A to Z: 100 Best Australian Albums... The Long List

Right, if anyone cares here is the full and or complete Aussie albums which are just my favorites of all-time and that is just an opinion too. It's been two months since posting anything and last time I just got a bit of over half but I really can't be fucked doing that or this anymore.

A is for...
The A to Z Recordings by Paul Kelly
Adalita by Adalita
All Times Though Paradise by The Saints
Australian Ghost Story by The Paradise Motel
The Axeman's Jazz by Beasts of Bourbon
B is for...
The Best of by Hard-Ons
Big Name, No Blankets by Warumpi Band
Blood Red River by The Scientists
Blue Trees by Mick Turner/Tren Brothers
Body Language by Kylie Minogue
C is for...
Cannot Buy My Soul by Kev Carmody/Various Artists
Cellulite Soul by Witch Hats
Charcoal Lane by Archie Roach
Circus Animals by Cold Chisel
Coal by Devastations
Crossing Off The Miles by Chad's Tree
Cruel, But Fair by Laughing Clowns
D is for...
Dead Wood Falls by Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea
The Definitive Collection by The Sports
Dirty Three by Dirty Three
Drunk On A Train by The Painkillers
E is for...
Eddy Current Suppression Ring by Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Everyday Lies by Hoss
F is for...
Far Be It From Me by Tex Perkins
The First Dance by Bridezilla
For The Birds by The Mess Hall
Free Dirt by Died Pretty
From One To Another by The Darling Downs
G is for...
Gala Mill by The Drones
Girl by Magic Dirt
GOD by GOD
Greasy Lens by Joel Silbersher
Gurrumul by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Gutterville Splendour Six by Gutterville Splendour Six
H is for...
Havilah by The Drones
Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Here Come The Lies by The Drones
Hey Believer by Kim Salmon with STM
High Voltage by AC/DC
Hit Me With The Surreal Feel by Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
Honey Steel's Gold by Ed Kuepper
Hoodoo You Do by The Devil & Abbe May
Horse Stories by Dirty Three
The Horse, The Rat and The Swan by Snowman
Hourly, Daily by You Am I
I is for...
Ill At Ease by The Mark Of Cain
In The Pines by The Triffids
Inner City Sound by Various Artists
J is for...
James Reyne by James Reyne
Jean Lee & The Yellow Dog by Ed Kuepper
Jingles by Regurgitator
Jungle Blues by C.W. Stoneking
Junk by The Gin Club
K is for...
nothing
L is for...
Live by Venom P. Stinger
Lowercase by Bluetile Lounge
M is for...
Magic Box by The Loved Ones
Man, You Should Explode by The Kill Devil Hills
Marry Me Tonight by HTRK
The Meanie Of Life by The Meanies
Messenger by Jimmy Little
The Miller's Daughter by The Drones
N is for...
Nailed To The Cross by Sacred Cowboys
O is for...
O Soundtrack My Heart by Pivot
Oceans Apart by The Go-Betweens
Ode To Nothing by The Lighthouse Keepers
P is for...
Paddock Of Love by Lubricated Goat
Palimpsest by Essendon Airport
Paradise by My Disco
Pop Crimes by Rowland S. Howard
Personality - One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird by The Sleepy Jackson
Pilgrim's Progress by Harem Scarem
Pop Crimes by Rowland S. Howard
Prayers on Fire by The Birthday Party
Primitive Calculators (Black) by Primitive Calculators
Primitive Calculators and Friends (White) by Primitive Calculators/Various Artists
Q is for...
nothing
R is for...
Reelsville by Dave Mason
Reveal Yourself by The Blackeyed Susans
Ron Pisto's Real World by Fungus Brains
S is for...
The Shiralee by theredsunband
Sleeping Dogs Lie by The Victims
Soaking Red by Tendrils
The Soft 'N' Sexy Sound by Dave Graney 'N' The Coral Snakes
Space Coyote by The Tigers
Still Life by The Paradise Motel
Strange Bird by Augie March
Strange Tourist by Gareth Liddiard
Stoneage Romeos by Hoodoo Gurus
T is for...
The Tabloid Blues by Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males
Tales From The Australian Underground by Various Artists
Tales From the Australian Underground Volume 2 by Various Artists
Teenage Snuff Film by Rowland S. Howard
This Is Not The Way Home by The Cruel Sea
U is for...
nothing
V is for...
nothing
W is for...
Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By by The Drones
The Waterfront Years by Tumbleweed
We're All Gunna Die by Don Walker
What Are Rockstars Doing Today by Magic Dirt
What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have by Sarah Blasko
Whatever You Love, You Are by Dirty Three
Where Joy Kills Sorrow by Various Artists
X is for...
X-Aspirations by X
Y is for...
Ya Gotta Let Me Do My Own Thing by Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
Z is for...
nothing

So that is it, any questions? What is your all-time favorite Aussie albums?

