☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Keating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Keating</span></a> was still the prime minister, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Kennett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kennett</span></a> was premier of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Victoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Victoria</span></a>. The highest selling song of the year in this country was Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers had been out for four years but still held sway over the entire universe. </p><p>There was a band in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sydney</span></a> called Def FX who were winning awards and telling us in song titles and lyrics – with a metal/hiphop backbeat – about "ritual", "magik" and "psychoactives". </p><p>This was what was in the wind. It was commercial music, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TripleJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TripleJ</span></a> staple of the day, and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Cranky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cranky</span></a> came and went so very quickly within all of this with 2 Bugs and a song called Australia Don't Become America, otherwise known as "Straya Don Come Merica". It was influenced by the above – the sound and the fury – and in particular by Rage Against The Machine, Disposible Heroes of Hiphroprisy, Public Enemy, Pop Will Eat Itself and EMF”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusMusic</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HipRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HipRock</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/hip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hip</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/band" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>band</span></a> <<a href="https://archive.md/kOQ7X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/kOQ7X</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>> / <<a href="https://smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-crate-cranky-2-bugs-ep-1995-20150618-ghqx0p.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/entertainment/music</span><span class="invisible">/the-crate-cranky-2-bugs-ep-1995-20150618-ghqx0p.html</span></a>></p>