What came back the following year was a series of remixes that showed the way forward for the rest of their recording career. The original version of ‘Enter Spacecapsule' was a basic idea that the band had sent out in a rocket ship to explore new horizons. When they recorded their debut album in 1998, they were still straddling the two worlds. But, in time, Gerling put the guitars to the side and pulled out keyboards, synthesizers, samplers and vocoders. They started as teenagers wielding guitars, creating a messy hybrid that fed off grunge and slacker rock. Looking for a playlist of these songs? We've got you covered right here. Here are the 50 best Australian songs of the 90s. You might not necessarily agree with all of our choices here, we believe every song played a massive part in making Australian music such a brilliant force through the 1990s. The entire Double J team all submitted their favourite Aussie songs from the decade, we tallied the votes and here's how it all came out. It won't surprise you to hear that coming up with this list was tough. We wanted to kick off our month-long celebration of the 90s with a celebration of Australia. The diversity of the sounds coming out of Australia meant that there was something for everyone.
The influence of grunge was prevalent early on, but shades of electronic music, power-pop, hip hop, worldbeat and the new breed of vital folk music all emerged in the best Australian music of the decade as well. Aussie bands could headline festivals, top charts and be all over the radio and it didn't have to be tokenistic. Australian audiences realised that the music of our country was as good as what was happening in the rest of the world. It signalled the end of the cultural cringe.
They pushed themselves and, in turn, pushed each other, to make music that was on the cutting edge, that broke boundaries and that made us feel really damn good. Bands wrote, recorded and toured tirelessly. The so-called glory days of pub rock might have been a thing of the past, but the ethic that came with it remained. Was the 90s the greatest decade in music?Īustralian music was incredible in the 1990s.
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