Wellington Music Month 6: a shameful secret.
Posted by Alan on Saturday, 19 May 2007
So alone among the Wellingtonista, I have a terrible secret: apart from an early album from the Black Seeds, I have no current Wellington Music in my collection.
None.
Not even Fat Freddy's Drop.
In my major period of buying music, Wellington music for me was a bit fringe and wacky, and worst of all, not on Flying Nun. There were occasional songs that caught my attention: Bill Direen & the Bilders' Do the Alligator; that amusing Elephunk song; one or two songs from the Six Volts... and that's about it. Wellington was full of arty jazzy stuff that frankly I despised.
Time has moved on - about 20 years in fact - and somehow Wellington's musical renaissance has passed me by. This is not good.
So I need help!
What are the top five albums by Wellington bands in the last five years? Answers please: I must remove the shameful stain of my musical ignorance! 
The Ghostplane one is very good.
I wouldn't worry too much about not owning FFD given that 50% of welly cafes will be playing it at any given moment. They're the new Moorcheeba.
Wow. That's the strangest confession since The Man Who Hasn't Seen Pulp Fiction.
My vote goes to Fly My Pretties' Live at Bats
I should have ganked that cartoon instead of the Elephunk cover art - it's perfect.
I love that cover art
Even though they ended, Trinity Roots was mighty fine. Fly My Pretties. Twinset from time to time
i agree with ange, get the Trinity Roots album
they are/were so much better than FFD
maybe the sound of someone tooting in the mt vic tunnel
followed by the sound of a condom full of paint stripper
hitting their bonnet could well be another classic
music to my ears....
keep on tooting... i especially like european cars tooting
got a BMW front & centre on friday...
heh heh there goes the resell value
Young man! Get thyself to a record store and buy BOTH Phoenix Foundation albums POSTHASTE! I also enjoy Grayson Gilmour's Phantom Limbs. Definately Ghostplane's Beneath the Sleepy Lagoon. And get yerself some Fur Patrol for the love of all that is holy (hehe geddit?).
Have a look and see if you can find any Batrider stuff.
As Borat says, its "very naice".
Heh - I'd have thought I'd be much less equipped with Welly music than Alan.
But we DO have at least one Phoenix Foundation album & also Odessa's.
Maybe more that I don't recognise.
I wonder if Minuit count - they seem to live here. And I have lots of their stuff.
But they don't seem to be part of that of that incestuous Welly "scene" (that reminds me, if not musically, of Dunedin in the late '80s) so maybe they don't count :-)
Listen to an upcoming funky, bluesy group called "The Aviators" winners of 2005 Wellington Battle of the Bands
How about Recloose, does he count? Hiatus on the Horizon is great, and I *love* the first one Cardiology! You MUST buy Trinity Roots and Pheonix albums, quality stuff. AS for FFD, if you didn't buy it, then who did? It's been on the charts for over two years now!!!!
Are you lot all "too cool" to be nominating Shihad then? None of the top fives have mentioned them.
What about HLAH? D-Super?
And nobody's voted for Phoenix Foundation, although they have at least been mentioned.
It's not all about the dub, you know. Some of us find that BBQ reggae boring.
Um, I put Shihad, the Phoenix Foundation and HLAH in my top five songs.
"Are you lot all "too cool" to be nominating Shihad then?"
Yes. Yes we are.
Except for Jo of course. And Noizy. Oh and Hadyn too. Whoops, and Stephen nominated Phoenix Foundation too. So, are you "too cool" to actually read all the posts before slagging them off?
But the rest of us (i.e. me and Alan) aren't closet bogans. Hadyn's from Tauranga: what's your excuse?
i'm too cool. i don't like shihad anymore. nyah. and i said phoenix foundation. geez. hey lets throw luke buda and sam scotts' albums out there eh?
Are you lot all "too cool" to be nominating Shihad then?
as per the above comments, I think quite a few of us mentioned them. I'm pretty sure I said they'd released the best NZ rock album ever. (checks. Yes, I did).
What's up with the haters recently? Like the comments you deleted...
oh, the 'wank' one? was tempted to leave it, but it irked me somewhat.
as FotC sing: 'why? why? what? why? be more constructive with your feedback!'
Don't like Shihad anymore? Say it Aint so!
it's not at all uncommon.