My English family know these because I spent a pile of my 20s years there and insisted these were played at family parties. They may not have 'got' them but they enjoyed.
I don’t believe the song ever really got any traction outside Australia, but I think Eddie Vedder must have heard it when they were touring here. He did a cover of Throw Your Arms Around Me with Neil Finn only a few years ago and it slaps.
Run To Paradise - Choirboys
Anything by Skyhooks, but especially Living In The 70s and Horror Movie
The Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl
Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool
Come Said The Boy - Mondo Rock
Pretty much all considered classic here
Electric Blue - Icehouse
Compulsory Hero - 1927
Bedroom Eyes - Kate Cebrano
Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil
Under the Milky Way - The Church
Tucker’s Daughter - Ian Moss
Mona - Craig McLachlan & Check 1,2
The Day You Went Away - Wendy Matthews
Horses - Daryl Braithwaite
Way Out West - James Blundell & James Reyne
I'd love to be an FBI profiler and look at your list. We are looking for a suburban white chick, probably mid 40's to early 50's. Listened to 2dayfm in the back of mums Torago a lot between 86 and 91
I love that song. I loved the Yahoo Serious movie and all the music. It was what introduced me to Paul Kelly.
But Man of Colours was my favourite album when I was 14. Crazy turned up once on music tv in Ireland and I was hooked.
And the weird ‘pulling your pants down and dancing around’ thing that happens at the local footy club? And weddings for said boys from the club? Or is that just a random thing that happens here?
Went to a wedding in the south of France between an Aussie guy and a French girl and eagle rock came on. The in-laws were very confused at first when all the boys pulled the pants down, but all the rugby playing french cousins immediately joined in without prompting. Good blokes.
I was in this exact scenario, as one of the guys with my pants down, about 6 months ago. Were you at T&J’s wedding or has the south of France been repeatedly plagued with a bunch of Aussie blokes dropping their dacks on the d-floor?
One time I was at my local gay bar, and then that song came on, and the whole crowd erupted, singing every word. I was dancing next to this ethereally beautiful Irish twink at the time and poor bloke looked so confused.
Had a dance party at work the other day. Two absolute professionals dancing around the office screaming Strawberry Kisses on repeat.
We "ruined" the office Spotify. We don't care.
Worked in finance in London. Another Aussie bloke who was quite high up requested Khe Sanh to be played at the Christmas party, it was pretty funny seeing 3 middle aged blokes (probably earning in excess of $400k a year) absolutely belt out Cold Chisel on the dance floor to the bemusement of their British colleagues.
I went to see a pub band ~10 years ago where the lead singer was a music teacher so a bunch of his (middle-aged getting back into music) students went to the gig. In the final set around 11pm the band played Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again. The whole bar including the staff sang along, to the bemused fascination of the English expat sitting at our table.
When his Australian wife went full volume for the callback on the chorus he was SHOCKED.
My brother had a cover band at his wedding (called "The Wedding Pingers"), and also had some American friends in attendance. Afterwards, the Americans were like "hey, what was with that song where the audience just started swearing at the band and telling them to fuck off"?
It hurts me to say this, but that song is a direct lift of Lonely Night by Status Quo. They reached an out-of-court settlement. Still fucking rocks though.
Funny you should say that. On the AC DC sub everything is a huge fan but the TNT was an Australian only release and doesn't get a lot of love. Even though it was re-released as high voltage in the states.
Could you imagine the Olympic medal ceremony with Aussie Gold and Sounds of Then starts playing "I think I hear the sounds of then, and people talking". How fucking good would that be.
Nope, if we’re changing the anthem, it absolutely has to be ‘am I ever gonna see your face again’, so the entire stadium can sing the chorus along with us! Not the official chorus obviously…..
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Do What You Want To Do & Turn Up Your Radio - Masters Apprentices
Live It Up - Mental As Anything
Living In The 70s, Horror Movie, Women In Uniform, Blue Jeans & Jukebox In Siberia - Skyhooks
Basically all of John Farnham's songs
Troublemaker & Rollercoaster - Machine Gun Fellatio
Howzat - Sherbet
Boys In Town, Science Fiction & I Touch Myself -Divinyls
Prisoner Of Society - The Living End
Anything by Redgum. Eagle Rock. And I don't think even Paul Kelly's that recognisable by foreigners either. So very many quintessential Oz pub rock tunes that would fit this bill.
