Icehouse - Great Southern Land
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2006
- The song "Great Southern Land" from the 1982 album "Primitive Man," performed by Icehouse.
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"Great Southern Land" by Icehouse tells a story about feeling alone and longing for something in the big land of Australia. It starts with the feeling of being stuck by the ocean, feeling sad and far from home. The song talks about how things aren't always as they seem, making the singer remember things differently. It shows Australia as a place with both beauty and tough times, mentioning its history with native people and settlers. The song also talks about feeling let down and forgotten but still finding strength in the land's old stories. The chorus repeats "Great Southern Land," showing how Australia is special but also full of challenges. Overall, the song captures the feeling of Australia's wild beauty and the struggle to understand its past and present.
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Icehouse is a band from Australia. They started in Sydney in 1977 with the name Flowers. At first, they played rock music in pubs. Later on, they became famous for their new wave and synth-pop songs. They had songs that became popular and reached the Top 10 charts in Australia, Europe and the U.S. The main person in the band is Iva Davies. He sings, writes songs, produces records, and plays instruments like guitar, bass, keyboards, and even the oboe. The name "Icehouse" was chosen in 1981 and comes from a cold apartment Davies once liven in and a strange building across the street where homeless people lived.
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Who is still listening to this awesome Aussie classic in 2024? I am
One of the greatest Australian songs ever made. Haunting, evocative, smooth, mysterious, uplifting and transcendental.
Yes❤
After listening to this I found a giant spider in my bed
Love this song
@@annetterobinson4301best description ever
An underated track!
Anyone here in 2024?
Oh yes and return to this song frequently
no i'm back in the early 80s.
Happy Birthday Iva, 69 in 2024
I'm from New Zealand but I will never forget my first trip to Australia. I was driving from Sydney to Brisbane and this song came on the radio. It still gives me chills just thinking about that moment in my life. Awesome song.
Geoff Prince
Iva appeared on The Project (news chat show) on 28/11/16. He set out to write a song that conveyed his love of his country after returning home from Europe very homesick, and aimed for the song to endure. He achieved both brilliantly and is still really loved, along with his song
You are our brother
Love it
Awesome!
I'm from OZ.I say CHURR! to that!!
1980s is definitely the best era for Aussie Music
Joel Worsley I was born in 03 but that's Danm right
No the 1990s was whiney, incoherent shit.
Birthday Party!!
don't think you've heard Dead Cat x3 - Grinspoon buddy
Any music really, not just Australian.
“Anyone will tell you it’s a prisoners island hidden in the summer for a million years”
It’s such a great lyric
Colonisers madethe First Nations Peoples their prisoners. White demons
Anyone is right.
Too right , prison in the true sense for some .
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
A million years ago when I was in the Navy they played this tune over the main broadcast at 0700 when we were coming into Sydney after 6 months away. Gives me chills now.
kitmark2 Kit that would have been epic
kitmark2 Kit I'll bet no-one had a dry eye
I bet that made you proud🇦🇺👍🏼
Ask any Australian adult who grew up in the 80s whether this song should be our national anthem and you will hear a resounding YES!!!!!
I grew up in the 70's back when Icehouse was named 'The Flowers'.... still a resounding YES !!
I'm not even Australian and I totally agree!
Even while The Netherlands is not a southern land i would even choose it as the Dutch anthem. lol
+komkwam It's a netherland, nevertheless
Yup, absolutely and I am a pommie (though I don't whinge)! Massively underrated band, this song and Man of Colours bring back so many memories from my teenage years.
American here, just learned about this song in a very roundabout way, and I'm in love. Australia is criminally underrated for their music. Another legendary Australian group, Rufus Du Sol, inadvertently introduced me to this song by playing a remix of it in a short Instagram clip of a DJ set they played recently
cassian remix
was the roundabout way the movie “young einstein?” this song is in it with all other equally underrated song “at first sight” by the stems
Not underrated in Australia mate. I think the issue is Americans don't listen to enough made outside of America.
