GANGgajang - Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)
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- The timeless GANGgajang song. Written by Mark "Cal" Callaghan. Produced by Joe Wissert, Mark "Cal" Calaghan, Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup. From the double DVD "The Complete GANGgajang".
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SOUNDS OF THEN (THIS IS AUSTRALIA )
(M.Callaghan)
I think I hear the sounds of then,
And people talking,
The scenes recalled, by minute movement,
And songs they fall, from the backing tape.
That certain texture,that certain smell,
To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets,
In brick veneer on financed beds.
In a room, of silent hardiflex
That certain texture, that certain smell,
Brings home the heavy days,
Brings home the the night time swell,
Out on the patio we'd sit,
And the humidity we'd breathe,
We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think, this is Australia.
The block is awkward - it faces west,
With long diagonals, sloping too.
And in the distance, through the heat haze,
In convoys of silence the cattle graze.
That certain texture, that certain beat,
Brings forth the night time heat.
Out on the patio we'd sit,
And the humidity we'd breathe,
We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think that this is Australia.
To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets,
In brick veneer on financed beds.
In a room of silent hardiflex
That certain texture, that certain smell,
Brings forth the heavy days,
Brings forth the night time sweat
Out on the patio we'd sit,
And the humidity we'd breathe,
We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think, this is Australia.
This is Australia etc..
Some of the best songs I ever heard came from Australia 🇦🇺 Cheers from Texas!
Born in Australia (from Greek parents) .... now living in Greece. But my heart and soul will always be in Australia.
Hey my friend, my siblings are all half Greek, so i have some family that are from there. How is Greece doing recently? some kind of insider information if you will. - Australian
good for you
@@dylanbaker7090 If Greece ever becomes a cashless society, they will be the richest country in the world.
I'm Dutch and Aboriginal, my grandmother on my dad side is form Holland
Come back, you're always welcome!
love from canada, you aussies will always be our brothers & sisters
*me who knows Canada is right next to america*: Oh really? (And this was joke ok, Canadians are perfectly fine)
shots fired at americans?
@@tommytan2446 careful, they’ll fire back.
@@tommytan2446 fuckwit
As an Aussie that lived in Vancouver for 4 years, I couldn't agree more, I now split my love between two great countries.
I’m watching on the 14 of march 2024 in Australia 🇦🇺
What a gronk
@@Mark-vn8lp ok knobhead😂
@@Mark-vn8lpthank you 😀
18 August 2024. ❤❤
this is one of the songs that makes me feel proud to be an Australian
Yes!
+Alesha “Ally” Byrnes its Bogan anyone can call himself Australian
Somebody get John some commas and a full stop - STAT!! ;-)
+The Mudpit Oh dear! Very odd. Maybe he had a bit of a rough day... Commas, are always there, as are full stops. In grammer, I would say they were redlights. I am an Australian but, I live in Italy. All I hear is how great it is down under. Sorry fix it, STAT!
Bloody oath!
How can any Aussie not like this song it’s iconic!
This song is pure Queensland!
Fark off
Yes! 🍍
It’s more west Australia or Northern Territory, because west Australia and Northern Territory have more of that lighting over cane fields and humidity breathing.
@@vesnabernjak-ord8674 Since when have they been growing cane in WA or NT?
@@cliffleigh7450 for quite some time, I’m pretty sure since the mid 90’s some cane farms have sprung up. Not so much in WA but more in NT.
Anyone watching this 26 Jan 2023? Happy Australia day 🇭🇲🇭🇲🇭🇲
Watching exactly 1 year later! 😁
2024 babbyyy
26/01/2024
Nope
😂 great, bit crazy in 24 but forkem 🇦🇺 best in the world
I’m from america 🇺🇸but gosh dang I’ve never heard such good music from another country I love you Australia 🇦🇺 never quit with these amazing tunes ❤️I’ll live there one day
You should listen to Midnight Oil. They have some great music
These songs speak to a long gone Australia sadly
The fascination with the aspect and layout of a block of land is possibly the most Australian thing ever
I mean but it is intersting5
mostly how Queensland streets are made is what the song is about... especially bundy.
Have to admit the west-facing aspect and the slope don't sound good ...
- Especially when it faces west! 🥵
mate that slab is everything 😝
This is Australia all right. Heat and humidity and sitting on the patio the lightning in the distance. Extremes.
