Icehouse - Great Southern Land
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The song "Great Southern Land" from the 1982 album "Primitive Man," performed by Icehouse.
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"Great Southern Land" by Icehouse tells a story about feeling alone and longing for something in the big land of Australia. It starts with the feeling of being stuck by the ocean, feeling sad and far from home. The song talks about how things aren't always as they seem, making the singer remember things differently. It shows Australia as a place with both beauty and tough times, mentioning its history with native people and settlers. The song also talks about feeling let down and forgotten but still finding strength in the land's old stories. The chorus repeats "Great Southern Land," showing how Australia is special but also full of challenges. Overall, the song captures the feeling of Australia's wild beauty and the struggle to understand its past and present.
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Icehouse is a band from Australia. They started in Sydney in 1977 with the name Flowers. At first, they played rock music in pubs. Later on, they became famous for their new wave and synth-pop songs. They had songs that became popular and reached the Top 10 charts in Australia, Europe and the U.S. The main person in the band is Iva Davies. He sings, writes songs, produces records, and plays instruments like guitar, bass, keyboards, and even the oboe. The name "Icehouse" was chosen in 1981 and comes from a cold apartment Davies once liven in and a strange building across the street where homeless people lived.
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I'm from New Zealand but I will never forget my first trip to Australia. I was driving from Sydney to Brisbane and this song came on the radio. It still gives me chills just thinking about that moment in my life. Awesome song.
Geoff Prince
Iva appeared on The Project (news chat show) on 28/11/16. He set out to write a song that conveyed his love of his country after returning home from Europe very homesick, and aimed for the song to endure. He achieved both brilliantly and is still really loved, along with his song
You are our brother
Love it
Awesome!
I'm from OZ.I say CHURR! to that!!
American here, just learned about this song in a very roundabout way, and I'm in love. Australia is criminally underrated for their music. Another legendary Australian group, Rufus Du Sol, inadvertently introduced me to this song by playing a remix of it in a short Instagram clip of a DJ set they played recently
was the roundabout way the movie “young einstein?” this song is in it with all other equally underrated song “at first sight” by the stems
Not underrated in Australia mate. I think the issue is Americans don't listen to enough made outside of America.
You need to get onto more 80’s Aussie music!
Explore it more ❤
Maybe criminally underated because of the convict history. 😊👍
Absolutely, I loved this when I first heard it all those years ago. It’s still as good now 👍
This song is Australia
Gives me chills and so proud to be an Aussie
Best country on earth 😎
My wife is an Aussie from Melbourne. I love this song and think it is one of the best to come out of Australia. I so wanted the band I used to be in to play this song. The fact that none of the other members were interested in a song like this was partially why I left it.
1980s is definitely the best era for Aussie Music
Joel Worsley I was born in 03 but that's Danm right
No the 1990s was whiney, incoherent shit.
Birthday Party!!
don't think you've heard Dead Cat x3 - Grinspoon buddy
Any music really, not just Australian.
I can't listen to this song anymore without crying. I was born and raised in Australia as a kid, but one day, my parents moved us overseas. What transpired in the years after have been the hardest years of my life, and every time I hear this song, the nostalgia, the memories, the thought of family and friends makes me heart shatter and soul ache for return. My health isn't great right now, so I can't just move back to Australia, but my God, how I miss it.
Oh sorry to hear that and find a way to come back if you can....
where do you live now?
i was born in 1970 and all the 80s music inspired me and changed my life . This song still rocks and always will and from a Californian now living in Costa Rica . My 80s music is my life soundtrack and I will take it to my grave and beyond . What a wonderful song
1980s is definitely the best era for Aussie Music
Discovered this song tonight... 21 yrs old, amazing as.
Phenomenal song, i’m 48 remember hearing this when i was young
This should be played every morning by every Aussie station to get Aussie back on track !!
The last time that I played this song on the LP was 1982 then I met a French Canada woman, moved to Quebec, the Ontario worked as an engineer, consultant, moved back to the west coast with my fiancée from Newfoundland, married, divorced living with my lovely Benjie-like dog, came across this song tonight had forgotten it from 82 to 2020 and WOW!!!! Time flies but listening to this song almost 60 yes old what a trip back to 82 when I was 22 gotta love life and all of its meandering crossroads and life experiences! Salut to all, be happy and thankful for life, good health and warm life memories as you travel through it.
Australia of my childhood is gone forever, so incredibly sad! 😪
Different times now, it was back then, good 80/90's
I was having a beer at the pub with a bloke who was saying this should be our national anthem.
this song captures the spirit of australia
Man...the Aussies have produced excellent music throughout the 80's.