@@troybailey9524 very true, I try expanding my music taste outside the US since everything here is so played out
You need to get onto more 80’s Aussie music!
emigrated to australia in 2010, in the the taxi from sydney airport to coogee this came on the radio, had tears in my eyes.
Sound like perfect timing.
It was the universe's way of saying "Welcome Home"
So many bands from Australia made it to Europe, I am from France , I loved them all........ midnight oil, crowded house, INXS, THE CHURCH, RICK SPRINGFIELD, MEN AT WORK, AIR SUPPLY, NICK CAVE ETC... THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT RIDE.... MATES !!
Crowded House is from New Zealand
@@1980Campino close enough 😂
@@1980Campino Split Enz is from NZ but Crowded House was formed in Australia and recorded with an Australian label.
Little River Band
i was born in 1970 and all the 80s music inspired me and changed my life . This song still rocks and always will and from a Californian now living in Costa Rica . My 80s music is my life soundtrack and I will take it to my grave and beyond . What a wonderful song
The opening 15 seconds.....still give me shivers. Epic stuff.
I remember listening to this on my way back home from overseas...it came on just as we were approaching sydneys lights and landscape....I had tears in my eyes..so happy to be home
I was in London, I remember hearing this and the homesickness would be unbearable.
I know how you feel i was in America on holiday and i had I still call still call Australia home playing though my headphones and I felt homesick and i when i arrived back in Sydney i was happy because im very proud to be an Aussie and call this land my home🇦🇺🇦🇺
I was having a beer at the pub with a bloke who was saying this should be our national anthem.
this song captures the spirit of australia
Man...the Aussies have produced excellent music throughout the 80's.
What about the Church do they exist ? Great band!!
The Church are still around, mate!
I just started listening to these guys again
RIP dad.This was your fav song.
my condolences for your loss of your dad.
Sehr schöne Gedanken für Deinen Dad!!!
wish you the best of luck
Nice memory to have......
Sajuukar amazing memories to have...
Thats okay, this is a very good song it can remind you of him.
Icehouse - Great Aussie band, still a great song in 2017. So proud of the music in our Great Southern Land.
The encircling, otherworldly mood of this song is hypnotic. Great production quality...gives it an adrift, spacy sound comparable to little else.
T Jacobs Nailed it perfectly.
Yep, the production makes this song. It’s the bridge between the synth pop dominated 80s and the rock and roll late 70s.
Discovered this song tonight... 21 yrs old, amazing as.
The Bandit, welcome 🙏 to the family. Salud 🍻
THE BEST song written about our land. The WORLD learnt about us. Thank you Icehouse.
But I first knew you as FLOWERS. I remember.
+Mark Dowse ..as a pom on a trip down under, I went to see Flowers way back in 81/82..when I returned to UK, they had changed to Icehouse !
+Mark Dowse played at narrabeen northern beaches watched them too
+Mark Dowse I think Flowers opened for XTC when they toured Australia...
+Esther Honey nice
+Mark Dowse Had to change their name cause of the Scottish band The Flowers at the time. Icehouse much better though!!
only a few years ago, i watched the film YOUNG EINSTEIN for the first time since i was a kid... This song struck a nerve while watching the film, and catapulted its way into my top 3 favourite songs list... I listen to this song almost weekly... Its audio therapy for me!
This track resonates in my mind & dreams. I am Australian but have not lived there for 18 years. I look forward to coming back to my Great Southern Land. I miss it...
Our great southern land is burning..so eerie listing to this now..God save Australia! 😭
god? I'd rather we rely on people and not fake bullshit - otherwise it'll just keep burning. (You do appreciate that if you reckon your god is all powerful, then it was also he that started the fire!?!) fucking fool
When I go to the Botanic Gardens and sit by wall looking over the Harbour. I think of the lyrics " Sitting on a rainy day down in the harbour, watching as the grey shadows the bay." and I get a sense of a long often sad history of this country stretching way back into time. All the people who have lived and died, and all the people yet to live. And my battles and fears, the troubles of one man seem unimportant.
Backpacking through the WA . Love this track man. Just staring out to the Indian Ocean.
