What is NZ's song.

[idleidolidyll]

] PS: thanks for the RED rep, lol. [/FONT]

no sweat, it was given in return for the one you gave me

if you give em you must give a damn even if i don't

[HenryDorsetCase]

I have a corporate powerpoint to put together. Closed room, small audience copyright etc not a consideration.

The brief calls for an opening video featuring images of NZ landscapes and an uplifting Iconic soundtrack.

Images are no prob, the sound has me flummoxed.

'Loyal' - but it's not about NZ. 'Nature' - but it's a bit stupid.

If this was back home it would be a doddle. 'Great Southern Land' or 'Sounds of then' or 'Downunder' - but is there a Kiwi equivalent?

A groovy song about NZ.

At the mo it's Tim Finns 'Couldn't be done' because the message is better.

Suggestions? and I'll go to itunes and buy it.

Poi E

thats a serious suggestion. Its a great song, an uplifting message, and the video rules as well. I think it would be perfect.

[Big Dave]

Does anyone have any idea who that was?

As if they would admit it.

Sounds of then - Ganga Jang is the Aussie version what I was looking for'. Home:

I think I hear the sounds of then,
And people talking,
The scenes recalled, by minute movement,
And songs they fall, from the backing tape.
That certain texture, that certain smell,

To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets,
In brick veneer on financed beds.
In a room, of silent hardiflex
That certain texture, that certain smell,

Brings home the heavy days,
Brings home the night time swell,

Out on the patio we’d sit,
And the humidity we’d breathe,
We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think, this is Australia.

The block is awkward - it faces west,
Long diagonals, and sloping too.
And in the distance, through the heat haze,
In convoys of silence the cattle graze.

That certain texture, that certain beat,
Brings forth the night time heat.

Out on the patio we’d sit,
And the humidity we’d breathe,
We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think that this is Australia.

[HenryDorsetCase]

There was a great version of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' recorded I think in the sixties by a NZ bloke singing in falsetto and playing a ukelele.

Sounds like it should be crap but it is brilliant.

Does anyone have any idea who that was?

Howard Morrison? Billy T?

[RiderInBlack]

no sweat, it was given in return for the one you gave me

if you give em you must give a damn even if i don't

Been a long time since I have "RED REP'ed" anyone. Could ya recheck to see if the "Red" was from me and PM me a copy if it was as I have not given one this year as far as I recall and will be pissed if someone has "Used" my user name to post, pm or rep anyone else.

[Indiana_Jones]

TOP GUN ANTHEM

-Indy

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTJmXrgsFg[/YOUTUBE]

Come on.....you know you love it

-Indy

[Joni]

Rider - idleidolidyll is not a senior member he cannot see who gave him the red rep...

[RiderInBlack]

Rider - idleidolidyll is not a senior member he cannot see who gave him the red rep...

Thanks Joni. his comment had me worried that someone had used my "user name".

PS: thanks Glen for ya U-Tube clip ( http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...9&postcount=52 ) Awesome

[Big Dave]

Come on.....you know you love it

-Indy

Nah - but in 1985 I used to be able to do that hair.

[idleidolidyll]

Rider - idleidolidyll is not a senior member he cannot see who gave him the red rep...

and THAT is one of the most childish ridiculous things about this forum

[kro]

The Swingers - Counting the beat

Supergroove - Sitting inside my head (any supergroove tbh)

[avgas]

Supergroove - Sitting inside my head (any supergroove tbh)

Actually yeh - this song is true NZ. Pity a certain islander thought he was too big for the band.

[kro]

Lets not begrudge our Che Fu. Fond memories.

[MacD]

White Valiant - The Mutton Birds

Though probably better for a road trip video.

Dave Dobbyn is too happy clappy these days...

[Big Dave]

White Valiant - The Mutton Birds

Though probably better for a road trip video.

Or a funeral.