Skyhooks, Sherbert, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Australian Crawl, Noiseworks, The Church, The Angels, Mental As anything, Paul Kelly etc etc are all fantastic musicians & artists from the late 70' & 80's . We had a great pub rock scene & were lucky enough to have some of the best music in the world made here, there are so many great artists & songs down this rabbit hole, too many to mention but I.m sure you will enjoy discovering the treasures in that rabbit hole.
Oz pop/rock is legendary (especially mid-70s to mid-80s, when I was a kid and teenager 😅) So many great bands/songs that weren't in this video: When the War is Over, Flame Trees and Forever Now (Cold Chisel), Taxi Mary (Jo Jo Zep), Don't Change (INXS, pronounced 'in excess'), Take Me Back to You (Noiseworks), Are You Old Enough and Rain (Dragon), Bitter Desire (Kids in the Kitchen), No Secrets (Angels), No Tragedy (Radiators), Pressure Sway (Machinations), 50 Years (Uncanny X-Men), Hold On (Models), One Perfect Day (Little Heroes) .... so, so many for you to check out!!
We have always been blessed with outstanding musicians in every genre; but for Rock/Pop Bands the list is endless. I would add: Paul Kelly, Paul Kelly and probably Paul Kelly.
For the story, From Little Things BIg Things Grow for sure as it's such an important song about Aboriginal history. But Dumb Things & To Her Door are just great representatives of Australian rock sound in general@@drbosommd
the rock scene in the late 70's - 80's and early 90's in Australia was huge, so many amazing bands and songs - there was also great bands coming out of New Zealand who came to Australia who joined our musicians to make it amazing to be around
The Pub Band scene in the 80's was massive and Countdown was perhaps the most popular weekly TV show, which promoted mostly local acts. So many singers and their bands refined their artistry over years of hard grinding and were rewarded if their records sold. I couldn't name a successful Aussie Band in the last 20 years. Perhaps Bachelor Girl.
@@BigGen222 Silverchair and Hunters & Collectors also among the best in the 90's. Painters & Dockers were amazing as a gig band, but barely grazed the charts. A bit too crude for mainstream.
ACDC are Australian Bon Scott went from Perth to Adelaide and they use to play at the Largs Peir hotel one of my local hotels. Where they use to practice was at the end of my street though I was too young to see them in those day.
Yep... the 80s was my era... all the pub bands I went to see, Farnsy and Barnsy at Rod Laver. Cold Chisel, etc. INXS was only our BIGGEST international export of the 80s. HUGE internationally. Get on them!!! You'll LOVE them ❤❤❤
I really enjoyed that. Knew every single song. My favourite AC/DC song is ‘Long Way to the Top’. 80’s music in Oz was fantastic. Wish I could go back to those days 👍🇦🇺
Cold Chisel - I would recommend "You've Got Nothing I Want" - their song aimed at the US record companies who disrespected them, "Cheap Wine" or "Khe Sanh" - an unofficial Aussie anthem about Vietnam. If it's played overseas, every Aussie of a certain generation in the place will sing along! Jimmy Barnes (singer) is a dead-set legend and still going strong.
The Aussie rock scene came out of the pub and club circuit. ALL of these bands you have watched toured non stop, played munltiple times a weeks all over the country, so they were all VERY musically tight and professional before they even saw a recording studio. this circuit sprang up in the early '60's and was at its peak in the '80's. After the '80's the scene changed, live bands at pubs was slowly phased out to the point that today there is no circuit really....and no new bands or artists coming through from that route....where in the past they ALL came from there. It's very sad to see the demise of this very important breeding ground for talent. This is why the Aussie music scene was so vibrant with so many legendary musicians. And if you were from New Zealand, you came to Australia to make your mark, as the NZ audience was too small to make a good living off. It was a privilege to grow up here in that era, we had all of that, plus the best of British and the USA playing on our radios!!
Saying the bands don’t do the pub scenes anymore is so untrue I’ve seen some of these bands in pubs and I also follow a lot of these bands and the quite often play in pubs all over the country when they are touring.
@@sammylangford8858 You are missing the point. I grew up in the 70's and 80's, and I can tell you FOR SURE that the pub circuit is askeleton of what it used to be. I grew up in Lithgow, a small town which you wouldn't think big artists would bother to tour, but they did, and I saw nearly all of them right at home. That does not happen any more, even in bigger places, like Bathurst and Orange, it is rare to see a big name band in these places too(unless its for a special occasion like the Bathurst 1000 race). But when I was youger I saw Dragon, INXS, Men at Work, The Angels, Rose Tattoo, Mental as Anything, Flowers(Icehouse), 1927, Split Enz, Cold Chisel, Diesel, Hoodoo Gurus, and many more in my little hometown -while they were big and currently in the charts too!!! That simply does not happen any more. I'd love for it to come back, but what is there now is nothing compared to what used to be there. Cheers, and keep supporting up and coming acts.
@@davidmccarthy6390 maybe New South Wales aren’t so big on pub scenes and more but I come from Queensland and I can tell you that we still get big 80’s bands up here and I lived in Brisbane growing up and I grew up I the 70’80’90’s and I live in a little country town in Queensland now and they are still playing the pubs in brizzie and our little Queensland towns and big ones too just as much as they ever were except during the COVID lockdown.
The 80s was definitely a decade for life. So much great music. Too many great talents came out of Australia and didnt make it on the world stage but we loved them all in Australia. Very proud.
Rock Music history in Australia beginnings 1950's to present day 2023. Being 72 now I was just a 10 years old when it began for me and has never stopped. I love Aussie rock!
I migrated here in 1980 from the UK and was totally astonished at the scene in the 80’s. The Church, Divinyls, Sunnyboys, Icehouse, Mondo Rock, Hunters and Collectors. Australia has been producing great music since the 80’s. A lot of the ones on show here are very mainstream though. Powderfinger in the 90’s and on… If you want to update to now: Tame Impala, Karnivool, The Butterfly Effect, Dead Letter Circus, Osaka Punch, The Presets, Empire of the Sun.
Jimmy Barnes was the lead singer of Cold Chisel - so that is.a younger Jimmy up front there and the entire band. They were absolutely a pub rock band and brilliant 💯
Surprised I don't see mentions of Jimmy's childhood in Scotland in the comments. Also anyone who appreciates an incredible vocal talent should listen to more Jimmy & Cold Chisel. And miraculously can still hit those notes til this day.
I’d recommend listening to the full version of most of these. I think you’ll like most of them 😊 and don’t forget howzat by sherbet, it became a cricket anthem.
As an Aussie this was the sounds of my youth. 2 of the biggest Kiwi (NZ) bands were Split Enz (I got you) they later became Crowded House. One of the biggest songs was from Dragon (April Sun in Cuba). Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphlett was a stone-cold fox. The Divinyls was played very very loudly at my place. We lived beside a conservative church & on the sabbath we'd crank up Chrissy's, I touch myself. Booohahaha!!! let's just say it didn't go over too well.
Australia is unique in that the bands and singers have a small audience to capture, and they had to do it in pubs. That means they had to appeal to everyone so they either mixed genres in the songs, or at least across their sets. If you weren't keen on one song on the night, you used that time to go and grab a drink and by the time you came back 'your' music was playing again. If you didn't like the start of a song, you could probably still hum the tune or sing the chorus, if not ignore it and tune back in again in a couple of minutes.
Same in New Zealand, although audiences much smaller, which is why so many Kiwi musicians moved to Australia. And lots of Aussie bands would hop across the ditch and tour NZ. 60s, 70s, 80s fantastic time for Down Under music.
