Quintessential Aussie and Kiwi Tunes

dSTAR

What are some classic Aussie or Kiwi songs that have become legendary and make you proud even if you are a blow in?

Some of mine are:

Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning

Ganggajang - This is Australia

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me

The Church - Under the Milky Way

Men at Work - Land Down Under

Silverchair - Straight Lines

Xavi6

The Choirboys - Run To Paradise

Gets played on every night out and by every covers band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1LyTMMILY

Rabies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3euc9pmst4M

Love this song

the dee

Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day - perfect for strolling around Melbourne on a day like today

*edit* dStar - Aren't Men at Work Scottish? Or at least not Australian or Kiwi?

hussey

Last plane out of Sydney!!
(no youtube link as banned in work!)

Xavi6

hussey wrote: »

Last plane out of Sydney!!
(no youtube link as banned in work!)

It's called 'Khe Sanh' and it's by Cold Chisel. An absolute classic -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH07B90NFjE

As is 'The Holy Grail' -

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

pucan

hussey wrote: »

Last plane out of Sydney!!

lol, the amount of people who think its called that. When i first got here i thought it was called the last train out of sydney

dSTAR

the dee wrote: »

Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day - perfect for strolling around Melbourne on a day like today

*edit* dStar - Aren't Men at Work Scottish? Or at least not Australian or Kiwi?

Lets just call Colin Hay a 'New Australian'. Seriously though everyone knows that Crowded House are true blue Aussies

I want songs that when you hear them you automatically think of Australia or New Zealand.

dSTAR

Noice tunes Xavi.

The dee when you are embedding You Tube clips you just use the last bit of the link after the = symbol.

Peace

the dee

Yay! I figured out how to put a video in my post

Here is the aforementioned Crowded House song.

Xavi6

I was given Men At Work's greatest hits when I was about 8 by my uncle. Listened to it religiously. My favourite song of their's is definitely 'Overkill' which was used in an episode of 'Scrubs' that featured Colin Hay.

The original -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcu7OCIqlqE

The 'Scrubs' version -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrGmcuj44DQ

All my mates were like "What's that amazing song from scrubs?!" and I was the only one who knew it!

Feelgood

Heres one for ye, hunters and collectors lead singer Mark Seymour and none only than Pearl Jam...Awesome..

"Throw Your Arms around me"

brendansmith

Why is no one mentioning AC/DC?

Coileach dearg

brendansmith wrote: »

Why is no one mentioning AC/DC?

Oh we're too snobby now to be mentioning them!

Best song I've never heard at home:
Billy Thorpe - Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)

Feelgood

Heres another that didn't get a mention...these fookers define Oz for me.

dSTAR

brendansmith wrote: »

Why is no one mentioning AC/DC?

Duh because they are American :D

Xavi6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqGnsP4wOf0

:cool:

Feelgood

Hehe Xavi, Not so Savage Garden. Man I don't even want to know what fooking queer tunes you have on your ipod.

Xavi6

I think it's only right that the forum's golden girl gets a mention -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7mtMcEOy30

I don't just think about Australia when I hear her voice!

Crumble Froo

i think kiwi music, i think these guys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__sPB5mMwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfNIOlX-K0s

first time i heard this was one of those horrible moments on stuffy crowded public transport where i could do absolutely nothing about laughing out loud...

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

One Cold Hand

THAT half time show: 1991 Grand final.
Song only starts about 2 mins in, and watch out for the guy pissing his hole laughing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7J2madZVFA

Also the subject of a Carlton Ad:

(not really sure how to put videos into posts, hope this works...)

One Cold Hand

Xavi6 wrote: »

I think it's only right that the forum's golden girl gets a mention -


I don't just think about Australia when I hear her voice!

/presses play and hits mute...

watna

My favourite kiwi song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7tO2Nmnlo

Stuff and nonsense by the split enz sung here by eddie veder (what a voice!)

The other song I think of as quintessentially kiwi is crowded house - always take the weather with you or fall at your feet. Despite the general opinion they are kiwis. (well the Finn brothers are anyway)

dSTAR

watna wrote: »

The other song I think of as quintessentially kiwi is crowded house - always take the weather with you or fall at your feet. Despite the general opinion they are kiwis. (well the Finn brothers are anyway)

You mean Aussies I take it?

Lets not get hung up on nationality. I was arguing with some guy the other day about the fact that U2 are a British band. Silly boy thought they were Irish. There is just no talking to some people.:rolleyes:

Xavi6

One Cold Hand wrote: »

THAT half time show: 1991 Grand final.
Song only starts about 2 mins in, and watch out for the guy pissing his hole laughing!

Epic video is epic!

The feckin thing just never seems to want to end and all the Hawthorn bogans in the crowd are in their element!

Feelgood

watna wrote: »

Stuff and nonsense by the split enz sung here by eddie veder (what a voice!)

+1.5 Million...

There is nothing that man can't sing, best singer of all time..

Crumble Froo

...with chris cornell... hunger strike... temple of the dog...

*drool*

whoops.

i dont really know many bands that i'd think of as quintessentially kiwi/aussie.

i know the tranquilisers, in melbourne, though they've broken up now, beautiful band, and i do think of melbourne when i hear them. or the chch punk band, OIS II MEN, pure gold, very very kiwi, fantastic drinking stuff, but i doubt too many people outside of the punk scene in chch have ever heard of them.

bigger bands, you just tend to think of as radio bands, without affixing a nationality/personality to them.

dSTAR

Being so impressed by the depth of knowledge and appreciation for the legends of Aussie and Kiwi music I thought the time had come to pull out a heavy weight classic of Australian music.