This should be played every morning by every Aussie station to get Aussie back on track !!
Who is still listing in 2019?
James Ervin my mum is lmfao😂
THIS SONG WILLNEVER DIE!😂 I’m 14 and I love it 😂
My last day of the yr ritual playing Aussie rock cooking a BBQ with beers. Playlist includes midnight oil, hunters and collectors, goanna to name a few
I listened in 2019...and guess what, it's just clicked over to 2020 and Im still listening. Legend of a song.
I do. In fact I've heard this for the first time in my life today, I heard it on the radio in my car, never heard this ever before in my life, I'm 38. Actually I'm living in the south of my country temporarily, work here, and I'm from the very northern part of the country, so now I'm in the Great Southern Land :P Cheers ;)
I was having a beer at the pub with a bloke who was saying this should be our national anthem.
Steven Webb
+Steven Webb - Sure is some magic that's more than just a great song. Been a muso for 50 yrs and it's one of the special ones gives me gooseys every time. Whover penned it was channelling the spirit of OZ right there.
+Karen D ........you get goosebumps too!......
+Steven Webb Now that you've said this I can only imagine crowds singing 'Great southern laaaand' in an amazing harmony.
So true.
Used to be a 'Foreign Aussie' in my younger years. Went back in '22 being 76 years old. Loved it still. Toured the outback of Qld. and cherished the old memories at the Isa where I used to work. Back in Denmark I'm planning yet another trip Down Under.
Never a big fan of Isa but I did a lot of work around Cloncurry, love the endless roads to site and the untouched scenery.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan Precisely what I love about the land.
@@nielsb.larsen5987 Love the "big sky" country feel. Mate check out the cartoon "Mining Boom" it's disturbingly accurate about life in that part of the world. My last trip I flew into Townsville, grabbed the work ute and drove to Torrens Creek to stay the night. The pub was plastered in every currency on the planet and full of people from all over the world. Ended up driving (hungover) to Cloncurry for the job then crashed in the motel next to the bowls club. Full of Yanks filming "Survivor" which was strange but fun. A few days later flew out from Isa thinking I'd never miss the life. I do miss the land and the cool people you meet.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan Yeah. I follow your drift. I also flew in to Townsville, stayed at a friend's place for a week (couple of days at Airlie Beach/the Whitsunday's). Back in T. I hired a campervan and drove to the Isa, stayed a few days reminiscing my years in the mines (I drove the ST-5 on 13 level (one of the front loaders on display at Isa Outback)). Then a dip into NT, back to the Isa and up Normanton way. When I drove that road 50 some years ago it was just a dirt road with one house (a pub) on that 600 km journey. Now there's still only one house, but developed into a restaurant and camping ground. Headed to the Tablelands, had a look around, and went to Cairns for a trip on the railway to Kuranda and a skyrail return ride. Then back to Townsville for a week with visit to Magnetic Island. All in all 6 weeks in the land I really love.
Happy Australia day to all of my fellow Aussies 🎉
Happy Australia day
1980s is definitely the best era for Aussie Music
Discovered this song tonight... 21 yrs old, amazing as.
I’m so proud that I am an Australian it is literally the best country ever and music is the best as well🇦🇺❤
As your retarded American cousin I disagree.
Vote no to save it from the UN
@@kathysangel56 the UN is not going to take us
Hahaha if you knew what the fucking lyrics were you wouldn't like it, keep waving your little Made In China coloniser flag, you fool😂😂😂
i am proud also as an german people, traveling australia mont
The last time that I played this song on the LP was 1982 then I met a French Canada woman, moved to Quebec, the Ontario worked as an engineer, consultant, moved back to the west coast with my fiancée from Newfoundland, married, divorced living with my lovely Benjie-like dog, came across this song tonight had forgotten it from 82 to 2020 and WOW!!!! Time flies but listening to this song almost 60 yes old what a trip back to 82 when I was 22 gotta love life and all of its meandering crossroads and life experiences! Salut to all, be happy and thankful for life, good health and warm life memories as you travel through it.
