Where is the love for Scattered Order?

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well, apart from that they seem to eventually crop up in every thread on Australian music fron the 80s.

I never got to see them live, was a little too late for that.

Whatever became of them? They contributed one track to a somewhat patchy Volition dance compilation from 92 called 'High', but I know of nothing more recent than that. Did anything come later?

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Sunday, 14 August 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

I just watched one of their LPs sell for around au$130 on Ebay.

― cnwb (cnwb), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

and yet in the late 90s you couldn't give their records away.

i have all the records they released on volition, but it's been a long time since i've listened to any of them. this thread will encourage me to change that. the songs of theirs i know best are the two 45s, 'escape via cessnock' and 'king of blip' both of which i loved as a teenager.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scatteredorder.com/news.htm

apparently they're around. I had never heard of them but it sounds like great stuff.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

it seems they were doing stuff until 2000 but their website has been silent ever since.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

there's some m squared pages that mention scattered order here

http://www.spin.net.au/~mifilito/msquared.html

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the links. I liked this quote from the M Squared press pages: "M Squared feels in tune with the musical needs of teenagers"

I noted that one of the links to the official Scattered Order site described it as 'droll', which is a pretty good one-word summary of what their image seemed to be like at the time.

I've got 'Prat Culture' and 'Career of the Silly Thing', but not the EP 'A Dancing Foot and a Praying Knee Don't Belong on the Same Leg', which from memory was their most popular record. At any rate 'Loose in the House' got a lot of airplay on JJJ at the time.

I've been listening to 'Career' for almost twenty years now and still haven't quite got my head around what exactly the bassline on 'Remember May 12th' is doing. It's very strange, and quite marvellous.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 15 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

the 2 main people in the 90s and beyond version of the band, mitch and dru, released a couple of track on experimental comps under various guises whilst still occassionally releasing scattered order stuff. they went to live in wales in 2002 and that's the last i've heard.

the early version of the band with mitch, pat gibson, michael tee and michael prod was the one that makes sense for me still. their later 80s stuff is good but seems like a reduction of all that went before musically with the addition of more manic vocals.

― phil turnbull (philT), Monday, 15 August 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

My memory was at fault: the EP with 'Loose in the House' on it was 'Selling the Axe to Buy the Wood'. Dur.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 15 August 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

i saw them a number of times in the early 80's with the line up that phil mentions - gotta admit i found them either rather wilfully difficult or just plain dull. bear in mind however the "pop" moves being practiced elsewhere. sometimes the clunky experimental lurch and droll vocals seemed like a band without a vision to me. an opinion i'm no longer sure of.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 15 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

i'd agree that they were a risky proposition live but the recorded output still works.

― phil turnbull (philT), Monday, 15 August 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

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