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music for life...​



Welcome to FMR, a place to source LIMITED EDITION VINYL of bands and people I think are very worthy of being spoilt !   The Press runs on these will be small & the DIY factor will be large !  There is also a lot of extra reading/articles/photo's etc..within this site if you feel like spending some time to dig in & enjoy some (mainly) AUSTRALIAN UNDERGROUND MUSIC HISTORY with some of these pages previously housed on the Buttercup Records site. Some of the releases coming up were originally slated for BCR but will now appear here. Buttercup is on the go with John at the helm & shall add to it's already impressive discography.There will also be some mid year collaborations where BCR does a killer LP and FMR tackles a 7" so watch for some of these soon...On the 'About' page I've tried to give a bit of a rundown on how I have ended up here doing what I do and also have tackled a list of my Favourite Songs of all time... which has been no small undertaking and is still a work in progress but you'll get the general idea..It's divided up between Aussie and Overseas and also has a few Video /Audio clips to accomodate it. If only ONE person discovers a song/band/person that they previously hadn't heard and they seek it out to become a fresh fave then it has been totally worthwhile. I trawled my Records/CD's/Cassettes/Pea Brain and had fun making this list I must say. Thanks to you for having a squiz and here's hoping you enjoy picking up some of the records that shall see the light of day via F M R, whether that be a record of a new band currently playing out and about or some ARCHIVAL project where a band /person's songs get put out there & their story told...It's all music & holds strong interest to me & here's hoping that it also perks your interest too.
​If you are here right now then I guess it has ! 
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Fantastic Mess ? It's from a lyric from one of my fave UK singer/songwriters (Roy Harper)      Scotti  Early May 2019.

* FMR Logo's /Original Artwork Hand drawn by Brill Brisbane Artist FAT ANKLE. His Art is available for sale online now

* For more great Australian Underground Music /Culture information, check out the deep archive of www.punkjourney.com  sometime, as it is loaded with information, images, videos, flipbook fanzines from the past and more and, just like this website..is an ongoing,organic & ever changing labour of love.



Below : CREEM magazine / Concert Tickets 1980-1984/ Missing Link Records -405 Bourke Street
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Photo Left : Myself and longtime Punk buddy IAN - Mooroolbark 1983

Music has always been a major part of my life, with my Mother’s history with singing ( See the articles pages for the full story and photos) and 7” and LP records always being a constant through the decade of the 1970’s. Creedence singles, Oz 60’s records, Magazines, Radio, Television, Fan Clubs & letter writing,and live outings… always something going on.

In or around 1974 /1975 I ( along with my Sis who was big into Oz Rock ) saw AC / DC at Ringwood Eastland Shopping Centre in the afternoon.. I remember vividly how loud it was and as a 7-8 year old peering over the glass ramps looking down to the stage how exciting it was, watching Bon Scott own the stage and look up to our area at times with people losing their shit !
Ol’55 ( on the back of a truck ) and Cash Backman around this time was also influential for both their differing genres and the fact that I knew seeing music Live was something here to stay. In 1976 I won a Kiss competition on the ABC show Flashez hosted by pop idol Ray Burgess and trippy co-host Mike Meade ( who ended up releasing a cult solo record in a crazy small edition ). One of the records I won was the V/A comp the ‘Casablanca Files’ where I should of set my sights on things like the Parliament tracks over the Kiss cuts I already knew but so it goes…    The Music shows at the time had a huge impact on my music obsessions with Countdown, Sounds /Sounds Unlimited , Nightmoves, Rock Arena, Wrok all blazing a trail through the mid to late 70’s and into the 80’s before Beatbox, Rage, The Factory etc..took the torch and ran with it.

I was buying Rock Scene, Creem , Rocket, Spunky, and other magazines in 1976, 1977, 1978 etc.. and obsessing first over all the Kiss coverage ( I was in deep writing letters to America and purchasing T-Shirts from the USA, which was no easy feat back then). Amongst those great American Rock mags were photos of Blondie, Richard Hell, The Dead Boys ( I recall looking at one of the members in the band (Cheetah Chrome i think) wearing a chicken wire t-shirt and thinking how crazy that was). It was also pretty raunchy, showing David Bowie Pubic Hair, topless pics of Grace Slick and even full frontal un-circumsized todger pics of Dr Hook ( on the ‘Boy Howdy’ Beer pages ). Some real eye opening stuff (along with that which one can never ;'Un-See'), and easy to soak up, along with some of the ‘under the counter’ reads that I was exposed to, like the Newspaper style Hardcore Porn mag Ribald which just added to the array of culture, humanity & retina rockin’ that was out and about in the mid to late 70’s.



Stood in line for hours at VFL Park in 1980 to see KISS and soaked up all the atmosphere on the day with impersonators, people’s T-Shirts, the sound and spectacle ( still have some Grass in a jar) Got to see The Human League at the Palais in 1982 (my memory is not clear on that one dammit), David Bowie in 1983 ( Serious Moonlight Tour ), Countdown Award nights and more !  Also in the early 80’s I start to explore more indepthly the other worlds of some of those images and names that had appeared in those mags. My father had committed suicide, my stepfather stream were uninspiring losers whose DNA was awash with all the shitty parts of being an Australian Male and I was really starting to ramp up on Anger … all stepping stones for an early teen. Kiss were still there but the bratty stuff I was seeing on TV shone more brightly as did finding 3RRR-FM on the dial in 1982 and immersing myself in the Dead Kennedys in 1983. The outer east where I was from was also lucky to be home to some great local Punk bands…so through my buddy at Skool Ian we started throwing ourselves in deep. I would watch rehearsals under his house by Society’s Victim and Mad Flowers and see their grafitti as I walked the streets. Those bands would later morph of course into Civil Dissident and become lifelong friends and heavy inspiration to directions later taken. Skate bowls were a good hang, BMX mastery became important as did the discovery of some of Melbourne’s great Independent record stores such as Missing Link Records (Pre 262 Flinders Lane with a dude making Studded belts out the back)), Greville Records, Leedin Records (good for import bondage trousers and all sorts of fun punkery ), the early Hip Hop Store which was located under the waterfall in the city square & all the Second Hand shops that were on offer. I was still also invested in top 40 singles and 12”s (Stray Cats to Dead or Alive, The Clash to the Eurogliders) so the desire to buy and discover was wide reaching and diverse.

