Name The Song - Quiz in OP - Quiz 35 - Get on the Beers

Quiz #21

Answer 5 max unless given clearance.

Quiz 21 - Songs that are Australian (or Adopted by us) - 80s

1 Now you’ve bitten off the hand that feeds you
2 I’m a betting man but it’s getting damn lonely.
3 She said, “Shove it, Jack, I’m walking out the ■■■■■■■ door”
4 She’s pure instinct, she can make her own way
5 So you look into the land, it will tell you a story
6 Keep it in, Cut it out, kick it out
7 Put it in a skillet and a-slap it all around
8 You’re a part of me my one obsession I need you
9 Cause the walls start shaking, the Earth was quaking
10 So take a step backwards for a little while
11 Waiting for some recognition, It’s her transiton to recognition
12 Remember we were so strong
13 Is kindness an ancient skill buried by our blindness?
14 And Mamma, now don’t you worry 'bout me anymore
15 That I was gone the moment I laid eyes on you
16 Oh, I had a dream, for a moment I believed it was true
17 Because we’ll see the mountains tumble
18 Stay away, don’t you invade my home
19 Taking the shade with a cool lemonade sayin’
20 He’s been workin’ and slavin’ his life away
21 But I could start again, You can depend on it
22 I remember infatuation, It’s a figure of your imagination
23 And I never will go to Singapore, The people there will cut your hair
24 Hollywood, Captain Blood, He’s billing the Nazi’s, Took a rebel stand
25 I think back to school, it’s all the same, slightly different rules
26 It’s easy to forgive, harder to forget
27 I wanna tell her that I love her, but the point is probably moot
28 But you just take more than you give
29 When I get this feeling, It gets in my system
30 Baby, baby, oh, why you wanna mess it up?
31 We’ll be together, And no-one will tear us apart
32 And in the distance, through the heat haze
33 But last year’s light is shining hotter than the sun
34 There’s no-one there and I’m feeling like a fool
35 I was alone, I thought I was immune
36 Don’t look for lightning or pray for a sign
37 Talk about, talk about, talk about movin’.
38 Open fire on my burning heart, I’ve never been lucky in love.
39 That all the bitterness will last for hours
40 I hear the train coming, I stay right on that track
41 I’m talkin’ ‘bout my girl - standin’ by me
42 Say that you love me one more time. Speak to me just one more time
43 It would make me believe, what tomorrow could bring
44 Why be afraid? When we’ve got it made
45 Is it Mum and Dad, is it a co-ockatoo
46 And in your arms I’ll rise, Up high, hmm hmm
47 And it doesn’t really matter if he brings his doll
48 Went down to Santa Fe where Renoir paints the walls
49 And so I keep leaving the sun and the sea
50 Lower the curtain down in Memphis, Lower the curtain down, all right

6: Boom Crash Opera - Onion Skin

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3- To her door - Paul Kelly
7- Fall of Rome - James Reyne

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2 Hoodoo Gurus - What’s My Scene
9 You Shook Me etc - AC/DC
30 Pleasure & Pain - Divinyls
48 Am I Ever Gonna See… - The Angels

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18 - Who Can It Be Now? Men at Work

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45- True Blue - John Williamson

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27 - Jessie’s Girl, Rick Springfield

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39- Barbados - The Models

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24- Errol - Aussie Crawl

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49 - I still call Australia home - Peter Allen

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37 is Funkytown and I guess Pseudo Echo version based on the category

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8 Kate Cebrano - Bedroom Eyes

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33 Hunters & Collectors - Do You See What I See

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18 Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now

-edit- beaten to it

40 Dumb Things - Paul Kelly

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12 Dragon - Rain

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14 Choirboys - Run To Paradise

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32 Gangajang (or however you spell it) - This is Australia

Edit - actually I am not sure that is the correct song title either

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10 Noiseworks - Take Me Back

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