“Shout” by Johnny O’Keefe. “Shape I’m In” by Joe Camilleri. “Glad All Over” by Hush. “One Perfect Day” by Little Heroes. “Battle Scars” by Guy Sebastian. “Rise” by Daryl Braithwaite. “Chains” by Tina Arena. “Brave” by Kate Cebrano. “Something’s Missing” by Marcia Hines. “Burn” by Jessica Mauboy. “It’s Alright” by Dani Hines. “Hollywood Seven” by Jon English. “A Little Ray of Sunshine” by Axiom. “Dear Prudence” by Doug Parkinson. “The Day You Went Away” by Wendy Matthews. Girl on the Wall” by Jane Clifton. “Heading in the Right Direction” by Renee Geyer
'The Day You Went Away' in my opinion, is the saddest song ever written in Australia. Beautiful song and video clip. It always leaves a lump in my throat.
Not forgetting, Chain- black and blue, Madder lake -12 pound toothbrush, Black feather - bopping the blues, Zoot- Elinore Rigby, and probably more that I have forgotten.
Definitely a lot missing and great songs way down the list. IMO...whilst I love 'Onion Skin', they should have used 'Dancing in the Storm' for Boom Crash Opera.
The biggest act left off the list is unforgivable - The Bee Gees. Yes, they were born in the Isle of Man, but migrated to Australia as kids in the 1950s. They grew up in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Redcliffe, did their first gigs at the local speedway in the late 1950s and got their break appearing on Brian Henderson's 'Bandstand' on Channel 9 in the early 1960s. Even their name has an Australian origin. The Bee Gees are named after the initials of Bill Gates, the Brisbane radio DJ who discovered them. ua-cam.com/video/EbsUj3oK1wU/v-deo.html
The Channel Isles get tricky for some folk - and they forget that the Isle of Mann on the Irish Sea side is classified the same way as Jersey and Bailiwick [??] Channel side@@YouChwb
Seriously, I'm Aussie and half of them I couldn't even tell you if I knew them or not. I'm talking about dozens of one hit wonders there, or maybe this is someone's personal list of bands they like. The 80s and the 90s were big for us musically. The 90s had Silverchair, powderfinger, grinspoon, Spiderbait, the living end, U Am I, killing Heidi, plus many others which were constant festival line ups. Every school holidays there'd be a Big Day out, royal Easter show, falls festival, groove in the moo, rock it, many other multi band shows. 90s was fun and very entertaining.
U Just took me to my fave place. the BDO was so legendary bc we got to see so many world class aus acts. alex lloyd!!! i just remembered seeing him there. but the list of those bands u lisyed really shows how ripped off AUS WAS, OVERSEAS. peace. falls.......ahhhh
Yeah I think a lot of these acts were exports or mainstream and personally I've always been into 70s,80s pop and rock and I was a child of the 90s alternative era so a lot of these artists were unknown to me as well. Also, this list was a lot of very famous artists but not their best songs so, yeah.
yeah I am 50 and have never heard of half of them myself, there's so many others missed too, that are more known, but can't think who wasn't on the list now lol
Please remember this 150 is just some guy's opinion, there is no other qualifications like sales of music or concert tickets. One-hit wonders are rubbing shoulders with folks who have 50yr long careers on this list, and there are both notable omissions and bias towards particular genres.
Tina Arena, Kate Ceberano, Vanessa Amarosi, Jon English, ( English born Aussie), like the Bee Gees😃( correct me if I'm wrong).. Colleen Hewitt, etc etc..... Thanks for your reactions 👏. Cheerio from Down Under 🌺
No Joe Camilleri on this list - unbelievable! An artist who isn't pigeon-holed in one type of music, but is brilliant in whichever he is performing ❤ Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons or The Black Sorrows the man's a legend 😊
I haven’t got into the Top 100 yet, but I can already say that a lot of these artists are not shown performing their most famous song. Surely for Helen Reddy you’d choose ‘I Am Woman’ or for for Ted Mulry it would be ‘Jump in my Car.’ As for Jason Donovan’s ranking, he was only one of the first in a long line of soapie stars to become manufactured pop stars, even though he may have been huge in the UK. Keith Urban is big in America but not so much here where we have a lot of stay at home country musicians who have a loyal following. And, yes, John Paul Young recorded the original version of ‘Love is in the Air.’ He was a huge local pop star in the 1970s and that song was written and produced by the hit factory of Vanda and Young, former members of Australia’s version of the Beatles, the 1960s band The Easybeats. George Young was the older brother of Angus and Malcom from AC/DC.
Yeah. I thought it was really strange to represent acts with far from their best work. I wouldn’t think copyright sould be a problem with such small snippets.
37 for John Farnham, 29 for Cold Chisel, and 24 for Jimmy Barnes?!?! This list is ridiculous. Jimmy has more Australian number ones than 1-23 combined.
And all of them have charted higher in the US than the three acts you mentioned. 16 has five Billboard #1s by herself, Jimmy's highest was a duet with INXS that barely cracked the top 50. This isn't a list for Australians.
The Teskey Brothers, Matt Corby, Guy Sebastion, Taj Farrant, Kasey Chambers are all current artists who have been receiving plenty of Utube reactions lately. There are a few artists missing from this list like The John Butler Trio, Busby Merou, Angus and Julia Stone, Richard Clapton, Brian Cadd, Russel Morris to name just a few and some I personally wouldnt have included but music is really a matter of taste.. If you want to see up and coming talent check out Taj Farrant who has only just turned 14 he started leaning the guitar when he was 7 and recently released a new single titled Crossroads which immediately went to No1 on the world soul music charts. He cant even read music just plays by ear he has already performed with the likes of Santana, his younger sister is also a pretty accomplished drummer.
It's just someone's list and music is a personal taste. I don't even think it's a properly ranked listed, just mostly grouped and numbered until it gets to the end. There were some bands there I hadn't heard of, but that's fine. Some more potentials to add to the list are Vanessa Amorosi, The Rubens, Do Re Mi/Deborah Conway, Hilltop Hoods, Flume, The Jezabels etc.
This list was strange..some relatively unknowns put ahead of some legends and didn't feature greatest hits of the artists. 😮 Would have put Easybeats much higher considering how groundbreaking they were for their time and the ongoing influence. If George Young hadn't been a success and bought guitars for his brothers Malcolm and Angus, we may never have had ACDC! And Vander and Young wrote "Love is in the Air. I still think 'Friday on My Mind' was one of our all time great Aussie anthems.
119. Flash and the Pan, 9. Easybeats and 1. ACDC, Vanda and Young have had so much influence on Australian music. I had forgotten about the music they wrote for JPY too. While the post 2000 music I haven't heard of much there was some cool stuff in there.
Completely agreed. Some of the picks for band's songs on here were frankly bizarre. As if for Flash and The Pan you wouldn't put Hey St. Peter or Down among the Dead Men. Surely for Spiderbait you'd put Shazam. Etc. etc. Really odd.
John Farnham should have been No.1 in my opinion, ACDC, Skyhooks and Sherbert and The Seekers should have been higher up the ladder and others should be there too - Angels, Rose Tattoo, Divinyls, Chisel and Olivia Newton John, to name a few. I've heard of most of these.
I don't think AC/DC could have gone any higher than what they were HAHA but yeah some of those bands singers should be way higher and some should not even be in the top 150 let alone the top 50
You need to get out more. Yes, there were some great bands then, but there is still fantastic live music and plenty of great rock bands touring. They just don't get played on the radio anymore.
@@amandajane5743not like the 70s and 80s. Almost every pub had a stage. Thur, Fri, Sat nights. It was the birth of pub rock. It’s where bands cut their teeth.