Australia,the best country in the world by a country mile
That song never gets old.
This song is pure Australian, oh the vibes we get!
Great song and another song not overly well known but still terribly Australian song is Double decker Blowfly by Chad Morgan it’s a simple ditty but captures rural Australia brilliantly.
45 degrees here in Middle Swan, WA today and this song just fits. This is Australia
Interestingly, Mark Calaghn, the songs writer, and his family migrated from England to Bundabergm Queensland, when he was a kid. He wrote the song to describe his early impressions of Australia. He caught the aussie 'essence' incredibly well (especially Queensland's) and it has since become somewhat of a classic aussie summer song.
This song always reminds me of my mum. :( I used to come home from school to find her singing along to this on the radio. It used to make me smile. Now that she's gone, when I listen to this I remember all those fond memories of her as she loved this song.
It's fine, thanks. Yeah to me it's mum's song. I still love listening to it though.
good
hey, it's alright.
Hope you're good
So sad. Play it loud for her mate😊.
Heard this song in the surfing movie North Shore. Love it
i grew up listening to it here in Brasil, , it was huge here in the 80's, heavy rotation in radios, my uncle was a surfer he was really into Aussie bands from that time, this song is amazing, Australia allways had great bands, remarkable ones, i will never get tired of this song, this song make me want to go there and i will, love it with all my heart.
How small a world we live in. This song took my heart in1980. It spoke to the heart.
But until reading your comment I had not realised it also had a home in Brasil.
And we ☆danced☆ and ☆sang☆
That's honestly awesome, because I know them personally :) I used to be in a band as a child, but no one wanted to meet these cool bands, I did, I'm only 30
80s australian music was/is HUGE in brazil.. makes me ashamed to not know many brazillian songs besides girl from ipanema.
I had no idea! That’s cool as!
This song reminds me of my dad. Sitting up on the porch in Darwin watching the thunder counting how far away it is and listening to the rain. One of the best times of my life.
born and raised in melbourne. fml.
This song reminds me of a childhood in FNQ
Brings my husband back to me, he loved this and played it amazingly on his guitar. We always sat on our deck and felt the humidity, and watched the lightening.
I use to do the same with my grandfather: watch the storms come over.
This is the Australian anthem. Period.
Should be the national anthem
Damn straight man
But we already have a decent anthem which doesn't invoke deities or foreign powers. But this one is indeed a bloody classic.
This is the most Aussie thing i've ever read, i'm nominating you for Australian of the Year.
Or 'Great Southern Land'
Fucking oath mate!
This takes me back to a good time in Australian life.
My dad's showing me a bunch of music and the ages of these comments are insane
How is Australia now? I always wanted to go there and used to chat to strayans on irc
@@RagedContinuum not good anymore
@@TheBaconeaterz why's that?
@@RagedContinuum Gone to shit.
I was a teen when this came out.
It was the best time to grow up in Australia ❤
I arrived here in 85, and this song became a huge hit at the end of that year - Australian summer.
I had to go up to QLD for work. Coal mining.
I remember sitting on the balcony at a cheap Best Western Motel watching the best thunderstorm I had ever seen.
I can still remember every second of it.
Coal-mining at Blackwater QLD?!?
I heard this song for the first time ever today, driving through the Yarra Valley in VIC. My family and I have lived here for over two years from the 'States, and are now going home. We will miss you Australia. I love this song, and I love your country. Thank you for being such gracious hosts. Good on ya'll! (just to Americanize your expression).
The beautiful Yarra Valley! I grew up there, but am now in South Australia. All the best back home in the States, you poor bugger! lol
20bluelilies I lived near the valley - now back to Brisbane where the lead singer came from
Bloody oath.. get a dog up ya!
the one thing about Australia, you live here for while, you meet amazing people from all walks of life, see the many sights our land has to offer, but there is one certainty, when you go somewhere else, you never forget the people you meet and you never forget the beauty of Australia.
Yarra junction, the footy fields, the Yarra river, nice place but winter is real there.
I'm a proud Aussie!! Love this song!! This is Australia!! you bet!
+francine wilson Its called proud Bogan!
+omgwookieno i listen to metal and wog music
its not that im a proud aussie (which i am) its that the rest of the world shit.
+vegan stoner Well said, I love it.