Love, Love Icehouse....Their recordings hold up today as though they were recorded yesterday....All of their material is simply amazing.... :) Thank you!!!!
Great track. One of my favourites from Icehouse.
My favourite Australian band ever. Im a kiwi a grew up with many great Aussie bands in the 80s but Icehouse are attached to some great memories. You know when you listen to music that takes you back immediately to you youth. For me I get that feeling every time I hear Icehouse
Happy Australia day. Thank god I grew up in this era. Great music and a much better world !!
I discovered this track only recently on Spotify and have since played it numerous times. i remember Icehouse from way back in 1983 when Hey little girl was a success in the U.K. Ive always loved that song and this one instantly appealed to me due to its use of synthesizer throughout, an instrument i absolutely adore listening to!☺
Icehouse were a great band, try some more of it.
I didn't even know this was an Australian song, but when I found out everything just clicked. The lyrics started to make so much more sense and I honestly love the fact this is from my country
Love hearing this song , especially on Australia Day !!
We might be run by spineless politicians but still the best country to be born into .
🇦🇺
Much love to Aussies of all colour , enjoy your country , we’re very blessed to call it home.
I hope those who like this have actually read the second verse of this song and what it refers to.
And know of Icehouse’s historical collaboration with Aboriginal artists and their advocacy.
It's against Australia Day you patriotic idiot😂
Algún día iré a visitar tu tierra, saludos...
Unfortunately one of the replies had to mansplain their interpretation of the song. It can be interpreted in lots of ways…
mainly love to the white Australians for me, but I share the sentiment of your comment overall.
I’m glad my dad brought me up around this music 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Proud to be Aussie 🇦🇺🇦🇺
The Australian doomer brought me here... At least I got 80's music...
Same dude lol
*snap* Nice!
Same, I had it stuck in my head for a while but couldn’t remember the lyrics
ScarnonCunce brought me here.
Not alone
this song captures the spirit of australia
This song captures the 80's from the antipodes.
leonardoboy2 yeah black against the ground
This song makes me want to take the 14 hour flight from the US to visit the Great Southern Land, Australia.
+Steven Manning Do it, it's awesome here!
+Steven Manning come on down possum.
As fellow respondents have said "Do It" Our Great Southern Land is not without its flaws, People do become naturally disillusioned by politicians like anywhere, but a good 95% of people I have spoken to, perhaps even more have come here and loved every minute. For the record, Australian rock greats like Ivor Davies and Jimmy Barnes are of foreign extraction and decided to stay. Other celebrities who are always overseas, like Hugh Jackman, Mel Gibson and Miranda Kerr are still Aussie at heart and love coming back. The song is correct, there is much to love and you will also. Cheers.
FUCK OFF WERE FULL
Steven Manning you should, it’s amazing
80s I was just a wee lass and playing this again ❤
Hidden in the summer for a million years - when I first heard this I wondered if anyone knew we were here in Australia or if we were hidden in the summer for a million years - I was working in Lorne at the time installing water meters I was an apprentice plumber it was summer I remember everything !! That's why I love music so much it triggers beautiful memories!!!
I first heard this on the movie Young Einstein! Love this song!
The 80's are the Best, nothing come's near the Awesome 80's, if only i could get all the good Rock & Soft Rock song's from the Awesome 80's.
The 80's, The Aussie Music, mate................. I tell ya, so glad I grew up with this. Nothing better.. PROUD
I fell in love with this song back in the 80s watching the YOUNG EINSTEIN film. I still love it more than ever today.
Adam Bobro hah I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone would mention Young Einstein. I remember seeing that movie as a kid and loving the song at the end credits
Great music to grow up with. Hang on,I never did grow up!
+Adam Law ..........a great quality to have......
+Adam Law Nothing wrong with that,likewise!
+Adam Law Good shit bro :)
+Adam Law
You are never too old to have a brilliant childhood.
+Aaron DC mediA You are the Law
Music like this makes me proud to live in this sunburned, vast country.
Great Aussie Drives brought me here. What a song!