I won another mail comp around this time on EON-FM where they wanted letters sent in of your fave three songs of all time ( I posted 100 letters with three different songs on each )  Cut to 1984/1985 and I’m into a watershed dual year where I take on a Film Making and Drama course and meet (again) a swag of people who are still heavily in my life 30+ years on which speaks volumes about their integrity as people. Punk gigs left right and off centre, hanging in St.Kilda a lot, getting cars, soaking up fanzines, records, demo tapes, taking photos, and going to as many parties as you could squeeze in along with having all day and nite hangs at friends houses ( who you hoped had gotten rid of their parents for a few days). I’m writing letters like a mad man by this point, all across Australia and all Overseas across the next bunch of years when I start my own Fanzine & extend the families involvement with DIY printing ( The family had a printing biz in Ringwood and would print a lot of the Prog Era posters for Mushroom Records etc..), with my Uncle also heavily into design and hanging with that initial crowd. He gave me the Brian Eno ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’ LP which could of led to a diverted world of Experimental and Avant Garde sights and sounds but I was determined to stay the course of Punk and all it’s offerings and pretty stoked on my choices as still discovering new and old music within the genre to this very day and always knew it was to be a lifestyle and lifetime on the invest…
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Letters came back from Civil Dissident and pick ups and drop offs were arranged to see them in the city with cool ties to my Mum forged at the same time with the band members (It sure helps to have a supportive family behind your choices). Fanzine assembly, networking, meeting Interstate pen pals, travelling to Sydney and Adelaide to see bands, buying a printing machine, house sharing, all brilliant activity and fitting in as much to your youth as you could ( without realising that this is what you were doing ). Late 80’s and it’s working in a film studio ( editing, helping with commercials and band clips, gear hire and cleaning up the theatrette after the Dogs in Space bunch had been in to watch their daily rushes,& with parts of the Azaria Chamberlain film 'Evil Angels' also filmed here) and then into the world of Au-Go-Go Records for the next 14 years with a week off after leaving and across to Missing Link Records for the following 9 so twenty plus years of deep deep music excitement, discovery, creativity and lifelong inspiration. The tens of thousands of people you meet along the way within a world like that shapes who you are and so many of these people are still in my life today which is simply golden.

Learning so much about music from like minded record store owners, employees and customers has been incredible and also super rewarding to pay experiences forward by replicating what was generously handed to me… whether that be taking someone just getting into that world to their first show, turning them onto records that would be life changing, encouraging them in their DIY endeavours via letter writing across Australia and Overseas and more. So many people from this time I still see now at gigs in small pubs and venues that hold 1-300 people and for them, just like me they’d locked in their subculture for life and there was no desire to turn back or switch across to attending Dance Raves every weekend…. they knew what they liked and they loved what they lived. With such a wide array of humanity on display via the outreaching tentacles connected to Independent Record Store hubs one got to see and experience a piece of everything ( this will be explored more indepthly on the rec store pages on this site over time ) so you saw great bands in their embryonic forms, you were listening intently to walking encyclopedia’s of music, people became your lovers, your haters, your weekly pests…teenagers always found the shops & their Mother’s would thank you for being kind to their child via the lifeblood of Mailorder
(especially if from a isolated town or city ) and you would see them later became adults and have children themselves ( no doubt instilling that cool DIY cycle of thought, action and creativity ) and on it went… round and round, amazing record by amazing record, wild tour by wild tour, inspiring person by inspiring person….


All this activity that I’ve been involved with from a record label perspective ( Death Valley / Afterburn / Buttercup Records and Fantastic Mess Records ) all stems back to the days spent within the walls and out and about immersed in the experiences of those two Record Stores, both of which had deep label history and led to fresh involvement with both stores labels up to their Discography ends so life changing without a doubt and it’s all that which has set me in good stead for what is happening now as all that information that becomes like a whirlpool in your head is still equally as exciting to me now as it was then and as we know, there are still hundreds of stories within the beating heart of Australian Underground Music that are yet to be told so once you are hooked you stay hooked and I would not have it any other way  :-)

So what you see here is then a celebration and a visual /audio documentation of a lifetime of Music Nerdism on display for all to see and proud in it’s execution and delivery. As myself and John have found across the past bunch of years doing BCR there are likeminded people all across the globe who share in your passion and desire for a record and story to be uncovered ( along with hearing a new and fine current band going round) so this is an incredibly rewarding experience as the buyer’s enthusiasm pushes you to dig deeper & the enjoyment they get from a good project is real & becomes something you both share and if you were to find out their own story you would see that many experiences are similar in nature across involvement - discovery - DIY Creativity - Networking - Support - and Lifelong love of music so the reason that YOU are reading this right now means that you fly under some of these very cool flags yourself and that is a beautiful thing and across the coming months I will do my best to tell some of these stories from a customer perspective as experiences will be varied and of interest to us all.

