[Super Cat]

A friend of ours is leaving to return to the states. She's been here a year and found out just before she arrived that she was pregnant! Baby has been born here but they are returning home in a couple of weeks and I wanted to make him something to remember his birth country by. Something he can keep as he grows. So I've decided to make a CD of Australian music for him.

I know what music 'I' like but I wanted to get some other perspective because he may grow up to hate all the songs I like, plus I'm old, my view of what is modern is rather skewed.

So I'm after a bit of a mix. Old classics, new stuff, country, rock, pop, a bit of everything really.

So lovely EB members, before you all up and leave the place can you please share with me some Aussie music artists (old, young, whatever) and just a couple of their songs which are your faves?

Thanks

[Guest_tigerdog_*]

Get any copy of Aussie Beer Songs and you just about have it as far as I'm concerned (Chisel, Daddy Cool [Eagle Rock], Aussie Crawl, Dragon, The Angels, Divinyls, AC/DC, Easybeats, Midnight Oil, Powderfinger etc.).

Mostly rock but I believe that's what we do best (not at all into the strong Aussie indie scene ).

[Apageintime]

Tim freedman/ The whitlams are my fav! anything from the eternal nightcap album, or 'I make hamburgers' Otherwise the Waifs <3

but you can't go wrong with some modern - temper trap (try 'fader'), eskimo joe ('foreign land' might be a good song), Jet, Powderfinder, kate miller heidke etc

Then there's always the classics - Cold Chisel (standing on the outside).

[~*Marti*~]

The Butterfly Effect, Thousand Needles in Red, Karnivool, Birds of Tokyo, Dead Letter Circus, Cog, Floating Me, Ezekiel Oz and The Fury, Mammal, Over Reactor.

[Silver Girl]

Katie Noonan, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, John Farnham, Paul Kelly.

What a great idea you had for the little boy.

[Rosepickles]

For some newer stuff.....

Angus and Julia Stone, Paul Dempsey, Temper Trap, Hilltop Hoods, Emma Louise, Gotye, Seeker Lover Keeper

[TST]

The Church's Under The Milky Way

[RatbagBob]

You also have to get him a copy of Don Spencer's Thumbs Up Australia! You can't get much more Aussie than that

[titch482]

Music of Neil and Tim Finn - i like 'they will have their way' its Austrlian Artists doing covers

otherwise The Veronicas, Gotye, INXS, Keither Urban, John Butler Trio, The Living End, Slim Dusty, Midnight Oil, Savage Garden, Jet, The Cat Empire, Missy Higgins

sorry if i have repeated some

[dadathome]

The Jezebels - either Mace Spray or Hurt Me (although the content is not quite age appropriate.