What about the Church do they exist ? Great band!!
The Church are still around, mate!
This track resonates in my mind & dreams. I am Australian but have not lived there for 18 years. I look forward to coming back to my Great Southern Land. I miss it...
The encircling, otherworldly mood of this song is hypnotic. Great production quality...gives it an adrift, spacy sound comparable to little else.
T Jacobs Nailed it perfectly.
Yep, the production makes this song. It’s the bridge between the synth pop dominated 80s and the rock and roll late 70s.
only a few years ago, i watched the film YOUNG EINSTEIN for the first time since i was a kid... This song struck a nerve while watching the film, and catapulted its way into my top 3 favourite songs list... I listen to this song almost weekly... Its audio therapy for me!
When I go to the Botanic Gardens and sit by wall looking over the Harbour. I think of the lyrics " Sitting on a rainy day down in the harbour, watching as the grey shadows the bay." and I get a sense of a long often sad history of this country stretching way back into time. All the people who have lived and died, and all the people yet to live. And my battles and fears, the troubles of one man seem unimportant.
Soy Argentina y amo a ice house y a inxs. Grupazos
Took me 4 years to find this song now I found it ❤
THE BEST song written about our land. The WORLD learnt about us. Thank you Icehouse.
But I first knew you as FLOWERS. I remember.
+Mark Dowse ..as a pom on a trip down under, I went to see Flowers way back in 81/82..when I returned to UK, they had changed to Icehouse !
+Mark Dowse played at narrabeen northern beaches watched them too
+Mark Dowse I think Flowers opened for XTC when they toured Australia...
+Esther Honey nice
+Mark Dowse Had to change their name cause of the Scottish band The Flowers at the time. Icehouse much better though!!
It sounds corny I know, but whenever I travel to the outback there are a number of songs that simply must get played. This is number one on that playlist. It just hits differently out there.
I’m putting this comment here so when someone likes it, I’ll always come back to this video
you are summoned, listen to the icehouse
This is an infinitely better comment than 'who's still listening in 2024 err hur'
Comment liked - now keep your end of the bargain!!!!
thou hast been called to return and listen once more, obey thyne curse
You're welcome! 😊
Just discovered this song, amazing! Iva Davies and icehouse are SUCH an underrated band
Happy NAIDOC Week ❤❤❤ peace ✌️💯 love, people & OUR Land 🌍🤞☯️ Queen 👑
My favourite Australian band ever. Im a kiwi a grew up with many great Aussie bands in the 80s but Icehouse are attached to some great memories. You know when you listen to music that takes you back immediately to you youth. For me I get that feeling every time I hear Icehouse
These guys and Midnight Oil are the bands that make me proud to be Australian
Backpacking through the WA . Love this track man. Just staring out to the Indian Ocean.
I’m so proud that I am an Australian it is literally the best country ever and music is the best as well🇦🇺❤
As your retarded American cousin I disagree.
Vote no to save it from the UN
@@kathysangel56 the UN is not going to take us
Hahaha if you knew what the fucking lyrics were you wouldn't like it, keep waving your little Made In China coloniser flag, you fool😂😂😂
i am proud also as an german people, traveling australia mont
I didn't even know this was an Australian song, but when I found out everything just clicked. The lyrics started to make so much more sense and I honestly love the fact this is from my country
First heard this song watching Young Einsten and was blown away. We visited Sydney in 2018 and the bustop tour played this and Down Under, the two are quintessential Australian anthems. In Oz for the second time and listened to this again. I think this should definitely be the Aussie national Anthem.
I discovered this track only recently on Spotify and have since played it numerous times. i remember Icehouse from way back in 1983 when Hey little girl was a success in the U.K. Ive always loved that song and this one instantly appealed to me due to its use of synthesizer throughout, an instrument i absolutely adore listening to!☺
Icehouse were a great band, try some more of it.
Used to be a 'Foreign Aussie' in my younger years. Went back in '22 being 76 years old. Loved it still. Toured the outback of Qld. and cherished the old memories at the Isa where I used to work. Back in Denmark I'm planning yet another trip Down Under.
Never a big fan of Isa but I did a lot of work around Cloncurry, love the endless roads to site and the untouched scenery.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan Precisely what I love about the land.
