The Scientists

To look at the career of 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. The proto-grunge they were cooking up in the late '70s/early '80s prefigured the music groups like Mudhoney, the Spacemen 3, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion would be cranking out a decade later. Salmon's first group, formed in 1976...