I really enjoyed that - we are such a talented bunch! Gangajang - Sounds of Us is a great Aussie anthem. Great Southern Land - Icehouse is also. Soooo many. Thanks
Great reaction. INXS were a phenomenal band.. I saw them a few times in Sydney. I’ve seen many bands play live over the yrs and I think that Michael hutchence (RIP) from INXS is probably the best front man I have seen play live. Anything from the Wembley concert is sublime…❤
WOW, what a flashback to my childhood. Those bands and songs were everywhere growing up, RAGE on ABC was always good over a weekend to catch the video clips. I'm not old enough to remember Countdown on the first run, but plenty of re-runs since. Count Down is a show worth looking up too. ABC tv channel had some great shows over the time. 81 model here and grew up with parents who loved all this music. Cheers Mate, Keep up the good work!
Mat... When the rest of the world had basically given up on rock and roll, in the 80s Australia absolutely excelled. Pubs were full of patrons because for Aussie bands,pubs were their livelihood. Hence Australia's Pub Rock scene. If a band here couldn't play well Live..they didnt make it,as Aussie crowds let them know very quickly. Apart from AC\DC,the biggest Oz bands were, Cold Chisel, Divinyls, the Angels, Australian Crawl, Midnight Oil, INXS...... Apart from those,another personal fave is Spy vs Spy(v.Spy v.Spy). They are like Midnight Oil lyrically. A socially aware kickass 3piece group..'Dont Tear it Down', 'Credit Cards', The Golden Mile, Sallie-Anne,.......... Have a listen for sure!👍 There's SO many more Oz groups from the 80's that really rocked!🤘 Best and most memorable concert I went to was INXS at Wembley Stadium in '91 while i was there for 3 years. Checkout tracks from that concert as they we're at their peak and the biggest band in the world at the time. Fun Fact.. it was an all-day concert, with many bands playing before INXS came on to headline. The bands were..Hothouse Flowers, Deborah Harry(Blondie), Jesus Jones, Roachford, Jellyfish. The best vibe I've ever felt at a concert!✌️ ..& the tickets were cool af!..still have👍 🍻
Gangajang - Sounds of Then is just a great tune about being in Australia. It doesn’t particularly reference anything Indigenous, but one mentioned earlier ‘Solid Rock’ by Goanna absolutely does. They’re both absolute bangers too. INXS (In Excess) is our most talented and best international act. AC/DC have sold more, but they were way more formulaic. If you want to react to any of their stuff, anything from the ‘Live Baby Live’ concert at Wembley is the place to be. They were phenomenal live. Biggest band in the world for awhile. Most underrated band featured in this clip for me is ‘1927’, they were absolutely superb. It’s absolutely criminal that the Angels didn’t feature, and our best (or at least, my favourite) rock band formed in ‘89, but didn’t release their first album until ‘91, and that’s the Baby Animals.
Little River Band were MUCH bigger than INXS and won more international awards and even their song 'Reminiscing' was considered by both John Lennon and Frank Sinatra to be one of their favourite songs. It was also one of the most played on radio. Glenn Frey from the Eagles publicly commented that he thought LRB were the best vocal band in the world.
@@voxac30withstrat I love LRB but INXS had 18 Billboard hits to LRBs 13 and have sold 95 million to LRBs 25 million based on Wikipedia. So not sure how you can support your claim.
Cold Chisel are Australia's greatest all time band that never went international like John Farnham. Followed by INXS then ACCA DACCA. Great Southern Land is Australia's song, gives u chills as an Aussie to hear it, even our mens cricket team use Great Southern Land each time they take the field to bat or bowl & it does give u chills & a tear in ya eye sitting in the crowd so dunno how it makes our Aussie cricketers feel
Such a great era to have been alive in the 80s. There are quite a few songs that we have as unofficial anthems. However one song from the 80’s that stand out and did not get a mention is a song by Austen Tayshus called Australiana. With a play on our language….. Not sure you’d get all the lingo. Some of the bands featured like Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Little River Band, Air Supply, Mondo Rock and INXS actually formed in the 70’s. Add to that Skyhooks, Sherbert, Fraternity. Split Enz featured here we’re from New Zealand from the 70’s, and the Lead singer of Crowded House, Neil Finn was in this band. Dragon was also a 70’s band from NZ PS In the 60’s we had The Seekers, Billy Thorpe, Russell Morris, John Farnham (known as Johnny Farnham at this time), The Easybeats, Zoot (Rick Springfield of Jessie’s Girl fame was in this band, as was Beeb Birtles from Little River Band), Max Merritt (NZ), and others including Jeff St John, Doug Parkinson. One year in the 60’s a band called The Beatles came to tour Australia and I think that had a lot of impact on our musicians. I’m sure I’ve missed a few names, but I hope this helps.
Nice reaction video. This list of 50 songs are class acts but gee whiz there is another 100 great songs behind screaming to be on the list. My favourite band is Icehouse and my favourite tracks from them are Great Southern Land, Electric Blue and Man of Colours. The list should have included just one song by each artist or band. It missed the likes of Paul Kelly, Machinations, Kate Ceberano, Noiseworks, Misex, Choriboys. Jenny Morris.
ACDC are absolute legends. One of their first hits with original singer Bon Scott features bagpipes. When Bon passed, they made the album Back in Black and contiued to be a huge worldwide success. I would recommend. "Thunderstruck" (Vevo - official video) . Angus Young is an amazing guitarist, as was brother Malcolm (RIP). Their big brother George was in The Easybeats" who were an international success in the 60s.
Mate, that's my childhood in 5 minutes. Just take any of those songs and bands and listen. Just fantastic stuff. A lot of Aussie rock at this time came from the Pub Band scene. A big rabbit hole for you to jump into. Kiwis well represented in there too - Split Enz, The Swingers and Dave Dobbin. 😎 Does make me feel a little old though. 😅
Bon Scott and the Young brothers were 10 years old or younger when their families migrated to Australia. Calling AC/DC a Scottish band is a massive stretch.
I don't think he was calling ACDC a Scottish band, he was just saying the members were originally from Scotland, just like Jimmy Barnes. We have adopted them, or more importantly, they adopted Australia as their home country, like John Farnham and The Bee Gees originally hailed from the UK. They grew up here and that's what counts, lol.
@@utha2665 I agree with you. However these bands learnt their chops in Australia/NZ. If they had stayed in the UK, maybe would have never played music.
Some great Aussie anthems that makes me feel super patriotic: GANGgajang- Sounds of Then Icehouse- Great Southern Land Coachbombaymusic (Terry Man)- Straya (for funsies, recommend reacting to this song!) My mother loves Split Enz. They're a New Zealand band, but were very popular in Australia. Her favourite song is '6 months in a leaky boat' .. Fun fact, they disbanded, moved to Australia and formed iconic Australian rock band Crowded House
Such a good nostalgic list . Live rock pub music was huge in the 80’s and spawned some great bands and extended into the 90’s as well with bands like powderfinger from Brisbane
Thanks, mate, for all the memories. The 80's was my decade - 15 to 25 years old - including all of my high school years, the years playing in the bands I joined and played drums and percussion. First kiss, first ... well, you know.... [8-O So much really good music happened in the 80's. Secks, dreugs, rock'n'effin'roll. Aahhh, back to my walking-stick now. ;-P \m/ 0_o \m/ Cheers from the land Downundah, mate.
