David Bowie | Hunky Dory
soundtrack to my late teens, great piano playing, lyrics and songs
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The Velvet Underground | The Banana Album
grungey bilas, drugged out edgey shit... I started a band like all the others who were into this album
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Laurie Anderson | Mister Heartbreak
with Peter Gabriel, William Burroughs, Adrian Beleu... great musicianship, atmospheres
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The Reels | Quasimodo's Dream
Dave Mason inspired me to write songs... balance of the personnel and the political... kitchen man is the great song!
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The Go-Betweens | Before Hollywood
another great australian record... nails brisbane and cattle and cain is number two behind kitchen man for me
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The Moab Stringband | cassette
The Tolais stringband style is renowned for their bass players, and the Moab's guy, Keni, is one of the best. This cassette also contains the classic Ai Helen... also has Abebe on it, heard it playing out of a food shop in Rabaul, led to Not Drowning, Waving heading to Rabaul to record Tabaran... Changed my life.
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R.E.M. | Up
could be most R.E.M. records, very few bands make that many good records... music and lyric integrity... I think the song Hope is a beauty… an intriguing lyric 'bout a fella with HIV… sounds a little like Suzanne by Leonard Cohen.
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Kraftwerk | Trans Europe Express
used to listen to it every night after stacking super shelves in noble park... have a joint, get in my orange 180b, and drive home down the eatern freeway listening to trans europe express
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The Sex Pistols | Nevermind The Bollocks
a great rock record, also love PIL
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Wire | 154
a fantastic record... contains map reference which i recorded a cover of during the aofc sessions...
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Lou Reed | Berlin
dark and melancholic but beautiful as well...
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Lou Reed/John Cale | Songs for Drella
not a big fan of concept records but this one works... and great Cale songs
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John Cale | Fragments of a Rainy Season
just piano and vocal, emotive, basic... inspired me... check out the version of Heartbreak Hotel and Hallelujah... Cale's version is the best...
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George Telek | Serious Tam
I know I produced it but this a great george record....the title track is a great pop song,and barturana is pure bliss
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Sugar | Copper Blue
a great rock record... blasts out of my speakers when I do the vacuum cleaning and sometimes on the other 364 days of the year
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Tom Waits | Raindogs / Mule Variations
...a fine story-teller, the production rocks too, the valve amps, his use of old microphones, the garbage metal percussion... his melancholic chord placement... Tom is the great romantic in my book
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Radiohead | Kid A
love this record… great bilas and beautifully crafted... number one in the US at one point, the USA's finest hour!
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Talking Heads | Remain in Light
a big influence on Not Drowning, Waving... I think my favourite concert was seeing them on the same tour that they made the Stop Making Sense movie from
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Magazine | The Correct Use of Soap
Howard Devoto... a master lyricist, the world's finest existentialist… great band too Barry Adamson... Dave Formula, John Mc Geogh, John Doyle... second hand daylight weren't too bad a record either
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Patti Smith | LAND (box set)
Patti Smith is an inspiring woman, her love songs for Fred are so emotionally charged… intelligence and depth
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PJ Harvey | Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Broadcasting from Home
obviously a huge inspiration for the Cake... Broadcasting from Home is my favourite record of theirs, although the self titled job ain't bad either
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Arvo Part
pretty much anything, the man creates the most mysterious sense of mood and beauty...
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The Birthday Party | Prayers on Fire
got me through university, Tony Cohen's production is magnificent, great film clip for Nick the Stripper . Tracey Pew's bass playing is fat and chunky and Rowland Howard makes the guitar sound like a knife
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
the sufi version of Islam is worth looking into to counteract any suggestion that Islam is backward... very cultured, highly intelligent... I saw Nusrat play on a 40 degree evening at Womadelaide at midnight to a spellbound, mesmerized audience of 10,000 people in the Botanical Gardens.
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John Cooper Clarke | Snap, Crackle and Bop
for example... Beasley Street is one of the great social commentaries in a song
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The Thin Red Line
I love this soundtrack so much... brings me to tears... great chords and orchestration by Hans Zimmer
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Peter Gabriel | Passion
The soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ... the other great soundtrack... and a fantastic bonking record!
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Mum | Finally We Are No One
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Stravinsky | Rites of Spring
ballsy, the way he uses the orchestra is astounding
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