P.S. If you don't know that's Sir Les Patterson sitting on the crapper with the Aussie flag, photo by Polly Borland.

A to Z: 100 Best Australian Albums so "J" is for...

Jacana or it's full name Comb-crested Jacana, Wikipedia says that this bird is only in the northern and eastern states but I'm so sure I've seen it around here but I must be wrong and mistaking for something else. I have to figure it out and get back to you about it. Above is again another of John Gould's Birds of Australia.

Well these are five albums under the letter "J"so might has well get on with it.

James Reyne by James Reyne
His solo self titled debut album is the closest thing to John Farnham's Whispering Jack in my list here, released around the same time and in my opinion has better songs. James was always a better songwriter too, he was also with Australian Crawl who split up just before this record. It was another one of my earliest albums I got and if I remember right it was on vinyl. I still love it but I've got it on CD now. I don't know why they changed the the front cover photo, it's dated very well for a mid-80's album.

Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog by Ed Kuepper
The second solo Ed Kuepper album on my list and fourth time after The Saints and Laughing Clowns boxsets. This is his last album of new songs which came out five years ago now, mostly he's been releasing live recording in that time. He was very prolific after he went solo with almost an album every year from the mid-80's through the 90's and only slowing down in the 2000's. The songs were somewhat based around the story of the last female murderer Jean Lee to be executed in Australia in the 1950's.

Jingles by Regurgitator
This is Regurgitator's best of compilation album from the early 2000's so it's got all the 90's stuff you could possibly want all in the same place, including songs from the early singles, EPs and the first three albums. Which saying it like that sounds like not much but it's a packed, totally full at twenty-one tracks and all the best songs well, it's all the ones I remember. They are still going today but with a different drummer so it's really not the same band. If you've seen them live back in 90's this would be the making of their greatest setlist and man they were crazy live too.

Jungle Blues by C.W. Stoneking
He was born in Darwin, Northern Territory but this his second album was recorded in Melbourne. He's singing about Africa and America which is a really Aussie thing to do. Most people in this county think it's better somewhere in the world other than where they are right now, or are planning to travel oversea or just both and bitch about Australia in the meantime. True to form C.W. Stoneking jumped ship soon after this album and has been playing these songs everywhere else but here and we will have to wait to see what he does next. By the way, Jim White from the Dirty Three plays the drums on this album too.

Junk by The Gin Club
The double album is a rare thing but with eight members in The Gin Club and all are songwriters so it makes perfect senses here. Like most great double albums this one is totally epic, the way it should be but I guess I understand it's too much for most people to take in all in one go. I will say if this band was from America they would be huge. It's like most Aussie bands shouldn't think too big and in this case big in songwriting, do you know what I mean? Like say The Drones should be too. Hey, The Drones should do a double album next... I wish.


Stay tuned for the letter "K" soon...

A to Z: 100 Best Australian Albums so "H" is for...

The Harrier, or it's the Swamp Harrier above and I'm back using John Gould's Birds of Australia again. Swamp Harrier is a bird that's in least concern in conservation status which is a great thing really but people do like to talk about about all the Endangered or even the Extinct species and I did last time with Gouldian Finch. I remember visiting the museum of W.A. and I loved going to the Bird gallery all the time. They have all the birds in Western Australian taxidermied but it seem only the tourists from somewhere else would look at these birds and local people looked at the extinct display in the corner and I would hear things like, "I want to see something I don't see everyday when I come to the museum" or "This is a boring room, let's see what's next" and after a while of hearing this I've stopped going because it was depressing listening to people talk like that, or just start wishing the human race was extincted.

Anyway back to the music and the letter "H" which seems like it's got the most amount of albums so far in my little count down, reaching double figures with ten so that's why its taken so long in between posts.

