Aussie Week Day 2 : The Saints: I'm Stranded / Know Your Product (MIND BLOWN) Reaction 

I hope the Saints get the recognition they deserve. As pioneers of punk.

Know You Product is a pretty significant song for Australian music, because it kicked off a whole trend for having a brass section, which led to bands like Hunters & Collectors.

I'm English and I bought that Stranded single because of that SOUNDS review in 1976. It was before Sex Pistols and The Damned. John Peel played Stranded, and about 6 months later, The Saints were on Top Of The Pops. I saw them at the Marquee and they were better than a lot of their English contemporaries. The reason why you two don't know of their importance is because historians are biased and nobody wants to acknowledge a good band from Australia. They also did an appearance on that British drama show The Saint back in the 70's. Don't doubt that these guys were doing it before and better than the British counterparts.

Radio Birdman definitely needs to go on the list now.

"The Loved Ones" 1965-1967 An Australian band that definitely doesn't get the recognition they deserve! songs - "the loved one" and "ever lovin' man" will blow your socks off! and I'll even add a bonus band to blow your socks off "TISM"

F*ck yeah. The Saints lead the way. Now the world is realising Australia’s contribution to Rock music 🇦🇺🎸⚡️🤘🏼🤘🏿💋❤️ sorry to hear of Chris’s passing.

Boys Ed's surname is pronounced "Cooper'' for Kuepper. His solo stuff is fantastic.

Joe Strummer said in an interview that when they were all packed in a car driving home after a gig John Peel played I'm Stranded and they loved it so much they had to pull over to listen

Although Brisbane was an extremely conservative place in the 1970's, there was always a wild anarchic underbelly that was kicking against the system - the perfect breeding ground for a nascent punk rock movement. This included wild rock'n'roll dances dating back to the 1950's that were often held in hired out community halls because 'respectable' venues wouldn't touch them. The Saints carried a lot of that in their DNA along with the Detroit sound and other touring English acts in the early 1970's. The Saints definitely predated the Ramones and have documented gigs under the name with the set list that ended up on the first album from before the Ramones formation. However, being in a cultural backwater, it took them a lot longer to scrape together the money and self fund their first release on their own Fatal Records (no-one was willing to take a punt on investing in this band at the time). The Ramones therefore beat them into the studio, but the release of I'm Stranded predated the release of New Rose by The Damned and the Sex Pistols. The Saints sold half their run of singles and sent the other half to interstate and overseas reviewers and labels, which included Sounds magazine, leading to their famous review. As soon as EMI in the UK heard the song, they rang their Australian office in Sydney and sent them up to Brisbane to sign them immediately and get them into the studio as soon as possible. I'm Stranded was re-recorded for wider release through EMI, which is why some people think that it came after the other early punk releases. They also didn't travel to the UK immediately, so they were seen as late and out of fashion by the London crowd by the time they arrived, however by then they (Ed Kuepper particularly) had moved on musically towards the sounds of Know Your Product and the second album Eternally Yours. Prehistoric Sounds, the third and final album of the original lineup started incorporating more jazz influences into the songwriting that hinted towards Kuepper's next project Laughing Clowns - he was so far ahead pop the curve it took until the 2000's for the mainstream to catch up and properly appreciate what he was doing back them. Notably, before they went to the UK, they toured the east coast of Australia, where they influenced a nascent group called Boys Next Door, who renamed themselves as The Birthday Party and fronted by Saints fanboy Nick Cave, they also tore up the rulebook in the UK in the early 1980's. Cave duetted with Bailey in 'Bring It On' and has invited Kuepper to tour as the Bad Seeds Guitarist.

I recently saw the lead singer Chris on a re-run of a show here called Spicks & Specks, and he called the Sex Pistols a crap band. True Punk rocker

There were sooo many great "garage" bands in Australia in the 70s and 80s The Saints, The Scientists, The Hitmen, The Drop Bears, The Lime Spiders, X, to name a few

You couldn’t have picked two better songs to demonstrate the Saints credibility and contribution to the punk explosion

Well I don't know about the first punk band, but they were definitely the first punk band in the world to record their own songs. My favourite is know your product. P. S. One of Australia's first blues bands was Chain, who started in the 60's and their number one hit was black and blue.

