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    Posted: November 25 2021 at 08:01
European bands/artists have more polls and discussion than any other continent. Seems a bit exclusive. How about your top albums from Australia?  

Plini - Implulse Voices
Beautiful Bedlam - s/t
Virgil Donati - In This Life
Caligula's Horse - Bloom
Southern Empire - Civilisation
The Helix Nebula - Meridian
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Unitopia - Artificial



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Unitopia - Artificial is pretty spectacular.
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My favs From Australia are, in no particular order
We Lost The Sea - Departure Songs
Dirty Tree - Ocean Songs
The Church - Heyday
Sebastain Hardie - Four Moments
Windchase - Symphinity
Laura - Radio Swans Is Down
Rainbow Theatre - Fantasy Of Horses
Cybotron - Cybotron
Arcane - Know - Learned
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
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I really enjoy Unitopia and Southern Empire.  

Prog magazine had a sampler from Wildthing Records featuring some Australian bands.  I found a link to the band called Ebonivory that was included. EBONIVORY // LONG DREAM I // DIGITAL SAMPLER - Wild Thing Music Store    In case you are interested in checking them out.
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I can only come up with nine favourite Antipodean albums so far:-

Blackfeather - At the Mountains of Madness (1971)
Cybotron - Cybotron (1976)
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (2012)
Lisa Gerrard - The Mirror Pool (1995)
Lizard - Bad Companions (1973)
The Master's Apprentices - Choice Cuts (1971)
Peak - Ebondazzar (1980)
Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments (1975)
Unitopia - The Garden (2008)

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Everything Dead Can Dance.

I love this trio from DCD:

Spleen and Ideal
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
The Serpent's Egg

I wonder how much DCD counts, however. Although the founders were from Australia and "formed" the project there in 1981, they moved to London, England in May 1982, which is before the release of their albums. The self-titled came out in 1984.

Extradition's Hush (psych/avant folk) is another particular favourite (not in PA but I consider it to be Prog Folk). And I like Cybotron. I've been exploring King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, but still haven't really "got it". I worked in Australia (Cairns) for some time, and then it was non-Prog I was into such as Divinyls, Redgum, Midnight Oil, Icehouse, some Cold Chisel... My brother who lives in Australia listens to Tame Impala. I liked what I heard.

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The land down under is home to a lot of music I like, but not much of it is prog. This album's the only one I can think of:



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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I've been exploring King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, but still haven't really "got it".
I feel the same about the Gizz. Decent but doesn't rip my head off.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

European bands/artists have more polls and discussion than any other continent. Seems a bit exclusive. 

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. Smile
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. 
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I can only come up with seven favourite Antipodean albums so far:-

That's surely more than I can, Paul. 


Edited by David_D - November 26 2021 at 14:20
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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). Embarrassed



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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I've been exploring King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, but still haven't really "got it".
I feel the same about the Gizz. Decent but doesn't rip my head off.

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)




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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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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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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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..oh and there's also Aussie Pink Floyd who I'm going to see next week in Brum.
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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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Sebastian Hardie-4 Moments
Blackfeather- At The Mountains...
The Masters Apprentices-Choice Cuts
DCD-Realm...
The Church- Starfish
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

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)

The Necks, another Aussie band I like of which I had forgotten that they belong here.
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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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