When in a pub in Denmark, i would say about 20-25% of the songs played are Australian. All pubs and clubs play the same stuff. House arrest by sofi tucker, touch myself by divinals, tip of my tounge by diesel, moving blind by dom dolla.
That was a great compilation :) in those days you could go to any suburb in Sydney and a live band would be playing! Then residents complained about the noise and so councils banned vertually all live music in pubs...
New Zealand music in the 80's ? you haven't heard the half of it !! It was epic. Flying Nun, Dunedin bands. Worth a video all of its own. The Chills, Split Enz, Netherworld Dancing Toys, The Bats, Look Blue Go Purple, The Mockers, Dragon, Hello Sailor.. the list goes on and on and on... (and on and on).
I was in my 20s in the 80s and lived in Christchurch and the pub rock scene was amazing. Great bands to be heard at The Hillsborough, The Gladstone, Star and Garter, Aranui, Sandridge to name a few venues. The Dunedin Sound was awesome, lots of Dunedin bands came up to ChCh. There was fabulous rock/pop on both sides of the ditch in the sixties, seventies, and the eighties, and the rock concerts were wild (e.g. Cold Chisel at the ChCh Town Hall, Little River Band at QE2 park) . Kiwi and Aussie music was monumental during that time, and still is. I listen to it every day.
The Young family did come from Scotland, I would go to there house in Burwood, you see I was the president of the Easybeats fan club, there brother George was in a band called the Easybeats. I can still remember their mum and dad, they were lovely people so real
Kudos for being a fan of the Easybeats. I think they have had a very big influence on the musicians after them. They were just before my time, but I really enjoy their music.
Air Supply and Rick Springfield were a big success in USA, Little River Band too! AC/DC were Scots, the children of Scots immigrants to Australia, Bon Scott was their original and best singer - he also played the bagpipes! Look up "Long Way to the Top"! 🤗 Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel, "Working Class Man", "Cheap Wine", anything! 😃 Dragon, were actually from New Zealand, but became huge in Australia! Split Enz/Crowded House, were New Zealanders too, big Aussie successes! Icehouse, "Man of Colours"! INXS, "Never tear us apart" lots of great songs! John Farnham, amazing! Ian Moss, wow! Daryl Braithwaite, "One Summer"! Paul Kelly is not mentioned, Bee Gees, Nick Cave, etc, etc! 😃🎶🥰
No Angels or Paul Kelly, wtf, it had Angry Anderson”s solo garbage but left out two of the most iconic Aussie music figures/ bands. Should have had Hoodos and Rose Tattoo as well.
most of this music is pub rock, it's designed to be an engaging live performance and it still baffles me how i grew up with this music to the shite that's around now. there's too many greats in that era i'd just recommend listening to all of them forever. but moving pictures what about me is a lyrical masterpiece and the divinyls will blow you away.
Matt Air Supply were big in the US and had a number of hits over there. Artists like AC/DC , INXS, Midnight Oil, Olivia, Little River Band just to name a few were pretty well known around the world but there was also a long list of exceptional talent who stayed closer to home. I was fortunate enough to have seen quite a few on that list perform at local venues - in Australia it was called pub rock. Cold Chisel wrote a song Called The Star Hotel which was about a riot where the crowd took to the streets in my hometown of Newcastle attacked the police and overturned their police cars after the popular Star Hotel venue had been shut down. Heroes were playing there that night and they were accused later by police of performing a song in order to start the riot its worth checking out the old news footage or bettter the Utube video but its a bit long.
This really was some nostalgia. You should check out more INXS (AUS) and Crowded House (NZ) - beautiful songs. In my opinion, these are real songs that will last the time, instead of some of the throw away music we have these days. Thanks for sharing, these were all great and bought back so many memories.
INXS (pronounced “in excess”) were a great new wave/rock band - started out in the late 70s. Their Kick album is a classic. I snuck into a big services club in my hometown to see them live as a teen 😅 when they’d already been around for 10 years. The pub music scene was huge in the 70s and 80s and lots of the big acts from that era started out in pubs. The Angels, the Divinyls, Rose Tattoo, Hunters & Collectors to name just a few
DD Smash, The Dudes, Sharon O'Neill, Hello Sailor, The Exponents, Split Enz, Jenny Morris, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Dave McArtney & the Pink Flamingos and heaps of others. And as others said Hunters & Collectors, The Church, the Angels etc. Lots of great memories.
INXS - wow, where does one start? Dozens of great songs. Their peak, for me, are the albums The Swing, Listen Like Thieves, and Kick. Worth a deep dive!
Split Enz were a great Kiwi band that made it in Australia. The became a band called Crowed House, again, still a great band. As an Aussie I had every album as did most Aussies. We have and still have top Aussie bands. Unfortunately, a lot of pubs these days don't have live bands any more because that is where most of our great bands and single artist started from.
I turned 12 in 1980 and had just started listening to popular music, so this was the music of my teens. My favourites from this list were Split Ends - I got you, Cold Chisel - Cheap wine, The Swingers - Counting the beat, Diviynls - Boys in town, Moving Pictures - What about me, Goanna - Solid Rock, Gangajang - Sounds of then, and quite a few more. Just about a few of the artists, Split Enz is a Kiwi band that made it huge in Australia too. When they split up a few of them formed Crowded House and became even bigger. You should listen to a few songs from both bands, they were fantastic. The Swingers were another Kiwi band and their song Counting the beat was a huge hit and I still love it to this day. Cold Chisel are a band you should delve into, they had some of the best Aussie Rock hits of the 70s and 80s. Then their lead singer Jimmy Barnes went onto a hugely successful solo career. Actually he has two Aussie anthems, Khe Sahn (Cold Chisel) and Working Class Man (Barnsey) Divinyls had this gorgeous lead singer, Chrissy Amphlett and they had quite a few hits, my favourite was the one featured in this video, Boys in town. Moving Pictures' song, What about me was a massive hit over here. Other Aussie bands that were huge also were The Angels, Australian Crawl, Mondo Rock, The Church, Midnight Oil (My Favourite) Dragon, Mental as Anything, Hunters & Collectors and INXS.
There so so many amazing songs missing in this listing. The 80's in Australia were amazing so many concerts to go to we were spolied for choice and artists still doing the pub scene before they were all converted into pokie venues.
I grew up in 80's and 90's in Australia and I'd say that was the peak of Australian rock and pop music, i barely listen to anything from after the year 2000 nowadays. Perhaps I'm just nostalgic for music of my youth but newer music doesn't seem as creative or original as the older stuff. Some great Australian stuff from 60's and 70's I've discovered too .
Many, many songs could be added to that. Mental's "To Many Times" & "Nips Are Getting Bigger", Hunters & Collectors "Holy Grail" & ""Throw Your Arms Around Me", Mondo Rock"s "No Time", Aussie Crawl's "Boys Light Up" & "Shutdown", Painters & Dockers" "Nude School", Fini Scad's "Coppertone", Screaming Jets' "Better", more Oils, etc etc etc.
Big Pig-I cant break away , Noiseworks- Touch , The Angels-No Secrets , Party Boys-He's gonna step on you again , Yothu Yindi - Djapana ( Jab a nana), Boom Crash Opera-Onion skin, Sunnyboys-alone with you , tina Arena - Sorrento Moon ,
That song your soccer team uses, the band had a long time crew member diagnosed with an incurable lung disease, just after his diagnosis, this song was released and he is in the film clip. He passed away not long after its release. RIP, Derby.