@@heatherrowles9930 Parkway Drive. If they are playing somewhere, I'm there. When I first saw them, I'd only heard one of their songs and it's not really my style of music. It didn't matter. They are insanely good live. I saw Jimmy back then too but in a head to head of 80s Jimmy vs Parkway Drive now I'm not going to need the flux capacitor. 😁
Billy thorpe and the aztecs, Mama. A live recording on GTK, the ABC, 1971. One of the best, no, the best heavy rock performances recorded live ever, full stop. Divynils, boys in town. You went past this song in your first music clip. You'll love it. 80's. People who react to it go WTF! Australia had a huge pub scene where lots of bands cut their teeth. The 80's made Australia, not just bands but movies. All of a sudden Australia was making a name for itself. You've only scratched the surface here I'm afraid. I'm surprised by what's been omitted.
I was in the audience for Thorpie at the ABC's Gore Hill studio. He was late and everybody had to stand around waiting outside for hours. They had pulled in Carson (Broderick Smith's band) to perform on the tray of a truck to ease the tension of the crowd. Thorpie finally got there about 4:30 and it was the loudest live music I ever heard. Any Australian rock list is incomplete without Johnny O'Keefe. He was rocking hard in the mid-50's so he pre-dates all the British bands. He was already well-established when he performed beside many of the original American rock 'n' rollers brought to Australia by Lee Gordon at Sydney Stadium.
Hello Simon, it's not insignificant that Rage has referenced Johnny O'Keefe from the start. I completely missed Thorpie. At the time his earlier 60's material put me off but I was certainly aware of his change in direction. I was a big fan of GTK when I was a youngster. I only came to appreciate Billy fairly recently. As an aside Billy is the earliest exponent of moon walking I've seen. Bandstand, Poison Ivy 1964.
One thing that is surprised me is that Ian Moss & Jimmy Barnes got single credits as well as Cold Chisel but they only listed Sherbet as a band but didnt include Daryl Braithwaite on his own. Daryl had many classic songs as a solo artist like Horses, One Summer & As The Days Go By. All three are great Aussie classics
Some may argue, but what about the Bee Gees? I know Barry Gibb said in a 2012 interview he considers Australia his home. There were a lot of acts in that video I wish weren't from Australia, some of that thrash metal they can keep, but hey, each to their own. It would be interesting to maybe react to a few more of the more famous songs, or maybe the artists in general.
Such a travesty that Thirsty Merc wasn’t on the list, ‘Summertime’ in particular was a huge hit and known internationally too especially because it’s the theme song to tv show ‘Bondi Rescue’. Personally I would have loved to have seen Ben Lee and Bernard Fanning on the list.
Too much lip synching on Countdown. Bad luck they didn't make them play live for all those years. That would have separated the sheep from the goats for everyone to see.
Diesel was pretty renowned from the late 80s through the 90s too, for one I haven't seen mentioned yet. It's a shame some of the songs in the vid were clipped right before the iconic catchy parts haha
Awesome job. I’m an Aussie, didn’t know a few of the bands. Thank you for showing kids in the kitchen, pseudo echo❤️, icehouse, inxs and crowded house. Where was Dragon, Marc Hunter was a legend. 👍👍❤️❤️
And the winner is BON SCOTT and AC/DC! 😃 I knew about half of those bands and more of the songs, what special memories! Its great to see Moving Pictures, Masters Apprentices, Skyhooks, Screaming Jets, Baby Animals, Divinyls, Ian Moss, Daddy Cool (Ross Wilson), Paul Kelly, Goanna, Little River Band, Stevie Wright, Billy Thorpe, Sherbet, Missy Higgins, Nick Cave! None of these were on the last compilation! "It's a long way to the top"! 👍
So a few I had forgotten about, a few I didn't realise were Australian and most after 2010 I didn't know. I thought the song choices for some of the groups were strangely not their most well known. I think the person who compiled the video had a love of the heavier stuff because there were far more bands of that nature than I had imagined and missing a good few of what I would have thought were more well known - Marcia Hines, Helen Reddy, Kate Cebrano, Mental as Anything and lots more.
A lot of really great Aussie musicians left off this list, Kasey Chambers, Guy Sebastian and the John Butler Trio just to name a few. But great to see some of our amazing metal bands getting a mention. Australia has an amazing metal scene that is often overlooked.
@@LordEriolTolkien Your point??? Everyone has to start somewhere and entering a tv competition doesn't make them any less talented or successful. I think a lot of artists would jump at the chance to gain nation wide exposure to kick start their career.
My point@@nikitahankinson9546 is that corporate manufactured public popularity game show winners are Not 'Artists'. They are commodified corporate properties and a symptom of the decline and collapse of Western Culture That many people are willing to whore themselves for fame and profit is neither unsurprising nor disproving of my point. But if you are happy to swallow mass produced corporate approved pop slop... you go right ahead. There's no accounting for taste ...
@@LordEriolTolkien if you cant appreciate their talent, thats a you thing......with a good dose of snobbery mixed in. How lame to discount someone just because they were in a talent show. Do you actually know the origins of a LOT of our musical acts and bands? I think you'd find a hell of a lot of them came up from talent shows and battle of the bands.
@@glenysbrothers6532 Absolutely, for a man who can really belt them out, he sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow beautifully. I only recently watched Billy’s memorial concert on UA-cam again. So many Aussie singers paying tribute to our Thorpy, really heartwarming.
I'm a 59y.o Aussie and have lived here all my life,. I don't know who compiled the list but they don't have mainstream musical taste. I know very few of the 150 songs and I consider myself a lover of music. Here is a list of some of the best we have produced here in Australia, check out the following bands.... ACDC, The Angels, Little RIver Band, Midnight Oil, INXS, Nick Cave & THe Bad Seeds, Air Supply, Bee Gees, Men At Work, Icehouse, Silverchair, Cold Chisel, The Divynals, The Easybeats, Skyhooks, Hoodoo Gurus, THe Radiators, Daddy Cool, Australian Crawl, HUnters & Collectors, THe Screaming Jets, Dragon,
How can Zoot not be featured? Darryl Cotton up front, Rick Springfield on lead guitar before he went solo and recorded Jessies Girl and Beeb Birtles on bass who, after Zoot, was a founder and songwriter of Little River Band. Zoot's cover of the Beatles 'Eleanor Rigby' is considered by some to be better than the original. ua-cam.com/video/iptr7i7sFkM/v-deo.html
If you go back to the late sixties, early seventies. Australias first ever singer to top the American charts was Russel Morris singing On The Wings Of An Eagle. He has the most amazing voice. You also had from the same era, singers such as Brian Cadd, Doug Parkinson. An amazing list of singers from that era.
Doug Parkinson's "Dear Prudence" cover is brilliant, sung when he was just 23! And speaking of Beatles covers, John Farnham's cover of "Help" is sensational, too.
Glad it wasn’t only me who’d never heard of lots of the bands/singers or the songs lol. I’m in my 60s and still have all my cassette tapes and vinyls. But none of many in this vid. Maybe it might be the person who created it, they are their personal favourites with a few others thrown in for good measure lol
It's a real shame that they just ignored hip hop acts. I feel the Hilltop Hoods should have definitely had a spot on the list, especially if there going to include bands like The Chats. Also what about Guy Sabastian? He's a massive pop star isn't he?
This! Hilltop hoods is the first thing everyone thinks of when Australian hip hop is brought up and guy Sebastian is easily one of the biggest singers and celebrities out there with a massive hit like battle scars
The most Amazing part of this to me, an Aussie. Is that soo many popular common artist universally like 5SOS, Vance Joy, Keith Urban, InSync, Gotye and all these other bands are actually Australian! There are soo many bands that are known universally but people just never knew that they were Aussie!
