Icehouse - Great Southern Land

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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[@WorldPeace-AdamNeira]

One of the greatest Australian songs ever made. Haunting, evocative, smooth, mysterious, uplifting and transcendental.

[@annetterobinson4301]

Yes❤

[@popindosin228]

After listening to this I found a giant spider in my bed

[@kathysangel56]

Love this song

[@hardwarereviews9170]

​@@annetterobinson4301best description ever

[@ninatugaga8668]

An underated track!

[@jaydenroberts34]

“Anyone will tell you it’s a prisoners island hidden in the summer for a million years” It’s such a great lyric

[@boobootheballbreaker2092]

Colonisers madethe First Nations Peoples their prisoners. White demons

[@fanatamon]

Anyone is right.

[@KaweiltdTwo]

Too right , prison in the true sense for some .

[@choudharymadineni]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@EmotionalJustice000]

250 years of coloninisation salute and peace be to our indigenous people the true custodians of this land ☮️💗

[@joelworsley3591]

1980s is definitely the best era for Aussie Music

[@shannen1499]

Joel Worsley I was born in 03 but that's Danm right

[@unfinishedbusiness4964]

No the 1990s was whiney, incoherent shit.

[@emile235]

Birthday Party!!

[@boatsnhoes5670]

don't think you've heard Dead Cat x3 - Grinspoon buddy

[@michaellithgow9919]

Any music really, not just Australian.

[@geoffprince2258]

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.

[@jphillips3571]

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

[@peacelove3932]

You are our brother

[@hail2redskins1]

Love it

[@girlroomglitz]

Awesome!

[@mrmunyang2476]

I'm from OZ.I say CHURR! to that!!

[@ohsorrypluto]

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!!!!!

[@Linda-jm9xk]

I grew up in the 70's back when Icehouse was named 'The Flowers'.... still a resounding YES !!

[@DoctorPanglossBand]

I'm not even Australian and I totally agree!

[@komkwam]

Even while The Netherlands is not a southern land i would even choose it as the Dutch anthem. lol

[@jmc1908]

+komkwam It's a netherland, nevertheless

[@pilgpilg]

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.

[@JJ-vr7ed]

Who is still listening to this awesome Aussie classic in 2024? I am

[@sherwinnewbown2043]

97’ here. My old man showed me this song and it still rings home

[@warrenturner1326]

And me - classic 80s

[@whiteeaglewarrior]

Me, its a bobby belter

[@technical6ify]

@@sherwinnewbown2043 Same but in the 2010s. Reminds me of home, from anywhere, I feel those hot days being in the middle of nowhere down under & feeling at home inside.

[@burntstu]

yes, never get sick of it

[@bennykopilevic7510]

All rise for the Australian national anthem. 🇦🇺🫡

[@theellwoods2034]

This almost makes me wish I was Australian

[@alisoncillercollins4043]

I’m Australian and proud of it

[@kitmark2kit350]

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.

[@cappygolucky]

kitmark2 Kit that would have been epic

[@sovereignspirit7640]

kitmark2 Kit I'll bet no-one had a dry eye

[@Mcsteamykettleface]

I bet that made you proud🇦🇺👍🏼

[@rae6195]

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

[@TheJat36]

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

[@troybailey9524]

Not underrated in Australia mate. I think the issue is Americans don't listen to enough made outside of America.

[@megankeil5228]

You need to get onto more 80’s Aussie music!

[@IdonthaveatwittersoFoff.]

Explore it more ❤

[@Wilko11]

Maybe criminally underated because of the convict history. 😊👍

[@sonjaschulze8758]

I come from Germany and have never been to Australia. It is my dream land. And I find this song by the band Icehouse fascinating ♥

[@IDNY1312]

Amazingly I'm Australian and my only overseas destination will be Germany. Beautiful country

[@IDNY1312]

The forests of Germany it's my dreamland

[@sonjaschulze8758]

@@IDNY1312 Yes, that's amazing. So every person has their dreams:-)

[@jasonsmart784]

I'm Australian and Germany is a great rich country like Australia 🇦🇺 welcome

[@jasonsmart784]

Yep Germany is cool

[@Fabi1701A]

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 !!

[@1980Campino]

Crowded House is from New Zealand

[@katejones969]

@@1980Campino close enough 😂

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@@1980Campino Split Enz is from NZ but Crowded House was formed in Australia and recorded with an Australian label.

