea and old dears choking on their Werthers' Originals...
also need some Birchville Cat Motel
Black Boned Angel action....
Gunpowder Temple Of Heaven!
there's a nice track called 'Driving Bruce Russell's Volvo' on spotify by BCM too.
AND
his newer thing Our Love Will Destroy The World is very good (especially live) also, 'I Hate Even Numbers' has dance beatz on it!!1
Excellent compiling - but needs some (Toy) Love
Love this list.
I'd have to add something by McGlashen's earlier incarnation - Blam Blam Blam - who were friggin awesome - perhaps "Don't Fight it Marsha, It's Bigger Than the Both of Us".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJbiu4lytw
but most glaring omission for me is Toy Love (OK - so you've got some Chris Knox) - "The Crunch "(You're gonna have to admit it boy, you can't stay forever young) and "Don't Catch Fire" have to be somewhere near this list?
http://open.spotify.com/track/3DnH386JJTh7c0ozGqfAzr
http://open.spotify.com/track/64q4dFgFWPb7MSq6FXCdJM
Wasn't Dad Finn in Split Enz?
Love it all the same, got a lot of love for music from Down Under and recently been grouping it where possible so this will help and a few to the list, ta!
Both Finns were (Neil and Tim)
Neil Finn also Crowded House obvs.
Also did some good stuff on the original radio series Flight of the Conchords
Where Murray would call him (having met him once at a wedding) at the end of each episode for advice. If I remember rightly, Neil Finn played it nicely, not being able to remember who he was, trying to brush him off yet being appalled and incredulous at what Murray was actually suggesting.
thought this read 'New Zelda music'
shame
ixcullunt chucks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTTTX4VssU
Pumice is one of me favourite NZ artists that hasn't been mentioned yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HSMKcAQs8I
The New Zealanders have the 'lo-fi sounding more epic and massive than anything hi-fi' thing down.
ALSO
I would like some Xpressway stuff but I can't find any anywhere for a decent price :( help me out here
I think This Kind of Punishment's 'A Beard of Bees'
is one of my favourite albums of all time.
Just found some youtube clips of this
Sounds incredible. Is it actually physically available anywhere? I really want to buy it.
Not as far as I'm aware :/
Pretty pricey second hand too. It's the sort of album I can imagine getting a bit of coverage if it was rereleased, like how Pitchfork just 'discovered' Disco Inferno.
listening to this as I type
New Zealand does (or did) this kind of wildly creative lo-fi stuff better than anywhere else.
crtl+f roy montgomery
guys...
yeah, everything that guy was ever involved in. incredible talent.
hey a recent issue of Yeti has Roy Montgomery interviewed by Grouper
I think I already mentioned it a while ago but anyway
nice, will have to find this.
I really like the stuff he did with Bardo Pond (Hash Jar Tempo) but that's all of heard
you'll probably enjoy his other stuff too
layers of droning post/space rocky guitar sounds. 'big' yet lo-fi and introspective. he's an amazing guitarist, up there with the likes of kevin shields.
oh yeah
and the collabs as mentioned.
not heard The Pin Group yet, though. I need to put that right.
no Prince Tui Teka???
wtf????
No Patea Maori Club either
Let's fix that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLUygS0IAQ
haha see below dude...
man that guy sure knew how to do the electric boogaloo...
this needs to be here for posterity too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLUygS0IAQ
The Saints?
They're from Brisbane. Not aware of any particular NZ connection, but I may be missing something.
Has anyone linked to Dave Dobbyn's Slice of Heaven yet?
my favourite NZ tune
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5--ayepA8
oh shit i forgot
BAILTER SPACE
former gordons members making crushing shoegaze/noise rock.
Garageland!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rntb_E8-8fE
If i was a younger man i would say that the dude has got a sick flow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hUrR44RlcY
Ixcillint!
Thanks for the suggestions. Esp. enjoying This Kind of Punishment... had never heard of 'em. If anyone's interested a local music journo, Grant Smithies, produced a really good book inc. bits and pieces from the musicians called 'Soundtrack: 118 New Zealand Albums' or something like that... NO-one has commented on Coco Solid yet? Flippin classic
Not enough Welli artists...
Here's some Samoan hiphop in the form of King Kapisi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soEjX2YD3yM
Some more Shihad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdTUG0TGVI
Not from Wellington, but let's get political:
The Blams writing about what felt like a civl war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HVogejKx_c
And round the same time, Graham Brazier takes a pop at Thatcherism on behalf of his parents' town of Liverpool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flJHsaFfdxY
Headless Chickens: Gaskrankenstation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-uZsJk5u1U&feature=related "My name is Ivan! My occupation? I been working 20 years at the Gaskrankenstation downtown...."
Their predecessors: Children's Hour - Caroline's Dream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6fzuwq8RAI
That Children's Hour track
is shit hot.
gaskrankinstation is one of my all-time favourites
I must have posted that youtube link a dozen times or more on these forums.
hm. google says only 3 times before.
feels like more
GET IN the Blams
Jakob
Nice post-rocky kind of business. Saw them supporting Mono and was pleasently blown away.
I saw a top band call Tono and the Finance Company a while back too. Jangly northern-English style miserablist indie rock, but really well done :)
Other than that, and despite being here for year or so, I know next to nothing about NZ music except that Dragon's 'April Sun in Cuba' and The Exponents 'Why Does Love Do This To Me' are on near constant rotation in almost every bar in Auckland.
This thread is going to be a valuable resource. Top stuff, guys.
If you like Jakob,
go to HDU's Bandcamp and check out their stuff... esp 'Fire Works'... An Emerald City is another Kiwi group doing similar-ish things (also on Bandcamp)
jakob are good...but HDU blow them out of the water.
Quality thread
Thanks for this, a lot of music I wasn't even aware of in my own country :)
time for some more Graham Brazier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAbxUBCDWTg
Hey I forgot (the) Axemen too!
Very weird lo-fi band that have rereleases on Siltbreeze, some really good catchy songs too, they toured with Times New Viking.
In February 2009, US record label Siltbreeze re-released the Axemen's 1984 protest album :Big Cheap Motel" [2] on 12" vinyl. Originally the album was released as a cassette packaged in a small bubble-sleeve with a straw, mimicking the milk drink "Big M" that the album was aimed at. The Axemen were invited to play at Christchurch's "Summertimes" Festival in January 1984, a public music stage set up in Hagley Park. The band was shocked by the large-scale sexist "Big M" advertising surrounding the main stage, and decided to write a suite of protest songs about how the Christchurch City Council had "sold out" to the "Big M" sexist marketing. The Axemen recorded the concert, as well as studio versions of their songs and released a 45 min cassette entitled, "Big Cheap Motel"
This is a hell of a song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri3kn696gd4
That's my only contribution to this thread.
Orchestra of Spheres are bloody good
so much fun at atp!