NME said that (I'm) Stranded was the Single of this Week and every Week. I first heard this song on Sydney Radio Station JJ 1540 am in 1976. The Saints had no idea the history they were making at the time. They were joyously oblivious. Isolated in the very backward town called Brisbane, Qld, Australia, under the Fascist rule of Joh Bjelke Petersen. Police were shutting down their gigs and confiscating their equipment. RIP - the late, great Chris Bailey Love ya Mate.

"Just like fire would " is my favourite by the Saints

Great reaction . Been waiting for this . Thanks . Edit -Saints 73 Ramones 74 Sex Pistols 76 . 2 of their best songs .

You can't go past Chris Bailey and any version of The Saints. They put out some great albums. Ed Kuepper released some terrific solo records as well.

What a great band!!! I bought I'm Stranded the day it came out and it changed my life. Ed Kuepper has released over 50 albums to some success. His solo shows or with drummer Jim White are fantastic and he has a brilliant, droll sense of humour. He also has a band called "The Aints" who do Saints and Ed's solo songs, a great band. Two of Ed's best are "Everything I've got belongs to you" and "The way I made you feel", instant classics. We love Chris.

Also Alex & George - Know Your Product was actually recorded IN LONDON (Roundhouse and Wessex Studios) in May 1977 and released in February 1978, Its off their second album.

Absolute classic songs bought I'm stranded on vinyl when it was released and still play it often, brings back a lot of fond memories of my youth

Oh shit okay. That's where Rocket From the Crypt got their whole oeuvre from then. I'll be damned.

Jon Savage referenced The Saints in his book, England’s Dreaming. One of the earliest punk bands to get their music on vinyl after Ramones. It’s often thought that Sex Pistols were rallying against Thatcher’s tough rule, The Saints from Brisbane evolved from a similar political landscape with the Bjelke-Petersen ruling QLD with a very conservative iron fist. Brilliant band. Glad you finally found them.

The Saints were originally called Kid Galahad and the Eternals in 1973. The band renamed themselves the Saints in 1974, inspired by Leslie Charteris's character The Saint. They are one of the most influential Rock Bands of all time. Everything they did was very organic and unintentional. Their clothes and their hair was very out of step with the music scene they found in London. All the 'Punks' had short hair or spiky hair. They didn't fit in and they didn't care, which was a very Punk attitude. LOL. In 2017, a mural dedicated to the Saints and their song "(I'm) Stranded" was enacted on Roma Street, Brisbane. The mural included lyrics from the song and is situated close to 4 Petrie Terrace, the location previously used by the band as an unlicensed venue.[29] In 2021, the State Library of Queensland named its copy of "(I'm) Stranded" as one of the treasures from its John Oxley Library collection, citing the 7” vinyl single represented a piece of Australian and Queensland music history, influencing generations of bands around the world.[30] Chris Bailey died on April 9, 2022, aged 65.

The Saints are such an incredible band. You can obviously hear there influences like MC5 and The Stooges but Chris's voice made them unique. I'm Stranded and This Perfect day are my favourite songs from them.

Wow WTF..My 2 fav punk Rock band song's ever..I can't believe it..had to grab a glass of bubbles for this. So So happy! Ed Kuepper did a beautiful song The way you make me feel Fantastic song! you must listen to as well. You wont be disappointed! Chris Bailey always was like that..seen him live in a little club in Adelaide..with a bottle of bourbon next to him fucking cool! I was 17 at the time 1987. Also in your own time my ex hubby(still friend's) was in a band ''The young home buys''..but he had a band ''Nasty Nigel and the teenage hell cat's'' He brought out a track ''Jones town suicide' another early punk song with a reggae influence..in your own time..check it out. Also you should listen to Jo Jo Zepp and the falcons''Shape i'm in'' It's not punk but Fing cool song!Also check out the Sonny boy's..alone with you. Man I could just keep going! Must be the bubble's lol.

I bought the I’m Stranded and Eternally Yours LPs in 1978, from the cut-out bin at Rasputin Records in Berkeley. Not one bad song. Chris made me feel like he had written each one just for me. Bought my Radio Birdman LPs at the same store, including a live album with a hand-drawn radio tower on the cover (not a reproduction of hand-drawn art). They’re still in my collection.

Not only from Australia, but from Queensland which in 1976 was a police state run by Joh Bjelke Peterson.

Brisbane was extremely conservative back in those days. It still is, and there were other conservative places in Australia at the time, but there used to be a joke that it was 1984 in Queensland long before it was 1984 in the rest of Australia. So it was little wonder that the oppression of the state created a very rebellious crowd. The horns in Know Your Product reminded me of The Easybeats song St Louis, another fantastically energetic song.