So as we know…. the best KISS solo album is by Ace Frehley, the best Black Flag album is ‘Loose Nut’, the 60’s band LOVE are an incredible revelation of what you can achieve in music, The MONKS are part of my DNA, The VENOM P. STINGER track ‘Walking About’ is my favourite Australian song of all time ( followed by AC/DC’s ‘Little Lover’), I have listened to Minneapolis Hip Hop champ PROF non stop for all of 2019, The formats I play most at home are Vinyl & Cassette, The band I listened to most in 2018 was the Sleaford Mods, the track ‘Future Creme’ by TOTAL CONTROL is I think my third favourite Australian song of all time ( that list gets bigger each week ). The STIFF RICHARDS album 'Dig' is one of the best Aussie Garage Rock'nRoll albums of the past 5 years... If you are driving on a dual carriage highway and stay in the right hand lane for a long period of time you will Cop Abuse from me as It makes me lose my shit, the best Dead Kennedys record is ‘Plastic Surgery Disasters’, Australian 80’s Punk still gives me the same buzz as it did when I first heard it, i find that pretty great !, Late 70’s Australian Punk /New Wave is easy World Class alongside anything deemed classic which came out at the same time around the globe, the best Pinball Machine is Evel Knievel or Strikes & Spares, the trick to keeping Multi-Balls in play is to focus only on the flippers and keep them both humming steady… ignore what is happening higher up on the playing field or all the balls will go down the guts, My first Skateboard was a Blue fibreglass Condor in the mid 70’s then I had a mad Brown fibreglass board with sandpaper and big fat red rear wheels called the ‘Eliminator’, I am a Proof Reading nerd and as a result have typo’s jump out at me all over the joint…in Newspapers, Online, in Retail, and in Liner Notes of Records…(there is a single one on the insert of the 1st label 7") it drives me nuts, & I think my 4th favourite Oz song of all time is ‘Laid Back in Anger’ by Jon English & Trevor White. So that’s a lot of comma’s and a kind of big paragraph, so let’s leave it at that and below you shall see some of the bands and songs that have shaped my life and rule my world day to day. Enjoy having a dig through these pages and I hope some of the records that come out are up your alley and you dig the sounds and the history along with the presentation… Music is the great soother, it can give you the ultimate Rev Up and it can soundtrack your life very very brilliantly, thanks for stopping by and for supporting these records as they drop.    Cheers,    Scotti    FANTASTIC MESS RECORDS  May  2019


Below : AC/DC -High Voltage LP/ Black Flag -Loose Nut LP/ The Monks /DK's -Plastic Surgery..LP/ Strikes & Spares Pinball ( 1977)

the songs that (continue) to shape my life
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The List below is a grab bag of TRACKS that have seeped into my DNA & have settled in for life... The first FIFTY represent my fave songs of all time IN ORDER ( we know that is a tough call ) then it kicks into gear with a truckload of other songs i swear by. The joy of being heavily invested in music is that your fave songs just KEEP GETTING BETTER & one just cannot imagine one's life without 'em.... YOU of course will have a completely different list and if you are a regular to this site and wish to continue to buy records from here then I'd LOVE to hear what YOUR top 50  OZ and O/S songs are as it will paint a cool picture of the sounds that have shaped your life & may well be full of diverse surprises as we look at all the genres of music out there and all the decades worth to sift through and it's a major undertaking to dig deep and explore all sorts of human audio creations that exist for us. No doubt there will be bands and people that I have yet to tap in ( still to add NZ....) but this is a solid representation of the songs that have rocked my boat & have included random You Tube clips and thumbnails of covers etc... to add some action and design into the mix.* Some bands/folk get Multiple Entries as they just have too many pearlers ! Enjoy...

****Entries in bold mean that there is a clip /audio down the guts...

AUSTRALIAN​
Venom P. Stinger - Walking About
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AC/DC -Little Lover
Total Control - Future Creme 
Jon English & Trevor White - Laid back in anger
Died Pretty - As must have   
Civil Dissident - That was This is
Chain - Black and Blue
Strange Tenants - Grey Skies/Two Steps Back
Weddings Parties Anything - Summons in the Morning
The Loved Ones - Everlovin' Man
The Victims - Television Addict
​Midnight Oil - Short Memory
Hoss -The Tiredest man Awake

The Reels - Love will find a way
Dave Graney - Death  by a thousand sucks
The New Christs - Bed of Nails
Mad Flowers - Escape through a needle
Babeez - Hate/Dowanna Love
​Gareth Liddiard -Did she scare all of your friends away
​The Showmen - Naughty Girl
V. Spy V. Spy - Don't tear it down
The Easybeats - Friday on my mind
Bored! - Little Suzie /Take it out on you
Huxton Creepers - I will persuade you
The Sunnyboys - Trouble in my brain
Howard Eynon - Happy song
​Psycho Surgeons -Horizontal Action
Vicious Circle - Supplied Demise
Royal Headache - High
​The Riptides -'77 Sunset Strip
The Creatures -Ugly Thing

Something For Kate -Private Rain /Eureka
AC/DC - Jailbreak
Healing Force -Golden Miles

News - Dirty Lies
Missing Links -You're Driving me Insane

Adalita - Blue Sky
​Neon -Dizziness

The Blackeyed Susans - I am a singer
The Splatterheads -Golden Eyelid
Christbait - Loose
Beasts of Bourbon - Black Milk
Coda Chroma -Bull in a China Shop
Mental Hellth - Always the same
The Angels - Stand Up
The Flowers - Sister
The Every Brothers -This Town
The Units - Grill Room
The Victims - High School Girls
Angler - Guts
Bedroom Philospher -Northcote (So Hungover)
Robert Trimbole's Hat - Suntan
The Fun Things - Lipstick
Snout - Last Surviving Speaker
​AC/DC - Let me put me love into you
​Stiff Richards - Dig /No Fun on the Beaches

Depression - School Kids
Drones - Shark Fin Blues
Scientists - Frantic Romantic

Fraternity - Seasons of Change
Systematics - Pulp Baby
Allniters - Montego Bay
S.I.C. -Party Crash
Ulsers -Julius Sumner Miller
​Young Identities -Positive Thinking

The Mixtures - The Pushbike song
TISM - If you're creative, get stuffed
Eurogliders - City of Soul
AC/DC -She's Got Balls
The Dingoes - Way out west
The Saints - Know your product
The Numbers - Five Letter Word
You Am I - Ordinary
Stafford Bridge - Song for a Blind Man
Hard-Ons - All Set to Go

