A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground (1963-1968)
UAR035 CD
Released: 2002
Wild Sounds, car crashes, pep pills, exploding amps, bloodied noses, jealous boyfriends, drug busts and arrests!
All these and more were just regular facts of life for the average Australian Rhythm and Blues band of the mid 1960s. Despite these obstacles, or perhaps because of them, a number of home-grown acts came to epitomise the down and dirty sound and attitude of Antipodean Garage Rock, a style that continues to inspire to this day.
Wild About You! documents and celebrates the music and styles of the past whilst highlighting the efforts of Melbourne's latter day garage rockers.
The CD - 17 of Melbourne's modern day garage/indie rock bands pay tribute to their Australian rock' n' roll forebears, with a cover of an underground classic. Recorded live (without overdubs) at Community Radio station 3CR (855AM).
Recorded by Cara Beltrame
CD Art by Adele Daniele
The Book - Comprising interviews and articles covering
thirteen key underground acts, Wild About You! captures the attitudes
and excitement of a youth culture undergoing significant political and
cultural change during the 1960s.
Edited by Thornbury based writer Iain McIntyre and co-written with Foffle
editor Ian Marks, the book features some of the unsung innovators and
stalwarts who created and kept Australian rock music going during the
mid to late 1960s.
Includes profiles of The Atlantics, The Missing Links, The Purple Hearts,
The Creatures, The Throb, Toni McCann, The Elois, The Black Diamonds,
Running Jumping Standing Still and The Moods.
1. The Drones - Believe In Me (The Throb)
2. The Mystaken - Rum Drunk (The Moods)
3. Pink Stainless Tail - Time Will Come (The Tol-puddle Martyrs)
4. The Lords Of Gravity - Black (The Throb)
5. The Stabs - Lies Lies (The Chimney Sweeps)
6. Digger and The Pussycats - Just A Little Bit (The Purple Hearts)
7. The Gruntled - Drivin' me insane (The Missing Links)
8. Thee Stag Knights - C'mon (The Altantics)
9. The Double Agents - I Want, Need, Love You (The Black Diamonds)
10. Ninetynine - It's A Hard Life (The Atlantics)
11. The Naked Eye - Ugly Thing (The Creatures)
12. Shutdown 66 - All I Do Is Cry (The Creatures)
13. The Cants - Saturday Date (Toni McCann)
14. Ian D Marks - Wild About You (The Missing Links)
15. Go Genre Everything - No (Toni McCann)
16. The Kamikaze Trio - Claudette Jones (Peter and the Silhouettes)
17. The Lucy Parsons Experience - H'Tuom Tuhs (The Missing Links)