Regurgitator Superstraight - Regurgitator Superstraight

OCT 01 2001 · 12:00

Regurgitator Superstraight - Regurgitator Superstraight (2001) Director: David Thomason Era: Post-Grunge Alt-Rock / Early 2000s Australian Indie (2001) - Australian alternative rock at its commercial peak, riding the wave of Triple J-era guitar bands challenging mainstream pop conformity with sardonic suburban critique. High curatorial value as a documented, location-confirmed artifact of early-2000s Australian alternative rock. The video's realist suburban setting, satirical narrative, and moderate-paced editing style represent a distinct and authentic strand of Australian music video production that contrasts sharply with contemporaneous international MTV aesthetics. Its confirmed filming location (Tingalpa, Brisbane) gives it additional value as a piece of cultural geography documentation. Context: Released in October 2001 as the second single from Regurgitator's fourth album, 'Superstraight' arrived during a fertile period for Australian alternative rock on the Triple J national youth radio network. The song is a sharp satirical portrait of suburban conformism, the 'superstraight' protagonist embodies the numbing routines of mortgage, traffic, infidelity, and recreational drug use beneath a veneer of respectable domesticity. The decision to film the video at an actual gated townhouse estate in Tingalpa, Brisbane, grounds the satire in recognisable Australian suburban geography. The single peaked at number 55 in Australia and ranked at number 41 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2001, reflecting its resonance with a generation of young Australians critical of mainstream conformity. Director notes: The video was released in 2001 as the promotional clip for 'Superstraight', the second single from Regurgitator's fourth studio album 'Eduardo and Rodriguez Wage War on T-Wrecks'. Filming took place in July 2001 at the Fairwinds gated townhouse community on Bognor Street in the southern Brisbane suburb of Tingalpa, Queensland, a location choice that directly reinforces the song's satirical suburban conformist theme. The production uses the actual residential estate as its primary set, lending the video a documentary-realist quality consistent with the song's critique of aspirational suburban lifestyle.