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2	[[caption-width-right:350:L-R: Glenn Thompson, Paul Medew, David [=McCormack=], Matthew Strong]]
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4	Custard is an [[AustralianMusic Australian indie rock band]]. The band formed in Brisbane in 1990 as Custard Gun with David [=McCormack=] (vocals, guitar), James Straker (guitar) Paul Medew (bass) and Shane Brunn (drums). Matthew Strong soon replaced Straker, while Brunn was replaced by Danny Plant, who was in turn replaced by Glenn Thompson. The band is known for its often humorous lyrics, which are sometimes cryptic and sometimes literal. Musically, their formative influences include Music/{{Pavement}}, Music/JonathanRichman and The Go-Betweens. Along with Regurgitator and the massively successful Powderfinger, they formed the crux of the much-lauded Brisbane music scene of the mid to late 90s.
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6	The band had a commercial breakthrough in 1995 with "Apartment", the first single from ''Wisenheimer'', which became a radio hit on Australia's national broadcaster Triple J. The song ended up #7 on the station's annual Hottest 100; at the time, this was the best placing by an Australian artist, but the balance has shifted considerably in Australians' favor since. In 1997, Custard released ''We Have the Technology'', which spawned three singles that were similarly popular on Triple J, but commercial success eluded the band until 1999's ''Loverama''. The album's lead single "Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)" was a minor chart hit, placed #3 in the Hottest 100 and the video won an ARIA award.
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8	The band broke up in 2000, after which three of its former members formed short-lived bands of their own. David [=McCormack=] formed The Titanics with Glenn Thompson and his (David's) then wife Emma Tom (now Emma Jane) and Tina Havelock-Stevens. The Titanics released two albums in 2000 and broke up in 2002. Matthew Strong formed The Boat Show with former Regurgitator drummer Martin Lee and released a single EP. The Titanics' sound was similar to that of Custard, while The Boat Show played a harder brand of alternative rock. [=McCormack=] went on to release five albums under his own name and as David [=McCormack=] & The Polaroids.
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10	The band reunited for the occasional show between 2009 and 2012 before releasing its first album in 16 years, ''Come Back, All is Forgiven'' in 2015.
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12	David [=McCormack=] currently voices the character of Bandit in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}''.
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14	!!Discography:
15	* ''Buttercup/Bedford'' (1991)
16	* ''Gastanked'' EP (1992)
17	* ''Brisbane'' EP (1993)
18	* ''Wahooti Fandango'' (1994)
19	* ''Wisenheimer'' (1995)
20	* ''We Have the Technology'' (1997)
21	* ''Loverama'' (1999)
22	* ''Come Back, All is Forgiven'' (2015)
23	* ''The Common Touch'' (2017)
24	* ''The Band (Live in The Basement)'' (2018) [[note]]Digital and streaming only.[[/note]]
25	* ''Respect All Lifeforms'' (2020)
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27	!!'''''Respect All Tropes''''':
28	* AlliterativeTitle:
29	** "Bye Bye Birdie"
30	** "Sunset Strip"
31	** "Scared of Skill"
32	** "Memory Man"
33	** "Talkative Town"
34	* BilingualBonus: The first pressing of ''Loverama'' included a bonus disc called ''Custaro Musico'' with song titles and liner notes in Spanish, but the lyrics are in English.
35	* CoverVersion:
36	** Just one album track in the initial phase of their career, a slow take on the Music/{{Beck\|Musician}} b-side "Totally Confused".
37	** 2020's ''Respect All Lifeforms" has a cover of Camper Van Beethoven's "Take the Skinheads Bowling".
38	* DidNotGetTheGirl: "Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)".
39	* EpicRocking: ''Buttercup/Bedford'''s six-and-a-half minute closer "I Live by the River" wasn't beaten for length until the nearly eight minute "Get in Your Car" from their 2015 comeback album. None of their other songs are even close.
40	* EyeScream: A figurative one in "Ringo (I Feel Like)" (hopefully): "I feel like Ringo, and it's ripping my eyes out."
41	* MinisculeRocking: "The Golden Age of Nicotine" and "Cut Lunch" are around 40 seconds long, the aptly named "Short Pop Song" is 1:14 and "If You Would Like To" is exactly one minute.
42	* NonAppearingTitle: Most of ''Wahooti Fandango'' and about half of ''Wisenheimer'' as well as "Very Biased", "Sinatra Theory", "The Drum", "Eight Years of Rock and Roll Has Completely Destroyed My Memory", "Pluto (Pts 1 & 2)", and "Kinder Whore".
43	* NonIndicativeName: It's unlikely that "Pluto (Pts 1 & 2)" was ever two songs, as it's under 3 minutes in length, has a standard verse-chorus structure and there's no obvious point at which one "part" ends and the other begins.
44	** "My Name is Paul Medew", a live improv track on the ''Brisbane'' EP, is actually sung by [=McCormack=].
45	* RunningGag: Fans mistaking the "D" in the band's signature typeface for an "O", led the band to occasionally credit themselves as Custaro, such as on the surface of the ''Loverama'' and ''We Have the Technology'' [=CDs=] (the ''Loverama'' bonus disc not only has this typeface, but is also officially titled ''Custaro Musico''). Post-comeback, they chose "custar0" as their Instagram handle.
46	* ShoutOut: "Singlette" includes shout outs to Creator/JimHenson and James Straker's post-Custard band The Melniks.
47	** "Girls Like That (Don't Go for Guys Like Us)" namechecks Julio Iglesias.
48	** "Ringo (I Feel Like)" is [[Music/RingoStarr self-explanatory.]]
49	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Glenn Thompson for "Piece of Shit", "Music is Crap", "The Truth About Drugs", "Genius", "Warren Rd" and "Contemporary Art" and Paul Medew for "The Drum".
50	* TakeThat: This generally wasn't a feature of their earlier work, but their comeback album has a couple of examples:
51	** "Contemporary Art": "You want something you can hang on your wall? I only do things that are, like, ten feet tall".
52	** "Queensland University" takes a swipe at ''Series/TheVoice'' ''Australia's'' Ricki-Lee Coulter, claiming she is "not an authority".

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