I've lived, breathed and sweated every word of this song, cane fields, toads, warts and all. Diesel on the breeze and cursing bloody flies, iced-coffee smokos and sauce drowned hot meat pies. Our Aussie tradie lifestyle
I am not an advocate for Coca Cola, but they did make a fairly nice ad that used this song back in the early 90's. But what a great song.. Just like The Go-Betweens ''Cattle And Cane'', this tune is based on a poem written by the singer about a real life experience.
I've had many awesome summers cracking tinnies with me mates, just talking shit and listening to songs like this and then suddenly our hot nights turn into heavy rain and lightning... and all we can do is laugh and say ''no wonder the surf was so good today''.. Never really came out with obvious stuff like ''this is Australia'', but then again I'm not a pom .. ahem.. I mean, British person that is experiencing extreme Aussie heat for the first time.. Happy Australia Day! Bye bye.....
Happy Australia Day! Iconic song that was almost spoilt for me by over playing on the radio - but that just means it is popular I guess. 😊. The original film clip was great as well. Their name “GANGgajang” is evidently the sound of strumming an acoustic guitar.
Mark Cal is from my city of Brisbane. This song sends shivers down my spin because I relate to every word sung. He describes the Australia that I experienced as a child, where you couldn't sleep at night because it was so damn hot. I was born in Australia, but I can really put myself into the shoes of somebody from England that had experienced all this for the first time. It had to have been a culture shock. Happy Australia Day!!!
A bit late of me to say Happy Aussie Day, so I'll just comment on the band. They were like Goanna in the sense that their songs were a little too serious and earnest for an 80's teenager to really like. ''Sounds Of Then'' and ''Gimme Some Loving'' (not a cover) are the only two that stand out in my mind, and while Cal's previous group, Riptides, were okay for some nascent Brisbane band, can't say they have anything more to offer than 'Hearts And Flowers'. So, if I was to suggest anything by these guys, just so for ''Gimme Some Loving'' and The Riptides ''Hearts & Flowers''.
Its got a great groove , because its so relaxed and just flows along . So easy to listen to. As far as iconic Aussie hits i,t rates second for me to Ice house Great southern Land but its certainly a great song.
Thanks for a great reaction to a great song from the days when music was fun. To answer your question about the humidity Cynthia - I'm sitting on my back deck at Dayboro SE Queensland at nearly midnight on Aust Day and it's 32 C (90F) and 98% humidity. Not fun!
John , your in a furnace mate ! Step away from the furnace 😮.. you folk in Sydney needn’t worry about bumping into me on a Sydney beach as I would literally self combust … “ Look love - there’s a fat Scotsman over there on fire 🔥 “.. 🤦♂️ God bless you guys living with temperatures like that - if you fancy a break from the furnace it’s around 8 degrees here on average at the minute 🥶 👍🏴
This has always struck me as a chilled version of ''Solid Rock''. I liked it when Aussie rock began sharing vocals with women: Go-Betweens, Goanna, Models (their cheesy pop period), etc, etc... Great song! Thanx for doing Jangers.
It's one of those songs bordering, if not, iconic for Aussies. These guys also had two other standout tracks off this debut album (1985) : Gimme Some Lovin' , and, House Of Cards. Enjoying your reactions.
It is basically illrgal for members of the public to buy fireworks in Australia. Only highly organised events that employ experienced and licenced pyrotechnic professionals can obtain the permits legally required to set off any firework display. There are probably many reasons for this but one of the main ones being that it is now summer in Australia, the height of the bushfire system and the danger of bushfires starting in most areas of Australia is so high that the fire danger signs with the pointer indicating on a dail the level of fire danger starts at high and has about four or five levels above that ending at very extremely high where cars with internal combustion engines are not allowed off the tarred roads in the bush as stray sparks from the car's exhaust could start a raging bushfire. There used to be sugar plantations in many areas all down the coast areas of Queensland and even into Northern NSW. But the international politics of sugar pricing made the selling price of sugarcane fluctuate widely from season to season for Australian producers when the Australian government removed most import controls and duties on imported sugar. Without a stable domestic market most former growers especially South of about Bundeburg and even further North left the industry for other more stable primary production like other crops or even raising cattle. Mostly it was the local sugar mills that closed first which made growing sugar cane uneconomical because of the transport costs of harvested sugar cane to more distant mills.
This is one of my favourite songs, I come from Queensland where there’s cane, storms, and sweat aplenty. I’m glad you enjoyed it too, great reaction. Btw you’re right about the trees
Australia is huge, with many different temperate zones. The Snowy Mountains gets more snow than Switzerland. Queensland gets the southern edge of the Asian monsoons, but inland is dry. How dry? Ive seen trees fighting over dogs!
This song is so QLD. Not that i have sat and watched lightning cracking over canefields... But living in Brisbane, i definitely know the humidity!! Fireworks were banned in the 80's, only authorised, licenced people are allowed to have them (though they seem to be some going off around here monthly!!)
