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  • Shit hot

  • Gawd fellas, The Song is inspired by Tony Hancock. Not Australie-ee.

  • @thenewfella1994 E's are the real way to go, though be careful with them

  • Nicky had never been or wanted to go to Australia.. he just wrote a song with a title called AUSTRALIA!!! not bigging it up or putting it down... Why do Aussies have such sensitivity? If you keep digging for shit you will eventually find it ...

  • @thenewfella1994 Well said me old china! :)

  • Never heard this one in Australia myself, first hearing it today. BTW about 75% of British convicts transported to Australia returned to Britain after serving their sentences.

  • Oz is a paradise. I wish my parents were convicts in a sense! As a Brit travelling there I have to say it is far and a way beyond what we have in England in terms of landscapes and the plethora of flora and fauna. I would say Canada might be better than Oz though, for other reasons.

  • The entire album is just fantastic. Love MSP.

  • @toemac73 - Aussies are insecure? hmm not thinking so. Lack of culture, correct, But you dont come to Australia for the culture now would you. England has culture coming out of its arse but i dont think many dream of living there due to being bored out of their minds - hence needing to travel to other countries on the weekend to forget the utter boredom and the dismal cloud hanging over the country.

  • This song isn't even about Australia...why the patriotism?

  • australians are criminals deported from ENGLAND !!!!

  • @reddevil70 Well, actually, no. Original Australians were here before the convicts arrived, some are decendants of convicts, others would be decendants of some of the people that came over here in the gold rush.

  • @reddevil70 proud of that fact to so what is your issue lmao

  • This is a top song 2play!!

  • @functionalist972 Australia doesn't have a King, get an education.

  • @functionalist972

    And yet this song is by a foreign band. Herpaderpderpderp.

  • I am a proud Australian

  • what a fucking tune, great band in their prime.

  • @mikeykany1973 Has their prime begun?

  • @mikeykany1973 Hasw their prime ended yet?

  • SUNLAND!!!!

  • Why not just enjoy the song and shut up on the debates? Hmmmm??

  • i love playin the solo on the song, so satisfying

  • I remember this being a hit in England about the same time as Robert Miles' /One and One. A nice combination, unfortunately some bad memories for me.

  • Yeah Renford Rejects ...go Renfords ;D

  • hell of a tune. up there with just the end of love

  • Why are people offended by 'intellectual comments'. I know some people just talk rubbish but there is always a debate with the Manics because they offer more than just music. Obviously you don't have to think about that if you dont want to but you know, some people sing out loud 'Born in the USA' by Bruce Springsteen without knowing anything about it. You cant hate that person, they just take from it what they want. Probably look like a bit of a twat tho

  • for fucks sake everytime i watch a manics video on here theres always sum doylum talkin bout religion nd that who gives a fuck? yes a lot of the manics music was politically driven but lets just enjoy the tunes man

  • brotherfrank62....All Religon is an outdated threat to pascify the masses..it has not got any reason in the modern times.God was created out of early mans lack of knowledge of the way things happen.Q.E.D 'he' does not exist.

  • @schmads I am not a religious person but I could not disagree more with that. There are many positive things about every religion that benefit the world. Its when it gets taken too far that problems arise, and human nature means that, like everything, it always gets taken too far.

  • Christians should not be divided into divisions or denominations. The bible says that we should all speak the same thing.

  • @brotherfrank62 Yeah... Th Holy Bible!!!!!!

  • @brotherfrank62 alas u don't!

  • ooooh maaaaaan wicked remind you

  • great tune great band ....

  • Amazing song!

  • FMG IT'S ABOUT HAVING A SHIT LIFE AND GETTING AS FAR AWAY FROM IT AS POSSIBLE.. I.E..UK..AUSTRALIA.. GET IT.......NOTH SOUTH POLE TYPE STUFF..

  • Clearing up the misunderstanding about tithing in today's New Testament Church.

  • What an excellent listen! Manucs are so talanted.

  • All Ozzies smell of cockatiels. They are blinded by starlight. Their skin is kissed by gods we forgot. Gods bless Australia.

