This song is an Aussie classic from approx 1986. The lead singer is singing about migrating from Britain to Australia with his family as a child, and the unfamiliar sounds & smells of country Queensland where they settled.

Great Southern Land by Icehouse is another song about Australia from that era you might like. Released in '82, good pop hook and evocative lyrics.

The other songs you've been listening to are patriotic Ballard's. In the 80s every pub had a band playing every night of the week. So dozens of bands honed their skills and became good and made the distinctive ozrock sound. You have heard it in bands like hoodoo gurus, mental as anything. Angels, ACDC, men at work, icehouse ,Goanna, Australian crawl, lots more

They wrote this song whilst watching the sugarcane burning from a verandah in Bundaberg. QLD Ty for showing us our Country, you rock . I really enjoy your channel.

I love this song! Totally identify with it. I live in a humid climate with loads of lightning storms, and I also overlook cane fields. When it came out I felt like it could have been written about my town 😄

This was and still is an Aussie anthem song. You cannot get more Australian than this

We don't have awesome bands like this anymore. Ice House, Mondo Rock, Mental as Anything,,Cold Chisel, Inxs...Love 80's Aussie music

Check out "Icehouse, Great Southern Land" too.

YESSSS !!! You have to have lived in Queensland to get some of this song with the sweat, breathing the humidity and lightning cracking over cane fields. I have loved this since it first came out!

I first saw Gangajang live in the mid 80's when I went to a Midnight Oil concert in Rockhampton (Queensland) and were their supporting band. They were promoting their new album and played this song. They were so good I went out and bought the album the following Monday. I still have that album........

Love this song. It really describes how we feel about living here

Thanks, Ryan, for this song (released in 1985)... the same year as my fourth child was born. Brings back so many memories. Really appreciate you celebrating Aussie music, comedians etc. (BTW, jang is pronounced with a 'hard' J sound, as in Jack). Congrats on the birth of you and your wife's cute little baby boy ! 🎆 All the best from 'Down Under' 💙

Icehouse Band Icehouse are a rock band from Sydney, formed in 1977 as Flowers. Initially known in Australia for their pub-rock style, the band later achieved mainstream success playing new-wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies supplying additional musicians as required. The name "Icehouse", adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people. Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Linn drum machine and Fairlight CMI in Australian popular music. Their best-known singles on the Australian charts included "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being Icehouse, Primitive Man and Man of Colours.Wikipedia Also known as: Flowers (1977-1980), Iva Davies & Icehouse Origin: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Genres: Rock, new wave, synth-pop Years active: 1977-present

We here in Australia have our own sound and genre. This is famously called Aussie Pub Rock. Generally songs that fit in a chill Drinking environment where you can play pool or throw some darts will be considered Pub Rock. Also to note, And I could be wrong but it originated because of the culture of Bands that were hired to come down to pubs and play. It became a Cultural phenomenon and is still common today, this would later created the genre of Pub Rock.

You need to listen to Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil, the lead singer (Peter Garret) became an Australian Politician - he has some crazy dance moves😂

Brings back so many awesome memories another Aussie song about Australia you really should do is Solid Rock by Goanna great reaction thanks ❤

My all time fav!! Been gone from FNQ for over 40 years and it still gets me in the feels every time.😁

I think i was about 19 when this song came out, i haven't heard this song for a long time it brings back some good time memories 👍😁. Ryan you should have a listen to MIDNIGHT OIL the 2 songs i suggest are "Beds Are Burning" & "US Forces" interesting Australian band.

The Aus music scene in the 80s was incredible, so much brilliant live music.

Love this song 💖 I first heard it one sweltering summer afternoon and thought 'Wow how appropriate' lol "Out on the patio we sit, and the humidity we breathe, we'd watch the lightning crack over canefields, laugh and think this is Aus-tral-ia" 😆 (Full lyrics below) I think I hear the sounds of then And people talking The scenes recalled, by minute movement And songs they fall, from the backing tape That certain texture, that certain beat To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets In brick veneer on financed beds In a room, of silent hardiflex That certain texture, that certain smell Brings forth the heavy days Brings forth the the night time swell Out on the patio we'd sit And the humidity we'd breathe We watch the lightning crack over canefields Laugh and think, this is Australia The block is awkward - it faces west With long diagonals, and sloping too And in the distance, through the heat haze In convoys of silence the cattle graze That certain texture, that certain smell Brings forth the night time sweat Out on the patio we'd sit And the humidity we'd breathe We watch the lightning crack over canefields Laugh and think that this is Australia To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets In brick veneer on financed beds In a room of silent hardiflex That certain texture, that certain beat Brings forth the heavy days Brings forth the night time heat Out on the patio we'd sit And the humidity we'd breathe We watch the lightning crack over canefields Laugh and think, this is Australia

Ah love them, this is such a favourite and brings back a lot of 80s memories. I saw them play a lunchtime gig back in the uni days!