Yeah, always think this song is a bit odd as an Aussie. Now I heard the background of this song is about some British person moving to Bundaberg it makes more sense when hear the words, as I do not relate much of it to where I live. But up in Queensland it would be more relevant with humidity and canefields. I not been much further north than Bundaberg on the east coast, because honestly, the crazy weather up that way heavy rainfall and cyclones scare the beejezus out of me. I mean, even in recent days it sounds like that have cyclone warnings up that way. It really a song about the tropical part of Australia and makes sense when listen to the words. I never really know much about this band and sounds weird to me if members of The Angels were in it. But if they were, well, learned something new today. On fireworks, I never really associate them with this public holiday so cannot remember if ever had them it past or not. I heard fireworks on new years eve, locally so some people have some in backyard, which probably not legal but they did not last long. Australia Day for me is usually about watching the cricket, which I am about to do after this video. It has always been just another summer public holiday to me. Nothing more or nothing less so never really celebrate this day like I would Christmas Day or New Year's Eve. It just a fan day off work and hopefully it sunny and the cricket on. It actually only 21 degrees C right now. Not much of a warm summer day. But there is some sun rays outside with the cloudy sky. Hopefully up north in Queensland the weather and cyclones stay out at sea.
You still need to use a heater in some parts of Australia at this very moment. I think people get wrong ideas about Australia. The southern areas like Victoria and Tasmania are not all that warm right now, and you wouldn't compare those places to the Queensland hinterland or Northern central Australia. Great song anyway..
The humidity in north Queensland can be oppressive. If you drive through that area it is something unique to that part of Australia and you won't forget that feeling. Michael Hutchence could dance.
Happy Australia Day down under , have a tinny on me ! If I hadn’t seen the title I’d have sworn that was Lloyd Cole singing 😮 Really enjoyed the vibe on this track , very clever and talented guitarist on this 👌 👍🏴
It was cool when Camera Obscura did a song called " Hey Lloyd , I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken " in homage to his " Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken ? " Lloyd liked 👍 it !
I like that it was written and sung by an English guy. It's about his recollections of coming to Australia as a child. I guess he was what we colloquially call a 10 pound pom? I get the same feeling from this song as I get from Warumpi Band's ''My Island Home''. I feel it explains somebody's situation, and puts you in their shoes.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83I didn’t so much react to the lyrics , normally if I like the music I will come back to it to look at the music WITH the lyrics and see if it adds another layer of enjoyment in the whole experience, I did enjoy the music here so now I’ll be going back to it to spend more attention on the lyrics and story too 👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering If you're into punk, as you say you are, you might want to check out singer, Mark "Cal" Callaghan's previous band, The Riptides. 77 Sunset Strip and the garage-style Tomorrow's Tears was what he did before GANGAjang.
When I first came to Australia in 1976, the place seemed restless and tense, like there was a need for a change.. It had been about year since the firing of the country's prime minister Gough Whitlam and a couple of years after the ending of the Vietnam war. There was a feeling that a lot of young people were sick of something, but it wasn't clear exactly what that something was. 10 years later, Australia was a very confident and optimistic country and a lot of youngins were ready to take on the world. I know it sounds funny, but even that INXS music-video for ''Don't Change'' had that ''we can do it'' spirit that seemed prevalent in 1980's Australia. In the middle of this new optimstic Australia and the Paul Hogan/Land Down Under Australia was this detached Australia where people like GANGgajang, Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil and Goanna were reporting on the reality of things. As an Englishman that had been in hot places like what's described in ''Sounds Of Then'', I can relate to this song. Another part of me can also relate to Warumpi Band's ''My Island Home'', seeing as I am from another place, but have my own family here. Happy Australia Day everybody.
There are Canefields for miles and miles up around Far Nth Queensland…. And a big sugar industry….. and it does get humid the further Nth you go….but every state in Australia has their humid days….. our winters are Wet and Cold … rather than Snow …..
Btw , a thanks to , I think it was Hayley , who showed me how to write lots of script into “ notes “ on my iPhone to cut n paste a big reply with no risk to losing it if it disappeared, sent a big reply to OnceWas who suggested some unknown to me bands , as did Kaitlyn and it’s very much appreciated, some proper hidden gems among em . It’s all there in the comments for us foreigners to explore and enjoy , go for it 👌 👍🏴 👍🏴
@@ghichens3418 lol G - I lost a lot of quality comments a wee while ago and Hayley mentioned writing the bigger ones in “ notes “ in my iPhone then cutting n pasting into the comment box here . A couple of folk had kindly recommended some Aussie punk n new wave bands I probably hadn’t heard of and their names n tracks are all in a giant comments thread of around 50 comments from the most recent Haniers post 👌 👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_BletheringOK ! Jay I will back track and try and sus what is going on , I have had some stuff go AWOL which is a ball ache ! But nevermind as we are Cunning Celts , and we will prevail Yayyyyy !
