Line #19 Music/Silverchair


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2	[[caption-width-right:329:Yes, Daniel, lovely Music/VelvetUnderground shirt.]]
3	->''"I don't really know,\
4	How to put on a cool show,\
5	As boring as they come,\
6	Just tell me where to go,\
7	If only I could be as cool as you..."''
8	-->"Freak"
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10	'''Silverchair''' is an Australian alternative rock band comprised of lead singer/guitarist Daniel Johns, Bass guitarist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies. They have been highly successful, winning a record 20 [=ARIAs=] (Australian Record Industry Awards). The band first gained notoriety when one of their first songs "Tomorrow", won a local music competition run by television network Creator/{{SBS}} in 1994. This lead to the band being signed by Murmur Records, a subsidiary of Sony.
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12	Their eventual debut album, ''Frogstomp,'' was recorded in a mere nine days, and released in March of 1995 when the band were still in high school, featuring a newly recorded "Tomorrow" and the other singles "Pure Massacre" and "Isreal's Son." The album not only topped the charts in Australia and New Zealand, but hit the top 10 in America which hadn't happened for an Aussie band since Music/{{INXS}}. They returned in 1997 for ''Freakshow,'' lead by the anthemic single "Freak." ''Freakshow'' gave them another #1 at home, as did their third album released in March of 1999, ''Neon Ballroom. Neon Ballroom'' is regarded as a GrowingTheBeard point by some fans, as the band stretched out their alt-rock sound and added some electronic elements.
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14	In 2003, some time after the release of their fourth album, ''Diorama,'' the band went on [[SeriesHiatus hiatus]], members using the break to record on side projects The Dissociatives, The Mess Hall, and Tambalane. The Wave Aid concerts of 2005 saw the band reunite, and album ''Young Modern'' was released in 2007. Silverchair joined up with fellow Australian rockers Powderfinger to play the ''Across the Great Divide'' tour across Australia and New Zealand, which was to increase awareness of the efforts of Reconcilation Australia to reduce the 17-year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
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16	They broke up in 2011 while recording their sixth album, although it was officially called an "indefinite hibernation". By that point, Silverchair had sold over 8 million records around the world. They haven't ruled out a reunion at some point, they just need to feel like they have a creative spark again.
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18	...That is until 2021 when Johns completely ruled out any chance of a reunion of happening outside of separate collaborations with Chris and Ben,[[note]]He invited them to collaborate in track for his solo album, ''FutureNever'', which both have declined.[[/note]] citing his mental health and his traumatic experiences with fame, and saying that he might never perform live again. And though the other two still don't rule out any chance of a reunion happening, the chance of such possibility is very unlikely for the moment.
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20	!!Albums:
21	* ''Frogstomp'' (1995)
22	* ''Freak Show'' (1997)
23	* ''Neon Ballroom'' (1999)
24	* ''Diorama'' (2002)
25	* ''Young Modern'' (2007)
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27	!!Silverchair provide examples of:
28	* AdvancedTech2000: One of their bigger hits, "Anthem for the year 2000", which seemed to be a bit of a hit out against governments that promised to fix things in the medium to long term future.
29	* AnimatedMusicVideo: Daniel Johns' arthritis precluded him from performing around the time of Diorama's release, and so the video clip to "Luv Your Life" had to be animated so as not to remove the face of the band and confuse fans.
30	* ArtifactTitle: "Punk Song #2", a ''Freak Show'' outtake that was released as a BSide. There were originally both a "Punk Song #1" and "Punk Song #3", but only "Punk Song #2" ended up being a PermanentPlaceholder title - "Punk Song #1" became "Lie To Me" while "Punk Song #3" became "Satin Sheets".
31	* {{Britpop}}: ''Young Modern'' has been described as a "post-Britpop" record.
32	* BuffySpeak: "Big, big and violent, like a thing that's big and violent."- World Upon Your Shoulders.
33	* DyingAlone: The chorus of "Untitled":
34	--> ''And all I can think of''
35	--> ''Are ways to die alone''
36	* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: The video for "Freak" has an old woman named Katherine Freak paying to consume sweat produced by the band while they are playing. Not satisfied with just the sweat causing her to be de-aged, she demands more. This causes her to mutate alien features such as yellow-green eyes, purple lips and bony ridges. She does seem quite happy with the changes.