I'm Australian and there were a few I'd heard and did'nt even know they were aussie, btw the guitarist from the Easybeats was George Young, older brother of Malcolm and Angus from AC DC, he also produced their first two albums.
The numbers of the artists are so mixed around, so I assume that it's not ranked, just random. Also, I'm surprised Taxiride isn't on the list, seeing as songs like 'Get Set' and 'Everywhere You Go' were pretty massive, also The Angels, Goanna, Choir Boys, The Church, Hilltop Hoods, were all pretty big. A lot of the songs they picked where not the most well known for the groups/singers either. Some were just 'who?' - mostly the metal groups. lol.
"When the Beatles and the Stones divided households, the Seekers united them." The footage of, "Georgy Girl," is from the 1968 concert at the Meyer Music Bowl in front of an audience of 200,000 - still a record in the Southern Hemisphere. The female singer is Judith Durham (1943 - 2022). I'd suggest; "I'll never find another you," "Morningtown Ride," "A World of Our Own," "The Carnival is Over," or their version of, "I am Australian," (Bruce Woodley co-wrote this one) , also, "Red Rubber Ball," a hit for The Cyrkle, when Paul Simon, "Forgot," that Bruce Woodley had co-written that as well.
What an incredible list (quite a few I didn't know though). Growing up over here in Australia, I have to say that nothing will ever beat the 70s and 80s for Aussie hits. INXS, ACDC, Kylie, Men At Work...there's just so many! Take a look at one of our brilliant DJ's Hot Dub Time Machine, he transitions from 60s through to now in each of his shows. Thank you for such a nostalgic trip down memory lane
Steve Irwin's favourite song was True Blue by John Williamson. Its one of those songs you may have never put on but just by living and existing in Australia you know the lyrics.
Only music genres covered were pop,rock and metal. Very surprised Bee Gees wasn’t there. Lots of musicians not lost on that list from other genres such as Australian folk, country etc. Like Red Gum, John Williamson, Shannon Noll, Adam Brand, lee kernaghan, Kate ceberano, slim dusty, Rolf Harris, and so many more.
The order is up the creek and a lot are missing. Whoever compiled it should also have used samples of their more popular songs so they are more recognisable. I have never heard of a very large chunk of these. Missing are - Bee Gees, Jon English, Easy Beats, Mark Holden, Johnny O'Keefe, Hush, Diesel, Ted Mulry (solo), Russell Morris, Normie Rowe, Col Joye and the Joy Boys, Peter Allen, Doug Parkinson, Zoot, The Atlantics, Richard Clapton, Marcia Hines, Brian Cadd.
Kylie Minogue is the QUEEN and ofc number 1! Still at the top of the game35 years on, highest selling Australian artist of all time, only female artist to have number 1s in 5 decades world wide! Queen 👑💯👌🔥 #PadamPadam
@@markjames3522 they are not Goble stars like Kylie is... They also will never be able to be the only female artist of all time to have number 1 albums in 5 decades and a top ten single in 5 decades like Kylie already has and she's far from over .... Olivia had one hit... Sia is not going to be famous or relevant in 20 years.... 🎤😍👌💯 #PadamPadam #Tension
@@shaunhoward6838 I’m not talking any credit away from Kylie’s achievements . ONJ is a lot more than one hit wonder 4 time Grammy award winner artist 4 Australian number 1 songs , 5 number 1 songs in USA . Plus ONJ is reason why Grease is the highest selling movie musical soundtrack of all time . Grease soundtrack as sold 14,000,000 just the USA alone Physical the album is 2x Platinum album in USA Sia has chosen the keep a low profile it’s obvious she doesn’t want to be recognised , why the wig . Sia is in the billion list of successful streaming artists . Her single sales are impressive as as well with Chandelier , Titanium , Cheap Thills and The Greatest being worldwide hits . Sia is also a producer working behind the scenes she has also was executive producer on Kylie’s Kiss Me Once album she also contributed to a few songs on that album .
@@shaunhoward6838 They all on different levels of talent. ONJ was major influence on Kylie , No ONJ there probably wouldn’t be any music career for Kylie . Sia started out as independent artist and wasn’t really chasing fame it just happened. Kylie yeah she an icon I agree Kylie has done well even that she didn’t really break into the USA market in a bigger way with only The Loco-Motion and I Can’t Get You Out Of My Head making the American billboard charts top 10
Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs was the singer you said, “Good voice”. Billy Thorpe also wrote two books, ‘Sex, Thugs and Rock’N’Roll’ and ‘Most People I Know’(think that I’ll crazy). Both are a quick enjoyable stories of life at the top and getting there, laugh out loud read. The second one was more immersive. Do watch his music videos . His concept Album was genius.🎸
The thing this list reminded me of most was the thriving live music scene we used to have. So many bands on this list I was able to see playing pub gigs back in the day, and many by accident!
My favourite are The Masters Apprentices, You Am I, Courtney Barnett, JET, The Sunnyboys, The Stems, and The Easybeats. I would also add EVEN, Davey Lane, The Shimmys, and Wesley Fuller to my favourite list.
TISM, The living End, Hoodoo Gurus and Spiderbait would be great rabbit holes to venture down. Hard to believe The Saints are not higher - recognised as the first punk band.
damn, no The Presets, they made some absolutely iconic electronic dance songs that blew up down under, and they were actually pretty ahead of their time. stiff for them not to get a mention.
I'm Australian and I haven't even heard of from 150 to 125 I only recognize maybe 5 out of the first 25 bands countdown. But one big problem to me is the 2 seconds of the bands song, how are you supposed to like a song if you only play 2 seconds of the songs WTF is the rush...
Totally agree with you. I had no idea who first lot were at all. I thought, was I living under a rock lol. No way, still have all my cassettes and vinyl and cds from the 1960s and onwards.
The 1st ones at #150, 'The Cockroaches' became the world-famous Wiggles. They had only limited success as a rock band so decided to start a children's act ... the rest is history.
@@RobNMelbourneyep. My brother had the Cockroaches album and played it over and over. A lot of the songs I recognised when my kids started listening to the Wiggles
@@RobNMelbourne Ta for that info. Must check out the cockroaches, never knew Wiggles were in a band previously. Must ask my daughter if she knows as she worked with the Wiggles in the same show in Hong Kong many years ago. My daughter worked for Disney, they have/had Aussie scouts here. She was studying full time musical theatre, aged 19, gee she’s nearly 40😱lol, and Disney wanted her. Said The wiggles were all wonderful kind men.
@@thebigdog9785 I know that. That’s y it’s called 150 songs. I’m saying that the artists are a very good & ppl can’t really get a listen in 2 seconds so hopefully ppl listen to them out of this. Fck making a longer video. Did you really have to complain about that comment? I’m sure someone wrote something much worse than 😂
The Saints from Brisbane are renowned as the first punk band outside of the USA to release a record, 1976’s ‘(I’m) Stranded’. Released before anything by the pistols and the clash. We have a rich music history! There’s some really cool through-lines with a lot of the acts featured here. Easybeats-Stevie Wright-AC/DC for example.
Some Trivia: 'Somebody that I used to know / Goyte' has 2.1Billion ( yes Billion ) views on youtube. Crowded House is a NZ band. AC/DC and Jimmy Barnes are Scotland born. ( Did I miss the Bee Gees in this video ? )
We have some iconic Aussie groups through the 60's, 70's, 80's and beyond including Masters, ACDC, Cold Chisel, Bee Gee's, Skyhooks, Sherbet, Little River Band, INXS and many, many, many more.