Damn, great to hear this song again, and thanks for all the hilarious reactions to Aussie stuff (and 'Aussie' stuff!). If you happen to be taking suggestions for classic Aussie songs to react to, then may I recommend John Farnham's 'You're the Voice' (classic Australian rallying cry), or Cold Chisel's 'Flame Trees' (about a bloke having mixed feelings about returning to his hometown), 'Bow River' (about a bloke who's desperate to be back in his hometown) and 'Khe San' (about a Vietnam War veteran, and really controversial when it was released). Really, anything by Cold Chisel! Crowded House's 'Hole in the River' (sad but gives you shivers); pretty much anything by Midnight Oil, but especially 'Beds Are Burning' (Aboriginal rights protest song); Paul Kelly''s 'Leaps and Bounds' (homesickness for Melbourne while in Sydney) and 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' (Aboriginal rights protest song and a history lesson all in one). Also Bernard Fanning's 'Wish You Well' (most cheerful breakup song ever); Hunter's and Collectors' 'Throw Your Arms Around Me' (which was covered by Pearl Jam!), Powderfinger's 'These Days' (another chills down the spine song for me), 'Dancing in the Storm' by Boom Crash Opera (incredibly energising), and 'Solid Rock' by Goanna (another great Aboriginal rights protest song). There are tons more; I could go on forever (and it probably seems like I have already! :oD ). As far as I know none of these songs really made it to the US, but apologies if you've already heard of them. If you haven't they're all worth a listen, with an audience or without.

AWWE Sweet Ryan 💕 you bring Joy, to us All. I Honestly Think, Any Australian, would Accept you as there Go Too/Front Man. I do, & I believe many Aussies would also! You have the Personality, we connect with. 💯👍👍

This is one of my top 5 favourite songs.

OMG, saw this band, in Bendigo, with! Inxs, OMG what a awesome night for O night at the uni! Yes I was there!!

Thanks Ryan, just love this song, living in North Queensland sure know the humidity and the acres of Canefields. It’s pretty spectacular when u get to see them burning. Check out Graeme Conners, Cyclone Season, Let the Canefields Burn. Great singer from Mackay QLD.

These guys are still performing I was at a concert in Perth in 2017 and they did this song twice the second time they had a didgeridoo included and it was fantastic. I was treated to a VIP TICKET BY MY HUSBAND AND GOT TO MEET THEM ALL AND GET SELFIES WITH THEM it was a fantastic night out 🎉

A couple of suggestions - Cold Chisel's "Khe Sanh" and "Flame Trees" And Daddy Cool's "Eagle Rock" Look for original 70's versions.

Such an iconic Aussie 80s sound, you need to do some more great Aussie music. From back then up to now. An absolute must is ACDC to see our Aussie Rock. We have so many iconic songs and music artists.

This was great! Glad you loved a fabulous song from my youth. You should try Great Southern Land by Icehouse :-)

Thank You for your Reaction! An Awesome song! Do wish, you also enjoyed, as much as We Aussies! 💯😃

wow, didn't this bring back memories!! thx Ryan for playing this. Loved your reaction to the music, the theme and the way it was played. Loved the Pub Rock sound.

Check out the song "solid rock" by the 80's band "Goanna". Its a classic Australian song from that era.Very powerful lyrics. You'll love it

Some great suggestions here and what a reminder of the incredible talent Australia has. Ryan my suggestion would be the band Goanna and their song Solid Rock. Great music but more importantly profound lyrics that give Aussies goosebumps. A very powerful and moving song. and to make it even more special it includes music from our First Nations people and their unique instruments. Really worth a listen.

Saw these guys live twice in the late 80's...they were FANTASTIC & really capture the true Australia vibe!!