Havilah by The Drones
Well, here are The Drones again with their last album from 2008, a long time ago now and this time at their own home studio. Joining them as a full new member was Dan Luscombe with Mike Noga on his second album and of-course Fiona Kitschin and Gareth Liddiard have been here from the start.

Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
With two more Aussie members joining the band Martyn P. Casey and Conway Savage make it the most ever but really can we call Cave an Aussie anymore? He's lived almost all of his adult life in England, and do you know how many albums he has done in Australia? I mean the full album? Well, only two albums Kicking Against the Pricks and Nocturama, which are not great records and that's pretty fucking lame for someone who calls himself an Aussie. Anyway this one was recorded in the U.S.A. but only mixed here. I've picked this because if I was to choose only one Bad Seeds album to listen to this would be it.   

Here Come The Lies by The Drones
Here's where it all started with the debut album from 2002, the band members at this point were Gareth, Fiona Kitschin, Rui Pereira and early drummer Christian Strybosch plus listed in the liner notes are Matt Heydon plays "Mr Whippy piano on New Kind of Kick" and Craig Williamson "his swollen eggs on The Cockeyed Lowlife of the Highlands" whatever that means.


Hey Believer by Kim Salmon with STM
The first of two albums in this post and he's already been here in my list four times, if you didn't know, with From One To Another by The Darling Downs, Dirty Three by Dirty Three, Blood Red River by The Scientists and The Axeman's Jazz by Beasts of Bourbon. This record from the mid-90' was at the time the closest he came to doing a solo album but six of these tracks included and band called STM who was the late Andrew Entsch on Doulbe Bass and Dirty Three's Jim White and Warren Ellis.

High Voltage by AC/DC
This debut album was like the blueprint without really even thinking about it, they were just another rock n roll band starting out, nothing more. I remember having the Aussie version on cassette tape with a different tracklisting, as one of my first albums I bought myself but you can't get that anymore, I wish you could. Most of Bon Scott's lyrics made more sense the older I got but they were never as good as this album. Of course they became one of the biggest heavy rock bands in the world with one of the highest selling albums of all-time but thier early stuff is always better, everytime.  

Hit Me With The Surreal Feel by Kim Salmon & the Surrealists
The debut album of The Surrealists and Kim Salmon. After The Scientists broke-up he formed a trio line-up with Brian Hooper on bass and Tony Pola on drums. Recorded with microphones randomly placed around the studio and recorded on just a four-track in his home town of Perth before packing up and heading east. Other than tours he's never come back finally setting up home in Melbourne a few years later. I like the fact I've sandwiched Kim Salmon's albums in between AC/DC and also The Drones in between Nick Cave but both I would argue are more Aussie than the bigger names and that's what my list is all about.

Honey Steel's Gold by Ed Kuepper
Ed Kuepper left The Saints after just three albums to form his new band, Laughing Clowns who broke-up. This is one of his solo albums after almost ten years playing under just his name. Original release in 1991 with a killer band line-up of Mark Dawson on Drums, Sir Alfonso on Bass and The Necks' Chris Abrahams on Piano and Organ, also the first he worked with his long time co-producer, Phil Punch. Can I call it one of the best break-up albums of all-time, it's like the Aussie's Blood on the Tracks.

Hoodoo You Do by The Devil & Abbe May
Right this is Abbe May's second album but the only one to be released under this name. It's her totally Blues album so off-course it's got the main star the Devil, himself which is more a heavy metal thing now. Most people compare her to an Female English songwriter but I would say she is more like the bloke who she broke's heart in the late 90's. Yes, I'm talking about Nick Cave again not PJ Harvey and I would argue she's the new Nick Cave. It's seems to me both are pretty much doing the same thing in the last couple of years but it's wicked coming from a young lady but just silly coming from an old man plus she would murder him in a guitar duel. Then again it's really very silly comparing artists and I'm just on a I hate Nick Cave rant tonight.

Horse Stories by Dirty Three
The second  Dirty Three album or is it the third if you count the demo tape that was turned into the album Sad & Dangerous but anyway it's the second on my list. On the DVD doco from 2007 Warren Ellis was saying it he didn't want to or/and could have not released it at the time, I can not think of that time in the mid 90's music landscape without this album. I wish they would stop being just a side project to all of Nick Cave's stuff too and it's so great to have them back with a new album. Ellis should file his divorce papers next and come back to his first love, Dirty Three and make it a full time band again. I'll never forgive Cave for fucking up one of the greatest bands of all-time but I also remember Ellis talking about working with Charlie Marshall in the mid-90's, how amazing it was and what an honor to work with such a great songwriter like him but who knows who he is now? my point is, it was inevitable if someone like Nick Cave came along.