  • why do i come to look at a video and song and hear youtube hatred. firstly australians are awesome, and secondly the song (although called australia) has nothing to do with the country itself. it's telling about how they wanted to get as far away from home as possible after richey died. but whatever it's just a good song

  • @Fgh2rvb You mean after Richey disappeared! It's only assumed he's dead, there is no official confirmation that he is dead

  • @PhilSupernova88 yeah sorry bad misuse of words

  • @Fgh2rvb Thank you, I've been listening to this song ten years now and could never work out what it had to do with Australia. You've answered my question and now I can sleep again.

  • one of the only things i remember from my first glasto festival in the 90,s!!!! fantastic x

  • There's lovely.

  • get in there, superb!!!

  • This song actually makes me wonder if the band KNOW where richey is...... despite commercial success, the manics still have a sense of mystery about them :D

  • Renfords Rejects 4ever! Ah I miss the rejects,lol,they made me feel; like a great player haha,oh and I'd do the asian bird,lol.Well haha,not at the time cuz my balls aint dropped then! Oh Renford!!!!!!!

  • renford rejects!!!!!!!

  • As an Aussie who was "shipped to the UK as a lesson", this song has profound meaning, But i fkn loved it and made some solid friends along the way!! GOD bless my family and friends on the other side of the world :D SKIPPY.

  • @AussieOutlaw1  Oh you must of been real bad lol, thats a turn up for the books Australia shipping out convicts

  • Renford Rejects!!!

  • waz this a hit in Oz when released back in the 90's?

    always liked this album

  • I never even heard this song until about a year ago....

  • In the simpsons... when Bart got into trouble the Australian Flag had a huge arse on it. ... i was very proud. i liked that flag. replace the Union Jack with a huge arse.!!!!

  • A huge arse would be better than that piece of shit we've got at the moment.

  • top tune

  • what the 'ell is this song abou'?

  • @hyperseauton australia

  • About needing to escape your surroundings and get away as far as possible. For the Welsh Manics, that would be Australia.

  • Hyper - One of the members of Manic street preachers went missing several years ago. This song is in regards to his disappearance , saying that he could be anywhere in the world far away such as Australia. This is what I've read anyways.

  • Nah, its not about Richey, its about Nicky's feelings following his disappearance. The song is about wanting to run away from where you are, and the furthest place from the UK is Australia. I think Nicky made it as far as Camber Sands.

  • Running away.

  • used to be on goal of the month too on match of the day

  • Renford Rejects forever.Manics are brill!

  • spot on

  • I remember that show lol. Great vid and song!

  • Yeah! I cant for the life of me see why this was theme to renfords rejects though! I must be missing something.

  • It was a just a big song when the show came out so they used it I guess.

  • Sure youre right.Good songs usually make  tv shows memorable.This is a good song and Renford were good for a laugh,with a bit of footy thrown in.

  • @pablogeebee1 lol same. this song and the show brings back memories though.

  • Manics forever!

  • Nice song 5/5 :D

    From

     Mexico

  • Renford Rejects!

  • @christurkthebrave haaaaaaaaaa!!!

  • brilliant song from a band at their best.you guys have lost ure way.stop the political debate and enjoy the music.well said djc

  • you need to buy journal for plague lovers if you think they have lost their form its their best album since EMG. Nit to mention they were unreal on their tour(s) this year.

  • when i said "you guys have lost ure way",i wasnt talkin about the manics ,i was talkin to the viewers who instead of enjoying the greatness of the music,decide to argue about a lot of shit!!

  • sorry i misnderstood your post

  • cool mate its my fault.just realised how it sounded when i read it back myself.

  • Either comment on the song or don't comment at all......that's all I'll say. Brings back memories of the Renford Rejects..... Bruno and Vinnie were great. And Stoker???? How he made me laugh......

  • you fail u noob

    brilliant song face it

  • sethgitte: you are a total ballbag.

    if you don't like it, why bother posting here? why watch the video in the first place?

    i'm sure the army of fans would disagree with you.

    you fail. epically.

  • fucking shut it sethgitte you official CUNT.