I was 6 in 1976 and into The Sweet, T-Rex and AC/DC so my dad who was into country music bought me a compilation album called Aus-Rock. Most of it was pretty bland but the last song on it was I’m Stranded. It blew my little mind. I just played that one song on repeat. For my 21st I made some mixed tapes for my party of songs that were important to me and I put I’m Stranded on them about 10 times because I thought it was the most important song in my music development. Love your channel guys.

Nice summary gents, you nailed an iconic band. Solo careers are worth a listen. Cheers.

The Guitarist, Ed Kuepper, has had a brilliant musical career. Check him out lads.

Having grown up in Brisbane, so glad you got to these legends. If you want more background here is a link to a documentary which gives more of their story. The quiet achievers of punk but also so much more. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7AZ9dQzIkW8.html

Aussies and New Zealand have had some of the best bands in the world but the recording industries in the UK and US have done their best to keep them hidden. As someone else pointed out : Easybeats were highly influential and are related to not only AC DC but songs like " Love Is in The Air", Lobby Loyde/ Coloured Balls, Billy TK, Aztecs, Masters Apprentice, Tamam Shud, Kahvas Jute, Radio Birdman, New Christs, Rose Tattoo, The Meanies, Drunk Mums, The Chats.....

Chris Bailey had so much charisma, and Ed is a genius 👏 🙌 😍 you must check out his solo stuff

Fantastic stuff! Thanks heaps, gentlemen! ❤️💐 As one English writer later said of the Saints, doubtless unaware just how close to the truth he was: “They aren’t trend followers, and they don’t have an established anti-establishment to support their contempt for the rest of society. They have thus far been totally isolated, and their very existence is probably an affront to their families, their street, their town, their state, their nation…”

Dave Warner From The Suburbs were doing Punk in the early 70s too. Lots of bands were but they were little known.

Watching some live Radio Birdman is a good idea too - though I never really listened to their albums.

Apparently Malcolm McLaren who managed the Sex Pistols heard it and told Johnny Rotten that's what you need to sound like

One of my absolute favourites! I saw them 4 or 5 times over the years. One of my faves of the early era is Swing for the Crime. Later on The Saints (Chris Bailey) continued but Ed Kuepper continued seperately as The Aints and The Laughing Clowns (amongst others). The Saints kept on with with some great songs that were minor hits. Even Bruce Springsteen recorded a Chris Bailey song: Just Like Fire Would.

RIP Chris Bailey.

The Saints were based in London for most of 1977-78. Their second and third albums were recorded there.

Know Your Product releases in 1978.. Wow! Never heard it myself and I’m Aussie. Just wow !

A very good choice gentlemen. I was listening to this in my mid teens (in the seventies) and still listen to it now.

They were playing this song live in Brisbane with the same attitude in 74 I know because saw them few times that year and after

The Saints weren't my cup of tea, but as a former Brisbane girl, I know the part they played in the city's (and nation's) musical legacy. RIP Chris Bailey. BTW, if you're thinking of doing another Aussie week down the track (!!) check out early tracks from Models (I Hear Motion, Big on Love), Hoodoo Gurus (My Girl, Bittersweet, I Want You Back), and INXS (Black & White, Don't Change, One Thing). They each bridged the indie/pop-rock divide in their own unique way.

Brings to mind The Radiators with songs: 17 and Gimme Head, Comin Home, Fess’ song.

The Saints did a cover of the Easybeats song "The Music Goes Round my Head" in the 80's and it was spectacular, and i rarely like covers. Well worth a listen.

Great as always. Bringing back memories of great Aussie music.

From the Orara river to the Thames We love the saints

We were blessed with amazing bands in OZ during the '70s and '80s, you could pad your channel out for months :)

Yeah!!! we were slam dancing to the Saints back in the day. The beginning of 'Punk".

“Something Wicked” the Saints....a beautiful song

Yes. Just yes! 'Know Your Product' is seminal to the Stones, the Blues Brothers... k'n everyone I like! And yes - I'm Australian... and I'm old. These guys were an epiphany in their day. Lobby Lloyd anyone?

You guys need to get into another Australian Pub Band Royality Melbourne's version of the Saints, Hunters and Collectors, can you See what I see.. is great entry level.