Australia has a fantastic music scene starting in the 60s and great In the 70s and 80s. Very independent and most artists and bands are great live.

This one looks like it was the most fun you’ve had since you started watching videos about Australia - keep it up Ryan! 😊

Wow! What a treat Ryan. Absolute favourite song! ❤ Now look up Tim Minchin PLEASE! A song called 'Prejudice'. You will be amazed.

It's so much fun watching you rock out to Aussie classics! Have you heard Men At Work yet?

Ahh RAGE my teenage years of music thanks you even if my grades and teachers don't because it was on from like 11pm to 5am

You should check out a song by Archie Roach - Took The Children Away from 1990. He was an indigenous Australian and part of the Stolen Generations, a long and shameful period in Australian history. He sadly passed away a few months ago.

Love the whole conversation here. Loving your channel.

Next, you need to check out the song True Blue by John Williamson. Find the lyric version on his KZfaq Channel. The photos in the clip were submitted by Australians, as a picture of what Australia represented to them personally. When you get to the old bush man with his dog having a beer with a sign that says Office, that's my old mate Wazza who owns Platypus Bushcamp in the rainforest of Eungella, Finch Hatton Gorge, not far from Mackay in Queensland. The video you need to watch for this one is: John Williamson - True Blue (Lyric Video) which is on the John Williamson TV KZfaq channel.

If you wanna watch an Aussie Icon. Best voice on the planet listen to any live version of John Farnham. The Voice of Australia. (Pronounced Farnem) he is the GOAT. ❤️🇦🇺

Loved the reaction mate, nearly an honorary Aussie mate, lol, cheers 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍

Love this song. Just like being on the patio in summer 🌺🇦🇺 Yeah get in ya Jeep

I grew up listening to the Aussie 70s, 80s rock my parents played it all the time i use to fall asleep to many classics

Queensland specifically. Cane fields, humidity, heavy rain at night as the electrical storms roll in. As a kid I used to spend my summers in Rockhampton with my grandparents. Dodging cyclone season to get home. Must be similar in the US Gulf Coast states.

Hahaha to be in the outback takes a long, very long, no bloody long drive to get there... hahahaha... Thanks for making me bring me back to me childhood with this song... Ya made head move around to it also~ Ü

This song was written when the band were in Bundaberg, my home town. It really is fantastic to listen to as your driving around the same areas that they are singing about.

Looove this song! All time favourite. Great pick for a reaction Ryan. Aahh the memories 😊

Ryan, have you caught up with iconic Aussie Rock band “Cold Chisel”. Lead singer is Jimmy Barnes who is loved by just about every Aussie, however he takes a back seat to Ian Moss in this song. It’s about wasting your time working in a factory in the city but longing to be in Bow River which is in northern Western Australia kzfaq.info/get/bejne/isqGhbF107qvhIk.html

Cal Callahan the lead singer was in a band called the Riptides before he formed Gangajang which they coined from the sound of their guitar strings

You've reminded me how lucky we are to be Aussies !!! Love ya work buddy !!!

Love hearing this song you know it's nearly summer

THis is an iconic Aussie song. Love it.

I really love your reactions to Aussie content, Ryan, and it's great to hear how perfectly you understood the tone of this song too - I feel like you have a bit of the Aussie spirit in you, maybe. :) Aussie pub rock is a rabbit hole you should really go down - I swear Aussie rock of the past has the most unique and iconic sound due to our country's situation somewhat isolated from the rest of the world (makes us fiercely proud of what we have, and willing to stick together and help each other out), there's never been anything quite like it. It also really encompasses the general Aussie spirit - free of unnecessary frills while being honest and down-to-earth. I find it can be a refuge from the complexity and BS of the modern world. Anyway, please listen to more when you get the chance! Maybe some Midnight Oil (a huge activist group of the 80s - 'Beds are Burning' and 'Forgotten Years' are two great choices (the second one is one of my absolute favourites - with a message anyone can take to heart), INXS ('Never Tear Us Apart', 'Suicide Blonde'), John Farnham (who has fantastic live performances - he's a national treasure), Jimmy Barnes/Cold Chisel (many good choices from them). In fact, Farnham and Barnes did a great song with guitarist Jimmy Diesel called 'When Something Is Wrong With My Baby' that's REALLY worth checking out! Other people have mentioned some great options too! Oh! I remembered you asked for links. Here are three: John Farnham - You're the Voice (live): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNNioMJqus_Oo6M.html Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jp-VlNOQyLGwgGg.html When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Farnham, Barnes (you can also find a live - 2nd video in the search - which is also good): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n86jmdtisdvTe5c.html Never Tear Us Apart - INXS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbyFbKebttbafYU.html

