The band's frantic, Ramones-inspired power pop and hyperactive live shows drew capacity audiences of alacritous fans.
Each burst of savage punk/pop noise will also be a potential anthem; an unclean riff with a beating heart of pure melody.
[1] In the early 1990s, the Meanies performed primarily in their hometown, where they contacted local label owner, Bruce Milne, of Au Go Go Records, which issued three tracks, "Big Bertha", "Mr Authority" and "Our New Planet", on a Various Artists' split extended play, Boogie Wonderland (April 1990), with three tracks each by tour mates, the Throwaways, and Nice Girls from Cincinnati.
[1][2][4] They supported local gigs by international artists from 1992, Nirvana, The Lemonheads, Pop Will Eat Itself, Redd Kross, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam and Bad Brains.
[6] This led to a local label, Time Bomb Records, issuing their material into that market and further support slots backing Jackie & the Cedrics, Concrete Octopus, Blow One's Cool, and Rise from the Dead.
[1][4] While in the US they travelled to Seattle to record their second studio album, 10% Weird, which was released in August 1994, with Conrad Uno producing.
[1] Blizzard had left the group earlier in January of that year to return to Seaweed Goorillas but he rejoined the Meanies in mid-1995.
[citation needed] In 2006 they released a DVD, The Meanies: A Seminal Australian Punk Tale,[4] which features a documentary, Sorry 'bout the Violence, 11 music videos and a live concert filmed in 1994.
Angie Hart is going to do a song because she used to come and see us, plus You Am I, Digger and the Pussycats, Double Agents, Snout, and we keep asking the Spazzys, but they still haven't got around to it.
[8][11] His car had lost control in wet conditions along the Bellarine Peninsula and spun into a dam alongside the road.
[12] First responder, Alistair Drayton of Mannerim CFA, swam into the murky water, but "discovered the victim deceased, still trapped in the driver's seat.
Stumbling upon their brand of grotesque power-pop is a venerable goldmine for any music fan seeking the loud and thrilling.
"[13] Saar felt that on their third studio album, It's Not Me, It's You, released in September 2015, which is "skating in at just over twenty minutes, [the group] re-introduce their thrashy punk soaked in pop fervour.
With only a handful of songs breaking the three-minute mark, [they] do what they do best: rousing rock played to a lean and frenzied degree.