I have been thinking about this for a while. What could really be one of the most underrated Australian albums ever?
Today I realized there was one album that deserves this accolade. Obviously, there are more contenders but, for today, it is The Badloves debut album Get On Board.
Every song on this album is just about perfect. They stopped producing music as a band way too soon but this was a stellar debut. I was luckily enough to see them live twice and both shows were unbelievable. I remember working at Parks Victoria and it was a couple of years after the Badloves were big. At that time I was working with a girl from the UK called Joanne and I introduced her to the Badloves. She played the CD over and over and over again. I hope wherever she is in the world now, when she happens to play that CD now (and maybe it is only one that she would stumble upon once per year) that it brings back awesome Melbourne memories.
Another fun memory was one night I was reading the liner notes (with the prevalence of music downloads I really miss the liner notes) and I realized my Library school lecturer was actually a cellist on the album.
If you haven’t listed to them for a while, give Get on Board a spin again. It really is a beautiful album!