What music are you into?

[JHyde]

Fidget, Maggie, Sirena and several others are all Aussies, but they come and go. I'm sort of the token
Australian on the forum.

10-1 is a fantastic album. Learning to love Midnight Oil was one of the better things that came out of my first major relationship although they broke up not long before the relationship did! I was lucky enough to see them play live twice in early 2005, once at Manly Leagues and once at Wave Aid the next day. They were terrific. I recently met Jim Moginie through his son and that was kind of awesome, although my friends couldn't figure out why I was suddenly so quiet. And Rob Hirst is a spunk and an AMAZING drummer, and I'd totally go for him, even if he is about my dad's age. But he's married and I respect that

Both of them recently took part in helping to make a great record from a guy from Melbourne called Whitley. His record 'Go Forth, Find Mammoth' was one of last year's best, I think, I love listening to it to do all sorts of things. He's very young, but his music has a real lingering wisdom to it.

The last few albums the Seeds have out are brilliant. Nocturama, The Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues and last year's Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! are all superb and well worth buying. I like all of Kuepper's stuff since the 80s, but my fave of his stuff is probably Character Assassination, his ARIA winning album.

Nick Cave and Ed Kuepper are stellar songwriters, probably two of my favourites ever. So I can't wait to see what they come up with. Especially given how prolific they are, it's incredible how good the bulk of it is. Nick Cave is one of those rare, brilliant people. The word genius gets bandied about a lot but he really might be one, I think.

OK, I'll shut up now. I could seriously talk about my favourite musicians for far longer than I talk about spooks, and that's saying something.