YMMV / Augie March

• Awesome Music:
  • One Crowded Hour, their most well known song is an epic journey from start to finish. Of particular note is its excellent building up to the climax which is so smooth and hard hitting you'll be blown away.
  • This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers. Long name aside, this sing is a high paced psychedelic trip!
  • Future Seal. Although it takes a while to build up (and cool off for that matter), when it does get going, it is a thoroughly intense and incredible experience.
  • The Hole in Your Roof predates One Crowded Hours excellent use of subtle building up, managing to subtly get more and more intense until the climax where it truly goes off!
  • Pennywhistle is a surprisingly upbeat song and is very enjoyable to listen to. Even more enjoyable is its thoroughly entertaining music video which has to be seen to be believed!
  • With an innocent name like "Lazy Pines" you'd think a song like that would be a calm and peaceful one? Instead, what you get is five minutes of an absolutely madcap trip that flies at breakneck speed! One has to wonder how a song as insane as this was only a B-Side.
• Bizarro Episode The otherwise peaceful and relaxing B-Side Nagambie River Song segues into... something during the last two minutes.
• Ending Fatigue: Some of their songs seem to carry on a lot past the point where it starts to get irritating
  • Maroondah Reservoir seems to finish up in an epic climax... and then keeps going for another 50 seconds.
  • After the climatic anti climax in The Hole In your Roof, it starts to Fade Out... and then keeps fading out for another 2 minutes. Additionally, it also takes about a minute and a half to start, so the actual song only takes u half the song! The single edit cuts out about 3 minutes of dead time, making a much more concise listening experience.
  • The B-Side Nagambie River Song just keeps carrying on and on and on (although peaceful to listen to, it gets rather annoying after a while) until the final two minutes where... ''Something'' happens
  • Whilst Future Seal builds up to an epic climax, it just kind keeps going on for another minute and wears out its welcome. Even worse in the live version which carries on four another four minutes.
• First Installment Wins: General consensus amongst fans is that Sunset Studies is their best album.
• Harsher in Hindsight: There was a demo on the Pennywhistle single called "Toorak Fires" that opens with the line "In the summer of the year of your lord two thousand and eleven". In a truly bizarre instance of life imitating art, there really was a fire in Toorak in the summer of the year of your lord two thousand and eleven!
• I Am Not Shazam: The name Augie Mach is derived from the 1954 novel "The Adventures of Augie March" is it shares the same kind of poetic prose as the band does. Aside from that, it has no other relation with them.
  • Owen in "Owen's Lament" is not the protagonist. The name refers to Wilfred Owen, whose World War I poems inspired the lyrics.
• Nightmare Fuel: Definitive History. It starts out bad enough with an incredibly haunting sound, then a melancholic and chilling piano comes in and then the lyrics...
  • In particular is a rather terrifyingly blunt verse about the abduction, sexual abuse and murder of a young girl. What makes it worse is that unlike Augie March's flowery lyrics, this part is completely direct. Read on if you dare
  Two young men took Chinese girl
  Early One Thursday morning
  Brick to her head and a cord 'round her neck
  HANDS on her body
  Drowned her in a bathtub
  Rolled her in a sheet
  Dumped her in the river
  TRAGEDY called the newspaper letters
  • The Hole In Your Roof is a demented and surprisingly harsh song that is eual parts epic and hauting. The ominous droning in the beginning and end interjected with random audio excerpts makes for an unnerving and unique listen as well.
• Nightmare Retardant: Hilariously subverted with the B-side "Strange Visitors". The liner notes in the Little Wonder single describe it as "We think its spooky and we hope you do too!", but the song is far from spooky and is in fact quite relaxing.
• Signature Song: One Crowded Hour is by far their most well known song, often being the only song people know from them. Mind you, Asleep in Perfection and There is No Such Place are also relatively well known.
• Tear Jerker: Augie March sure does know how to make you cry
  • The Night Is a Blackbird is an incredibly sad song about a lost soul. If you've ever had a relative die or go missing, the chorus will hit you like a train
  His father misses him
  His mother misses him
  His lady dreams of kissing him
  Bring the son back
  Bring the son back
  It's been dark, now it's cold
  When the night falls
  Bring the soon back
  Bring the sun back
  It's a blackbird, he's in the belly
  • The Devil in Me can elicit Tears of Joy, as even though it flirts with the futility of continuing on, it's ultimately hopeful in its message of not giving up
  • Sunstroke House is a rather melancholic song about repeat failures and failed expectations
  • There Is No such Place. A quiet, yet powerful song about... Well, there being no such place. Often interpreted as perfection, it can also be interpreted many other ways, often not very happy ones.
  • Bottle Baby is a truly melancholic song about someone in abject misery and mediocrity. It's a real rough listening experience.

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