----------------------------- Welcome to Prehistoric Sounds - A record cover site -----------------------------

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This site was put together to provide some sort of visual history of record and cassette releases from a great era of Australian music. For people who were there it should bring back a lot of memories, as it does for me as I'm putting the site together. The artwork on this site has preserved the atmosphere of the era, almost as good as the music does. It contains covers from my record collection and also from friends who have kindly supplied covers.The record cover art on these releases would sometimes be the only images you would ever get to see of any of the bands with some of these bands existing and touring only briefly. Australian mainstream radio widely ignored a lot of the independent artists and the only way of hearing them would be the community run radio stations like 4ZzZ fm in Brisbane and 3RRR in Melbourne. All of the record covers on this site have been scanned off records and not CDs so there are some covers that I had on vinyl and replaced with CDs in my collection that have not been included. (A stupid thing to do in hindsight but who was to know ?) The dates bands were together is approximate only, I have also decided to put a list of band members on and have tried to include all of the people who were in the bands (see "BOOKS USED FOR REFERENCE"), not just the people who were on the recordings and they appear in no particular order.

If anyone knows any of the information to be wrong please do not hesitate to email me and I will update the information. If you have any covers you would like me to put on the site email me and I would be happy to credit you.
Just visit the Cover Archive for the complete list and don't forget my links page for other great sites.

Thanks for visiting Prehistoric Sounds.

LAST UPDATE : 29th October 2010 (439 Covers)

NEW ADDITIONS TO - The Slush Puppies, Chad's Tree, Tactics, The Saints, Do Re Mi, The Johnnys, I Spit On Your Gravy, The Celebate Rifles, The Singles, The Vampire Lovers, Flaming Hands, Mental as Anything, The Riptides, The Church, Radio Birdman, Exploding White Mice, Painters and Dockers, This is Serious Mum, Manikins, The Victims, The Scientists, Aloha Pussycats and more.

THANKS TO :

Additional cover contributors : Jenny Archer, Sean Scott (The Howells), Glenn Bell (The Wickermen), Megan Burns, Tony Hagland, Simon Kain (The Relatives), Kenneth Lyons (Radio Shirley), John O'Shea, Ross Buncle (Perth Punk), Bruce Duplock, Axel Conrad (The Vampire Lovers) Stephen Thompson (The Singles) Robert Bryant, Dominique Cowd and Sven Kurovsky (beastofbourbonstwangsville)
Additional information: Mark Jago (Division 4), Simon Kain (Chad's Tree, The Relatives) and Mike Corcoran (Naked Lunch).

BOOKS USED FOR REFERENCE :



"The Who's Who of Australian Rock" (second edition) by Chris Spencer - Five Mile press.

"The Who's Who of Australian Rock" (fourth edition) by Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara and Paul Henry - Five Mile press.
                                                            - for additional information on band members and dates.

"Out of the Unknown - Brisbane bands 1976 to 1988" by Doug Hutson & Gavin Sawford - A Time Off Publication.

"Inner City Sound" by Clinton Walker - A Wild and Woolley Publication.

This site is a work in progress and is not yet complete please visit again for updates.