Absolut.tolle.band.richtig.geile.musik.icehouse.rules.
great fucking band and great fucking country .
And Im a kiwi.
we're brothers really
Incredible
***** fair dinkum mayte
***** do you want a medal?
+Mike Money so bitter!
This song is one of the best all time Aussie songs
Only beaten by Jason Donovan’s Too Many Broken Hearts.
Mudnight Oil "Beds are burning", Men at work" Down Under", INXS "Mystify me"
This song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, should be our national anthem 💜
Our great southern land is burning..so eerie listing to this now..God save Australia! 😭
I'm thinking of all those who have lost their homes in the bush fires.
this song captures the spirit of australia
Esta música marcou um momento da minha adolescência.
When ever you connect country to people the connection is always made.
This song provides that heart beat and spirit.
And encapsulates it all.
This marvellous song made me fall in love of Yahoo Serious and Australia in 1990 and i love him and that land since that moment...
I heard this tune for this time as an eleven year old in 1991 watching Young Einstein at home in Scotland. Great tune.
I listen to this song and makes me proud to be an Australian ..Even though I was born over seas and came here as refugee with parents in early 80/s I feel connected to this land .. I guess that's the beauty of this land,Its addictive and special .
187noneed no
denied go back to ur country
I'm a teen but my dad is almost 44 years old and that means he clearly grew up in the 80s and he absolutely loves this.
Im 48 with a 6 year old & yep, your Dad ia correct.
Edited to say - its 43C where i am today.
Listening in 2024!
i was driving with my sister and brother in law and a niece from Sydney to Nelson Bay.and this song played automatically on my spotify...Just got me straight away..i wondered how vast and stretched ,and beautiful australia is....
I grew up in FJ with "young talent time" etc, and "The Flying Doctors" and music from INXS, Icehouse, Midnight Oil and others, and later - when I came of age - got to see Mad Max and fell/still in love with the land of OZ!. I'm a few of the lucky ones to have studied and worked in Oz in their impressionable years - never forgotten!
In our top 10 of best Aussie songs ever.
Came across this great band through seeing Young Einstein back in the 80's. Love this song. ❤🎶
I remember hearing this when I watched Young Einstein for the first time. This song makes an already great movie all the more worth watching
Young Einstein is where I first heard this song too. Didn't think much of the movie, but loved the song right away.
Yes I loved this song right away when I heard it. Soundtrack on Young Einstein
When the movie came out here in the states in 89, i saw a different music video with movie clips in it.
It was Young Einstein
Same here. Love the Young Einstein movie, especially for the soundtrack (which I had as a kid on cassette).
Icehouse one of the great aussie bands of the 80's,they had many good songs back then and still enjoyed by many to this day..........
This song is Australia
Gives me chills and so proud to be an Aussie
Best country on earth 😎
I love this song. All my life i was looking for it. Finally i found it. After all these years. I love you Australia!!!!!
What a magical Australian music era I was so lucky to grow up in. So many great bands in this country, then and now. Wish I could go back to those times, early 80's, no responsibilities. lots of great live bands every weekend. Wonderful time to be alive!!
Gome now, Hobe is just 998 km away little goala, we'll make there, eventually
Fug :DDD
+Chief Big Hand Of The Slapaho benis xddd
Gondolas do not speak Spurdish, you casual.
Lol Firsts it was the N. Koreans, and now it's the Cinese... I'm starting to come to understand why you dislike them so, sir.
southern is great dood
My dad used to live next to the base player when he was young, since he was young, he used to jam a lot with him. Epic band
Ah, still love this song -- this Canadian was living in Australia when this came out. Never tired of hearing this
this should really be our national anthem
Fuck yeah!
I agree, always have.
This and/or "I Still Call Australia Home". You can't go wrong with that one either.
"..so you look into the land and it will tell you a story
story 'bout a journey ended long ago
if you listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains
maybe you can hear them talking like I do"
One of the greatest Aussie songs ❤
As a kid of the 70's and 80's listening to this still gives me chills and makes me cry for the utter drivel they call music today...