Gimme Head takes me back to High School radio, where this got played in the 5 minutes before teachers officially started playground duty before school…
Not Australian but NZ Dave dobin slice of heaven shit that makes me think did outside Australia and NZ know about the greatest movie in the world foot rot flats a dogs tail
It is pretty famous for being in _Two Hands_ which I don't think was enormous overseas but certainly screened at a lot of festivals and by virtue of starring Heath Ledger (And Rose Byrne, Guess) inevitably remains very notable.
Otherwise, basically anything from Powderfinger fits the bill and These Days isn't much of an exception. They barely even charted in New Zealand outside of 'My Happiness', which is kind of bizarre given just how huge and enduring their popularity is here. And it's not as if the singles from their last 5 albums didn't suit radio, especially compared to a band like Silverchair who were making less-radio friendly music and retaining some relevance overseas basically until they finished up
What's the matta you, HEY gotta no respect, whadda you think you do, why you looka so sad... It's a not so bad, it's a niceah place AH SHADDAPA YO FACE
I doubt that Daryl Braithwaite’s cover of Horses is that well known outside of Australia and probably not a universal indicator for last drinks anywhere else
Felt half baked when it came out, I am probably in the minority,though it was pretty successful, but not chart dominating, got to #1.
I have no clue how or why it became the juggernaut it is.
I was at an overseas wedding last week attended by Australians & English guests and Horses got a huge response. Sweet Caroline even bigger and louder and I have no idea how that happens. In my prime 70s-mid 90s it never even got a mention, let alone played to such boisterous appreciation.
The Gurus did cut through internationally in some alternative music scenes, most notably US college radio. Bittersweet was covered by The Flamin' Groovies.
Ironically written by the child of German immigrants and actually known the world over, particularly in Europe , Ireland and East coast of the USA thanks to the Pogues.
EDIT: He is actually Scottish, i was wrong.
There are literally hundreds. Australia has had a thriving pop music industry since the early 60s and a good portion of it never made it too far offshore.
In the 80s in particular the Australian Top 40 was mainly made up of Aussie (and Kiwi) acts, plus there was a huge live scene. For every AC/DC, INXS, Kylie Minogue or Tame Impala there are 50 other acts who had chart success and long careers at home that never made it OS.
I remember when it came out, late 80s, back when Brashs would play new music which bled out into the shopping centres. I can’t properly convey how momentous this was, it was huge, as a result the album was enormous. It was everywhere, a bit like when Dire Straits Brothers in Arms came out. Every radio station, every party.
WE.
ARE.
HAAAAAPPY LITTLE VEGEMITES, AS BRIGHT AS BRIGHT CAN BE. WE ALL ENJOY OUR VEGEMITE FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH AND TEA. OUR MUMMIES SAY WE’RE GROWING STRONGER EVERY SINGLE WEEK BECAUSE WE
LOVE
OUR VEGEMITE WE ALL
ADORE
OUR VEGEMITE
IT PUTS A ROSE IN EVERYYY CHEEEEEK
Me and my mates were drinking late one evening with an Irish guy in the kitchen and the play list turned nostalgically to the 90s. The Irish bloke was scratching his head at more than half of the songs that we were all singing along too. Regurgitator, Jebidiah, You am I, Powderfinger, Spiderbait, etc
Rain - Dragon
Makes an appearance at all of my family events, especially weddings. 15-20 middle aged women screaming the chorus holding half-empty glasses of champagne… quite a sight…
Anybody got/want to make a Spotify playlist for these? If I search for Australian rock I just seem to get Midnight Oil, AC/DC and maybe INXS on repeat.
Cold Fact by Rodriguez before the Searching movie came out.
Here and South Africa are the only places that album got traction in the 70s.
And After the fact.
Khe san. I can't believe that anybody else in the world knows who screaming Jimmy is.
