Went to Australia for a month back in 2000. Sydney Harbor for the millenium. My wife aned I both cried like little kids when it was time to come back to the United States. Best vacation ever. Fabulous people. Not a day goes by without thinking about the greatest place that we've ever been to. Miss you GSL...
That's really touching Steve. I love your people, and see more and more of you here as time goes on. Hope you make it back one day (it's been so long since your post, you probably have been back since). So long
Mate back in 2000 I worked flat out at Sydney airport arriving and maintaining hundreds of flights from all over the world coming in for the millennium and Olympics, might have been me working on your plane. 😲 I always loved talking to the American pilots as I'm half Yankee myself. 🇦🇺🇺🇸
Haven't I seen you there at the time Steve? Been there too for the turn of the millennium. Unforgettable!!! Just my way was a bit shorter from the Sunshine Coast, Qld Australia. Been now in Down Under 40 years, from Germany, just tooo happy😊
Don't worry, we Aussies think of it as one of our unofficial national anthems (we've got about 20 of them, honestly). Others include "You're the Voice" by John Farnham and the classic song "Waltzing Matilda".
Many years ago , I used to run up a hill near my home from the river to keep fit, when I got to the top I sat down to catch my breath and listen to this song whilst enjoying the view and think to myself how much i loved growing up in a small country town in Australia.
exactly the same right here... take me with you. The perfect tune that made me homesick for a place which cannot be any further away from home on the entire planet.
I used to put a few tunes on when I was lying in bed in the dark years and years ago in a grim terraced house in a north English industrial town, this song somehow transported me thousands of miles away to Australia, I’ll probably never get there physically but somehow I feel like this song carried me there. A fantastic song that I always go back to from time to time.
Born in Oz on Mallee farming country, and I hated the dry, dry dry..... It took me many years to appreciate this land. The vast blue skies, the sheer size and space, and ...right out there in the desert, the reverberating SILENCE! Love the silence....
Enjoy Australia day today my fellow Aussie and Aboriginal people....we must learn to come together and become as one in this great country we live in....we are truly blessed to be living in such a beautiful country....
Im so dying to go to Australia. I love the people and the land. I'm so drawn to go there. I have many friends in Australia. God Bless Australia. Much love from The USA.
In 2017 we Travelled to Australia, to visit our daughter, 26 Hours journey from Germany, but when we arrived in Sydney, it was Love at First sight, wonderful Country, lovely people, and Form eines, it was the First visit, but Not the last, and this Song was my favourite ohne in the eighties, but now i Fan feel Australia Listeneinstellung this aweful song, thanks for it Icehouse.
Great Song from the 80's. An underrated Band with fabulous Songs. Makes a shiver to hear this song,when closing my eyes,i nearly can see this beautiful land.
It's strange, when you read the lyrics how much you can relate to the song, I don't know if the people who live in the big cities and towns get it, because now for the last year I have lived in the city, but before this I grew up in the bush behind the Sunshine Coast, and have worked from Brisbane to Charleville, from Tully to Berri, from Albany to Port Hedland and from Darwin to Innamincka and you can feel the spirit, in the deserts, or the rainforests or the rocky bush of the channel country,
It's very similar here in the U.S. when you get out into the western deserts and the rockies... It's like stepping into a different dimension. And yes, there's definitely a spiritual feeling you get. And aura that takes over. There are just certain places upon this Earth that seem to take over the mind and make you feel as if you're at one with nature or whatever it is in the great open lands.
Itravelledt to Australia about 20 years ago, on my own. Would not like to miss that experience. and of course I would like to go back for a longer stay.
Ursula that's a pretty brave thing to do on your own! It has become very crowded in the cities over the past 20 years, and very expensive as a result, but it is still beautiful wherever you go. As beautiful as Germany! Machts gut x
GREAT song with GREAT videos I really Like this one I use to Listen to this song from a Long time ago with a FRIEND of mine I use to know way back then.thanks for shearing this video.
