The Greatest Aussie Music Youtube Thread Of All Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWPJ87T-bE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAoXltHRpeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpJrtCmcoq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWArUaViXsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BnN9xV21iU

^^first song i remember really loving (i was 5)

since i can't find "dad", this will have to do instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRyUZYIvPM&feature=related

Was always going to post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYG63G1-lqw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PeGHeF2AHc

loooove this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KofUP7jPkMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRwuhuyUmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7l8rlnMpCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzDUcPfZoJ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUmtSpGhMEs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFedv7ZoV7M

pretty heavy for RICK SPRINGFIELD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiSK0xTDA0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrHoEx7cpDM

no olde version of boy on the run :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVKyfVeRI-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5x6qTh1DR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5PF73ZTCyQ

with Dave "I could've died and been replaced by Brian Johnson!" Evans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6e_mk0O24&feature=related

For when you want AC/DC, but AC/DC just aren't available

Lobby Lloyd, 74'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcdUbVWH8E

thanks for all that awesome stuff guys.
Fungus Brains and Feedtime are my new favourite bands.

feedtime rule.

wowee, i'm listening to the reissue of the first X album right now and i love it. i'd always wanted to hear them and they are as good as i thought they'd be.

and yeah thanks everyone. i knew you had it in you. i'm gonna watch everything on here eventually.

i got to review the new Grong Grong reissue for Decibel Magazine, so hopefully a couple of american metalheads will take my advice and seek it out. love that thing.

that Sharpies film by the not-yet-Skyhooks bloke is fantastic

more hair archeology can be done on Paul Clarke in The Factory's playing of The Plunderers' Christo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge8uBsvAKmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3IUASoqfM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8d2EB435Q

^YES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAX1A4mQvNY

live version of 'evie': pts 1+2, 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IR5DykkpnE

it'd be nice if any version of 'slave girl' on youtube was any good, head lime spider's voice is rooooooted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gqZ9gfaso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfjRIf91Wg

^got kicked in the head by a crowd-surfer seeing these dudes in about '96, fun times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZT2sijQB4

lol

it'd be nice if any version of 'slave girl' on youtube was any good, head lime spider's voice is rooooooted

"key" lime spider, shurely

oh i see what you did dere

Welcome back!

Surprisingly more than half of the old links here are still active, and they are uniformly amazing. From the cheesy '80s videos, to Dirty Three's great 9-minute track "Everything Is Fucked", and from the thread's 1st reply, the moment when it becomes apparent what Warwick Capper's real job is. Thanks to all posters. (Note, links are visible in a logged-out browser)

You can post more music here that you like or love, especially if it's something unlikely to get its own thread or get famous overseas. And also, I wanna ask, "What's New?/New-ish?" (does that remind u of anything) ... The Australian musicians with ILM threads mostly tend to be Pitchforky bands, with the rare exceptions like Ngaiire - Blastoma (June 10 2016)

I'd be really interested to find out about Indigenous Australian musicians – the final album by Gurrumul Yunupingu, Djarimirri: Child of the Rainbow, was fantastic and was a nominee on ILM's 2018 poll, but many of us probably don't have much context for his music. Gurrumul died in 2017 aged 46.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKC-Jd7KN64

Posts don't need to be Youtube links, just whatever you want.

For the 2010s... these were some critics' choices. It'd be nice to know your favourites too.

"The 50 Best Australian Albums Of The Decade"
- https://junkee.com/longform/best-australia-albums-decade

"100 Best Australian Tracks Of The Decade 2010-2019"
- https://www.ripemusic.com.au/100-best-australian-tracks-of-the-decade-2010-2019

"The 100 best Australian songs of the decade"
- https://themusicnetwork.com/best-australian-songs-decade
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Threads of The Past – Sydney bands / Best record shops in Australia / the recent Australian 70s and 80s compilations / Great Australian albums - a new TV series / Aussie bands in London 1980s / Recommend to me books about Australian music (no genre restrictions) / Greatest Album / Greatest Single / Greatest EP / POX: Aussie Bands / Oasis soon to be illegal in Australia?

I can't see any evidence that the greatest song of the 70s was posted in the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcmLq83gTk

Nice bump. My favourite Australian records of the decade are the Royal Headache albums, Twerps self titled and Alex Cameron's Forced Witness. I think the most influential Australian album of the decade (in terms of its impact on Australian music and the industry) was probably Flume's debut. Whether it was the main catalyst of not, I think around the time it was released was a turning point for young people in Australia caring more about electronic music and the culture associated with it over rock music.

re indigenous singer-songwriters, Archie Roach happens to be Victoria's nomination for Australian of the Year this very evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aywDT6yHMmo

A couple of indigenous acts amongst Triple J's predominantly youthful audience's 100 best of 2019, as rolled out yesterday. Five tracks between them, apparently.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J_Hottest_100,_2019 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExMjEwymQ3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9LM77xvcXo

Number of ballots exceeded 3 million for the first time. Blimey!

A few weeks ago, I heard "Better in Blak" in a franchised newsstand at the Sydney airport. It's glorious (and quite jarring) as an American, where radio doesn't permit such risque language, to walk into the blandest of corporate outlets, only to hear Thelma emphatically state "FUCK THAT!", then have that phrase shouted by backup singers afterwards!

Their track "Clumsy Love" is great, too, especially the way it lifts off in the chorus (a la Kacey Musgraves' "High Horse").

Oh yeah, I forgot this is the thread where we're allowed to swear uncontrollably. Might save that up for later. I didn't know about Thelma Plum, she's fantastic - thanks for the recommendations!

Their track "Clumsy Love" is great, too

TUBE IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwJHmdxGec

Flume's debut. Whether it was the main catalyst or not, I think around the time it was released was a turning point for young people in Australia caring more about electronic music and the culture associated with it over rock music.

Judging by the music videos posted to this thread in 2010, Aussie rock bands did have a hell of a run at the top... Like, spanning the millennia and the epochs, there was every kind of rocker imaginable, including all-nude bands. Well, I'll give this electrical music a try and see if this guy's any good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLBSbat2bW8

(or album link if the video's blocked)

Youtube is watching this thread and deleting anything it likes

WE SAID,

I can't see any evidence that the greatest song of the 70s was posted in the past.

The Moir Sisters - Good Morning How Are You? (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUc909NKnn0

holy shit I have not heard that in 40+ years, it freaked me out

Haha, cheers sbahnhof. Still the best song of the 70s. Maybe.

It does feel like it *could* have been systematically suppressed for 40 years. I mean, people with firsthand recollections of 70s radio seem to remember it (eg. my parents; I actually checked!) but I only became aware of its existence around 2008, via RYM of all places.

Another actual earwitness reporting in, here