I had a very luck teenage life. I saw The Saints in their house a few times on a Friday night as a 15 and 16 year old. The house had a lot of tinfoil on the wall in the lounge-room, and they played there most Friday nights. As I was a kid I would stand and watch them or sit out on the back steps near Ivor’s painting room, smoke homegrown dope and listen to them play. Yeah it was a nice teenage life I had.
If you are ever in Brisbane Australia, this song/film clip was recorded in the small wooden house that sits on the corner of upper Roma St and Milton R. It's now a photography studio but it's a piece of music history!
filmed in two locations.. a rundown row of Petrie terraces and a Fortitude Valley nightclub. The clip after party was the rooftop pool of the Regis hotel. Russell Mulcahy directed. Colin Wardrop DoP. The road trip from Syd-Bris-Syd to make this clip makes Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas look tame.
Yes - with my heart I can say I was in the complex exactly next door - the footy ground Lang Park, but I think I may have also been in the same place as this video was recorded just a few years later for an art exhibition held by the Lawrence family, who were Brisbane socialites at the time. If anyone knows more, please let me know It was a long time ago.
if anyone knows the address of where the video was shot, that would be great! was it at club 76 or another location? would love to have a walk past next time i head up to brissy
The guy at the end is Mark Lanegan. He was the singer with Screaming Trees. He loves a lot of Aussie bands/singers and has put out many awesome solo albums
Thanks, yeah i'm a big Trees fan. Only into three grunge bands in fact, but The Trees are one. Folks should also check out Aussie band Tumbleweed! And Smashing Pumpkins.
Vale Chris Bailey When I say that Chris Bailey is one of the most important people in our Australian Music History, that is a massive understatement. Today's news of his passing is like losing a family member. I'm shattered and devastated. Chris came into my life in 1976, when I was supposed to be doing school homework. Listening to Sydney's JJ 1540am radio ( thanks to the Gough Whitlam government ) I heard (I'm ) Stranded by THE SAINTS. IT STILL RANKS AS ONE OF THE BEST SOUNDS I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY 61 YEARS ON THE PLANET. Chris Bailey was extremely intelligent with an acidic wit, not many, if any, could match him. From reports I've heard, Chris was kind, warm, sincere and generous. A beautiful spirit gone way too young. I think he had a great time whilst he was here on Earth. Not many people can do what he did. He was a Punk Pioneer without even trying or even knowing that's what he was doing. Condolences to his family, friends, all his bandmates and his legions of fans and supporters.
@@OnALivingSpreeLLC I saw the Clash at Hammersmith Palais in 1980. Brilliant. Also spotted Joe Strummer walking up Queensway trying not to gawp. One of my favourite bands.
Ikr, I just saw the news...and on here listening to coolest thing outta 1970's Brisbane...it was really dangerous going to these gigs back then our, our state govt used to send its 'special branch' to the gigs to bash the kids heads in, and then they'd charge you!! Qld, beautiful one day, a police state the next... Everyone who remembers the violence of our Premier and his politician crooked mates is dying and no one will ever remember the state of fear and paranoia all from our own govt
Ramones 1974. Punk started in New York early 70s - New York Dolls, Ramones, Patti Smith etc.. Was then picked up and fragmented to Aus and UK etc. with their flavours - Saints, Sex Pistols, Damned etc.
@@stringcus saints started in 74. they didnt know about the ramones, they were stooges fans. sex pistols were ramones influenced but the saints were isolated and unaware
The Saints weren’t ‘passed over for wearing the wrong kind of trousers’. (I’m) Stranded was single of the week in Sounds magazine in the uk, loads of us bought it, because loads of us got it was great. Next The Saints were signed to EMI Harvest and appeared on Top Of The Pops with This Perfect Day. The Saints did as well as any band could have been expected to do sounding like they did as opposed to sounding like Fleetwood Mac.
Ed Kuepper went to my high school ( a few years ahead of me). He lived about 30 minutes walk from Oxley train station in Brisbane. At that time, the trains only ran every hour, so if you just missed the train, you're "stranded all alone" until the next train to the city arrives
Spot on - in this clip Chris Bailey personifies the vision of punk - anti establishment, cant give a toss, take it or leave it, we couldn't give a rats ....... love how he flicks the cig but away too - as to the bad ass attitude
Strokes, today ? There's a bunch of bands from the latter 5 years it so that are - in spirits - as close. Chats, Amyl & Sniffers, DC Fontaines Idles, just the ones on top of the mind right now
In 1976 I was 13 & just starting at a new High School when I found this album at the local lending library... My life was never to be the same. Thanks for the memories Mr Bailey. Rest in peace.
@@cherylthommo1 Or in my case, 4ZZZ 4 TRIPLE ZED where this timeless classic was played so much, one might think it was the station's anthem! 🍻*cheers*, to Chris!💜
sounds like a funny neighborhood. for my friends on scooters the saints were always just brillant modern Popmusic, like the songs of the fall or wire. anyway the wizard of oz passed away, but we keep his memory. peace brother
@@bow5326 I remember Joh used to hate 4ZZZ and sent his police goons and dogs there on more than one occasion. I remember that Brisbane song "Pig City" too, but that was later I think. About mid or late 85, and Brisbane was still a backwater then
For peeps not from Australia or too young to remember: Queensland was a corrupt police state when the Saints emerged. The leader, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, made Trump look sophisticated. It was the perfect environment for punk to emerge from.
