Great aussie songs

[RustyCage]

Ben Folds - Adelaide
Adelaide
On a plane
Far from the United States
Of LA
Dropping in from outer space
Takes a day
Now I see the bogans
At the motor race
Here you know the world could turn
Or crash and burn
And you would never know it
Going where the air is clear
There's better beer in Adelaide

Charlie L. Smith's forty
Someone spiked my rice
The rest, history
Now I am a fixture down

Rundle Mall
Watching as the locals pass
Silver balls
I can see their eyes around
They're pointed down
They scan the spanning sidewalks
Learning that there is no hurry
Fuss or worry
Adelaide

It's raining
In Adelaide
A face is waiting in a window
A voice says
Why Adelaide
You could live anywhere and I say
Because I want to
Because I want to
I really really want to

And you know the earth could turn
Or crash and burn
And you would never know it
Really got to make it to the finish line
Get the record done on time
Pack the bags
And catch a flight
And you can kiss my ass goodbye
On Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide

[MightyEagles]

Any Crowded House songs.

[Punk Rooster]

Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil

Daylight second.

Sounds of Then puts any garbage MO produced to shame.

[PhilG]

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[Punk Rooster]

Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil

Daylight second.

Sounds of Then puts any garbage MO produced to shame.

Who?

I rest my case.

Sounds of Then- Gangajang is a far better song than Beds Are Burning- Midnight Oil

[am Bays]

Any Crowded House songs.

What has "Piece of Chocolate Cake" got to do with Australia????

[am Bays]

"Bound for South Australia" Traditional

[Leaping Lindner]

Some great australian songs that mention Australian places for mine....

Carlton (Lygon St Limbo) - Skyhooks
Balwyn Calling - Skyhooks
Toorak Cowboy - Skyhooks
Boys! (What did the detective say) - The Sports
The boy who lost his Jocks on Flinders St Station - Painters and Dockers
From St Kilda to Kings Cross - Paul Kelly
Morningtown Ride - TISM
Mordialloc Road Duplicator - TISM
Get thee in my behind Satan - TISM
January Rain - Hunters and Collectors
Brisbane (Security City) - The Saints
Cattle and Cane - The GoBewteens

[Punk Rooster]

Cattletruck
Happy Birthday Helen (or as done on the Late Show- I think we've run out of Melbourne cliche's )

[Leaping Lindner]

Cattletruck
Happy Birthday Helen (or as done on the Late Show- I think we've run out of Melbourne cliche's )

Who did Cattletruck? I've never heard of it.

[Punk Rooster]

Cattletruck
Happy Birthday Helen (or as done on the Late Show- I think we've run out of Melbourne cliche's )

Who did Cattletruck? I've never heard of it.

Cattletruck were an aussie band- had a "hit" with "Rain"

Hungry Town- Big Pig

[Leaping Lindner]

Cattletruck
Happy Birthday Helen (or as done on the Late Show- I think we've run out of Melbourne cliche's )

Who did Cattletruck? I've never heard of it.

Cattletruck were an aussie band- had a "hit" with "Rain"

Okay. I know the band ("Change", "Leave Me" and a really bad version of "Resurrection Shuffle") - I thought you meant it was a song.

[Strawb]

Girls on the Avenue - Richard Clapton
These Days - Powder Finger
Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl
Way Out West - The Dingoes
Boys In Town - The Divinyls
Most People - I Know Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs
Solid Rock - Goanna
Khe Shan - Cold Chisel
Never Tear us Apart - INXS

[godoubleblues]

Razors Edge - Goanna
Home and Broken Hearted - Cold Chisel
Star Hotel - Cold Chisel

[spell_check]

Some great australian songs that mention Australian places for mine....

Carlton (Lygon St Limbo) - Skyhooks
Balwyn Calling - Skyhooks
Toorak Cowboy - Skyhooks
Boys! (What did the detective say) - The Sports
The boy who lost his Jocks on Flinders St Station - Painters and Dockers
From St Kilda to Kings Cross - Paul Kelly
Morningtown Ride - TISM
Mordialloc Road Duplicator - TISM
Get the im my behind Satan - TISM
January Rain - Hunters and Collectors
Brisbane (Security City) - The Saints
Cattle and Cain - The GoBewteens

Going on with this theme I can think of only one so far:

Reckless - James Reyne

[McAlmanac]

Some great australian songs that mention Australian places for mine....

Carlton (Lygon St Limbo) - Skyhooks
Balwyn Calling - Skyhooks
Toorak Cowboy - Skyhooks
Boys! (What did the detective say) - The Sports
The boy who lost his Jocks on Flinders St Station - Painters and Dockers
From St Kilda to Kings Cross - Paul Kelly
Morningtown Ride - TISM
Mordialloc Road Duplicator - TISM
Get the im my behind Satan - TISM
January Rain - Hunters and Collectors
Brisbane (Security City) - The Saints
Cattle and Cain - The GoBewteens

Going on with this theme I can think of only one so far:

Reckless - James Reyne

LL - got any James Reyne CDs?

[McAlmanac]

Wide Open Road - Triffids. A song that captures the vastness of Australia.

[Leaping Lindner]

Some great australian songs that mention Australian places for mine....

Carlton (Lygon St Limbo) - Skyhooks
Balwyn Calling - Skyhooks
Toorak Cowboy - Skyhooks
Boys! (What did the detective say) - The Sports
The boy who lost his Jocks on Flinders St Station - Painters and Dockers
From St Kilda to Kings Cross - Paul Kelly
Morningtown Ride - TISM
Mordialloc Road Duplicator - TISM
Get the im my behind Satan - TISM
January Rain - Hunters and Collectors
Brisbane (Security City) - The Saints
Cattle and Cain - The GoBewteens

Going on with this theme I can think of only one so far:

Reckless - James Reyne

LL - got any James Reyne CDs?

Not lately...no.

I just realised I spelt Cane Cain (thinking of the Mark of Cain )

[Pseudo]

Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil

Daylight second.

Sounds of Then puts any garbage MO produced to shame.

Who?

I rest my case.

Suggest you find a copy of the recently released "The Essential GANGgajang" DVD. Excellent viewing, featuring filmclips to about 16 songs, documentaries, live appearances on the ABC, the seminal surfie flick "Mad Wax" for which GANGgajang supplied the soundtrack, and loads of old interviews and archival footage. The band is still going, has produced 4 albums over the years, in between solo projects of the various members. In the mid-nineties the band achieved some notoriety in Brazil and staged two tours there.

[Jimmy]

great list guys!!!!