@@nielsb.larsen5987 Love the "big sky" country feel. Mate check out the cartoon "Mining Boom" it's disturbingly accurate about life in that part of the world. My last trip I flew into Townsville, grabbed the work ute and drove to Torrens Creek to stay the night. The pub was plastered in every currency on the planet and full of people from all over the world. Ended up driving (hungover) to Cloncurry for the job then crashed in the motel next to the bowls club. Full of Yanks filming "Survivor" which was strange but fun. A few days later flew out from Isa thinking I'd never miss the life. I do miss the land and the cool people you meet.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan Yeah. I follow your drift. I also flew in to Townsville, stayed at a friend's place for a week (couple of days at Airlie Beach/the Whitsunday's). Back in T. I hired a campervan and drove to the Isa, stayed a few days reminiscing my years in the mines (I drove the ST-5 on 13 level (one of the front loaders on display at Isa Outback)). Then a dip into NT, back to the Isa and up Normanton way. When I drove that road 50 some years ago it was just a dirt road with one house (a pub) on that 600 km journey. Now there's still only one house, but developed into a restaurant and camping ground. Headed to the Tablelands, had a look around, and went to Cairns for a trip on the railway to Kuranda and a skyrail return ride. Then back to Townsville for a week with visit to Magnetic Island. All in all 6 weeks in the land I really love.
Esta música marcou um momento da minha adolescência.
I was having a beer at the pub with a bloke who was saying this should be our national anthem.
Steven Webb
+Steven Webb - Sure is some magic that's more than just a great song. Been a muso for 50 yrs and it's one of the special ones gives me gooseys every time. Whover penned it was channelling the spirit of OZ right there.
+Karen D ........you get goosebumps too!......
+Steven Webb Now that you've said this I can only imagine crowds singing 'Great southern laaaand' in an amazing harmony.
So true.
Happy Australia day to all of my fellow Aussies 🎉
Happy Australia day
Anyone here in 2024?
Oh yes and return to this song frequently
no i'm back in the early 80s.
Happy Birthday Iva, 69 in 2024
I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can find a comment section on any song that doesn't say anyone here in 2024
@@Willows4040 cough it up buddy 👌 just came from Eskimo Joe - From the Sea
Happy Australia day. Thank god I grew up in this era. Great music and a much better world !!
When ever you connect country to people the connection is always made.
This song provides that heart beat and spirit.
And encapsulates it all.
Our great southern land is burning..so eerie listing to this now..God save Australia! 😭
god? I'd rather we rely on people and not fake bullshit - otherwise it'll just keep burning. (You do appreciate that if you reckon your god is all powerful, then it was also he that started the fire!?!) fucking fool
Icehouse one of the great aussie bands of the 80's,they had many good songs back then and still enjoyed by many to this day..........
i seriously love this song so much, i love icehouse in general but this song has to be one of my favorites from him
Great music to grow up with. Hang on,I never did grow up!
+Adam Law ..........a great quality to have......
+Adam Law Nothing wrong with that,likewise!
+Adam Law Good shit bro :)
+Adam Law
You are never too old to have a brilliant childhood.
+Aaron DC mediA You are the Law
great fucking band and great fucking country .
And Im a kiwi.
we're brothers really
Incredible
***** fair dinkum mayte
***** do you want a medal?
+Mike Money so bitter!
This song is the best
Absolut.tolle.band.richtig.geile.musik.icehouse.rules.
I fell in love with this song back in the 80s watching the YOUNG EINSTEIN film. I still love it more than ever today.
Adam Bobro hah I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone would mention Young Einstein. I remember seeing that movie as a kid and loving the song at the end credits
What a magical Australian music era I was so lucky to grow up in. So many great bands in this country, then and now. Wish I could go back to those times, early 80's, no responsibilities. lots of great live bands every weekend. Wonderful time to be alive!!
this song captures the spirit of australia
This song captures the 80's from the antipodes.
leonardoboy2 yeah black against the ground
I grew up in FJ with "young talent time" etc, and "The Flying Doctors" and music from INXS, Icehouse, Midnight Oil and others, and later - when I came of age - got to see Mad Max and fell/still in love with the land of OZ!. I'm a few of the lucky ones to have studied and worked in Oz in their impressionable years - never forgotten!
Thank you, Chris White, from the Tension series, for showing me this amazing song
"..so you look into the land and it will tell you a story
story 'bout a journey ended long ago
if you listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains
maybe you can hear them talking like I do"
This song makes me want to take the 14 hour flight from the US to visit the Great Southern Land, Australia.
+Steven Manning Do it, it's awesome here!
+Steven Manning come on down possum.
As fellow respondents have said "Do It" Our Great Southern Land is not without its flaws, People do become naturally disillusioned by politicians like anywhere, but a good 95% of people I have spoken to, perhaps even more have come here and loved every minute. For the record, Australian rock greats like Ivor Davies and Jimmy Barnes are of foreign extraction and decided to stay. Other celebrities who are always overseas, like Hugh Jackman, Mel Gibson and Miranda Kerr are still Aussie at heart and love coming back. The song is correct, there is much to love and you will also. Cheers.