Not 80's but... you may have heard the song by Paul Kelly , "From Little Things, Big Things Grow' , a song about aboriginal land rights and the story of Vincent Lingiari. This version is performed by Electric Fields and partly sung in indigenous language. I think you would like it - it is very powerful. (The tall stranger mentioned who put the sand through Vincent's hand was then-Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.) th-cam.com/video/ao7GOymvhsw/w-d-xo.html
Members of AC/DC were born in Scotland. That's why they have had names like Angus and Malcolm and "Bon" etc. But they met and formed the band as adults in Australia after their parents migrated in the 60's (ish). The "Young" brothers are related to the elder "Young" brother from the band "The Easybeats" that found limited success overseas in the '60s. After "The Easybeats" disbanded the elder brother became a music producer (as well as a sometimes writer and performer) and urged his younger brothers to form a band which became AC/DC.
It's hard to separate the Aus/NZ bands as they often had mixed lineups from both countries. Bands like the Black Sorrows, Crowded House, Noiseworks and on and on. INXS - Live Baby Live from Wembley Stadium pick any song it's one of the great concerts and recordings of all time. Could say the same of AC/DC Live at Riverplate in Argentina.
Black Sorrows definitely underrated when discussing great Aussie music. Featured two of the best ever vocalists to come out of Oz, Vika & Linda Bull. I grew up listening to their albums, they're so solid.
Love you channel . Australian Crawl (James Reyne lead singer ) Split Enz were huge with Neil and Tim Finn (NZ) then later becomes Crowded House . Ian Moss (song Tuckers Daughter) was with Cold Chisel Made a real name for himself as a solo. Ice House is definately a band worth looking at Iva Davies (front man with the awesome hair) so many great songs from the 80's. I am seeing Ice House in feb looking foward to that as I have never in my 61 years seen them live.. INXS were huge , Midnight Oil of course .. Band not in either of the 2 compilation i have just watched had The Black Sorrows dissappointed as they had 2 sisters Vikka and Linda Bull still performing and releasing albums. The 80's were amazing late 70's also . Another one you could look at is 1927 the released a album Ish and another one not as popular but definately Look them up. They are still touring with their front man Eric Weiderman and still releasing music. The years have not been kind to Eric and a lot of other 80's but we get to see our classic 80s singers and bands through the Red Hot Summer Tour which happens every summer here . We wont be seeing John Farnham perform again due to the jaw cancer he has battled over the past year and a bit. He is doing well but we have not seen John for a very long time. Such a ripping bloke and kept a lot of musicians in work all over the past 30 years... AC/DC just iconic
Usually these compilation videos are rubbish but that was fn perfect! For five minutes I was 17 again. Could there have been other songs/artists? For sure, The Angels, Spy v Spy and Hoodoo Gurus to name a few, but this was still a pretty good representation of what the 80’s were like. As I’ve gotten older, I started to think my teenage self was rather insular in my music tastes, sticking mostly to Aussie acts. This is a good reminder of why. We just had so much homegrown good stuff we didn’t need to look any further.
Back in the 60's when Britpop was exploding, there was a British music ban on Australian radio in an attempt to encourage local bands, which led to the Pub Rock era we all loved so much. So all these bands can technically thank The Beatles for giving them their big break! 🤣🤣
Good list. Some I can think of to add could be Russell Morris, The The, The Saints, The Sunny Boys, Daddy Cool, the Easybeats, The Triffids, Soundworks, Kate Cebrano, Hunters and Collectors, Matt Finish. ☺️
Crowded house. Australian New Zealand band. In the US there is a list of bands who’ve had 1 song played over a million times on radio. Crowded house were one of 10 to have 2 songs in the million play list
Yeah. Bee Gees, Boom Crash Opera, Rockmelons, Hunters, Wedding Party, Mondo Rock, Jenny Morris... there are a lot that could have been on there. It would be 8 hours long though :)
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The Angels were missed form this list, they had so many top hits in the 80’s
No way get f f off lol
So were Do Ra Mi with "Man Overboard" and Debra Conway with "It's only the beginning" and Matt Finish with "Short Note"
Also no Hoodoo Gurus. No Paul Kelly. Not really a fan, but no H+C either.
All classics!!! Aussie/NZ rock music is in a league of its own... Great times🇦🇺💙⭐
Skyhooks, Sherbert, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Australian Crawl, Noiseworks, The Church, The Angels, Mental As anything, Paul Kelly etc etc are all fantastic musicians & artists from the late 70' & 80's . We had a great pub rock scene & were lucky enough to have some of the best music in the world made here, there are so many great artists & songs down this rabbit hole, too many to mention but I.m sure you will enjoy discovering the treasures in that rabbit hole.
Oz pop/rock is legendary (especially mid-70s to mid-80s, when I was a kid and teenager 😅) So many great bands/songs that weren't in this video: When the War is Over, Flame Trees and Forever Now (Cold Chisel), Taxi Mary (Jo Jo Zep), Don't Change (INXS, pronounced 'in excess'), Take Me Back to You (Noiseworks), Are You Old Enough and Rain (Dragon), Bitter Desire (Kids in the Kitchen), No Secrets (Angels), No Tragedy (Radiators), Pressure Sway (Machinations), 50 Years (Uncanny X-Men), Hold On (Models), One Perfect Day (Little Heroes) .... so, so many for you to check out!!
A similar type of video featuring music from the 70s would be epic.
The list is endless.
Yes Noiseworks! Forever Now and Rain were in the video but both amazing songs.
Wow, that was an absolute blast from the past. I recognise and remember every single song in that list.
The 80s really were the best of times.
Oz rock has always been there.🇦🇺🎸⚡️🤘🏼🤘🏿💋❤️. we started rocking early, we haven’t stopped yet
We have always been blessed with outstanding musicians in every genre; but for Rock/Pop Bands the list is endless.
I would add: Paul Kelly, Paul Kelly and probably Paul Kelly.
Yep. Do you thing Dumb Things is his 'most 80s' song? or To Her Door?
@@devi_- I’d go with How To Make Gravy and/or From Little Things Big Things Grow .
For the story, From Little Things BIg Things Grow for sure as it's such an important song about Aboriginal history. But Dumb Things & To Her Door are just great representatives of Australian rock sound in general@@drbosommd
the rock scene in the late 70's - 80's and early 90's in Australia was huge, so many amazing bands and songs - there was also great bands coming out of New Zealand who came to Australia who joined our musicians to make it amazing to be around
Yes sister!
The Pub Band scene in the 80's was massive and Countdown was perhaps the most popular weekly TV show, which promoted mostly local acts. So many singers and their bands refined their artistry over years of hard grinding and were rewarded if their records sold. I couldn't name a successful Aussie Band in the last 20 years. Perhaps Bachelor Girl.
Absolutely
Agreed. Also maybe Savage Garden, although that's older than 20 years ago.
@@BigGen222 Forgot Savage Garden. Incredible music. Baby Animals and Screaming Jets in the 90's worth a mention.
@@BigGen222 Silverchair and Hunters & Collectors also among the best in the 90's. Painters & Dockers were amazing as a gig band, but barely grazed the charts. A bit too crude for mainstream.
Suze DeMarchi lead singer of Baby Animals may be the most powerful female hard rock singer in history. And was super hot.
ACDC are Australian Bon Scott went from Perth to Adelaide and they use to play at the Largs Peir hotel one of my local hotels. Where they use to practice was at the end of my street though I was too young to see them in those day.
I hit my teens + during the 80s. The live music scene in Australia during this time was so much fun and has never come close since.