Billy Thorpe - Most people I know think I'm crazy
Loggerhead - Collision of substance
Stevie Wright - Black Eyed Bruiser
Australian Crawl - Indisposed /Errol
Radio Birdman - Murder City Nights
Flow and Plenty - Talk it Over
GOD -My Pal
AC/DC - Dog eat Dog

Hilltop Hoods - Cosby Sweater
X - TV Glue/ Oxford Street Nick
Something For Kate -Whatever You Want

The Scientists - Frantic Romantic
MEO 245 -Other Places
AC/DC -Dog Eat Dog / Jailbreak
The Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby
Paul Kelly - Billy Baxter
the Hollowmen - So Long
Matt Walker & Ashley Davies - All by Myself
The Chosen Few - No fun on the beaches
Dynamic Hepnotics - Soul kind of feeling
Magic Dirt - White Rabbit
Whirlywirld - Win/Lose
The Expression - We close our eyes
Vacant Lot - Tattslotto Night
Wilcannia Mob - Down River
PFA -Live hard ride hard
Russell Morris - Sweet Sweet Love

Arm the Insane - Compromise
Hoss - Token Kiss
Masters Apprentices -Wars or Hands of Time

Sardine V - Stuck on you
Men at Work - Hard Luck Story
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Sunday's Coming
Snout -Winning Smile
Fungus Brains -Pasty Faces
Blackfeather -Boppin' the Blues

The Yes-Men -Stripping Music
The Machinations - Jumping the Gap
The Sports - Strangers on a train
Cash Backman - My Girl Bill
Traitors -Noiseless Workers
Chris Smith - Altitude
Mystery of Sixes -Black Banned
​Somebody's Image -it's all over now baby blue

AC/DC - You shook me all night long
Taste - Boys will be boys
News -Sweet Dancer Au-Go-Go
Something For Kate -Monsters / Toothpaste

Skyhooks - Balwyn Calling/Love on the Radio
North to Alaskans - Love Machine
Scourge - Token Oath
Kahvas Jute - Free
City Ram Waddy -Walking the Dog
Belial -Let's see you dance
The Blue Bops - Tiger
Summer Blood - L.A.M.F.
Debutantes -Adolescent Love
Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock
Wild Cherries -That's Life

Acid - Burning/ Stormtrooper
Dragon -( in Oz by '75) April Sun in Cuba

Asteroid B-612 -Edge a little closer 
Mass Appeal - Rat in a Hole
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -The Weeping Song

The Lonely Hearts - Surrender
Axiom - A little ray of sunshine
Drones - To think that i once loved you
Coloured Balls - Human Being
​Vultees -Kick it Out
​The Aliens -Follow That Girl
Zoot -Strange Things

Johnny Demon & the Devils - You make me spew
One Inch Punch - That Way/ Status Remains
Ted Mulry Gang - Crazy
The Ferrets - Don't fall in love
The Church - Under the Milky Way

Tjupurru - Stompin' Ground
Do Re Mi - Guns and Butter
Magic Dirt - Touch that space

Hellmenn - Out of Control
Blackfeather - Boppin' the Blues
Brian Cadd - Alvin Purple
I Am Duckeye - Stab Flats

The Powder Monkeys - Turns to Hate
Curse Ov Dialect - Baby How ?
Hungry Ghosts - Nowness
Riptides -Tomorrow's Tears

Sherbet - Summer Love
Snout - Got Sold on Heaven

Kill Devil Hills -Drinking too Much
​X - I don't wanna go out / T.V. Glue
The Freeloaders - Dead before my time
Max Merritt & the Meteors - Slippin' away
Exploding White Mice - Goodbye Gravity
Midget - Case/Sift 
Hard-Ons - Girl in the Sweater
The New Christs - Afterburn
Susie Coles -What the world needs now

Permanent Damage - The Day After
Rodney Rude - I hate that
Supernaut - I Like it Both Ways
The Sunset Strip - Sooner than you think
Weddings Parties Anything - Under the Clocks
You Am I - Berlin Chair
Tony Savagae Band - Bye Bye Bluebird

Young Identities - New Trends
Rose Tattoo - Bad Boy for Love
The Reels - According to my heart
The Borderland - Wild winds of pain
Mental As Anything - The Nips are getting bigger
The Dirty Lovers - Shanty Tramp
The Sports - How Come
Arm the Insane - It's Called Love
​The Dirty Lovers -Out of our Tree

Chris Smith -Living Dead Blues
​Civil Dissident -Mine your own business
TISM - I Shit Me 
Alison McCallum-I just wanna make love to you
Sunday Painters -The Outsiders
Cosmic Psychos - Lead me Astray
The Beasts of Bourbon - Drop Out
Valentines - Juliette
Magic Dirt -Ice / Ascot Red

​Sea Scouts - Zach heard a scream
Cosmic Psychos - Custom Credit
Beth Schurr -Green Bushes
The Treblefolk - Marvellous Toy
The Dirty Three - You were a Bum Dream
Nunbait - Track Trauma
Renegade - Riot Squad Gladiator
Lower Plenty -Nullarbor
Buffalo - Suzie Sunshine
Violent Soho -Covered in Chrome
Wrecked Jets - Can i go home
Tansey's Fancy - Sar Planina
X - I Don't wanna go out /Don't cry no tears
Ted Mulry Gang - Jump in my Car

The Sailors (Whatever happened to) the Paperless Office
The Ears -Scarecrow
Slub - Owed to Alex /Barracuda
No Fixed Address - Black Man's Rights
Boys Next Door - Shivers
Eurogliders - Heaven (Must be there)

Purple Hearts-Of hopes & dreams & tombstones
Ella Hooper - Low High 
The Stems -She's a Monster
Steadfast -The Other Side
Bee Gees -I Started a Joke