I was a little young for The Saints the first time around, but they have certainly been on my radar for over 30 years. They were just outstanding.

The Saints were punk before 'punk' and never really adopted the label. They despised commercialised 'punk'. They never followed and they never sold out. Chris wasn't playing a part in those clips, he was like that his entire life,

When talking Fairport Convention, you're also talking Sandy Denny as well as Richard.

The Saints are from Brisbane. If you want to understand the Brissy music scene see if you can get a hold of the book "Pig City. From The Saints to Savage Garden" by Andrew Stafford. Explains the political scene with a government that cracked down on dissent.

If your mind is blown by this early punk song, you'll be equally astonished to learn that the great Aussie band The Scientists brought grunge to Seattle!!

The 'forgotten' start of 'punk'. The two leads in the band where from emigrant families from Europe. Hence the title "Stranded". They used to practice 600m away from my high school. They were upset, and talented. That is 'punk'. Punk is having a 'voice' when no-one else is listening :-)

You gotta do Radio Birdman they had early 70's punk attitude by the truck load. Their live gigs in Paddo were something else.

Very much inner city Australian rock here. I've not seen this clip before though - the one I'm familiar with was filmed in a derelict house somewhere...

Loved the reaction guys...thanks.. Subbed...😉

Wow, what a blast from the past!

I remember seeing The Saints at the University of Queensland which I think was in 1974. It was the first time I had ever heard punk music and I have to confess at the time I didn't like them and went to the other hall to see Split Enz, although I soon changed my mind after hearing I'm Stranded on the radio and ended up buying their first album. Later I became a big Ed Kuepper fan and have a whole bunch of his solo albums. I also saw what I think was their last perfomance which was a one off reunion in Brisbane, I think that was about 2006 or 2007.

eternally yours is a masterpiece album form the saints. Thanks so much for this.

Surprised you didnt do these guys earlier. Glad you did.

Absolutely love this song. It’s one of the best of the genre and that means everywhere and ever!

Stunned in to silence. That has just rewritten my history book. I did not know.Richard Thompson, yes please. Not for everybody. But very important

Wow . . . Alex & George, I have to say that I'm a little bit surprised that you guys had not heard The Saints' "I'm Stranded" before? Public service announcement for both of you (and any interested Thamesmen subscribers too): for many years on National Public Radio (NPR) two Chicago based newspaper rock 'n' roll critics had a show called "Sound Opinions" that did all sorts of reviews of rock music, album deep dives, etc. The show still exists today as a Podcast with the same title, by the way. But they probably have played "I'm Stranded" -- or snippets of that song -- a few hundred times over the years. Check it out, you might like it.

really enjoyed the video. brought back memories of my youth and this style of music

Have you met Radio Birdman? Try it. You might like it. Same era but in Sydney. Can't believe you never heard of them. Living in a bubble in the UK! Brass section became deriguer in many Aus bands in early 80's after this. Try Painters and Dockers.

Squalid hole..... all good. Luv the channel.

In the mid-70's Brisbane, Qld was a very backward country town. Qld was being ruled by a very oppressive Right-Wing Fascist government. Police would storm into venues and shut down the gigs and threaten to confiscate the Band's equipment. If you gathered in groups of more than 3 people you could be arrested. The LIVE music scene was viewed as very radical and a potential threat to the government. True, the musicians were politically progessive and even Left-Wing therefore they were a 'vehicle' for the young people's minds. The Saints were at the forefront of the movement without trying to be.

Oh wow!!! I was only halfway when I commented and now I see there's a BONUS!! kewl...just the ticket Thanks guys!!! You are so awesome!

and the use of brass in a 'punk' song certainly add huge sound to the song, Ed Keuppers next band post The Saints called The Laughing Clowns even had brass solos instead of guitars and also very worth the listen

Glad you found the Saints. Chris Bailey was a great singer/front man. George, thought you might be interested, I saw Midnight Oil for the last time on Sunday night in Perth. Brilliant live band as always. Big crowd of adoring fans. Peter Garrett was his usual self. Everyone from a big gas producing company, politicians and the monarchy copped big serves as well as highlighting environmental and First Nation issues. I think their last show is later this week in Sydney. looking forward to the rest of Aussie week.

in truth, one of the most important bands in rock history... but quite forgotten.. we were spoilt in Oz back thru the 70's-80's

Yes! The Saints one of my all time favourite Aussie bands. 😍Nice one lads. Know yr Product -Feb 1978. Can recommend This Perfect Day also (the 1977 7inch version is the best). Moving on from their punk phase takes you to Ghost Ships and Just Like Fire Would in the 1980's

Know your product is an amazing track. Now do Radio Birdman decent into the maelstrom. Also started in Oz 1973. Saints from Brisbane, Birdman from Sydney.