Hourly, Daily by You Am I
This would have to be my favorite You Am I album and it's for the simple reason that it's their first album recorded in Australia. Tim Rogers, Andy Kent and Russell Hopkinson stopped going oversea to do their albums and this is the third album, the two album before were both done in the U.S.A. with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. Roger's songs also look closer to home e.g. daily life from waking up in the morning to saying goodnight. You really couldn't find a more Aussie looking album cover because when you look out a window or walk down the street that is what you would see. This albums got nothing to do with Nick Cave, thank fuck but from now on I promise to NOT say his name anymore on this blog, he just pisses me off now. I'll have to write about all these albums again without him so sorry about that.

Stay tuned for the letter "I" soon...

A to Z: 100 Best Australian Albums so "C" is for...

This time I've picked out the Cockatoo or my favorite one the Red tailed Black Cockatoo for the above picture.

OK, on with the albums which there are seven in this post, I'll just write one line on each album or this really is going to take forever.

Cannot Buy My Soul by Kev Carmody/Various Artists
One of the greatest if not the best tribute albums ever made plus all the original songs too on disc two, his songs are like one masterstroke after another.


Cellulite Soul by Witch Hats
A totally wicked and amazing debut album from a few years ago that makes Wolfmother look like The Wiggles.


Charcoal Lane by Archie Roach
This was his unbelievable debut album, he was at the age of 34 at the time of the release which is such a shame that it had taken that long but thanks to Paul Kelly.


Circus Animals by Cold Chisel
My dad's favorite band of all-time which I listened to the most as a kid because he just was always playing them so after a very long time of not wanting to listen to them this one I find the easiest.


Coal by Devastations
This is their second album out of three albums, so far but have been dead quiet since 2007 so I think most people have totally forgotten about this band now. This a prefect classic from the mid-2000's.


Crossing Off The Miles by Chad's Tree
So maybe this should be under "K" for Kerosene which was the one and only great album but this is the reissue with all early recordings/demos, 7" singles/B-sides well, everything they recorded in the 1980's but only released last year.


Cruel, But Fair by Laughing Clowns
Yet another reissue in this list of mine, what Ed Kuepper did after he left The Saints. I think Laughing Clowns are so much better and this is everything they ever recorded too. They are my favorite band from the 80's.


Stay tuned for the letter "D" soon...

Video Tape: Gareth Liddiard & Adalita on RockWiz

Well, if you missed it and this was a repeat too, Gareth Liddiard and Adalita were on the TV show RockWiz last night. I found the whole thing on youtube to watch again and again and again and again if you don't have a TV, like myself or maybe you just live overseas, somewhere.






I hope you enjoyed that because I did, it's hilarious from beginning to the end and the songs are wicked too. If you don't know the songs are: Gaz does Oh My from The Drones' album Havilah, Adalita does Dirty Jeans from Magic Dirt's album What Are Rockstars Doing Today and the duet as the credits roll is a cover of an old Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey classic track Messin' With The Kid by The Saints, unbelievable version eh?

50 Greatest Nick Cave Songs: The "new" Bad Seeds album rant & from #19 to #15

I read today about Cave's plan for doing the next Bad Seeds album and I have to say the last three albums: two Grinderman's and the last Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! all now sound just the same so I'm hoping for something totally different next, even a quick U-turn in the opposite direction.

Dig album was pretty much the same as the Grinderman line-up except Thomas Wydler, the Bad Seeds drummer since 1985 who only played drums on three songs. Conway Savage does play piano & organ but didn't play any of the tracks on the Dig album. Mick Harvey played on all the songs but quit soon after it's tour. James Johnston who plays only four songs on Dig but didn't tour with them. Ed Kuepper joined last year for a festival tour after Harvey left.

I read a great long interview a couple of months ago which Nick Cave who said, "I'd be honoured if Ed would come in and play. But like I said, I'm not really sure what the next record's going to be. I know it's very exciting to me, because the possibilities now have opened up. Now that Mick has left, there's a void. And it's a kind of void of possibilities." Also he said this about Blixa Bargeld rejoining: "But there was certainly no animosity between me and Blixa. We're very good friends, and I think we both feel that what he did was, both for him and the Bad Seeds, the right decision. I mean, I would quite happily have Blixa back if he wanted to come back." Cool, eh? He should make that an official offer because I think everyone would love to see him back in the Bad Seeds.