FUCK OFF WERE FULL
Steven Manning you should, it’s amazing
Thank you for bringing so much joy and happiness. Thank you for your wonderful music even in 2023 - Who listens?
To everyone who listens may good fortune be your companion.
I remember hearing this when I watched Young Einstein for the first time. This song makes an already great movie all the more worth watching
Young Einstein is where I first heard this song too. Didn't think much of the movie, but loved the song right away.
Yes I loved this song right away when I heard it. Soundtrack on Young Einstein
When the movie came out here in the states in 89, i saw a different music video with movie clips in it.
It was Young Einstein
Same here. Love the Young Einstein movie, especially for the soundtrack (which I had as a kid on cassette).
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY 2024!!!! 🇦🇺
Best song ever
In 1988 the Southern Stand of the Melbourne Cricket Ground had to be replaced because of "concrete cancer." During construction, as a joke, the new stand was called the "Great Southern Stand." On completion the MCG committee could not think of a better name so that is its name. "Icehouse" had no objections, a kind of immortality.
brilliant if true
+Halvdan Knutsson thats cause yoir not aussie
Leif is right! 'cos you're not an Aussie Doh! Great Southern Land and Great Southern Stand
It's becomes a musical Pun... probably no Australian can say "Great Southern Stand" without saying it in tune with the lyric "Great Southern Land".
not many Kiwi's can either :)
I listen to this song and makes me proud to be an Australian ..Even though I was born over seas and came here as refugee with parents in early 80/s I feel connected to this land .. I guess that's the beauty of this land,Its addictive and special .
187noneed no
denied go back to ur country
Great Aussie Drives brought me here. What a song!
I fucking love Australia...
100 % australian, 100 % quality, 80s forever, classic, the best.....................
As a kid of the 70's and 80's listening to this still gives me chills and makes me cry for the utter drivel they call music today...
My dad used to live next to the base player when he was young, since he was young, he used to jam a lot with him. Epic band
Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
city on a rainy day down in the harbour
watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay
looking everywhere 'cause I had to find you
this is not the way that i remember it here
anyone will tell you its a prisoner island
hidden in the summer for a million years
Great Southern Land, burned you black
so you look into the land and it will tell you a story
story 'bout a journey ended long ago
listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains
maybe you can hear them talking like I do
". . they're gonna betray, they're gonna forget you
are you gonna let them take you over this way . ."
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
you walk alone like a primitive man
and they make it work with sticks and bones
see their hungry eyes, its a hungry home
I hear the sound of the stranger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
they burned you black, black against the ground
Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
city on a rainy day down in the harbour
watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay
looking everywhere I had to find you
this is not the way that i remember it here
anyone will tell you its a prisoner island
hidden in the summer for a million years
Great Southern Land, in the sleeping sun
you walk alone with the ghost of time
they burned you black, black against the ground
and they make it work with rocks and sand
I hear the sound of the stanger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
you walk alone, like a primitive man
you walk alone with the ghost of time
and they burned you black
yeah, they burned you black
Great Southern Land
Thank you Sunny Tiger :) peace be with you friend.
+Sunny Tiger (Tigress) Thanks! Love it. So the Great Southern Land talks to us in these lines: I hear the sound of the stranger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
+Sunny Tiger (Tigress) I think you're right. I always thought it was SYDNEY on a rainy day down in the harbour.
+alfredagain but I think he's talking about Sydney..clouds shadow the bay..
alfredagain I thought it was SITTING on a rainy day down at the harbour 😂
I am appalled that I didn't like this much as a child when it was a single. Now I think it is genius.
Gome now, Hobe is just 998 km away little goala, we'll make there, eventually
Fug :DDD
+Chief Big Hand Of The Slapaho benis xddd
Gondolas do not speak Spurdish, you casual.
Lol Firsts it was the N. Koreans, and now it's the Cinese... I'm starting to come to understand why you dislike them so, sir.
southern is great dood
I heard this tune for this time as an eleven year old in 1991 watching Young Einstein at home in Scotland. Great tune.
Iva Davies, one of Australia's greatest musicians and songwriters IMHO.
This song is one of the best all time Aussie songs
Only beaten by Jason Donovan’s Too Many Broken Hearts.
Mudnight Oil "Beds are burning", Men at work" Down Under", INXS "Mystify me"
this should really be our national anthem
Fuck yeah!
I agree, always have.
This and/or "I Still Call Australia Home". You can't go wrong with that one either.
