RhoDeo 1141 Aetix

Hello, Aetix is still at that great southern land, a country that produces the most sports champions per capita, not taking in account wintersports which are dominated by the Norwegians, so what do they have in common..well can i say Vikingblood ? Seriously, it makes one wonder there would be any room for a music scene to develop, well there was and it goes to show how versatile we as humans are.

One should think that Australians are proud of their achievements yet theirs is a conservative world or maybe i should call it ego-country where talk of sharing is frowned upon, and the original dwellers, the Aboriginals, that have lived there for 40,000 years (!) are still considered incompetent..go figure. Yes respect has increased as the influence of (evil) religion has diminished but understanding ? I doubt it. The mirror to western wastefulness and materialism is just too hard to accept.

To the music of today a band that came together on some shared values of love of boozed up rock'n roll, blues and punk and stayed together (more or less) for a decade to produce a handful of albums most of which are present here and will have you taste the atmosphere of Australias pubs and the viking way of camaraderie, in short The Beasts Of Bourbon.

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The Beasts of Bourbon's music has often been compared to that of a rougher Rolling Stones (whose 'Cocksucker Blues' they covered), The Gun Club (who they played with and who some Beasts filled in for) and The Birthday Party. In Germany, the band were described as 'Muddy Waters on crack'. Their music is a tough amalgam of country music, blues, rock and roll and punk parsed through the garage sound of The Stooges and the drunken mayhem of Australian pub rock. It often touches on themes of depravity, morbidity, despair, drug abuse and violence. In short an excellent karaoke soundtrack.

The group were initially thrown together by vocalist Tex Perkins to fulfill a booking his previous band. The initial version of the group included Spencer P. Jones, Boris Sudjovic and Kim Salmon of The Scientists and James Baker of The Hoodoo Gurus, recruited in large part because they were often found in the Southern Cross, an inner-city Sydney bar. This lineup was featured on the band's first album, The Axeman's Jazz, recorded in 1984 in a single afternoon for one hundred dollars by Tony Cohen. The album was an excursion into deranged Gothic country and western, although the album became an underground success, the band continued, for the time being, to be just a side project for its members until 1987. The original line-up reunited in 1987, to record another album, Sour Mash in 1988. The swamp-rock of The Axeman's Jazz had given way to a fusion of blues-based pub rock and punk with great effect. Black Milk, recorded in 1990, expanded on this idea.

The band grew particularly confident and powerful while touring Europe on the back of Sour Mash In 1991, Baker and Sujdovic left to be replaced by Brian Hooper and Tony Pola - the bassist and drummer of Kim Salmon's new band, The Surrealists. This line-up recorded the highly popular album The Low Road in 1991. The band disintegrated in Europe while touring to support the album. A double album of live tracks and rarities, titled The Belly of the Beasts - Live '91 & '92 and shit we didn't put out the first time was released to mark the group's ten years together, and the group toured extensively in support of the album. Following the tour, it appeared as if the Beasts would announce their demise.

In 97 Gone was released to a luke warm reception, since a live album and occasional concerts have been played, however dec 06 a new album ‘Little Animals’ was announced for 2007.

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The first sonic blast from this Austral indie supergroup was recorded in one afternoon by members of the Scientists (Kim Salmon, Boris Sujdovic, and James Baker), Salamander Jim (Tex Perkins and Salmon), the Hoodoo Gurus (Baker), and the Johnnys (Spencer Jones). They were influenced by Hank Williams, the Rolling Stones and the Cramps. The group wasn't necessarily meant to lead to a career, but for several of the musicians most notably Perkins it has. Considering how little time was actually spent on recording it, The Axeman's Jazz is a surprisingly accomplished debut, an energetic collection of grungy swamp rock with a side of countrified blues.

The Beasts Of Bourbon – The Axeman's Jazz (flac 260mb)

01 Evil Ruby 3:12
02 Love And Death 4:01
03 Graveyard Train 7:11
04 Psycho 3:52
05 Drop Out 3:04
06 Save Me A Place 5:39
07 Lonesome Bones 4:33
08 The Day Marty Robbins Died 3:18
09 Ten Wheels For Jesus 5:19

The Beasts Of Bourbon - The Axeman's Jazz (ogg 96mb)

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The Axeman's Jazz had become a springboard for much later success as a full-time working band. In 1988, the group released Sour Mash, which was a dream come true for fans of the Australian rock and garage punk that fused the sensibilities of their disparate groups to great success and marked the transition to full-time concern for the group members. With the Johnnys and Scientists both calling it a day just prior to Sour Mash, the collective creative forces were pooled to make the Beasts of Bourbon's landmark in which remains their prime document. A raw blues-rock album with post-punk afflictions, the band was often compared to the Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and the Surrealists. Although, maybe that similarity is only extra evident due to sharing producer Tony Cohen, who hand shaped some of the best Australian rock albums of the '80s and '90s. With the enigmatic Tex Perkins, who could be one of rock & roll's last great frontmen, and the blistering slide-guitar-driven sound, the band does a fine job of re-creating the sound of a twisted night out at the pub. The Beasts certainly have stakes on a claim to the phrase "desert rock" on this outing, which has Kim Salmon's trademark guitar twang all over it.

The Beasts Of Bourbon – Sour Mash (flac 339mb)

01 Hard Work Drivin' Man 3:23
02 Hard For You 3:33
03 Watch Your Step 2:01
04 Playground 3:59
05 Door To Your Soul 3:39
06 These Are The Good Old Days 3:07
07 The Hate Inside 3:29
08 The Big Sleep 5:25
09 Pig 4:35
10 Driver Man 4:05
11 Elvis Impersonator Blues 2:56
12 Today I Started Loving You Again 4:21
13 Flathead (The Fugitive) 2:02
14 This Ol' Shit 2:42
15 Sun Gods 3:20

The Beasts Of Bourbon – Sour Mash ( 125mb)

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By the early '90s, two of the Beasts of Bourbon's key members -- James Baker and Boris Sudjovic -- had left the group to be replaced by Tony Pola and Brian Hooper, who are also both members of guitarist Kim Salmon's project, the Surrealists. It left the group with a straighter, less garage punk sound that resembles more the direction taken by Tex Perkins with the Cruel Sea later in the '90s. With this new lineup, the Australian rock supergroup enlisted producer Tony Cohen, an engineer best known for his exceptional production work with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party. Despite his awesome skills with capturing sound, it proved a little tough to get the live energy of a performance to tape. Following the release and touring of The Low Road, members went on to pursue greater things with their separate groups, Kim Salmon with his Surrealists and Tex Perkins with the Cruel Sea. Beasts of Bourbon never officially split, but at this point reverted back to part-time concern for all the groups members, which was in fact the way that they conceived their greatest work as a an ad-hoc side project.

The Beasts Of Bourbon - The Low Road ( flac 317mb)

01 Chase The Dragon 3:41
02 The Low Road 4:07
03 Just Right 5:31
04 There's A Virus Goin' Round 3:50
05 Can't Say No 4:56
06 Ride On 5:22
07 Straight, Hard & Long 3:59
08 Cocksucker Blues 4:53
09 Something To Lean On 4:45
10 Goodbye Friends 5:20

The Beasts Of Bourbon - The Low Road ( ogg 111mb)

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once elsewhere (Sunshine outback--been deleted)

Beasts of Bourbon - Black Milk ( flac 355mb )

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