Australian Music Special
S4E's Australian Music Special Contents Introduction The 70's Pt I & II The 80's Pt I & II The 90's Pt I & II Beyond 2000 Pt I & II The Music of All Time Additional Material Ten of the Worst Australian Songs Odds & Ends – Aussie Musical Oddities Introduction I made note recently of the fact that I’m Australian and that I rarely feature Australian music here. It’s something that catches my attention every now and then, and bothered me enough mid-last year to prompt a fairly in-depth hunt for Aussie music; not because I wanted to write about it, more because I wanted to hear it. I thought it surely had to be a case of not making myself aware enough as, either by circumstance, taste in general, the fact that I never listen to the radio (local or otherwise), or some other unknown factor, 99% of recommendations and so forth that I receive are for international artists, which results in a fair bit of my attention being in other places. What frustrated me the most when I was on this particular scavenger hunt (as it turned out to be – for me anyway), was that almost each and every time I wanted to investigate an artist further than a blog review / preview, there was virtually nothing to be found. Frustrating, yes, but perhaps not wholly surprising. Traditionally and culturally, I think Australia is a nation that favours using the live music scene to create an awareness, but I was left with the impression that a lot of really interesting, perhaps even exciting, music was being missed out on simply because I couldn’t access anything other than someone else raving about how good a band was live, and an occasional boot of a gig – funnily enough, fans seemed to be more interested in bringing the music to a wider audience than the artists themselves.
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