Bored! -Feed the Dog
Ross Ryan - I am Pegasus

Dusty Rankin-Your dreams of yesterday are gone
Tina Date - A Single Girl
Hoodoo Gurus - I want you back
Melting Skyscrapers -Strange Device
Powder Monkeys - 2000 Sins

I Spit on your Gravy - Let's go buy a Pizza
​The Avalanches - Run DNA
Tex Morton -The Ballad of Ned Kelly
The Down & Out - I'll wait and see
Bo-Weevils - That Girl
Loaded Dice - Mam'selle
Fatty Lumpkin - Don't knock my boogie
Cold Chisel - You got nothing i want
Marcus Hook Roll Band -Can't Stand the Heat

TISM - John Bonham's Coke Roadie
The Church - Almost with you
The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over
Bee Gees - Spicks and Specks
Eurogliders -City of Soul
People with Chairs up their Noses -Go to Jail
Alligator Parade -Corpse is Dead
The Reels - Bad Moon Rising
Skyhooks -All my friends are getting married
Tamam Shud - Lady Sunshine
The Red Paintings - You're not one of them

Split Enz ( moved to Oz in '75) - Shark Attack
Weddings Parties Anything - Tilting at Windmills
Slim Dusty - Duncan / Song of Australia
Divinyls - In my Life
Evie Pikler - You've got a friend
Clones -Tired of Hidin'

Doug Ashdown - Winter in America
The Easybeats - Wedding Ring
GANGgajang - Sounds of then
Blackeyed Susans - Smokin' Johnny Cash
Australian Crawl - The Boys Light Up
The Triffids -Wide Open Road
Madflowers - Execution

​Buick KBT -Got my head undone
Richard Clapton - Girls on the Avenue
Axiom - A little ray of sunshine
Beargarden - Finer Things
Do Re Mi - Man Overboard
The Groop -Woman you're breaking me
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -The Mercy Seat
The Celibate Rifles -Wild Desire
The Chosen Few -T.A.L.O.I.G.A.
Coloured Balls -Human Being
Stephen Cummings -Speak with Frankness
Weddings Parties Anything - Rain in my Heart
Dragon - Rain / Get That Jive
The Easybeats - I'll make you happy
Died Pretty -Out of my hands
The Eastern Dark - Julie is a Junkie
Flake -This Wheel's on Fire
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Powerline Sneakers -Bank Robber

Hitmen - I Don't Mind
Buffalo -Sunrise (Come my way)
White Elephants - Climate of Change

The Sunsets -Hot Generation
James Freud - Enemy Lines
Little River Band - Every day of my life
The Go-Betweens -Spring Rain
Happy Hate Me Nots - Soul Rejection
Pel Mel -Pandemonium
Melonman - I Piss your name in the snow
Hush - Rocking Gypsy King
Mi-Sex (in Oz by '78) -But you don't care
Honeymoon in Green - Acrobat in Love
This is Serious Mum -Babies Bite Back
Huxton Creepers -My Cherie Amour
New Race - Crying Sun
Coloured balls -Devil's Disciple
Tactics -Second Language
Acid Drops -Out of sight Out of mind
Steve Warner -Cement River
Sphyzein - Misjudgement

James Taylor Move -And i heard the fire sing
Paul Kelly -Dumb Things /Before too long
The Lime Spiders -Just one solution
Splatterheads -City Slang
Registered Nurse -god preys on small things

The Little Heroes -One Perfect Day
Lubricated Goat - In the Raw
Afro Pussy -Remedy / Little Suzie
Inserts -Amateur Hour
The Aliens -Confrontation

Sports - Black Stockings (for Chelsea)
Masters Apprentices - Turn up your radio
Split Enz - My Mistake /I See Red
Mondo Rock -State of the Heart
Weddings Parties Anything - Say the Word
The Models -Local & or General
Vampire Lovers -Buzzsaw Popstar

Skyhooks -Million Dollar Riff
Innocents -Sooner or Later

The New Christs -Dropping Like Flies
Powder Monkeys -Supernova that never quits
Rabbit -Too much Rock'n'Roll
Flinn -2 Cans of Fosters & a Packet of P.Chips

The Reels -After the News
Wendy Saddington - Nobody knows you....
The Saints -Demolition Girl
Stone Circus - Arnold's Day
Weddings Parties Anything - Lost Boys
Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby
Icehouse -We can get together
The Throb - Fortune Teller
Discordia - Smackheart
Weddings Parties Anything - Missing in Action
Drummond -Daddy Cool
The Bitter Lemons -Canberra Blues
The Powder Monkeys -I Thank You

Choirboys -Never Gonna Die
Ted Mulry Gang - Darktown Strutter's Ball
Rose Tattoo - Branded
Marcia Hines -I just don't know what to do with myself
TISM - The Mordialloc Road Duplicator
​John Paul Young -Yesterday's Heroes
Band of Light - Destiny Song
Bwana -Son, you're a fool
Crackajacks -Long Blond Hair
The Breakers -When I'm on TV
Red Onion Jazz Band -Since my best girl...
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs -Poison Ivy
The Missing Links - All i Want
Ol'55 -On the Prowl
​Psychotic Maniacs -Tribes of Melbourne
Bakery - Bloodsucker
Poppin' Mommas - Beer is the Answer
Metronomes -A Circuit Like Me
The Victims - (I'm) Flipped out over you
Lonely Hearts - Last Kiss /Don't Feel Safe
Doug Parkinson In Focus -Baby Blue Eyes