Horses by Daryl Braithwaite. Exists in one point in time in the 90s in Australia and nowhere else.
Hey Santa Claus you cunt by Rodney rude. A classic children's Christmas Carol with Australian twist: where's the kids fucking bike, Santa, you cunt?
Asshole by Denis Leary. Has anyone in America even heard this song? It was our national anthem for a year.
Any boring pixies or triffids songs that Richard Kingsmill and any other music snob tries to tell you is good even though you can't see it, and you don't like it, but you're supposed to love it because it's Australian. It's a wide open road it's a, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The Horses is a weird one. The original was written and recorded by an American singer, Rickie Lee Jones. It was first released on her album in 1989, but Horses was not released as a single and didn't chart.
Daryl Braithwaite's cover version of the same song came a year later in 1990, and was a huge hit in Australia.
The plot twist: in 1996, the original Rickie Lee Jones version of The Horses was then used in the film Jerry Maguire, which was immensely popular in the US. Nearly every living American born before 9/11 would have seen Jerry Maguire due to it being played and replayed nonstop on cable tv, and therefore has heard the original version of Horses at some point in passing. But, it still wasn't a hugely popular song, and most Americans still probably couldn't place it or tell you where it was from.
Ironically, I don't think many Australians are aware that Daryl Braithwaite's version is not the original. I also don't think many Americans have ever heard the Daryl Braithwaite version, and would also have no idea how iconic the song is to Australians.
I feel like there's a bunch from the 2000s that were played heaps back then. This Heart Attack by Faker was everywhere. Also introvert, extrovert doesn't matter lol
Edit: I just remembered that version of you sexy thing that said do ya do ya do ya in the chorus. Apparently that was certified platinum here and NZ but no where else haha
Coin Laundry - Lisa Mitchell
She got kicked off Australian idol because she only had one style of singing but now it's the exact style of singing that EVERY girl tries to emulate, when you hear it you'll get what I mean
Anyway her album Wonder was the tits, especially songs like Valium and Running Thru the Forest
Khe San, Flame trees, Am I ever gonna see your face again, Throw your Arms around me, I was Only 19, Stranded. Some old classics.
Unrelated but listen to the [Doug Anthony all stars version of throw your arms around me](https://youtu.be/-j0g2oG_w2g?si=X-koUPK9E5i8dA-G).
DAAS were so damned talented. Great cover.
They were amazing! I remember watching them on The Big Gig and falling head over heels in love with Tim!
Stranded!
Add This is Australia and you’ve got them all. God I’m blessed to have been born in this magnificent country at that time in history!!!
My English family know these because I spent a pile of my 20s years there and insisted these were played at family parties. They may not have 'got' them but they enjoyed.
Throw your arms around me seems to known outside
Pearl Jam played that in 1995 in when I saw them in Canberra
I don’t believe the song ever really got any traction outside Australia, but I think Eddie Vedder must have heard it when they were touring here. He did a cover of Throw Your Arms Around Me with Neil Finn only a few years ago and it slaps.
It was used in *The Bear* just last year.
Run To Paradise - Choirboys Anything by Skyhooks, but especially Living In The 70s and Horror Movie The Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool Come Said The Boy - Mondo Rock Pretty much all considered classic here
Electric Blue - Icehouse Compulsory Hero - 1927 Bedroom Eyes - Kate Cebrano Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil Under the Milky Way - The Church Tucker’s Daughter - Ian Moss Mona - Craig McLachlan & Check 1,2 The Day You Went Away - Wendy Matthews Horses - Daryl Braithwaite Way Out West - James Blundell & James Reyne
The Church definitely had some success overseas. That one would be known to music heads.
So did the Oils.
I'd love to be an FBI profiler and look at your list. We are looking for a suburban white chick, probably mid 40's to early 50's. Listened to 2dayfm in the back of mums Torago a lot between 86 and 91
You got some right! (Parents were way too poor for a Tarago - try Kingswood!)
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I love that song. I loved the Yahoo Serious movie and all the music. It was what introduced me to Paul Kelly. But Man of Colours was my favourite album when I was 14. Crazy turned up once on music tv in Ireland and I was hooked.