[@diademkennels8550]

Little River Band

[@dragonmasteraltais]

I can't listen to this song anymore without crying. I was born and raised in Australia as a kid, but one day, my parents moved us overseas. What transpired in the years after have been the hardest years of my life, and every time I hear this song, the nostalgia, the memories, the thought of family and friends makes me heart shatter and soul ache for return. My health isn't great right now, so I can't just move back to Australia, but my God, how I miss it.

[@understandingtheliesbitchu7306]

Oh sorry to hear that and find a way to come back if you can....

[@jakubcyrta2294]

where do you live now?

[@funkel1000]

emigrated to australia in 2010, in the the taxi from sydney airport to coogee this came on the radio, had tears in my eyes.

[@andyj639]

Sound like perfect timing.

[@Funkteon]

It was the universe's way of saying "Welcome Home"

[@hotfood1752]

The Australian doomer brought me here... At least I got 80's music...

[@mrfuriousnerd1127]

Same dude lol

[@MrScream007]

*snap* Nice!

[@Jimsgingyming]

Same, I had it stuck in my head for a while but couldn’t remember the lyrics

[@LarsOfTheMohicans]

ScarnonCunce brought me here.

[@LukaLopesPonciano]

Not alone

[@michaelrice255]

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

[@drewmo367]

The opening 15 seconds.....still give me shivers. Epic stuff.

[@ArunDuncan]

Born in Fiji, call Australia home for decades…. Love love this song!!!!! Proud to be an Aussie❤❤❤❤

[@ishtarbabylon4869]

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

[@ES-aussie68]

I was in London, I remember hearing this and the homesickness would be unbearable.

[@ndingo]

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🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@JavierZabik]

I’m putting this comment here so when someone likes it, I’ll always come back to this video

[@doddeddo]

you are summoned, listen to the icehouse

[@Kat-s5b]

This is an infinitely better comment than 'who's still listening in 2024 err hur'

[@understandingtheliesbitchu7306]

Comment liked - now keep your end of the bargain!!!!

[@strayadoesgames]

thou hast been called to return and listen once more, obey thyne curse

[@brandonbentley5453]

You're welcome! 😊

[@teptime]

The encircling, otherworldly mood of this song is hypnotic. Great production quality...gives it an adrift, spacy sound comparable to little else.

[@simonturner7574]

T Jacobs Nailed it perfectly.

[@ChineseKiwi]

Yep, the production makes this song. It’s the bridge between the synth pop dominated 80s and the rock and roll late 70s.

[@marcealba1]

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.

[@jimmen9486]

What about the Church do they exist ? Great band!!

[@chrisstarkey7845]

The Church are still around, mate!

[@Sajuukar]

RIP dad.This was your fav song.

[@hmmachin]

my condolences for your loss of your dad.

[@hans-georgwach5862]

Sehr schöne Gedanken für Deinen Dad!!!

[@davidbilliet3585]

wish you the best of luck

[@tonywrigley5174]

Nice memory to have......

[@patshepherd]

Sajuukar amazing memories to have... Thats okay, this is a very good song it can remind you of him.

[@stevegibbons7452]

Absolutely, I loved this when I first heard it all those years ago. It’s still as good now 👍

[@debramorton5851]

Icehouse - Great Aussie band, still a great song in 2017. So proud of the music in our Great Southern Land.

[@markdowse3572]

THE BEST song written about our land. The WORLD learnt about us. Thank you Icehouse. But I first knew you as FLOWERS. I remember.

[@robinmjones6197]

+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 !

[@estherhoney985]

+Mark Dowse played at narrabeen northern beaches watched them too

[@ladycplum]

+Mark Dowse I think Flowers opened for XTC when they toured Australia...

[@shanebell8831]

+Esther Honey nice

[@LJW55]

+Mark Dowse Had to change their name cause of the Scottish band The Flowers at the time. Icehouse much better though!!

[@natashakodua2759]

1980s is definitely the best era for Aussie Music Discovered this song tonight... 21 yrs old, amazing as.

[@Olsnedzy]

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.

[@ChineseKiwi]

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.

[@boobootheballbreaker2092]

It's against Australia Day you patriotic idiot😂

[@tommyargenta2121]

Algún día iré a visitar tu tierra, saludos...

[@rtaj247]

Unfortunately one of the replies had to mansplain their interpretation of the song. It can be interpreted in lots of ways…

[@BanditMage]

Discovered this song tonight... 21 yrs old, amazing as.