The Saints -Just Like Fire Would
Climax 5 - Gardens
Lipstick Killers -Human Crash
The Celibate Rifles -Electravision Mantra
AC/DC -Rock & Roll ain't Noise Pollution
Curley -Oom Bah Bah
The Roobs - Sweetheart of the Garage
Chimney Sweeps - Devil Girl '67
The Birthday Party -Release the Bats
Arrosa -Womb
Toby Jug -If paradise is half as nice
Thought Criminals -Stolen Air
G.A.S.H. -Gash Thrash
The Kelpies -Take Me Away
Microfilm - Centrefold
Rikk Kranium & the Smutorks-King of the Block
Corpse Grinders - Zombie Death Dance
Venom P. Stinger -Inside the Waiting Room
Powderfinger - These Days
Huxton Creepers - Part The Seas
Mandu -We ran across the sky
Boys Next Door -Let's Talk About Art
The Hired Guns - Loose Change
Hoss - Also,Just for You
Womnal - Cheese Kate
Systematics -Pulp Baby
Black Feather -Long Legged Lovely
Sick Things - My Life's a Mess
Suiciety -Shades of Grey
Something For Kate -Higher than you think
Mustang -Champagne and Pills
The Dacios - Monkey's Blood
Toxic Shock -Housewives
Utter Stench - Friend or Foe
Lotus - Lotus 1 (I'll be gone)
Singles -Love of Loves
Mouth - Victim Chant
Masters Apprentices -Because I love you
Decline of the Reptiles -The Hammer speaks
Sherbet -Don't you know that I do
4 Thousand Million - We are not Lemmings
​The Screaming Abdabs -We Don't Wanna
Electric Jellyfish -White Chrome
Flying Circus - Turn Away
Shady Nasty -Jewellery
Sharon Black -Little church around the corner
Vicious Circle -A Nightmare so Quick
Ash Wednesday -Love by Numbers
Wet Taxis -Last time Around
Terrorize -What have i done
Russell Morris & the Rubes -Hush
Skyhooks -Ego is not a dirty word
Wasted Brains - Ride My Skateboard
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to be continued across 2021











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OVERSEAS
Love - Alone Again Or / 7 and 7 is                                               
Iggy & the Stooges - Dirt
Kiss - See You in your Dreams/100,000 years
Roy Harper -I Hate the White Man

The Nubs - Job
Comus -Song to Comus

Buck 65 - Fifty Gallon Drum
Dead Kennedys -Terminal Preppie/Kill the Poor
Sixto Rodriguez - I think of you  / Like Janis 
Pharoah Sanders -The Creator has a master plan

The Nils -River of Sadness
Articles of Faith - Remain in Memory
The Sonics - Cinderella
Cob - Let it be You
The Monks - Complication

Electric Eels - Agitated
Spades -You're Gonna Miss Me

Blind Willie McTell - Your Southern Can is Mine
The Rationals - Temptation 'bout to get me
Godley & Creme - An Englishman in New York
The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
Rocket From the Tombs - Ain't it Fun

Osmosis - She ( didn't even remember my name)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
The Wipers - Youth of America/The Lonely One
The Human League - Darkness / Only after dark
Nicolai Dunger -While Birds become fishes 
Creedence Clearwater Revival -Proud Mary
Bob Marley - Roots Rock Reggae
Minnie Riperton - Loving You
The Clash - Clampdown /Know Your Rights
Bill Janovitz - Like Shadows / Up Here

Soul Asylum - Endless Farewell
The Frantix -My Dad's a Fucking Alcoholic
Greg Sage - Straight Ahead
Peter Laughner - Sylvia Plath /Life Stinks
The Brain Police -My World in Wax
Sparklehorse -It's a wonderful life /Piano Fire

Band of Horses -Infinite Arms
13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss me

Current 93 -The magical bird in the magical woods
Mark Lanegan - When your number isn't up
John Foxx - Underpass
Monster Magnet -Zodiac Lung / Nod Scene
Rose Marie McCoy -Dippin' in my business
Fugazi -Margin Walker/ Suggestion 

the Delvettes - Last time around
Prof -No/Criminal/Eulogy/ Figured Out

Voivod - Missing Sequences
Arthur Russell -This is how we walk on the moon
The Fall - Big New Prinz
Sonics Rendezvous Band - City Slang

Gray Matter - Walk The Line
The Velvet Underground-All Tomorrow's Parties

David Ackles - I've been loved
Wu-Tang Clan - Reunited
The Ruts -Babylon's Burning /Dope For Guns

​Atmosphere - Wild Wild Horses / Virgo
Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses 
​Sleaford Mods - Tarantula Deadly Cargo
Flux Pavilion - Do or Die
Incredible String Band - A very cellular song

Wire -I am the Fly
Scott Walker - My Death
Crisis - On T.V.
DMZ -Mighty Idy /Out of our tree
Swamp Rats - Psycho
Can - Paperhouse
Dilated Peoples - Worst comes to Worst

Nicolai Dunger - 1000 Rainbows
​The Penetrators - Life Stinks/ Shopping Bag
​Band Of Horses - No one's gonna love you
Dem Atlas - Early Train
Mad Mike & the Maniacs - The Hunch
The Cramps - Human fly
Judy Tzuke - Stay with me till dawn
Iron & Wine - Cinder & Smoke
Commodores -Brick House
Big Star - Thirteen
​David Bowie -Oh! you pretty things
Nick Drake - One of these things first
Electric Six - Danger ! High Voltage
The Rolling Stones - Miss You
Afghan Whigs - My Curse ( feat: Marcy May)

Action Swingers - Searching for kicks
Mazzy Star - Ride it On
UK Squeeze -Up the Junction
The Velvet Underground -Ride into the Sun 

Black Flag - Annihilate this Week  / No Values
Rites of Spring - Drink Deep
Jack Oblivian - So Low
​Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias - Kill /Gobbing on Life
Bill Haley - Rock around the clock
Spermbirds - Get on the stage 
The Melvins - The Bloated Pope
Dan Sartain -Walk among the cobras Pt 1
Poison Idea -Lifestyles/Just to get away
Bobby (Boris) Picket & the CK -Monster Mash 
Rhythm Pigs -Conditional Love /Censorshit
Boys - Kamikaze
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds over Tokyo
Fraction - Moonblood