Eagle Rock.
And the weird ‘pulling your pants down and dancing around’ thing that happens at the local footy club? And weddings for said boys from the club? Or is that just a random thing that happens here?
Went to a wedding in the south of France between an Aussie guy and a French girl and eagle rock came on. The in-laws were very confused at first when all the boys pulled the pants down, but all the rugby playing french cousins immediately joined in without prompting. Good blokes.
This image has me cracking up! So pure!
I was in this exact scenario, as one of the guys with my pants down, about 6 months ago. Were you at T&J’s wedding or has the south of France been repeatedly plagued with a bunch of Aussie blokes dropping their dacks on the d-floor?
Nah thats the way it goes
Shirts off for Khe San, pants down for Eagle Rock, pray they don’t get played back to back
Strawberry Kisses
One time I was at my local gay bar, and then that song came on, and the whole crowd erupted, singing every word. I was dancing next to this ethereally beautiful Irish twink at the time and poor bloke looked so confused.
The phrase "ethereally beautiful Irish twink" gets progressively less poetic with each word
Banger
Had a dance party at work the other day. Two absolute professionals dancing around the office screaming Strawberry Kisses on repeat. We "ruined" the office Spotify. We don't care.
Worked in finance in London. Another Aussie bloke who was quite high up requested Khe Sanh to be played at the Christmas party, it was pretty funny seeing 3 middle aged blokes (probably earning in excess of $400k a year) absolutely belt out Cold Chisel on the dance floor to the bemusement of their British colleagues.
Love this still
Angels - Am I ever gonna see your face again? Chorus - No way , get fucked, fuck off...
Came here to say that. The chorus is special to us,
I went to see a pub band ~10 years ago where the lead singer was a music teacher so a bunch of his (middle-aged getting back into music) students went to the gig. In the final set around 11pm the band played Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again. The whole bar including the staff sang along, to the bemused fascination of the English expat sitting at our table. When his Australian wife went full volume for the callback on the chorus he was SHOCKED.
In the same vein Living Next Door to Alice, though it's a UK band and assume it's a thing over there. Any more songs like that?
Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?
Living next door to Alan is better version.
"G'day mister Alan Bond, How's it goin' mate?" I haven't heard it in 25 years plus but I think that's pretty close.
My brother had a cover band at his wedding (called "The Wedding Pingers"), and also had some American friends in attendance. Afterwards, the Americans were like "hey, what was with that song where the audience just started swearing at the band and telling them to fuck off"?
It hurts me to say this, but that song is a direct lift of Lonely Night by Status Quo. They reached an out-of-court settlement. Still fucking rocks though.
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Was the bartender ok with that? I heard she don’t like that kind of behaviour, so…
Don't be so......
That song was big in NZ too so may not have all been aussies
1300 655 506 - More of a jingle
13 00 6 555 06
‘My dad picks the fruit that goes to Cottees’.
131332
Thats firteen firteen firty 2
Fuck you, now it's stuck in my head.
It’s a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll
Funny you should say that. On the AC DC sub everything is a huge fan but the TNT was an Australian only release and doesn't get a lot of love. Even though it was re-released as high voltage in the states.
Home among the gumtrees
Is the original uh, Rolf Harris and the version I always think of is Bourke's Backyard!!? What an auspicious song to be associated with that duo!
Did Nosebleed Section ever make it outta the country? I didn't so wouldn't know.
By no means on the same level as back home, but it certainly met a few people in Europe that knew it in the 2000s.
When backpacking 10 years ago a very odd (larger than you would think) amount of French knew it.
Redgum - I Was Only 19 GANGgajang - Sounds of Then Goanna - Solid Rock Paul Kelly - How to Make Gravy
Always thought sounds of then and solid rock should be contenders for a modern Australian anthem.
Could you imagine the Olympic medal ceremony with Aussie Gold and Sounds of Then starts playing "I think I hear the sounds of then, and people talking". How fucking good would that be.
