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Don't take the above too seriously. The following bands or performers all deserve mention in there somewhere IMHO, perhaps more than some mentioned: The Sound Unlimited Posse (not perhaps all that notable in absolute terms, but the only Australian hip-hop group to have commercial success until MC Trey), Cold Chisel, Skyhooks, INXS, silverchair, Kylie Minogue, Paul Kelly, Powderfinger, Little River Band, Hunters And Collectors, Crowded House (though they're really more New Zealand's), John Farnham, Sherbet, Russell Morris, Midnight Oil, Men At Work, The Seekers, Slim Dusty, The Bee Gees, AC/DC, You Am I, even The Louisville Sluggers (well, maybe not yet, but give'em an album and some radio play :)).
Much more influential musical artists (influential, as in , pioneering in styles that many other musicians including much more famous ones might name-check) than either list above (excepting, say the Easybeats, Bee Gees and AC/DC) might include: The Birthday Party, Nick Cave, The Saints, The MC5, The Atlantics, The Scientists, The Beasts of Bourbon, The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, Dead Can Dance, and The Laughing Clowns. Most of these date from the late 70s and 80s.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.212.59.132 ( talk) 21:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
A band that surely shouldn't be forgotten is Yothu Yindi, because they are probably the best known mixed aboriginal-white band in Australia. -- G_from_B
I removed:
From the early 1990s Directions in Groove (Sydney) combined groove jazz and towards the end of the 1990s drum and bass elements, a track followed in the late 1990s and early 2000s by The Hive (renamed The Bagsmen in 2002 to avoid confusion with a Swedish-based band with a similar name).
Because I can't figure out what it means. Can someone clarify, such as by splitting into two or three separate sentences with subjects? Tuf-Kat
Could someone add some words about Gondwanaland?
This article has become chock full of info, but it is atrociously organized. I will try to get around to it soon, but it needs some TLC ASAP. Tuf-Kat 05:35, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
i reverted the recent edits back to my last edit, because the edits by the anonymous ip user(s?) 211.29.*.* may be copyright violations from the cited link at:
some parts are clearly paraphrased, other parts are verbatim. either way, it's a violation of copyright because it's a derivative work (paraphrasing does not make it ok). it is ok to use the facts from the article, or even quote very brief extracts, but paraphrasing or minor modifications it does not prevent it from being an infringing use. (see wikipedia:copyrights for more info).
if the anonymous ip user(s) in question did actually write the material on the site, and is contributing it to wikipedia, then that's great! but then please indicate that you did so, and indicate that you are submitting the text under the GFDL, and indicate some way that we can verify this.
thanks clarkk 09:50, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
clarkk, david g. and others - my abject apologies -- I'm new to Wikipedia and it was late, yadda, yadda -- I forgot to log in when I edited this page. my username is dunks58 -- I'm Duncan Kimball (Sydney NSW) and also webmaster of the Milesago site. Consequently there *should* be no copyright violation involved in my edit since I am also the sole author of the webpage referred to above. Sorry for that oversight - hope this will clarify. My email is <email removed> if you need to contact me.
And I'd LOVE to turn more of those red names to blue, david, thanks! Cheers to all. Wikipedia rocks.
thanks User:dunks58 00:22 4 May 2003
David & clarkk - I'll beging firing articles at you shortly I'm about to take a redundancy from my current job and looking forward to an extended break and getting stuck into Wiki in a big way.
I'll have to be circumspect, though, since a number of articles rely on other secondary sources like Ian McFarlane's 'Encyclopedia Of Australian Rock & Pop'. I'm in touch with Ian and he is OK with me using his work for Milesago, but may be less sanguine about it being hauled up onto Wikipedia, so I'll have to run it by him on a case-by-case basis. Also there are a number of articles that are wholly or partly written by others, which I've been given permission to add to my site, so again would need to clear with each author before reproducing here.
Also, I think most will need drastic pruning (verbose? moi??) before being suitable for wikipedia. I'm perusing your nifty style notes, david, and will put them to good use. Pity we didn't 'virtually' meet earlier as I was in London for 3 weeks late last year. :(
Anyway I really appreciate the feedback and the warm welcome and look forward to a fruitful wikillaboration!
FYI I've added stuff to the following pages:
- triple J - Midnight Oil - Divinyls - Hunters & Collectors - Hoodoo Gurus
and have made first stabs at pages on:
- Lillian Roxon
and
- Lighthouse Keepers -- some of info on this page is cribbed from McFarlane but I know Greg Appel and the family personally and was a member of One Head Jet for several years, so I figure Ian won't mind.
