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List of songs about Melbourne

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The music of Australia and most particularly the rock, pop, Hip hop and indie rock music of Australia has had a long fascination with the local environment be it urban or rural. This is a list of songs which mention or are about Melbourne the capital city of Victoria, Australia, the suburbs of Melbourne and nearby locations. In 2004, an article by Michael Dwyer published in The Age discussed songs written about Melbourne. A list of twenty-five songs about Melbourne were also published.{{cite news

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| work=The Age

| url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/27/1093518069546.html

| title=Songs Of Melbourne

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| date=2004-08-28

| accessdate=2007-12-09

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The Sydney Morning Herald ran a concurrent article discussing songs written about Sydney at the time. Paul Kelly had four songs in each list, one of which ("From St Kilda to Kings Cross") featured in both lists.{{cite news

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| last=Zuel

| work=Sydney Morning Herald

| url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/17/1095393996747.html?from=storylhs

| title=A Tale Of Two Cities' Ditties

| publisher=Fairfax Digital

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| date=2004-09-18

| accessdate=2006-07-22

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  • "*Gasworks Park" by Ice Cream Hands
  • "Geelong - Melbourne Railway" by Julius Albert von Rochlitz (1866) {{Cite web |title=The Geelong-Melbourne railway [music] : polka |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165914350 |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=Trove |language=en}}
  • "Get Me Out" by New Model Army
  • "Get Thee In My Behind, Satan" by TISM
  • "Goodbye Melbourne Town" by Leonard Nelson and Fred Hall (1908){{cite web |url=http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/sheetmusic/0/0/8/doc/sm0088-004-0000.shtml |title= Good-bye Melbourne town music|accessdate=2007-12-09 |last= |first= |date= |publisher=State Library of Victoria}}
  • "Goodbye to Dear Old Melbourne" by Alfred Mansfield (1910){{Cite web |title=Good-bye to dear old Melbourne [music] |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165498474 |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=Trove |language=en}}
  • "Goin' Down" by Bias B
  • "Greg! The Stop Sign!!" by TISM
  • "Grey Skies Over Collingwood" by Strange Tenants (also covered by Weddings Parties Anything)

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  • "Half way up the hill" by Mick Thomas
  • "Happy Birthday Helen" by Things of Stone and Wood
  • "Hello Cruel World" by Klinger
  • "Hello! Melbourne (I Called You Up to Say Hello!) by Gene Birch and Lewis A Hirsch (1915) {{Cite web |title=Trove |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/237353084?keyword=%22Hello%20Melbourne%20I%20called%20you%20up%20to%20say%20hello%22 |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=trove.nla.gov.au}}
  • "Here Now" by Phrase
  • "Highway 31" by Johnny Chester
  • "Home Again" by Mark Seymour
  • "Hoochie Coochie Fiorucci Mama" by Australian Crawl
  • "Hookville" by Phrase

I

  • "I Can't Hear You, We're Breaking Up" by Courtney Barnett and Giles Field{{Citation|title=Giles Field (Ft. Courtney Barnett) – I Can't Hear You, We're Breaking Up|url=https://genius.com/Giles-field-i-cant-hear-you-were-breaking-up-lyrics|language=en|access-date=2020-12-17}}
  • "I Dream of Spring" by k. d. lang
  • "I've Been To Bali Too" by Redgum
  • "I'm Going Back to My Girl in Melbourne (She's the Girl I left Behind Me!) by Paul Belham and WH Wallis (191x) {{Cite web |title=I'm going back to my girl in Melbourne [music] : she's the girl I left behind me |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-164539524 |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=Trove |language=en}}

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  • "Killed her in St Kilda" by Voodoo Lovecats
  • "Know" by Pegz

L

  • "Last House On The Left" by The Sports
  • "Last Saturday Night" by Chris Wilson
  • "Last Train From Mobiltown" by Broderick Smith's Big Combo{{cite web|url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/broderick_smiths_big_combo/broderick_smiths_big_combo/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713185127/http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/broderick_smiths_big_combo/broderick_smiths_big_combo/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-13 |title=Broderick Smith's Big Combo |publisher=Rate Your Music |accessdate=2008-04-23 }}
  • "Leaps and Bounds" by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
  • "Leaving Melbourne" by Steve Eales
  • "Let's Go Walk This Town" by My Friend the Chocolate Cake
  • "Line to Line" by Bias B
  • "Let’s Take a Trip to Melbourne" by Clement Williams{{cite web|url=http://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/songs-about-towns-and-places/#Melbourne |title=Does your town have its own song? // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia|publisher=nfsa.gov.au|accessdate=2016-03-15}}
  • "Low Dan" by Otouto
  • "Lygon Street Meltdown" by Melbourne Ska Orchestra

M

  • "Move On" by Jet
  • "Mourningtown Ride" by TISM
  • "Music To Hold Hands To" by Lucksmiths
  • "My Arse Is Black from Bourke Street" by Chain{{cite web|url=http://www.milesago.com/artists/chain.htm|title=CHAIN|last=Culnane|first=Paul|year=2007|work=MILESAGO: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975|publisher=Milesago|accessdate=2009-05-09}}
  • "My Brown Yarra" Yarra by Frank Jones and the Whirling Furphies
  • “My Sister Worked at Bunnings”, by Eddie Perfect

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  • "Platform Girl" by Peter Sherwood
  • “Plummer Road”, by Eddie Perfect
  • "Postcards From Melbourne" by Raul Graf/Ed Kuepper
  • "Prague" by Ruck Rover
  • "Press Release" by Lyrical Commission
  • "Pub" by Cosmic Psychos
  • "Punt Road Traffic" by Mark Ferrie

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S

  • "Sangria" by Remi
  • "Selling Drugs, Corner King St and Flinders Lane" by TISM
  • "Silver Friends" by The Lucksmiths
  • "Sixteen In Melbourne" by Ron Rude
  • "Smith St" by The Waifs
  • "Smorgons Steel Mill" by The T-Bones
  • "Song Of The Renter" by Catholic Guilt.
  • "Spotswood" by The Orbweavers
  • "Springvale Girl" by Loin Groin
  • "Spring Me Out Of Caroline Springs" by Root!
  • "Stalactites" by Weddings Parties Anything
  • "Statues" by Frank Jones and the Whirling Furphies
  • "St Kilda Nights" by Purple Dentists
  • "Streets Of Old Fitzroy" by Harry and Wilga Williams and the Country Outcasts
  • "Stuck In Melbourne" by Warner Bros
  • "Suburban Rendezvous" by Frank Jones
  • "Suburb In Between" by The Mabels
  • "Summer Days" by TZU
  • "Sunbury '97" by The Fauves

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Songs erroneously thought to be about Melbourne

  • "Morningtown Ride" by The Seekers. The song was originally a lullaby written by Californian folk singer Malvina Reynolds in 1957. It is often attributed to Melbourne for depicting an old-fashioned train trip to the similarly named beach-side town of Mornington (as The Seekers largely hailed from Melbourne).
  • "Town With No Cheer" by Tom Waits - although often believed to be about Melbourne, the town of the title is actually Serviceton.

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/27/1093518069546.html?from=storyrhs 'Songs of Melbourne' article in The Age]
  • [http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/music_specials/s1401980.htm Triple J Unearthed Special]
  • [http://www.australiabysong.com.au Australia By Song] - a growing list of Australian towns and locations that have been immortalised by both traditional and contemporary song

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