[@juliocaesaralcaraz9891]

The Bandit, welcome 🙏 to the family. Salud 🍻

[@cackle067]

This song is Australia Gives me chills and so proud to be an Aussie

[@Paul-rf5ou]

Best country on earth 😎

[@PaulBoos]

My wife is an Aussie from Melbourne. I love this song and think it is one of the best to come out of Australia. I so wanted the band I used to be in to play this song. The fact that none of the other members were interested in a song like this was partially why I left it.

[@JimChap]

I'm a Kiwi, I get chills too my friend...

[@lindsay8756]

Happy Australia day to all of my fellow Aussies 🎉

[@vampyresgraveyard3307]

Happy Australia day

[@StevenEveral]

This song makes me want to take the 14 hour flight from the US to visit the Great Southern Land, Australia.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

+Steven Manning Do it, it's awesome here!

[@theresearmstrong357]

+Steven Manning come on down possum.

[@bollyBob1980]

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.

[@ImMick]

FUCK OFF WERE FULL

[@dawnparker614]

Steven Manning you should, it’s amazing

[@stevenwebb3634]

I was having a beer at the pub with a bloke who was saying this should be our national anthem.

[@melrogers130]

Steven Webb

[@TheFossie12]

+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.

[@SamJohn52]

+Karen D ........you get goosebumps too!......

[@spootot]

+Steven Webb Now that you've said this I can only imagine crowds singing 'Great southern laaaand' in an amazing harmony.

[@vivianchetty8926]

So true.

[@macblack5393]

Anyone here in 2024?

[@tracymurray7314]

Oh yes and return to this song frequently

[@fanatamon]

no i'm back in the early 80s.

[@tendraftsdeep]

Happy Birthday Iva, 69 in 2024

[@Willows4040]

I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can find a comment section on any song that doesn't say anyone here in 2024

[@BMPK]

@@Willows4040 cough it up buddy 👌 just came from Eskimo Joe - From the Sea

[@chrisrunnegar1661]

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...

[@Susan-c4v]

I just started listening to these guys again

[@Sydroo1969]

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY 2024!!!! 🇦🇺

[@Adambobro]

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!

[@paulsheringham9837]

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.

[@travistheman607]

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.

[@nancyorourke7679]

Love, Love Icehouse....Their recordings hold up today as though they were recorded yesterday....All of their material is simply amazing.... :) Thank you!!!!

[@magicmike6961]

great fucking band and great fucking country . And Im a kiwi.

[@shanebell8831]

we're brothers really

[@TheGodParticle]

Incredible

[@magicmike6961]

***** fair dinkum mayte

[@magicmike6961]

***** do you want a medal?

[@shanebell8831]

+Mike Money so bitter!

[@nielsb.larsen5987]

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.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

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.

[@nielsb.larsen5987]

@@goodshipkaraboudjan Precisely what I love about the land.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@@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.

[@nielsb.larsen5987]

@@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.

[@Polpiv4tifish]

1980s; what a time for Australian music. Today we have Iggy Azalea as our most well known export. How did we go this far backwards?

[@opethdude5672]

Polpiv4tifish who !

[@tonyhaynes9080]

And Rolf Harris. But you deported him to us rather than the other way round.

[@jonathantan2469]

Meanwhile, many good bands like The Jezabels & Lowtide have issues making it big outside...

[@bernard637]

Yeah but that ass though 👀

[@Sahar_layali]

@@bernard637 it's fake though.

[@mikevanblommestein5726]

This should be played every morning by every Aussie station to get Aussie back on track !!

[@Kimchiboy08]

Backpacking through the WA . Love this track man. Just staring out to the Indian Ocean.

[@johncasper8031]

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.

[@sewscrapmuse]

brilliant if true

[@leifbraidwood1426]

+Halvdan Knutsson thats cause yoir not aussie

[@Beachinus]

Leif is right! 'cos you're not an Aussie Doh! Great Southern Land and Great Southern Stand

[@monicagreen5633]

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".

[@sewscrapmuse]

not many Kiwi's can either :)

[@creammagazineaustralia]

In our top 10 of best Aussie songs ever.

[@jeffrothegamer]

Phenomenal song, i’m 48 remember hearing this when i was young

[@mezmezzy1870]

Gome now, Hobe is just 998 km away little goala, we'll make there, eventually

[@ChiefBigHand]

Fug :DDD

[@MsTobuscus]

+Chief Big Hand Of The Slapaho benis xddd

[@sleepyboi5088]

Gondolas do not speak Spurdish, you casual.