Prepare to be swept away ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXZ1HiIoiUE

Dedicated to Xavi6

Feelgood

dSTAR wrote: »

Being so impressed by the depth of knowledge and appreciation for the legends of Aussie and Kiwi music I thought the time had come to pull out a heavy weight classic of Australian music.

Prepare to be swept away ...

Post Reported...for complete and utter gheyness.

Xavi6

dSTAR wrote: »

Being so impressed by the depth of knowledge and appreciation for the legends of Aussie and Kiwi music I thought the time had come to pull out a heavy weight classic of Australian music.

Prepare to be swept away ...

Dedicated to Xavi6

Superb stuff. Just as good as -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bPndxNNKfA

dSTAR

Feelgood wrote: »

Post Reported...for complete and utter gheyness.

It was Xavi who impored me to see Boyzone on Rove where they played their latest track Love you Anyway. I thought I would repay him the favour

WindSock

Split Enz- 6 months on a leaky boat. It got banned from British radio in 1983 because of the Falklands war....

And again with I See Red

Fat Freddies drop- wandering eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCJg63SziL4

Don't forget about Scribe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqW5pWI-9WA

dSTAR

WindSock wrote: »

Don't forget about Scribe

Scribe are probably the most convincing hip hop artists I have come across outside of the States. This is coming from worked in a hip hop club in California, met (and got trashed) with artists such as Mobb Deep, Ghost Face Killah, Method Man and LL Cool J amongst others but that's a story for another day :cool:

kittex

dSTAR wrote: »

Duh because they are American :D

You're being sarcastic right?
AC-DC are from Sydney...

dSTAR

kittex wrote: »

You're being sarcastic right?
AC-DC are from Sydney...

Of course. But seriously I loved AC-DC all through my school years and just presumed they were American. It wasn't until years later that someone took me aside and told me they were Australian. I was floored. At that stage Australia was at least two years behind some of the music coming out of Britain and the States. Nowadays that is all different of course. :cool:

Bearhunter

"Scribe are probably the most convincing hip hop artists I have come across outside of the States"

Scribe is only one guy.
As for songs that sum up NZ and Aus, can't believe no one's mentioned Boys Light Up or Reckless by Aussie Crawl. Or any of Dave Dobbyn's music like Slice of Heaven, Be Mine Tonight or Bliss, all Kiwi classics.

dSTAR

Bearhunter wrote: »

Scribe is only one guy...

First AC-DC, then Crowded House (apparently Kiwis but owned by us) and now Scribe.

I need to get out more :-s

Feelgood

Technically ACDC are only 80% aussie..

dSTAR

Yeah maybe the Scots should do what the British do to some Irish artists and Aussies do for anyone famous who has been in Oz more than 2 weeks!

Bearhunter

80% Aussie? I think that's a bit high. If you accept the Youngs as Ockers it still only makes 60%, since Cliff Williams and Brian Johnson are both english. In fact the only Aussie-born member is Phil Rudd and during the time he left the band (about 83 to 91) there wasn't a true-blue born and bred Aussie in the band at all.

Mahatma coat

quintessential brisbane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NN7D6G6uQI

and of course this should be the national anthem

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

appologies for the **** camerawork

88show

depends when you were there. otherwise you can have anybody from the
nw dancing toys, herbs, datsuns, or annie crummer to rhombus, brotha
che fu, bic runga or sihaed or what ever they're called now and selmonella dub.
aussie i would go oils, acadac, grinspoon, j butler trio, kylie just all depends
can go on and on and on....

Jumpy

Xavi6 wrote: »

I was given Men At Work's greatest hits when I was about 8 by my uncle. Listened to it religiously. My favourite song of their's is definitely 'Overkill' which was used in an episode of 'Scrubs' that featured Colin Hay.

The original -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcu7OCIqlqE

The 'Scrubs' version -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrGmcuj44DQ

All my mates were like "What's that amazing song from scrubs?!" and I was the only one who knew it!

Overkill is on Colin Hays Man@Work album, he doesnt sing with the band anymore.

I spoke to the guy when he was playing a small gig in Limerick with Carlos Calvo (I was one out of about 20 people in the room) he was saying its strange going from a stadium with 80,000 people in the height of his career, to having 20 people in a small room in Dolans many years on.
Its still the best gig I have ever been to. He a legend.

If you like his solo of Overkill Xavi, then Im sure "Beautiful World" and "Waiting for my real life to begin" will interest you as well. Its on the same album.

Jumpy

Double post.

Jumpy

One for Mahatma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h85hqvskiCw

Also one of my personal favourites.

Tuckers Daughter by Ex-Chiseler Ian Moss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHthoB4ZwJc

dSTAR

Hey Jumpy as they say in kiwiland ... choice!

Jumpy

AHAHAHAAAAAA!!

SOMEONE YOUTUBED IT.

Prepare for the best thing you have ever seen.
The two biggest voices in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGc0kx7r3N0

Jumpy

Want more choons!

Xavi6

Can't believe this has been overlooked -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99P7TTvpO1g

Epic!

Jumpy

Woohoo, the Voice.

shane86

Not actually Australian, but if I hear Kings of Leon Sex on Fire over here one more time I will go mental. Every fcuker on the train even has it as a ringtone ffs!