I was working at a radio/television station in Alberta in the early 80's this album came in as a demo. The P.D. wasn't interested in it. I had listen to the album and loved it. Tried convincing the P.D. to include Great Southern Land, still wasn't interested and I'm not sure why. I took the album home and I have it still. Excellent Album!
2017 and I still love this song...
I have been fortunate to travel many parts of the world's continent and by far Australia is undoubtedly the best country in the word. The world is not greener on the other side.
Icehouse's love song to Australia.
Ice House é sem dúvida uma lenda da música internacional.
1980s; what a time for Australian music. Today we have Iggy Azalea as our most well known export. How did we go this far backwards?
Polpiv4tifish who !
And Rolf Harris. But you deported him to us rather than the other way round.
Meanwhile, many good bands like The Jezabels & Lowtide have issues making it big outside...
Yeah but that ass though 👀
@@bernard637 it's fake though.
Was 1983 in Roma Queensland . Just a canadian alone and working. Found a lovely woman. Heard the song and the music of the era. Brings me back when I hear it to a time of the world changing and the people with a glimmer in their eye for a clear and beautiful future. I hope we find it again.
Big welcome to the state of Idaho, Aussie and Kiwi firefighters! We need you here and in Washington and Oregon. I hope this video from my distant recesses doesn't document Southern Hemisphere fire management practices (walking casually amidst the flames and singing), otherwise what a wasted trip! Thanks for your help 🌏🌎
I'm a teen but my dad is almost 44 years old and that means he clearly grew up in the 80s and he absolutely loves this.
Músicon de los 80...un clásico...la discoteca space a principios de los 90 cerraba con esta canción.. buenisima
Me alegra encontrar a un hispano. Tremendo tema debería escucharse más por acá.
will never get old. listened to this while driving on the great ocean road,.
I don't know why, i'm from Argentina but i feel a lot of affinity with Australia. I have Italo hungarian ancestry, and i don't understand this strong feeling. Love that country, and love this band and other pop icons from the land down under (INXS, Men at Work, Mad Max, John Farnham, Mental as anything, Russel Mulcahy), perhaps the ozplotation of the 80's has a powerful impact in my childhood.
Javier maybe you were an aborigine in a past life!
Both country's names start with an "A". Both countries are leaders in some way perhaps?
Jajaja, perhaps the hemisphere we live
Both Argentina and Australia were back in 1900 in similar positions, with huge potentials. While they went down different roads, they still had the same core of ideals behind them.
Same here, except I'm from Chile. I really love this song. Makes me feel kinda patriotic for them.
This and Midnight Oil Truganini gives me chills. For Australia🇦🇺
One of my favourite songs ❤
Qué bonito ❤
Classic Aussie rock!!!! Wow!!! Sets the stage for Australia!!!!
❤Happy Birthday Amanda❤Dedicate to you ,family,friends from the Big Southern Land❤We love you❤
Such a great song.. INXS, The Church and Icehouse some of Australia's finest rock from the 80's.
Jason Donovan….Stefan Dennis. The list goes on.
Don’t forget AC/DC
Midnight oil
Men @ work
This song blew me away 20 years ago, and still does today.
Wonderful, timeless, a real blast from the past:- "great southern land".....
I'm a Kiwi but this is one of my all time favourites. Music coming out of Aust. And NZ around this time was the equal of anything else the rest of the world could produce 🤔
Dragon came out of NZ around that time, best band!
I'm not australian but this song is a Master piece !!!!
We listen to this song at school because we are learning the world!
great song dedicated to beautiful Australia!
Why not Mondo Rock too ??
@@amitabhachaudhuri326 its not about the band its about the classic song dedicated to Australia ufdh.
I heard this song in The young Einstein's ... And I love it since then !!! It should be Australia's national anthem VIVA MEXICO !!
Acho muito bacana essa música, dessa banda magnífico,dos anos maravilhosos, que fizeram histórias na música romântica, internacional, mundial.viva as músicas lindas maravilhosas.
Somewhere south, Yahoo Serious is still searching for his career while this is playing in the background.
The land tells a story for sure love the lyrics Classics are where it is at!
The lucky country Australia!
Livin in USA still listening to this Classic from DownUnder. 🇺🇸🤙🏽
The video for this was filmed in a disused sandstone quarry in Kuringai National Park near Sydney
Stephen Marcus Urm! Thanks lol!!
Je découvre que de belles choses, pour ma part, grâce à mon Amie Lorraine, toujours extraordinaire. Merci ma bien chère Amie
michel wolff You are welcome mon ami Michel
Darude-Sandstorm
well my life story is complete. Who fuckin cares
who's listening on January 26th, Australia day 2018?? great song of course.
Listened i the serious yahhoo i loved this track