bundy

It is a classic.

All Slim Dusty really reminds me of rural Oz - especially since I was living near Tamworth NSW (country music capital of Oz) for a year. Mind you, all aussie country music does that - Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kasey Chambers.

Khe Sahn by Cold Chisel will always remind me of Oz too.

To Her Door by Paul Kelly makes me laugh even though it should be sad.

johanne

Choirboys.....Run to paradise

bundy

Mr B's favourite song....

I'm having a Cat Empire moment right now (Hello, Hello)

OzTennis

Excellent replies folks and quite a lot of songs I could have listed in my opening to the thread.

And the band played waltzing matilda is an incredibly poignant song as the lyrics show. Eric Bogle and John Williamson's versions are best, I'm not so sure about Shane McGowan's version (but I really like Fairytale of NY). No man's land/The green fields of France (as it was called for a No 1 by The Fureys) by Bogle has terrific lyrics as well. You could change the lyrics slightly to suit all wars eg for Iraq - did you really believe them - that they had WMD's and were linked to AQ?:

http://toosvanholstein.nl/greatwar/m...iemcbride.html

Cold Chisel/Jimmy Barnes terrific - my favourite is Working Class Man which Jimmy belted out at the Olympics (Slim Dusty stole the show at the end).

Another classic is that alternative national anthem which combines Advance Australia Fair, Tie me kangaroo down sport (Rolf wants to tie it down because it just keeps hopping and hopping), True Blue (another JW classic), Skippy the bush kangaroo, Neighbours, The Real Thing, Up there Cazaly etc, etc.

I can go back to the Easybeats, Masters Apprentices, Little River Band, Daddy Cool, Billy Thorpe, Stevie Wright, Max Merritt, Flash and the Pan and so on but most of you won't be familiar with them!

So you are stuck on a desert island and you are only allowed to take 3 Aussie CD's/albums with you. Here's mine:

Anthology (Vol 2) John Farnham's* Greatest Hits
Songs from the South - Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits
20K Watts - Midnight Oil Greatest Hits

OzTennis

* Farnham's Whispering Jack album is the biggest selling album of all time by an act based in Australia and it is in more than a quarter of Australian homes

ProofReader

For a touch of the indigenous flavour, how about 'Treaty' by Yothu Yindi?!

How come 'Sadie' by John Farnham hasn't had a mention yet?!!

Jaykay

I absolutely love 'Am I ever gonna see your face again by The Angels.

Also love 'All my friends are getting married by Skyhooks

And Reckless by Australian Crawl

Brings back so many memories of the 70's

Have got tons of favourites but can't think of them off the top of my head right now.

Paul&Ann-Marie

"Perfect ten"
pretty much most of the others aswell by Kevin Bloody Wilson

paul

irishmolly

1) Assault and Battery - Rose Tattoo

2) Let there be Rock - AC/DC

Turn up the CD player to 10 and enjoy !

Mr IrishMolly

OzTennis

Yothu Yindi good, have their first 2 albums, treaty yeah, treaty yeah

Sadie was by Johnny Farnham - he changed his name when he changed his image. Sadie was when he was a painter's apprentice from Dandy

OzTennis

The Bloke

THE BUSHWACKERS BAND did a very good version of it too. Also REDGUM performed "I Was Only Nineteen". Excellent CD "The Very Best Of Redgum And The Bushwackers Band" from J&B Records, includes ASIO; Lachlan Tigers; I've Been To Bali Too & Marijuana Australiana.

OzTennis

And not forgetting 'Give me a home amongst the gum trees, with lots of plum trees ......... dah, dah, dah ........ ON BURKE'S BACKYARD!!

OzTennis

thepoacher

Any one else heard of 'Snowy River Men' by Kevin baker
or 'Modern Day Swaggies' by Bandy Bill & Co

Classic Aussie songs

helinuk

OT- We went on a touristy trip to a couple of yrs ago and the bush songs were sung after the working farm tour- they had our son and daughter playing the instruments up front, that tune just keeps going around your head-aarrggghhh

jodesmc

Father's Day- weddings, Parties, Anything
Throw Your Arms Around Me- Hunters and Collectors
Leaps and Bounds-Paul Kelly, and Dumb Things,
Boys Light Up- Aus Crawl,
ACDC- you shook me all night long, gets me jumping round the house,
any powderfinger
Jet, are you gonna be my girl, amongst many others

Olibeneli

seems you and i like this song...........why so for you ?