Australia Day Songs......put up your choice.

[bushbandit]

One for the beach crew sums up our way of life ,layed back ,good times ,sun sand and surf, bbqs ,friends and booze and getting away on hols.

Aussie Surf Band "The Atlantics" playing Bomboora

The Atlantics - Bombora - Delightful Rain

[camlisa]

Downunder
Yoth Yindi
The Newcastle Song
Paul Kelly

but i reckon Great Southern Land is hard to beat

[Kit_e_kat9]

My choice is Gangajang - met the lead singer recently at a wedding ... the bride sang, the groom played guitar (fingers breewood) and the lead singer (what was his name) played drums. 

GANGgajang - Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)

But Australia has some excellent talent band wise:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_rock_music_groups  This should keep you on UTube for awhile I think.

Kit_e

[Hairs]

Why is it that most of these Australiana classics are from the '80s (or very late '70s)? Except for The Herd's modern reindition of "Only 19" and Christine Anu's "My Island Home".

Are our modern Aussie musicians not as patriotic as the past ones and write/sing about other topics? Or have I not taken to the modern Australiana (from the '90s and '00s) as I did to the '80s music as a teenager and skipped over it? I still generally like modern Australian music (I still listen to JJJ much to the disgust of my older workmates ), but don't recall much Australiana.

Peter H

G'day Peter,
Hmm good point. Maybe we are just getting older, Don't know. Maybe this generation see themselves living in a global world, where as those of us that grew up on 80's music, Australia was our world.
Personally I don't have a favorite, all the ones above are awesome tunes and each one of them has their place.

[bullfrog]

Maybe the current Australian bands are too busy trying to be bloody Yanks.....

[kylarama]

I think I could be the only Chisel fan that does not like khe sanh.  Is that 'unaustralian'?

Best Chisel song...
Bow River, any live version!

Australian Crawl - Boys light up

and I can't believe no one has mentioned Men At Works Down Under.

plus anything by the Oils.

[Mrs smith]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Men At Works Down Under.

plus anything by the Oils.

Mentioned in the second post.   

[kylarama]

 
Mentioned in the second post.   

Thats just a link... no mention of what the link is

[GS]

I think I could be the only Chisel fan that does not like khe sanh.  Is that 'unaustralian'?

X2

After many years of DJ ing in the 90s, part time to make a few bucks extra, there are some songs like this that have end played to death.

[GS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz48dyXTFpQ&sns=em

Strange transition from the Easybeats

[gunna]

This bloke is good
Kick back & enjoy

sheeds

Australian Rules Football 1988 VFL (Now AFL) Grand Final Noel Watson Waltzing Matilda

[Brucer]

Reading these posts reminds me of when I was in the States a few years ago. I was only there 3 weeks but it was enough to make me homesick for Australia. To satisfy my thirst for things Australian I went on YouTube playing many of the songs on this list, and some others like "Still Call Australia Home", "Hey True Blue", etc and bugger me dead if I didn't tear up quite a bit.
My wife is from Spokane Washington USA and we were there visiting her family. The discussion has come up a number of times about whether we could or should move to USA, but after that experience I am just not sure I could cope with leaving Australia permanently. Much as certain things pi$$ me off no end (especially politicians and some of the idiotic decision they make) .. being Australian.. it's deep within.

[SteveandViv]

X3 

Love this one too...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML9h3I5Uktw

Me too...

[shanegtr]

Whats an Australia day with some humour?
Butterfingers - I Love Work

[graylyn]

Have a listen to this one.  I loved it.

Waltzing Matilda Territory style - Ali Mills

[Teabag]

Australiana by Austen Tayshus.....


Austen Tayshus - Australiana [Full and Uncensored]