Of course nothing has happened yet but here's my dream eight man line-up for the Nick Cave & the Bad Seed 15th album plus ideas or my wishlist for songwriting, recording and producing:
Nick Cave
The vocals.
Just write the songs, just sing them like a front man because what a great band you have here.
Blixa Bargeld
The guitars.
Back with his open tuned electric guitar, slide guitar and maybe even pedal steel guitar but on different songs.
Ed Kuepper
The guitars.
His first time recording as a Bad Seeds why not electric guitar and acoustic guitar too but on different songs.
Conway Savage
The piano, organ and all keyboards.
So just let him play them this time around.
Martyn P. Casey
The bass guitar.
Of-course.
Thomas Wydler
The drums.
Just put him back on the drums on all the songs, he's the Bad Seeds drummer.
Jim Sclavunos
The percussion.
That's it, no drumming this time for him he can wait for the next Grinderman album, god help us all.
Warren Ellis
The violin, mandolin, viola, accordion, flute, loops and programming.
Plus anything and everything else he can think off too.

Now here's a good question: can Nick Cave still write really bleak and depressing songs anymore??? Can he just let his sad and morbid side run wild and lock-up his dirty pervert side for Grinderman 3. Can someone please buy him a pet "Moose", maybe. The recording should be done outside of England, returning to American for the first time since the early 90's, maybe even New York might work great for them now. A different producer too would be good. It will be ten years since Tony Cohen did that job but after Nick Launay doing every album since Nocturama so he needs to take a break. Ten songs I think would be the best amount. Something with a totally different sound than the last three albums. Something entirely miserable, they wouldn't have to be all those piano ballads, I don't mean that. Can Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds do a complete back flip at this stage? Maybe not but Cave being a happily married man has done nothing for his songwriting so he should do the "Moose" album. Hey, maybe that is great working title: The Moose Album and here the album cover too, it looks very Bad Seeds to me.
The Moose, 1773, Oil on canvas by George Stubbs.

Whatever is going to happen is not going to happen until next year anyway so back to my countdown. Right now it's going down to number fifteenth which is getting a bit hard, numbering all these songs the higher I get but here goes...

19. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wings Off Flies
Well, this seems like it's the only one from this album, the debut Cave album featuring The Bad Seeds. I do quite like it as an album but for some reason which I don't know myself and can't really explain I've only chosen this one track. The lyrics at the very start of the song repeat throughout from an old game picking one petal off a flower but Cave replaces it with flies which of-course only have two wings so it always ends on not. Can you imagine young Nick sitting at his London window on rainy day picking up dead insects pulling their wings off?
Find it on: From Her To Eternity (Album) 1984

18. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Magma
This one might seems like an odd one at this stage but I've been enjoying these soundtrack works so much more than say the two Grinderman albums and even the last Bad Seeds album. The Proposition and The Road soundtrack are great. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is the weakest one. Some tracks from the three previously mentioned soundtracks are collected on disc one of White Lunar but the second disc is even better. This track is from "The Vaults" which is apparently just vocals but with the FX pedals used heavily over it. Also I wish they would officially release Metamorphosis, Woyzeck and Faust which are all the theater soundtracks and could be on an album too.
Find it on: White Lunar (Compilation) 2009

17. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Jack The Ripper
Just like Loverman in the last post of these 50 tracks, I think this should have been included on The Best of... compilation album because I think it's one of the strongest singles, if not the best one they have ever released. What a killer promo video clip. This song has to be one of the best if not the best ways to close an album too. Wow what an album as well, it's like being hit by sledgehammer repeatedly.
Find it on: Straight To You/Jack The Ripper (Single) 1992 or Henry's Dream (Album) 1992

16. The Birthday Party - Zoo Music Girl
My favorite The Birthday Party album, I think Junkyard is so overrated and you can't call Mutiny/The Bad Seed an album because it's two E.P.'s. This track is the opener for it and I guess, I could say like I said with the previous song but the best way to start an album plus this track it's like a jackhammer . Am I just repeating myself now? If so sorry about that. What about this, can I call this track his first great love song?
Find it on: Prayers on Fire (Album) 1981