Nope, if we’re changing the anthem, it absolutely has to be ‘am I ever gonna see your face again’, so the entire stadium can sing the chorus along with us! Not the official chorus obviously…..
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
It’s even got its own day.
Who's gonna make the gravy. Man that song never fails to make me tear up
There’s nothin’ so lonesome, so morbid or drear than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer .. Good ol Slim
Oh I like to have a beer with Duncan, I like to have a beer with Dunc
Pauline Pantsdown’s “I don’t like it”
My shopping trolley's stolen.
my groceries just gone
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
I thought he sat on the electric wire jumping up and down with his pants on fire. Maybe it's a different kookaburra.
My Canadian mate (she's never been here) remembers learning this as a kid. It also features prominently in a Doctor Who episode
Great Southern Land - Icehouse Do What You Want To Do & Turn Up Your Radio - Masters Apprentices Live It Up - Mental As Anything Living In The 70s, Horror Movie, Women In Uniform, Blue Jeans & Jukebox In Siberia - Skyhooks Basically all of John Farnham's songs Troublemaker & Rollercoaster - Machine Gun Fellatio Howzat - Sherbet Boys In Town, Science Fiction & I Touch Myself -Divinyls Prisoner Of Society - The Living End
I Touch Myself by The Divinyls hit no 4 in the US charts.
Also featured in one of the Austin Powers movies.
American here, for sure Divinyls and the Living End for radio play here, both might have been on MTV.
The Living End toured the US with Green Day right when “Dookie” came out, so it’s definitely well known in the right circles
I Touch Myself was a big hit overseas and has been used in a lot of movie sound tracks too.
Anything by Redgum. Eagle Rock. And I don't think even Paul Kelly's that recognisable by foreigners either. So very many quintessential Oz pub rock tunes that would fit this bill.
Fess' Song or Gimme Head by The Radiators.
Gimme Head takes me back to High School radio, where this got played in the 5 minutes before teachers officially started playground duty before school…
Click Goes the Shears
Not Australian but NZ Dave dobin slice of heaven shit that makes me think did outside Australia and NZ know about the greatest movie in the world foot rot flats a dogs tail
Yes, respect to a great movie. And even better comic series.
These Days - Powderfinger
It is pretty famous for being in _Two Hands_ which I don't think was enormous overseas but certainly screened at a lot of festivals and by virtue of starring Heath Ledger (And Rose Byrne, Guess) inevitably remains very notable. Otherwise, basically anything from Powderfinger fits the bill and These Days isn't much of an exception. They barely even charted in New Zealand outside of 'My Happiness', which is kind of bizarre given just how huge and enduring their popularity is here. And it's not as if the singles from their last 5 albums didn't suit radio, especially compared to a band like Silverchair who were making less-radio friendly music and retaining some relevance overseas basically until they finished up
Finally. Most of the comments here are stuck in the 80s.
"Have you ever Ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you goin' Round the Twist?"
I had to scroll way too far for this.
3 hours old and no mention of What About Me. Do you people even Australia?
It isn’t fair
I’ve had enough
Now I want my share.
Can't you see
I wanna live
But you just take more than you give
Take a step back and see the little people
They might be young but they're the ones
Who make the biiiiiiig people think
Up There Cazaly
Ah shaddappa ya face
What's the matta you, HEY gotta no respect, whadda you think you do, why you looka so sad... It's a not so bad, it's a niceah place AH SHADDAPA YO FACE
Rip rip woodchip!!
Adding Toffee Apple and that ‘wash your face with orange juice’ one as well!
Run to Paradise
I am Australian by the Seekers or Island Home by Warumpi Band/Christine Anu
My Happiness - Powderfinger
I doubt that Daryl Braithwaite’s cover of Horses is that well known outside of Australia and probably not a universal indicator for last drinks anywhere else
Jump in my car - Ted Mulry Gang
Australian national anthem, I am Australian, Wild Colonial Boy, True Blue
By True Blue, I'm guessing you mean the John Williamson one and not the Madonna one lol. I'm really digging it!
Wild Colonial Boy is well known in Ireland, it's an Irish song originally.