+ZS K Metal and Wog Music ... it was obvious you had Bi Polar ... Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi
I'm an immigrant to Australia. Man, this song goes hard!! 100% approved! :]
I'm a Yank, but happy Australia Day, y'all!
This is like one of those songs Australians absolutely love and if you ever tried to change it at a pub or bar you'd get abused and mobbed out in seconds.
Now we’re all singing this was Australia.
I should not have to apologise for the word I am about to say, but being an Aussie and so much Aussies here are watching this video, I think they will understand when I say:- Fuck me dead, we Aussies have some of the best music in the World! Even though most are from the 70s and 80s, even amongt the shit music we are getting these days that are tailored because america's influence, I'm glad some Aussie bands still insist on putting out purely beautiful music and singing of Australia at the same time, they are fucking legends.
copy that old mate.
Had!
Dead right, from the days of Johnny O Keefe right through Billy Thorpe, Brian Cadd, Little River Band, Air Supply and countless other great artists, fantastic music was produced here,
but was never encouraged by the powers that be, Aussies get no backing from their government, we led in the aircraft industry,Wright Bros had to buy patents from Laurence Hargrave to be able to fly, we had the Jindivik, a unpiloted aircraft, we built our own planes, what happened to that? Now we import everything from China, god help us when our music comes from there.
Nail on the head YOU FUCKING HIT IT MATE !
Very well said... im only a teenager and I still listen to this bloody great music because everything on our radios today is american shithouse autotune music... this music will never get old and never leave my mind.
When the writer explained the song meaning, it was exactly as I had imagined.
At that time I lived in Melbourne.
When Cal said it was about his life as a kid near Bundy he painted a perfect picture in music.
The song is a masterpiece.
might I add .. Being a guitarist that the lead work ain't too sloppy either
a lot of these comments are very old, lets hope this wonderful song isn’t lost 🇦🇺
A Month Later in reading your words 💚
It Will Never Be Lost 💚💚💚
I just discovered this band and this song
It's on here isn't it
This song will never die
it never will :)
this song reminds me of the smell of rain on hot bitumen
petrichor
Sound of rain on a tin roof
Wanjina
Y tho
Love it
This is Australia
Made me smile today. Driving through Auburn at 42 deg. Kickass.
this is one of the songs that makes me feel proud to be an Australian
I'm a proud Aussie!! Love this song!! This is Australia!! you bet!
Who's listening on Australia Day?
Still strong 2024 🎉❤🎉 this is Australia ❤
This song makes me feel so proud to be an Aussie.
I'm from Argentina, i have some friends living in Australia. Love that land, the music both modern and native, i would like to live there!!!
This is Australia. . . Totally unique, totally awesome. I love living in the Top End !!!
Makes me feel all patriotic and very proud to be an Australian! Gangajang are great!
I first heard this classic on the day I landed in Australia 🇦🇺 for the first time 😊A befitting 'welcome song ' to Australia 🇦🇺 Spent one of the most beautiful and memorable phases of my life there ❤ ♥ 💜
You need to come back bro. 🇭🇲
@@DevonRexLady thank you 😊 🙏 I will certainly visit Beautiful Australia 🇦🇺 ❤
Where are you originally from?
@@miami1593 Bhutan 🇧🇹 ♥
Definitely a "feel good" song....YES, Australia is BEAUTIFUL! 😊
Best country in the world :)
Best ever song about Australia. The words are perfect!
This song makes remember really good times in Brazil, going to the south, Parana, Santa Catarina states, listening sound like this, Men at Work, Hoodoo Gurus, Australian Crawl, Inxs, Spy vs Spy, traveling looking for the waves, Australian music is very popular in all the beaches cities in the south of Brazil. They made a lots of shows in this area!!
This is Australia like the music
True mate! Hows the kids Dave?
this song never gets old it will always be a legendary song 😍🥰😘♥❤♥❤
heard this on my first trip to Australia in 1985 and have always loved it.
This is the story of Australia. The lyrics and music demonstrates how great are Australians and their talent. Simply the best.
Love you Australia.
mark cal .true gentlemen meet him at mittagong golf club and his wife ..best song ever grew up with this unique band .....❤❤❤
This was the first song I heard when I arrived in Australia in 1985. What great memories and great people were in store for me. I love you Austrailia!