I wrote a little poem in my native language dedicated to Australia Далекий край волнующий Зеленый материк Его страны чарующий Пленил чудесный лик Во сне или в реале я Но грежу лишь о ней… Австралия… Австралия… Страна мечты моей… Одна страна меня зовет Где рай земной и счастье ждет Зовёт всего одна страна Милей других она одна И лишь она, одна она А во главе Австралии Туманный Альбион Но не нашел в реале я, Что власть имеет он Австралия свободная, Красива и сильна Для жизни превосходная Прекрасней всех она Пустыни необъятные, Леса и кенгуру Мне дарят сны отрадные И радость по утру Не упущу из виду я Еще немало тем: Я искренне завидую Вернувшимся в Эдем
What a great song!!!! A Land lost in the summer for a million years....and they make it work with sticks and bones.....to the Great Aboriginal people of The Great Southern Land, indomitable, resilient, strong and wise, much Love❤from Brasil❤💪🤛
@murfess As an Australian, would like to say thank you for your wonderful words about Australia, hope you make it to our shores again sometime soon, and thank you for visiting us.
amazing song. saludos desde el salvador Greetings from Germany to Australia it's a beautiful song and I know why, the best people I've ever met are Aussie.
this is such a killer song. In america the only songs i know which celebrate the country itself are sappy, hick hee haw country songs, think of Lee Greenwood's "god bless the USA" (i'm so sick of it). "Great Southern Land" though, is modern, hip, striking. Love it!
I didnt hear this for years, until my teacher played it randomly in the middle of class, a lovely childhood memory hearing this song. Considering its like 30 years old, most Australians probably know it, and maybe some others! My whole class started singing "Great southern land!" And they were like screaming it and the whole school could probably hear them
Man: Standing at the limit of an endless ocean ... Man: Stranded like a runaway lost at sea ... Dewayne Everettsmith: City on a rainy day down in the harbor... Group from Barilla Bay Oyster Farm: Watching as the gray clouds shadow the bay ... Woman: Looking everywhere 'cos I had to find you .... Cut Copy: This is not the way that I remember it here... Man: Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island .... Girl: Hidden in the summer for a million years .... Woman: Great Southern Land .... Jonathan Boulet: Burned you black ... Girl: So you look into the land and it will tell you a story ... Woman: A story about a journey ended long ago ... Woman: Listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains ... Van She: Maybe you can hear them talking like I do .... Van She: They're gonna betray you ... Woman: They're gonna forget you ... Katie Noonan: Are you gonna let them take you over that way? Duo: Great Southern Land Blue Mountains Choir: Great Southern Land Muscles: You walk alone. Woman from Barilla Bay Oyster Farm: Like a primitive man. Katie Noonan: They make it work with sticks and bones. Woman from Barilla Bay Oyster Farm: See their hungry eyes ... Girl: It's a hungry home. Young Talent Time: I hear the sound of the strangers' voices ... Timomatic with Young Talent Time: I see their hungry eyes. Man: Their hungry eyes. Sydney Philharmonia Choir: Great Southern Land Eskimo Joe: Great Southern Land Timomatic: You walk alone. Man: Like a primitive man. Duo: You walk alone. Man: With the ghost of time. Choir: And they burned you black. Van She: Yeah, they burned you black. Children's Choir: Great Southern Land Sydney Philharmonia Choir: Great Southern Land Timomatic: Great Southern Land Blue Mountains Choir: Great Southern Land
The song beats on and on ….reminding us of the unfinished business with our Aboriginal peoples. Australia needs a visionary leader to reconcile us with our past …….so our future will be based on justice. 👊🏾👋🏾💕
Great song and animation . I stay there for 8 month , you can provide information on the locations of the recordings . Some I know , Sydney , and then the image is Bondi Beach and Uluru . But I really want to also visit the other places .
The Aboriginals used to burn the bush to encourage new plant growth to attract animals, also to clear the overgrowth to make hunting and access easier.
I love this song above all others, very moving, spiritual, it seems to really honor the the great people of Australia, God I wish I could live there, Every Australian I everet was very polite and so full of life. This song truly nails it down!
Went to Australia for a month back in 2000. Sydney Harbor for the millenium. My wife aned I both cried like little kids when it was time to come back to the United States. Best vacation ever. Fabulous people. Not a day goes by without thinking about the greatest place that we've ever been to. Miss you GSL...
That's really touching Steve. I love your people, and see more and more of you here as time goes on. Hope you make it back one day (it's been so long since your post, you probably have been back since). So long
Love the American people. Come back.
Mate back in 2000 I worked flat out at Sydney airport arriving and maintaining hundreds of flights from all over the world coming in for the millennium and Olympics, might have been me working on your plane. 😲
I always loved talking to the American pilots as I'm half Yankee myself. 🇦🇺🇺🇸
Haven't I seen you there at the time Steve? Been there too for the turn of the millennium. Unforgettable!!! Just my way was a bit shorter from the Sunshine Coast, Qld Australia. Been now in Down Under 40 years, from Germany, just tooo happy😊
Come back 👍
I'm from Australia and listening to this from Turkey. I always seem to listen to aussie songs while overseas. Greatest country on Earth!