Vanessa Amorosi, Renee Geyer, John English not even in the top 150 ? Jimmy Barnes still putting out great music but not in the top 10 ? Kasey Chambers' version of "Lose Yourself" is all over You Tube at the moment but she's not on the list. Very questionable choices and rankings.
I just remembered one guy who is rated by many as the best guitarist in the world - Tommy Emmanuel. Maybe it's because he's not in a band or isn't a singer ? He used to play in John Farnham's band once if that counts... as well as playing with his brother Phil. The trouble with lists like these is that they tend to illustrate the lack of musical knowledge shown by the maker of the list.
Rick Springfield started off in a group called Zoot. Their big hit in 70's was a rock version of 'Beatles' song' Eleanor Rigby'. Rick went solo to USA and was on soapie " General Hospital".
@@MillsFam1973 Yes, Darryl Cotton up front, Rick Springfield on lead guitar and Beeb Birtles was on Bass. After Zoot, BB went on to form Little River Band. ua-cam.com/video/iptr7i7sFkM/v-deo.html
Eskimo Joe played at my brother's wedding, he recorded their first album. They played Blister in the sun as a gift for me, obviously organised by my brother Crowded house is a New Zealand bamd.
LRB the MOST international awarded Aussie band. with a truck load of top 10 hits in the US and number ones here in Oz. Sinatra and Lennon both considered "Reminiscing' one of their favourite songs ever. Glenn Frey (Eagles) said publicly that LRB were the greatest vocal band in the world. INXS never came close to them. AC/DC were fantastic, true rockers but didnt have as many hits as them despite being incredibly HUGE.
u cant compare LRBs success to ACDC. Clearly LRB havent sold 200mil albums and AIR SUPPLY prob sold more also. without checking. but hey they were amazing
G'day Squire it is quite clear that this is one Persons choice, so many Brilliant bands were around Late 60s then into the 70s, #9 "Friday on my Mind !" was voted most popular OZ song ever a Few years Back, There are so many one Hit Wonders on this 150 hits!
“Shout” by Johnny O’Keefe. “Shape I’m In” by Joe Camilleri. “Glad All Over” by Hush. “One Perfect Day” by Little Heroes. “Battle Scars” by Guy Sebastian. “Rise” by Daryl Braithwaite. “Chains” by Tina Arena. “Brave” by Kate Cebrano. “Something’s Missing” by Marcia Hines. “Burn” by Jessica Mauboy. “It’s Alright” by Dani Hines. “Hollywood Seven” by Jon English. “A Little Ray of Sunshine” by Axiom. “Dear Prudence” by Doug Parkinson. “The Day You Went Away” by Wendy Matthews. Girl on the Wall” by Jane Clifton. “Heading in the Right Direction” by Renee Geyer
that IS a great list of missing entries.
'The Day You Went Away' in my opinion, is the saddest song ever written in Australia. Beautiful song and video clip. It always leaves a lump in my throat.
Not forgetting, Chain- black and blue, Madder lake -12 pound toothbrush, Black feather - bopping the blues, Zoot- Elinore Rigby, and probably more that I have forgotten.
Yeh all great ones.
Definitely a lot missing and great songs way down the list. IMO...whilst I love 'Onion Skin', they should have used 'Dancing in the Storm' for Boom Crash Opera.
The biggest act left off the list is unforgivable - The Bee Gees. Yes, they were born in the Isle of Man, but migrated to Australia as kids in the 1950s. They grew up in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Redcliffe, did their first gigs at the local speedway in the late 1950s and got their break appearing on Brian Henderson's 'Bandstand' on Channel 9 in the early 1960s. Even their name has an Australian origin. The Bee Gees are named after the initials of Bill Gates, the Brisbane radio DJ who discovered them.
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Agreed and Crowded house are a Kiwi band. Eh, it’s only somebody’s version of a list, we all have our own favourites 😊
They grew up on Cribb Island before it was reclaimed.
@@joquail000 Split Endz was a Kiwi band but Crowded House is an Aussie band that formed in Melbourne with 2 Aussies and 2 Kiwis as its members.
Fun fact: The Bee Gees were not born in the UK as The Isle Of Man is not part of it.
The Channel Isles get tricky for some folk - and they forget that the Isle of Mann on the Irish Sea side is classified the same way as Jersey and Bailiwick [??] Channel side@@YouChwb
Seriously, I'm Aussie and half of them I couldn't even tell you if I knew them or not. I'm talking about dozens of one hit wonders there, or maybe this is someone's personal list of bands they like. The 80s and the 90s were big for us musically. The 90s had Silverchair, powderfinger, grinspoon, Spiderbait, the living end, U Am I, killing Heidi, plus many others which were constant festival line ups. Every school holidays there'd be a Big Day out, royal Easter show, falls festival, groove in the moo, rock it, many other multi band shows. 90s was fun and very entertaining.
U Just took me to my fave place. the BDO was so legendary bc we got to see so many world class aus acts. alex lloyd!!! i just remembered seeing him there. but the list of those bands u lisyed really shows how ripped off AUS WAS, OVERSEAS. peace. falls.......ahhhh
Any list of aussie bands must have Spy v Spy and the Radiators
I dunno man, I knew pretty much every band on there. Sure the order is debatable but it's a good list of bands
Yeah I think a lot of these acts were exports or mainstream and personally I've always been into 70s,80s pop and rock and I was a child of the 90s alternative era so a lot of these artists were unknown to me as well.
Also, this list was a lot of very famous artists but not their best songs so, yeah.
yeah I am 50 and have never heard of half of them myself, there's so many others missed too, that are more known, but can't think who wasn't on the list now lol
For a comprehensive list of Australian artists and bands to not have the Deltones and the Bee Gees included is mind boggling.
Im an Aussie and Music is my Jam for 50 years and i have not heard about 30% of these acts
If you only listen to mainstream radio & tv music shows, then you probably wouldn’t have heard of many of these.
Me neither,a lot of these are B sides too
Please remember this 150 is just some guy's opinion, there is no other qualifications like sales of music or concert tickets. One-hit wonders are rubbing shoulders with folks who have 50yr long careers on this list, and there are both notable omissions and bias towards particular genres.
They also didn’t flatter some of those bands with the songs they showed.
Exactly. How the heck does Jason Donovan rank higher than Missy Higgins, Killing Heidi, and The Angels. And all that thrash metal in the middle? WTF?
Totally agree! Weirdest order ever
Totally agree!! 🤷🏻♀️ All the best songs were from the eighties
Guy Sebastian, The Rogue Traders, Baker Boy, Hilltop Hoods, Thirsty Merc, John Butler Trio, The Presets.. so many good ones got shafted from the list!
They need to a top 500 List...
Renee Geyer should definitely been on that list, Loved ones also.
Absolutely ❤
Tina Arena, Kate Ceberano, Vanessa Amarosi, Jon English, ( English born Aussie), like the Bee Gees😃( correct me if I'm wrong).. Colleen Hewitt, etc etc.....
Thanks for your reactions 👏. Cheerio from Down Under 🌺
I agree , top names here! Love Tina
Kate Cebrano was there with I’m Talking
But also deserved a place as a soloist. Light on female artists in general, perhaps unsurprisingly due to their preference for metal.
No Joe Camilleri on this list - unbelievable! An artist who isn't pigeon-holed in one type of music, but is brilliant in whichever he is performing ❤ Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons or The Black Sorrows the man's a legend 😊
And no Vika and Linda Bull either! It definitely isn’t a definitive list
No Captain Matchbox?
