Favorite Ozzie band?

[Harry P.]

Ok... we covered the best from Canada. How about Australia?

I have a really hard time picking between my two favorites... INXS and Midnight Oil. Call it a draw...

 

 

[JollySipper]

WolfMother is a good band......!  They did a cover of "Cheap Sunglasses" that is pretty awesome.............

[Ace-Garageguy]

Maybe not my absolute favorite, but I like these guys...

[Harry P.]

Another vote for MO...

[Harry P.]

Another vote for INXS.

Geez... this is tough!

[Can-Con]

Goanna 

[russosborne]

I clicked on this thinking you meant Ozzie as in Ozzy Osbourne.

I think you meant Aussie?

Oh, well.

Russ

Edited April 17, 2016 by russosborne

[Can-Con]

red gum

[Can-Con]

and my fave,, 

[DaveM]

I liked these guys back in the day.  They were a little wild for my tastes, but they rocked.  The guitar player was bluesy and used a slide as well as anybody.  The lead singer had pipes!  We went on to cover this song and a couple of others by them.  Great fun to play, if you have a singer who can hit the notes really hard.  

 

[Can-Con]

Cold Chisel

[Can-Con]

And I have almost all Split Enz' albums.

[Harry Joy]

If we are counting the Split Enz as Australian, then my favorite is Crowded House:

[Ace-Garageguy]

I'd forgotten Elegantly Wasted. Always really liked that one; it was my last ex's favorite when I met her and that's how she spent most of her time...elegantly wasted. Sure seemed like fun at the time. 

[Harry Joy]

For straight up Aussie, I prefer:

[Ace-Garageguy]

And another vote for INXS...

[DaveM]

I grew up listening to AC/DC, but I really liked Midnight Oil and INXS too.  Men at work were pretty cool too.  There were a lot of great Australian bands out there.  There were also the Skyhooks.  They were an interesting band to say the least.  I had a couple of their albums back in the '70s, but they never got much radio play in the U.S.  I actually had a hard time finding a song from them that I could post here, as most of their stuff is pretty raunchy.  Part comedy, part social commentary, part serious and a heck of a party band.  Not my favorite band, but a good bit of fun.

I posted "Ego Is Not A Dirty Word" because all of their other classics have a bad word, or a normally good word used in a bad, bad way...  They were much better than this at times.

 

 

[maltsr]

Split Enz are from New Zealand, not Australia.  How about John Butler Trio and AC/DC?

[Ridge Rider]

AC/DC.

[Harry P.]

Split Enz/Crowded House are from New Zealand, not Australia.

AC/DC gets a vote from me...

[timc]

AC/DC with Bon Scott not the other guy.

Midnight Oil and INXS are both good too.

[Harry Joy]

I noted above that the Enz and House are not Australian. But they do live there. I don't count them as Aussie though, since New Zealand does not have a lot of famous acts to crow about.

[Harry P.]

Ok... Crowded House is a tossup. The Finn brothers were New Zealanders by birth, but the band was formed in Australia.

So let's say CH was Australian. My absolute favorite CH song...

[Ridge Rider]

AC/DC with Bon Scott not the other guy.

 

Axl Rose?  I just read he's their new singer.  If history is any indicator this should be a trainwreck.

[1930fordpickup]

AC DC for me. 

Favorite Inxs song Mystify form KICK  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ELh7P2ZtA

 

Edited April 17, 2016 by 1930fordpickup