Happy Australia Day Everyone!!! This song was a nice surprise when it came out of nowhere in 1985. The singer was in a band called The Riptides, who I would see as often as possible in the early 80's. Then the band broke up and the Jangs were emerged a year later. You need to check out some Riptides someday.. 'Hearts and Flowers' is my fave. Cheers !!
My favourite Australian band are Spiderbait. They are unusual in that some songs have female leads and others male. Their music also ranges from light frothy pop to heavy rock. I'd suggest listening to Calypso and Buy Me A Pony back to back as they are both under two minutes long.
I just thought up a few suggestions that you might like to try out. Nothing as important as the past two songs we did this week. Icehouse - Great Southern Land nzoz1982
Firstly Happy Australia Day 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 It is illegal to buy fireworks in Australia, but we are going to our nearest city tonight (which is around 170 km south of Perth) to watch them. Not as elaborate as Sydney NSW, but still fun to watch. Ours will be the traditional fireworks, but I have heard that Perth WA is going to have a light show instead of fireworks. Perhaps some viewers from Perth could confirm…. We have cane fields in Queensland. I am not sure if you’ve seen any Jimmy Barnes official videos but you would see the fire in the cane fields in the clip for Working Class Man. BBQs are big here. Our very small country town puts on a breakfast every Australia Day with entertainment for just a gold coin donation. The BBQs are used to cook bacon, eggs, sausages, onion and tomatoes. They toast bread and have a lot of very yummy seasonal fruit (and since it’s summer there was a lot to choose from). On top you can help yourself to orange juice or tea or coffee.
lol I was watching a documentary about Australian railways yesterday where a cyclone had destroyed the rail tracks to a giant sugar cane refinery that serviced enormous cane producing region .. weird you’d bring that up Cynthia .. Some Spooky Sh*t there …👀 👍🏴
Gillian and I were semi-pro dancers. Of course, Countdown put the idea in our heads that we should take up dancing and enter those illustrious Countdown dancing competitions, but we did it! We were good! '' Do Yourself A Favour- Dance Competition Segment- November 23, 2014 '' has some good and laughable moment. Ignore Brian Mannix's comments. Gillian and I and a few Countdown kid hopefuls entered this competition back in 1983: ABC Countdown TV - Flashdance show (pt 1 of 3)
Great song! I remember Mark "Cal" Callaghan first coming on Countdown in 1980 with a band called The Riptides. They were fine for the Punk and Post-Punk thing, but were't destined to be chartbusters. Then he emerged from the ashes of The Riptides with this ripper. Coca-Cola exploited the song by using it on one of their ads in the late 80's, which seemed to work in making more people aware of the song. Whatever it takes to bring the music to the people I guess. Cheers, Hayley
Yeeeesss, Riptides came on Countdown a couple of times. Which songs they performed on the show, I can't remember, but I do remember it being weird when Countdown opened its doors to smaller independent bands and sometimes unsigned bands. Do you remember which songs the Riptides did on Countdown?
@@leavemealone344 From what I remember, The Riptides performed 'Tomorrow's Tears' and 'Only Time' in Countdown in 1980 and 1981 respectively, and made no impact. 'Tomorrow's Tears' was a catchy lo-fi pop song, but they just didn't have what it took to turn the Countdown kids on. Bit of a shame.
This is an Australian anthem…..but….it is worth listening to the studio version……the sound is better balanced and what Australians know and my age group grew up with.
@@davidellis5141 Sorry to butt in, but Red Eyes Records is also a label. I still have their first release - ''Born To Be Punched'' by James Baker Experience (ex-Hoodoo Gurus drummer). Sydnney had some great labels.. Phantom and Powderworks! Oh, those were the days...
@@davidellis5141 That's great! I love Red Eye because it released a lot of side projects by The Church members, and Steve Kilbey's brothers and their bands, The Crystal Set and Bhagavad Guitars. I still have all their vinyl releases from Red Eye records (with the big eye).
About the dancing. A lot of male rockers weren't very good dancers, and I can confirm that Michael Hutchence couldn't dance during the early days of INXS. Take it from a Countdown kid that watched Michael Hutchence perform in the ''Countdown studio''. He just did these straight legged jumps and then pop his chest out as he mimed the next line. He got better once INXS made money. Kylie was a female pop singer. A lot of Aussie girls would take up dancing at some stage or another and those of us influenced by Countdown would take dancing seriously and try to enter the show's competitions. Kylie Minogue and Kate Ceberano were good dancers, but had like the rest of us more ambitious Countdown kids, got their training from Tania Lacy and other pro's. A lot of males had an aversion towards dancing and thought it was a ''girls'' thing, which meant girls like me would enter the Countdown dance competition, and compete with either other girls or guys that had specific styles (breakdancing, locking, etc)... I competed with Gillian and Hayley in 1984 and they kicked my arse.
