aussie music
12/08/2008
i’ve got my hands on a bunch of australian artists, which i’ve added to my mp3 player. at the moment, i’m listening to ben lee, sarah blasko, blue king brown, clare bowditch, bernard fanning, bob evans, gotye, the grates, lior, little birdy, kate miller heidke, the panics, josh pyke, xavier rudd, angus and julia stone, the be good tanyas, the cops, missy higgins, and the waifs.
i also got hold of some old chocolate starfish and cruel sea tracks. very fun ‘blast from the past’. i’m loving most of the music, especially the waifs. i’ve always been very fond of girls’ voices and guitars … which is pretty obvious from my choice of tracks. a lot of roots and folk music, with a distinct aussie sound.
a great track i found is actually a cover version by the waifs. it’s a paul kelly and kev carmody song called ‘from little things, big things grow’. the waifs’ cover version is really awesome. download it here if you want to listen … shhhh! don’t tell the recording companies! 
if you know of any more good aussie music, especially like the stuff mentioned above, let me know.
i bought myself a little mp3/pmp player yesterday. it’s a cowon d2. my ipod has just about shit itself and i wanted something small and convenient, preferably with video. i decided not to go with another ipod because i’m sick and tired of reorganising my fucking library every time i want to find songs (fuck you i-tunes). so now i can keep my library organised independently, and stored on my external 80gig hard drive.