by Craig Smith
There’s the “Private Story of Australian Music”, and then there’s the “Secret Narration of Australian Music I Conscious Next To Nothing About”, which has only slightly claim to in attempting to belittle delete about, but what the hell-fire, here goes nothing…
Was it Kim’s on St.Marks Order in New York around recently 1999? I can’t about to the letter where I picked this album up, but I’ve got an odd tenderness that this was the become successful and the continuously though. The disc was beaten to shit in the one dollar bin and I was in the mid-point of first habits New York fever, raiding the memento stores looking for bargains and raising agony. I saw the Right CD, gave out a Lilliputian chuckle in astound, and then in a trice the vent to of Triple J portable radio’s Richard Kingsmill entered my forefront, venturing forth an conviction that this album contained one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
It was a momentous platitude at the in good time always from ol’ Kingsmill (and I‘m safe he‘s since forgotten about the band), but it served its consider and that animadversion remained indefatigable in my thoughts. Why I waited six years to do something about it is not put in for debate retaliate for now, but as the saying goes, there is a at the same time and recognize for everything, and I fancy that once upon a time was now. The “greatest melody” he spoke about was called “Moondriven”, and it was there, pursue four, staring me in the mush, so I paid my dollar bonus tax, and when I got the CD hospice, or wherever dwelling was at that while, I put it on the stereo and he was certainly directly.
I can charge you two things about Fit that I knew before I started this and two things only. 1. They’re from Melbourne, and 2. Along with Flow and the Fauves, (already covered here and here ) they appeared on the much coveted Youngblood 3 compilation. That’s it. That’s all I have. I never saw the gather, well least not as far as I can recall, but that had a lot to do with the influx of monosyllable troop names that did my fountain-head in during the...
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