Happy Australia day. Middle of summer, so fireworks is not a good idea. With regard to Australia's climate. We are virtually the same size of the mainland US. Darwin (most northern capital) is about the same latitude as Florida. Hobart (most southern capital) is about the same latitude as Michigan i.e. Grand Rapids and Flint
Thank you very much! Great tune. Other Ganggajang to check out are as follows: GANGgajang - Gimme Some Loving nzoz1984 I just can't name any other GGJ songs that interest me as much as those two. GGJ's singer, Mark Callaghan, had played in a (punk) band called Riptides before GANGGAJANG. Check out the following below: The Riptides - Hearts And Flowers nzoz1982 The Riptides - 77 Sunset Strip nzoz1979 Hearts & Flowers is a lost classic in my opinion.
Just checked out both of their songs OnceWas as a result of Hayley recommendation , both really good songs , huge stretch to call them a Punk band though , classic new wave imho but still enjoyable and interesting 👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I used to see Riptides live all the time in Sydney. I still have all their releases. Sadly, they never released an album in their time. Great Brisbane band.. Not as big as The Saints or The Go-Betweens, unfortunately.
@@kaitlynbatt_ well I’ve been entertained this morning Kaitlyn, I enjoyed the GANGgajang track AND the recommendation to check out the earlier Riptides tracks which I thoroughly enjoyed too . The 2nd one ,77 Sunset strip , I had the odd and laughable feeling that the lead singer / bass player looked so like the UK writer/comedian/actor Stephen Merchant that I found it distracting . But the term that I just invented of “Surfing Undertones “ is a huge compliment from me as I admire Surfing and adore The Undertones , what’s not to like 🤷♂️ ? 😀 👍🏴
@@OnceWasRStrathfield agreed ! Maybe it was just an organic process of growing up and learning your trade ? The 2 Riptides tracks have a loveable amateur / Punky attitude , whilst the GANGajang track comes across much more confident and slick imho 👍🏴
😊Yep, good ol Oarstraylia Day, the day the brits invaded the Aboriginals , and stole their land many years ago , yep we do all thebells and whistles , fireworks, barbies, ect 😮😮
Am I the only one who thinks this … 🤬.. @antscott should keep his political BS to himself as this isn’t the Forum for it ? Lots of Aus folk in here DO celebrate Australia Day and don’t need this sort of crap 👍🏴
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I've lived, breathed and sweated every word of this song, cane fields, toads, warts and all. Diesel on the breeze and cursing bloody flies, iced-coffee smokos and sauce drowned hot meat pies. Our Aussie tradie lifestyle
Every Australian relates to this song on a cellular level. It describes summer so well. ☺️
I am not an advocate for Coca Cola, but they did make a fairly nice ad that used this song back in the early 90's. But what a great song.. Just like The Go-Betweens ''Cattle And Cane'', this tune is based on a poem written by the singer about a real life experience.
Yep 27c tonight in Brisbane Australia night time humidity 90% 37c tomorrow. 😮
We just had a 41 degree (Celsius) Australia Day, so this song really hits home . 👍
Happy Australia day 🏴
I've had many awesome summers cracking tinnies with me mates, just talking shit and listening to songs like this and then suddenly our hot nights turn into heavy rain and lightning... and all we can do is laugh and say ''no wonder the surf was so good today''..
Never really came out with obvious stuff like ''this is Australia'', but then again I'm not a pom .. ahem.. I mean, British person that is experiencing extreme Aussie heat for the first time.. Happy Australia Day! Bye bye.....
Happy Australia Day! Iconic song that was almost spoilt for me by over playing on the radio - but that just means it is popular I guess. 😊. The original film clip was great as well.
Their name “GANGgajang” is evidently the sound of strumming an acoustic guitar.
Mark Cal is from my city of Brisbane. This song sends shivers down my spin because I relate to every word sung. He describes the Australia that I experienced as a child, where you couldn't sleep at night because it was so damn hot. I was born in Australia, but I can really put myself into the shoes of somebody from England that had experienced all this for the first time. It had to have been a culture shock.
Happy Australia Day!!!
Happy Australia day all from WA
A bit late of me to say Happy Aussie Day, so I'll just comment on the band. They were like Goanna in the sense that their songs were a little too serious and earnest for an 80's teenager to really like. ''Sounds Of Then'' and ''Gimme Some Loving'' (not a cover) are the only two that stand out in my mind, and while Cal's previous group, Riptides, were okay for some nascent Brisbane band, can't say they have anything more to offer than 'Hearts And Flowers'. So, if I was to suggest anything by these guys, just so for ''Gimme Some Loving'' and The Riptides ''Hearts & Flowers''.
Its got a great groove , because its so relaxed and just flows along . So easy to listen to. As far as iconic Aussie hits i,t rates second for me to Ice house Great southern Land but its certainly a great song.
