Lenny Leonard wrote:Can we claim split enz? I got you..
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Hardly, Tim, they even have NZ in their name! I'd much rather claim "six months in a leaky boat" if I were to flog a song from this band. Crowded House are a different kettle of fish..
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: April 16, 2016, 5:56 am
by Begbie
Im thinking about buying an EA Falcon, installing a big cab radio strip antenna on the front and a Strayla Sticker with the southern cross on the back to tour The country with. this sound track will be pumping. Might even grow myself a mullet and purchase a few blue singlets for the trip.
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: April 18, 2016, 10:03 pm
by yeh raiders
Begbie wrote:
Lenny Leonard wrote:Can we claim split enz? I got you..
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Hardly, Tim, they even have NZ in their name! I'd much rather claim "six months in a leaky boat" if I were to flog a song from this band. Crowded House are a different kettle of fish..
I'd go with "Message to My Girl" if I had to steal a Split Enz song. But the other 2 are cracking songs too.
But it makes sense their best came as an Aussie band .. Crowded House
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: April 12, 2018, 11:11 pm
by greeneyed
How good is Daryl Braitwaite's voice? Must be one of our greatest ever vocalists.
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: April 12, 2018, 11:23 pm
by greeneyed
James Reyne is also one of the great vocalists in Australian music history... Love listening to these old songs. They are better than virtually anything going around these days.
KO are doing this Oztober thing. I was having a grand old day yesterday in PJs man shed.
Some fantastic Aussie music all weekend..
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: October 21, 2018, 1:43 pm
by -PJ-
These guys are barely Australian but-
Split Enz- I got you.
I got you, that's all I want
I won't forget, that's a whole lot
I don't go out, now that you're in
Sometimes we shout, but that's no problem
Chorus-
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes you can tell I'm not lyin
Look at you, you're a pageant
You're everything, that I imagine
Something's wrong, I feel uneasy
You show me, tell me you're not teasin
Repeat Chorus
There's no doubt, not when I'm with you
When I'm without, I stay in my room
Where do you go, I get no answer
You're always out, it gets on my nerves
That too. Mrs Fui was giving me grief the other day for the same thing!
Side note: I saw Never tear us apart, and it reminded me of Ugly Phil on Triple M a while back. He was doing some awkward bantering with some caller, and asks the caller if he wants to listen to some INXS. The caller responded “Oh yeah, I love INXS. Most underrated rock band in Australia.” Ugly Phil went to town, saying that was nonsense, and one of the dumbest calls he ever heard.
Had to agree, underrated bands don’t sel out Wembley
That too. Mrs Fui was giving me grief the other day for the same thing!
Side note: I saw Never tear us apart, and it reminded me of Ugly Phil on Triple M a while back. He was doing some awkward bantering with some caller, and asks the caller if he wants to listen to some INXS. The caller responded “Oh yeah, I love INXS. Most underrated rock band in Australia.” Ugly Phil went to town, saying that was nonsense, and one of the dumbest calls he ever heard.
Had to agree, underrated bands don’t sel out Wembley
I’m with Mrs Fui, given he says “To her door” 27,000 times in the song!
Best Australian song ever
Posted: August 28, 2019, 10:26 pm
by FuiFui BradBrad
I’m sure he makes a reference to being “At her door” as well!
**Edit** Checked the lyrics, and he doesn’t say it at all. I might have misheard “Out the door”.
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: August 28, 2019, 11:10 pm
by -TW-
Mrs fui schooled you again? Ooft
Anyways not enough Tucker's Daughter in this thread
I’ll add Kosciusko and Jimmy Sharmans boxers as great Oils songs that rarely get mentioned.
Yep..
True Oils fans know the back catalogue..the great songs that rarely if ever get heard.
Wedding cake island
Who can stand in the way
Minutes to midnight
Warakurna
Tin legs and tin mines
Gunbarrel highway
And plenty of others...
I grew up on this band..
Ooo yes Gunbarrel highway. I must dig that great song up.
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: August 30, 2019, 7:31 am
by -PJ-
A stick and a can
And a Kakadu man
Will the speaker speak up
Or the talker talk down
The world is no oyster and here in this town
****falls like rain on a world that is brown
I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: August 30, 2019, 10:31 am
by Sid
What about me - Shannon noll
Re: Best Australian song ever
Posted: September 12, 2019, 11:01 pm
by yeh raiders
Sid wrote: ↑August 30, 2019, 10:31 am
What about me - Shannon noll
Surely his rendition of Carrmmonnn Aussie Carrmmonnn gets a mention!?
