I'm a sucker for an all girl group.

The Wet Ones were a Melbourne /Naarm based all girl punk /rock group from the 80s. Both records were on Polyester records which was a melbourne institution.

Think Girl group sounds with fuzzed guitars, and at times a bit b52s/pixies/Nina Hagen. They were a real mix bag but bold for their time with their tongue in cheek feminist messages.

Next Summer from their first 12″ It’s Premoistened World is still a favourite. Use to thrash that on our radio show.

Not gonna lie on relisten the album Crack Up is hit and miss. "Dream of Love” is an English language version of “Toutes les nuits” by french group Les Calamités and is my favourite off this album. Lots of different ideas on this and seems they broke up shortly after. I didn't notice until now (maybe i forgot) that my copy is signed on the back and limited edition release.

Keen to hear their first ep but it's cassette only have never come across a copy.

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This is a perfect record.

I could really just end this post there to be honest. This was was a gift from friends and is on regular rotation in our house.

I played piano and clarinet growing up. I wanted to play saxophone in the school band but there weren't many spots. I had quite old fashioned and conservative music teachers and I lost interest in playing instruments towards the end of highschool. I tried to teach myself things I was listening to but found it hard with my tiny hands which doesn't help. I don't know why they thought clarinet would be good for me haha.

Skip forward to my early uni days. A lot of my friends were studying music or involved in bands. Some were heavily involved in the jazz scene. I'd go to shows or they would play me jazz records but nothing clicked. Over the years I thought Jazz was not for me. That it was one of the few genres I couldn't enjoy despite liking a lot of music.

Many years later a culmination of multiple events - more curiosity about different music, being exposed to different types of jazz and this gift just blew all the misconceptions I had about Jazz.

I'm reading the Neneh Cherry memoir currently and it opens with her listening to this album whilst cooking. She talks about how music makes her life bigger, richer, and deeper. I couldn't agree more, and this is what listening to jazz has done for me.

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Long weekends call for extra coffee and records!

I picked this one up on Saturday afternoon from Lennys. It was a real high fidelity record store moment with everyone kinda talking about music in the shop. I love record stores when it's like that.

Anyway this has become my favourite Blondie album over the years (the first one was my favourite for a long time) but I never had a copy on vinyl strangly. Always in terrible condition or too expensive.

I got into Blondie when I was 16. I loved 60s girl groups and was just starting to explore 70s punk and this felt like the perfect blend.

I have seen them live once in 2003. This line up included Chris Stein who rejoined for the tour. It was probably a bit late to see them to be honest. It started badly and my heart sank. But then Debbie seemed to feel more comfortable once the enormous wig she was wearing came off and the show rocked with thebbie theatre pumping.

Featuring some wild keys and melodies, there are some fantastic tracks that don't get as much love as the hits. To me it was like a soundtrack to a trash B movie and that cover is fire.

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Appropriately titled record for this week's political events. Democrazy was completely canned when it came out in 2003 with criticism of both the DIY sound but also Damon personally for choosing to release this. Over 20 years later, this vinyl only EP with it's spectacular packaging has been getting a lot of appreciation. Recorded during Blur's US tour for Think Tank, several of the songs on this would feature on later albums and become hits including I Need A Gun, which turned into the Gorillaz song Dirty Harry. Half a Song 20 years later became The Ballad on Blurs latest album.

Maybe it's because I was listening to a lot of DIY and outside folk stuff in the early 2000s that I found something quite intimate about this record and couldn't understand all the negativity. But then as a long time Blur stan perhaps I was biased.

The raw demo of Half Song is heartbreakly exquisite and the full version on The Ballad is just stunning, one of my favourites.

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