Posted by Bob Wombat at mytee0.connect.com.au on February 08, 2002 at 07:30:52:
In Reply to: Americans should listen more Australian music*NT* posted by quick_stop on February 08, 2002 at 05:46:59:
Other than the few bands still kicking about that were great 5 years ago, like Spiderbait and such, we're just as burdened with Wank-Rock as anyone else.
Music needs a good kick up the arse. Not just Australian music, but music in general.
Fuck Nu-Metal. Fuck Contemporary Hard Rock. And fuck all these whiny pussy-bands whining 'soulfully' about laying in bed with the missus or how much they love their city, accompanied by acoustic guitar and/or a tinkling piano.
Fuck all these posturing cockheads in backwards baseball caps and two-dollar showbag masks, ruining the perfectly good concepts of rap and metal by shoving them artlessly together and churning out album after shithouse album simply to prove to the world that they can rhyme 'fuck' with 'fuck'.
What we need is raw, sweaty, strutting, hollering, old-fashioned RAWK. Lyrics about fucking and getting drunk, yelled in no identifyable key. It's out there, and it's slowly getting popular again -- we've got the White Stripes and The Strokes doing well -- and for that reason, I still have hope.
Cheers.
Adam.