Icehouse - Great Southern Land w/ intro from Iva Davies | Reaction
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One of the greatest Aussie anthems! Always floods back memories of watching the fireworks on Australia day and thinking about how lucky we are to call beautiful Australia home.
Yes! That's what I think of too
Certainly a Perth fireworks staple!
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Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
Stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
City on a rainy day down in the harbor
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 you, they're gonna forget you
Are you gonna let them take you over that 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 harbor
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, in the sleeping sun
You walk alone with the ghost of time
Where they burned you black, black against the ground
And they make it work with rocks and sand
I hear the sound of the strangers 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
Great Southern Land
Great Southern Land
Great Southern Land
Great Southern Land
I interpret this song as lending itself to being read from multiple perspectives. The first being the First Nations indigenous Aboriginal people ( the longest unbroken culture in the world for approximately 50,000 plus years before the first British landing with first shipments of convict labour. This was because the curious outside sailors were kept out by natural rugged seas, reefs, cliffs with coastal reaching deserts or jungle rain forests or mangroves. All fringing the continent and so no sign of settled life, only strange monstrous creatures and insect swarms, signifying to them that it was not inhabitable. So Aboriginals were willing to be on the right side the barrier keeping foreigners from settling. Then, however, struggling to keep it going throughout settlement invasion when it did occurr, through to today. Always adapting and respecting and living with the natural environment and not trying to conquer it.
Then from the perspective of the convicts who were used as endless, free, expendable, slave labour by their own government, killing 2 birds (needing free labour to lay claim and build in an unknown harsh, frightening land to keep out the very interested French and Dutch AND send local criminals and political prisoners, the rebel Irish Catholics, away for ruthless and fatal treatment out of sight of civilised society back at home who might protest) with the 1 stone (transportation). Also, now independent America, was no longer accepting British convicts.
Also the perspective of the first settlers, many of whom were tricked into populating harsh, unknown, frightening and deadly environments, with false promises of green farming land that could be farmed straight away with European crops and animals. When the first fleets of settlers were abandoned and starving to death in isolation waiting 6 months or more, sometimes over a year, for government supply ships to return, the Aboriginals took pity on them and taught them their ways of survival, language and sacred places and laws that had to be respected. My settler ancestors among them, farmers, escaping poverty back home in advance of the Industrial Revolution, arriving with the first earliest Western Australian settler colony. That sadly changed as more wealthy settlers, soldiers and police, moved in to take advantage of both the Aboriginals ( made to labour on farms for flour, sugar and tobacco, or move on, or even be murdered and sometimes massacred because the vast, unsettled wilderness made that an easy, anonymous solution for the ruthless settlers, government soldiers and police.) The earliest settlers with their hardworked but smaller farms built on experimentation with the most appropriate learned ways to adapt to local conditions protested all this exploitation but to no good end.. They used to hire Aboriginals who wanted to work and paid them equal pay or more if they were a valuable worker. Mine hired a man who used to be the best shearer in town and his wife was taught to sew on my great, great, great grandma's sewing machine and would earn money repairing and making clothes with her natural talents, for local families who had multitudes of children in those days. When in town they were the wealthiest couple in town during shearing season. My great, great, great grandfather was a minister who used to teach the local farming and aboriginal children basic reading, writing and maths for one year for free as aboriginal kids were transitory due to cultural needs and farm kids could only be spared for one year away from the family's farm work. This is the unwritten part of our history that was never taught in our schools ( bar one year in the mid 70's before it was abolished by the incoming conservative, monarchist loyal, government and replaced with early colonists vs hostile natives narrative.) Keeping up appearances for the British roots.
Then there is the perspective of the land and spirit of Australia, as it is now known, itself.
After being untouched by human exploitation for approximately 50,000 years of human mindful habitation.it took just under 300 years to endanger it's natural environment's ability to sustain the delicate balance of biodiversity of life spread across it's vast and dramatically varying biodiverse geographical, climatic and ecological regions. Animal and plant extinction at it's highest rate in this country because it was hidden for so long left untouched by exploitive human hands and in the human hands of the Aboriginal environmental caretaker culture. There was a multitude to lose here after the rest of the world had already wiped out a lot of their biodiversity in much less delicate environments.
