| "Great Southern Land" | ||||
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Great Southern Land (12" Vinyl) - Regular Records |
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| Single by Icehouse | ||||
| from the album Primitive Man | ||||
| A-side | "Great Southern Land" | |||
| B-side | "Uniform" | |||
| Released | 3 August 1982 1989 |
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| Format | 7" Vinyl Single, 12" Vinyl Single, CD single | |||
| Genre | New Wave music | |||
| Length | 3:22 (7") 5:14 (LP) |
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| Label | Regular Records Chrysalis Records |
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| Writer(s) | Iva Davies | |||
| Producer | Iva Davies, Keith Forsey | |||
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"Great Southern Land" is a single released by Australian rock band Icehouse. It was released in August 1982, before the album Primitive Man. Peaking at number five on the Australian Singles Chart,[1] it was later featured in the 1988 Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein,[2] and remains their most popular song according to listeners of Triple M in 2007.[3]
It was re-released in the U.S. on Chrysalis Records in 1989 as both a 7" and CD single, to coincide with the U.S. release of the compilation album, Great Southern Land.
On 5 September 2011, "Great Southern Land" re-entered the Australian (ARIA) Singles Chart at #66.
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In 1993 producer Bill Laswell set up a 16 minute remix featuring Australian Aborigines, Parliament-Funkadelic alumni Bernie Worrell and avant-garde guitarist Buckethead for inclusion on the 1994 remix compilation Full Circle. An edited version named "Byrralku Dhangudha", with the Aborigines partly singing the chorus in their own language was included on the EP Spin One in 1993. The same edit was released as a single in Germany in 1994 as "Great Southern Land (1994 version)".[4] Another remix version by Endorphin was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.[5]
All tracks written by Iva Davies.[6]
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