Ten (and a Half) Favorite New Zealand Albums
(arranged In order of release, with a strong bias toward Flying Nun bands)
Graffiti Crimes by Mi-Sex
Kaleidoscope World by The Chills
Crowded House by Crowded House
Bird-Dog by The Verlaines
Daddy’s Highway by The Bats
The Size of Food by Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Anthology by The Clean
Blow Out Your Candles by David Yetton
Flight of the Conchords by Flight of the Conchords
Unravelled: 1981-2002 by Tall Dwarfs
and the half-album, by the New Zealander and the Englishman who used to be most of the Thompson Twins
The Stone by Babble
— March 23, 2023