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enigmatic 
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 Topic: Top albums from AustraliaPosted: November 30 2021 at 19:54 |
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Both albums by Sebastian Hardie are my favorite from Australia.
Allen, Daevid - Banana Moon (1971) Bakery - Momento (1972) Blackfeather - At the Mountains of Madness (1971) Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg (1988) Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987) Madden & Harris - Fools Paradise (1975) Master's Apprentices - A Toast to Panama Red (1972) Melissa - Midnight Trampoline (1971) Necks, The - Hanging Gardens (2000) Rainbow Theatre - Fantasy of Horses (1976) Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments (1975) Sebastian Hardie - Windchase (1976) New Zealand: Airlord - Clockwork Revenge (1977) Dr. Tree - Dr. Tree (1976) Ragnarok - Nooks (1976) |
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King Crimson776
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Posted: November 27 2021 at 02:39 |
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Australia:
Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments Rainbow Theatre - Fantasy of Horses Voyager - I Am the reVolution Windchase - Symphinity Aragon - Rocking Horse and Other Short Stories From the Past Steve Warner - Steve Warner Frank Gambale - Raison d'ętre On the Virg - Serious Young Insects First Light - First Light Madden & Harris - Fools Paradise Unitopia - Artificial New Zealand: Rudy Adrian - Starfields: Sequencer Sketches vol. 3 Split Enz - Mental Notes Ragnarok - Nooks Airlord - Clockwork Revenge
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PhideauxFan
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Posted: November 27 2021 at 01:55 |
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-Karnivool: Sound Awake
-The Butterfly Effect: Final Converstation Of Kings -Sleepmakeswaves: ... And So We Destroyed Everything -Meniscus: Refractions -Caligula's Horse: In Contact -Solkyri: Are You My Brother ? -Dead Can Dance: Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 15:42 |
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I thought Four Moments was a Neo Prog album when I first heard it. I was really surprised when I discovered it was released way back in 1975.
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David_D
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 14:30 |
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I've just heard the first song on Sebastian Hardie's Four Moments (1975), and found something interesting as it sounded to me pretty much as a forerunner for Neo-Prog.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 14:07 |
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I had to dig deep and force myself to list 10 (so no bubbling under), however the first four are outstanding 13 Madden & Harris Fools Paradise 1975 12 Outback Dance the Devil Away 1991 11 Dead Can Dance Aion 1990 11 Blackfeather At the Mountains of Madness 1971 10 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana 2017 10 Outback Baka 1990 10 Rainbow Theatre The Armada 1975 10 Rainbow Theatre Fantasy of Horses 1976 09 AC/DC If You Want Blood... You've Got 1978 09 Aragon - The Meeting 1992 Edited by Sean Trane - November 26 2021 at 14:14 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 11:32 |
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I'd forgotten Blackfeather and The Master's Apprentices were Australian. I'll add them to my list too.
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 11:22 |
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Don't know enough Australian bands, but two of the greatest prog albums from there (IMO):
Karnivool, Sound Awake and Rainbow Theater, Fantasy of Horses Dead Can Dance also very good, but no standout albums for me. I used to be a Men at Work fanatic in my early teens. Not prog, in spite of the extensive use of flute, but you could argue they have some (mildly) proggy moments, esp on the album Cargo.
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 08:56 |
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The Necks, another Aussie band I like of which I had forgotten that they belong here. |
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 08:36 |
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Sebastian Hardie-4 Moments
Blackfeather- At The Mountains... The Masters Apprentices-Choice Cuts DCD-Realm... The Church- Starfish
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 03:40 |
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1. Rainbow Theatre - Fantasy of Horses
2. Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments 3. Sebastian Hardie - Windchase 4. United Progressive Fraternity - Planetary Overload Part 1 5. Chetarca - Chetarca 6. Allomerus - Hydraulic Power Department 7. Cybotron - Colossus 8. Elias - 1977 9. Anubis - 230503 10. The Ben Cameron Project - A Cycle Never Ending 11. Anubis - A Tower of Silence 12. Ben Craven - Last Chance to Hear 13. Aleph - Surface Tension 14. Aragon - Rocking Horse and Other Stories
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 01:07 |
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..oh and there's also Aussie Pink Floyd who I'm going to see next week in Brum.
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Posted: November 26 2021 at 01:05 |
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I like what I've heard from Caligula's Horse although not knocked out. Some good (but not prog) bands from The Land Down Under
Crowded House (apparently formed in Melbourne although I always thought they were from New Zealand!) Men At Work (the album I have by them is decent) Wolfmother (LZ rip off?!) Rose Tattoo (hard rock band very famous in the seventies/eighties) The Vines (alternative rock band) Tame Impala (my nephew raves about this artist!) don't really like INXS (yawn) or AC/DC (joke 'panto' band in my book) then there's the 'girls'. Natalie Umbruglia , ONJ and Kylie.. good to look at , less so to listen to lol.
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Posted: November 25 2021 at 20:20 |
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Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
The Necks - Hanging Gardens AC/DC - Powerage King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland Kristin Rule - The Knife That Cuts a Tear DCD - 2 more albums (Spleen & Ideal, Serpents Egg) The Necks - 2 more albums (Drive By, Aether) AC/DC - 2 more albums (Highway To Hell, Back In Black)
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Sacro_Porgo
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Posted: November 25 2021 at 19:43 |
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The only prog out of Australia I've heard is Caligula's Horse - Bloom...
I absolutely adore it.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Me three. Question: Do Dead Can Dance really count as an Australian band? Have they ever done an album in Australia, toured Australia, or even live in Australia? Didn't they leave Australia for London in 1982? Hasn't Brendan remained a resident in the British Isles (mostly in Ireland) ever since? Haven't they recorded and released all of their albums from the UK? My Top 10 would be: 1. Sleepmakeswaves …and so we destroyed everything (2011) 2. Stare at the Clouds This Clear Divide (2016) 3. Windchase Symphinity (1977) 4. Karnivool Asymmetry (2013) 5. Arcane Chronicles of the Waking Dream (2009) 6. Anubis 230503 (2009) 7. Sebastian Hardie Four Moments (1975) 8. The Church Untitled #23 (2007) 9. On the Virg Serious Young Insects (1998) 10. Plini Handmade Cities (2016) 11. United Progressive Fraternity Planetary Overload, Part 1 - Loss (2019) 12. Unitopia The Garden (2008) 13. Caligula's Horse In Contact (2017) Edited by BrufordFreak - November 27 2021 at 06:07 |
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Lewian
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Posted: November 25 2021 at 14:36 |
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Not much knowledge here either. I do like King Gizzard's Polygondwanaland but am rather lukewarm on other stuff I heard of them. I could list some 6-8 Dead Can Dance albums, and then I have and like one band not listed yet, Clogs (Stick Music and Lantern). Oh, and We Lost the Sea (Departure Songs), already listed. Didn't know they are Aussies (this may apply to some more in my collection, I did look up the Top Australian albums list on PA but that has only King G and DCD of those I know). This is not much but more than from Spain (nada).  Edited by Lewian - November 25 2021 at 14:44 |
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Posted: November 25 2021 at 13:53 |
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That's surely more than I can, Paul.
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David_D
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I'm sorry to tell you, Grumpy, that I'm not able to contribute here, as I've so far only found one Australian album that I'm fond of, even I've surely tried. That is Into the Labyrinth (1993) with Dead Can Dance. - It's somehow like that the Australian taste and mine isn't quite in line.  The good news is, though, that the next geographical list, I've planned to do very soon, will be for Latin America. I can also tell you, if I do any more geographical lists, that won't be any European. Happy the Man?
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