Being for the benefit (?) of Mr Brown

HEY look what I just did! An honest to god/dess MIXCLOUD post! Yes, a MIX! Haven’t finished one of those since January, it seems. More to the point, I put this together for the estimable RM Brown, cos someone on a recent “quomments” episode for his Patreon subscribers said something to him about him knowing Australian music or not, and someone else put up a Spotify playlist of some, and that made me think “fuck, I should do something like that”. So, over the last couple of days, I did something like that, and here it is… focusing on the more punk/garage/post-punk end of things from 1977-88, with a few NZ acts of similar kind and vintage for additional texture; it ranges from the bleeding obvious to the “what was that?”, and has the additional benefit of you being able to hear Lubricated Goat without having to look at them naked. Hopefully Aroon finds this useful and interesting. and if he does I’ll do a followup that’s not quite as abrasive as this one sometimes get…

1. 1. Blam Blam Blam, There is No Depression in New Zealand
   2. Models, Atlantic Romantic
   3. Flowers, Sister
   4. Straitjacket Fits, Life in One Chord
   5. The New Christs, Sun God
   6. The Birthday Party, Waving My Arms
   7. The Saints, Know Your Product
   8. God, My Pal
   9. Hoodoo Gurus, Death Ship
   10. The Chills, I’ll Only See You Alone Again
   11. The Wreckery, Ruling Energy
   12. Laughing Clowns, Everything That Flies
   13. Radio Birdman, Descent Into the Maelstrom
   14. Danse Macabre, Torch
   15. The Mark of Cain, Lords of Summer
   16. Hunters & Collectors, Talking to a Stranger
   17. Beggars Court, Lipstick Blues
   18. Venom P. Stinger, Walking About
   19. Black Assassins, Death Take Me Now
   20. Proud Scum, Suicide 2
   21. Itchy Rat, The Sky is Falling
   22. Lubricated Goat, In the Raw
   23. Thug, Dad
   24. The Reals, Nothing to Say
   25. Box of Fish, Sex Cat Killer
   26. The Slugfuckers, Cacophony
   27. SPK, Mekano
   28. Whirlywirld, Sextronics
   29. Severed Heads, Adolf a Karrot
   30. Scattered Order, Swiss Like Knives and Forks
   31. Primitive Calculators, Pumping Ugly Muscle
   32. Died Pretty, Mirror Blues
   33. Scientists, Human Jukebox