One of my favourite songs ❤
Qué bonito ❤
I fucking love Australia...
In my youth as a Marine I spent some liberty in Townsville and Brisbane. I love Australia.
I don't know why but lately I have been really getting into icehouse what an excellent band!!!! love their songs!!
Came across Icehouse on my visit to New Zealand back in Christmas '87/Jan 88, first thing i did when i got back home to the UK was buy the Man of Colours album. Fantastic songs still to this day. Heartbreak Kid being my favourite. I have to say in this video Iva Davies does have a young bowie and gary numan look about him.
They play this at the start of every session of the Boxing Day Test.
They played it at the first ever test match in Canberra (Australia vs Sri Lanka)
It's the run on song for the Mens team at all home test matches
i seriously love this song so much, i love icehouse in general but this song has to be one of my favorites from him
We listen to this song at school because we are learning the world!
Amazing song-never gets old!
Classic Aussie rock!!!! Wow!!! Sets the stage for Australia!!!!
Just heard for the first time. What a great song.
Thank you for bringing so much joy and happiness. Thank you for your wonderful music even in 2023 - Who listens?
To everyone who listens may good fortune be your companion.
100 % australian, 100 % quality, 80s forever, classic, the best.....................
In 1988 the Southern Stand of the Melbourne Cricket Ground had to be replaced because of "concrete cancer." During construction, as a joke, the new stand was called the "Great Southern Stand." On completion the MCG committee could not think of a better name so that is its name. "Icehouse" had no objections, a kind of immortality.
brilliant if true
+Halvdan Knutsson thats cause yoir not aussie
Leif is right! 'cos you're not an Aussie Doh! Great Southern Land and Great Southern Stand
It's becomes a musical Pun... probably no Australian can say "Great Southern Stand" without saying it in tune with the lyric "Great Southern Land".
not many Kiwi's can either :)
will never get old. listened to this while driving on the great ocean road,.
I was working at a radio/television station in Alberta in the early 80's this album came in as a demo. The P.D. wasn't interested in it. I had listen to the album and loved it. Tried convincing the P.D. to include Great Southern Land, still wasn't interested and I'm not sure why. I took the album home and I have it still. Excellent Album!
Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
city on a rainy day down in the harbour
watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay
looking everywhere 'cause I had to find you
this is not the way that i remember it here
anyone will tell you its a prisoner island
hidden in the summer for a million years
Great Southern Land, burned you black
so you look into the land and it will tell you a story
story 'bout a journey ended long ago
listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains
maybe you can hear them talking like I do
". . they're gonna betray, they're gonna forget you
are you gonna let them take you over this way . ."
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
you walk alone like a primitive man
and they make it work with sticks and bones
see their hungry eyes, its a hungry home
I hear the sound of the stranger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
they burned you black, black against the ground
Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
city on a rainy day down in the harbour
watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay
looking everywhere I had to find you
this is not the way that i remember it here
anyone will tell you its a prisoner island
hidden in the summer for a million years
Great Southern Land, in the sleeping sun
you walk alone with the ghost of time
they burned you black, black against the ground
and they make it work with rocks and sand
I hear the sound of the stanger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
you walk alone, like a primitive man
you walk alone with the ghost of time
and they burned you black
yeah, they burned you black
Great Southern Land
Thank you Sunny Tiger :) peace be with you friend.
+Sunny Tiger (Tigress) Thanks! Love it. So the Great Southern Land talks to us in these lines: I hear the sound of the stranger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
+Sunny Tiger (Tigress) I think you're right. I always thought it was SYDNEY on a rainy day down in the harbour.
+alfredagain but I think he's talking about Sydney..clouds shadow the bay..
alfredagain I thought it was SITTING on a rainy day down at the harbour 😂
Big welcome to the state of Idaho, Aussie and Kiwi firefighters! We need you here and in Washington and Oregon. I hope this video from my distant recesses doesn't document Southern Hemisphere fire management practices (walking casually amidst the flames and singing), otherwise what a wasted trip! Thanks for your help 🌏🌎