  • Whos arses are the righties up?

  • Left wing people are just empathic whereas right wingers (e.g. Hitler etc) are heartless.

  • Great song, shame about the ensuing nationalistic debate in the comments section.

  • i totally agree with u its pitiful

  • @lewisrouault1 Yeah, sorry. Aussies aren't good at seeing their land as an idea or expression of desire. Sadly, when it comes to thinking INSIDE our skulls, we're crushingly dull people. On the upside, our ignorance,parochialism & cultural blinkers are now so formidable, we can't see it. The light at the end of mortality masked as a silver lining, I think.

  • @lewisrouault1 YES.

    why do people always do that?

  • the fact is that you brits shipped out about one quarter of the whole population of australia and the rest were from other countries and now we are a better country then england as we have more immigrants coming which shows they think it is a better country than the uk. also australians arent racist. australia has one of the most multicultural societes in the world.

  • o boy you really bitter and only 25 god help you when your 60 get your head out of the books and start living for fuck sake

  • the brits didnt ship anyone out our puppet masters and their twisted rules did, and australia is multicultural i agree and all of those different multicultural offshoots probably still look back on their ancestors homelands and feel pride just as australians descended from brits probably do, aussies are the poms distant cousins, its about family. There is a common bond between the poms, aussies, canucks and zealanders because of this cultural heritage, we are an extended family thats all.

  • You'll find that most of the people that GB shipped out were Irish...

    Just look at Australian surnames.

  • Should take the Union Jack off the Aussie flag then, replace it with a harp or the tricolour? :P

  • No because there are Irish people in the United Kingdom.

  • Irish people built the UK!

  • So Only Irish people built the UK? Are you stupid?

    You should change your name to noddymoron

  • That's some wit you possess!!! You should become a professional comedian!

  • @noddymoran Oh seems like your not stupid after all and thank you. The thought did occur. lol

    X-D

  • @noddymoran Yeh, then we blew it all up. The IRA are not terrorists. They're a bunch of Irish labourers who ran out of work in the 70s and 80s and decided to make some work for themselves.

  • @AidanMusik

    and youll find the majority are english

  • Aussies arn't racist!!! where the fuck have you been hiding?

  • all of them? have you met ALL of them?

  • i loved this song as the renford rejects theme song :)

  • legendary rejects! brunoooo!!

  • People should be commenting about the song, not why they think Australians are racist (Mistakenly might I add)

    Comment on the song you dumb cunts.

  • God that is awful - why can't people judge a person for who they are alone and NOT where they come from?! It's pathetic!

  • Great song!!

    Great band!!

  • H M P AUSTRALIA !!!!!!!  carl in scarborough. ENGLAND. hahaha

  • lol harsh!

  • I wish I lived there..what a great country..

    MANICS rules

  • RENFORD REJECTS

  • plus: "The sentiment of the song is that Australia is just about the furthest one can go to get away from their home in Wales and is a metaphor for Nicky Wire's desire to escape from the emotional turmoil caused by the disappearance of his close friend and co-lyricist, Richey James Edwards." from WIKIPEDIA.

  • I'd like to know why these guys attacks or hates another country.. what happened to their lives that made 'em grew up with this gap in their mind. I really don't know, but reading these things really makes me believe that most human beings are the worst creature in the world.

  • People come on this isn't a bloody forum and neither is this a place for racists i mean we all talk english does the accent matter? That the world already is so wicked that people who talk english act racist to each other! Think about it!

    (by the way, i'm from Holland you say something stupid about that mate!)

  • the reason i hate aussies is cos theyre racist. non white immigrants are habituallly discriminated against (check out "community channel" and read all her -ve comments she receives) as are aboriginal peoples. if there was any reason to hate a nation then australia comes close to top. (i also hated apartheid south africa)

  • No we're not... not many of us, anyway.

  • 'the reason i hate aussies is cos theyre racist'

    That's racist in itself. And if it's so bad, why does Australia manage to HAVE immigrants?