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!!!!! I love this song and the lyrics on the screen. I'm sure this was from the show Rock Arena. Thank you!
Thanks for a great reaction to a great song from the days when music was fun. To answer your question about the humidity Cynthia - I'm sitting on my back deck at Dayboro SE Queensland at nearly midnight on Aust Day and it's 32 C (90F) and 98% humidity. Not fun!
Their other hit ''Gimme Some Loving'' is another good Ganggajang song to try. Happy belated Australia Day. 🐨
It began as a poem written by that Cal dude, and then the Jangers added music to it, and wallah, a Coke jingle
I've lived in Australia for 56 years … and the subtitles helped. 😁
A Great Aussie anthem. Always happy to hear this especially when overseas.
Today it was 40C and 75% humidity just north of Sydney
John , your in a furnace mate ! Step away from the furnace 😮.. you folk in Sydney needn’t worry about bumping into me on a Sydney beach as I would literally self combust …
“ Look love - there’s a fat Scotsman over there on fire 🔥 “.. 🤦♂️
God bless you guys living with temperatures like that - if you fancy a break from the furnace it’s around 8 degrees here on average at the minute 🥶
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Listen to you from Brisbane Queensland Australia at 11:45pm on Australia Day were it is 35c (95F). Know wonder I can't sleep
Birdsville broke the Queensland record yesterday, 49.4C / 120.9F
This has always struck me as a chilled version of ''Solid Rock''. I liked it when Aussie rock began sharing vocals with women: Go-Betweens, Goanna, Models (their cheesy pop period), etc, etc... Great song! Thanx for doing Jangers.
It's one of those songs bordering, if not, iconic for Aussies. These guys also had two other standout tracks off this debut album (1985) : Gimme Some Lovin' , and, House Of Cards. Enjoying your reactions.
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY from Adelaide
It is basically illrgal for members of the public to buy fireworks in Australia. Only highly organised events that employ experienced and licenced pyrotechnic professionals can obtain the permits legally required to set off any firework display. There are probably many reasons for this but one of the main ones being that it is now summer in Australia, the height of the bushfire system and the danger of bushfires starting in most areas of Australia is so high that the fire danger signs with the pointer indicating on a dail the level of fire danger starts at high and has about four or five levels above that ending at very extremely high where cars with internal combustion engines are not allowed off the tarred roads in the bush as stray sparks from the car's exhaust could start a raging bushfire.
There used to be sugar plantations in many areas all down the coast areas of Queensland and even into Northern NSW. But the international politics of sugar pricing made the selling price of sugarcane fluctuate widely from season to season for Australian producers when the Australian government removed most import controls and duties on imported sugar. Without a stable domestic market most former growers especially South of about Bundeburg and even further North left the industry for other more stable primary production like other crops or even raising cattle. Mostly it was the local sugar mills that closed first which made growing sugar cane uneconomical because of the transport costs of harvested sugar cane to more distant mills.
I was always under the impression that the lead guitar was done by Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything.
I could be wrong.
This is one of my favourite songs, I come from Queensland where there’s cane, storms, and sweat aplenty. I’m glad you enjoyed it too, great reaction. Btw you’re right about the trees
There are sugar cane farms in northern NSW and Qld
Australia is huge, with many different temperate zones. The Snowy Mountains gets more snow than Switzerland. Queensland gets the southern edge of the Asian monsoons, but inland is dry. How dry? Ive seen trees fighting over dogs!
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This song is so QLD. Not that i have sat and watched lightning cracking over canefields... But living in Brisbane, i definitely know the humidity!! Fireworks were banned in the 80's, only authorised, licenced people are allowed to have them (though they seem to be some going off around here monthly!!)
Yeah, always think this song is a bit odd as an Aussie. Now I heard the background of this song is about some British person moving to Bundaberg it makes more sense when hear the words, as I do not relate much of it to where I live. But up in Queensland it would be more relevant with humidity and canefields. I not been much further north than Bundaberg on the east coast, because honestly, the crazy weather up that way heavy rainfall and cyclones scare the beejezus out of me. I mean, even in recent days it sounds like that have cyclone warnings up that way. It really a song about the tropical part of Australia and makes sense when listen to the words. I never really know much about this band and sounds weird to me if members of The Angels were in it. But if they were, well, learned something new today.
On fireworks, I never really associate them with this public holiday so cannot remember if ever had them it past or not. I heard fireworks on new years eve, locally so some people have some in backyard, which probably not legal but they did not last long.
Australia Day for me is usually about watching the cricket, which I am about to do after this video. It has always been just another summer public holiday to me. Nothing more or nothing less so never really celebrate this day like I would Christmas Day or New Year's Eve. It just a fan day off work and hopefully it sunny and the cricket on. It actually only 21 degrees C right now. Not much of a warm summer day. But there is some sun rays outside with the cloudy sky. Hopefully up north in Queensland the weather and cyclones stay out at sea.
