Here's a band that, to my knowledge, made little to no impact outside Australia:

Railroad Gin - A Matter Of Time (album version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5n_UQw6Zw


Railroad Gin - Come Together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhUyOtkvNfE


Railroad Gin formed in Brisbane in 1969 and disbanded in 1977, after numerous changes in its line-up.

Dang, I forgot about Mi-Sex.  And I even own one of their albums.  I really like Computer Games alot!

Dang, I forgot about Mi-Sex.  And I even own one of their albums.  I really like Computer Games alot!


Yeah, that.  Already karma'd the dude for another post, but I owe him one for that.  Mi-Sex's 1979 Computer Games was one of my favorites, and I have all but one reference nailed down.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software/arcade_atari-basketball_ss-bezel.jpg
The video game with the basketball is Atari's black-and-white coin-op Basketball from 1979.

http://i.imgur.com/KqtfQhe.png
The video game in the background with the vector graphics is Vectorbeam's Speed Freak

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Star_fire.png
The video game in the background with the TIE fighters is Exidy's Star Fire.

Here's where you come in, random person who stumbled onto this page from a google search.  How well do you know your late-70s CDC or other hardware?  There's a snippet of BASIC source code that show up a few times in the video that appear to describe some sort of game.  I'm trying to figure out what system that was so I can figure out what game that was.

Does anyone recognize a dialect of BASIC from 1980/1979 or earlier, that had both a CLS keyword to clear the screen, an IF/THEN/ELSE construct, an INKEY$ function to read the keyboard, the ability to concatenate two statments on one line separated by a colon and without spaces (e.g. "10000 CLS:GOSUB7600" was legal), and a BASIC program listing for a game that included "WHEN YOU SEE AN ... TO THE LEFT OF..." "YOU NEED NOT PUSH ENTER, JUST THE..." "AND THE NUMBER OF ANDROIDS YOU WISH TO..." The screenshot is taken from what is a (for 1979) pretty high-end green-screen monitor, and the video is known to have been recorded in the old Control Data Corporation's North Sydney building.

Crowded House.  :)

Re: Crowded House, it's their 30th anniversary, and

"Crowded House to Be Inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame"

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7495867/crowded-house-aria-hall-of-fame

Personally, my two favourite Australian bands are Silverchair and Spiderbait. I am more of a fan of Silverchair's earlier work, however, even their later songs are still quite decent. It's hard to believe that the members of Silverchair were only 15 years old, when they released their debut album in 1995. Considering how young they were, they still managed to produce a great album. Here is one of my favourite songs of theirs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2d6iwOSAfQ

Spiderbait have always been pretty big here in Australia, however they have never really been big overseas, which is disappointing. Probably their most well-known song is "Black Betty", which is a cover of a song from the 30s. "Black Betty" was the #2 single in the ARIA charts, back in 2004, and the song even performed well in the US. My favourite Spiderbait song is "Calypso", a song released back in 1996. The music video is pretty weird, but it's a great song in my opinion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnMmRV8y0xM

Besides Silverchair and Spiderbait, Powderfinger is another really good Australian band. They are another band which has always been really big in Australia, but not so much overseas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_eb0vVo0k

I don't mind Midnight Oil as well. I won't really go into anymore detail about them, because I think most of you know who they are (judging by previous posts). :P

Forgot to mention it in my previous post, but The Living End are another great Aussie band. Unfortunately, they are another band which deserves more success for their music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVtD4qMy5Hc

Obviously i'm bias, but I think there are a lot of good Australian/New Zealand bands. Some bands I like are:

Ratcat
Silverchair
Powderfinger
Calling All Cars
Spiderbait


Here is a great Aussie band from the 00s:  Rogue Traders


Here's a bit of trivia for you. The lead singer of Rogue Traders, Natalie Bassingthwaite, grew up in a suburb only 10 minutes away from where I live. :P

OMC was a banger.