The late 70's and 80's.... music will never be that good again
Yep... the 80s was my era... all the pub bands I went to see, Farnsy and Barnsy at Rod Laver. Cold Chisel, etc. INXS was only our BIGGEST international export of the 80s. HUGE internationally. Get on them!!! You'll LOVE them ❤❤❤
I really enjoyed that. Knew every single song. My favourite AC/DC song is ‘Long Way to the Top’. 80’s music in Oz was fantastic. Wish I could go back to those days 👍🇦🇺
It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll!
@@andrewhowie6646 🤣🤣 yep! That one, too! 😁👍🇦🇺
Take me with you.
Love long way to the top !
Cold Chisel - I would recommend "You've Got Nothing I Want" - their song aimed at the US record companies who disrespected them, "Cheap Wine" or "Khe Sanh" - an unofficial Aussie anthem about Vietnam. If it's played overseas, every Aussie of a certain generation in the place will sing along! Jimmy Barnes (singer) is a dead-set legend and still going strong.
The Aussie rock scene came out of the pub and club circuit. ALL of these bands you have watched toured non stop, played munltiple times a weeks all over the country, so they were all VERY musically tight and professional before they even saw a recording studio.
this circuit sprang up in the early '60's and was at its peak in the '80's.
After the '80's the scene changed, live bands at pubs was slowly phased out to the point that today there is no circuit really....and no new bands or artists coming through from that route....where in the past they ALL came from there. It's very sad to see the demise of this very important breeding ground for talent.
This is why the Aussie music scene was so vibrant with so many legendary musicians. And if you were from New Zealand, you came to Australia to make your mark, as the NZ audience was too small to make a good living off.
It was a privilege to grow up here in that era, we had all of that, plus the best of British and the USA playing on our radios!!
Very well explained! 💯
Saying the bands don’t do the pub scenes anymore is so untrue I’ve seen some of these bands in pubs and I also follow a lot of these bands and the quite often play in pubs all over the country when they are touring.
@@sammylangford8858 You are missing the point. I grew up in the 70's and 80's, and I can tell you FOR SURE that the pub circuit is askeleton of what it used to be. I grew up in Lithgow, a small town which you wouldn't think big artists would bother to tour, but they did, and I saw nearly all of them right at home.
That does not happen any more, even in bigger places, like Bathurst and Orange, it is rare to see a big name band in these places too(unless its for a special occasion like the Bathurst 1000 race).
But when I was youger I saw Dragon, INXS, Men at Work, The Angels, Rose Tattoo, Mental as Anything, Flowers(Icehouse), 1927, Split Enz, Cold Chisel, Diesel, Hoodoo Gurus, and many more in my little hometown -while they were big and currently in the charts too!!!
That simply does not happen any more.
I'd love for it to come back, but what is there now is nothing compared to what used to be there.
Cheers, and keep supporting up and coming acts.
@@davidmccarthy6390 maybe New South Wales aren’t so big on pub scenes and more but I come from Queensland and I can tell you that we still get big 80’s bands up here and I lived in Brisbane growing up and I grew up I the 70’80’90’s and I live in a little country town in Queensland now and they are still playing the pubs in brizzie and our little Queensland towns and big ones too just as much as they ever were except during the COVID lockdown.
@@davidmccarthy6390 also I’m guessing you haven’t been to any of the red hot summer and good times tours either.
The 80s was definitely a decade for life. So much great music. Too many great talents came out of Australia and didnt make it on the world stage but we loved them all in Australia. Very proud.
Rock Music history in Australia beginnings 1950's to present day 2023. Being 72 now I was just a 10 years old when it began for me and has never stopped. I love Aussie rock!
Definitely the best time to be an Aussie in my 20's in those days. Most of these played in the pubs. Good times.
I migrated here in 1980 from the UK and was totally astonished at the scene in the 80’s. The Church, Divinyls, Sunnyboys, Icehouse, Mondo Rock, Hunters and Collectors. Australia has been producing great music since the 80’s. A lot of the ones on show here are very mainstream though.
Powderfinger in the 90’s and on…
If you want to update to now:
Tame Impala, Karnivool, The Butterfly Effect, Dead Letter Circus, Osaka Punch, The Presets, Empire of the Sun.
Jimmy Barnes was the lead singer of Cold Chisel - so that is.a younger Jimmy up front there and the entire band. They were absolutely a pub rock band and brilliant 💯
Surprised I don't see mentions of Jimmy's childhood in Scotland in the comments. Also anyone who appreciates an incredible vocal talent should listen to more Jimmy & Cold Chisel. And miraculously can still hit those notes til this day.
No Paul Kelly? "To Her Door" (his highest-charting local hit in 1987), "Dumb Things" (appeared on United States charts in 1988)
I’d recommend listening to the full version of most of these. I think you’ll like most of them 😊 and don’t forget howzat by sherbet, it became a cricket anthem.
Howzat sqaurely in the 70s though
As an Aussie this was the sounds of my youth. 2 of the biggest Kiwi (NZ) bands were Split Enz (I got you) they later became Crowded House. One of the biggest songs was from Dragon (April Sun in Cuba). Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphlett was a stone-cold fox. The Divinyls was played very very loudly at my place. We lived beside a conservative church & on the sabbath we'd crank up Chrissy's, I touch myself. Booohahaha!!! let's just say it didn't go over too well.
🤣🤣 I love it. It was a sad day for Aussie Rock the day she passed away.
Australia is unique in that the bands and singers have a small audience to capture, and they had to do it in pubs. That means they had to appeal to everyone so they either mixed genres in the songs, or at least across their sets. If you weren't keen on one song on the night, you used that time to go and grab a drink and by the time you came back 'your' music was playing again. If you didn't like the start of a song, you could probably still hum the tune or sing the chorus, if not ignore it and tune back in again in a couple of minutes.
Same in New Zealand, although audiences much smaller, which is why so many Kiwi musicians moved to Australia. And lots of Aussie bands would hop across the ditch and tour NZ. 60s, 70s, 80s fantastic time for Down Under music.
Give Eric Bogle, a Scottish born Australian song writer singing ‘And the band played Waltzing Matilda’ a listen. What a sad and moving song that is.
The Green Fields of France is a marvellous song too.
I really enjoyed that - we are such a talented bunch! Gangajang - Sounds of Us is a great Aussie anthem. Great Southern Land - Icehouse is also. Soooo many. Thanks
A blast from the past. Some classics I haven’t heard in years. Love it! Thanks for reacting!
Aaahhh. 😊 The good old days. When life seemed so much simpler. Being an Aussie Gen-X this was very nostalgic. Singing along to every song😁😊👍🏼❤️🇦🇺
Great reaction. INXS were a phenomenal band.. I saw them a few times in Sydney. I’ve seen many bands play live over the yrs and I think that Michael hutchence (RIP) from INXS is probably the best front man I have seen play live. Anything from the Wembley concert is sublime…❤
WOW, what a flashback to my childhood. Those bands and songs were everywhere growing up, RAGE on ABC was always good over a weekend to catch the video clips. I'm not old enough to remember Countdown on the first run, but plenty of re-runs since. Count Down is a show worth looking up too. ABC tv channel had some great shows over the time. 81 model here and grew up with parents who loved all this music. Cheers Mate, Keep up the good work!
Mat... When the rest of the world had basically given up on rock and roll, in the 80s Australia absolutely excelled.
Pubs were full of patrons because for Aussie bands,pubs were their livelihood.
Hence Australia's Pub Rock scene.
If a band here couldn't play well Live..they didnt make it,as Aussie crowds let them know very quickly.
