Sounds of Then (This Is Australia)

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Gang Gajang (styled as GANGgajang) are an Australian pop rock band which formed in 1984. The four founders are frontman Mark 'Cal' Callaghan (ex-Riptides) on guitar and lead vocals, Chris Bailey on bass guitar, Graham 'Buzz' Bidstrup on drums (both ex-The Angels) and Kayellen Bee vocals and percussion. They were soon joined by Geoffrey Stapleton (ex-Aliens] on keyboards, guitar and vocals, and Robbie James on lead guitar. Their most popular song, "Sounds of Then (This Is Australia)", was issued in December 1985 and peaked in the top 40 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. It gained further exposure in Australia ten years later when it was used on TV in a Coca-Cola ad and then for the 1996 Nine Network station ID promotion. Their highest selling … more »

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1996

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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 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, 
With long diagonals, 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. 

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 forth the heavy days, 
Brings forth the night time sweat 
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. 
This is Australia etc.. 

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