Australian poets from a long gone urban Sun drenched era, such optimism, lithe and lean, suntanned faces, flashing teeth, mullets (except Billie), home grown Adonises untouched by age, unwearied by the world ...
My brother mentioned this to me. In one of these Countdown appearances, the late Brad Robinson gave a funny look to the camera. As though he too could have thought that the vocals were hard to understand.
@@jamienone3350 aussie music is just different..In australia we liked all our homegrown stuff but we also liked all the good stuff from the USA and europe..and NZ even
I love this band just as much as Fleetwood Mac. I dont think there is a week that goes by without listening to all Australian Crawls songs. I have never seen them in real life. 🙂❤
Pretty sure I've seen a music vid of this song that was filmed at the old Lakeside Oval at South Melbourne, which used to be an AFL ground until South relocated to Sydney after the 1981 season. They were running around in the old grandstand (which is still there ironically)
For such an incredible band, it’s an oddity that it didn’t have a stream of #1 hits. There was Reckless, then everything else well behind it. Even the infatigable Boys Light Up didn’t chart spectacularly well (no. 22 only from memory). Despite this, the band had a string of top five albums that most could only dream about.
Beats me why we didn't hear about this lot in the UK at the time, much better than some of the electronic crap that was going down here at the time, maybe they were being a bit overshadowed by AC/DC. Reminds me of US band The Cars
As this was lifted from Countdown, the Go-Go's clip was shown next, but due to the audio being remastered from CD, the video faded out before the audio should have as it segued into Our Lips Are Sealed.
@@aus80srockradio94 lol... I know. I have seen that episode of Countdown this year. Even when making the comment (6 years ago!!! :-O ) I was imagining Gavin Wood's voice introducing the next video with some line like ''and now the hottest babes from Los Angeless who can seal my lips anyday...''
@@aus80srockradio94 I've heard Molly make an attempt, like the comment he made about Linda Ronstadt being a babe on one of her album covers. One fun thing to do with friends is turn down the volume when Molly does his humdrum and mouth off a scathing review on a classic album with your best Molly impersonation.
I could understand the Beatles lyrics. Australian Crawls odd approach makes me want me want to dance or sing their stuff. Apart from Oh No Not You Again, that song is so smooth you'd pay big money get get a Rum or Whisky that matches the song. But if you sing Aussie Crawl & people can understand you, your're doing it wrong. Another Whisky please!
@@johnsergei My biggest surprise with the James Reyne to English translation was near the start of Shut Down. I thought the line was 'she's also rude and she's on to you' but apparently it's 'it's oh such rue that she's done to you.'