The lyrics apply to all of Australia's history from all of these perspectives.
Prisoner Island, hidden.
Looking everywhere cos I had to find you, this is not the way I remember it here.
There gunna forget you, they're gunna betray you.
Are you gunna let them take you over that way?
Their hungry eyes, it's a hungry home
And they make it work with rocks and sand.
Like a primitive man.
They'll burn you black.
You walk alone with the ghost of time.
It all could've been felt by Aboriginals, convicts, settlers and the land of Australia itself, alike.
Thanks for the work. Nice.
@@chookinathunderstorm3446 less than 250 years as of today. First settlers were 1788. It’s so sad and destructive how colonisation started. 🇩🇪
Hidden in the Summit.
After seeing so many of your reaction videos, I have a question. How many AMERICANS are getting their groove on with our great Aussie musical talents because of your videos? I would love to see all of our songs become more popular over there, so they can see what they have been missing! After all, you are doing a good job promoting our music to the world.
Speaking for ME, I've been an Icehouse fan since the late 80s, as well as Midnight Oil, who I was so fortunate to FINALLY be able to see live over this past weekend (sad to know on their final tour). I also have listened to Divinyls since "Pleasure and Pain", and Cold Chisel for many years, among other acts. I discovered Electric Mary several years ago now as well. Great Southern Land has some Great Southern Music!
Awesome driving song. The way the drums push this song along makes it perfect for barrelling along an outback highway on a road trip
You were mentioning that when you close your eyes, you feel like you are taken away. For me, as an Australian, this song always takes me to the Flinders Ranges in the mid north of South Australia. An ancient landscape on the edge of the desert baked in the sun. Even driving near the coast from Port Augusta to Whyalla, you would go past the hills, red dust and salt bush and take in the spectacle of an ancient land. An ancient land very much baked in the sun.
I was born in Bourke.
Once I see that red dirt I know I’m nearly home.
Ah yes, I was born in that area - did the trip from Port Lincoln to Adelaide many, many times. It's a primitive landscape alright.
@@zoeherriotyep, me too!
Saw them do this live in January. Sounded just as great as the last time I saw them when I was 23 in Melbourne in 1984. Love Icehouse. Iva Davies is a legend here.
Everything about this video seems to capture the spirit of the "wide, brown land"...the "endless", hot, dusty expanse and the Dreamtime of the indigenous people people who have been here for 60...maybe even 70 thousand years. It's like the ghosts have been summoned with this one!
I am British and emigrated to Australia, I love this land so much. I will never leave.
Our Aussie cricket teams song, it's played as they are walking out to play. Gives us goosebumps hearing it live in the stadiums so i dunno how it affects our cricketers. We were the unknown southern Land & we are now known now so we are the The Great Southern Land
Terra Australis Incognita
Socially, this was a very important song, if you read the lyrics you’ll see why. There were people writing about the First Nations people before this but this song helped bring them to a more public awareness. This song was huge here.
Iva Davies is simply a musical genius and also a very humble man.
It’s another Australia Rock Anthem that’s played with pride especially on Australia Day 🧐😊🇦🇺
Lets talk about John Farnham! His " You are the voice" should be the national anthem of Australia!
@@anja9303 Umm I am a huge fan of John’s since I was 6 yrs old way back in 69 and while I love Your the Voice! It’s not suitable for our National Australian Anthem.. as a Rock Anthem yes! your national anthem is about the country you belong to so it emphasises on the land and its people which is what our current Anthem does.. Your the Voice is an anti war song that was written at the time of the Nuclear Disarmament was going on back in the 80s I think around 85/86 their was a huge march etc. Australia has a lot of rock anthems as we had the best pub rock bands in the 70s and 80s which still stand the test of time. sorry but I love our Australia Anthem that we have now! I know a lot don’t and that’s fine to each their own. 🧐😊🇦🇺
This has been one of my all time great songs for 40 years. I can't believe it was released 40 years ago.