15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nature Boy
The first single from the epic double album and the only one from the Abattoir Blues side or disc here in my list. A great way to kick start the last truly great Bad Seeds and Nick Cave album. It's the first album without Blixa Bargeld but it's an album dedicated to Mick Geyer who's his best mate outside of his bands, and was someone Cave spoke to on the phone sometimes more than once a day and talked about everything including Cave's own music. He died soon after this album was finished and I would say it was his biggest loss in his life since his father at the age of 21. I can't underestimate Mick Geyer's importance to Nick Cave really so now it seems he's a bit lost without him.
Find it on: Nature Boy (Single) 2004 or Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Album) 2004

The top photo is of Nick Cave who is far left (with his very short hair cut). The Bad Seeds who going from left to right are Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, James Johnston, Martyn P. Casey, Warren Ellis (in white and blue not black like the rest of the band), Thomas Wydler and Mick Harvey walking the streets of Paris during the recording of the album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus and the photographer was Steve Gullick.

Stay tuned for more soon...

Video Tape: What would I program on Rage???

OK, what would you program on rage? Because I know what I would. Well you get around 55 videos to pick and about every half a dozen you talk about the video/song so here goes…

Intro: "To sum up I’ve picked stuff I’ve seen on rage before and I would love to see them all again. I think it covers a lot of styles of music and hopefully very entertaining video clips. Well, I remember them being so. I think I’ve covered from childhood to right up to now 2010." (Keeping it very brief because I wouldn’t like to talk on TV very long so this is it.)

Playlist:
1. The Drones - Jezebel
"How good are they? The greatest band from the past decade and Gareth Liddiard is the best songwriter currently working in the world of music."
2. The Drones - The Minotaur
3. Dirty Three - Everything's Fucked
4. Dirty Three & Cat Power - Great Waves
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Breathless
"He’s the greatest songwriter from the past couple of decades but this one is his last really great song and it’s a cool video too. I never think his songs match-up with the videos but here are the next few I think work the best."
6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Love Letter
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Loverman
8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Jack the Ripper
9. The Boys Next Door - Shivers
10. Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours
"Because they are an underrated band and should be played more. Ed Kuepper is one of the greatest songwriters too and kind-off forgotten but will be remembered now."
11. Laughing Clowns - Holy Joe
12. Ed Kuepper - The Way I Made You Feel
13. Augie March - The Moth Ball
14. Sarah Blasko - Planet New Year
15. The Paradise Motel - Bad Light
16. Magic Dirt - She Riff
17. The Scientists - Human Jukebox
"Because they are another underrated band and should be played more too. Kim Salmon is one of the greatest songwriters too and kind-off forgotten but I’m going to remember him now."
18. Kim Salmon & the Surrealists - I Won't Tell
19. Beasts of Bourbon - Psycho
20. Darling Downs - Circa '65
21. Antenna- Come on Spring
22. The Triffids - Wide Open Road
23. Jeff Buckley - So Real
"Because it's so strange."
24. Portishead - Glory Box
25. Bjork - Army of Me
26. Joy Division – Shadowplay
27. The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
28. Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
29. Johnny Cash - Hurt
"Because it's so sad."
30. Antony & the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
31. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
32. Adam & the Ants - Antmusic
33. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
34. Rihanna – Umbrella
35. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
36. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
"Because it's so hot."
37. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
38. Roots Manuva - One Witness (One Hope)
39. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait
40. dEUS - Theme From Turnpike
41. The Young Gods - Gasoline Man
42. Einstürzende Neubauten - Z.N.S.
"Because it's so weird."
43. Sepultura - Slave New World
44. Refused - New Noise
45. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dang
46. The Jesus Lizard - Puss
47. PJ Harvey - This Is Love
48. The Breeders - Cannonball
49. Tom Waits - Goin' Out West
"Because it's so crazy."
50. Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
51. Cat Power - Lived In Bars
52. Fiona Apple - Fast As You Can
53. Beth Orton - Stolen Car
54. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - I Gave You
55. Guns N' Roses – Estranged
"Because it's so insane."
Of-course I don't any featured videos myself so that's it.

The full playlist is on youtube or below here (but some clips seem to be missing in this embed version)


P.S. There is a really cool looking book out now which is written by Narelle Gee, who could have one of the coolest jobs on the planet.