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Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:35 am
by Leaping Lindner
Orstralia by the Saints off the Album Eternally Yours.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpGA8NBt3mY

South Australia by The Pogues from If I Should fall from the grace of God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM5x3TJpP24

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:18 am
by MatteeG
Time this doozy resurfaced:


Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:46 am
by Leaping Lindner
Hey Pseudo, If you're looking at Australian place names you'll need skyhooks' first album 8)
Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)
Toorak Cowboy
Balwyn Calling

Also this Painters and Dockers classic!!!
"And the driver of the train to St Kilda to this very day is filled with a deep infatuation."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym2bvFrpQ6E

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:14 am
by am Bays
I'm fair dinkum - John Williamson
Boys from the Bush - Lee Kernaghan
The Outback Club - Lee Kernaghan
She's My ute - Lee Kernaghan
Raining on the Rock - John Williamson
Streets of your town - Go Betweens
Stompin Ground - Warumpi Band
Pub with no beer - Slim Dusty
Lights on the Hill - Slim Dusty
Cootamundra Wattle - John williamson
The Breaker - John Williamson
The Aussie BBQ song - Frankie Davidson

Christine Anu's version of My Island Home is banned at my place - "Down here living in the city vs Down here West of Alice Springs" give me a break - why ruin perfection Christine???

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:32 am
by Mr Beefy


Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:27 pm
by Q.
The Drones - Taman Shud
The Smith Street Band - Wipe That Shit Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Face
Illy - Our Country

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:16 pm
by cracka
I've Got A Car - Shannon Noll. :D

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:54 pm
by Failed Creation
MatteeG wrote:Time this doozy resurfaced:



That's almost as shit as this:


Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 5:59 pm
by whufc
Ben Folds- Adelaide.

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:53 am
by The Jack
Powderfinger - Hindley Street
Gyroscope - Australia
Cold Chisel - Bow River
Cold Chisel - Star Hotel
Cold Chisel - Breakfast At Sweethearts
Dan Sultan - Kimberley Calling
Traditional - Bound For South Australia (as performed on the Musical Pub Crawl in Dublin I did a couple years ago!)
Courtney Barnett - Depreston
Custard - Queensland University
Midnight Oil - Kosciusko
Mojo Juju - Train Along the Hawkesbury

A few more to add for next year perhaps! Was thinking something similar in the lead-up also, good topic Pseudo.

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:55 am
by Dogwatcher
Another boring night in Adelaide - Redgum

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:57 pm
by FlyingHigh
am Bays wrote:I'm fair dinkum - John Williamson
Boys from the Bush - Lee Kernaghan
The Outback Club - Lee Kernaghan
She's My ute - Lee Kernaghan
Raining on the Rock - John Williamson
Streets of your town - Go Betweens
Stompin Ground - Warumpi Band
Pub with no beer - Slim Dusty
Lights on the Hill - Slim Dusty
Cootamundra Wattle - John williamson
The Breaker - John Williamson
The Aussie BBQ song - Frankie Davidson

Christine Anu's version of My Island Home is banned at my place - "Down here living in the city vs Down here West of Alice Springs" give me a break - why ruin perfection Christine???


Great list am

Gotta add by Slim:
Walk a country Mile
Where Country Is
Indian Pacific
A Picture of Home
Australia is His Name

The Way It is - Lee Kernaghan

I Scored a Hundred - Greg Champion

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 11:09 pm
by MatteeG
@pseudo


Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:40 am
by Pseudo
Nice one.

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:55 pm
by therisingblues
And the band played waltzing Matilda: The Pogues
Come on Aussie: Dunno
Bound for South Australia: Dunno
Waltzing Matilda: Banjo Patterson
Marijuana, Australiana: Dunno

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:16 am
by bennymacca
whufc wrote:Ben Folds- Adelaide.


Only just saw this thread, and this is the first song that came to my head




Although this is a christmas song, I think it captures australia perfectly. And it is something that resonates with me given Im not religious.


Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:53 pm
by bulldogs
On the prowl

Re: Songs about Australia

PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:38 pm
by LMA
Bad Dreems - Sacred Ground
Boy & Bear - Southern Sun
Sticky Fingers - Australia Street
1200 Techniques - Karma

I reckon you could find a few out of the Go-Betweens, Ed Kuepper, Paul Kelly, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Cosmic Psychos, Frenzal Rhomb, Hunters & Collectors, You Am I, The Panics & Australian Crawl to name a few