STACK #241 November 2024

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# 1 MY FIRST ALBUM

Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish, TTPD by Taylor Swift, The Secret of Us by Gracie Abrams and Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever) by Noah Kahan. What’s your all-time favourite album and why? Reputation by Taylor Swift. It’ll always

KASEY CHAMBERS

I was six or seven when I got my first album – Father Abraham in Smurfland . I loved The Smurfs. I watched the cartoons, and my brother and I had so many of the figurines. I was so excited when the album came out. It was the first album I ever bought with money I had saved up myself. I bought the album, on cassette, from an outback roadhouse somewhere across the Nullarbor. I was always so happy to put the album on and play with my Smurf figurines over and over. It must have driven my parents mad. Unfortunately, I’ve never crossed paths with the Smurfs. And I’m not sure where the cassette is now. But I think I’d rather just leave it as an album I have fond memories of from my childhood.

hold a special place in my heart as a huge Swiftie, and then my most core

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music memory being this album. Another all-time favourite has to be Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever) by Noah Kahan. An absolute masterpiece with no skips. Do you have a vinyl collection? If so, how did it begin, and expand? Yes! I have a collection going. It all started when my dad bought me the Master of Puppets album by Metallica on vinyl around the time season four of Stranger Things came out. Since then I’ve expanded having vinyl from all sorts of artists, Taylor Swift, Pink Floyd, Alec Benjamin, Elton John, etc. What do you enjoy most about working in music at JB? Being able to talk to people about the music they love. When they come asking for something I’m not sure about I enjoy getting an insight into what genre of music it is and why they like it. Plus, it’s always good to see what new music we’re getting.

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MONTANAH LOGAN (Movies/Music: Merch) @ JB Tamworth, NSW

What’s an early, cherished music memory? Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2018 for her Reputation stadium tour in Brisbane. Which recent album do you currently have on repeat?

Backbone by Kasey Chambers is out now via Essence/MGM

In the hotseat this month is Custard’s DAVID McCORMACK, who is also the voice of Bandit in Bluey .

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Operation Barbarossa. Song you wish you’d written? Daydream Believe r by the Monkees. If you weren’t a rock star, what would you be? Air traffic controller. Last album you bought? Purple Mountains by Purple Mountains. Aside from yourself, which

musician would you most like to be? Dannii Minogue. What’s the most ridiculous item you’ve ever put on your rider? Cigars. Your funeral song? Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips. Happiness is… Nothing special to do.

Five words to describe yourself: Amazed, realistic, unaware, willing, early. Your all-time favourite album? Songs of Leonard Cohen . What did your most memorable school report say? “Must try harder.” What would be your Hard Quiz expert subject?

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