This is the song that inspired me to move to Cairns in ‘97 and this is the song the reason my kids were born thank you gangjang
My brother introduced me this band when I was 12, now I'm 18. I can't explain the feeling when I listen to these songs. So many memories come to my mind. Thank you GANGgajang. Hi from Brazil !
now your 28 wow
@@volgswithjack Time flies! And here we are listening to this masterpiece again!
This is without any doubt the most epic of all Australian songs. It just capture the true essence of living in Queensland . Well done boys and thank you very much for the CD . You should be so proud of this amazing song.
American here: this song is amazing. Almost 40 years later, I have not forgotten it.
Brazil here and this song is one of the best ever. Not like the crap you hear nowadays on the radio. I say bring back the REAL musicians like 'em and spy and hoodoo gurus . Love it
This is one of my favorite music videos to ever exist
This is Australia (1985) one of the best song.
One of the best country to live.Once you live in Australia then you can't live anywhere else. Trust me that's coming from an immigrant. Love you Australia.
New Zealand is better
Which will be why so many kiwis live in OZ? Love NZ too bro...@@jbro8934
@@caretakerfoch6103 they're both awesome places bro! Aussies and kiwis rule!
sudhir singh I tried leaving once to return to Europe. I had chronic homesickness for the entire 11 months I was away, then nearly kissed the airport tarmac when I landed again. I cherish every day here
@@sovereignspirit7640 : I was the same. Came to this great country in 1964 as a teenager but had a dream of going back for a holiday one day. After 52 years I finally decided and spent 6 weeks in my country of birth. It was a great time reliving the memories of the past but still missed Australia. When the plane landed in Sydney, I was so glad and relaxed to be home again.
PROUD TO BE AUSTRALIAN !!! LESSS GOOO THIS IS AUSTRALIA
this song brings back many happy memories of a time in my life when i didn't know much about anything, and the radio seemed to play all of my dad's favourite songs
With Australia Day, 6 days away, I know that I will be playing this song along with "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse...great song with great lyrics....
+Catherine Correia Don't forget Solid Rock by Goanna
Stephenie Tsundere San thanks for that! What a great track!!!! Hope your Australia Day was the best. It is 6.35 pm here in Perth and the heat has just about gone and we are waiting for the fireworks to start....
Catherine Correia Wow it's 9:07 pm here and yes it was fairly decent ^_^
Sounds great! You must be in the eastern states. Enjoy the rest of your evening, if you are back to work tomorrow., I hope that your day goes quick....
Love the choices. gotta Chuck on AC/DC too. :)
I'm a pom, but I love this song, heard the last time i was there back in 2003, never get tired of hearing it, love it and I love Australia!
Travelling in NT and WA in the 80s. This was always in the cassette player.
Still a bloody great song that captures the physical essence of living in north Queensland . The images of symbols so important to Aussies is genius . Its a song this 63 year old still loves , part of my life now .
This tune is part of my life soundtrack. I lived in Mossel Bay, South Africa and a bad copy of this album landed with me from a very stoned Aussie surfer. Took me years before I was A> able to identify the band and B> managed to buy an actual copy of the album. Top song but I can easily still listen to that album on repeat after all these years
This is one of my favourite Aussie songs. Having lived in the FNQ with the humidity and cane fields when this came out.
A classic and quintessentially Australian song.
Can relate to this, living Mackay QLD
And I'm from Brisbane, where I am currently experiencing a good storm with lots of rain thunder and lightning which made me think of this song
A song written in my home town of Bundaberg, Queensland!! Get up here and check it out. Awesome song and sums up our bloody awesome life here in Australia.
Clinton Honor yea,cracks ova canefields
I love Bundy
Bundy is a shithole. But I got dragged up in Maryborough so you know where I'm coming from.
Soon as I heard cane fields knew it had to be north qld
Bundaberg Ginger Ale ??
Recently heard some drunk bloke in a caravan park singing it. We shared a chorus & I staggered back to my camp site.
2019 this is still Australia.
♥
REMINDS ME OF THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD AUSTRALIA
Used to be.