I haven’t got into the Top 100 yet, but I can already say that a lot of these artists are not shown performing their most famous song. Surely for Helen Reddy you’d choose ‘I Am Woman’ or for for Ted Mulry it would be ‘Jump in my Car.’ As for Jason Donovan’s ranking, he was only one of the first in a long line of soapie stars to become manufactured pop stars, even though he may have been huge in the UK. Keith Urban is big in America but not so much here where we have a lot of stay at home country musicians who have a loyal following. And, yes, John Paul Young recorded the original version of ‘Love is in the Air.’ He was a huge local pop star in the 1970s and that song was written and produced by the hit factory of Vanda and Young, former members of Australia’s version of the Beatles, the 1960s band The Easybeats. George Young was the older brother of Angus and Malcom from AC/DC.
Yeah. I thought it was really strange to represent acts with far from their best work. I wouldn’t think copyright sould be a problem with such small snippets.
Maybe they had problems with some songs getting blocked by the publishers.
Vanda and Young also made list themselves as Flash in the Pan - also not singing 'Hey St Peter'.
thankyou. who chose the songs? daf for POWDERFINGER?? CMON ITS GOOD BUT THEY WERE GREAT
@@deano641or “Down among the dead men”
I can’t believe they missed the father of Australian Rock and Roll, Johnny O’Keefe
And russell morris I am the real thing
Idiot was probably born in 2000s
37 for John Farnham, 29 for Cold Chisel, and 24 for Jimmy Barnes?!?! This list is ridiculous. Jimmy has more Australian number ones than 1-23 combined.
And all of them have charted higher in the US than the three acts you mentioned. 16 has five Billboard #1s by herself, Jimmy's highest was a duet with INXS that barely cracked the top 50. This isn't a list for Australians.
Jimmy Barnes sucks
Jimmy has more than ACDC and the next 22? yeh right.
@@0Zolrender0 Jimmy has exactly one more ARIA No. 1 single than AC/DC does.
Crazy ranking. 😮
The Teskey Brothers, Matt Corby, Guy Sebastion, Taj Farrant, Kasey Chambers are all current artists who have been receiving plenty of Utube reactions lately. There are a few artists missing from this list like The John Butler Trio, Busby Merou, Angus and Julia Stone, Richard Clapton, Brian Cadd, Russel Morris to name just a few and some I personally wouldnt have included but music is really a matter of taste.. If you want to see up and coming talent check out Taj Farrant who has only just turned 14 he started leaning the guitar when he was 7 and recently released a new single titled Crossroads which immediately went to No1 on the world soul music charts. He cant even read music just plays by ear he has already performed with the likes of Santana, his younger sister is also a pretty accomplished drummer.
Taj Farrant is an excellent guitarist as for the rest... hardly known overseas.
Guy who?
Damn there’s some good names there they missed and some crap that was in the list. Jon Butter trio and how Is Kasey Chambers not there.
It's just someone's list and music is a personal taste. I don't even think it's a properly ranked listed, just mostly grouped and numbered until it gets to the end. There were some bands there I hadn't heard of, but that's fine. Some more potentials to add to the list are Vanessa Amorosi, The Rubens, Do Re Mi/Deborah Conway, Hilltop Hoods, Flume, The Jezabels etc.
kasey and guy been round 20yrs and battle scars is worldclass but hes not in w kasey. i mean i forgot til now how huge she was
The first one the cockroaches now known as the wiggles.
Hot Potato, Hot Potato!
Only one member of the cockroaches went on to be a wiggle
@@susankeele3810 2, Anthony Field and Jeff Fatt
@@Whatiwantedwastaken and one of those two went on to voice a character in Bluey!
@@Whatiwantedwastakenand Paul Field is the manager while a lot of the songs were written by John Field
Renee Geyer, Russell Morris, Skyhooks, Wendy Matthews. 👍
This list was strange..some relatively unknowns put ahead of some legends and didn't feature greatest hits of the artists. 😮 Would have put Easybeats much higher considering how groundbreaking they were for their time and the ongoing influence. If George Young hadn't been a success and bought guitars for his brothers Malcolm and Angus, we may never have had ACDC! And Vander and Young wrote "Love is in the Air. I still think 'Friday on My Mind' was one of our all time great Aussie anthems.
119. Flash and the Pan, 9. Easybeats and 1. ACDC, Vanda and Young have had so much influence on Australian music. I had forgotten about the music they wrote for JPY too.
While the post 2000 music I haven't heard of much there was some cool stuff in there.
Completely agreed. Some of the picks for band's songs on here were frankly bizarre. As if for Flash and The Pan you wouldn't put Hey St. Peter or Down among the Dead Men. Surely for Spiderbait you'd put Shazam. Etc. etc. Really odd.
I can appreciate the effort the guy who did this put into putting it together but they Def have no frigging idea!!!!!!!
John Farnham should have been No.1 in my opinion, ACDC, Skyhooks and Sherbert and The Seekers should have been higher up the ladder and others should be there too - Angels, Rose Tattoo, Divinyls, Chisel and Olivia Newton John, to name a few. I've heard of most of these.
I don't think AC/DC could have gone any higher than what they were HAHA but yeah some of those bands singers should be way higher and some should not even be in the top 150 let alone the top 50
I swear whoever made this list went out of their way to prove they’re too cool to like each band’s best song…
Agreed.
OLJ was English not Australian
IMO Aussie music peaked in the 70s - 90s . The Pubs were full of good bands and loud music . And it definitely had an Aussie sound to it all .
You need to get out more. Yes, there were some great bands then, but there is still fantastic live music and plenty of great rock bands touring. They just don't get played on the radio anymore.
Before the pokies and noise pollution laws killed the music scene
@@amandajane5743not like the 70s and 80s.
Almost every pub had a stage. Thur, Fri, Sat nights.
It was the birth of pub rock.
It’s where bands cut their teeth.
@@amandajane5743 I saw Jimmy Barnes live at the pub several times during the 80's. I dont think they have anything now to top that.
@@heatherrowles9930 Parkway Drive. If they are playing somewhere, I'm there. When I first saw them, I'd only heard one of their songs and it's not really my style of music. It didn't matter. They are insanely good live. I saw Jimmy back then too but in a head to head of 80s Jimmy vs Parkway Drive now I'm not going to need the flux capacitor. 😁
Billy thorpe and the aztecs,
Mama.
A live recording on GTK, the ABC, 1971. One of the best, no, the best heavy rock performances recorded live ever, full stop.
Divynils, boys in town. You went past this song in your first music clip. You'll love it. 80's. People who react to it go WTF!
Australia had a huge pub scene where lots of bands cut their teeth. The 80's made Australia, not just bands but movies.
All of a sudden Australia was making a name for itself.
You've only scratched the surface here I'm afraid. I'm surprised by what's been omitted.
I was in the audience for Thorpie at the ABC's Gore Hill studio. He was late and everybody had to stand around waiting outside for hours. They had pulled in Carson (Broderick Smith's band) to perform on the tray of a truck to ease the tension of the crowd. Thorpie finally got there about 4:30 and it was the loudest live music I ever heard.
Any Australian rock list is incomplete without Johnny O'Keefe. He was rocking hard in the mid-50's so he pre-dates all the British bands. He was already well-established when he performed beside many of the original American rock 'n' rollers brought to Australia by Lee Gordon at Sydney Stadium.
Hello Simon, it's not insignificant that Rage has referenced Johnny O'Keefe from the start.
I completely missed Thorpie. At the time his earlier 60's material put me off but I was certainly aware of his change in direction.
I was a big fan of GTK when I was a youngster.
I only came to appreciate Billy fairly recently.