Such a great tune Know Your Product and it’s been covered by a number of other great Aussie bands live such as Midnight Oil and Hunters & Collectors.

Nice to see The Saints included. Great stuff

Radio Birdman chaps ! ‘Aloha Steve and Danno’. About as old as the Saints. From Sydney. (they weave the instrumental from Hawaii 5 0 into this !)

Had a mate who dragged me along to the saints in Sydney . He was into mod and ska so I would say this a progression from that.

yes individual pioneers of punk, you may not have heard of them but plenty of british punk rock bands did.. There was also a band called acid rock who used to play on a 2 storey stage in the greatest and most short lived venue in the world, josephs coat and were years ahead of that genre around 1971. Wonder if you have gone even earlier and reacted to the loved ones - everlovin man, the loved one, and blueberry hill, they were an early influence on the rolling stones

Maybe it's a fact...Aussies invented Punk, and everyone including the Sex Pistols knew it.....

They say that you need to come from a place, a city etc where there’s anger & a social movement that’s “kicking against the pricks” to produce angry punk music & not many people outside of Australia would understand that Brisbane in the 70s was often compared to a “police state” there was mass police corruption & was run by a tyrannical conservative premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen, think a kind of Margaret Thatcher equivalent Any kind of music or counter culture was regularly shut down by police with batons, most bands left for Melbourne or Sydney, sometimes London or NYC or LA, it was a pretty strange time & subsequently many bands emerged inspired by the social extremes of the time

This track is world class.

This track is for 76, but the band started in 73

Celibate Rifles, Radio Birdman, X, Lime Spiders, dont get me started, so many good bands from Oz in late 70's & early 80's

'Inala Boys'... the poorest suburb in Brisbane. As a kid we would visit there to play soccer, a terrifying experience... ours shins were 'black and blue' and our goalie had a broken ankle... you could hear the 'crack' from the sideline.

They are a band of my younger years .we always believe our punk bands were a lot tighter then pommy bands off the time.

Never heard of these lads, before my time... but wow they were good, thanks for finding them for me

Not being a fan of punk, that was indeed punk. Before punk. Know Your Product is a great example of the lyrical content making me love punk. :)

Great - you like to try The Sunnyboys as well.