WTF ARE YOU DOING THERE
@@jasonwest2698 Seems to have left what was the greatest country on earth.
Without animosity to offend the Australians, I consider this song as the Australian Anthem.
Don't worry, we Aussies think of it as one of our unofficial national anthems (we've got about 20 of them, honestly). Others include "You're the Voice" by John Farnham and the classic song "Waltzing Matilda".
No offence I agree
Love Australia. Love Icehouse. Love this song.
Greetings from Germany to Australia
amazing song. saludos desde el salvador
I used to lie in a field a few miles from my house and listen to this song over and over. Been called to Australia my whole life. Maybe it's time. :)
the interior of australia is vast and magical, to drive around its coastal edges is also totally epic, just saying :)
Many years ago , I used to run up a hill near my home from the river to keep fit, when I got to the top I sat down to catch my breath and listen to this song whilst enjoying the view and think to myself how much i loved growing up in a small country town in Australia.
If you can hear a didgeridoo through this piece... it's time.
Hope you got here and it was everything you expected it to be...and more! 😎🏄♂️
exactly the same right here... take me with you.
The perfect tune that made me homesick for a place which cannot be any further away from home on the entire planet.
Love Australia. Love Icehouse. Love this song.
There is no other country like ours!!!!
Greetings from Germany to Australia
I used to put a few tunes on when I was lying in bed in the dark years and years ago in a grim terraced house in a north English industrial town, this song somehow transported me thousands of miles away to Australia, I’ll probably never get there physically but somehow I feel like this song carried me there. A fantastic song that I always go back to from time to time.
thanks to loving people of Australia for helping us during our civil war in El Salvador
I love Ice house! Love their music and songs and love Australia! Greedings from Puerto Rico!🇵🇷🤟😎👍👉❤🇦🇺
Born in Oz on Mallee farming country, and I hated the dry, dry dry..... It took me many years to appreciate this land. The vast blue skies, the sheer size and space, and ...right out there in the desert, the reverberating SILENCE! Love the silence....
Enjoy Australia day today my fellow Aussie and Aboriginal people....we must learn to come together and become as one in this great country we live in....we are truly blessed to be living in such a beautiful country....
I'm really wanting to learn more about the Aboriginal people. I keep dreaming about them.
Greetings from Germany to Australia
Im so dying to go to Australia. I love the people and the land. I'm so drawn to go there. I have many friends in Australia. God Bless Australia. Much love from The USA.
I'm a Kiwi but I've loved this for years! It's so emotive. Enjoy it all my Aussie mates.
You are lucky to be this away from the rest.
Greetings from Germany to Australia
Queensland sunsets are so stunning, it hurts.
Brought back memories, grew up in Aussie but now live in UK - definitely miss the sunshine!
I'm in South Australia from the UK many years ago. I feel your pain haha. Would never leave this climate.
In 2017 we Travelled to Australia, to visit our daughter, 26 Hours journey from Germany, but when we arrived in Sydney, it was Love at First sight, wonderful Country, lovely people, and Form eines, it was the First visit, but Not the last, and this Song was my favourite ohne in the eighties, but now i Fan feel Australia Listeneinstellung this aweful song, thanks for it Icehouse.
Great Song from the 80's. An underrated Band with fabulous Songs. Makes a shiver to hear this song,when closing my eyes,i nearly can see this beautiful land.
It's strange, when you read the lyrics how much you can relate to the song, I don't know if the people who live in the big cities and towns get it, because now for the last year I have lived in the city, but before this I grew up in the bush behind the Sunshine Coast, and have worked from Brisbane to Charleville, from Tully to Berri, from Albany to Port Hedland and from Darwin to Innamincka and you can feel the spirit, in the deserts, or the rainforests or the rocky bush of the channel country,
Yea I get it. If you have travelled the seemingly never ending outback its a lot easier to relate to the song. Love this country.
It's very similar here in the U.S. when you get out into the western deserts and the rockies... It's like stepping into a different dimension. And yes, there's definitely a spiritual feeling you get. And aura that takes over. There are just certain places upon this Earth that seem to take over the mind and make you feel as if you're at one with nature or whatever it is in the great open lands.
This Song Rock's my Soul, Like Australia, from the Awesome 80's :-) :-).
an awesome song for the greatest country in the world! Australia!