As an aside Billy is the earliest exponent of moon walking I've seen. Bandstand, Poison Ivy 1964.
surf and pub rock of 80s was awesome!!!!
was that Billy Thorpe 1, the concert done on the barge on the harbour?
One thing that is surprised me is that Ian Moss & Jimmy Barnes got single credits as well as Cold Chisel but they only listed Sherbet as a band but didnt include Daryl Braithwaite on his own.
Daryl had many classic songs as a solo artist like Horses, One Summer & As The Days Go By. All three are great Aussie classics
Yea, Darryl performed The Horses on stage here earlier this year with Harry Styles
They also listed I'm talking way down the list but didn't list Kate Ceberano separately.
I think they missed Renee Geyer too
Thanks for this one, I’m 62 and it’s gave me many many flash backs! :-)
Love to know who put this list together!!
Some may argue, but what about the Bee Gees? I know Barry Gibb said in a 2012 interview he considers Australia his home. There were a lot of acts in that video I wish weren't from Australia, some of that thrash metal they can keep, but hey, each to their own. It would be interesting to maybe react to a few more of the more famous songs, or maybe the artists in general.
no arguments they are def AUS. In fact i always thought us claiming ACDC means we def claim the BEE GEEs
@@seangiuliani3825 Yeah, in fact the same could be said for John Farnham and Jimmy Barnes.
Such a travesty that Thirsty Merc wasn’t on the list, ‘Summertime’ in particular was a huge hit and known internationally too especially because it’s the theme song to tv show ‘Bondi Rescue’.
Personally I would have loved to have seen Ben Lee and Bernard Fanning on the list.
I went to a Matchbox Twenty Concert where Thirsty Merc were the support act. They were fantastic.
Count Down was a tv show that promoted Australian artists for years.
Too much lip synching on Countdown. Bad luck they didn't make them play live for all those years. That would have separated the sheep from the goats for everyone to see.
Midnight oil , saints , cold chisel, living end, easy beats, spy vs spy , radio birdman , ACDC, mental as anthing, The Aztecs , Lobby Loyde
Diesel was pretty renowned from the late 80s through the 90s too, for one I haven't seen mentioned yet. It's a shame some of the songs in the vid were clipped right before the iconic catchy parts haha
Awesome job. I’m an Aussie, didn’t know a few of the bands. Thank you for showing kids in the kitchen, pseudo echo❤️, icehouse, inxs and crowded house. Where was Dragon, Marc Hunter was a legend. 👍👍❤️❤️
And the winner is BON SCOTT and AC/DC! 😃 I knew about half of those bands and more of the songs, what special memories! Its great to see Moving Pictures, Masters Apprentices, Skyhooks, Screaming Jets, Baby Animals, Divinyls, Ian Moss, Daddy Cool (Ross Wilson), Paul Kelly, Goanna, Little River Band, Stevie Wright, Billy Thorpe, Sherbet, Missy Higgins, Nick Cave! None of these were on the last compilation! "It's a long way to the top"! 👍
Russell Morris, Deborah Conway, Matt Taylor, Wendy Matthews, Spectrum, Renee Geyer, The BeeGees, The Party Boys ……..
Yes, John Paul Young didn't write the lyrics but sang 'Love is in the Air' and it's his version which became the mega hit.
The song was written by George Young and Harry Vanda for JPY.
It had a resurgence with Strickly ballroom.
Have a listen to Yesterday's Hero, I hate the music and Where the action is too for more JPY classics
Stevie Wright's "Evie" (also composed and produced by Harry and George) - the longest stay at No. 1 in the charts for any Australian single.
I’m from Australia and have t heard of many of these.
So a few I had forgotten about, a few I didn't realise were Australian and most after 2010 I didn't know. I thought the song choices for some of the groups were strangely not their most well known.
I think the person who compiled the video had a love of the heavier stuff because there were far more bands of that nature than I had imagined and missing a good few of what I would have thought were more well known - Marcia Hines, Helen Reddy, Kate Cebrano, Mental as Anything and lots more.
Yes, definitely agree
@@amandacasey1946 maybe it was done by someone from community a radio station or perhaps JJ.
It said at the beginning of the video it was for rock and metal so didn’t include country and a few other genres.
Helen Reddy is @ #109 and Mental As Anything @ #149 were included, covered very quickly. Kate Ceberano was included as part of I’m Talking @ #148.
Mental as Anything were about number 148. There were quite a few artist I'd never heard of. I think they got the top ten about right though.
What a trip down memory lane. Some of these I haven’t thought about for son many years 👍
A lot of really great Aussie musicians left off this list, Kasey Chambers, Guy Sebastian and the John Butler Trio just to name a few. But great to see some of our amazing metal bands getting a mention. Australia has an amazing metal scene that is often overlooked.
>>Kasey Chambers, Guy Sebastian
Sure if you include corporate created talent show winners as opposed to actual musicians.
@@LordEriolTolkien Your point??? Everyone has to start somewhere and entering a tv competition doesn't make them any less talented or successful. I think a lot of artists would jump at the chance to gain nation wide exposure to kick start their career.
My point@@nikitahankinson9546 is that corporate manufactured public popularity game show winners are Not 'Artists'. They are commodified corporate properties and a symptom of the decline and collapse of Western Culture
That many people are willing to whore themselves for fame and profit is neither unsurprising nor disproving of my point.
But if you are happy to swallow mass produced corporate approved pop slop... you go right ahead. There's no accounting for taste ...
@@LordEriolTolkien if you cant appreciate their talent, thats a you thing......with a good dose of snobbery mixed in. How lame to discount someone just because they were in a talent show. Do you actually know the origins of a LOT of our musical acts and bands? I think you'd find a hell of a lot of them came up from talent shows and battle of the bands.
Exavior Rudd should be there too
This 65 year young Aussie recognised 20 from 150 - 100 & 100 - 1 only know 45 .
So that's 65 out of 150.
"That guy's got a voice" Billy Thorpe - Billy Thorpe and the Astecs check out more mate .. massive voice.
Thorpy was brilliant 👍
Somewhere over the rainbow.
@@glenysbrothers6532
Absolutely, for a man who can really belt them out, he sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow beautifully. I only recently watched Billy’s memorial concert on UA-cam again. So many Aussie singers paying tribute to our Thorpy, really heartwarming.
I'm a 59y.o Aussie and have lived here all my life,. I don't know who compiled the list but they don't have mainstream musical taste. I know very few of the 150 songs and I consider myself a lover of music. Here is a list of some of the best we have produced here in Australia, check out the following bands.... ACDC, The Angels, Little RIver Band, Midnight Oil, INXS, Nick Cave & THe Bad Seeds, Air Supply, Bee Gees, Men At Work, Icehouse, Silverchair, Cold Chisel, The Divynals, The Easybeats, Skyhooks, Hoodoo Gurus, THe Radiators, Daddy Cool, Australian Crawl, HUnters & Collectors, THe Screaming Jets, Dragon,
How can Zoot not be featured? Darryl Cotton up front, Rick Springfield on lead guitar before he went solo and recorded Jessies Girl and Beeb Birtles on bass who, after Zoot, was a founder and songwriter of Little River Band. Zoot's cover of the Beatles 'Eleanor Rigby' is considered by some to be better than the original.
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I emailed you the other week to say watch INXS at Wembley…. The whole concert is mind blowing… ❤❤
If you go back to the late sixties, early seventies. Australias first ever singer to top the American charts was Russel Morris singing On The Wings Of An Eagle.
He has the most amazing voice. You also had from the same era, singers such as Brian Cadd, Doug Parkinson. An amazing list of singers from that era.