Alexi Sayle - Didn't you kill my brother ?
The Adverts -Bored Teenagers
Flipper - Ha ha Ha  / Sex Bomb 
C.A. Quintet -Cold Spider
Frank Zappa - Cocaine Decisions
Husker Du - Chartered Trip

Mickey Newbury -Nights when I am sane
The Clash - London Calling
Black Easter -What the Fuck

Slug - Crawl / Ex-Chest
Screamers - 122 Hours of Fear
Crabby Appleton -Go Back
Three - Swann Street

Eddie Hinton - Uncloudy Days
Flesh Eaters -See You in the Boneyard
Dicks - No Fucking War
The Germs - Manimal
The Minutemen - Shit from an old notebook
Elvis Presley -That's Alright Mama

​The Hellacopters - Toys & Flavours
MDC - Business on Parade / I Remember
The Buzzcocks - Autonomy/Orgasm Addict
Negative Approach -Tied Down
The Wipers -Over The Edge
The Beatles - Twist and Shout
Poison 13 -One Step Closer/Spoonful
Helmet - Like I care
Nana Mouskouri - Turn on the Sun

Bob Dylan - Sara
Chris Bell - I am the Cosmos
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry

Bad Brains - Reignition
The Ramones - I wanna be sedated
Naked Raygun - Home /Treason/Never Follow
Danzig - Twist of Cain
Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic

Dirt Clod Fight - Brutal Flower
Afghan Whigs -Gentlemen 
Gang of Four -Damaged Goods
The Flys - Love & a Molotov Cocktail

SS Decontrol - Glue
Band of Horses - Dull Times /The Moon
Mark Lanegan -Where did you sleep last night

Unsane - Alleged
China Crisis - Working with Fire & Steel
Beefeater - Need a Job
Adam and the Ants - Killer in the Home

Minor Threat - Betray/Salad Days
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives -Instant Repeater '99
The Makers - Turn up the Century
Captain Beefheart - Plastic Factory  
The Raunch Hands - Hanging from the Rafters
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Laughing Hyenas -Dedicated to the one i love
Suzi Quatro - Glycerine Queen /Friday

The Sonics - Maintaining My Cool
Devo - Mongoloid / Gates of Steel 
PW Long - My name / Jelly /Stand Up !
Victims Family - Sir Onslaught/Quivering Lip
Lazy Cowgirls - Name dropping son of a bitch
PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy / In the Dark Places
Kiss - Mainline / Odyssey / Kissin' Time

Rocket From the Crypt -Drop Out
No Means No - Slowly Melting /Dad
Built to Spill -Carry the Zero / Time Trap
Crass - Do they owe us a living ?
The Adverts - New Church

Soul Asylum - Sometime to Return
Mary Wells - Two Lovers 
XTC -Respectable Street
Miles Davis - Blue in Green
The Raspberries - Go all the way 

Fear - Fuck Christmas/ I don't care about you
Tom Waits - What's he Building

Lord High Fixers -Slow Boat to China
​Unrelated Segments - Where you Gonna Go 
Jurassic 5 - What's Golden
AntiSeen - Kill the Business
Sebadoh -None too Amused/Soul and Fire
Conflict - Meat still means Murder
Kool Keith - Fine Girls
Depeche Mode - Everything counts/ New Life
Deep Purple - Black Knight
Dayglo Abortions - Wake up America

Teenage Fanclub - What you do to me
Cocksparrer - Don't say a word
Joanna Newsom -Sawdust & Diamonds
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle /Rose Parade
Peaches -Lovertits / Set if off
Cursive -The Recluse
David Essex - Gonna make you a star
Angels - Wow wow wee (he's the boy for me)

The Shins - Kissing the Lipless/It's Only Life
The Members - Radio
Girl Trouble - Wrecking Ball
Japan - My New Career
Gene Clark - No Other

The Didjits - Max Wedge
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Mule - I'm Hell
The Drones - I Just wanna be myself
Runaways - Cherry Bomb
David Bowie -Changes /Golden Years
Hellacopters -Truck loads of nothin'
Kiss - Ladie's Room /Rock'n'Roll all nite
Black Sabbath - Changes
Charles Bradley - Changes
Sleater Kinney -One More Hour /Dig Me Out
Embrace - Building
Descendents - Sour Grapes / Wendy

MC5 -Looking at you
The Count Bishops -I Want Candy
Patti Smith - Because the Night

Imperial Dogs -13 Sons of Satan
Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade

Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
Pete Krebs & the G Wings - Johnny come Lately
Nirvana - Come as you are
Supremes - You keep me hanging on
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Charm City Suicides - Still can't get with you
Daddy in his Deep Sleep - Blue Sighs
The JB's -Hot Pants Road
The Knack - Lucinda / My Sharona
Beehive & the Barracudas -Up in Flames

Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Comsat Angels - Independence Day
Bikini Kill - Jet Ski/R.I.P./Statement of Vindication
The Stranglers - Peaches

Blind Lemon Jefferson - See that my grave is kept clean
The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular
Smog - Let's Move to the Country
Country Teasers -Panty Shots
​Time Zone - World Destruction
The Black Heart Procession - Your Church is Red
The Rolling Stones -Wild Horses
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
The Cure - Speak My Language
Warsaw -Transmission/Living in the Ice Age
SHE -Like a Snake
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Nag
Beck - Lazy Flies
Television Personalities -Part Time Punks

Hank Williams - Lost Highway
Stereolab -Cybele's Reverie
Paul Stanley - Love in Chains

Crunt -Swine
Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling
The Beatles -Got to get you into my life
Andre Williams - Jail Bait
Pioneers - Pressure Drop
Freakwater - Gone to Stay
Neu! - After Eight
Pussycats - I want your love

