STACK #247 May 2025

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# 1 MY FIRST ALBUM

Which recent album do you currently have on repeat? GNX by Kendrick Lamar. What’s your all-time favourite album and why? My all time favourite album is To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar. This album not only has some of his best and my personal favourite tracks on

TEX PERKINS

When I was 13, Mum went away for a few weeks, so it meant I would be all alone with my big brothers. Early one Saturday morning, my 19-year-old brother John said, “Get out of the house and don’t dare come back until 4 o’clock”, handing me $20. This was a good deal. I ended up at Toombul Music, the place where I began to dream rock dreams. I nearly bought Boston’s Don’t Look Back , just for the front cover. Gerry Rafferty’s City to City was a consideration; it’s got Baker Street ! The Grease soundtrack? Nah. Then my eyes fell upon it: Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper. It had been out for a few years and was considered a modern classic. So, perhaps based on his appearance on The Muppet Show , I went for Alice. And I’ve never regretted it. It cost $8.99 and I still enjoy it. The title track is sleaze funk at its best, Only Women Bleed is a twisted feminist anthem, and if you can’t quote every word of Vincent Price’s Black Widow monologue, you’re just not a fan.

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it, It also was a hip-hop album that really changed the culture of hip-hop, and the levels of poetry Kendrick wrote

into this album were next to perfect. Winning a Pulitzer Prize as a rapper is a near impossible thing to do, yet he did it. Do you have a vinyl collection? If so, different albums displayed on my wall. It expanded into my new way of listening to my favourite artists in the most raw and personal way possible from home. What do you enjoy most about working in music at JB? Being able to discuss music and learn a lot about people through their favourite artists. Music to me really is a gateway into peoples’ souls and you can truly learn a lot from someone’s favourite artist. how did it begin, and expand? I do, It started by wanting to have

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HARRY IRWIN Salesperson @ JB Castle Towers, NSW

What’s an early, cherished music memory? The first concert I ever went to. Seeing Bon Jovi live in Sydney was definitely one of my all time fave concerts that I will always remember.

Straight Into the Sun by The Cruel Sea is out now via Universal

In the hotseat isTYNE-JAMES ORGAN, whose second album is released this month.

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Changed to Guinness and a lot more chill now. Your funeral song? What a Wonderful World . Bit clichéd, but runs in my family. Happiness is… No f-cking idea! Nah, to me, happiness is family.

musician would you most like to be? Keith Richards, just so I could live forever. What’s the most ridiculous item you’ve ever put on your rider? I love my dark beers, but putting a case of Coopers Stout made for the messiest kick ons in the green room once. They’re quite strong beers and everyone was just flogged.

Five words to describe yourself: Chaos x5. Your all-time favourite album? Thriller – Michael Jackson. What did your most memorable school report say? “Tyne should stop music and find another outlet. He will never be able to further his ideas of becoming a musician in the real world.” Cheers, Miss Waters!

What would be your Hard Quiz expert subject? Google Maps. Song you wish you’d written? Dreams – Fleetwood Mac. If you weren’t a rock star, what would you be? Bored. Last album you bought? Charm – Clairo. Aside from yourself, which

The Other Side by Tyne-James Organ is out May 16 via Universal

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