Our home and the indigenous people who walk this vast beautiful country, as immigrant I consider my self luck to live here❤️
Icehouse were actually called The Flowers but had to change their name because of another band having the same name, so they changed their name to one of their songs Icehouse which is also classic, but if I hade fav it's Street cafe ❤️
Street Cafe is an awesome song.
One of many Australian National Anthems😁. I have seen this played live by Icehouse on numerous occasions.
Like all really good songs, it is lyrically very clever. You can close your eyes and listen to the words, and they paint a vivid picture.
That is their true artistry, the ability to do that.
One of Iva's many great songs.
The whole ‘Primitive Man’ album (from 1982) is great it’s definitely the band’s best album and is one of the best Australian albums of all time
Their album ‘Man of Colours’ (1987) has maybe their best songs (Crazy and Electric Blue) however as a whole Primitive Man is the better album
I love every album of Ice House but I have to disagree on your statement. I think Sidewalk is their best album.
I do love the Man of Colours album though
Agreed...I totally love SIDEWALK but for it's ground breaking sound and atmosphere (Trojan Blue my favorite after this), this pips Sidewalk into first place. Man of Colours becomes more 'mainstream' but still very good.
@@ButtonPhonics Primitive man was actually one of their first album's I bought. I was lucky enough to meet Iva Davies and he signed a copy of my Man of Colours album.
Anyway you choose, you can't go wrong with the band
Their best album was their debut, when they were called 'Flowers' and the album, 'Icehouse'. A seminal album, and not just here, it influenced artists all over the world.
Great Aussie Anthem, love Ice House, Great Song, great reaction, Thanks Nick for your appreciation 👍
Great song! Great band!
A great song by a great Aussie band.
I feel like there are musical notes here trying to emulate natural sounds. It’s odd, but I hear rain drops, insects, birds, and the drums have a heartbeat. The poetry is outstanding as well. This song is so unique.
They weren't received very well in Australia in their early days, they were one of the first bands to use synthesisers, they were not considered a rock band by the pub goers. They hit it big in the US and had to change their name from Flowers to Ice house.
It's a fantastic song, that sums up how we feel about our country.💞💞 💞Very patriotic.
🇦🇺 Great Southern Land💞💞💞
Probably my favorite Icehouse song and full of nostalgia. I was a young man when this was first released. Australian music had always been heavily influenced by America and Britain, but finally bands were telling Australian stories. Talking about our culture, our people and our landscapes. They even used an Aboriginal clapping stick sound throughout the song, very unusual for this time. And yes, close your eyes and you are transported.
Probably the main artist to sing about Australian culture before this, was the late great country music icon, Slim Dusty. Every song depicts life in OZ telling us about ordinary people and small towns. His music can also transport to another place.
Thanks for sharing, G'day.
I saw this sung live and it was amazing I was 18 and evoked deep emotion which I still remember some 30 years later 👍
Great haunting song about the vastness of the Australian land mass.
BTW, there are no komodo dragons in Australia, more likely a perentie lizard.
Another great song of a similar ilk is Solid Rock by Goanna.
Nick has done Solid Rock that I requested a while back. Check out if you haven't already. It was a great reaction.
Ahhhh this song is just feels like home, pure bliss 🇦🇺
Nothing "sounds" like Australia more than farnseys the voice, barnseys working class man, inxs never tesr us apart and icehouse's great Southern land.
Oh, and "land down under" to a satirical extent.
...and Under The Milky Way.
This is an absolute iconic song of its era. I'm very lucky to have gown up with music of this calibre! Other excellent Icehouse songs to check out: Hey Little Girl, Dusty Pages and Street Cafè ☺
Here from Australia Queensland. Iva Davies is a national treasure ❤👌👌👌
'Primitive Man' is an amazing album. Recommend 'Hey Little Girl', 'Street Café' and 'Glam' to continue this vibe.
Always loved his voice
This song brings back memories of when my family travelled around Australia in the 80s.
from all my favorite songs this is my favorite, what a song !!!!! a masterpiece!!!
