- Audio CD (29 April 2002)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Shock
- ASIN: B0000668KM
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 266,324 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Good album. Nicely packaged double with great cover notes. Features punk and garage in an Aussie stylee from '76 to '89.
Some of it hasn't worn well. Most of it rocks. Radio Birdman, The Saints, Celibate Rifles, Sunnyboys, Lime Spiders, Lipstick Killers... See and hear the history of Aussie music. Wonder how more people don't talk about this stuff. Nod head fast and play imaginary telecaster. Re-evaluate your opinion of Australian music. Surprise your mates with unheard nuggets. Play again.
Some of it hasn't worn well. Most of it rocks. Radio Birdman, The Saints, Celibate Rifles, Sunnyboys, Lime Spiders, Lipstick Killers... See and hear the history of Aussie music. Wonder how more people don't talk about this stuff. Nod head fast and play imaginary telecaster. Re-evaluate your opinion of Australian music. Surprise your mates with unheard nuggets. Play again.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Staggeringly good
9 Sep 2002
Lenny Kaye's Nuggets compliation showed that sometimes it takes distance and time to define a musical movement. Do The Pop! does for the Australian garage rock scene of the late 70s and early 80s what Kaye did for US psych-punk of 1965-68. Like Nuggets, it is a catholic selection, drawing on several varieties of Aus-punk. The obsession with Detroit is illustrated by Radio Birdman and their many spin-offs (including New Race - featuring Birdmen, plus a Stooge and an MCone); Cramps/Gun Club swampabilly comes from the Scientists; pure Easybeats garage pop from the Sunnyboys and the Screaming Tribesmen; Ramonic buzzsaw pop from the Eastern Dark and the Hard-Ons; Suicide/Doors style drone rock in the form of Died Pretty's towering Mirror Blues. And that's far from touching all the bases this incredible album covers.
Growing up in the UK in the 80s I was aware of quite a bit of this music - it would get played on John Peel's late-night radio show - but distance and unfamiliarity prevented me seeing the broader patterns and connections. So contemporary garage punk, to me, meant the cartoonish frivolity of the British psychobilly scene and the US bands such as the Fuzztones. This compiltation, by contrast, shows the Australian scene to have been about a passionate and committed group of musicians, many of whom persevered for many years despite little or no success, making music because they needed to do so. (And the exemplary booklet documents the connections in a clear and helpful way.)
Do the Pop! also provides a benchmark against which much of today's crop of garage punk revivalists must be measured - and too many found wanting. The inadequacy of the Dirtbombs or the Come-Ons is glaringly evident when compared to the least indpired of these Australian bands.
Now, someone, how about a compilation of the Nordic scene, ranging from the Leather Nun, the Nomads, Melrose, the Hellacopters through to the Hives?
Growing up in the UK in the 80s I was aware of quite a bit of this music - it would get played on John Peel's late-night radio show - but distance and unfamiliarity prevented me seeing the broader patterns and connections. So contemporary garage punk, to me, meant the cartoonish frivolity of the British psychobilly scene and the US bands such as the Fuzztones. This compiltation, by contrast, shows the Australian scene to have been about a passionate and committed group of musicians, many of whom persevered for many years despite little or no success, making music because they needed to do so. (And the exemplary booklet documents the connections in a clear and helpful way.)
Do the Pop! also provides a benchmark against which much of today's crop of garage punk revivalists must be measured - and too many found wanting. The inadequacy of the Dirtbombs or the Come-Ons is glaringly evident when compared to the least indpired of these Australian bands.
Now, someone, how about a compilation of the Nordic scene, ranging from the Leather Nun, the Nomads, Melrose, the Hellacopters through to the Hives?
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
One of the best of it's kind!!!
14 Jun 2002
There are tons of collections out there, and it seems like a new 60s psyche collection comes out every other week. This is far better than any of them. In addition to the "big names," The Saints and Radio Birdman, it includes The Screaming Tribesmen, Lime Spiders and Celibate Rifles, etc that made this brief period of music amazing. You absolutely have to have Slave Girl and 24 Hours and Igloo. My only quible is that it doesn't have Date with a Vampire which I bought on EP years ago and is long gone along with most of the original LPs of this stuff that I had. Take the shortcut, buy this collection, then get the Birdman and Saints collections. Now if someone would please do this for the US bands from that era...
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Art? Fashion? What About The Music?
7 Jan 2003
Isolation can breed some pretty amazing music and if you're looking for proof, look no further than this magnificent compilation chronicling 12 incredible years of the incomparable Oz garage/punk scene. Rarely is Australia's scene ever mentioned in the same breath as those of New York or London. Shame, really, because whereas New York's was art-centered and London's was fashion-centered, the Aussies put the music firmly up front and center, right where it belongs. Although few of the bands which show up here may be familiar to the casual listener (the exceptions probably being Radio Birdman, The Saints, and The Celibate Rifles), you may find yourself scrambling to get your hands on everything you can by the rest. There's not a duff track to be found anywhere here and if songs like The Lime Spiders' "Slave Girl," The Fun Things' "Savage," The Screaming Tribesmen's "Igloo," or The Exploding White Mice's "Burning Red" don't put some lead in your pencil, you may want to have someone check you for a pulse. A bargain at double the price...
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