Oz Rock Rated

Front End Loaders in the heavy machinery world are purpose built to lift, carry and load solid materials. Front End Loader in the Oz Rock music world do the very same thing: Lift your spirits, carry you through your day and load your ears up with solid (musical) material!

Join us as Ben takes you through his rankings while Sam listens on, adding bits and pieces where he can so you can be FULL BOTTLE on the mighty Front End Loader!

Do you pronounce them as Shihad or Shihad? We here at Oz Rock Rated pronounce it SHIHAD!!! with all capitals and several exclamation marks because how else you gonna pronounce Aotearoa's mightiest and most successful band? Join Ben and Sam as they get wild in the most CONTROVERSIAL episode yet!

From Newcastle hoons to worldwide rock n' roll megastardom, join us as we delve into the 5 albums from Oz Rock Royalty Silverchair! Listen in wide-eyed amazement as Sam recounts his brush with the early version of the soon-to-be global phenoms and Ben recalls the searing Silverchair-related jealousy that drove him to become the man he is today! Finally, the episode you've been relentlessly hounding us for!

For our milestone 10th episode we could very well have been talking about a band called Pretty Messy Apartment Dwelling but luckily Neil Finn, Nick Seymore and Paul Hester came to their senses and started Crowded House instead! Because 2/3 of the band are from Australia, that puts Crowded House firmly in the Oz Rock Rated wheelhouse and we hope you enjoy wading through their catalogue of 7 magnificent albums with us!

Are you the type that likes a very sexy man whispering in your ear or do you prefer a more solid style of person hitting China cymbals in just the right spot? Either way, you'll love today's episode about Oz Rock heavyweight titans INXS! Do you remember how very great they were? If not, join Ben & Sam as they dissect their 11 studio albums and rank them in the Oz Rock Rated style!

If you've ever been in a band then you'll relate to these wonderful words by The Fauves singer/guitarist/songwriter Andrew 'Coxy' Cox: "We learnt more about rock ‘n’ roll in that one night than the entire preceding 20 years. We sucked piss, made eyes at the cheap football tarts and bonded like four buckets of superglue. We also learnt how to compromise, how to sell out, and how to get fucked over. There was no rider, we were underpaid and no one got laid. It was a microcosm of an entire career."

If you're not already a fan of The Fauves, we 100% iron-clad guarantee you will be after you join us as we go through 12 studio albums. If you are a fan, sit back and nod your head in agreement as we do what we do here at Oz Rock Rated!

A twin-pronged guitar band whose members are sexual but not sexy and probably have no idea how to surf but wrote quite a few PERFECT songs? It's of course Hoodoo Gurus, NOT The Hoodoo Gurus or even Le Hoodoo Gurus! Welcome back to Oz Rock Rated, we have a terrific time doing these so we hope you have a terrific time listening!

Well it's been a while dear listeners but when you have a catalogue of amazing music that's 13 albums deep to trawl through, you take your time! This episode covers the iconic Midnight Oil, tune in to discover there's way more to them than a gigantic bald weird dancing loony... but there's also that lol! 

Prospect of reconciliation, memories of some funny conversation.
Feel like taking a vacation, like going to the moon.
I can't afford it, your mother with a bird's nest hairdo.
Your brother with plenty of action, your father always thinking me a weirdo.
I can't get no satisfaction.

Now that you know what James Reyne is singing, read along as you play the song! It's terrific fun!

This week we take you on a journey through the suburbs to a time where if someone called you mental it meant you were terrific at dropping in at your local skateboard ramp... and the soundtrack to those long summer days was one of the best Aussie bands to have ever done it: Mental As Anything! Join Ben and Sam as they drop in on twelve wonderful albums from their 30+ year career here on Oz Rock Rated!

This time round we delve into South Australia's finest, The Angels! Ben and Sam take you into the seedy underbelly of King's Cross and into the gambling dens and opium lounges that they've never even been to but have experienced through Doc Neeson's wonderful lyrics. Plus we do our usual dive into what made them tick and most of all why they're bona fide Oz Rock legends!

This week we tackle our favourites: Cold Chisel! Ben discusses prose while Sam probably talks about snare drum reverb or some such... Enjoy!

Welcome to Oz Rock Rated! First up, we take on the undisputed heavyweight champs of the rock n' roll world - AC/DC! Listen in and hear two serious music nerds fanboi over their favourite band ever. What a way to kick things off!