20 to 1 - Australian songs

[Phillips]

They had that 20 to 1 show on Channel 9 tonight, and they were counting down the top 20 songs (within the last 50 years).

Friday On My Mind by The Easybeats was number 1.

The others (in no particular order - working off the top of my mind here) were:

Land Down Under - Men At Work
I Still Call Australia Home - Peter Allen
Australiana - Austentayshus (sp?)
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Long Way To The Top - AC/DC
You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good In Bed - Skyhooks
Howzat - Sherbert
Georgie Girl - The Seekers
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Help Is On The Way - Little River Band
You're The Voice - John Farnham
Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes
Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel
Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool
Shout - Johnny O'Keefe
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton John
Locomotion - Kylie Minogue
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

pathetic list.

INXS and Kylie, i mean FFS

needed more Cold Chisel & Midnight Oil, hell the whole list could have been made up with songs from these two alone!

Australian Crawl why arent they there?

Living End probably should have had a song or two in there aswell

 

[Paullyboy]

Why woudl you bring back this thread? Why not just start a new one?

 

[Jono078]

Why woudl you bring back this thread? Why not just start a new one?

Well I remembered seeing a '20 to 01' thread before.. So I just looked for it, didnt realise it was specific to the aussie songs though.. but once i found it i just posted in here anyway.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Ron Jeremys list

1. Great southern land ( Icehouse)
2. Under the milky way ( The Church)
3. Friday on my mind ( The easybeats)
4. Crazy( Icehouse)
5. Put down that weapon( Midnight oil)
6. Dead heart( Midnight oil)
7. Unguarded moment ( The Church)
8. Power & the passion ( Midnight Oil)
9. Come said the boy ( Mondo rock)
10. Hey little girl( Icehouse)
11. Jail breaker( ACDC)
12. Metropolis ( The Church)
13. The dead heart ( Midnight Oil)
14. Are you old enough (Dragon)
15. The walls ( Icehouse)
16. Horror movies ( Skyhooks)
17. In a big country ( big country)
18 Rain ( Dragon)
19. Street cafe ( Icehouse)
20. Short memory ( Midnight Oil)

 

[carcharias]

Ron ..... no Roxus?
there is some god awful songs in there.

Bloody Big Country are scottish or something.

Fargen hell its called "Jailbreak"...

Whats with the Icehouse adulation?

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Thats what happens when you write posts hungover lol

 

[KevinArnold]

What? No Ratcat!!

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

Ron Jeremys list

1. Great southern land ( Icehouse)
2. Under the milky way ( The Church)
3. Friday on my mind ( The easybeats)
4. Crazy( Icehouse)
5. Put down that weapon( Midnight oil)
6. Dead heart( Midnight oil)
7. Unguarded moment ( The Church)
8. Power & the passion ( Midnight Oil)
9. Come said the boy ( Mondo rock)
10. Hey little girl( Icehouse)
11. Jail breaker( ACDC)
12. Metropolis ( The Church)
13. The dead heart ( Midnight Oil)
14. Are you old enough (Dragon)
15. The walls ( Icehouse)
16. Horror movies ( Skyhooks)
17. In a big country ( big country)
18 Rain ( Dragon)
19. Street cafe ( Icehouse)
20. Short memory ( Midnight Oil)

Y'know they did make music after 1986...and where's Ben Lee in your list?

 

[sunny]

"Are you old enough".....you've gotta be kidding right?

 

[Ron Jeremy]

lol

btw

Ben Lee will be in my other top 20 called " artists that won't be remembered in 10 years" it's a tremendous list which includes some heavyweights like Devo, Grace Jones, Jason Donovan, Spin doctors, Billy ray cirus etc lol

 

[Ron Jeremy]

I thought my list was still pretty good though.

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

Hey!....i remember Devo...i think

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Arent Dragon a Kiwi band?

 

[Matt23]

Arent Dragon a Kiwi band?

Yes they were.

 

[carcharias]

I hate to get picky Ron but....

the walls was when they were called The Flowers.

It's called Horror movie without the "S".

Rain????????? atrocious stuff.

 

[Eelementary]

Top 20 Aussie songs should be by the Oils, AC/DC, The Angels, Cold Chisel (as much as I hate them they are an Aussie icon), that guy...what's his name...the guy who sang with Kylie....Damn it...Argh...Nick Cave!

 

[IanG]

Well so they say, Neill Finn and some other bloke were the only Kiwis, the rest were Aussies, recorded their songs in Australia.

Neil was the only Kiwi in the band except the short period of time that his brother was in it.

 

[IanG]

Arent Dragon a Kiwi band?

Yes they were

 

[Tom Shines]

By the way, Come On Eileen isn't actually a one-hit wonder.
DMR had a relatively big hit with Geno in 1980.

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

They actually had a few hits, as well as a couple of albums. I liked their cover of 'Jackie Wilson Said' as well.