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Australian rock and soft rock classics from the 70s onward. Great playlist for your Australia Day party or if you are overseas and feeling homesick.
- 50 Years Of Australian Rock & Roll - YouTube
Beautiful collection of 66 classic Australian Rock tracks...
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- 50 Years Of Australian Rock & Roll - YouTube
- ‘You’re The Voice’ – John Farnham
- ‘Prisoner of Society’ – The Living End
- ‘Great Southern Land’ – Icehouse
- ‘Eagle Rock’ – Daddy Cool
- ‘My Happiness’ – Powderfinger
- ‘The Horses’ – Daryl Braithwaite
- ‘Boys in Town’ – Divinyls
- ‘Beds Are Burning’ – Midnight Oil
- ‘Tomorrow’ – Silverchair
- ‘Errol’ – Australian Crawl
In 1986, John Farnham’s career wasn’t doing too well. Following a stint fronting the Little River Band, he was back on the solo circuit, but considering his recent albums hadn’t performed that great, he was a little bit nervous. After wisely turning down the opportunity to perform ‘We Built This City’, he was given the opportunity to record ‘You’re...
Once in a while, a song comes around that encapsulates the feeling of a generation; the 60’s had their protest songs, the 80’s had songs about bad fashion, and Australians in the 90’s had ‘Prisoner Of Society’. Angsty, rebellious, and liberating, there’s hardly any Aussie who grew up in the last few decades who doesn’t know all the words to this so...
As Iva Davies once explained, the impetus for this song came from a trip to Uluru, in which he was taken aback by the natural beauty and wonderment that our fine country has to offer. The fact that he was able to write a song that so perfectly captures the feelings of many Australians, while making a chorus that dutifully compliments Australia, alm...
Long considered one of the greatest Aussie rock songs of all time, it’s easy to see why. It was catchy, fun, and unlike nothing we had ever seen before up until that point in Australia. A year after its release, Elton John visited Australia and was so taken aback by how good the song was that he teamed up with his usual collaborator Bernie Taupin t...
A brilliantly constructed song that describes the feeling of being away from the one you love, Aussies everywhere could relate to Powderfinger’s ‘My Happiness’ when it was released in 2000. With it’s perfectly catchy chorus, the song would go on to be one of Powderfinger’s most successful tracks, with it being the second Powderfinger song (in a row...
The biggest track from the former Sherbet frontman’s third studio album Risein 1990, ‘The Horses’ was actually a cover of a track written by Steely Dan member Walter Becker, and recorded by Rickie Lee Jones. Having caught the ear of Braithwaite by accident, he recorded his own version of it, which took it’s time to reach the #1 position on the char...
You’d be hard-pressed to find a debut single that sets the bar as high as this sultry stomper. When Chrissy Amphlett passed away in 2013, many in the Australian music industry cited this as one of their favourite songs ever, and it’s not hard to hear why. Amphlett would sing better on later tracks, and express her powerful sexuality more explicitly...
With a song as overtly political as ‘Beds Are Burning’, it’s no surprise that Midnight Oil have gone on to be considered one of the most important Australian bands of all time. A protest song, it was written as a plea for the Australian government to give the native Australian lands back to the Pintupi people, which was one of the most talked-about...
If you’re ever in need of an inferiority complex, just remember that the members of Silverchair were only 15 when they wrote and recorded this song. With the musical and songwriting abilities of musicians more than twice their age, the Silverchair lads went on to make some of their most memorable tracks before even reaching the age of 20. While son...
What could be more Australian than a track by a band whose name actually includes the word ‘Australian’ in it? Why, it would be a song by that very band about one of Australia’s most famous exports, actor Errol Flynn. Performed as a biography of Flynn himself, the track romanticises the life of one of the most famous swashbuckling actors of the gol...
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Rock music in Australia, also known as Oz rock, Australian rock, and Aussie rock, has a rich history, rooted in an appreciation of various rock genres originating in the United States and Britain, and to a lesser extent, in continental Europe and Africa.
- Iggy Azalea. “First things first” — Iggy Azalea will go down in history as the first Australian female rapper to successfully break through the US market.
- The Necks. I don’t care if this sounds hyperbolic but The Necks are one of the most important bands Australia has ever produced. Their influence on musicians across the musical spectrum has been profound.
- Air Supply. Air Supply roll out a scroll of hits so long, it may leave you breathless – “Even The Nights Are Better”, “Two Less Lonely People In The World”, “All Out Of Love”; they have become so much a part of the air that we breathe that we may not even realise.
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Everyone has their own idea of the “perfect band”. That idea of perfection may be in a form of songwriting, artwork, or their live performances.
Beautiful collection of 66 classic Australian Rock tracks from the last 50 years. Every true-blue Aussie should have one!!
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Aussie Rock Classics · Playlist · 70 songs · 506K likes.
Jan 26, 2024 · Powderfinger. Formed in Brisbane in 1989, the band released seven albums between '94 and 2009, five of which went to Number 1 in Australia. They split in 2010, much to the anguish of Aussie...
