@@Tbaggrrr It wasn't back then 🙌 and always in our hearts and minds those that lived these halcyon days.. These days I feel humans have been pushed towards and lost need for real music of the soul 🫂💜🕎🎶🕉
This is one of the most legendary Australian songs by one of our most talented bands! A timeless favourite! Mondo Rock, Icehouse, Jeff St John, The Loved Ones and Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors) NEVER get old!
@Klemheist WWII ??? The Loved Ones - headed by the legendary British-born Gerry Humphries - were a Baby Boomer favourite who did not make their first appearance until the mid-1960's. One of their most memorable songs were "The Loved One" or the classic, "Sad, Dark Eyes" .... they will go down in history as one of the best, most talented Australian bands of the 1960's. Click on the links below to hear these signs which were THEME SONGS to the lives of so many Baby Boomers who were teenagers in the mid-1960's. Gerry Humphries was an absolutely BRILLIANT, charismatic performer - once seen, NEVER forgotten! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ccEtKc5TnGc.html = Sad Dark Eyes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-axUYL2I6KF8.html = The Loved One
All of our Bands from the 60's through to the end of the 80's were the Ducks Fucking Nuts!... With our bands and Pub culture back then life was sweet! We had it all back then! 🇦🇺💥
this song is bitter sweet for me, ill explain, im 40 now, when i was a teenager i never dated i never held hands with a girl, never did any of that, and this song reminds me every time i hear it on the young love i always missed out on, because girls always thought i was a nerd and a loser and shy etc... its such an injustice and such a shame, i wish i dated when i was a teenager, there were so many pretty girls in my high school like Shanna seamark, bronwyn hope, Claire Miles, Julia Beresford, amanda hobden, but they never even looked at me ONCE , they always just talked to to COOL guys, unfortunately i wasent one of them, so its a great song but it breaks my fragile heart every time i hear it because it reminds me of what i never experienced in my youth.
@@sourcesauce you will find me on reddit forever alone sub reddit along with thousands of other men who have been rejected by woman all these years, simply because girls were never interested in them romantically, its such a tragedy there are so many hundreds of thousands of us out there, suffering in silence every day, all because we cant even get a date.
I will LOVE this song until I die!! Brings back the best memories of the 80's being young and irresponsible and having the best time. God I was so lucky to grow up in Melb then with the best live music scene. Miss those days very much!!
this is why the 80s still rock, all the best music was Australian and dare i say it, set the standard,unfortunately no-one has come close to raising the bar icehouse, inxs, noiseworks, mondo rock, goanna, cold chisel, Ac/Dc, Australian Craw, to name but a few
@@solamente8233 i would take inxs, acdc, cold chisel, and australian crawl over sean bosisto, duran duran, and pet shop boys, bowie would sneak in just not sure who for.
I discovered a lot of great tunes from Aussie bands and artists through a penpal over 20 years ago - and I'm still a fan of them all today. Proper music, not the manufactured churned out crap they have now. I live in Ireland......
So me and my dad were listening to this on the way home from his workplace as it came on the radio. "This is a great song!" I said and Dad said, "do you know what it's about? Listen to the words." I gave him a funny look and he said with my little brother in the back of the car daydreaming, "it's about a man getting his first shag." I fucking laughed my head off XD
The Outro just sends chills, involving the intertwining of Ross' vocal, the choral section, those power chords on electric guitar , and Eric's amazing guitar solo that was cut short for commercial airplay purposes. The song is dripping and rich in the elixir of oxytocin.
I love this song so much. Tasty synth and bass-ey beats, great vocals, risque but honest lyrics, and I think the music video was shot down at Maroubra Beach in Sydney!
Mondo Rock was way underrated at the time. Appreciated and respected more today than in the mid 80s. Come said the boy was pure genius, their signature song and the timing perfect. It was the age of risk in all areas from music to business and sport. Far from one hit wonders, almost every song was a story of life and pushing the edge. The naysayers and Woke pests of today would be speechless in shock horror. What! You can’t write provocative lyrics and music like that, making such obvious sexual overtones. The girl didn’t invite the advances toward her or even speak first. Where has the age of innocence gone!
