David JoblingTripple J Vault to go!
September 30th 2008 13:53
REVIEW |
Live at the Wireless | from the vaults |
VOLUME 2
As a community radio broadcaster, and the music library coordinator for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) for five years I never imagined Silverchair and The Herd would be likely to end up on the same compilation CD, and yet here they are.
I'm not a big fan of the Silverchair lads, I like the music but I think the band are a bunch of arseholes (because) I appeared as an actor in their film clip for Emotion Sickness a few years back, and got fully ripped off, they never paid me, they didn't even provide me with a copy of the finished video which was a promise that they'd made... so I consider them quite cheap nasty abusive users.
I do like The Herd a great deal, and would happily appear in a video for them and I wouldn't care if I were paid or not because, that's how much I enjoy what they've brought to the table as far as new Australian music is concerned.
I have decided it's the mark of a good compilation album to have tracks that I wouldn't usually listen to getting played as I figure out what I'm going to say about it. This Tripple J compilation is the follow up to Volume One... and it's a good overview of the sort of music Tripple J does best; live recordings of in-house broadcasts or special concert gigs set up by the national youth broadcaster.
The range of material on this album is fun to listen to without seeming it's a paint by numbers glimpse of recent Aussie music; in fact it's not all Aussie music, which is also pretty cool and some of it is not so recent. The Ramones (from the 1980's), Iggy and the Stooges (2006), Xavier Rudd (2004) all have a moment on the album, and there is some doubling up on the special DVD that's part of the pack. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings is an inspired inclusion and brings the decidedly harsher energy of the opening tracks down enough to be ready for Josh Pyke directly after her.
Obviously the production values are tops on this compilation, after all these are recordings in a radio station studio or by hot producers who work in the same, and there's a strong feeling of it being live, which I love. It's something to do with the way the sound is resonating, the artists are breathing, the words are rich with vibrant now-ness...
Until the aforementioned Josh Pyke more or less makes a bit of a dick out of the situation by announcing that it's "Tripple J's Live on the Wireless", d'oh.. yeah.. right?
I like Josh Pyke, but only when he sings, so again it's kind of amusing to have to think twice for a moment.. like, I'm listening to a CD eh? NOT the wireless... but again, he sings so well I'll forgive his mild outburst of stating the bleeding obvious because Memories and Dust is one of my favorite songs out of the Pyke songbook, and Josh himself is not responsible for leaving the random announcement on the CD.
1981 at the Governors Pleasure, and The Sunnyboys start to lick their steel electrics and shine up the twangy sounds that kept them buoyant for the best part of that decade. I love the way some of these tracks separated by a couple of decades vibrate out of the speakers and seem like it's all the same big, amazing gig. The Kaiser Chiefs get the crowds roaring live at The Forum, then there's N.E.R.D. at The Enmore being fabulous and letting the crowd ply the lyrics just as sharply as themselves. That's the really comfy element to the album, the audience are on the ball, be it 2000, 1981 or 2007 the lovers of great music over the decades here have maintained a pretty down with it attitude and they don't go to a concert for a dull time.
Consequently the album rocks with the best of them and really satisfies. I just wanted to mosh around the room saying Hell Yeah! which is fun if you have the right soundtrack, otherwise you may as well be sitting watching sing-a-long-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and feeling like a dork.
I think this is a truly entertaining album, good for a house party, great for background music and quite fine for turning right up and just chilling out to.
Did I mention there's a DVD included? It is great. Better than great. It's something that is only going to get better as time goes on because eventually it will be what you listened to 'in the day' and it will connect you no matter how old you may be, with the spirit of the happy live presentation of groovy music.
It's a neat little package and I highly recommend you give it a spin.
David Jobling
Live at the Wireless | from the vaults |
VOLUME 2
As a community radio broadcaster, and the music library coordinator for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) for five years I never imagined Silverchair and The Herd would be likely to end up on the same compilation CD, and yet here they are.
I'm not a big fan of the Silverchair lads, I like the music but I think the band are a bunch of arseholes (because) I appeared as an actor in their film clip for Emotion Sickness a few years back, and got fully ripped off, they never paid me, they didn't even provide me with a copy of the finished video which was a promise that they'd made... so I consider them quite cheap nasty abusive users.
I do like The Herd a great deal, and would happily appear in a video for them and I wouldn't care if I were paid or not because, that's how much I enjoy what they've brought to the table as far as new Australian music is concerned.
I have decided it's the mark of a good compilation album to have tracks that I wouldn't usually listen to getting played as I figure out what I'm going to say about it. This Tripple J compilation is the follow up to Volume One... and it's a good overview of the sort of music Tripple J does best; live recordings of in-house broadcasts or special concert gigs set up by the national youth broadcaster.
The range of material on this album is fun to listen to without seeming it's a paint by numbers glimpse of recent Aussie music; in fact it's not all Aussie music, which is also pretty cool and some of it is not so recent. The Ramones (from the 1980's), Iggy and the Stooges (2006), Xavier Rudd (2004) all have a moment on the album, and there is some doubling up on the special DVD that's part of the pack. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings is an inspired inclusion and brings the decidedly harsher energy of the opening tracks down enough to be ready for Josh Pyke directly after her.
Obviously the production values are tops on this compilation, after all these are recordings in a radio station studio or by hot producers who work in the same, and there's a strong feeling of it being live, which I love. It's something to do with the way the sound is resonating, the artists are breathing, the words are rich with vibrant now-ness...
Until the aforementioned Josh Pyke more or less makes a bit of a dick out of the situation by announcing that it's "Tripple J's Live on the Wireless", d'oh.. yeah.. right?
I like Josh Pyke, but only when he sings, so again it's kind of amusing to have to think twice for a moment.. like, I'm listening to a CD eh? NOT the wireless... but again, he sings so well I'll forgive his mild outburst of stating the bleeding obvious because Memories and Dust is one of my favorite songs out of the Pyke songbook, and Josh himself is not responsible for leaving the random announcement on the CD.
1981 at the Governors Pleasure, and The Sunnyboys start to lick their steel electrics and shine up the twangy sounds that kept them buoyant for the best part of that decade. I love the way some of these tracks separated by a couple of decades vibrate out of the speakers and seem like it's all the same big, amazing gig. The Kaiser Chiefs get the crowds roaring live at The Forum, then there's N.E.R.D. at The Enmore being fabulous and letting the crowd ply the lyrics just as sharply as themselves. That's the really comfy element to the album, the audience are on the ball, be it 2000, 1981 or 2007 the lovers of great music over the decades here have maintained a pretty down with it attitude and they don't go to a concert for a dull time.
Consequently the album rocks with the best of them and really satisfies. I just wanted to mosh around the room saying Hell Yeah! which is fun if you have the right soundtrack, otherwise you may as well be sitting watching sing-a-long-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and feeling like a dork.
I think this is a truly entertaining album, good for a house party, great for background music and quite fine for turning right up and just chilling out to.
Did I mention there's a DVD included? It is great. Better than great. It's something that is only going to get better as time goes on because eventually it will be what you listened to 'in the day' and it will connect you no matter how old you may be, with the spirit of the happy live presentation of groovy music.
It's a neat little package and I highly recommend you give it a spin.
David Jobling
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