1. AC/DC - Highway to Hell.........They have had the most hits without a top 10. Not a huge fan, but do like this.

 

2. Flash in the Pan - Waiting for a train...........There only real hit in the UK

 

3. John Paul Young - Love is in the air.................a guilty pleasure from the 70's :D

 

4. Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where the wild roses grow..........a strange mix of artists, that somehow works

 

5. Mental as anything - Live it up.............trying to remember if this was in the film Crocodile Dundee?

 

6. Midnight Oil - Beds are burning....always liked this track

 

7. Icehouse - Hey Little girl.............One of my favourite tracks, just love it

 

8. Men at Work - Down Under....Big number one from 83, great video

 

9. Inxs - Need you tonight...............my favourite from them, although could have chosen a few

 

10. Savage Garden - To the moon and back

 

11. Sherbet - Howzat...........well this takes me back, just love it :lol:

 

12. Crowded House - Weather with you.............Love almost everything they have put out, very melodic band from the 80/90's, bent the rules slightly as they might be from New Zealand :D

a pretty good list there m8, id have added the easybeats 'friday on my mind'.... the best track from down under imho.

Good list there Brian although High Voltage or Back In Black should be the AC/DC song

 

Although they haven't had chart success I would have in my Aussie album

 

 

Matt Corcoran - I Can't Sing

Chain - Lightning Ground

Steven Wright - Hard Road

a pretty good list there m8, id have added the easybeats 'friday on my mind'.... the best track from down under imho.

of which two members became Flash And The Pan! Harry Vonda and George Young - the latter being the older brother of Angus and Malcolm of AC/DC...

I used to like Icehouse - I loved Hey Little Girl and also No Promises from 1986 and Crazy from 1988.

of which two members became Flash And The Pan! Harry Vonda and George Young - the latter being the older brother of Angus and Malcolm of AC/DC...

 

i didnt know that m8 :)

Some very good tracks already mentioned:

 

My Album from Down Under, Everything Australasian (so it includes New Zealand) is an Australian (former) soap actor/actresses free zone (so no Kylie, Dannii, Jason, Natalie, that ghastly Angry Anderson track, etc):

 

1. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie - Rest in peace Bon Scott. This track sure trumps Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPwxD94IBkE

 

2. The Loved Ones - The Loved One - This 1966 Australian #1 hit was made more famous after INXS covered it on their Kick album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURrBtB5O58

 

3. Easybeats - Friday On My Mind - A rock standard since covered by David Bowie & Gary Moore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trmbAwVuR4

 

4. Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - This feminist anthem was a US#1 hit in 1972. The first ever Australian to do so. George Harrison played on this track, not that you can tell from the awful audio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPDcMyPlFvw

 

5. Olivia Newton John - A Little More Love - "Olivia Neutron Bomb - The thunder from down under" was Australia's biggest selling female artist in its history who scored a transatlantic Top5 smash with this, surely her finest effort late 1978 / early 1979.

 

6. Flash in the Pan - Waiting For A Train - It has already been selected but it is a classic by the former Easybeat members.

 

7. Men At Work - Overkill - Forget the overplayed, overrated Down Under, this is their best song. Probably the best Police-type song not written by Sting (although Maroon 5's She Will Be Loved comes close). This was a US Top3 hit in 1983.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcu7OCIqlqE

 

8. Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine - Forget the overplayed, overrated Beds Are Burning, this 1990 track was much better. It reached #2 in Australia, and was their second biggest hit in the USA. It was written about the plight of post-war immigrants in Western Australia who became victims of blue asbestos working as miners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehTQIhw0-U

 

9. Divinyls - I Touch Myself - I can't believe you've all forgot this US/UK Top10 hit. Romantic and horny at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FGk63Fv7t4

 

10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms - Nick sung this at Michael Hutchence funeral. Well it sure is a better song than the utterly embarrassing Candle In The Wind 1997.

 

11. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart - In 2007 an Australian poll revealed this is the most played song at funerals there for the 10th year running. Well it sure is a better song than Angels. I saw INXS at Wembley Stadium in 1990 and they were brilliant. RIP the Hutch. Watch this 1994 stripped down Jools Holland Later performance for evidence of Michael's sexual charisma & greatness. He was much more than a Mick Jagger / Jim Morrison wannabe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFOoJGQ46Hk

 

12. Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon - In America Don't Dream It's Over & in the UK Weather With You are Neil Finn's Crowded House's most well known song. But down under this track became the second best selling Australian track of the 1980s (behind Kylie's Loco-Motion). I've seen Crowded House live 4 times, and they are the best live act I've ever seen due to their improvisation and ad-libbing, that does not come across on their records. This is the song they now always finish with, because it is their best song (it always comfortably tops polls on Crowded House/Neil Finn fan websites) and it is the one that gets the best response, not least after the death of founder drummer Paul Hester. This Neil Finn solo performance is taken from the 2005 ARIAs, his first after Paul's death. This is a truly emotional performance of a beautiful song.