Carrie Aussie masterpiece at its finest! Well phrased and ‘A true coming of age song!’ This song is a telltale generational phenomenon that has not been realised by the industry or the listeners; thankfully a few of us do! State of the Heart is another one of their masterpieces! Thank you Ross
Nostalgic memories of a time when you could catch great bands like MR at most pub venues, when fish & chips were $2 a bag, $1 schooner's, and weekend summer night rooting along the Sydney coast, Cronulla to Palm Beach. WTF happened Australia?!
We became too serious and too full of ourselves. We've forgotten what it means to be humble. You can do a good job without getting a big head or being a pr**k. You do your best and after that you just let it go. We forgot that we are just human like all our mates next to us.
Too much ....political correctness 🤢I've followed this brilliant man omg 😍1984 was my last year of FREEDOM ....MY SON IS 32 next week....yet I took him to many a free concert at Cronulla etc
I am a teen aussie bloke and I can say that aussies do have culture, most of my mates would have 80's music on their playlist, howbeit mainstream 80's music but still. I can honestly say I do not listen to much music past 2000 (apart from a bit of coldplay and blunt)
I was born in 2002 and I can't stand mainstream music. nobody my age appreciates real music from the 50s-90s, back when the musicians actually had talent, instead of all the electronic shit they use now days
We were so lucky in Australia. We got all the stuff from the USA and the UK and Europe, but we also got all this great local stuff that they mostly missed out on. I encourage any US youtuber to look at Australian music of the 70's and 80's and see what you missed out on.
David McCarthy, Totally agree. Aussies produced so much great music and much of it isn’t known beyond our shores. That’s great for us but I do feel for the artists that they didn’t get the recognition they so richly deserved.
When this song came out I was 20,Australia and New Zealand had the best rock n roll music ever.... but, they were overshadowed by music from the US,UK,& Canada and I really think the music from Australia and New Zealand had both a better sound and production,thanks😎!
I was born in 1971 so when this song came out and was played on the radio I was bit too young to understand it. However later on I can appreciate not just the lyrics but the beat and melody.
I would show my gratitude to Radio Australia (ABC) that made me a music warm since 70s, we had one Phillips Holland 7 valves radio set whose sound quality was more than excellent still feel nostalgic about Saturday international top 20s n Sunday National top 20s i still remember the narrators name Sussan darling, im 68 now from India we used to get those in the air our time 2.30 to 4.30 pm.
Massive song. Great piece of Aussie rock. I always loved that snicky little keyboard work at 1:28 (And she said, I've been waiting for a long time - chnk chnk chnk...) gets me every time. And then the rumbling undertow of the bass...and then...and then... so many good ingredients here. Brilliant.
I remember in my youth (I'm 42 now) my family heading down to Thirroil Woolongong my dad was a surfer, & this song was playing I was in the back seat making up images to this song, just like his Pink Floyd (The Wall) or Crosby Stills Cash & Young, my Father's music has defined what I love
+Nic B I'm 20 and my father did the same for me, shaped my view on real music. WSFM was played on my radio every night from when I was a baby up until I was in high school. This music will always have a special place in my heart
+Nic B That's so weird! I'm 42 and this song takes me straight back to my childhood going down to Thirroul all through the Summer and listening to it in the car! Maybe we were there the same days, listening to the same radio station! Hahaha.
Omg Thirroil!!! I use to go there with the Crittles all the time!!! I think they might live there now.. But that's EXACTLY where this song takes ME!! Wow.. Internet is a small place :))
My b/f and I had a drunken night to remember on Maroubra beach. I was 17y and he 23 in 1983..We remained friends until he passed away last year. Needless to say I come here for the memories of living down Maroubra beach back when life was simple. ♥
@@robbiecarroll5491 I always come back to this song when I feel melancholy of those yrs (1984-18yrs😊) I used to hear ppl say enjoy these yrs cause one day you'll look back and wish U where still here. Of course we don't understand at the time but I have music as my mental/emotional time machine!❣️🥰
Was at work today and heard this song, and I had heard it before hand in my childhood but never knew the name of the song and finally after like more than 10 years I found this song, ngl on the way home I was listening to it and almost started crying cause I've been looking for the name for that long and cause it sounds so good
Wow. I love reading people's comments/stories surrounding these classic Aussie tracks: where they were & how much the music means to them. Puts a smile on my face :) Thanks for sharing, people!