Happy Arvo! This is so iconic! It’s my youth. Getting up early on Sunday morning to watch the Top 100 on “Rage” on “Aunty”. I highly recommend watching John Farnham, “You’re The Voice” LIVE. John Farnham IS “The Voice”. He’s just undergone major surgery on his mouth. I wish him all the best.

This song is the essense of Australia made manifest in musical form. You are listening to Australia when you are listening to this song.

Yass Ryan 👍 another banger Cheers again Making me all greatfull for our beautiful country

The Australian band Icehouse did a song called Great Southern Land; a slightly slower Aussie song.

The song fits in perfectly with the sensations of tropical Australia

Bed are Burning you should listen to. Check out the lead singer dance style. This bloke went on a to a minister in federal Government. Now got the band back together and touring again.

Seen these guys many times on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Reminds me of my youth

I'm really glad you enjoyed a song from one of our great Aussie bands..👍🌻

G'day Ryan. This song came out in 85 when I was in my last year of high school (secondary school). This is a classic song and I love it. I grew up in North Queensland in a town called Tully, which is famous for its high rainfall. I think the average annual rainfall is about 4.6 metres, which is a little over 15 feet. I grew up watching storms coming over cane fields (sugar cane) and my first job out of school was as an apprentice electrician in the local sugar mill. When I was young the local farms would burn the cane fields before harvesting. They don't do this anymore because it reduces the sugar content of the cane. The reason it was burned in the old days was that the cane was cut by hand, and burning killed all the rats and snakes in the field. However, this is a spectacular sight and I would highly recommend you search for a sugar cane fire video. It's not unique to Australia, but majestic anyhow.

This takes me back, I was 18 when this came out. Great song, thanks for reacting Ryan 😊 Please check out "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse, another Australian band & awesome song, I think you'll like it 💕

As Christmas is coming you need to listen to an Australian Christmas song.Paul Kelly's "How to make gravy". An Aussie classic

In 1984, GANGgajang was formed in Sydney, the name is onomatopoeiac for the sound of a guitar playing a loud chord.

Look up Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel. Classic Aussie rock song about an Australian Vietnam Vet returning to civilization...

One of my fave lyrics ... "The block is awkward - it faces west, With long diagonals, sloping too." Apparently they actually built on it - probably with "silent hardiflex" or "brick veneer" 😍

Hey Ryan, Check out Midnight Oil,Power and Passion, Beds are Burning songs. Cold Chisel and Jimmy Barnes. AC/DC, they got together in Adelaide, in the 70's. They are iconic Australian Bands. Cheers Adam

hey ryan we used to use a golf driver to launch the cane toads off the verandah in the cane field , splat!

That takes me back. Summer of ‘93. Cruising down the road on the south coast of NSW in an old EJ Holden station wagon with that skinny blonde in the passenger seat I was gunna ‘get to know’ for the first time. She was rockin’ out to this while the lightning flashed out at sea. I can still smell the sea air, feel the breeze on my face and remember the anticipation of what we were gonna do in the back. 😅

There's nuthin like sitting on a patio (verandah) watching lighting strike over the sugar cane fields and listening to the cars driving over the cattle grates... With a XXXX or now a Great Northern...

I LOVE this song. Makes me feel homesick

Yep..Out on the patio we sit.. And the humidity we breathe...we Watch the lightning crack over canefíelds, and laugh and think this is Australia. ♥️♥️ I grew up on canefíelds in tropical north Queensland. ♥️♥️

It is my understand that to get that guitar sound they got Reg Mombassa (real name Christopher O’Doherty, - born in New Zealand) who was the lead guitarist for the Australian band Mental As Anything.

As. Pom, it’s first time hearing this and it’s great. Definitely 80’s.

