I keep finding so many great acts from Australia (and Scandinavia too; another thread though).
Skyhooks
You Am I
Easybeats
Loved Ones
The Saints
Celibate Rifles
Go Bewteens
Powderfinger
Radio Birdman
Bee Gees
Angels
the Drones


The greatest fo course Nick Cave and his guys.

What is Cold Chisel like?

Sure there are many others.



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ACDC

AC/DC
Midnight Oil

Men At Work

Jet (incredible band)

Wolfmother (I don't like them, but I believe they're Australian)

Great song then, great song now!

INXS, but only in orginal lineup

Don't forget these great ones:

Hoodoo gurus
Fendahlene
Hunters and Collectors
You Am I
Happy Hate Me Nots
The Sunnyboys

Cold Chisel are perhaps the greatest of them all. Very diverse and gifted. Great songwriting skills.

Crowded House.

ACDC are my fave. Hunters and some others suck IMO.
But check out the Hoodoo Gurus if you like first class rock written by a genuine songwriting genius. Great band.

crowded house are a new zealand band

Feel The Fear
And Do It Anyway

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Where do they work now?

The Poor
Sliverchair
Airbourne
Australian Crawl
The Screaming jets
little river band
the living end
The cruel sea

Feel The Fear
And Do It Anyway

Subtract:

Little River Band
Cold Chisel (unless you're drunk + nostalgic)

Add:

Daddy Cool
Cosmic Psychos
Ghostwriters - Rob Hirst's Midnight Oil spinoff
Do Re Mi
The Johnnies
Temper Trap

The Breadmakers, fine blues/rock/garage outfit in the late 90's.
The Htmen
Visitors
Beasts of Bourbon
Hard-Ons
The Stems
The Atlantics (great Surf Instrumentals)
The Re-Mains (check em out...)
The D4 (well, NZ)
Screaming Tribesmen
Deniz Tek Group
Radio Birdman (of course)
The Saints
Celibate Rifles
Cosmic Psychos
DM3

Cold Chisel have some truly amazing albums.

They get a bit of heat as they were overplayed on classic rock stations.

But as songwriters and players, they truly are magic.

Nick Cave for me is the greatest.

We count Crowded House as they have a Kiwi but came out of Melbourne. Pop band more in the Beatles style than rock in my view.

Easybeats - Historical - Older brother and producers of the early iconic ACDC albums.

Cold Chisel - In their active years probably our biggest band domestically but no international fame. Multiple songwriters and a virtuoso guitarist Ian Moss.

Those heading to the Adelaide show will see Jimmy Barnes as support. He is lead singer for Cold Chisel. No doubt belting out his solo hits and some Cold Chisel songs.
He's not my fave live act, screams a bit, but some songs are killer.

The Lime Spiders. Great psych rock band from the 80s.

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One of my favourites! Love them

Karnivool!!!!!!!!!!!

Bee Gees by far the best..if the aussies can claim them.

Here's Chisel live with one of their best known singles.

video: [www.youtube.com]



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Hurray! I saw You Am I when they were putting out eps & I'm still hooked. The rest of the world's loss.

If I said who I liked & who I've seen, it would be too long a list. But for a 41 year old I consider myself lucky being in oz. Exposed to whatever was happening overseas via countdown & sounds, plus had our own great bands/solo artists......

Cold Chisel - they've been overplayed, but were great
Richard Clapton - Goodbye Tiger
Easy beats
Loved Ones
Inxs - before Kick
Hoodoo Gurus
Church
Midnight Oil - before Blue Sky Mine
AC/DC
Tim Rogers solo
Bob Evans & Jebadiah
Rose Tattoo
Stars
Paul Kelly
Dingoes
Divinyls

I'll stop there.....

Sorry - And Beasts Of Bourbon need a mention......

Isn't Angel City Australian?