Yeah, those of us around in the late 70 s up till about late 87 remember what Brisbane was like at the time. Feels like it was light years ago now. The city is nothing like it used to be in the 70 s or early 80 s. Old Brisbane had a certain character and charm though.
This was my first punk album purchase, I bought it right after it came out in the U.S. and I still have it! It was the beginning of my love of punk rock and 1,000+ LPs and singles that I still have and listen to today.
This is indeed a sad week. I shall be listening to nothing but I'm Stranded, Eternally Yours, and Prehistoric Sounds for the whole week.God bless Chris Baily, whereever he may be. Thank you for 46 years of great music, and being the soundtrack to my formative years in the late 1970s😭
I haven't heard this for donkeys-ages. For those who are saying this was released before the Sex Pistols, so was the first Stooges' album, Iggy's Raw Power, and the MC5 and the New York Dolls. The Ramones were playing live long before this. Malcolm McLaren went to the US, saw something exciting was happening, managed the New York Dolls very briefly, then came back to the Britain, put together/discovered/whatever The Sex Pistols, and they made debatably the best Punk Rock album ever. That can't be taken away from them. Great to hear this tune again, 'though.
Mate The Saints and Radio Birdman were playing fast rock from 1973-74. I think that's the same time as the Ramones started. The Sex Pistols were a fad and saying their album was the best punk album ever is moot. Their music enriched the world. Thanks to all who have shared their genius.
Yeah RIP Chris Bailey who I didn't see live until '79 after Ivor Hay and Ed Kuepper had left. The Saints (like Radio Birdman) seemed to me to be a punk band in the US tradition (descending from The Stooges, MC5 etc.). English punks seemed to be more interested in fashion than music, at least until the post punk bands hit their stride.
The Saints “I’m Stranded” still has the same effect today for a lot of kids. I remember being 14 years old, summer of ‘96. Bored out of my skull, stuck in this horrible summer camp thing my parents made me go to. One of the coaches was this older fella, he was a junior in high school, and I used to skip a lot of the activities and hang out with him in the back of one of concession buildings listening to all this new punk music I’d never heard. Up until then, all I knew were Green Day - who were very mainstream at that time - and the Ramones. “I’m Stranded” was the first tune I heard from him and he made me a little cassette with their album and a bizarre mix of all this early L.A. and Aussie stuff. One other Australian band I can remember from that was a band called Depression, who were very good.
STILL just a blisteringly brilliant performance by a bunch of young beautiful lads, doing their thing and brutally smashing it out & owning it! Whenever I feel shite, I kick this on & I am immediately blissfully happy 🤘😃
A new dawn in music was happening from Autumn 1976 .....Saints release stranded September, The Damned release new rose in October, then Sex Pistols release Anarchy in the UK in November
True story..... my uncle is responsible for the saints existence. He was good friends with them at high school and he put up his own money to get them started.... they never paid him back.
Actually, Search and Destroy came out in 1973 and it's every bit as punk as this. New Rose by The Damned came out in '76 also. I'm Stranded is great, though; definitely not the first by any stretch...
This song is primitive, raw, simple, relentless........so how come I have listened to it SINCE 1976, when I bought the 45 rpm?.......because it is an example of a once-in-a-lifetime hit that has endured; why?....because of it's rawness, because it is primitive, because it is simple perfect...and hey! ...the drummer personified that all-so- elusive and much sort after quality, achieved by few.....coolness. Hail The Saints!
Classic....I saw the Saints many times in the 70’s. Loud, smoke filled room, everyone pissed and head banging. Chris Bailey was always pissed and the room was rockin like nothing else. Nothing comes close to this in the modern era.
There's lots of good rocking groups around these days and the young folk are out there loving it. I am sure that in forty-five years they will be your age and believe that nothing comes close to their memories in that future era.
The Saints for me were one of the best bands of the late 70's. "Eternally Yours" remains one of my favourite albums of all time, incredible sound and distinctive vocals. Amazing band and a major regret I never got to see them live.
Said before on YT years ago. Saying it again. Punk Is An Attitude, Not A Fashion. First punk song recorded. Australia's The Saints. Beat the Sex Pistols to it. Enormous!
@@mementomori4760 they inspired punk, but MC5 had loads of psychedelic elements as well as punk sounding songs. So when you listen through a full album it’s clear you’re listening to a Band of the 60s. Same with the stooges, they’ve got punk songs mixed in with songs that go in other directions. I mean you wouldn’t call the Kinks a punk band even though they wrote the formula with “You Really got me”
They beat them to it mainly because it was easy for them releasing a conformist labelled album.Sex Pistols got sacked from numerous record companies before they signed to Virgin so it took them a bit longer.There were also further delays because of attempts by the courts to stop the offensive expletive on the album.Punk started with Sex Pistols,Anarchy in the UK.Anarchy defining the genre.
