Rock hall of fame

Having a crap on the other night contemplating who from the more recent past would be inducted into the Aria hall of fame. We all agreed on The models but who do you think would be worthy from the last decade? .P.S, if ANYONE says "The John Butler Trio" they will have they're tongue ripped out.......they're arses. OK no pressure.

You am I in there awready?

the cosmic psychos

No - but surely Timmy and the lads will get a geurnsey some day - its 18(?) years since I saw my first YAI show and I still get excited by a new rekud or tour and now I have 2 little YAI fans who treasure every handclap, drum roll and riff

Early on in the aria HOF I thought it was the usual self congratulatory wanking from an industry so fixated on "hits" and not quality (aside from occasionly tossing in non pop people - Percy Grainger, Greame Bell). Age has changed my opinion slightly and I recognise the inductees as doing something different / new / exciting....

I think the concept really worked for me when they induct artists who really smashed ground
LobBy Lloyde - WOW
Radio Birdman - Still feel the emotion of the howl at the start of TV eye like it was yesterday
Rose Tattoo - brutal
Nick Cave - Junkyard still frightens me 25 years later

Future Inductees

You am I
Powderfinger (not a fan but you cant ignore them)
The Go Betweens - shoulda been done years ago
Mick Harvey - for propping up Nick Cave as well as his contribution to music
David Bridie - and Not Drowning Waving - they beat Sheedy to cross cultural collabarations in the top end / PNG

For sure doggie. Still great listening even today and takes me back to trips down south whenever they come on the ipod.

I like this one.....

Sunnyboy's

The Fauves

celibate rifles

You am I ,oh yeah. Gangajang were a bit odd weren't they, were huge for a while then dissapeared . What about Silverchair and even better imo the disasosiatives(sorry about the spelling)

Well if Kim is in I am begging for Beasts of Bourbon

Kim Salmon? The man Rawks.

He was part of the Beasts of bourbon but had a long history prior to them.

Has been (perhaps inacurately) quoted as the bloke who 1st used the term and created grunge (later thrown about by anyone in nth West america with bad dress sense). Bands like Mudhoney have quoted him as an influence way back.

Have worked with him a couple of times - years back - he's away with the fairies but a nice dood. Bit deaf tho.

Wether doin the animalistic Scientists/BoB thing or crooning like a lounge lizard loaded up on qualudes he's always making music he wants to not trying to flog product. He gives 200% in gigs, quietly exits the stage and has a couple of beers and slips away into the night. No BS - just good ol' rock with passion.

Punk, Rock, Blues, grunge he's done it all before it's time.

KS is the real deal and likely to be a complete unknown to the twits that hand out Arias and HoF gongs.

there's some foggy memories there. i saw KS and the surrealists years ago.....

funny thing about a lot of the bands mentioned here is i doubt they would give a **** about the arias....