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The music of Australia and most particularly the rock, pop, Hip hop and indie rock music of Australia has had a long fascination with the local environment be it urban or rural. This is a list of songs which mention or are about Melbourne the capital city of Victoria, Australia, the suburbs of Melbourne and nearby locations. In 2004, an article by Michael Dwyer published in The Age discussed songs written about Melbourne. A list of twenty-five songs about Melbourne were also published.[1]

The Sydney Morning Herald ran a concurrent article discussing songs written about Sydney at the time. Paul Kelly had four songs in each list, one of which ("From St Kilda to Kings Cross") featured in both lists.[2]

This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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  • "I Can't Hear You, We're Breaking Up" by Courtney Barnett and Giles Field[10]
  • "I Dream of Spring" by k. d. lang
  • "I've Been To Bali Too" by Redgum
  • "I'm Going Back to My Girl in Melbourne (She's the Girl I left Behind Me!) by Paul Belham and WH Wallis (191x) [11]

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  • "Platform Girl" by Peter Sherwood
  • “Plummer Road”, by Eddie Perfect
  • "Postcards From Melbourne" by Raul Graf/Ed Kuepper[3]
  • "Prague" by Ruck Rover
  • "Press Release" by Lyrical Commission
  • "Pub" by Cosmic Psychos[3]
  • "Punt Road Traffic" by Mark Ferrie

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Songs erroneously thought to be about Melbourne

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  • "Morningtown Ride" by The Seekers. The song was originally a lullaby written by Californian folk singer Malvina Reynolds in 1957. It is often attributed to Melbourne for depicting an old-fashioned train trip to the similarly named beach-side town of Mornington (as The Seekers largely hailed from Melbourne).
  • "Town With No Cheer" by Tom Waits[3] - although often believed to be about Melbourne, the town of the title is actually Serviceton.

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Dwyer, Michael (28 August 2004). "Songs Of Melbourne". The Age. Fairfax Digital. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  2. ^ Zuel, Bernard (18 September 2004). "A Tale Of Two Cities' Ditties". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Digital. Retrieved 22 July 2006.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax "Songs About Melbourne (Unearthed Special)". JFiles. triple j, ABC. 21 June 2001. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  4. ^ a b Michael Dwyer. "Mick Thomas takes a dip with vinyl in his Aqua Profonda single". Sydney Morning Herald.
  5. ^ "Beauties of Melbourne waltz [music]". Trove. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  6. ^ "The Geelong-Melbourne railway [music] : polka". Trove. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Good-bye Melbourne town music". State Library of Victoria. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  8. ^ "Good-bye to dear old Melbourne [music]". Trove. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  9. ^ "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  10. ^ Giles Field (Ft. Courtney Barnett) – I Can't Hear You, We're Breaking Up, retrieved 17 December 2020
  11. ^ "I'm going back to my girl in Melbourne [music] : she's the girl I left behind me". Trove. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  12. ^ "Broderick Smith's Big Combo". Rate Your Music. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
  13. ^ "Does your town have its own song? // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia". nfsa.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  14. ^ Culnane, Paul (2007). "CHAIN". MILESAGO: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Milesago. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  15. ^ "Take me back to Melbourne town [music]". Trove. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  16. ^ Oscar the Band. "Taking the Tram (to Carnegie)". Bandcamp. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  17. ^ "Love is in the air Episode 5: "National Anthems"; transcript of interview with James Reyne". ABC-TV. 9 November 2003. Retrieved 2 March 2008.
  18. ^ "Toorak Trams and Bernard Bolan". Trams Down Under. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
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