Captain Straightman

Captain Straightman

LET THERE BE STUFF!

11:39 AM, 30/7/2006 .. 0 comments .. Link

Here it comes. I'm just going to preface the first real entry with a bit of an idea of what I'm doing here. A while back, I found I was having a lot of trouble cramming my records back on the shelves as my rock and pop A-Z collection had burst the vinyl dam wall. The answer came to me in a flash...I must leave my records all over the living room floor! Curiously, an altogether different answer came to my partner around the same time. Something along the lines of "The hell you will"!

Being a fan of domestic harmony, I started ploughing through the records, isolating a sub-category of folk/art/prog/jazz-rock and putting those up on a high shelf where people are less likely to notice them. Not that I'm the least bit ashamed mind you but the invariable "What's that?" or "You're kidding!" questions and comments inevitably result in extremely prolonged education and appreciation sessions that no-one has time for. Or so I'm told.

Anyhoo, in the course of all this shuffling, lugging, dust consumption and hernia inducing, I began to realise that I had quite a bit of Australian content, which had never really occurred to me before. I started thinking about how much of this wonderful stuff was being forgotten even by people who ought to know better as the picture of musical history continues to be redrawn with the presumable intent of rubbing out most of the interesting bits. I thought I might try to provide a bit of an introduction for people who might have some interest but no real reference points, and this is it.

There will be five categories of post, which are as follows:

- 6 O'Clock Rock to GTK (mostly 60s to 70s)

- Sunbury Nation (the festival and beer barn titans)

- Countdown Empire (the tight trouser era)

- Basia and Beyond (alternative trends of the 80s and 90s)

- Cak (humour/novelty/bizarre covers)

And this is the selection criteria manifesto:

Everything I post will be from my own collection.

The quality will range from okay to hideous (I've got to get some sort of scratch reduction tool. Anyone know of any good ones that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?).

Everything will be either out of print or at least ridiculously hard to get hold of. I'm happy to remove items but everything is going to be up for a limited time only anyway.

I'm not posting entire albums here, just one item per outfit. It's an introductory sort of thing and I'm encouraging people to buy what they can. As I find out where we can get this stuff, I'll be posting links.

All nerdfacts are pretty much off the top of my head and can be regarded as being about as plausible as anything told to you by some guy in a pub which in most instances is where I've gotten it from in the first place. I welcome correction.

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