If we had the internet back in the 70s-80s I think that Split Enz would have been as prominent around the world as they were in Australasia at the time...a phenomenal group of musicians and the penmanship of Neil Finn really is second to none!...I will make this same comment on every Split Enz song I come across so don't @ me! lol
Yeah, I heard this song via MTV back in the early '80s and became a fan and then a fan of Crowded House, whom I got to see in Daytona Beach during Spring Break in a bit of a storm.Brilliant!
@@gmansiThere’s another song that I have loved called Iris, I guess they never made a music video of it. I really enjoy listening to this because it takes me back to my early 20’s which I miss dearly lol
This song is a textbook lesson in restraint on the drums. Eight cymbal crashes in total!! Eight. Not twenty. Eight. The offbeat accents on the hi-hat are brilliant, too. The groove is incredible. I always cite this perfect song as a "less is more" example. Malcolm Green is, and will always be, one of my favorite drummers in one of my favorite bands ever!
In the 80s in NZ we had a lotbof great home grown music rhat was great....add the aussie bands and it was more than enough great sounds for a teenager in Welly.
One pharmaceutically-enhanced night in 1981 (after an evening’s gainful employment in a lounge), I discovered these guys, and the Police, within a few minutes of each other on Casey Kasem’s “America’s Top 10:” All of a sudden, I loved Rock ’n’ Roll again. (I hadn’t been this blown away by the sound of a band’s instruments since “H. P. Lovecraft II,” fifteen years earlier.) A cut from one of my personal “Ten Greatest Rock Band” LP’s.
@@CJArnold-hq3ey Not sure I got that, but you are correct, "America's Top 10" was a syndicated weekly video counterpart to Kasem's syndicated weekly radio show, "America's Top 40." I hope this helps to increase your understanding of the period.
@@markzappasodi Nice! For me a really good video (almost a mini movie) is Richard Marx - Hazard: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gdmHHoI9beM.html
This past weekend, I was at the "Back to the 80's Cafe" in Las Vegas, Nevada. They played this video, but I couldn't find who it was. It was one of the videos played in the first two hours of MTV. Great stuff by a fantastic band! (and good food at a fun place!)
I was 10. I just knew I wanted to listen. Superior musicians producing quality sounds. The birth of F.M radio and the Brothers Finn and their mates in this kick ass band making freaky new sound with fucking beautiful harmony It captures a listener, compelled almost😂👌to listen.drawn into it.
An easy number 1 if re-released. Why hasn't anyone done this considering the dearth of good music for the last 20 years. No wonder the kids are listening to old music now. I feel so sorry for them.
I was a kid in the 80's.....listening to Split Enz...my brother bought the True Colours album and cassette, so we would sit in the backyard in the middle of b*mf*ck Canada (left coast - Pacific) and listen to the album / cassette all summer long..... in a shitty pup tent....Thanks Neil, Tim, Noel, Nigel, Malcolm and others I can't remember..... and thank you so much evolving into Crowded House......but that's another chapter..... we got Waiata too plus, I visited Te Awamutu...city of roses..
I always thought Split Enz had a Beatles influence to their music. It was like The Beatles if they were a new wave act in the latter 1970s/early 1980s....
Stop! I confess, sometimes, I don't know where I'm going, part of me stays with you, I'm slowing down, what can I do, it's hard to stay one step ahead of you...
Interesting I never heard of this considering it's strong song structure. Thinking this is a free flowing jam session makeover waiting to happen. At 1.125x speed it's obvious it could've been catchy especially with the embracing creative production treatment similar to like Michael Jackson got during the same time period. I don't know though; easier to say than do and glad to stumble across this!
I LOVE this song, but i just used it in a mini thesis to a friend about fu@$k boys, lol. I was explaining how beautiful boys can grab your soul, because the Finn boys had that quality, back in the day.🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Day 6998. 2 x 3499. Raw honey and a few grapes and a bit of apple and all of my urine til 1.00pm then dried figs and black grapes and apple and iceberg lettuce and more urine. No change.
Can someone from the band please fix that audio on this video? The audio quality is terrible compared to the album/cd version of the song... Great song though. I came to listen and was so disappointed by the sound quality i had to go listen elsewhere...
Sounds to me to be running a fraction too fast, it's made the pitch shift up a semi-tone from the original key, and it also makes Neil's vocals sound fractionally chipmunk like. For an official video the band deserve much better than this, whoever posted it for them I think they cocked it up. Listen to any live version of Neil Finn's, or Crowded House (or fans channels who've posted the same promo, and done a better job) the song should sound in the key of G, not Ab.
