🎵 'Never Tear Us Apart' Voted The GREATEST Aussie Song Of All Time

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I've never really been a fan of Triple J, even
when I was a young person, because I'm just always
been a commercial radio guy. I appreciate Triple J for
breaking acts like Hudoo, Guruz, Midnight Oil all these guys.
But I'm just saying, with this hottest one hundred of
Australian songs.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
They united the country.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well they did, and I liked it, and I'm happy
by and large with the list.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Well, what what's interesting is that I was looking at
it unfolding on x X Twitter and people were saying,
how great is this. There's no stupid ads for crypto,
there's no vitriol. It has united the nation for one
day and people were having parties. Everyone just loved it.
Reminded everyone about how much we love our Australian music.

(00:44):
It was absolutely brilliant and.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
By and large the list, there's a couple.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Of controversial ones in there, but let's look at the
success of this, the inexcess of this. It was coming
in at number one, and let me just explain the
voting system here.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
There were because I put my little ten, my top
ten list in there were.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Two point six million votes and the majority of those
votes were by jen Z eighteen to twenty five year olds,
so they're the majority of the votes. And yet let's
look at some of the jen X nature of the
songs that came out. Number one, this.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
One was.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
You Excess.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Everyone cheered and everyone was true.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I saw Kirk Pengelli on Thursday night, a Mormon and
as soon as I see and we locked eyes and
we both went Saxi of foreign.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, this moment to shine.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Have you seen the film clip to that?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
And it was really ahead of its time as far
as they filmed the film clip in Prague. Usually an
Australian band would film in the eighties in front of Neon,
in front of.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Him the russam k days. He made all those film clips.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
So they went out over to Prague and it's such
a great film clip and that's where the band went stratospheric,
not because of that film clip, but because if it
was around out time, there's all little formulas there. Well.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Number two was Hilltop Hood's Nosebleed section.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Your hands up.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, that's interesting.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
This is a track that's ten times platinum in Australia
but never actually charted in the areas in the top fifty.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
A lot of people were crying foul about that, and
Cosby Sweater was way down the hill.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I love that song, Cosby's Sweater.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
You know what it's about? What hill? Cosby? What else?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well? Miss Higgins she was there, she was at number four.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think these great Australian songs. Number five Crowded House. Yeah,
are do you going to get a fan of that?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I love it when I first heard it when it
came out. Yeah, I love the crowdy so I'm not
against that.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
How could you not love them? But these Australian bangers
sung up the song, up.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
The song powder Finger?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Okay, that I love.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's number six?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
What about Chisel?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yep? Come on? That was number seven.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
My son texted me saying, hey, Flame Trees is number
seven because I worked on the film that. He said,
I was responsible for this being number.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Seven instead of going to Prague, you marked up the
film Oberon and filmed the wrong Trees.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Cold Chisel were also number eighth. Yeah, this amazing song
by Paul Kelly was number nine.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. Great.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
And the reason we're highlighting those songs were all in
the top ten is as I said, eighteen to twenty
five year olds cast the most votes, and yet these
songs were the gen X songs. And I saw someone saying,
as a gen X parent, you've had a bigger influence
on your kids than you think. So play the songs
of your loose your youth loud, let everyone hear them,

(03:47):
because they're loving them too.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, they too like them.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's My daughter went and cued up to see Darryl
Braithwaite and I said, I actually no, Daryl breithwait and
he went, he went, she went, She said that you
don't you wouldn't have heard of it.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Oh, come on, you's making that sit up. Sorry if
you're swearing, but don't make that. She knows you know Darryl,
who doesn't know and love Daryl. Those big anthem anthems
were obviously in there as well.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Meanwhile, what about our number one?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Are we playing this now?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Rocket?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
We're more Swedish than Australian.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Rocks it on the mat