What about Australia's Coloured Balls?

HeavenIsInYrBeard wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 12:20 pm Cathal Coughlan.

Nooooooo!

Oh no!!

I just finished the audio-book version last week. There's something about hearing that sordid tale in his own grizzled voice. I'd say it's the way to go with this one.

Here's another one who couldn't get past the vocals. I found some of the music interesting, but the voice was just painful to my ears. In later years when I saw live clips on YouTube his voice was even more painful to listen to.

So, so good! Just finished the final season last week. Don't know why more people aren't talking about this show. Written and directed by the main character. Hope he does some cool stuff in the future! I also watched the movie it was based on, The Magician, which is from 2005. Interesting that he's ...

Unequivocally love The Angels (or Angel City as I knew them back in the day). First four albums are pretty great! Haven't done a deep dive on their later stuff, but was not encouraged by what I heard. Would have loved to have seen them live in their prime. My older brother did see them around 82 or ...

Nah, Craig Wedren's falsetto/glam/pseudo-fey schtick was probably lifted from, or at least was heavily influenced by, the far weirder and more versatile Bruce Merkle (aka Bruce Hellington) from the earlier DC band 9353. Although Merkle alternated what would become Wedren's trademarks w/deep bellowi...

Liked what I heard back in the day and saw them live at least once. Always meant to dive deeper. Thanks for the reminder!

XTC - Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 - Only became of aware of this album 5 years ago or so. Songs from the first 3 albums cut up and dubbed, sometimes entirely new vocals. Nice if you want something from that era, but weirder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explode_Together:_The_Dub_Ex...