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YOUR Top 5 Favourite Aussie Songs

https://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/threads/59884/your-top-5-favourite-aussie-songs

VWFOOL 路

can be old or new stuff, from Gangajang to The Presets. I dont mind NZ stuff too like Crowded House.
gimme ur favourite tunes...

bond 路

4 ever -
when it all falls apart -
everything im not - all by the veronicas

drive -
lift -
shine -
what about me - all classic shannon noll

lost without you -
born to try -
not me not i -
out of the blue -
predictable -
innocent eyes -
mistaken identity - all my favs by lady delta

nick 馃憤

ColumBUS 路

north shore wanker
simmer down - backy skank

prisoner of society - the living end

all of whispering jack by the johnny farnham

but my favourite would have to be Everything Everyway by Sunk Loto, its just beautiful. check out the (poor quality) film clip on youtube here:

rupewrecht 路

The 'quick glance at the rather large pile of cds on my desk at work' Top 5

Models - I hear Motion
Pollyanna - Lemonsuck
The Earthmen - The Fall and Rise of my Favorite Sixties Girl
The Clouds - Blade
Tall Tales and True - Summer of Love


The 'quick glance at my itunes playlist at work' Top 5

Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine
Little Birdy - Come On Come On
Bertie Blackman - Fast Bitch
Gyroscope - Fast Girl
Red Riders - Slide In Next To Me

DR PEPPER 路

the birthday party:kewpy doll
The fireballs:so bad its good
The Saints:stranded
Bias b.melburn Madness
TZU:Coming down

beelzebug 路

What's all this GEN Y stuff?
What about some REAL Aussie music !
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs - Poison Ivy
Normie Rowe & the Playboys
Cold Chisel - anything
Choir Boys - Run to Paradise
Dragon - April Sun in Cuba (OK they were NZ)
Slim Dusty- Pub with no beer

IrishNorman 路

I love crowded house 馃槏 my favourite song is "don't dream it's over" by the way... has everyone heard that they are reforming the band? 馃槑

pete wood 路

mmmm, I'm dissapointed we haven't seen some bogun music mentioned yet. So I'll don my flanny, black tshirt and mullet. Here ya go...

AC/DC - [I don't know where to start] Back in black
AC/DC - Dirty deeds
Angels - Long line
Daddy cool - eagle rock
Ice House - great southern land (not quite as bogunny)
馃槒

Other might be; pleasure and pain, land down under, devil inside, the whole of 10-1 by the oils, unguared moment, under the milky way (yes I'm a closet church fan), short note (matt finish).

Geez where DO ya start!?! 馃お

Sorry I forgot an obvious one; am I ever gonna see your face again!

[ Edited on 25-1-07 by pete wood ]

LUFTMEISTER 路

dog eat dog - ac dc (rock)
addicted to bass by? (beat)
eagle rock - daddy who......(sing along)
the nips are getting bigger - mental as anything (drinking)
sweetness & light - itchy & scratchy (rthymn)
my 2c worth

type3kid 路

Gone by Antomnasia
Nurse, 100cc.... by Evolvar
Emotion sickness by Silverchair
Flame trees by Jimmy Barnes
Walls by Pacifier or Shihad as they are known again (NZ)

Schmoburger 路

Russell Morris - The Real Thing.
The Models - Outta Mind Outta Sight.
Mental As Anything - Live It Up.
Hoodoo Gurus - My Girl.
Ronnie Burns - Smiley.
Ray Brown & The Whispers - 20 Miles. (ok i know its a cover but who gives a stuff its a good cover! 馃槀)
Normie Rowe - Que Sera Sera.
Marty Rhone - Popstar.

A little more than 5 but it's impossible to limit it to 5 cos there is so much good aussie shit out there from the past 40 years 馃憤 馃槑

[ Edited on 25-1-2007 by Schmoburger ]

lohoon 路

What about fav 5 Aussie bands?Sorry was too hard to list songs.
Any thing by Grinspoon, Bon Scot ACDC, Living end, Angels and Dallas Crane.

bus914 路

lohoon wrote:What about fav 5 Aussie bands?Sorry was too hard to list songs.
Agreed.

Beasts of Burbon / Cruel Sea
Celibate Rifles
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / The Birthday Party
The Saints
You Am I
Smudge

better make that 10.

Schmoburger 路

Beasts of Burbon are wierd wierd crazy mofos! 馃槀

And I'll second the Saints and Nick Cave... very good shit indeed, altho I cant listenm to Nick all the time. 馃檪

While I'm here I'll throw Van She's name into the ring... some have said they are sappy and a bit teenybop and limpwristed, but I love their style... 馃憤

ColumBUS 路

hey type3kid antonamasia are a band that started very locally to me. in fact i ran a few of their first gigs (elderslie high schools Big Day In) if you know them, say hi to Cassie on lead vocals for me

DUBB61 - addicted to bass was sung my Amiel, but i forget who did the mixing of it.