I love this song, it reminds me of a trip I did to Australia and it also brings back memories of my trip to Botswana!!!!!!
Superb music video. Thanx 🎉
Iva Davies is a fantastic singer and this song makes me want to visit Australia!
I just love you my 'Great Southern Land ... my home!!! "Terra Australis"!!!!!!! Australia, oi, oi, oi!!!!!!!!
Itravelledt to Australia about 20 years ago, on my own. Would not like to miss that experience. and of course I would like to go back for a longer stay.
Ursula that's a pretty brave thing to do on your own! It has become very crowded in the cities over the past 20 years, and very expensive as a result, but it is still beautiful wherever you go. As beautiful as Germany! Machts gut x
Queensland sunsets are so stunning, it hurts.
MarvinLR Aren't they just? It's been 25 years since I've been there. still miss the place.
it's a beautiful song and I know why, the best people I've ever met are Aussie.
i love austrailia and the song repsent soo well
One of the most beautiful songs of any era that humanity has ever listened to.
GREAT song with GREAT videos I really Like this one I use to Listen to this song from a Long time ago with a FRIEND of mine I use to know way back then.thanks for shearing this video.
great song its beautiful¡¡
This Song Rock's my Soul, Like Australia, from the Awesome 80's :-) :-).
There is no other country like ours!!!!
I wrote a little poem in my native language dedicated to Australia
Далекий край волнующий
Зеленый материк
Его страны чарующий
Пленил чудесный лик
Во сне или в реале я
Но грежу лишь о ней…
Австралия… Австралия…
Страна мечты моей…
Одна страна меня зовет
Где рай земной и счастье ждет
Зовёт всего одна страна
Милей других она одна
И лишь она, одна она
А во главе Австралии
Туманный Альбион
Но не нашел в реале я,
Что власть имеет он
Австралия свободная,
Красива и сильна
Для жизни превосходная
Прекрасней всех она
Пустыни необъятные,
Леса и кенгуру
Мне дарят сны отрадные
И радость по утру
Не упущу из виду я
Еще немало тем:
Я искренне завидую
Вернувшимся в Эдем
Wow that was beautiful of my home land, it does call you and when you come, you'll never leave
♥️
Every country has problems.Australia as well.
Love your work it is great how the Land Australia!!I love Australia my favourite City is Melbourne!!@;-D.Was there in easter 2009
Australia es un paraíso las cosas más extrañas ocurren hay
best audio from a 480p quality music video I come across in a while
I love this song. I keep on listening and can't get enough.
My best wishes and recognitions to the really Great Southern Land, from the Great Northern Land! Awesome Hymn \m/
Which great northern land are you from? Greetings
"Great Northern Land" doesn't narrow it down. What is it...Canada???
LOVE THIS SONG ALWAYS
What a great song!!!! A Land lost in the summer for a million years....and they make it work with sticks and bones.....to the Great Aboriginal people of The Great Southern Land, indomitable, resilient, strong and wise, much Love❤from Brasil❤💪🤛
Great vid, great song. That road typifies the distances around Oz, having driven around most of this amazing country!f
The roads here can be endless but its one of the great things about our great land.
Reminds me of my Perth-Melbourne roadtrip during the last summer. Australia is such a beautiful country. Greetings from Malaysia.
There is no other country like ours!!!!
Staring down dat road makes me feel I'm watching Mad Max.
Should be our anthem!
I retired to Adelaide from the UK in 2022, can't wait to see this live....
Love my country best place in world
@murfess As an Australian, would like to say thank you for your wonderful words about Australia, hope you make it to our shores again sometime soon, and thank you for visiting us.
amazing song. saludos desde el salvador
Greetings from Germany to Australia
it's a beautiful song and I know why, the best people I've ever met are Aussie.
Best song ever , love you Australia
Brings me back! Loved this song when it came out then it was on the movie young Einstein
I would say, this guys, just are a masters!
So love this song and Icehouse
Great vid. I teared up a bit, jarbidu.
Really enjoyed my first (hopefully not last) holiday in Oz. It's so full of wonder. I gotta see more! I'm thinking Adelaide next time???
Adelaide is such a great place now.
Only just found this great tune. Incredible.
great video..love this song, love the pics you chose :)
Vinyl quality audio, great upload
super cool
I live in Australia i love this song
Young Einstein brought me here.
Right on, same.
@@roycereynolds1514 same. Tasmanian beer atoms. Hmmmm.