Apart from AC\DC,the biggest Oz bands were, Cold Chisel, Divinyls, the Angels, Australian Crawl, Midnight Oil, INXS......
Apart from those,another personal fave is Spy vs Spy(v.Spy v.Spy). They are like Midnight Oil lyrically. A socially aware kickass 3piece group..'Dont Tear it Down', 'Credit Cards', The Golden Mile, Sallie-Anne,.......... Have a listen for sure!👍
There's SO many more Oz groups from the 80's that really rocked!🤘
Best and most memorable concert I went to was INXS at Wembley Stadium in '91 while i was there for 3 years.
Checkout tracks from that concert as they we're at their peak and the biggest band in the world at the time.
Fun Fact.. it was an all-day concert, with many bands playing before INXS came on to headline.
The bands were..Hothouse Flowers, Deborah Harry(Blondie), Jesus Jones, Roachford, Jellyfish.
The best vibe I've ever felt at a concert!✌️
..& the tickets were cool af!..still have👍
🍻
And the tats ,rose tattoo were brilliant live
@@michaelhoward7652never saw them(from memory lol).
Don't think they got to WA too much 🤔
But yep..another kickass Aussie band 🤘
Gangajang - Sounds of Then is just a great tune about being in Australia. It doesn’t particularly reference anything Indigenous, but one mentioned earlier ‘Solid Rock’ by Goanna absolutely does. They’re both absolute bangers too.
INXS (In Excess) is our most talented and best international act. AC/DC have sold more, but they were way more formulaic. If you want to react to any of their stuff, anything from the ‘Live Baby Live’ concert at Wembley is the place to be. They were phenomenal live. Biggest band in the world for awhile.
Most underrated band featured in this clip for me is ‘1927’, they were absolutely superb. It’s absolutely criminal that the Angels didn’t feature, and our best (or at least, my favourite) rock band formed in ‘89, but didn’t release their first album until ‘91, and that’s the Baby Animals.
He is correct in all he says here! Have a soft spot for 1927!
Absolutely! Baby Animals 🙌🏼
Little River Band were MUCH bigger than INXS and won more international awards and even their song 'Reminiscing' was considered by both John Lennon and Frank Sinatra to be one of their favourite songs. It was also one of the most played on radio. Glenn Frey from the Eagles publicly commented that he thought LRB were the best vocal band in the world.
@@voxac30withstrat not in the 80s they weren’t.
@@voxac30withstrat I love LRB but INXS had 18 Billboard hits to LRBs 13 and have sold 95 million to LRBs 25 million based on Wikipedia. So not sure how you can support your claim.
I immigrated here (Sydney) from UK in the mid-80s and, yeah, the music was banging!
Cold Chisel are Australia's greatest all time band that never went international like John Farnham. Followed by INXS then ACCA DACCA. Great Southern Land is Australia's song, gives u chills as an Aussie to hear it, even our mens cricket team use Great Southern Land each time they take the field to bat or bowl & it does give u chills & a tear in ya eye sitting in the crowd so dunno how it makes our Aussie cricketers feel
Barnsey and Farnsey were only popular because they were pushed hard by commercial radio at the time.
Yep
Masters Apprentices
@@TheLargino Harsh... but a little true. Still, two of the greatest voices in Australian music duetting was, and still is, kinda epic.
Such a great era to have been alive in the 80s. There are quite a few songs that we have as unofficial anthems. However one song from the 80’s that stand out and did not get a mention is a song by Austen Tayshus called Australiana. With a play on our language….. Not sure you’d get all the lingo. Some of the bands featured like Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Little River Band, Air Supply, Mondo Rock and INXS actually formed in the 70’s. Add to that Skyhooks, Sherbert, Fraternity. Split Enz featured here we’re from New Zealand from the 70’s, and the Lead singer of Crowded House, Neil Finn was in this band. Dragon was also a 70’s band from NZ
PS In the 60’s we had The Seekers, Billy Thorpe, Russell Morris, John Farnham (known as Johnny Farnham at this time), The Easybeats, Zoot (Rick Springfield of Jessie’s Girl fame was in this band, as was Beeb Birtles from Little River Band), Max Merritt (NZ), and others including Jeff St John, Doug Parkinson. One year in the 60’s a band called The Beatles came to tour Australia and I think that had a lot of impact on our musicians.
I’m sure I’ve missed a few names, but I hope this helps.
Nice reaction video. This list of 50 songs are class acts but gee whiz there is another 100 great songs behind screaming to be on the list. My favourite band is Icehouse and my favourite tracks from them are Great Southern Land, Electric Blue and Man of Colours. The list should have included just one song by each artist or band. It missed the likes of Paul Kelly, Machinations, Kate Ceberano, Noiseworks, Misex, Choriboys. Jenny Morris.
We call it Aussie Rock
That was a blast from the past. So many great songs. Hard to pick a favourite, but INXS is up there.
That was so much fun!! Great choice. Love our Australian Rock & I was privileged to see quite a few of these artists live.
ACDC are absolute legends. One of their first hits with original singer Bon Scott features bagpipes. When Bon passed, they made the album Back in Black and contiued to be a huge worldwide success. I would recommend. "Thunderstruck" (Vevo - official video) . Angus Young is an amazing guitarist, as was brother Malcolm (RIP). Their big brother George was in The Easybeats" who were an international success in the 60s.
(Bon was their 2nd lead. They never made an impact with their first, so no one seems to remember him)
Its a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll lol
I remember in the 60's that The Easybeats were "Australia's answer to the Beatles"
@@pragmatic-e2z lol yes...
Mate, that's my childhood in 5 minutes. Just take any of those songs and bands and listen. Just fantastic stuff. A lot of Aussie rock at this time came from the Pub Band scene. A big rabbit hole for you to jump into. Kiwis well represented in there too - Split Enz, The Swingers and Dave Dobbin. 😎 Does make me feel a little old though. 😅
Bon Scott and the Young brothers were 10 years old or younger when their families migrated to Australia. Calling AC/DC a Scottish band is a massive stretch.
I don't think he was calling ACDC a Scottish band, he was just saying the members were originally from Scotland, just like Jimmy Barnes. We have adopted them, or more importantly, they adopted Australia as their home country, like John Farnham and The Bee Gees originally hailed from the UK. They grew up here and that's what counts, lol.
@@utha2665 I agree with you. However these bands learnt their chops in Australia/NZ. If they had stayed in the UK, maybe would have never played music.
Re AC⚡️DC, I’ve always said “Born in Scotland, MADE in Australia!”😝🤟🏼
@@evaadams8298 Or it would have been very different music.
@@andrewd7586Malcolm Young once said AC/DC’s beat & rhythm came from the sounds of Australia, the sound of storms, the beach, traffic etc:
Some great Aussie anthems that makes me feel super patriotic:
GANGgajang- Sounds of Then
Icehouse- Great Southern Land
Coachbombaymusic (Terry Man)- Straya (for funsies, recommend reacting to this song!)
My mother loves Split Enz. They're a New Zealand band, but were very popular in Australia. Her favourite song is '6 months in a leaky boat'
.. Fun fact, they disbanded, moved to Australia and formed iconic Australian rock band Crowded House
That's not quite right. Neil Finn(kiwi), Nick Seymour & Paul Hester(Aussie) formed the band in Melbourne 1985.
Such a good nostalgic list . Live rock pub music was huge in the 80’s and spawned some great bands and extended into the 90’s as well with bands like powderfinger from Brisbane
Thanks, mate, for all the memories. The 80's was my decade - 15 to 25 years old - including all of my high school years, the years playing in the bands I joined and played drums and percussion.