37	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''The Best Of Volume 1'', featuring almost all of the singles from the first three albums, plus a collection of B-Sides. Disavowed by the band, as it was released without their consent once their contract with Sony ended.
38	* HiddenTrack: ''Diorama''[='=]s closer "After All These Years" has a short instrumental piano outro that plays after a few minutes of silence.
39	* {{Instrumentals}}: "Madman". They actually did record a version with lyrics, which appeared as one of the bonus tracks on ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum The Best Of, Vol. One]]'', but it was first released as an instrumental on ''Frogstomp'' - the version with lyrics turns out to be an OdeToSobriety. The ''Frogstomp'' version isn't quite instrumental, if [[Main/MetalScream "Oooh!"]] and a TitleDrop at the very last two seconds of the song qualify as lyrics.
40	* MetalScream: Daniel's harsh vocals in the heavy "Spawn Again".
41	* MinisculeRocking: "Lie To Me", a one minute and twenty two second SingleStanzaSong ("Gonna be a liar / Lie to me, yeah / Gonna be a while / Lie to me, yeah"). There are also the HardcorePunk {{Cover Version}}s they released as {{B Side}}s to the "Miss You Love" single - Music/MinorThreat's "Minor Threat" (1:36) and Music/BlackFlag's "Wasted/Fix Me" (1:51, and if they'd performed "Wasted" and "Fix Me" as two separate songs, as they were when Black Flag recorded them, both would have been about a minute long).
42	* NewSoundAlbum: Someone listening to ''Frogstomp'' and then ''Diorama'' would be forgiven for thinking it's two completely different bands. ''Frogstomp'' was released when the band was in their mid-teenage years at the height of TheNineties {{Grunge}} revolution. Their 4th album ''Diorama'' [[GenreBusting somewhat defies classification]] but it's a soft contemporary adult easy listening piano based sound far far removed from their origins.
43	* OneWomanSong: Subverted with "Ana's Song" as it's made clear later that it's about Anorexia.
44	* ProgressiveRock: Although they might be considered part of the genre, they start borrowing influences from the genre from ''Neon Ballroom'' onwards, using more orchestral elements and a more eclectic art rock sound. Songs like "Emotional Sickness", "Across the Night" and "Those Thieving Birds" could be considered proper prog songs however, due to their EpicRocking with structure changes.
45	* ProtestSong: "Anthem For the Year 2000" dissed populist politician Pauline Hanson for her authoritarian stance on youth policy. "Pure Massacre" is about how WarIsHell. "Spawn" (and its [[RearrangeTheSong rearranged]] version, "Spawn Again") is a somewhat [[WordSaladLyrics word salad-y]] statement against factory farming and cruelty to animals - the latter version is more blatant about it, including statistics on animal slaughter for food ("Eight billion killed for human pleasure").
46	* SanitySlippageSong: "If You Keep Losing Sleep". Actually, ''Diorama'' and ''Young Modern'' were full of these due to Daniel Johns' CreatorBreakdown.
47	* ShoutOut: The band name is a [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] reference, to - you guessed it - ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' specifically. Early on, they claimed it had something to do with hastily writing down the titles of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Sliver" and You Am I's "Berlin Chair" as "Silver Chair", but later they confirmed that it came from the novel. It's unknown as to why they had made the other story up in the first place, but perhaps they just thought the real origin of their name didn't seem to mesh with their PostGrunge sound at the time.
48	** They were known as Innocent Criminals until just before they entered (and won) a demo contest run by the TV show ''Nomad''. When they admitted they'd made up the other origin story, one possible explanation that emerged as to why they lied was that one of the ''Nomad'' producers assigned them the name because of Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals and they didn't want people to know that a TV producer came up with it.
49	* TeenGenius: They were 15 when they recorded ''Frogstomp''. Any teen with a garage band would no doubt be thinking "how come we don't have a record?" when they read this.
50	* UntitledTitle: "Untitled", their contribution to the ''{{Film/Godzilla 1998}}'' soundtrack album.

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