The Guitar 🎸 on this is excellent 👌
Anybody from a cold place should hear this song before deciding on Australia. And do the research on the more habitable places.
And importantly IMO West - Dry , East - humid . Perth averages around 5 degrees hotter than Sydney but it's dry . So it's not as oppressive.
@@macman1469 True
You still need to use a heater in some parts of Australia at this very moment. I think people get wrong ideas about Australia. The southern areas like Victoria and Tasmania are not all that warm right now, and you wouldn't compare those places to the Queensland hinterland or Northern central Australia. Great song anyway..
Wow.. This has attracted a lot of views. Be nice if people cared for ''My Island Home'' as much as they care about this one.
The humidity in north Queensland can be oppressive. If you drive through that area it is something unique to that part of Australia and you won't forget that feeling. Michael Hutchence could dance.
Happy Australia Day down under , have a tinny on me !
If I hadn’t seen the title I’d have sworn that was Lloyd Cole singing 😮
Really enjoyed the vibe on this track , very clever and talented guitarist on this 👌
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It was cool when Camera Obscura did a song called " Hey Lloyd , I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken " in homage to his " Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken ? " Lloyd liked 👍 it !
@@davidellis5141 cool 😎👌
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I like that it was written and sung by an English guy. It's about his recollections of coming to Australia as a child. I guess he was what we colloquially call a 10 pound pom?
I get the same feeling from this song as I get from Warumpi Band's ''My Island Home''. I feel it explains somebody's situation, and puts you in their shoes.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83I didn’t so much react to the lyrics , normally if I like the music I will come back to it to look at the music WITH the lyrics and see if it adds another layer of enjoyment in the whole experience, I did enjoy the music here so now I’ll be going back to it to spend more attention on the lyrics and story too
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering If you're into punk, as you say you are, you might want to check out singer, Mark "Cal" Callaghan's previous band, The Riptides.
77 Sunset Strip and the garage-style Tomorrow's Tears was what he did before GANGAjang.
When I first came to Australia in 1976, the place seemed restless and tense, like there was a need for a change.. It had been about year since the firing of the country's prime minister Gough Whitlam and a couple of years after the ending of the Vietnam war. There was a feeling that a lot of young people were sick of something, but it wasn't clear exactly what that something was.
10 years later, Australia was a very confident and optimistic country and a lot of youngins were ready to take on the world. I know it sounds funny, but even that INXS music-video for ''Don't Change'' had that ''we can do it'' spirit that seemed prevalent in 1980's Australia. In the middle of this new optimstic Australia and the Paul Hogan/Land Down Under Australia was this detached Australia where people like GANGgajang, Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil and Goanna were reporting on the reality of things. As an Englishman that had been in hot places like what's described in ''Sounds Of Then'', I can relate to this song.
Another part of me can also relate to Warumpi Band's ''My Island Home'', seeing as I am from another place, but have my own family here.
Happy Australia Day everybody.
the 70's was a tumultuous time. I remember it like it was yesterday.
You should watch yhe film clip some beautiful views of Australia.
There are Canefields for miles and miles up around Far Nth Queensland…. And a big sugar industry….. and it does get humid the further Nth you go….but every state in Australia has their humid days….. our winters are Wet and Cold … rather than Snow …..
absolutely love this song.... good to see you react to it
Absolutely love this! Happy Australia Day!
Back in the day it was said that Peter Garrett danced like the Earth was moving beneath his feet, as the Bombs were going off.
Btw , a thanks to , I think it was Hayley , who showed me how to write lots of script into “ notes “ on my iPhone to cut n paste a big reply with no risk to losing it if it disappeared, sent a big reply to OnceWas who suggested some unknown to me bands , as did Kaitlyn and it’s very much appreciated, some proper hidden gems among em . It’s all there in the comments for us foreigners to explore and enjoy , go for it 👌
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Good Morrow sir Jay !! I not very good with tech so Ill try and read again what u said so it sinks in to my thick head !!
@@ghichens3418 lol G - I lost a lot of quality comments a wee while ago and Hayley mentioned writing the bigger ones in “ notes “ in my iPhone then cutting n pasting into the comment box here . A couple of folk had kindly recommended some Aussie punk n new wave bands I probably hadn’t heard of and their names n tracks are all in a giant comments thread of around 50 comments from the most recent Haniers post 👌
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_BletheringOK ! Jay I will back track and try and sus what is going on , I have had some stuff go AWOL which is a ball ache ! But nevermind as we are Cunning Celts , and we will prevail Yayyyyy !
@@ghichens3418 😆gotcha Sir G
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I think one more G and T and bed ! Have good week end Jay !!
We do have fireworks for the day.
Thanx for doing one of my favourite Aussie songs. Perfect barbeque song in the summer.
Old mate's thinking of the Saints i think, rather than the Angels. Let's do the Church now.