Lol me too
this is such a killer song. In america the only songs i know which celebrate the country itself are sappy, hick hee haw country songs, think of Lee Greenwood's "god bless the USA" (i'm so sick of it). "Great Southern Land" though, is modern, hip, striking. Love it!
I didnt hear this for years, until my teacher played it randomly in the middle of class, a lovely childhood memory hearing this song. Considering its like 30 years old, most Australians probably know it, and maybe some others!
My whole class started singing "Great southern land!" And they were like screaming it and the whole school could probably hear them
great song its beautiful¡¡
From a Pom, love this song. Hope to visit you Aussies some day!
Super Video, tolle Rhythmus! I like it!
Feeling nostalgic!!!!
Awwwwww thanks we are a great nation and we love visitors .Thanks for visiting... =)
ive alwayz loved this song
I love love looooooooooooooooove this song
classic what a great band they were
I love this song
awesome song
Yes we are blessed:)
that black & white image later goes into color of the long straight road in the mallee looks very much like the Angas vally Rd to walker flat Sth oz
Magnifique magique
I will never forget my two weeks in Australia
geweldig nummer x x x
Que música más bonita enamora
Man: Standing at the limit of an endless ocean ...
Man: Stranded like a runaway lost at sea ...
Dewayne Everettsmith: City on a rainy day down in the harbor...
Group from Barilla Bay Oyster Farm: Watching as the gray clouds shadow the bay ...
Woman: Looking everywhere 'cos I had to find you ....
Cut Copy: This is not the way that I remember it here...
Man: Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island ....
Girl: Hidden in the summer for a million years ....
Woman: Great Southern Land ....
Jonathan Boulet: Burned you black ...
Girl: So you look into the land and it will tell you a story ...
Woman: A story about a journey ended long ago ...
Woman: Listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains ...
Van She: Maybe you can hear them talking like I do ....
Van She: They're gonna betray you ...
Woman: They're gonna forget you ...
Katie Noonan: Are you gonna let them take you over that way?
Duo: Great Southern Land
Blue Mountains Choir: Great Southern Land
Muscles: You walk alone.
Woman from Barilla Bay Oyster Farm: Like a primitive man.
Katie Noonan: They make it work with sticks and bones.
Woman from Barilla Bay Oyster Farm: See their hungry eyes ...
Girl: It's a hungry home.
Young Talent Time: I hear the sound of the strangers' voices ...
Timomatic with Young Talent Time: I see their hungry eyes.
Man: Their hungry eyes.
Sydney Philharmonia Choir: Great Southern Land
Eskimo Joe: Great Southern Land
Timomatic: You walk alone.
Man: Like a primitive man.
Duo: You walk alone.
Man: With the ghost of time.
Choir: And they burned you black.
Van She: Yeah, they burned you black.
Children's Choir: Great Southern Land
Sydney Philharmonia Choir: Great Southern Land
Timomatic: Great Southern Land
Blue Mountains Choir: Great Southern Land
Super Classico Ice House..
I love this!!!!!!!
amazing song. saludos desde el salvador
ICEHOUSE !!
The song beats on and on ….reminding us of the unfinished business with our Aboriginal peoples. Australia needs a visionary leader to reconcile us with our past …….so our future will be based on justice. 👊🏾👋🏾💕
I agree, this should be our anthem!!!!! TheStargazer777, my thoughts exactly!!! Nice!!
Got friends there ,infact they are more family than my real ones here . They are amazing people Australians ❤️
this song is amazing! :'D
Great song and animation . I stay there for 8 month , you can provide information on the locations of the recordings . Some I know , Sydney , and then the image is Bondi Beach and Uluru . But I really want to also visit the other places .
It's a fun movie. I had a dream of a girl an this song was playing. I felt soo happy.
If you don't like it move somewhere else, don't dis it to the rest of the world.. I for one think Australia is as great as ever and always will be.
Our beautiful Australia , the solar gateway between the dream time and the dawn
Thanks for the info :)
Still alone in this world
FANTASTYCZNE
The Aboriginals used to burn the bush to encourage new plant growth to attract animals, also to clear the overgrowth to make hunting and access easier.
They would also light a fire beneath 2 trees burning the base of them black which indicated a doorway to their tribes area.
This is my HOME!
now L LOVE IT
When music meant something!
I love this song above all others, very moving, spiritual, it seems to really honor the the great people of Australia, God I wish I could live there, Every Australian I everet was very polite and so full of life.
This song truly nails it down!
delicious !!
The Best👍🤝