  • no it isnt cos aussies arnt a race!!!

    caucasian people are a race not australians.

    many people going to australia a going for a variety of reasons such as fleeing war (australia is close to vietnam/myanmar/cambodia) going to univesity(there are many chinese and indian students there) or looking for a stronger economic climate.

    most white aussies are descended from british prisoners who were exiled there. these prisoners them attempted to commit genocide against the ethnic population (tasmania)

  • 421 ikoom:

    But most Australians are Caucasian: what you're REALLY saying is 'they're all racist against non-caucasians' - and yes, that's racist itself. And most Aussies are not 'descended from British prisoners'. Your profile says you're from Turkey - I hope you don't hate Greeks or Armenians!!

  • Australia's not perfect, but ask yourself WHY people fleeing war, going to university or looking for work go there? Because it's peaceful, has good schools and a good economy. So people stay and BECOME AUSTRALIANS!

    As for the Aborigines, millions of Australians supported the apology to them for their past treatment.

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  • The entire nation of Australia are immigrants anyway. The all came from England, Ireland, Netherlands etc. etc.

    The aboriginal people are the only non immigrants there.

    Don't know how that affects your theory but I just wanted to share it :)

  • Aboriginies are immigrants to Australia... just a whole millenia prior, lol.

  • Boongs...thats all im saying haha

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  • renford rejects anyone? ;)

  • HAHA! YES!!

  • Norat you really are a bitter and twisted moosef*@ker aren't you!!!

  • hating a country is one thing but to make fun of hundreds of dead ppl is seriously wrong. I personally dont give a fuk about u but I would like the vast majority of ppl prefer australia ovr canada any day. And if u think its funny making fun of the bushfire victims i think its time u seriously re-evaluate ur life :)

  • u r an aggorant fucker!

  • Nob!

  • you can shut your gob you or i will put my feet in your mouth what country you from

  • norah i'm a brit living over in oz and they are the friendliest people you could ever wish to meet. having not been here or ever met an Aussie how can you make such a sweeping statement. you sound like a YANK who has never stepped over his own border!

  • well aren't you just the bitterest moosef#@ker!! always thought the canadians were friendly people how wrong i was. just as well picked oz over that place.

  • Norah, Canada has more French people. Your argument is now invalid.

  • dumbass canadian go rape a moose

  • Thank you for sharing those deep and meaningful thoughts with us, Norah. Somebody has a second helping of fascist shreddies this morning. I think you just hi lighted the shallowness of your personality. You can be honest why dont you like Australia? Customs refused you entry didnt they? What they detained you as well? Did they do an internal body search with a rubber glove and an oversized large spoon? The Buggers!!! If I had that done to me I'd be that small minded too!!!

  • @NorahHomeBless ok so youve never met any australiens and never been 2 oz, and yet you think that every single one of them is ignorant and stupid? im finding that extremely insulting. my dad was australien and i have relatives and friends over there and let me tell you, they are some of the nicest, most genuine, smartest people i know. and australia itself is a buaetiful county as you would know if you bothered to find out the slightest thing on this place you are so PREJUDICED about.

  • australia have the worlds best beer!!!

  • Well i hope you're family and friend are put in concentration camps!

    Have a nice day!

  • And THAT WAS MEANT AS A REPLY TO NORAHSHITEATER

  • does anyone know which british football series had this song as an intro?? i guess it started around '98 and it was about a mediocre football team and a coach, but that's all i can remember.

  • renford rejects

  • wow, on moments like this i'm grateful that we are able to trace so many memories due to youtube. truly i would never have found it again. thanks a lot pal.

  • cock face

  • renford rejects!!!

  • Fuckin' A 8-)

  • If you watch his lips he's not even singing the song. It's just a load of clips from the Kevin Cater video superimposed over some stock footage in an attempt to scrounge two promos for the price of one!

    Total wank. Good song though.

  • AH! So it's the Manics who did this. That's eight years of wondering settled.

  • i am off to see them may 26 llandudno

  • A great, great song tainted by yet another shit, shit video. What the hell is with the Manics and their limp videos?

  • wasnt this the theme for renford rejects? lol

  • yep!

    I loved that show haha.

  • what was it about?