Horses
Felt half baked when it came out, I am probably in the minority,though it was pretty successful, but not chart dominating, got to #1. I have no clue how or why it became the juggernaut it is. I was at an overseas wedding last week attended by Australians & English guests and Horses got a huge response. Sweet Caroline even bigger and louder and I have no idea how that happens. In my prime 70s-mid 90s it never even got a mention, let alone played to such boisterous appreciation.
Like Wow Wipeout What's my scene
Love some Hoodoo Gurus.
The Gurus did cut through internationally in some alternative music scenes, most notably US college radio. Bittersweet was covered by The Flamin' Groovies.
April sun in cuba
whatareya - TISM
“Greg! The Stop Sign” is an absolute banger.
I’m On The Drug (That Killed River Phoenix!)
You’ll Never Be an Ol’ Man River!
Saturday Night Palsy. They "played" that one on Hey Hey It's Saturday
Yob or wanker?
This is hilarious. I still don't fully understand the difference between a yob and a wanker though.
À yob is like a bogan, a wanker is an educated tool
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Ironically written by the child of German immigrants and actually known the world over, particularly in Europe , Ireland and East coast of the USA thanks to the Pogues. EDIT: He is actually Scottish, i was wrong.
Living Next Door to Alan.
Austen Tayshus - Australiana
There are literally hundreds. Australia has had a thriving pop music industry since the early 60s and a good portion of it never made it too far offshore. In the 80s in particular the Australian Top 40 was mainly made up of Aussie (and Kiwi) acts, plus there was a huge live scene. For every AC/DC, INXS, Kylie Minogue or Tame Impala there are 50 other acts who had chart success and long careers at home that never made it OS.
You're the Voice
I remember when it came out, late 80s, back when Brashs would play new music which bled out into the shopping centres. I can’t properly convey how momentous this was, it was huge, as a result the album was enormous. It was everywhere, a bit like when Dire Straits Brothers in Arms came out. Every radio station, every party.
This song should’ve made a comeback before horses.
Ummm you never watchec Hot Rod have you?
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Blue Sky Mining was a big international seller.
I met a guy in Germany in the 90’s, he owned every Midnight Oil album they had ever put out. He said they were really popular there.
WE. ARE. HAAAAAPPY LITTLE VEGEMITES, AS BRIGHT AS BRIGHT CAN BE. WE ALL ENJOY OUR VEGEMITE FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH AND TEA. OUR MUMMIES SAY WE’RE GROWING STRONGER EVERY SINGLE WEEK BECAUSE WE LOVE OUR VEGEMITE WE ALL ADORE OUR VEGEMITE IT PUTS A ROSE IN EVERYYY CHEEEEEK
The Nutbush. No one under age 50 overseas knows about it (unless they've been to Australia).
Shaddup Ya Face!
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again, The Angels.
The Mavis's - Cry I think like 1999?
Me and my mates were drinking late one evening with an Irish guy in the kitchen and the play list turned nostalgically to the 90s. The Irish bloke was scratching his head at more than half of the songs that we were all singing along too. Regurgitator, Jebidiah, You am I, Powderfinger, Spiderbait, etc
Tucker's Daughter
Slap my knee bones to the ground
As a kid I always thought it was “slap my dick and stick around”. TIL what the lyrics actually are.
Smoko by the chats
greg the stop sign \[i fully blame my husband on this....\]
Leaving Home by Jebediah
Rain - Dragon Makes an appearance at all of my family events, especially weddings. 15-20 middle aged women screaming the chorus holding half-empty glasses of champagne… quite a sight…
Rack off normie and the Newcastle song
If I Could & That's what I think of you - 1927
Boys light up. Honestly few IN Australia get it
Have you ever, ever felt like this, strange things happen, are ya goin round the twist
And all the animals on Harry's practice
Nutbush. So weirdly popular.
Anything by Cold Chisel
Burkes backyard.
Anybody got/want to make a Spotify playlist for these? If I search for Australian rock I just seem to get Midnight Oil, AC/DC and maybe INXS on repeat.