Ah, I love Icehouse! I had their posters on my wall when I was a teenager. This song is my favourite of their hits, & I love all their hits anyway. Glad to see you digging this beautiful cruisey song as much as I always have, @ThatSingerReactions . 😎❤
Great band and one of my favourite songs.
I can close my eyes and imagine looking out the car window driving along the coast feeling the breeze 🥰
Love Icehouse 😍✨🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾💜🌺
Komodo dragon is from Indonesia that's Perentie or goanna largest lizard native to Australia 🇦🇺
Pretty sure its a Lace Monitor (type of goanna)!
One of the first albums I bought as a child. Showing my age but just loved this group.
Me too - my second album and still have it.
This was the soundtrack to the era, brings it all back.
Yaas! This one really does create a visual of our 'sunburnt country' that I love! It really romanticises the natural beauty and power of the Australian continent.
This is one of my Aussie faves. I travel every time I hear this song.
Nah Mate, It's Not "Great summer land", It's great Southern Land" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of those songs where they lyrics tell a story about the birth of a nation. Iva Davies brilliance.
You felt the vibe in the first few seconds ! GREAT SONG !!!!!!!!!!
Great song, makes me feel very Aussie
This song is one of many national anthems written in the 70s and 80s about different aspects of Australian life.
Solid Rock - Goanna
Streets of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel
Sounds of Then - Ganggajang
I Was Only 19 - Redgum
Driving Wheels - Jimmy Barnes
Agree. All great songs
Leaps and Bounds - Paul Kelly
Don't Tear It Down - Spy V Spy
Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes
@@tullfan2560 love Paul Kelly and Jimmy. I don't know Spy v Spy. Will have to look up.
@@meni8015 They were an activist band like Midnight Oil. Their style was ska/pub rock.
@@tullfan2560 Ok thanks. Sounds like something i would like.
Awesome to hear one of my fave Aussie songs again and see you getting into it. Love watching you react to all the songs that were the soundtrack to my life growing up in Sydney.
That lizard is a Perenti! Big suckers.
"The Kingdom" is sublime and "Street Cafe" is just great. Sometimes he sounds almost like the band "The Church". This is a band you should seriously check out especially songs like Almost With You, Metropolis, Myrrh, Under The Milky Way. All have quality live versions on the "Psychedelic Symphony"; live at Sydney Opera House. Still waiting for you to react to the Hunters and Collectors "Do you see what I see". Live versions are best
I would also recommend 'Reptile' by the Church
And Unguarded Moment
Another contender for a national anthem 🤗. I have always been in awe of the sound of this song, so haunting, so basey, and with the drums being front and centre and the song has to be played at maximum volume 🥰😌😌
Australians have loved this song. Nick Komodo Dragons are native to Komodo Island, the big lizard in the clip is a Parenti. Ivor Davis is Icehouse (formerly Flowers).
IVA DAVIES is a musical genius.
I'm glad you know his work. Superb! 💎
EDIT: This song was released in 1982. No mobile phone cameras in those days, mate.
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Such a great catchy song
A genius in every sense - he is a legendary performer and songwriter. Nothing makes the patriotism flow through your veins more than this song blaring out from the sound system at the MCG as the Aussie cricket team take the field. And I am not even a real cricket fan! Australia - the Great Southern Land.
I love this song, on of my favourite songs ever, there are various videos to this song but my favourite is the "Young Einstein video clip", so glad you did this tho.
Not a Komodo, they dont live in Aus these days. It's a Goanna (Monitor Lizard), though apparently they do have a DNA connection from a squillion years ago.
Top class new wave song. Unforgettable and immortal masperpiece.
nice reaction mate
Great to hear this song again because you can hear so much in it. I know one day you'll get around to hear Stevie Wright's Evie parts one two and three
great suggestion, i hope he listens to evie
@@divid3d me too I think it maybe one of the greatest Australian song and there is still a lot more
hey little girl, is even better
Great song..and ''Who put the writing on the wall'' both my fav's.
Absolute anthem for Aussies! Iconic video clip. This song manages to actually sound like our rugged country. Makes me home sick if I hear it overseas 🥰
You should also watch the version by Mitch Tambo & Reigan. Absolutely wonderful!!
