Blam Blam Blam - No Depression in New Zealand (1981) original version 

What an excellent old banger of a song

Don McGlashan nailing it for 40+ years.

The only national anthem we need ....

41 f__king years ago, and the last time I checked (+/-3 minutes from now.) this was still accurate

It's so weird to hear someone actually sing the word 'New Zealand' in a song.

Sad how this is still just as relevant today

I live about 2000 km from New Zealand and have never visited but some days this seems like the greatest song in the entire history of popular music.

yeaah growing up second gen korean immigrant in nz i vouch the lyrics to this song is all true.

This is one of the most beautiful ironic songs I've ever heard; and not just from our country, but in general. Their sound suggests that they could be the Joy Division of New Zealand. I'm so proud of 80's Aotearoa.

The best NZ post-punk band.

Damn, but we had some awesome music in the 80's.

How prescient in light of yesterday's events - thank you Don McGlashan for putting this into words

@steve6607 I think you're missing the point Steve. This song was written in response to the 1981 Springbok Tour - probably the most fractured period in New Zealand's recent history. This is a protest song. A very angry, sarcastic, protest song. That's pretty punk rock in my book.

March 1982 , Orientation Week at Canterbury University , Christchurch . Who was there ? I was ! Blam Blam Blam played along with The Dance Exponents & The Clean

This could be our new National Anthem.

Came here to re-find my early teenage vibe, was not disappointed! Thanks for uploading, loved the Blam

This is even better when played over NZ Sunday night tv.

Dedicated to the terrifying memory of Rob Muldoon and Roger F*cking Douglas

brilliant, havent heard it in 30 years!

Fucking brilliant.then I left in 82. Moron me.

Should be the New New Zealand anthem. Even after all these years

these guys were so bang on the money then ....and now, should be the theme song for our 2014 election.

Whoa, Vegemite! This was before Men At Work and them pushing their Vegemite sandwich agenda.

saw them waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back Dunedin town hall they supported the Swingers, Bloody Good

The fiercely Don at his fiercely early. Always truthy.

I wish we made music like this still

Don McGlashan - Legend!

Cant say this a fact almost 40 years later but a good take on the irony of this country in the early 80s

brilliant

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Need a sequel to this, housing crisis, student loans

Ahhh 2021 and everything is perfectly calm in New Zealand 🇳🇿

This is an awesome kiwi song legend.

Whelp, once again this song is fucking relevant with the utter omnishambles National's making of everything, particularly the health system.

thanks for posting!

Very very tres brilliant indeed ! I've been so waiting for this video to turn up on RU-vid. Thanks EVER so much for putting it up. Love Don & the lads !!!

I was 10 years old and the same kids that were protesting the Springboks were punching me in the guts and throwing me down stairs for being brown

Everyone is still talking about WWIII 40 years later.

This song is amazing. Must bother with my own countries music more often.

at the 39 sec mark I believe that is Sir Dove-Myer Robinson the Mayor of Auckland at the time of this song's release pushing the mower

This one of aotearo best songs

Great vids! Thanks!

This song is good

cool stuff to get familiar with the band and/or flying nun records ... and yes, nz I still duno ^-^

Keep those knees together when dancing, boys, and just just jump up and down.

Anthem is as true then as it is now... -.-

love it

Fantastic!

BANG BANG BANG 111 4LOVE :D lol :D \o/

Great Band

Great song...great video

This was before its time.

#John_Key

there is now.

Wake up nzers , your chilling too hard ghees

" help me I'm trying to stay on the New Zealand Mental health Act compulsory treatment order "

The irony is still true in 2019

ahhh back when milk came in glass bottles....and we left milk tokens for the milkman....i think we need to go back to go foreword

love them dressed as vegemite and marmite jars

such an interesting construct.

And now just as then, these lyrics don't contain a single true statement.

The irony.

THIS IS SO RELEVANT NOW. THANKS JACINDA AND LABOUR PARTY

XS Cafe!

Jesse and Jane, Breaking Bad season 2

The cover of Anchor Me by a hodge podge of part-time, keen amateur Kiwi musicians (in training...on their mother's side of the family...etc) for the purpose of flagship'ing some political or social justice issue which I can't recall and have no interest in doing so, is such pure audio dog$hit, it was a shoo-in to get recorded and promoted, since that's just how things work these days. I endured about 30 seconds of the thing in order to uncover this truth, so you don't have to. (No, really: DONT GO THERE). PS: If you examine the lyrics to Heater deeply enough, you'll discover some of the most unexpectedly obscure, deep references (IMO), inc. biblical (wire and clay), alchemical (transformation via heat), and more. This might sound obscure (okay, this is obscure), but the fact that the protagonist's name is Frank, leads to the _"Frank Frank, Frankincnse"_ line. Another Biblical reference, of course, and beautifully lyrically crafty, but also, a sly way to encode / encrypt a 666 reference into the lyrics, sub textually. (Per letter-to-number substitution cipher, F is code for 6, ergo FFF = 666.) Sounds whacky, I know...but humour me if you will: what's the opening line in Anchor Me again? Oh yeah, that's right: *_"Full Fathom Five"_* ;)

This song hits so much differently today especially with COVID-19 and Jacinda Ardern as our prime minister

Always gets me going. I remember the amazing energy when this song came out. Check my scrolling sheet music version here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sNpTxkRh-_0.html

just brilliant they summed up the anti muldoon years fantastic!

I took it as pretty obvious. It is well-known there is no depression in NZ Everything is perfectly fine. Mental and economic health are in the Godzone.

Bizarre? Easy to see where Counting the Beat came from.

LIKE

Great stuff! I use to be so worried about WW3 and satellites falling out of the sky. Now I think my iPad is spying on me.

This IS our new National Anthem ... we have Jacinda Ardern to thank for that ... I wonder how long it will take for the Armed Offenders Squad to break down my door for that comment?

Fuck...you had something to worry about then?...welcome to 2019

They were wrong 😐

They were dead right. There was a looming depression in NZ in 1981, but it was about to get much worse. Ironic that it was a labour government that ushered in Thatcherite neoliberal economics to NZ. Aotearoa would never be that stable ever again and the wealth gap continues to increase to this day. The crusty old Muldoon 70's may have felt a bit stifling and conservative. But in fact that was the last time New Zealand was a stable homogenous society.

Everyone's talking about world War three

Now feels like those times. Denial and delay.

The land of the brave and the strong New Zealand

You'll never know if you never try. Nothing to do with Blam Blam Blam. Just sticking up for Give It A Whirl. The irony of a song from 1981 discussing the lack of problems in NZ is timeless good!

"plz don't nuke us" -NZ

Love to you reading❤️🌈🙏🕊️💜

This song might not be quite true this week.

Such a Young looking Don...

I bet the lyrics of this song went down well with the media - or maybe this before 100% pure NZ became a thing

Hi

So my whole life is a lie

the version on the album is so much better than this

Nz music never got better after this era ...I keep telling people that lorde is australian

40 years later, and never been more relevant. Sir John is a bastard, but 'smug hermit kingdom' was a hell of a turn of phrase - unironically or not.

9 people are deaf or gang members

WAITANGI DAY 2021 TODAY 💩

Re-release, next election. You know what to do.

N.Z has got some depression its true.

tis him

My dad is the guitarist in this band believe it or not

Usually it's aoeteroa.... and sung by the indigenous with the highest crime rate through bad breeding,,,,,

Sounds like The Mutton Birds?

The scenery still begs the question: How could you POSSIBLY be depressed looking at that amazing coastline?!