Doug Parkinson's "Dear Prudence" cover is brilliant, sung when he was just 23! And speaking of Beatles covers, John Farnham's cover of "Help" is sensational, too.
Now you're talking, Great time in Aussie music.
Love our Aussie music but didn’t recognise half of these 🙂
Glad it wasn’t only me who’d never heard of lots of the bands/singers or the songs lol. I’m in my 60s and still have all my cassette tapes and vinyls. But none of many in this vid. Maybe it might be the person who created it, they are their personal favourites with a few others thrown in for good measure lol
Me too, need to something about that.
It's a real shame that they just ignored hip hop acts. I feel the Hilltop Hoods should have definitely had a spot on the list, especially if there going to include bands like The Chats. Also what about Guy Sabastian? He's a massive pop star isn't he?
This! Hilltop hoods is the first thing everyone thinks of when Australian hip hop is brought up and guy Sebastian is easily one of the biggest singers and celebrities out there with a massive hit like battle scars
Jessica Mauboy not being on their is criminal too
Yeh this was such an unfair omission
The video hes watching legit says rock & metal at the start
DRapht as well though he would have been low
The most Amazing part of this to me, an Aussie. Is that soo many popular common artist universally like 5SOS, Vance Joy, Keith Urban, InSync, Gotye and all these other bands are actually Australian! There are soo many bands that are known universally but people just never knew that they were Aussie!
You missed a Major one here amigo. Christine Anu Live at The Olympics!
This is someone who listens to Indie stations rather than the Music Charts . I would only take 40 of them as anything I would sing along to
I was born here ,lived here for 59 yrs and half of these bands I’ve never hear of.
They forgot Ol 55 they were a great band
The Radiators deserved a mention too IMHO
X-Ray Specs!
Quite a lot would have been on my daughter's playlist when she was in her late teens
As an Australian I haven’t heard of any of those bands listed after 2010.
I'm Australian and there were a few I'd heard and did'nt even know they were aussie, btw the guitarist from the Easybeats was George Young, older brother of Malcolm and Angus from AC DC, he also produced their first two albums.
The Young brothers are Scottish not Australian.
I'm Australian and I've never heard of 70% of those bands😬
The numbers of the artists are so mixed around, so I assume that it's not ranked, just random. Also, I'm surprised Taxiride isn't on the list, seeing as songs like 'Get Set' and 'Everywhere You Go' were pretty massive, also The Angels, Goanna, Choir Boys, The Church, Hilltop Hoods, were all pretty big. A lot of the songs they picked where not the most well known for the groups/singers either. Some were just 'who?' - mostly the metal groups. lol.
I’m Aussie and haven’t heard half these bands before
I'm Aussie and most of those I haven't heard of, and I live for music.. lol
"When the Beatles and the Stones divided households, the Seekers united them." The footage of, "Georgy Girl," is from the 1968 concert at the Meyer Music Bowl in front of an audience of 200,000 - still a record in the Southern Hemisphere. The female singer is Judith Durham (1943 - 2022).
I'd suggest; "I'll never find another you," "Morningtown Ride," "A World of Our Own," "The Carnival is Over," or their version of, "I am Australian," (Bruce Woodley co-wrote this one) , also, "Red Rubber Ball," a hit for The Cyrkle, when Paul Simon, "Forgot," that Bruce Woodley had co-written that as well.
And 'Come The Day' from the same concert in the video is inspiring!
This is the most RANDOM ranking of artists, and definitely made by someone with a love of metal.
What an incredible list (quite a few I didn't know though). Growing up over here in Australia, I have to say that nothing will ever beat the 70s and 80s for Aussie hits. INXS, ACDC, Kylie, Men At Work...there's just so many! Take a look at one of our brilliant DJ's Hot Dub Time Machine, he transitions from 60s through to now in each of his shows. Thank you for such a nostalgic trip down memory lane
Steve Irwin's favourite song was True Blue by John Williamson. Its one of those songs you may have never put on but just by living and existing in Australia you know the lyrics.
Never really listened to lyrics properly until recently, it’s a really great song. ❤
I have lived in Australia for over 50 years. Don't know a lot of those.
The Radiators (Feel the Heat album - 17, Fess' Song, Gimme Head) how could they be left of the list
you have the right to remain silent. amazing ep...
Coming home, I wish I was 17 again. Love the Radiators. They don’t get a lot of recognition. 👍🏼
Definitely "I looked up a list of Australian bands on Wikipedia, and here they are in no particular order"...
Why no Angels!! They were an Awesome rock band of the '70s and 80's...
They are there @ #124 but not singing their iconic song ... Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again ... NWGFFO. 😁
AC/DC is the greatest band that came out of Australia . Formed in 1973 and still fantastically awesome.❤
except all the band bar the drummer came out of the UK
Only music genres covered were pop,rock and metal. Very surprised Bee Gees wasn’t there.
Lots of musicians not lost on that list from other genres such as Australian folk, country etc.
Like Red Gum, John Williamson, Shannon Noll, Adam Brand, lee kernaghan, Kate ceberano, slim dusty, Rolf Harris, and so many more.
The order is up the creek and a lot are missing. Whoever compiled it should also have used samples of their more popular songs so they are more recognisable. I have never heard of a very large chunk of these. Missing are - Bee Gees, Jon English, Easy Beats, Mark Holden, Johnny O'Keefe, Hush, Diesel, Ted Mulry (solo), Russell Morris, Normie Rowe, Col Joye and the Joy Boys, Peter Allen, Doug Parkinson, Zoot, The Atlantics, Richard Clapton, Marcia Hines, Brian Cadd.
Bee Gees are not Australian
Kylie Minogue is the QUEEN and ofc number 1! Still at the top of the game35 years on, highest selling Australian artist of all time, only female artist to have number 1s in 5 decades world wide! Queen 👑💯👌🔥 #PadamPadam
Kylie is highest selling Australian born artist ,
Olivia Newton John has sold more records
Sia has out performed Kylie on streaming services
@@markjames3522 they are not Goble stars like Kylie is... They also will never be able to be the only female artist of all time to have number 1 albums in 5 decades and a top ten single in 5 decades like Kylie already has and she's far from over .... Olivia had one hit... Sia is not going to be famous or relevant in 20 years.... 🎤😍👌💯 #PadamPadam #Tension
@@shaunhoward6838 I’m not talking any credit away from Kylie’s achievements .
ONJ is a lot more than one hit wonder
4 time Grammy award winner artist
4 Australian number 1 songs , 5 number 1 songs in USA .
Plus ONJ is reason why Grease is the highest selling movie musical soundtrack of all time . Grease soundtrack as sold 14,000,000 just the USA alone
Physical the album is 2x Platinum album in USA
Sia has chosen the keep a low profile it’s obvious she doesn’t want to be recognised , why the wig .
Sia is in the billion list of successful streaming artists . Her single sales are impressive as as well with Chandelier , Titanium , Cheap Thills and The Greatest being worldwide hits .
Sia is also a producer working behind the scenes she has also was executive producer on Kylie’s Kiss Me Once album she also contributed to a few songs on that album .
@@markjames3522 Kylie's still a bigger star and much more iconic and way more talented then thos two.... Kylie's untouchable bro!
@@shaunhoward6838
They all on different levels of talent.
ONJ was major influence on Kylie , No ONJ there probably wouldn’t be any music career for Kylie .
Sia started out as independent artist and wasn’t really chasing fame it just happened.
