Icehouse - Great Southern Land
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When "Great Southern Land" was released as the first single from the Primitive Man album in 1982, a video for it was filmed in a disused sandstone quarry in the Kuringai National Park near Sydney. Then, in 1989, when the song met its first release as a single in North America and Europe, a new clip had to be made to accompany the overseas single. This time, the background Australian landscapes were provided by the Myall Lakes National Park on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. As befits the song, both clips were, of course, typically Australian in content, but the earlier one did feature a few Australian native animals, including a large goanna crawling across barren sandy earth. This latter typical Australian had obviously won many fans, since, when the new clip appeared there were quite a few appeals for "the one with the goanna." The result was that both "Great Southern Land" clips had to be included in the commercial video released in 1989. (www.spellbound-icehouse.org)
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Urgently seek mental health counseling ;-)
onya mate!
thats so true.
Its one of the most played songs on my ipod
Reminds me a little of Depeche Mode's "enjoy the Silence". Listen also to eurythemics' "jennifer" et al from that album
This was a freaking fantastic album!
I wish there was an extended 'ambient (ala eno)' version of this.