Dude….seeing you vibe to the third verse was so beautiful ❤
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Sitting on the banks of the Yarra in Melbourne waiting to enter Y2K and this legend is on a large screen singing the Australian National Anthem, was a moment I'll never forget.
This is my absolute favourite Icehouse song! You know a song is good when you close your eyes and just melt into the music. That little 'tink, tink' sound that you hear throughout is the same sound made by Aboriginal instruments called 'Bilma' which are two hand carved wooden sticks that they hit together. I've heard them make the sound of one of our parrots called Rosellas among other things. They use them during ceremonial dances at night round a fire, I'm sure they use them for more but that's about it for my knowledge of them. I shall see if I can get you a pair! :)
I remember seeing them at the Marconi Club back when they were the Flowers. One of my favourite bands. Many years later my son was busking in Fremantle and a guy came up to him and asked if he could play - it was their lead guitarist! Said he'd seen him and his mate busking a few times and told the lead singer to come watch them. Even gave them his email address to get in touch. They never did because they were both in uni at that stage and wanted to concentrate on studies, but it was a very big moment for them.
🇦🇺🇦🇺 To all fellow Australians 🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️ from Geelong 🇦🇺👍🏻
Hey mate. You know your welcome anytime to come down to the "Great Southern Land". I know I'm showing my age but Icehouse use to be called "Flowers" (good name change} and in the early eighties, you use to go around the live band pub scene in Sydney and see bands of this calibre for 5 bucks! Sometimes the establishment would have first beer free. Icehouse, Cold Chisel, Rose Tattoo, Split Enz, Daddy Cool, The Divinyls, The Angels and many many more. I'm not joking when I say these were all world class bands that we would go and see on a Friday and Saturday night on the pub circuit. We were so spoilt. Give you an example, Daddy Cool were the back up band for the Kinks in Sydney and the now famous Aussie anthem "Eagle Rock" had just come out. Daddy Cool played first, then the big headliner "The Kinks" came out. After 20 minutes they were booed off stage, nowhere near as good as Daddy Cool. We were so spoilt.
I saw them live in 2011 and they were so awesome. The sound live is better than any other group. Go see them perform live if you get a chance!
Great description of this country 🇦🇺
NICK YOU NEED TO SEE THIS morissete and darren espanto sing bam bam on asap and they look great our mowieee is so happy on that day shes enjoying the song
My favourite Aussie anthem ❤️
Road trip SW Australia. Awesome beaches and camping. I love my Australia 😊
That lizard was a Lace monitor. I've often seen 2 metre long ones, (I'm not exaggerating), where Mum lives on the Hawkesbury river (she's an hour North of Sydney).
I lived overseas for many years and I would listen to this song wherever I needed a taste of home.
Straya 🤘
No , it's a Goanna .. lol It's a reptile native to Australia
Your vids let me hear familiar songs with fresh ears. Love that.
The synthesiser sounds are magical
Do icehouse - Touch the Fire..fantastic stuff
A bit of trivia: The quarry this was filmed in is going to be developed into a sport and recreation park - well, that's the plan - just down the road from where I live
Crazy is one of their great songs
check out the movie "Young Einstein " this song is used so well in it and it give you a real look at the scenery of outback Australia.
That big lizard is a Goanna 🦎
Aussie classic!
You should watch the other video featuring scenes from all over Australia. Brilliant !
Yes we do have many national anthems here in Australia.
Pure atmosphere
Been my ringtone since we moved on from 8-bit - reminds me of the opening session of the Aussie opening batsman walking out to the crease in any Test match in the country.
I love this song, there is a version with didgeridoos and First Nations in it which is awesome
in the chorus it has a chinese melody like in the times of bruce lee jackie chan and jet lee I love that melody
Can't believe Iva talked over the intro!!
Could you please review This Time or Don't Believe Anymore (the live version with Joe Camilleri) - he's from The Black Sorrows.
They're both amazing songs
That big lizard was a goanna :)
This is an Aussie anthem.
The whole album is something special
great Australian song by a great Aussie band.
Love Iva Davies! Flowers into Icehouse- a great wormhole!