Kylie yeah she an icon I agree
Kylie has done well even that she didn’t really break into the USA market in a bigger way with only The Loco-Motion and I Can’t Get You Out Of My Head making the American billboard charts top 10
Hey from 🇦🇺🦘🐨 Australia rocks!!! (Literally)
Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs was the singer you said, “Good voice”. Billy Thorpe also wrote two books, ‘Sex, Thugs and Rock’N’Roll’ and ‘Most People I Know’(think that I’ll crazy). Both are a quick enjoyable stories of life at the top and getting there, laugh out loud read. The second one was more immersive. Do watch his music videos . His concept Album was genius.🎸
The thing this list reminded me of most was the thriving live music scene we used to have. So many bands on this list I was able to see playing pub gigs back in the day, and many by accident!
I'm a AC/DC fan and there definitely the best live rock band
But i will say John farnham is the Number 1 singer in Australia
THAT was interesting. The different genres grouped. Funny stuff.
It’s clear to ANY Aussie that this is not a ranking merely a random listing of 150 artists.
Taste is subjective ❤
Love is in the Air, written by Vander and Young, from the Easybeats. Also wrote and produced ACDC. Angus Young's brother.
Also represented in this list as Flash in the Pan
My favourite are The Masters Apprentices, You Am I, Courtney Barnett, JET, The Sunnyboys, The Stems, and The Easybeats. I would also add EVEN, Davey Lane, The Shimmys, and Wesley Fuller to my favourite list.
'Weddings, Parties, Anything' - definitely makes it into the top 100.
Australian 🇦🇺 live music in the 80’s was epic. Every Pub on every corner had live music most nights of the week
TISM, The living End, Hoodoo Gurus and Spiderbait would be great rabbit holes to venture down. Hard to believe The Saints are not higher - recognised as the first punk band.
The Saints- before the Ramones, before the Sex Pistols and before the Damned and The Clash. But doing it in Brisbane so underrated.
I love the living end
Even included the sunny boys, they were pretty iconic but get missed quite a lot.
I would add grinspoon to that.
The biggest rabbit hole I have ever been down in music is Pendulum! They are from my home city of Perth, so it made it infinitely more interesting!
damn, no The Presets, they made some absolutely iconic electronic dance songs that blew up down under, and they were actually pretty ahead of their time. stiff for them not to get a mention.
I'm Australian and I haven't even heard of from 150 to 125 I only recognize maybe 5 out of the first 25 bands countdown. But one big problem to me is the 2 seconds of the bands song, how are you supposed to like a song if you only play 2 seconds of the songs WTF is the rush...
Totally agree with you. I had no idea who first lot were at all. I thought, was I living under a rock lol. No way, still have all my cassettes and vinyl and cds from the 1960s and onwards.
The 1st ones at #150, 'The Cockroaches' became the world-famous Wiggles. They had only limited success as a rock band so decided to start a children's act ... the rest is history.
Some of those bands I recognised as being one hit wonders.
@@RobNMelbourneyep. My brother had the Cockroaches album and played it over and over. A lot of the songs I recognised when my kids started listening to the Wiggles
@@RobNMelbourne
Ta for that info. Must check out the cockroaches, never knew Wiggles were in a band previously. Must ask my daughter if she knows as she worked with the Wiggles in the same show in Hong Kong many years ago. My daughter worked for Disney, they have/had Aussie scouts here. She was studying full time musical theatre, aged 19, gee she’s nearly 40😱lol, and Disney wanted her. Said The wiggles were all wonderful kind men.
Sherbet, Hush, Skyhooks and Little River Band were the bands I listened to in the 70's. Sherbet was the best!
Frente were popular for about 5 minutes. Their bizarre love triangle cover is amazing as well as "accidentally Kelly Street"
We have a lot of great music from Australia 🇦🇺😎
It’s hard to show how good the music is when they only play 2 seconds of the song. But it’s good to see all the old songs. Cheers hun 👍🇦🇺
Yeah but there were 150 songs, how long do you want the video to be?
@@thebigdog9785 I know that. That’s y it’s called 150 songs. I’m saying that the artists are a very good & ppl can’t really get a listen in 2 seconds so hopefully ppl listen to them out of this. Fck making a longer video.
Did you really have to complain about that comment? I’m sure someone wrote something much worse than 😂
The Saints from Brisbane are renowned as the first punk band outside of the USA to release a record, 1976’s ‘(I’m) Stranded’. Released before anything by the pistols and the clash. We have a rich music history!
There’s some really cool through-lines with a lot of the acts featured here. Easybeats-Stevie Wright-AC/DC for example.
A lot of those seemed to be strange song choices as in not there more popular songs but a lot were also legendary
Awesome list and so many memories ... thanks for the reaction mate ... not that I'm a huge fan but surprised Tina Arena didn't make the cut.
Thank God she didn’t
Jason Donovan in top 100??? Nah dude
Some Trivia: 'Somebody that I used to know / Goyte' has 2.1Billion ( yes Billion ) views on youtube. Crowded House is a NZ band. AC/DC and Jimmy Barnes are Scotland born. ( Did I miss the Bee Gees in this video ? )
I can't believe The Kransky Sisters didn't make it onto the list
We have some iconic Aussie groups through the 60's, 70's, 80's and beyond including Masters, ACDC, Cold Chisel, Bee Gee's, Skyhooks, Sherbet, Little River Band, INXS and many, many, many more.
Vanessa Amorosi, Renee Geyer, John English not even in the top 150 ? Jimmy Barnes still putting out great music but not in the top 10 ? Kasey Chambers' version of "Lose Yourself" is all over You Tube at the moment but she's not on the list. Very questionable choices and rankings.
Don’t think they had James Reyne solo. Even Normie Rowe had lots of hits in the 60s & 70s.
I just remembered one guy who is rated by many as the best guitarist in the world - Tommy Emmanuel. Maybe it's because he's not in a band or isn't a singer ? He used to play in John Farnham's band once if that counts... as well as playing with his brother Phil. The trouble with lists like these is that they tend to illustrate the lack of musical knowledge shown by the maker of the list.
Come on mate, Aussie music is by far the best.
Rick Springfield started off in a group called Zoot. Their big hit in 70's was a rock version of 'Beatles' song' Eleanor Rigby'. Rick went solo to USA and was on soapie " General Hospital".
I didn’t know Rick Springfield was in Zoot. Wasn’t Daryl Cotton the lead singer?
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@@MillsFam1973 Yes, Darryl Cotton up front, Rick Springfield on lead guitar and Beeb Birtles was on Bass. After Zoot, BB went on to form Little River Band.
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Eskimo Joe played at my brother's wedding, he recorded their first album. They played Blister in the sun as a gift for me, obviously organised by my brother
Crowded house is a New Zealand bamd.
Wrong! Original lineup contained 2 New Zealanders and 2 Aussies, and was formed in Melbourne, so Australian band.
LRB the MOST international awarded Aussie band. with a truck load of top 10 hits in the US and number ones here in Oz. Sinatra and Lennon both considered "Reminiscing' one of their favourite songs ever. Glenn Frey (Eagles) said publicly that LRB were the greatest vocal band in the world. INXS never came close to them. AC/DC were fantastic, true rockers but didnt have as many hits as them despite being incredibly HUGE.
u cant compare LRBs success to ACDC. Clearly LRB havent sold 200mil albums and AIR SUPPLY prob sold more also. without checking. but hey they were amazing
Most of these songs are from the 2000 onwards...
G'day Squire it is quite clear that this is one Persons choice, so many Brilliant bands were around Late 60s then into the 70s, #9 "Friday on my Mind !" was voted most popular OZ song ever a Few years Back, There are so many one Hit Wonders on this 150 hits!
if I did a top 150 then I think that about 25% of those songs would make the cut.
The Radiators are sadly missing. But then Australian Radio ignored them too.