Ivy and the Big Apples by Spiderbait

Ivy and the Big Apples, Spiderbait's third album, came out in 1996, and it's a gloriously unruly thing from a trio out of Finley, New South Wales. Janet English plays bass and sings, Kram drums and sings, and Whitt (Damian Whitty) handles the guitar, and the record swerves from sugar-sweet pop to flat-out racket without ever picking a lane. English later admitted they made unlikely hitmakers, with two singers and a spread of styles nobody could quite pin down.

Hitmakers they became anyway. "Buy Me a Pony" is a blast of noise, while "Calypso" is all bubblegum shimmer; it reached number 13 on the Australian singles chart and turned up in the film 10 Things I Hate About You, though not on its soundtrack. The album went top 10 at home, sold double platinum and took the 1997 ARIA Award for Best Alternative Release.

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