Right, I have to do something else other than this 50 Nick Cave songs list, it's going to drive me mad (if I'm not already). So, what can I write now? Well, who's far better than him? The Drones that's who. No doubt they would have be the band/artist of the the last decade, the 2000's. The four unbelievably brilliant albums, if not totally perfect albums in a row: Here Come The Lies, Wait By The River..., Gala Mill, Havilah. With each album quite different but still the same The Drones but building upon the previous record. Also just releasing all the kind-of out-takes album: The Miller's Daughter, in the middle of all that is brilliant as well. No other band has had such a perfect run and under the noses of most people too. We will have to see what's next for the band. Next week Gareth Liddiard lead songwriter and singer is to release his debut solo album Strange Tourist, in the true sense of the word, just all by himself.
You can not possibly find another band who ripped up the rule book, then set it on fire, pissed and shat on it, kicked it into a bloody mess then just flicked it into the corner. I can not possibly praise them too much. If you don't know it yet they have already changed the Australian music landscape forever. Everyone will ask you in the future did you see The Drones live? And if you can say "Yes" well, you and I are the lucky ones. You can hopefully forget about horrible bands like The Living End, Wolfmother, Jet now. Even now Nick Cave is getting too popular for my liking which maybe is why he's getting a bit of a bashing here in my blogs but I'm not the only one with what Mick Harvey said. Now Liddiard joins in on this too. In a paragraph in the Aussie Rolling Stones magazine Liddiard say America is on it's way out, Aussies don't have to do that anymore and names an old Cave song but really he could have said Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Why does Cave name drop U.S.A. cities in the last lead Bad Seeds single and title track for that album, other than to sell some more records to them. It's false, it's just as bad as like Molly Meldrum on Countdown in the 70's and 80's. Looking for validation in America is a waste of time (unless maybe you are one them) but that old mentality of the U.S.A. is the best place in the world, which should be shot between the eyes with a double-barrel shot gun, who better to do that that Gareth Liddiard and his band The Drones? So it's beyond doubt or should have been long, long time ago for Australians to stop mythologizing America. Don't get me wrong now, The Drones don't really have to get as stupidity big as the above bands or artists because they're already just as or more important that any of them in so many other ways and done it all their own way too.
So anyway this blog is called video tape because I'm going to link a youtube playlist I put together at the end of this blog based on a video tape (did I need to say that?) I've still got a couple of boxs in the back room which I recorded a television show called rage but too much about the past. I'm trying to catch up with the twenty-first century, I've got a mobile phone lately, started a blog here and joined facebook the other day. The last time I watched rage until the very end and started watching at the beginning and enjoyed it was a long time ago by the looks of it. It was of course when The Drones were on. Anyway here's what video clips they picked and played.
The Drones guest program rage on Saturday 21st February, 2009:
Saturday morning guest programming, from 10:00 till 11:00:
10:00am
THE DRONES - Shark Fin Blues
LOW - Breaker
TRICKY - Money Greedy
MILES DAVIS - Decoy
NINA SIMONE - Revolution
CAT POWER - Cross Bones Style
BOWERBIRDS - Ivy Climbing
BOB DYLAN - Not Dark Yet
10:30am
BOB DYLAN - Love Sick
AUGIE MARCH - The Cold Acre
TOM WAITS - Hold On
THE GIN CLUB - You Don't See
THE DRONES - I Don't Ever Want To Change (Live)
Saturday night guest programming starts 23:20:
23:23pm
N.W.A. - 100 Miles & Runnin'
WU-TANG CLAN - Can It All Be So Simple?
23:30pm
BUSTA RHYMES - Woo-Hah!! (Got You All In Check)
MISSY ELLIOTT - Pass That Dutch
CLARE MOORE - The Town Bike Song
ALAN VEGA - Wipeout Beat
IGGY & THE STOOGES - Loose
PATTI SMITH - Because The Night
LAUGHING CLOWNS - Holy Joe
12:00am
THESE IMMORTAL SOULS - Marry Me
STICKMEN - Without A Clue
THE JESUS LIZARD - Puss
DARLING DOWNS - Circa '65
KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS - I Fell
LOU REED I Love Women
GOD - My Pal
12:30am
JOEL SILBERSHER - Flappin' On A Hook
JOEL SILBERSHER - Through The Manoeuvres
TEX PERKINS & HIS LADYBOYZ - I'm Not In Love
DIRTY THREE - Hope
PALACE BROTHERS - Ohio River Boat Song
NEIL YOUNG - Harvest Moon
NEIL YOUNG - Change Your Mind
1:00am
DAN KELLY - Drunk On Election Night
PAUL KELLY - If I Could Start Today Again
BILLY BOB THORNTON - Angelina
THIRTY ODD FOOT OF GRUNTS - Memorial Day
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Atlantic City
THE MUPPETS - Ma-Na Ma-Na
TEAM AMERICA - America, F**k Yeah!
DRAGONFORCE Through - The Fire And Flames
1:30am
THE MELVINS - Honeybucket
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Armenia
THE DOORS - The End
SPARKLEHORSE - St. Mary's
MERZBOW - Minus Zero
2:00am
PINK FLOYD - Astronomy Domine
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Ice Cream For Crow
SPENCER JONES - Execution Day
FEATURED VIDEOS
THE DRONES - River Of Tears
THE DRONES - Shark Fin Blues
THE DRONES - Locust (Live)
2:30am
THE DRONES - I'm Here Now (Live)
THE DRONES - The Miller's Daughter (Live)
THE DRONES - Jezebel
THE DRONES - I Don't Ever Want To Change (Live)
3:00am
THE DRONES - I Looked Down The Line And I Wondered (Live)
THE DRONES - Motherless Children (Live)
THE DRONES - From Black To Communist (Live)
THE DRONES - The Minotaur
THE DRONES - Oh My (triple j tv)
3:30am
THE DRONES - Suicide Is Painless(triple j tv)
Here's all the clips I found on youtube (full playlist here) and I've made into a this thing:
Hope you like it, Cheers.
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