@@brianmorecombe2726 Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop was out 9 months before Anarchy in the UK. Ramones got their album out in April and toured the UK in July 1976. Sex Pistols saw them there and didn’t start recording never mind the bollocks until October of that year and finished recording it about 10 months later and released it 2 months after that. The censorship didn’t come until after the album was released
@@nonpungent8609 ramones never started anything in the Uk when they toured here.They never created any animosity in what they did.They had no atitude,it was just turning up and playing their rock music like thousands before them.Another rock band come and gone that didnt really change anything of notice.The Sex Pistols that started in the UK were banned nearly everywhere they went and had a massive influence in the UK.They were sacked by various record companies and their debut album was nearly never released.In comparison,the ramones were an irelevant pop band,new wave at best.
Said before on YT years ago. Saying it again. Punk Is An Attitude, Not A Fashion. These Guys were first. i was 15 years old in UK. You changed my life. I owe you. Thank you. HUZZAH!
I heard this song for the first time from a radio show on Radio2, one of the Italian national radio stations. It must have been 1986 or 1987. I was aware of English and American punk rock and all that stuff, but I was completely surprised to listen to punk rock that, actually, came up at the same time but went basically unnoticed. This song is a key song in the history of punk. Still kicks ass in 2021 and will kick ass forever.
These Guys were first. i was 15 years old in UK. You changed my life. I owe you. Thank you. HUZZAH! These Guys were first. i was 15 years old in UK. You changed my life. I owe you. Thank you.
I cant believe how long its been, it seems like it was just a few years ago, I first heard The Saints around 1981, my cousin bought a used car and there was a tape that was stuck in the stereo, my cousin gave it to me to try and fix as I was an electronics nerd, I did get it working without locking up the tapes, the tape was just marked Saints, I didn't have a clue who they were but I liked what I was hearing, whenever I visited the local record store they never had anything by The Saints and then one day I was in Sheffield England at the smallest Virgin Records shop ever and they had a 7" copy of this very song and were able to order in anything you wanted (more or less) and so I ordered Prehistoric sounds, I ended up creating a bit of a mini fan club amongst my friends who also went to Virgin to order The Saints records and before I knew it they were being stocked.
This news makes me sad 😢 I was into that 76-77 flow totally and this song, The Saints album “(I’m) Stranded” and as well “Eternally yours” were part of my life soundtrack. I never recovered.. I started to play then, and still are today! Thank you buddy.. 🙏🏻🎶🔥💪🏻🥁😎
They have that unpackaged, no bullshit sound and look like The Stranglers and Dr Feelgood had before everybody got in line to look and act like Punks after the Pistols broke loose. This song has a kind of beauty to it. Just a raw, real piece of truth!
Ab-so-fucking-lutely 🤘😊 I got a personal invitation to the Johnnys last ever gig at the Zoo in Fortitude Valley and they smashed it! Ran into folk who I hadn't seen in years but used to live in punk sharehouses with - most hilarious part of the night were a lot of people going "wow Cheylagn we heard that you were dead!" 🤷🤦🤣🤣✌️
Here to honour the memory of Chris Bailey (RIP ) but had to smile at your mention of The Mystery of the Sixes, as I'm sure I still have a 45rpm lying around here somewhere with their title tune and their classic (you're nothing but a) Methadone Slave , among others hehe. I will have to introduce my new neighbours to some of this classic Brispain punk music lol *cheers* 🥃🍺
Add in Riptides, The Little Alberts, The Bent Elbows, Ninja Skill, Outer Limits, Pineapples From The Age Of Dawn, Jim Jones & The George Towners were all DIYing and spreading the joy (just to name afew)
Strange how this is 'Stranded' but always makes me feel like I'm piloting some kind of supersonic machine. This surely sits with anything ever. It's like having a turbo device placed in the brain. Great song. It's like an anthem for some thing, fuck knows what, but I'd go along with it.
It's a perfect song because it contains two contrary elements at it's core that somehow don't cancel each out. The lyrics are about loneliness but sung with a propulsive blast and driving guitars that just push you forward in the face of life's cruelty. What a F*cking statement this song makes!!
Pure awesomeness. Said before on YT years ago. Saying it again. Punk Is An Attitude, Not A Fashion. These Guys were first. i was 15 years old in UK. You changed my life. I owe you. Thank you.
I strongly agree, with the caveat (and a cowardice disguised as pragmatism) that it is not what punk has come to be, at least in the minds of those who now consider it from a distance and with the lens of hindsight. A better way to put it is maybe this: Punk rock was not meant to be a fashion, and when it became one and made the decision to follow rather than lead, it was at the expense of what it set out to achieve in the first place.
Just got a big high from watching this after it popped into my suggested viewing and then the sucker punch of another sad obituary when I looked at the comments. Algorithms are cruel. R.I.P. Chris Bailey and to all our young lives for those who remember the '70s
Wasn’t sure what this halibut was doing swimming in my RU-vid algorithm, rapping my brain fingers, doot duh doo, not, the pale saints, not 4AD stuff… still there? some lapse-s of time later. okay, tap. Watch later… watch, listen… oh, Hutchence; oh, Cave… ok. let us listen some more.