I’m loving this old song more and more over the years…
Out on the elections, we'd vote
And all the construction, we'd pay
We watch the transport, always evolving
And laugh and think, this is Victoria
Hell yeah from Geelong
boop boopbeepboobooboop boop beep beep beep boop boop
Sup from Perth
Inside our lonely homes, we'd sit
And Daniel Andrews, we'd watch
He'd tell us just two, more weeks
Cry and think, this is Victoria for most of the last two years
@@nickm8355 👍
I can't believe I've never heard this before....it's brilliant!!.
Made me smile today. Driving through Auburn at 42 deg. Kickass.
Albo brought us here
31st PM of Australia 🇦🇺
Donald glover: Shoots someone "This is America"
GANGgajang: Watches lightning crack over cane fields, laughs and thinks "This is Australia"
LOL, so true!!!
FkN A, nailed it.
had many drinks to this over the years, out on the patio we sit and the humidity we breathe but living in Melbourne there was no lightning cracking over the cane fields.
tom simunsen Ayr,Burdekin sno
tom simunsen Mate I'm from Bundaberg and I often remember watching the lightning crack over canefields on a hot humid night. 👍
tom simunsen lots of rain tho. I'm from Portland
just a lot of drizzle...ha and no schooners of tooheys new..
Interesting. I've never had a drink to this.
I had the wonderful good fortune to spend some time with Chris Bailey and Buzz about 10 years ago. Chris was a beautiful person. He lamented the fact that the record company still owned the song and controlled the way it was used. It is one of best songs of Australia.
When I hear this song reminds me why I love Australia so much. Best place on earth.
Guess that's why so many people want to come here.
I'm a proud Aussie!! Love this song!! This is Australia!! you bet!
this song reminds me of the smell of rain on hot bitumen
without a doubt one of my favourite aussie songs...love it!
man, we reaLLY HAD ALOT OF TALENT IN THE 80'S...wheres it all gone??
***** and yes I grew up on my uncles cane fields every summer in good old Harwood island
***** I know right
stephen dwyer right! Your a local? Know the Youngs?
stephen dwyer Which news agent. There are two now, perhaps maybe more.
A bloody Aussie classic
Aussie songs are the best❤
Yeh this song is solid gold Aussie anthem material
A couple of weeks ago I was on a boat coming back from the Great Barrier Reef when they played a video of that day out on the reef. Everyone was laughing, smiling, waving and giving thumbs up over the warm water and beautiful coral and fish.
And this is why I love Australia...
gone back to the reef since?
As a drummer it is always interesting to watch Bidstrup playing with left hand ostinato. Saw them live in the late 80s...what a treat.
Most blessed and beautiful country EVER!
Still a bloody great song in 2023
Awesome thanks, every time I'm sitting sweltering I think of this song,
This is Australia
Made me smile today. Driving through Auburn at 42 deg. Kickass.
This has to be Australia's national anthem...
This is Australia
Made me smile today. Driving through Auburn at 42 deg. Kickass.
Strewth, I've been after this classic aussie hit for awhile now. Glad i found it! Classic Aussie Music at it's prime!!
Awesome blokes.
Who's listening on Australia Day?
Made me smile today. Driving through Auburn at 42 deg. Kickass.
If I could pick a national anthem this would be the national anthem mark my words this song is awesome and deadly
What a top all Aussie song!! Brilliant images!
Heard this for the first time after moving to Sydney. I was later shocked to find it’s not a Billy Idol song because he sounds so much alike… does remind me of humid summer days in Queensland!
This has to be Australia's national anthem...
This. Or Down Under. Or You're the Voice - many great Aussie tunes to choose from! But growing up as a 1990s kid the first songs I ever associated with Australia were those of Savage Garden.
True
+Pritish Appadoo Khe Sanh. many years ago a mate of mine was in the USA - Las Vegas actually and he went past a bar late in the evening, there was strains of 'Khe Sanh' coming out. He went inside to find about 6 drunken Aussies arms around each other screaming it out. He joined the group that started as 3, when other Aussies heard it they stopped in and joined as well. On his travels later to England he tried the trick himself with his amte and yep Aussies from everywhere stopped in and joined. I reckon it is about the only song most Aussies of all ages know from start to finish when drunk
an aussie comedian sung our current anthem to working class man. sounded epic. look up working class anthem
@@leagueofawesome5465 Adam Hills sang it to the music of Working Class Man...works surprisingly well.
Land down under and this song.....brings tears whenever i am away from my beloved australia....
❤love this song nice tune