Scientists

Years Active: 70, 80

Genres: Pop/Rock

Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Aussie Rock, Hard Rock, Noise-Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Art-Rock/Experimental, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Punk/New Wave, Punk Blues

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To look at the career of the Scientists is, in essence, to look at the career of Kim Salmon, one of the most vibrant musical talents to emerge from Australia in the 1970s. Not that he was the only one. Nick Cave, for example, may have made more of a splash outside of the country, but Salmon is arguably just as important -- if not more influential. His first group, formed in 1976, was the Cheap Nasties -- which already gives some indication of his distinctive "trash" aesthetic (à la the Trashmen, the Ramones, etc.). The Nasties were the first p...

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