#aussie music

[letthemusicplayon]

Cool Change / Little River Band

[mengjue]

Calling all Aussies - Help me make THE Aussie Playlist!

TLDR: I’m becoming a citizen soon and want music recs to create the ultimate Aussie playlist

So in a month I can finally apply to become an Australian citizen, and I’m very excited! In preparation, I want to create the ultimate playlist of songs I need to know as a new Australian. So I’m reaching out to any Aussies here who can give me recs!

I want everything - Triple J standards, historical songs, 80s rock your parents love, songs in Language, cringey school patriotic stuff, anything at all. If it’s part of life here in some way I want to include it!

I’ll be making the playlist on YouTube and updating as I go. Current list of songs is under the cut, alphabetical by song name. Please spread this if you can; I’d really love to hear new songs!

THE Aussie Playlist: Current List of Songs

Updated 14/7/26

Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

Boy - Birds of Tokyo

The Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl

Brother - Matt Corby

Buses and Trains - Bachelor Girl

Camp Dog - King Stingray

Can't get you out of my head - Kylie Minogue

Canvas Bags - Tim Minchin

The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers

Chains - Tina Arena

Christmas Day - Scared Weird Little Guys

Dance Monkey - Tones and I

The Day You Went Away - Wendy Matthews

Deadly Animals - Scared Weird Little Guys

Didn’t Have You - Tim Minchin

Dolphin Song - Ash Grunwald

Don’t Change - INXS

Down Under - Men at Work

Dumb Things - Paul Kelly

Duncan (and the remix) - Slim Dusty

F E M A L E - Sampa The Great

Feverbreak - Odette

Freak - Silverchair

From Little Things Big Things Grow - Paul Kelly

Future Heroine- Ecca Vandal

Georgy Girl - The Seekers

Get on the Beers - Mashd N Kutcher

Greg the stop sign - TISM

Groceries - Mallrat

Hearts A Mess - Gotye

Hello - The Cat Empire

Home Among the Gumtrees - John Williamson

Homecoming Queen - Thelma Plum

The Horses - Daryl Braithwaite

I Am Australian - The Seekers

I Don’t Like It! - Pauline Pantsdown

I Still Call Australia Home (both versions)

I Was Only 19 - Redgum

I’ll Never Find Another You - The Seekers

Island Home - Christine Anu

Karma - 1200 techniques

Keith - Playlunch

King Brown - Barkaa

Lady Blue - Emily Wurramara

Lanterns - Birds of Tokyo

Lights on the Hill - Slim Dusty

Liquid Arms - Birds of Tokyo

The Locomotion - Kylie Minogue

London Still - The Waifs

Looking Forward Looking Back - Slim Dusty

Mammalian Locomotion - Abbe May

Meditjin - Baker Boy

Mess Is Mine - Vance Joy

My My My! - Troye Sivan

My People - The Presets

Native Tongue - Mo'ju

Need You Tonight - INXS

Never Tear Us Apart - INXS

New Sensation - INXS

Nutbush City Limits - Tina Turner

Old Man Emu - John Williamson

Pash - Kate Cebrano

Physical - Olivia Newton-John

Prejudice - Tim Minchin

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Badseeds

Rip Rip Woodchip - John Williamson

Riptide - Vance Joy

Rock and Roll Nerd - Tim Minchin

Round the Twist theme song

She Looks So Perfect - 5 Seconds of Summer

Shook - Tkay Maidza

Sinner Man - The Seekers

Smoko - The Chats

Solid Rock - Goanna

Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye

Sound of Silence - Dami Im

Speak of the Devil - Hermitude

Spirit of the Anzacs - Lee Kernaghan

Squat - Haiku Hands

Suicide Blonde - INXS

Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap

Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

These days - Powderfinger

Treaty - Yothu Yindi

True Blue - John Williamson

Two Shoes - The Cat Empire

Untouched - The Veronicas

The Waitress Song - Seth Sentry

Waltzing Matilda

We Got Love - Jessica Mauboy

Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John

Yil Lull - Joe Geia

You Grew on Me - Tim Minchin

YOUTH - Troye Sivan

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ive never truly appreciated australian music and now i am

[tiredaf-art]

drew chibi sharny for her new single nudge

[juggernaut-music]

i love ball park music i wish brisbane was real

[foggycatgarden]

Nick Cave, 'The Birthday Party' London 1983. Photo by Brian Rasic

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[y2k-2day]

Leah Haywood - Crazy (2000)