If you reply to me I'll try to make one up tomorrow
Cold Chisel - Khe Sahn
Anything by Missy Higgins
Anything by Jimmy Barnes/Chisel, plenty of others.
Shaddap You Face by Jim Dolce
“Shaddap You Face" was also number one in 13 other countries.
I was only a young just teen when eagle rock was released yet I and everyone still knew the words at a pub.its one of those songs.
Tie me kangaroo down
Let me abo's go loose Bruce, Let me abo's go loose, they're of no further use Bruce, so let me abo's go loose... that song is seriously messed up.
As was the disgrace of a man who sang it. But it goes to show how far we’ve actually come, even if we still have a ways to go.
Nutbush City
Icehouse - Electric Blue and Great Southern Land Waltzing Matilda Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
Cold Fact by Rodriguez before the Searching movie came out. Here and South Africa are the only places that album got traction in the 70s. And After the fact.
“Sittin round the house on Sunday morning when my mate Boomer rang …”
“One Perfect Day” - Little Heroes This is a song which could only arise from Australia.
Never Had So Much Fun - Frenzalrhomb
The Real Thing - Russel Morris
When you say “everyone in Australia”, do you really mean everybody? Absolutely everybody? Every boy and every girl? Absolutely everybody?
Khe san. I can't believe that anybody else in the world knows who screaming Jimmy is. Horses by Daryl Braithwaite. Exists in one point in time in the 90s in Australia and nowhere else. Hey Santa Claus you cunt by Rodney rude. A classic children's Christmas Carol with Australian twist: where's the kids fucking bike, Santa, you cunt? Asshole by Denis Leary. Has anyone in America even heard this song? It was our national anthem for a year. Any boring pixies or triffids songs that Richard Kingsmill and any other music snob tries to tell you is good even though you can't see it, and you don't like it, but you're supposed to love it because it's Australian. It's a wide open road it's a, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Denis Leary and The Pixies are both American
Um, the Dennis Leary song Asshole is very well known in the USA. Even more than it is here.
The Horses is a weird one. The original was written and recorded by an American singer, Rickie Lee Jones. It was first released on her album in 1989, but Horses was not released as a single and didn't chart. Daryl Braithwaite's cover version of the same song came a year later in 1990, and was a huge hit in Australia. The plot twist: in 1996, the original Rickie Lee Jones version of The Horses was then used in the film Jerry Maguire, which was immensely popular in the US. Nearly every living American born before 9/11 would have seen Jerry Maguire due to it being played and replayed nonstop on cable tv, and therefore has heard the original version of Horses at some point in passing. But, it still wasn't a hugely popular song, and most Americans still probably couldn't place it or tell you where it was from. Ironically, I don't think many Australians are aware that Daryl Braithwaite's version is not the original. I also don't think many Americans have ever heard the Daryl Braithwaite version, and would also have no idea how iconic the song is to Australians.
That’s the way it’s gotta be lil darlin
Written by two Americans, Walter Becker and Rickie Lee Jones, who also originally recorded it
Spy vs spy
When your roof is getting lost between the lichen and the moss…
How to make gravy
April Sun in Cuba
I feel like there's a bunch from the 2000s that were played heaps back then. This Heart Attack by Faker was everywhere. Also introvert, extrovert doesn't matter lol Edit: I just remembered that version of you sexy thing that said do ya do ya do ya in the chorus. Apparently that was certified platinum here and NZ but no where else haha
Ecstasy! Ecstasy! E E E E Ecstasy!
Redgum-I’ve been to Bali too. I play this in Bali a lot and many many locals have never even heard it and love it!
Axiom - little ray of sunshine Diesel - crying shame
Pauline Pantsdown - I don’t like it!
On the Ning nang Nong from play school in the 90s
We‘re going to Bonnie Doon!
Coin Laundry - Lisa Mitchell She got kicked off Australian idol because she only had one style of singing but now it's the exact style of singing that EVERY girl tries to emulate, when you hear it you'll get what I mean Anyway her album Wonder was the tits, especially songs like Valium and Running Thru the Forest
Mr Clickety Cane, likes to play a game...
Unguarded Moment - what a song!