That's all I can think of for the moment.
Cheers
Dunks
This article is at 50k, so I'm going to reorganize, spin off some subjects into new articles, etc. Tuf-Kat 04:03, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)
While not a center of goth music in any sense, two bands that might be considered adding are Ikon, and Big Electric Cat. Though they may not have pop success they, especially Ikon, are notable within the subculture. I of course would not be offended if they are not added. They certainly don't have the widespread influence or notoriety of Dead Can Dance. Just thought I'd throw it out there. Khirad 04:38, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Some things I was thinking should go here, or do they deserve their own articles?
pfctdayelise 15:28, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
"In terms of music that is actually good, bands like Architecture in Helsinki, Augie March, The Avalanches, Because of Ghosts, Expatriate and Snowman began to spring up to the delight of many." I live in Australia and I've never heard of any of those bands. I don't dispute that to many they are "good" but this is awfully subjective, and also implies that the previously mentioned bands/singers aren't "good." TMac 01:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The opening paragraph bears remarkable similarity to this page http://www.answers.com/topic/music-of-australia someone is at fault.
I came to this article as a starting point to find some things out about Australian colonial music, and I found that aparently music didn't exist in Australia between 1700 and 1950. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not street press. If an artist is mentioned, it should be because they are INFLUENTIAL on the development of the various musical genres in Australia, not because they are 'good' or talented. And in an article this broad, they really should've made a large contribution. I can't believe Savage Garden are mentioned in this article and Banjo Paterson isn't. Sure, they might have been successful when measured by album sales, but how have they contributed musically or culturally (regardless of anyone's views on how good their music is). In my oppinion, they pretty much made the same style of pop music that was already around and are pretty much irrelevant to any serious study of Australian music/musical context. Just cos they were very good at it doesn't warrant inclusion in article this broad. Molly Meldrum's production on "The Real Thing" contributed more to the development of popular music than Savage Garden's entire career, successful though it was. What about music of the war period? Songs like 'Rroad to Gundigai' among others that have made a lasting cultural impact on this country are *not even mentioned*!
This isn't an article about music of Australia. It doesn't deserve any title like that. Perhaps you could change the title to 'Music in Australia lately that people like.'
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I've made some minor changes to the rock section of this article, added some additional text and corrected several glaring innaccuracies: Sunbury was NOT the first Australian rock festival (it was Ourimbah in 1970) and Mushroom was by no means the first independent Aussie label. There had been hundreds of local independent labels over the preceding decades and there were dozens of independent pop and rock labels in the twenty years before Mushroom, including Leedon, Clarion, Spin, Go!!, Astor, W&G and many more. Festival was also arguably an "independent" label, although this is debatable -- it was admittedly owned by Murdoch's News Ltd (although this was until the 1990s an Australian company) but it was independent of overseas control, unlike the other major Australian-based labels -- Polygram, EMI, CBS, Warner and RCA. Dunks 00:00, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I've added a section on Australian Classical Music and also taken it to the Article Culture of Australia because I think it's pretty bad nothing is written on the subject (although unsurprising given the amount of media attention!). I will consider extending this into a full length article - but I need to learn how to reference properly first! Wellingtoncat ( talk) 05:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Deleted some advertising from the 1990s rock section: text was presumably added by the member of a band trying to get some publicity, but it didn't even come close to being appropriate.
