My iPod #275: Wolfmother - Dimension

Yeah. This was the Wolfmother I liked. The one that showed up on 'New Music' for about thirty seconds in 2006. That seemed to be the year of the Australian bands; The Vines released a new album, Jet did a few months later. But it was Wolfmother that got us all excited. They were bringing back the rock of the 70s... and "Dimension" was our first glimpse of this new band. (Well, it was mine - Australia had known about them since late 2005, and they'd released two other songs there too).

"Dimension" opens with a scream (which may make a few laugh just because it doesn't sound like a lot of effort is put into it) before launching into a groovy riff that plays throughout the song. If the guitar isn't playing it, then the bass is whilst lead singer Andrew Stockdale (who was somewhat of a cross-up of Marc Bolan and Robert Plant) sings about getting lost in a desert and then ending up in another dimension. How he ends up there, we don't know. But he makes a reference to 'purple haze' and 'all these things we must try'.... so I may have to assume that it's about drugs.

But the song really impressed me when it showed up on MTV2. The three members had a good chemistry, even though it's not really a live performance it looked like the group were on time with one another - like they never missed a beat. They followed it up with some other top bangers too, that I ended getting a physical copy of their debut for my birthday/Christmas. I don't get physical CDs so much nowadays (scratch that.... I don't get physical CDs at all) so that's saying something.

Too bad the drummer and bassist left. Then Wolfmother changed, and released the new album..... "Cosmic Egg". Nooooooo. The first album will do, thanks.