[@Harkeilla]

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.

[@thelmagalvin190]

southern is great dood

[@Sanmiguelarcangel2024-u9b]

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

[@valiumflowers72]

Thank you Sunny Tiger :) peace be with you friend.

[@mangawarra]

+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

[@alfredagain]

+Sunny Tiger (Tigress) I think you're right. I always thought it was SYDNEY on a rainy day down in the harbour.

[@robalston590]

+alfredagain but I think he's talking about Sydney..clouds shadow the bay..

[@iluvmx1977]

alfredagain I thought it was SITTING on a rainy day down at the harbour 😂

[@JulianoFuentes]

Lots of love for Australia.....from Brazil....❤❤

[@charlieleonardo]

this song captures the spirit of australia

[@fransmars1645]

This song captures the 80's from the antipodes.

[@liamsolinas5451]

leonardoboy2 yeah black against the ground

[@ishtarbabylon4869]

Our great southern land is burning..so eerie listing to this now..God save Australia! 😭

[@thenewvoice8]

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

[@dancingoptimusprime2285]

I’m so proud that I am an Australian it is literally the best country ever and music is the best as well🇦🇺❤

[@justinbencosme5893]

As your retarded American cousin I disagree.

[@kathysangel56]

Vote no to save it from the UN

[@dancingoptimusprime2285]

@@kathysangel56 the UN is not going to take us

[@boobootheballbreaker2092]

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😂😂😂

[@ralfkoch3662]

i am proud also as an german people, traveling australia mont

[@adamlaw8931]

Great music to grow up with. Hang on,I never did grow up!

[@SamJohn52]

+Adam Law ..........a great quality to have......

[@teresaroberts5907]

+Adam Law Nothing wrong with that,likewise!

[@WhatsGoinOnMate]

+Adam Law Good shit bro :)

[@aarondcmedia9585]

+Adam Law You are never too old to have a brilliant childhood.

[@joegrimes3873]

+Aaron DC mediA You are the Law

[@Thyalwaysseek]

"..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"

[@ripsaw2]

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

[@criticalbill2090]

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

[@doesitmatter4182]

Young Einstein is where I first heard this song too. Didn't think much of the movie, but loved the song right away.

[@menonpd]

Yes I loved this song right away when I heard it. Soundtrack on Young Einstein

[@Patrick2480]

When the movie came out here in the states in 89, i saw a different music video with movie clips in it.

[@Patrick2480]

It was Young Einstein

[@csgrambauer5852]

Same here. Love the Young Einstein movie, especially for the soundtrack (which I had as a kid on cassette).

[@fionakenndal3975]

This song is one of the best all time Aussie songs

[@welshlad6427]

Only beaten by Jason Donovan’s Too Many Broken Hearts.

[@1980Campino]

Mudnight Oil "Beds are burning", Men at work" Down Under", INXS "Mystify me"

[@71yid]

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!☺

[@stefanovalenti5569]

Icehouse were a great band, try some more of it.

[@J1Ace-nr5sh]

Soy Argentina y amo a ice house y a inxs. Grupazos

[@zanenmaddydunk2837]

Happy Australia day. Thank god I grew up in this era. Great music and a much better world !!

[@jameservin2165]

Who is still listing in 2019?

[@alexxheald4661]

James Ervin my mum is lmfao😂

[@sydneytravellervlogs4659]

THIS SONG WILLNEVER DIE!😂 I’m 14 and I love it 😂

[@mattybwrblombo71]

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

[@glennnjodiehammond1264]

I listened in 2019...and guess what, it's just clicked over to 2020 and Im still listening. Legend of a song.

[@LightningJackFlash]

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 ;)

[@chriscole4092]

Great track. One of my favourites from Icehouse.

[@PS-Straya_M8]

Australia of my childhood is gone forever, so incredibly sad! 😪

[@metrofox65]

Different times now, it was back then, good 80/90's

[@JohnAmbachtsheer-h3n]

I play this on a regular basis, shows what a beautiful country we live in, it's uniqueness is pretty spectacular.

[@gaming_withmark]

Took me 4 years to find this song now I found it ❤

[@hellovanite]

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

[@blurman101]

The 80's, The Aussie Music, mate................. I tell ya, so glad I grew up with this. Nothing better.. PROUD

[@danielroik6065]

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.

[@johnwhitelaw8004]

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!!!