First kiss, first ... well, you know.... [8-O
So much really good music happened in the 80's. Secks, dreugs, rock'n'effin'roll.
Aahhh, back to my walking-stick now. ;-P \m/ 0_o \m/ Cheers from the land Downundah, mate.
When in a pub in Denmark, i would say about 20-25% of the songs played are Australian. All pubs and clubs play the same stuff.
House arrest by sofi tucker, touch myself by divinals, tip of my tounge by diesel, moving blind by dom dolla.
That was a great compilation :) in those days you could go to any suburb in Sydney and a live band would be playing! Then residents complained about the noise and so councils banned vertually all live music in pubs...
Council’s suck.
New Zealand music in the 80's ? you haven't heard the half of it !! It was epic. Flying Nun, Dunedin bands. Worth a video all of its own. The Chills, Split Enz, Netherworld Dancing Toys, The Bats, Look Blue Go Purple, The Mockers, Dragon, Hello Sailor.. the list goes on and on and on... (and on and on).
I was in my 20s in the 80s and lived in Christchurch and the pub rock scene was amazing. Great bands to be heard at The Hillsborough, The Gladstone, Star and Garter, Aranui, Sandridge to name a few venues. The Dunedin Sound was awesome, lots of Dunedin bands came up to ChCh. There was fabulous rock/pop on both sides of the ditch in the sixties, seventies, and the eighties, and the rock concerts were wild (e.g. Cold Chisel at the ChCh Town Hall, Little River Band at QE2 park) . Kiwi and Aussie music was monumental during that time, and still is. I listen to it every day.
Needed some HooDoo Gurus 😊
The Young family did come from Scotland, I would go to there house in Burwood, you see I was the president of the Easybeats fan club, there brother George was in a band called the Easybeats. I can still remember their mum and dad, they were lovely people so real
Kudos for being a fan of the Easybeats. I think they have had a very big influence on the musicians after them. They were just before my time, but I really enjoy their music.
Saw the best bumper sticker - I may be old but I saw all the best bands. Listening to this I have to agree, saw so many of these live in the 80's.
Air Supply and Rick Springfield were a big success in USA, Little River Band too! AC/DC were Scots, the children of Scots immigrants to Australia, Bon Scott was their original and best singer - he also played the bagpipes! Look up "Long Way to the Top"! 🤗 Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel, "Working Class Man", "Cheap Wine", anything! 😃 Dragon, were actually from New Zealand, but became huge in Australia! Split Enz/Crowded House, were New Zealanders too, big Aussie successes! Icehouse, "Man of Colours"! INXS, "Never tear us apart" lots of great songs! John Farnham, amazing! Ian Moss, wow! Daryl Braithwaite, "One Summer"! Paul Kelly is not mentioned, Bee Gees, Nick Cave, etc, etc! 😃🎶🥰
Bon ❤.
Fremantle WA.
He’s buried there, people go a bit stupid on anniversary’s. Drinking and etc on the grave site. 😢
@@JaseTheFist A lovely sensitive creative guy, too much whisky and performance stress! 🥃😪
No Angels or Paul Kelly, wtf, it had Angry Anderson”s solo garbage but left out two of the most iconic Aussie music figures/ bands. Should have had Hoodos and Rose Tattoo as well.
@@travisgotch161 I thought I saw the Hoodoo Gurus? Angry Anderson solo! 😵 There was no Divinyls either! 😧
@@jenniferharrison8915 they had Boys in Town. Otherwise I would have included them too. Awesome band
most of this music is pub rock, it's designed to be an engaging live performance and it still baffles me how i grew up with this music to the shite that's around now.
there's too many greats in that era i'd just recommend listening to all of them forever. but moving pictures what about me is a lyrical masterpiece and the divinyls will blow you away.
Moving Pictures at Surfair was a magic night! Absolutely one of the best nights of my life. Many Thanks Guys.
Sounds of then is one of my favourite songs when I’m overseas and homesick. Just a classic.
Matt Air Supply were big in the US and had a number of hits over there. Artists like AC/DC , INXS, Midnight Oil, Olivia, Little River Band just to name a few were pretty well known around the world but there was also a long list of exceptional talent who stayed closer to home. I was fortunate enough to have seen quite a few on that list perform at local venues - in Australia it was called pub rock. Cold Chisel wrote a song Called The Star Hotel which was about a riot where the crowd took to the streets in my hometown of Newcastle attacked the police and overturned their police cars after the popular Star Hotel venue had been shut down. Heroes were playing there that night and they were accused later by police of performing a song in order to start the riot its worth checking out the old news footage or bettter the Utube video but its a bit long.
This really was some nostalgia. You should check out more INXS (AUS) and Crowded House (NZ) - beautiful songs. In my opinion, these are real songs that will last the time, instead of some of the throw away music we have these days. Thanks for sharing, these were all great and bought back so many memories.
Crowded House are not from NZ, they were formed in Melbourne with 2 aussies and one kiwi
V Spy V Spy, The Angels, Chisel, The Oils, INXS - such a great period to go to the pub.
I’ve seen all but 7-8 of these acts live. And I’ve performed on stage with one of them
INXS (pronounced “in excess”) were a great new wave/rock band - started out in the late 70s. Their Kick album is a classic. I snuck into a big services club in my hometown to see them live as a teen 😅 when they’d already been around for 10 years. The pub music scene was huge in the 70s and 80s and lots of the big acts from that era started out in pubs. The Angels, the Divinyls, Rose Tattoo, Hunters & Collectors to name just a few
Ha ha!! Listening to the rangers singing 'Live it Up' with a Scottish accent!! "Hey there yer with the saahhd fez"!!
Mondo Rock “Come Said the Boy” has a special place in my heart. My first love picked me up
To that song.
DD Smash, The Dudes, Sharon O'Neill, Hello Sailor, The Exponents, Split Enz, Jenny Morris, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Dave McArtney & the Pink Flamingos and heaps of others. And as others said Hunters & Collectors, The Church, the Angels etc. Lots of great memories.
Such a great compilation! Enjoyed!
Funkytown was a cover in Australia
A pity that The Angels, Hunters & Collectors, and The Go-Betweens didn’t make it onto this list.
Only criticism that it was pretty mainstream this list
This is only scratching the surface. So much great music has come out of OZ and NZ.
INXS - wow, where does one start? Dozens of great songs. Their peak, for me, are the albums The Swing, Listen Like Thieves, and Kick. Worth a deep dive!
It’s always been here. We have great bands in Australia. I love Mental as Anything.
Split Enz were a great Kiwi band that made it in Australia. The became a band called Crowed House, again, still a great band. As an Aussie I had every album as did most Aussies. We have and still have top Aussie bands. Unfortunately, a lot of pubs these days don't have live bands any more because that is where most of our great bands and single artist started from.
I turned 12 in 1980 and had just started listening to popular music, so this was the music of my teens. My favourites from this list were Split Ends - I got you, Cold Chisel - Cheap wine, The Swingers - Counting the beat, Diviynls - Boys in town, Moving Pictures - What about me, Goanna - Solid Rock, Gangajang - Sounds of then, and quite a few more.
Just about a few of the artists, Split Enz is a Kiwi band that made it huge in Australia too. When they split up a few of them formed Crowded House and became even bigger. You should listen to a few songs from both bands, they were fantastic. The Swingers were another Kiwi band and their song Counting the beat was a huge hit and I still love it to this day.