We were certainly spoilt with every genre of music that exists. Australian bands ramped out everything from rock to ballads. Everyone's taste was catered for. Sure we went through the 50's with rock and roll. Then 60's the surfer's sounds and more faster with Stevie Wright and the Easy Beats. Johnny O'Keefe what a legend, Daddy Cool who could forget the smooth sound to Eagle Rock a song still close to many and The Master's Apprentice's all rocked on, who could forget ! Then the '70's highlighted the disco era. Axiom, Split Enz, Normie Rowe and Split Enz. Not forgetting Johnny Farnham climbing up the ladder. Still in the background was Aussie bands testing out the pub crowds with their hopeful hit's. Most making their bands part of the Australian Music scene entertainment heaven and the rest is history ! Australia made it's mark on the world. The world was hearing us from "Down Under" and loving it !!!!!

I Love this song! Another couple to try one day is GRAHAM CONNERS " Let The Canefields Burn" ,"Cyclone Season", " A Little Further North Each Year" ( I love >) "Sicilian Born"

Hey Ryan, I’ve subscribed, I like your easy-going manner and love the fact that you rewound that first pause to get the full effect of the lead in to the chorus. I can suggest so much and would love to see your reaction, but for now try power and the passion by Midnight Oil. The drums are incredible as is the energy.

its even better listening to this on the verandah watching a thunderstorm roll in :)

80s Aussie classic songs you have to hear. Soul Kinda Feeling by Dynamic Heptonics. Electric Blue by Icehouse. Live it up by Mental as Anything. KZfaq will send you down the right path if you look these up.

This song is about my favourite time of the year, in my favourite part of the world. Thank you.

Lots of parties dancing & singing - actually HOLLERING - along to this one. Especially the chorus line. "Oooah-stray-liaa-aaaah!" 😆🤣

Hi Ryan, for a really Iconic Aussie song, try "I was only 19" by the band Red Gum. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o610m92HzpfGoYk.html It is a song written about the ANZAC soldiers who fought in the Vietnam war. Chills every Aussie and New Zealander, every time we hear it. I'd love to get your reaction

Great southern land by ice house is a brilliant song, try that one, love your video, take care, love and kindness always ❤️

Ryan the lead singer is Mark Callaghan and he fronted a great Punk/Pop band in the late 1970's named The Riptides. Check out songs Sunset Strip, Tomorrows Tears and Only Time.

80s music in Australia and the UK was outstanding. I agree. Check out Great Southern Land by Icehouse. Oh, you don’t need to go to the outback. Anywhere outside of a city is still great driving with windows down and music full tilt.

Love it , From Australia 🇦🇺 😍 🙌

Oh wow, this song is in my bones. So good to hear it again.

Im a new sub from Melbourne. Really enjoying your reactions. Im like you but I love southern states of USA rather than Australia. This was one good song for Australia. Maybe check out The Tenants You Sh** Me to Tears song 😂 oh and Great Southern Land by Icehouse

This was the song my local tourism board chose for our local area, has been since late 80s/early 90s. Now our local TV station and their news broadcast use this as their intro/promo song.

I saw this band several times..♥️

A great song indeed. Another classic which I encourage you to check out is 'Great Southern Land' by Icehouse.

I taught a class of year 5/6 (so 11/12-year-olds) and they LOOOOVED singing this. Great memories.

flicked through the comments and didn't see anyone mention Midnight Oil. WTF. Such an iconic Aussie band, not to mention Peter Garrett also became a member of parliament for a couple terms. They are a must watch Ryan.

Loved this track since childhood

I think I hear the sounds of then, And people talking, The scenes recalled, by minute movement, And songs they fall, from the backing tape. That certain texture, that certain smell, To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets, In brick veneer on financed beds. In a room, of silent hardiflex That certain texture, that certain smell, Brings home the heavy days, Brings home the the night time swell, Out on the patio we'd sit, And the humidity we'd breathe, We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields Laugh and think, this is Australia. The block is awkward - it faces west, With long diagonals, sloping too. And in the distance, through the heat haze, In convoys of silence the cattle graze. That certain texture, that certain beat, Brings forth the night time heat. Out on the patio we'd sit, And the humidity we'd breathe, We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields Laugh and think that this is Australia. To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets, In brick veneer on financed beds. In a room of silent hardiflex That certain texture, that certain smell, Brings forth the heavy days, Brings forth the night time sweat Out on the patio we'd sit, And the humidity we'd breathe, We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields Laugh and think, this is Australia. This is Australia etc.. Source: LyricFind