Happy Australia Day Everyone!!! This song was a nice surprise when it came out of nowhere in 1985. The singer was in a band called The Riptides, who I would see as often as possible in the early 80's. Then the band broke up and the Jangs were emerged a year later. You need to check out some Riptides someday.. 'Hearts and Flowers' is my fave. Cheers !!
Still got my copy of 77 Sunset Strip by Riptides. Awesome band.
My favourite Australian band are Spiderbait. They are unusual in that some songs have female leads and others male. Their music also ranges from light frothy pop to heavy rock. I'd suggest listening to Calypso and Buy Me A Pony back to back as they are both under two minutes long.
Bundaberg rum..don't drink it before work..😂
Or after work !!!
I would've gone for the official video version for a first listen...but a a nice reaction as always.
This is the actually original video used from when it was released. Another was made in 1994, then 2005.
Northern Queensland is cane growing country and has a tropical climate. Thanks for the video.
Sugar cane is also grown on the Gold Coast.
Happy Australia Day! A great and fitting song for the occassion.
I just thought up a few suggestions that you might like to try out. Nothing as important as the past two songs we did this week.
Icehouse - Great Southern Land nzoz1982
We know both of those Men At Work songs very well!
@@hanierfamily I thought you played songs that you knew on Friday Favourites? You react to songs you don't know by your favourite artists. I see.
Firstly Happy Australia Day 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
It is illegal to buy fireworks in Australia, but we are going to our nearest city tonight (which is around 170 km south of Perth) to watch them. Not as elaborate as Sydney NSW, but still fun to watch. Ours will be the traditional fireworks, but I have heard that Perth WA is going to have a light show instead of fireworks. Perhaps some viewers from Perth could confirm….
We have cane fields in Queensland. I am not sure if you’ve seen any Jimmy Barnes official videos but you would see the fire in the cane fields in the clip for Working Class Man.
BBQs are big here. Our very small country town puts on a breakfast every Australia Day with entertainment for just a gold coin donation. The BBQs are used to cook bacon, eggs, sausages, onion and tomatoes. They toast bread and have a lot of very yummy seasonal fruit (and since it’s summer there was a lot to choose from). On top you can help yourself to orange juice or tea or coffee.
You can buy fireworks in Canberra
@@Danger_Mouse3619 wow! Canberra is the only City I haven't been too. Did not know you can buy Fireworks there. Just finished our fireworks 🇦🇺
Sorry to be an old punk party pooper, but I liked the singer more when he was in The Riptides. But that's not the issue. Happy Australia Day folks!!
lol I was watching a documentary about Australian railways yesterday where a cyclone had destroyed the rail tracks to a giant sugar cane refinery that serviced enormous cane producing region .. weird you’d bring that up Cynthia .. Some Spooky Sh*t there …👀
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Gillian and I were semi-pro dancers. Of course, Countdown put the idea in our heads that we should take up dancing and enter those illustrious Countdown dancing competitions, but we did it! We were good!
'' Do Yourself A Favour- Dance Competition Segment- November 23, 2014 '' has some good and laughable moment. Ignore Brian Mannix's comments.
Gillian and I and a few Countdown kid hopefuls entered this competition back in 1983:
ABC Countdown TV - Flashdance show (pt 1 of 3)
Great song! I remember Mark "Cal" Callaghan first coming on Countdown in 1980 with a band called The Riptides. They were fine for the Punk and Post-Punk thing, but were't destined to be chartbusters. Then he emerged from the ashes of The Riptides with this ripper. Coca-Cola exploited the song by using it on one of their ads in the late 80's, which seemed to work in making more people aware of the song. Whatever it takes to bring the music to the people I guess.
Cheers,
Hayley
Yeeeesss, Riptides came on Countdown a couple of times. Which songs they performed on the show, I can't remember, but I do remember it being weird when Countdown opened its doors to smaller independent bands and sometimes unsigned bands. Do you remember which songs the Riptides did on Countdown?
@@leavemealone344 From what I remember, The Riptides performed 'Tomorrow's Tears' and 'Only Time' in Countdown in 1980 and 1981 respectively, and made no impact. 'Tomorrow's Tears' was a catchy lo-fi pop song, but they just didn't have what it took to turn the Countdown kids on. Bit of a shame.
This is great but this is one instance where I prefer the original studio version.
100%
This is an Australian anthem…..but….it is worth listening to the studio version……the sound is better balanced and what Australians know and my age group grew up with.
Happy Australia 🇦🇺 Day ! Sydney is home to the awesome record store Utopia Records 🎸
I'm impressed that you know that. We have and had some great record stores in Melbourne too.
Utopia Records is good, but so is Red Eye Records.
@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 I actually did some work for the former owners of Utopia John & Sandra. Red Eye was also a record label I think 🤔
@@davidellis5141 Sorry to butt in, but Red Eyes Records is also a label. I still have their first release - ''Born To Be Punched'' by James Baker Experience (ex-Hoodoo Gurus drummer). Sydnney had some great labels.. Phantom and Powderworks! Oh, those were the days...