Cold Chisel are a band you should delve into, they had some of the best Aussie Rock hits of the 70s and 80s. Then their lead singer Jimmy Barnes went onto a hugely successful solo career. Actually he has two Aussie anthems, Khe Sahn (Cold Chisel) and Working Class Man (Barnsey) Divinyls had this gorgeous lead singer, Chrissy Amphlett and they had quite a few hits, my favourite was the one featured in this video, Boys in town. Moving Pictures' song, What about me was a massive hit over here.
Other Aussie bands that were huge also were The Angels, Australian Crawl, Mondo Rock, The Church, Midnight Oil (My Favourite) Dragon, Mental as Anything, Hunters & Collectors and INXS.
There so so many amazing songs missing in this listing. The 80's in Australia were amazing so many concerts to go to we were spolied for choice and artists still doing the pub scene before they were all converted into pokie venues.
I grew up in 80's and 90's in Australia and I'd say that was the peak of Australian rock and pop music, i barely listen to anything from after the year 2000 nowadays. Perhaps I'm just nostalgic for music of my youth but newer music doesn't seem as creative or original as the older stuff. Some great Australian stuff from 60's and 70's I've discovered too .
All classics. Great list. Well worth the dive.
The best music ever in 80s an still.cheers love your vids .cheers down under.
So much great Aussie talent in one vid. Considering we have a smaller population than many countries (especially back then) we don't do too bad.
Don’t forget The Triffids. Wonderful storytelling in their songs.
I think the 60s - 80s were the best years of music. Not much out there now and nowhere near as many Aussie artists.
90's had some great bands.
Many, many songs could be added to that. Mental's "To Many Times" & "Nips Are Getting Bigger", Hunters & Collectors "Holy Grail" & ""Throw Your Arms Around Me", Mondo Rock"s "No Time", Aussie Crawl's "Boys Light Up" & "Shutdown", Painters & Dockers" "Nude School", Fini Scad's "Coppertone", Screaming Jets' "Better", more Oils, etc etc etc.
What a trip down memory lane! Thanks mate. Give powder finger d silver chair a listen for a more modern Australian rock sound 🤘
Big Pig-I cant break away , Noiseworks- Touch , The Angels-No Secrets , Party Boys-He's gonna step on you again , Yothu Yindi - Djapana ( Jab a nana), Boom Crash Opera-Onion skin, Sunnyboys-alone with you , tina Arena - Sorrento Moon ,
I love Big Pig! was just thinking of them today
That song your soccer team uses, the band had a long time crew member diagnosed with an incurable lung disease, just after his diagnosis, this song was released and he is in the film clip. He passed away not long after its release.
RIP, Derby.
This video is my childhood. Great music. The 80s really was a great era for music
Not 80's but... you may have heard the song by Paul Kelly , "From Little Things, Big Things Grow' , a song about aboriginal land rights and the story of Vincent Lingiari. This version is performed by Electric Fields and partly sung in indigenous language. I think you would like it - it is very powerful. (The tall stranger mentioned who put the sand through Vincent's hand was then-Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.) th-cam.com/video/ao7GOymvhsw/w-d-xo.html
Members of AC/DC were born in Scotland. That's why they have had names like Angus and Malcolm and "Bon" etc. But they met and formed the band as adults in Australia after their parents migrated in the 60's (ish). The "Young" brothers are related to the elder "Young" brother from the band "The Easybeats" that found limited success overseas in the '60s. After "The Easybeats" disbanded the elder brother became a music producer (as well as a sometimes writer and performer) and urged his younger brothers to form a band which became AC/DC.
What a great bunch of music. Great video thanks
I was a teen throughout the 80s, so all these songs bring back so many memories of time and place. Please don't make me pick a favourite! 😂
It's hard to separate the Aus/NZ bands as they often had mixed lineups from both countries. Bands like the Black Sorrows, Crowded House, Noiseworks and on and on.
INXS - Live Baby Live from Wembley Stadium pick any song it's one of the great concerts and recordings of all time. Could say the same of AC/DC Live at Riverplate in Argentina.
Black Sorrows definitely underrated when discussing great Aussie music. Featured two of the best ever vocalists to come out of Oz, Vika & Linda Bull. I grew up listening to their albums, they're so solid.
Love you channel . Australian Crawl (James Reyne lead singer ) Split Enz were huge with Neil and Tim Finn (NZ) then later becomes Crowded House . Ian Moss (song Tuckers Daughter) was with Cold Chisel Made a real name for himself as a solo. Ice House is definately a band worth looking at Iva Davies (front man with the awesome hair) so many great songs from the 80's. I am seeing Ice House in feb looking foward to that as I have never in my 61 years seen them live.. INXS were huge , Midnight Oil of course .. Band not in either of the 2 compilation i have just watched had The Black Sorrows dissappointed as they had 2 sisters Vikka and Linda Bull still performing and releasing albums. The 80's were amazing late 70's also . Another one you could look at is 1927 the released a album Ish and another one not as popular but definately Look them up. They are still touring with their front man Eric Weiderman and still releasing music. The years have not been kind to Eric and a lot of other 80's but we get to see our classic 80s singers and bands through the Red Hot Summer Tour which happens every summer here . We wont be seeing John Farnham perform again due to the jaw cancer he has battled over the past year and a bit. He is doing well but we have not seen John for a very long time. Such a ripping bloke and kept a lot of musicians in work all over the past 30 years... AC/DC just iconic
"Sounds of Then" by Ganggajang is a great snapshot of what it is to like to live in the part of Australia that isn't shown on the tourist ads.
Usually these compilation videos are rubbish but that was fn perfect!
For five minutes I was 17 again.
Could there have been other songs/artists? For sure, The Angels, Spy v Spy and Hoodoo Gurus to name a few, but this was still a pretty good representation of what the 80’s were like.
As I’ve gotten older, I started to think my teenage self was rather insular in my music tastes, sticking mostly to Aussie acts. This is a good reminder of why. We just had so much homegrown good stuff we didn’t need to look any further.
Back in the 60's when Britpop was exploding, there was a British music ban on Australian radio in an attempt to encourage local bands, which led to the Pub Rock era we all loved so much. So all these bands can technically thank The Beatles for giving them their big break! 🤣🤣
I admit that I'm singing along. I grew up with most of these songs on regular play on the local radio stations.
Good list. Some I can think of to add could be Russell Morris, The The, The Saints, The Sunny Boys, Daddy Cool, the Easybeats, The Triffids, Soundworks, Kate Cebrano, Hunters and Collectors, Matt Finish. ☺️
Crowded house. Australian New Zealand band. In the US there is a list of bands who’ve had 1 song played over a million times on radio. Crowded house were one of 10 to have 2 songs in the million play list
Great to hear these I had forgotten most of them, must try to find some
The Horses by Darrel Braithwaite is an anthem...listen to all these songs in full all brilliant
An Australian TV music show called Countdown pioneered music videos, long before MTV got on the bandwagon
I also really like The Baby Animals. Love your channel. Thank you.
Jimmy Barnes / Cold Chisel are quite famous. He's Scottish too.
Yes, a working class boy from Glasgow (always)! 😄
Definitely missing a number of songs from The Angels, Noiseworks and Hoodoo Gurus.
And no sunny boys
@@debmccudden242and no Go Betweens or Hunters
Yeah. Bee Gees, Boom Crash Opera, Rockmelons, Hunters, Wedding Party, Mondo Rock, Jenny Morris... there are a lot that could have been on there. It would be 8 hours long though :)