Southern Culture on the Skids - For Lovers Only
​The Lemonheads -Second Chance/Ride with me
ELO -Sweet Talking Woman
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill/Games without frontiers
Dag Nasty - Circles
Screaming Trees - Transfiguration
Steve Young -Tobacco Road
Kiss - Tomorrow /All American man

Swanks -Ghost Train
Billy Bragg & Wilco -She came along to me

The Gun Club -Sex Beat / Walking with the beast
The Fluid - Static Cling/Leave it/Is it Day ?
Buffy Sainte-Marie -Smack Water Jack 

John Stewart - All Time Woman
Killing Joke - Requiem
The Brains - Money Changes Everything
Alice Cooper - Some Folks /Escape/ Elected
Band of Horses - On my way back home
Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Pailhead -Don't Stand in Line
Moon Martin - Rolene
Toots & the Maytals - Get Ready
Pandoras - I Live my Life

Rimshots -Being down to earth
Scream - Gluesniff
F.U.'s - Pennies from Heaven
Prince -Let's pretend we're married
ELP -Fanfare for the Common Man
Trouble Funk - Still Smokin'
Mother Sunday - Midnight Graveyard
Love -She comes in Colours
Hollywood Jills - He makes me so mad
Janes Addiction -Standing in the shower thinking
Kate Bush -Running up that hill /Babooshka
Mudhoney -Sliding in and out of grace

Blitz - White Man /Voice of a generation
Mud City Manglers - 1234 Motherfucker
Olivelawn - Cat's Meow
Rhythm Pigs - Bad Reactor / Thanks for Coming
Michael Olatunji - Shango
Operation Ivy - Sound System
​America - Ventura Highway
Robbie Basho -Mountain Man's Farewell
The Pop Group - We Are Time
PJ Harvey -The Glorious land /This is Love
Earth Hell Band - Termination
Ministry -Stigmata / The Fall / Deity
Bob Mould -See a little light
Yma Sumac (w/: Les Baxter) -Remember

Marianne Faithfull - The first time i ever saw your face
The Black Keys - Set You Free
Alice in Chains - Rooster/Sea of Sorrow/Right Turn
Band of Horses -The Funeral/Laredo
Squirrel Bait - Kid Dynamite
All Steel Coaches - Halo / Blasphemy

Idles -Samaritans / Mother
76% Uncertain - Condo
Alex Chilton - Girl after Girl
Johnny Cash - A Cup of coffee
Robin Trower - Shame the Devil
Steve Earle - Ft. Worth Blues
Janes Addiction - I would for you /Ocean Size
​Sugar Shack - Don't Bum me Out
Detroit Cobras - Hey Sailor
Shoes - Tomorrow Night

Claudine Longet - Who Needs You
Part 1 - Black Mass
Grandmaster Flash & the F5 -The Message
Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers / Real men
Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire
Human League - Life on your own
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Shudder to Think - X French Tee Shirt
Tim Buckley - Dolphins
Ace Frehley -What's on your mind
Scritti Politti - The Word Girl
Alice Cooper - We're All Clones / Dept of Youth
Jeff Dahl - Get up and Dance
The Glitter Band - The Tears i Cried
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
The Who - My Generation /You better you bet
The Pretty Things - Rosalyn
Lindsay Buckingham -Trouble
Jethro Tull - Orion
​Faust -Jennifer

Kitty Wells - Burning Memories
Hank Williams - Cold Cold Heart
Graham Bonnet (it's all over now) Baby Blue
Miracle Workers -When a woman calls my name
Country Joe & the fish - Porpoise Mouth
Paola - Above the Candystore
Graham Parker -Protection
The Congos - Open up the gate
Dead Silence - Now you see 'em
The Sweet - Action / Teenage Rampage
The Dirtbombs - Granny's Little chicken
Jack Lee - Hanging on the Telephone
Blondie - Union City Blue
Paragons - The Tide is High
​Paley Brothers - Tell me Tonight

Coffin Break - Stupid Love Song
Fidelity Jones - Feeling the Screw
Gary Numan - Cars
Neutral Spirits -Power City

Butthole Surfers - Chewin' George Lucas Chocolate
Sade - Your love is king
Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
Nick Lowe & the KL - I can see her face
Demolition Dollrods - Doo Walka-Walka
Youth Brigade - Sink with California
Tony Joe White -Stud Spider
Sons of the Pioneers - Cool Water
Nina Simone - To be young gifted and black
Desmond Dekker -Pickney Gal
Havalinas - High Hopes
Rin Eric -But I'm Told

The Buck Pets -Iron Cock
New Bomb Turks - Mr Suit /Defiled
Raw Power - After Your Brain
April March - Chick Habit
Beach Boys - I know there's an answer
Ivy Green - Sex on the Radio
The Meters - Cissy Strut
Racey - Lay your love on me
Union Carbide Productions -Ring my bell
Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy
Funkadelic - Can you get to that
The Scruffs -My Mind
Moving Targets -Shape of Somethings
​Captain Sensible -Wot
Dyan Diamond - Mystery Dance
Fraction - Come out of Her
Angry Samoans - Lights Out
Essie Jain - Glory /Haze

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Rammellzee & K-Rob - Beat Bop
Cher - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
Outsiders - Respectable
Swell Maps -Real Shocks

Plastic Cloud - Shadow of your mind
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire
The Screws - Transistor
Satan and Deciples -Satan's First Theme
Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Choir -It's Cold Outside
Tommy Rock -Dream Rocker
​X - The phone's off the hook (but you're not)
Eddie Callahan -Where will we be tomorrow

15.60.75 (Numbers Band) -Jimmy Bell's still in town
L7 -Shove /American Society /Packin' a Rod 
Marvelettes -When you're young and in love
​Paybacks - Black Girl /tie me in a knot
Leather Angel - We came to Kill

The Rapture -Out of the races & onto the tracks




​this is a work in progress....

 


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