Great Reaction Lads It is a legend song 🎵

I first heard the Saints UK release of '(I'm) Stranded b/w No time' in mid-1977 (recorded in Oz spring-1976) and it blew my mind (age 15) later buying ALL their records, relatedly I was already into 'underground rock' (USA eclectic genre) a.k.a. 'underground rock' and/or 'pub rock' eclectic genres in the UK (pre-'Anarchy in the UK' Sex Pistols single). Most self-proclaimed 'Punk rockers' I knew in 1977+ didn't consider the Saints to be 'punk music' but liked it (they also didn't consider 'the Stranglers', 'Eddy & the Hot Rods', and 'Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers' to be 'Punk Rock' either). I, like many 'punk' musicians in 1974-1976 HATED the adolescently denigrating label 'punk rock' (let alone the cringy late-1977+ 'New Wave' term), as did at first the Saints and half the Stranglers (and many other pre-1978 'underground rock' band members labelled 'punk' and/or 'new wave'). Back in December 1976 (when the Sex Pistols hit the UK charts global notoriety) the term 'Punk' Rock unfortunately stuck precisely because, unlike for a few thousand people in New York since 1974 (or very-obscurely since 1972+ USA only when referring to some, mostly-US, 'hardcore garageband' music circa 1964-1967), the term 'punk' was a bloody insult label via UK establishment/gutter press, even the 'proper-musicians' in the Sex Pistols did not like the "insulting" label at first, but asshole sociopaths Johnny Rotten and Malcolm McLaren (their manager/puppeteer) loved it (McLaren would have loved it if the UK press had dubbed it 'Baby-rape music', merely for the narcissistic ego pop value (McLaren and Lydon were/are creeps, but got all the celebrity, fandom, foedom and 'glory' sponging off fellow band mates into the future etc). But we are stuck with the term 'punk' or proto-punk' just like we are stuck with 'black' and 'white' people even though I never met or saw a picture of a black or white person, let alone yellow or red, in my life. The Saints weren't the first 'punk band' to release a record but '(I'm) Stranded b/w No time' was the first single released in the UK to be [retroactively] labelled by UK-institutions and some UK-fans as 'punk music'. For more primordial UK 'punk' archeology check out the links below of 1960s groups 'The Pretty Things', and 'The Downliners Sect' (circa 1963-1968, & never particularly popular in the UK, in September 1964 'the Sect's' single 'Little Egypt' knocked the Beatles off the number 1 chart spot in Sweden for weeks and they hastily made tour of the country leading to mass Swedish-fan hysteria and venue trashing riots on a scale never happened before at a rock concert in Europe or UK for that matter, leading to questions in the Swedish parliament (and TV) on 'youth problems'), the 'Sect' were more interested in their own musical desires than pleasing their fans and so after their amazing 1964 hardcore-r'n'b (proto-proto-'punk') LP, in 1965 they came out with an edgy 'country rock music' LP, the first ever 'country rock' labelled LP anywhere, they never recovered their previous fan base or short-term 'popularity'... The Downliners Sect (arguably some of their better songs c.1963-1968): Unprecedentedly, their first ever record (a 1963 EP) was recorded live [at a London club in late-1963, released in early 1964]: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TU1TWoRhaNE.html (1963) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sxe7Go47US8.html (1964) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ybeB64nDk8Q.html (1964) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sde7Am6CQxc.html (1964) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E4lKg6cBcJA.html (1965) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TJBXURWXovg.html (1965) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AP-kCIp1gRk.html (1966) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eZ4KSgJBq7Y.html (1966) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DTu_BaFI0G8.html (1966) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BBETeCL2qHM.html (1966) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xdjXN5vDX-4.html (early 1967) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JBeTI9z_8BE.html (1968). Besides the way better MINDMELTING band (links below) 'The Pretty Things' (records 1964+) who were arguably one of the best 8 UK bands of 1964-1970 (extremely influential globally but never toured the US and were much bigger in Europe and Australasia than in the US or UK), there is the even harder-core 'The Fairies' (1964-1965, which included the 1967-1968 era Pretty Things drummer John 'Twink' Adler): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gwuACD0VLyw.html (early 1965; this composition was supposed to be the Pretty Things' penned 1964 2nd single A-side but their record company rejected the demo in favor of 'Don't bring me down' a great song also covered by Bowie on his 1973 LP 'Pin Ups' along with the Pretty Things' groundbreaking penned 'punk' song 'Rosalyn'). The Pretty Things (arguably some of their better songs c.1964-1970): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rHg8J4GjE94.html (hit single from May 1964 dubbed over live footage from when they headlined the Dutch 1965 Blokker Festival ((ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OOq96iLLC-o.html), the Beatles had headlined the Festival in 1964) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2cY4uRT198s.html (recorded in late 1964 for their first LP, played live here in Germany February 1966) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R2lSGqh7zs0.html (from their 1965 2nd LP) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w3qJ-KPlt4M.html (from their late-1965 2nd LP, dubbed in studio for UK TV in January 1966) / ru-vid.com?search_query=the+pretty+things+come+see+me (from their late-1965 2nd LP, dubbed for Dutch TV footage from early 1966) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gqSf1mroEic.html (from their late-1965 2nd LP, dubbed for their UK mini-film from/released-in early 1966) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lZLoZz-PZaI.html (November 1967 single) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UeiauJ-TR5Y.html (from 1968 LP, the first ever 'concept album') / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mg5t7T5_rR8.html (from 1968 LP) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jgnw1ttYpbQ.html (from their alias 'Electric Banana' recordings made for films, 1969) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1hY-4a0IvV0.html (from their alias 'Electric Banana' recordings made for films, 1969) / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1hY-4a0IvV0.html (from their 1970 LP, voted best LP of 1970 by Rolling Stone magazine, not that I like Rolling Stone magazine and their too many dumb/ignorant reviews/tastes).

Best. Band. Ever. I love theses guys...RIP Chris...saddest day of my life

From the same time, check out Radio Birdman. I think you'll like Aloha Steve and danno.

Brisbane in the 70s was the perfect place to create the perfect punk song. Read up on Joh Bjelke-Peterson, and you’ll understand exactly why it happened there.