Continuing with Aussie music month -- are the Bee Gees considered Australian? They definitely were early on! Anyway, I'm going to skip the B's and jump to the C's. Here are the Chevelles with "Get It On".
Just to be clear, these Chevelles (the Australian power pop band from Perth, one of the coolest bands in the universe) should not be confused with Chevelle (lame punk band from Chicago). The internet confuses these bands quite often.
My first exposure to the Chevelles was when I started noticing their songs on compilations during the 90s (like Pop On Top and the Spanish Big Star tribute) and fell for their genius when I finally downloaded their album Girl God from emusic in the early 2000s.
After that, the Chevelles became one of Little Steven's favorite bands and he reissued a compilation Barbarella Girl God and a new album called Accelerator on his label Wicked Cool Records. Both these are on emusic (along with the rest of the Chevelles output). If you download one Chevelles song from emusic (or amazon or iTunes), it should be their rocked up cover of Air Supply's "Lost In Love" from Sun Bleached, and if you download just one album, it should be Girl God, but every single song the Chevelles have ever recorded is worth owning in one way or another.
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