Still listening. Another kick ass local band of my 80s youth.....I wish I could go back right now. Simply can't listen to the crap they call music today. We'll never see the same variety or quality of Aussie music again as we had back then. Ever.
Classic ! Aussie rock! Simple but powerful! The awesome "80"s! Nothing comes close! Depth and meaning! Not just an annoying noise! Like today's so called music!
You forget sometimes just how insane Aussie music was in the 80s. You could go see the likes of these guys, INXS, AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, Mondo Rock, Do Re Mi all in the same month, playing at Pubs with a $5 cover charge and $7 jugs of beer on a week night... You could have an amazing night out for $25.
Yep....you could go from Parramatta war and peace over to sweethearts at Cabra and all in between....that was Aussie rock and roll...and thank God we got to taste it.
@@garethwest9069 lol wtf... bash the bible at people reminiscent of how good the 80s was for a cheap and good night out? You were praying in church the whole time and missed all the fun eh...
“Pressure Sway” was popular here in Los Angeles in the 80s, but only that song. I heard it again on an oldies station today, but I knew this band had to have more. So here we are!
WOW! The 80's! NEVER to be repeated... Plenty of classic times from the 60"s and 70's as I'm often reminded of... However, the sound of the 80's was absolutely new, and I'm not sure we've truly had the next NEW sound since.
When the high school social and the blue light disco played back to back bangers - and most of the tunes were Aussie bands just because they were the best music at the time. What a heyday for Australian music.
True, hadn't heard this tune since 85'. The bass line hooked me then.Used to have on a pop mixed tape. Countdown hits of 85 or something. Was double cassette, long gone now. But was drinking, and somehow remembered the proper name of the song I've been wanting to hear again since 85. I think I was like 12 then. Nostalgia trip. And thanks to the great Aussie invention of the goon bag , I was shown the way back to a good Aussie tune from the 80s.
Warren McLean passed on 3 Jan 2021. He was one hell of a drummer as well as a popular RU-vid vlogger and leaves behind an impressive musical legacy. He will be missed.
That is very sad. His photo stands out on the back of Big Music. Great drumming on that record. Thank you for letting us know. RIP Warren. A wonderful legacy indeed.
I saw The Machinations many, many times in the 80's. Which means I would've danced to the metronomic Drumming of Warren McLean. I remember sitting in my bedroom listening to JJJ 105.7FM in Sydney, in 1981, when out of the speakers came the awesome sounds of ' AVERAGE INADEQUACY ' I was totally immersed in the music masterpiece. JJJ voters agreed with me and placed it very high in one of their early HOT 100's of all time. The B-side of ' Arabia ' is very cool also. I rate them as one of Australia's premier music artists of all time. Vale Warren McLean , and condolences to his family and friends.
I was a teen back then so lucky to have experienced that era, Australia was an amazing place to live then so free and exciting. Now in 2022 My God what ever happened to this place? It's nothing now we gave up our freedom for so called safety. Now look what's happened.
You know, I had forgotten about the Machinations. Music in the 80s in Oz was just insane. The talent that you could see around your local area was ridiculous. So I get why kids in the kitchen, Pseudo Echo and the rest are doing the pub circuit again but what happened to these legends
Grew up listening to super hits such as this one. Doubt there was , nor will be a better decade in terms of how many great Aussie/NZ artists and bands were regularly smashing out top 10 hits and having huge international sucess. Angels, Rose Tattoo, Australian Craw,l Big Pig, Pseudo Echo and the Hoodu Gurus, just to mention some more brilliant Aussie/NZ acts. We are fortunate that us Aussies and also our Kiwi cobbas, in the 80's in particular, oozed talent in music. It was awesome.
I first heard this song as a kid on a compilation cassette in '85 call "Choose 1985" I played this song so much I stretched, and broke the tape. At the time it broke me heart when that cassette died. The 80's was the best childhood.
The 80's. Seem to have been here for such a very short time. Makes me feel so very melancholy, I love the music - all of it, but wish I was back there as a 10 year old in the mid 80's
Ha ha!! ripped off, glad I could enjoy this era as an independent young adult and do adult stuff rather than being a minor wishing I was grown up enough and still too young to enjoy the early 90's. Owch!