[@thoriuslars4586]

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.

[@Adambobro]

I fell in love with this song back in the 80s watching the YOUNG EINSTEIN film. I still love it more than ever today.

[@Caltops78]

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

[@QueenElizabethThe1st]

this should really be our national anthem

[@mikk4309]

Fuck yeah!

[@lindakaren1750]

I agree, always have.

[@stupendous1068]

This and/or "I Still Call Australia Home". You can't go wrong with that one either.

[@tempokairos7638]

Esta música marcou um momento da minha adolescência.

[@javierszapari5836]

I don't know why, i'm from Argentina but i feel a lot of affinity with Australia. I have Italo hungarian ancestry, and i don't understand this strong feeling. Love that country, and love this band and other pop icons from the land down under (INXS, Men at Work, Mad Max, John Farnham, Mental as anything, Russel Mulcahy), perhaps the ozplotation of the 80's has a powerful impact in my childhood.

[@jphillips3571]

Javier maybe you were an aborigine in a past life!

[@tullfan7872]

Both country's names start with an "A". Both countries are leaders in some way perhaps?

[@javierszapari5836]

Jajaja, perhaps the hemisphere we live

[@bigbrowntau]

Both Argentina and Australia were back in 1900 in similar positions, with huge potentials. While they went down different roads, they still had the same core of ideals behind them.

[@BeckerAviation]

Same here, except I'm from Chile. I really love this song. Makes me feel kinda patriotic for them.

[@LorraineAshby]

The video for this was filmed in a disused sandstone quarry in Kuringai National Park near Sydney

[@LorraineAshby]

Stephen Marcus Urm! Thanks lol!!

[@michelwolff6476]

Je découvre que de belles choses, pour ma part, grâce à mon Amie Lorraine, toujours extraordinaire. Merci ma bien chère Amie

[@LorraineAshby]

michel wolff You are welcome mon ami Michel

[@Liamnerfdude1]

Darude-Sandstorm

[@dinoz85]

well my life story is complete. Who fuckin cares

[@meredithpope333]

This song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, should be our national anthem 💜

[@DarkDreamsAndMoonlitNights]

Music like this makes me proud to live in this sunburned, vast country.

[@merkinidgit]

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 🌏🌎

[@kimharris2599]

When ever you connect country to people the connection is always made. This song provides that heart beat and spirit. And encapsulates it all.

[@187noneed]

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 .

[@nelsongaskell4061]

187noneed no

[@youlickatumor8639]

denied go back to ur country

[@DannyHiob-ye8qd]

Absolut.tolle.band.richtig.geile.musik.icehouse.rules.

[@rallyspeed]

Love this track. I saw Young Einstein with Yahoo Serious in the theaters.

[@SharleneMJayJay]

Happy NAIDOC Week ❤❤❤ peace ✌️💯 love, people & OUR Land 🌍🤞☯️ Queen 👑

[@SteamKing2160]

I fucking love Australia...

[@jaredohlstein7355]

These guys and Midnight Oil are the bands that make me proud to be Australian

[@alessandrafiorucci147]

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...

[@bossco09]

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..........

[@tchocky71]

This is a brilliant song. The arrangement is like a classical piece. The words are poetry.

[@reneorozco5963]

Sufri como 15 años para saber el nombre de esta cancion, la escuche por vez primera en 1989 en 98,5 fm y fue hasta 2003 que en best fm de monterrey la logre grabar con todo y los comentarios del locutor. Ya conocia a Ice house pero great souther land es la mejor de esta banda

[@elmerofairo]

gracias compa, respeto de australia

[@sindromerott4098]

Best Fm no debió desaparecer

[@allensebastian1918]

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!

[@karenglenn6707]

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!!

[@valdezkareem6980]

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

[@kw9169]

I first heard this on the movie Young Einstein! Love this song!

[@SharonMilligan-ex9nq]

80s I was just a wee lass and playing this again ❤

[@Tom.Livanos]

I hear an Aboriginal undertone in this song (has not always been the case). As my surname would suggest, although I was born in Australia, I am not an Aborigine. I am however attempting to bring about conciliation between Aboriginal Australia and [British+other migrant Australia].

[@sureshthapa2372]

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....

[@franciscodesa9846]

Me sinto muito bem, ouvindo essas coisas boas.

[@jqydenm]

I’m glad my dad brought me up around this music 🇦🇺🇦🇺 Proud to be Aussie 🇦🇺🇦🇺