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WALL OF SOUND ALBUM OF NOVEMBER
Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five
Last month so many fine Australian albums like - What are rockstars doing today - Magic Dirt, Jet age - The Superjesus, Bring it on - MGF and even The polyester embassy - Madison Avenue were released, it was a very hard month to chose the wall of sound album of the month. Powderfinger just edged out the rest.
In my opinion Powderfinger are with out a doubt the best Australian band going around at the moment, so my expectations were high, very high. It was for this reason at first I was dissapointed with Odyessy Number Five. It took me a week of listening to the album on the train to work for me to get into it. I don't know what made me think Powderfinger was a hard rock band. There first album was rocky, then double allergic, introduced power ballards like Pick you up and DAF, then Internationalist, which had rocky moments like Don't wana be left out and Good day Ray. Odyssey Number Five has even less rock, but in its place are well written and performed songs.
Unless you have had your head up your arse you would have already heard half of the album thanks too the MI2 and Two hands soundtrack. Then of course there is the first single ( Is for dont count These days and Not my kind of scene which were released as B-sides) My Happiness has been flogged to death on the radio. The news is that the rest of the album is just as good. On an album full of great songs my personal highlight is Thrilloilogy which is an epic six minutes ten seconds long and if it can be cut down to under four minutes will be a single and a hit.
This is one album every Australian should own. My father often asks me who will the classic rock stations like 2WS and MMM be playing in forty years time? or who will be the new Beatles? at the moment my answer to both of these questions would be Powderfinger. 9/10
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