@@kaitlynbatt_ Thanks 😊 for the confirmation 👍
@@davidellis5141 That's great! I love Red Eye because it released a lot of side projects by The Church members, and Steve Kilbey's brothers and their bands, The Crystal Set and Bhagavad Guitars. I still have all their vinyl releases from Red Eye records (with the big eye).
About the dancing. A lot of male rockers weren't very good dancers, and I can confirm that Michael Hutchence couldn't dance during the early days of INXS. Take it from a Countdown kid that watched Michael Hutchence perform in the ''Countdown studio''. He just did these straight legged jumps and then pop his chest out as he mimed the next line. He got better once INXS made money.
Kylie was a female pop singer. A lot of Aussie girls would take up dancing at some stage or another and those of us influenced by Countdown would take dancing seriously and try to enter the show's competitions.
Kylie Minogue and Kate Ceberano were good dancers, but had like the rest of us more ambitious Countdown kids, got their training from Tania Lacy and other pro's. A lot of males had an aversion towards dancing and thought it was a ''girls'' thing, which meant girls like me would enter the Countdown dance competition, and compete with either other girls or guys that had specific styles (breakdancing, locking, etc)... I competed with Gillian and Hayley in 1984 and they kicked my arse.
Happy Australia day. Middle of summer, so fireworks is not a good idea. With regard to Australia's climate. We are virtually the same size of the mainland US. Darwin (most northern capital) is about the same latitude as Florida. Hobart (most southern capital) is about the same latitude as Michigan i.e. Grand Rapids and Flint
Thank you very much! Great tune. Other Ganggajang to check out are as follows:
GANGgajang - Gimme Some Loving nzoz1984
I just can't name any other GGJ songs that interest me as much as those two. GGJ's singer, Mark Callaghan, had played in a (punk) band called Riptides before GANGGAJANG. Check out the following below:
The Riptides - Hearts And Flowers nzoz1982
The Riptides - 77 Sunset Strip nzoz1979
Hearts & Flowers is a lost classic in my opinion.
Just checked out both of their songs OnceWas as a result of Hayley recommendation , both really good songs , huge stretch to call them a Punk band though , classic new wave imho but still enjoyable and interesting
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I used to see Riptides live all the time in Sydney. I still have all their releases. Sadly, they never released an album in their time. Great Brisbane band.. Not as big as The Saints or The Go-Betweens, unfortunately.
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Glad you checked them out. I like how he jumped from that New Wave stuff to something serious like Ganggajang.
@@kaitlynbatt_ well I’ve been entertained this morning Kaitlyn, I enjoyed the GANGgajang track AND the recommendation to check out the earlier Riptides tracks which I thoroughly enjoyed too . The 2nd one ,77 Sunset strip , I had the odd and laughable feeling that the lead singer / bass player looked so like the UK writer/comedian/actor Stephen Merchant that I found it distracting . But the term that I just invented of “Surfing Undertones “ is a huge compliment from me as I admire Surfing and adore The Undertones , what’s not to like 🤷♂️ ?
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@@OnceWasRStrathfield agreed ! Maybe it was just an organic process of growing up and learning your trade ? The 2 Riptides tracks have a loveable amateur / Punky attitude , whilst the GANGajang track comes across much more confident and slick imho
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Do you say 'patio' in Canada? Or, verandah ? Or, porch?
A veranda and porch are pretty much the same thing. We use patio if we are talking about a deck in the back yard. We use all 3 terms here.
Happy Australia day all. From Perth. Lamb chops on the barbie coming up.
😊Yep, good ol Oarstraylia Day, the day the brits invaded the Aboriginals , and stole their land many years ago , yep we do all thebells and whistles , fireworks, barbies, ect 😮😮
We got everything all the fruit veg meat no need to import anything .
Not much of a difference between this and the studio version. Just goes to show the quality that this band possessed.
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Why is today Australia Day? I hadn't heard o that before?
We believe it's honouring the arrival of Europeans to Australia. It's become much more, of course.
@@hanierfamily Is that really a thing to Celebrate. We tend to Break things.
Well, that's what it started out as. But it's grown into a celebration of its people.
@@hanierfamily Any reason to Party is a +
@@SPKdesign1 lol.. Good question
That guitar in my left ear was annoying. Sooo loud.
80s?
Yes.
1985. Recorded at the ABC studio for a show called Rock Arena. A music show for people that hated Countdown.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 Thank God somebody out there was thinking of us poor neglected Countdown haters
Am I the only one who thinks this … 🤬.. @antscott should keep his political BS to himself as this isn’t the Forum for it ? Lots of Aus folk in here DO celebrate Australia Day and don’t need this sort of crap
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If you know anything about Australia Day and what it represents you should know that it shouldn’t be celebrated.