1984 A little too early for me. I never invited a girl to the waves to fool around but kissed her at a dusky sunset drive in at age of 7 on the playground swings at intermission.. watching the VHS recording tv lines at the end just made me love it more guys..
Still safe 2 walk the bra anyday anytime. There r still enough old school locals about & the blow ins with new money r trying 2 embrace our way of life. All welcome.
I don't mind being older now cause I got to see some of the best live performances from Oz's finest. $10 to get in and $5 drinks all night and best music! Yeeew!
I am 51. Those songs .when i was a young man. I still love so much today. Life was so good .back .then Yes we used to fight .but like days ov old .a fight was honorable. You went down. Its over. The good days back then..every one. Had good times . I love my country
Maroubra Beach 1984 and Summer. The old wooden Pavilion. I was there while they were filming. My car can be seen in the car park behind the car in the clip. Nor'easter blowing so there was a group of us out sailboarding. They had to wait for the beach to empty which is why it was filmed at twilight. No point having a car from the 50's and us doing wave jumps in the surf now would it.
I was 12 and I remember falling in love to this song and for the years that followed. It sure takes me back and it sure is a song about young love. Those feelings come right back. Love this song and loved Mondo Rock and that beautiful voice that is Ross Wilson's.
is it just me, or does every generation have their decade? my mum used to go on about how much better it was back in the sixties: the best drugs, the best music, carefree sex (she never outright said that last part, but i realised how she danced around it as i got older). Now here I am, reading these comments and agreeing that the eighties was amazing, and the feeling i get from this song and others like it cannot be put into words. Is it just nostalgia? Am i just remembering the good parts? Because i look at today's charts and can barely name a song worth listening to. And most of the ones i do like don't hold any significance for me. Songs like this one just make me want to meet a girl on the beach, hang out all day listening to eighties music, drinking, making love and having carefree fun. Which is how i think i see the eighties. Maybe its all a delusion, but i sometimes sit listening to music like this and i feel like im missing something i had back then.
Ryder Knightly, I’m hearing you! I’ve finally turned into my Father. I just can’t cop too much of the current “stuff” that passes as music these days. Born in the 60’s and love all the stuff from then up to about 2010. That’s 50 years, which is a pretty good spread of musical genres. Image being born in 1900 and having to endure the next 50 years! Mind you the last concert I went to was Joe Bonamassa. Only discovered him about 5 years ago. So, there is still good stuff out there.
We remember when we were young with no responsibilities as the best time in our lives . For your mum the 60s for me the late 70s to about mid 80s . Was 16 turning 17 in 1980 . For someone 10 plus years younger than me the 90s and for my kids the 2000s in high school 2003 to 2010 although they are 28 and 30 but now feel the responsibility’s of adulthood as their friends are getting married and having kids . Yes times were good when young but also nostalgia. Working full time and other problems may be behind us now if we are retired or semi retired
Also now we are in our mid to late 50s we are getting a mid life crisis where as in our 30s and 40s we were buzy with kids and teenagers and in our late 20s early 30s getting married . Now the time is running out and social media and utube is our escape back in time
We have to stop trying to live in the past which I guess we live in the virtual past on social media watching 80s video clips but then we step back into 2021 where we are in our 50s and are mum dad nan pop for those that started early . Patti Newton had Grandkids late 78 and can hold her grandchild for ages while being interviewed. Quite amazing . So don’t have to start having grandkids till mid 60s and really it’s up to your kids . So we go into the virtual world and then come back out of it back to middle age 2021 which vaxxers anticaxers dinners and bills Amen
This song ment so much to me back then .... so many years ago and so much has happened to me since. Within a few seconds of the opening sequence transported back in time.. That's what a true classic can do
OMG I nearly choked on my soup! Thanks for making me laugh and smile because I don't do that very often. I was 19 in 1984 and I already had a 2 year old son. This song is so sexy..I kind of wish I could get a genie to take me back to the early 80's for one day. Thank you!
Only heard this classic for the second time again since my childhood randomly on Spotify (how awesome are algorithms sometimes!?!) I have been obsessed with it ever since! What a time to be alive! Much simpler times back then