Spook 路

Spectrum - I'll be gone
Masters Apprentices - Future of our nation
Rose Tattoo - Branded
Richard Clapton - Deep water
AC/DC - Highway to hell

VWFOOL 路

cool, ok now lets get your fave song from:
70s -
80s -
90s -
00s -

Schmoburger 路

70's:
Slade - Far Far Away
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Split Enz - Sweet Dreams
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Paul Simon - Loves Me Like A Rock

80's:
Europe - The Final Countdown
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Cheap Trick - The Flame
A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran
Crowded House - It's Only Natural
John Lennon - Jealous Guy

90's:
Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Rockin In The Free WOrld
Oasis - Morning Glory
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Fastball - The Way
Suede - Animal Nitrate
Powderfinger - Passenger
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

00's:
Van She - Kelly
Interpol - Obstacle 1
The Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
James Blunt - High
Shihad - Shot In The Head
Hilltop Hoods - Nosebleed Section

DR PEPPER 路

yo sam is that oz fave or any song?

VWFOOL 路

oz fave sorry. 1 from each era, and maybe make it represent australia.

Schmoburger 路

70's: Ronnie Burns, "Smiley" (actually recorded in 1969 but meh)
80's: Goanna, "Solid Rock"
90's: Chris Franklin, "Bloke"
00's: Midnight Oil, "A Crocodile Cries"

xornge666x 路

Mindsnare(vic), Psycroptic(tas), The Rivalry(adl), Blood Duster(vic), A Secret Death(qld)

many years ago Magic Dirt, Spiderbait, Smudge etc were fun!

Fireballs early stuff too... too many to mention!

and my old band, that was fun..........

Spook 路

Late 60's, early 70's, anything by Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs.
Mid 70's to mid 80's, anything AC/DC, but only with Bon Scott up front. Can't take that welshman screaming.

I have to say I really don't listen to anything much later than that.

56astro 路

The sounds of them - Gangajang

Solid rock - Goanna

Great southern land - Icehouse

Land down under - Men at Work


And pretty-much anything by:
Hunters and Collectors
Midnight Oil
Paul Kelly
The Angels

ColumBUS 路

i forgot to mention the cat empire, all of their work is brilliant, as well as skaddabox, and zombie ghost train

ByronBug 路

:sandrine
56Astro, you mentioned all my old aussie faves
also Hunters & collecters "throw your arms around me"
& inxs
Judy:thumb

[ Edited on 27-1-2007 by ByronBug ]

Schmoburger 路

ColumBUS wrote:i forgot to mention the cat empire, all of their work is brilliant...
Amen brudda! 馃憤

Stanley 路

short memory - the oils
Gravity - the super jesus
holy grail - the hunters
back in black - ac/dc
joker and the thief - wolf mother

Type3Sicko 路

Led Zeppelin, Son House, Elvis, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Radiators, Can, The Grateful Dead, AC/DC ...none of that wonderful music can be heard over the most MAGNIFICENT soundtrack that Germany has ever produced...the brilliant sound of a freshly tuned flat four at full song on your favorite stretch of Police free road...give me VW anyday! Thanks for an interesting thread. I will now be going for a drive in said Automobile. 12 points on a freshly printed license...how long will it last? Enjoy 馃檪

frenzix 路

lots on non aussie songs... wtf

Schmoburger 路

True.... but the Radiators were a good call, I'll give the bloke that much. 馃憤

Theyre Aussie, and after close enuff to 30 years theyre still brilliant! 馃槑

Saw them play in Nowra recently and they brought the house down...

frenzix 路

a very good mate of mines dad is in the radiators..

Schmoburger 路

Hahaha.. swet!.... next time ya see him tell him to keep up the good work eh! 馃憤 馃憤

koolkarmakombi 路

The Triffids: Wide open road

Gangagang: Sounds of then

AC\DC: Let there be rock

Hunters and Collectors: Say goodbye

Wolfmother: Joker and the thief

Then any set by Kid Kenobi

Type3Sicko 路

Anyone catch the COUNTDOWN spectacular on sunday? That was a trip down amnesia lane...yeah, sorry bout the non aussie content...I was not intentionally avoiding the large volume of talent here...a lot to choose and some I'd lose...it's all rock 'n roll baby 馃檪 G D A has done wonders for this country! Go Aussie Rock

bushed 路

Sam, is ur e-mail @hotmail workin

my fave for all of those decades is:-

Money Money Money ha ha
by ABBA of course, (any news from Ben ) re brake parts man??