STACK #253 November 2025

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# 1 MY FIRST ALBUM

was headbanging my little heart out!

Which recent album do you currently have on repeat? Millions by Bad Neighbour. What’s your all-time favourite album and why?

GORDI

When I was a kid, every December we would go over to the nearby town of Orange, as a family, to do our Christmas shopping. I’m the youngest of four children and it

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Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park. It was the first CD I ever had and the rap/rock fusion blew my mind. I have so many memories of the band and this timeless record set the benchmark for nu metal sound. Do you have a vinyl collection? If so, how did it begin, and expand? I do! At the time of writing this, I have around 70 records but no player (I’m a collector, OK?!). It began from working at JB, of course, and seeing all the cool limited releases we get. The capability to import music is how it became a slippery slope. What do you enjoy most about working in music at JB? Discovering new artists and discussing shared passions with other team members and likeminded customers.

was my favourite day of the year, purely for the hang. The pinnacle of those trips was the record shop visit. One year, I saw this CD on the shelf: it had a grey cover with a maroon soldier on the front. I put the headphones on and listened to In the End by Linkin Park. The album was Hybrid Theory and the year was 2000. I’m not sure what exactly I identified within this record, having had a relatively lovely life growing up on a farm in rural NSW, but at seven years old, something in it spoke to me. I think I bought it for $20, which I must have saved from mowing lawns, and it lived in my Discman for many years after. In 2017, I covered In the End for Triple J’s Like a Version. Tragically, it was shortly after the passing of Chester Bennington.

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DYLAN OXLEY Retail team member @ JB Home Morayfield, QLD

What’s an early, cherished music memory? My first concert was Metallica at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre for their Death Magnetic Tour, with my parents. We were seated in the front row of the grandstands and 13-year-old me

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In the hotseat this month is Aussie star PETE MURRAY, who has had fiveTop 10 albums, including three chart-toppers.

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What’s the most ridiculous item you’ve ever put on your rider? Healthy food. Your funeral song? Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here ! Happiness is… Living in the present and spending time with family.

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What would be your Hard Quiz expert subject? Sport and the human body. Song you wish you’d written? Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here . If you weren’t a rock star, what would you be? I was studying natural medicine, so I would probably be working in my own clinic and working for sporting teams, training and treating sportsmen and women.

Fair, motivated, chilled, persistent, confident. Your all-time favourite album? Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere . What did your most memorable school report say? Give up your goals of university and just become a famous rock star!

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