Songs From Australia: A Playlist Of Old Gold And Great New Stuff

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January 24, 2014

I made a playlist of songs by Australians because Australia Day is just around the corner and we like to commemorate the holiday with tenuously linked content comprising anything with a homegrown theme.

Instead of spending hours genre-hopping and researching to make sure I covered every corner of the Australian songwriting and music-making landscape and make everyone happy, I decided to go selfish. These are just great songs that I really like. A bunch of old stuff (“Almost With You” by The Church still makes me weep every time), radio hits (“Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia), classics (Divinyls – “Science Fiction”) and a lot of wonderful new stuff (Blank Realm’s Grassed Inn is the best album I’ve heard so far this year). Of course, there’s a few Legend Status songs like Daryl Braithwaite’s “The Horses” and Yothu Yindu’s “Djapana” in there, because they’ve got to be.

Full track list below. Happy Australia Day, everyone.

Track list:

1. Tame Impala “Be Above It”

2. Catcall “The World Is Ours”

3. Cut Copy “Saturdays”

4. Boomgates “Layman’s Terms”

5. Bitch Prefect “Bad Decisions”

6. Woollen Kits “Susannah”

7. Collarbones “Hypothermia” feat. Guerre

8. Kylie Minogue “Come Into My World”

9. Divinyls “Science Fiction”

10. The Easybeats “Friday On My Mind”

11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Deanna”

12. The Moffs “Another Day In The Sun”

13. Royal Headache “Never Again”

14. The Go-Betweens “Head Full Of Steam”

15. Cold Chisel “Breakfast At Sweethearts”

16. Flume “Sleepless” feat. Jezzabell Doran

17. Regurgitator “! (The Song Formerly Known As)”

18. The Preatures “Is This How You Feel?”

19. The Saints “(I’m) Stranded”

20. The Church “Almost With You”

21. The Cruel Sea “It Won’t Last”

22. The Sleepy Jackson “Good Dancers”

23. Ben Lee “Cigarettes Will Kill You”

24. INXS “Mystify”

25. Palms “This Last Year”

26. Underground Lovers “Losin’ It”

27. Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys “Have You Ever”

28. Dick Diver “Water Damage”

29. Ta-Ku “Make You Wanna”

30. Van She “Idea Of Happiness”

31. World’s End Press “Drag Me Home”

32. Yothu Yindu “Djapana”

33. Cloud Control “Scar”

34. Ratcat “Don’t Go Now”

35. Jeremy Neale “Darlin’”

36. Blank Realm “Falling Down The Stairs”

37. The Grates “Trampoline”

38. Silverchair “Without You”

39. Natalie Imbruglia “Torn”

40. The Church “The Unguarded Moment”

41. Elizabeth Rose “The Good Life”

42. Galapagoose “Rhizome”

43. Hermitude “HyperParadise”

44. The Herd “We Can’t Hear You”

45. Hilltop Hoods “The Nosebleed Section”

46. Daryl Braithwaite “The Horses”

47. John Farnham “You’re The Voice”

If you’ve got a playlist of your favourite tunes by Australian artists link to it in the comment section. You can make one with Rdio, who is is offering one lucky winner and three mates free tickets to their nearest Big Day Out for every week of the festival, plus Rdio will fly a grand prize winner and two friends to the final Big Day Out in Perth (2 Feb) where they’ll be hooked up with accommodation and have access to the exclusive ‘Rdio Den’ and get to hang with the one and only Snoop Dogg. The closing date for competition entries is Sunday 26th January, so enter now at onrdio.com by registering your details and letting Rdio know in 25 words or less, why they should enter the ‘Rdio Den’.