What is the greatest Australian single of the last 25 years?

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I just read that whole thread and laffed... but I managed not to see any lyrics :/

Yer H, giss the song! trayce at gmail thingy.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link

dad wins

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

cheap wine and a three day growth, keh sahn, breakfast at sweethearts, flame trees etc etc

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know, but I know what it isn't. It isn't 'You're the Voice' by John Farnham.

This was absolutely huge when I was in Australia in 1988-89. There are more annoying songs, but not many! (Noooooo! Make it stop!)

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:30 (eighteen years ago) link

as promised, here is "dad". it was an indie chart #1, you know!

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

*eerie silence*

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd not previously noticed this "suck his undies" bit, and am not sure I'm better off with this knowledge.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

But, actually, the real answer is 'Samurai Stomp' by Samurai Trash.

-- scriblerus

It has a good bassline, as I recall.

― moley, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Samurai Stomp is up there. Can't decide on the greatest.

― Telegram Sam, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Lime Spiders - "Slave Girl" without question! "Nick the Stripper" would be second.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

judging by what i've been listening to the past week, I'd say the Saints - "I'm Stranded" - actually that might be '78.

― jon pruett (jon pruett), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

What about any of these? Although I'm not 100% sure they are all after 1979 and if they were all released as singles.

Tael of A Saeghors - TMOTDTF
Gargoyle - The Lighthouse Keepers
The Sad Clown - The Singles
Bitter Desire - Kids In The Kitchen
Charity - Sekret Sekret
Dancing In The Moonlight - Coloured Stone
A Long Story - Tactics
Witchen Kopf - People With Chairs Up Their Noses
Win Or Lose - Whirly Wirld
All The Birds Fly Past My Window - Smart Music
Taking Shape - The Flies
The Monster - Shower Scene From Psycho
Stumbling And Falling - The Introverts
Beautiful Waste - The Triffids
That's The Way - Deckchairs Overboard
The Trumpet Song - The Particles

― Telegram Sam, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:38 (eighteen years ago) link

otm with 'Gargoyle', and I'm pretty sure it was a single.

I've been racking my brains trying to remember how 'My Pal' goes. Was God one of Ollie Olsen's projects?

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked "Get Free" by the Vines.

― Jack, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

It's hard to get free of a vine, especially one of those passionfruit ones. They wind around you like a serpent or a cobra, and it's extremely hard to get free. So it's certainly a good call by The Vines, that song title.

― moley (moley), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Was God one of Ollie Olsen's projects?

you're thinking of No. God was Joel Slbersher, the late Tim Hemensley, and two other guys (one of which is apparently a very good teacher of various musical instruments)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Unguarded Moment- Church

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

To confuse matters, No had an album called 'Once We Were Scum Now We Are God'. Sonically, it was sort of pre-Reznor and post-Foetus.

― moley (moley), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

scattered order - escape via cessnock

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link

tiny town - drop by drop

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Unguarded Moment- Church
-- Cunga (visionsofjohann...), August 3rd, 2005.
i nearly posted church " under the milky way"

― aorta, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

two of our greatest songs were done by scots:
easy beats"friday on mind " and men at work "down under".
another great single is inxs "devil inside".

― life puller, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link

don't think either of the scots ones fall within the 25 years criteria life puller. maybe down under i guess. otherwise i bet lots of people would rate friday on my mind though. so catchy!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link

shine headlights: I wasn't sure if it was 'escape via cessnock' or 'Remember may 12' which was the single from that album, but, yes, definitely. Either. one.

and, I think it was the 'Once we were scum now we are gods' title which was making me confuse No with God.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

twas cessnock (i have the 45). 'king of blip' was their other volition 7", not as good but still up there

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link

The Cicada That Ate Five Dock, by Those Cunce That Did That Cicada That Ate Five Dock Song!

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

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