All I know for certain is that@ the turn of the Millennium, we still had a domestic music industry to be proud of..but within a decade it had already pu$$ified into the Millennial-hipster w@nk it is today👎
Craving for affection again It's too soon to feel what the body requires Keeping it, under control You're a saint It's looking good ahead of time Playing ladies She's keeping it out in the open She's no angel But she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way Starving for some more confusion You seem to know what the body requires No more thinking, out in the open Under control, so you can make your own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way Seeing that reaction's growing Your senses just leave Your body's on fire Now she's pretending it's under control You're no saint when instinct makes its own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way You've got no say in it She's known danger, she can make her own way You've got no say in it She's pure instinct, she should make her own way
Hate to break it to you David, but INXS's The Swing, which included Original Sin, came out about a year before The Machinations album containing this song. Indeed, INXS had a similar sound in '83 with Shabooh Shoobah. They (INXS and The Machinations) were contemporaries.
Spent a while talking with someone today, about Australian music 1985-95. We both agreed they were golden years, with a “pub rock” sound that overtook punk and new romantic. Why? Probably the crowded, noisy small pubs that bands played in. The poor acoustics, the crowded intimate audience who were standing inches from the bands, who often didn’t even have a stage to play on, and were jammed into a corner of the bar. Maybe the money, and a new wealthy generation hit the pubs and got pissed. Bands got gigs, they made enough to do it for a living, they developed hard rhythms and loud vocals that could be heard above the noise. By the late 90s it was over. Music had changed. American rappers were In vogue, young people didn’t hit the bars as hard as they use to, pub managment changed. The last vestiges hung on. The Three Monkeys had live bands until around 2008. Good bands that were good to listen to. But it’s pretty well all gone now. Pubs serve food and have walls of pokies. RSA marshals “advise you to leave” if you look like you are having fun. RIP that decade. I had a ball
Jesus it was THE best and ONLY decade of music. What was UP with you? I'm very fussy when it comes to music but I even ended up with at least 35-40 albums from that era-admittedly a number from the same act but it counts. Even moreso as people could be relied upon!
@@HouseholdDog No way?! Shit. What was the UK equivalent in price terms do you know? Bless, I remember Chrissie Hynde of Pretenders saying more than a few decades back that the prices of CDs were disgusting, and she had no problem with them retailing to the consumer for about £3, bless her, instead of 3x that or more. Shit, if that's bad, thank God I didn't live where you did. Presumably you've bought a lot since or just downloaded?
@@kyachdistent1301 IIRC they were about $12au. I think the exchange rate was around $2-$2.5 to the pound. So around £5-£6 each. For the most part we copied things onto tape. Either off the radio or off someone who bought the record.
Personally a lot of today's is lazy/depressing/drab/utilitarian, basically conformity, the death of individuality/following/worshiping of the same cheaply made rubbish, or a few overpriced corporate logos. I still have clothing from the 1960's 70's and 80's great quality in great condition but can't wear it because nobody wants to wear bright colors or look nice anymore. Because they don't want to stand out in the crowd, be seen as vulnerable, or offend anyone. At least most people back then didn't look like they wear the same clothes everyday, just came back from the gym, slept in them, were out to mug, or bash someone. Very likely today's popular look will be treated with similar disdain one day, the ugly but "comfortable" in tight synthetics/polyester cotton, hip to look mean/sporty/square won't last forever social norms/tastes/attitudes changes with every new generation.
Why there has not been a remix with the current "sound" for a tune and lyrics this well done back in the day particularly considering how well it would probably do, boggles the mind.
A fantastic song which beings happy times of 1985.. Wollongong... Annabelles..the Illawarra hotel..cousins...kenadys..Winnie reds..JD and coke..schooners of old...ahh shit next year is the h.s.c..better get a kiss from Alison my squeeze at the time
Played whilst Bette Midler's character is doing aerobics, watching television. I remember being delighted that a great Aussie track had a (brief) moment in a successful film.