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Hey Giggy, A few months ago you removed the Wiggles section, with an edit summary saying something to the effect of, "Don't worry, it's coming back." I didn't worry about it because I figured that you had an idea/plan for them and realized their inclusion was not in the best possible place. Its been a few months now, and you haven't added them back. While they may be a kids group, I do think they deserve a section in this article. We have an FA for them. They've won several ARIAs. They are the most successful Australian muscial group ever. Now, I acknowledge that I'm not that invested in this article, and understand that their inclusion can be problematic (they aren't really a rock group), so I'm asking you and the other editors here for thoughts on how to include them.--- Balloonman PoppaBalloon 14:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
The third wave section sucks... it really needs to be trimmed down. There are lists of "business" managers which goes on forever. Similarly, the list of bands needs to be trimmed. If you want to have a list of bands/music managers, fine, but let's take them out of the article. As is, that section (which isn't the only one) is unlegible because it has too many lists. Create true lists and remove them from the article.--- Balloonman PoppaBalloon 05:44, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
There were two Abramelin and Break Even's down the bottom in the list of Heavy Metal/Hard Rock and Hardcore bands, so I've removed one of each so that there's only one of each. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.29.179 ( talk) 03:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm in the US and was curious if The Eurogliders and/or Frente! warranted a mention on your page. They both enjoyed a brief bit of airplay & success over here, but I was wondering if they'd been overlooked or intentionally left off of your page (based on my incorrect assumption that they were a big deal in Oz). Cheers! Mattman of us ( talk) 19:39, 14 January 2010 (UTC) Mattman_of_us Mattman of us ( talk) 19:39, 14 January 2010 (UTC) 14 January 2010
So where is Sneaky Sound System in this article? They are an important dance band that have released 3 albums that have gone globally. Seems an incomplete article without them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.175.203.107 ( talk) 06:47, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
come on guys weres the Australian heavy metal in this article. we have a killer heavy metal scene, Brisbane Melborne, South Australia and Western Australia have killer scenes. fuck the hardcore shit talk aboutthe real heavy music.
Well Michael... Your anecdotal evidence is lacking. Bands such as Sadistik Exekution, Damaged and Cruciform caught the attention of the world stage in the late 80s/early 90s. Devolved are still doing fairly well over in America at the moment, after having left here in the early 00s. Parkway Drive are arguably one of the world's most successful extreme acts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.25.125 ( talk) 10:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
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wHY WAS THE "DELLTONES" NOT MENTIONED —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.122.199 ( talk) 00:17, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The DellTones did have a high international profile indeed. And I am asking myself - did I just read an entire article on the music of Australia that did not have in it a single mention of The Seekers? While it's fascinating here to read of the national evolution of the various musical genres, I can assure you that from a U.S. perspective, the only artists from Oz known widely in this country before the true internationalization of Aussie pop and rock in the 70s, 80s and following were Joan Sutherland and The Seekers. regards, Sensei48 ( talk) 21:04, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
The focus seems to be on home-grown performers, which is fine. But we need also to acknowledge the influence of the (predominantly European) musicians who took up residence in Australia, mostly after WWII. I’m thinking of names such as:
The story of Australian music would be very lop-sided and biased without these sorts of names. Any ideas of how we weave them into the narrative of Australian classical music? (Hmmm, just noticed that I created 10 of the above articles myself. Funny, that; I hope I'm not displaying my own biases here.) -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 22:21, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
The last sentence of the first paragraph
and "About the Future".
seems to be out of context and irrelevant. Can somebody familiar with the band mentioned either fix the sentence so it has some relevant context, ie. what expanding the indie-rock genre has to do with electronic music, or delete it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.82.6.145 ( talk) 15:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Please don't stick yourself in the lists of artists regardless of your notability.
Look, here is Wikipedia's guide to notability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#General_notability_guideline
If you fulfil the criteria, then good! If you have some references from third-party reliable and notable sources that support your claim to fame, as it were, wonderful!
However, if you have nothing but your own website, you're not notable enough for inclusion. You might be fantastic and talented, you might be earning a living off your music, you might be up-and-coming, but you're not notable enough for Wikipedia... YET. Please don't make the article an A-Z of every person in Australia to have ever touched a guitar string, because you undermine the quality of the page and give all us contributors more work to do cleaning up the mess.
Kindest regards 77.99.12.140 ( talk) 09:38, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
George Tolhurst seems to be notable for bad reviews of "Ruth" and hence not representative of Australian composers. Isaac Nathan was a prolific early Australian composer, but there are several hundred others from the colonial period to choose from. An earlier oratoria 1863 was written by Charles Sandys Packer. http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn1592886 Tradimus ( talk) 16:04, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
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It looks as if the Classical music section is identical to the Australian classical music article. Perhaps the information could be summarized here, or the Australian classical music article blanked and redirected here.
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Just an observation. I cautiously comment that between 1900 federation and the 1928 advent of 'talkies', there are a number of Australian composers who started moving beyond popular piano pieces by introducing orchestrations for instruments that were common then, namely violin and cornet. This trio combination seems a notable phenomena, published by Joe Slater, Clarence Elkin, Albert Saunders and Arthur Rooney. Tradimus ( talk) 01:03, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
I found an incomplete sentence: "would go on to reach No. 11 on the ARIA Singles Chart." I guess it should be connected with the precedent one, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Jezabeliberté ( talk) 20:46, 8 April 2021 (UTC)