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  • Essefen LOVES the Cross!!! Bwaahaaaa!

  • 3.33 i remember those old plastic seats that were all over sydneys train stations even though i was a youngster at the time lol

  • makes me feel young again!!!!

  • God this is a good song :)

  • 0:26 - Fluffing up the mullet for the ladies lol

  • This song is dedicated to all the true aussie yobbos out there who's only wish is to get pissed on grog, fuck hot chicks, get pizza deliveries and walk around half stoned all day - every day. Saturday night ! yeaaaah ..... bring on the grog fellas ! Lets get smashed at Kings Cross ! Whadooyasay??

  • @Stealthkeys77 i say i love it ya cunt!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • @MrBurgo2u , judging by your comment the drugs have had an everlasting effect on you , you poor bastard!

  • @mosstrooper68 lol bad night that was haha ...

  • Is that cop at 2:51 on a mobile phone?! It looks like it, but it's '84!!

  • @Youcanonacanon radio...

    

  • Heading out to see Cold Chisel in concert tonight.....cant wait...I just KNOW they are going to sing this song, given it is Saturday night tonight lol...LOVE IT!

  • I hung out in the Cross when this clip was shot. God it was fun. Just such an atmosphere.You'd get drunk just on the air.

  • @PeterHBne1 Only a homo could like Kings Cross

  • Four people have no Taste

  • Yes a brilliant song that is as Australian as the footy hahaa LOVE IT X The anthem of our youth back then....and you can hear Split Enz at the start..

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  • outstanding harmonies between moss and barnes... gives me goosebumps everytime

  • Kings Cross in the early 60's was the most exciting time of all, the yanks were coming here on R&R, the cops would drive thru the red light Palmer St and 200 blokes would bolt out the other end, Surf City rocked on the weekends, there were fewer cars people walked from Sydney to the Cross, it had a magic that won't be repeated. Yes and all the normal spivs & sharks were there but no-one bothered you and people were shoulder to shoulder looking for a good time.

  • I like how Mossy fluff's up his mullet at 0:26 haha

  • One Saturday night, 1979, waiting to be served at the Victoria Square Pie-Cart, drunk and glazed, the guy next to me asked if I wanted his meal.

    I said no, and he yelled "If you don't want it, why've you been staring at it for the last 20 minutes?", and then smeared the rest of his pie and peas down my shirt.

    There were guys with black electronic boxes sitting on the steps of the Post Office.

    I can't prove it's not a co-incidence (five years seems too long from sound-bite to album release).

  • Hanging out in the Cross all night, vomiting on the train to work Monday or Tuesday, after no sleep, great times. God you just felt so alive. That place had real energy. Used to love the bikies.

  • The Cross in the eighties was GREAT fun. God I hope the Fish Bowl is still operating and as sleazy but fun as ever...

  • wheres chopper!

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  • errr i just read the full description for the video... guess i was not the first one to pick the split endz connection.. doh

  • Here is a hard one to pick... at the start of the clip behind the radio announcer's voice is the play off from "Message to my Girl" by Split Endz. OMG what an amazing time to be alive when both these songs first were released.

    Correct me if I am wrong... but listen careful but... as I have Golden Ears.

  • I used to think nothing of this song...now it's almost my favourite chisel song. Mossy and Barnesy's voices complement each brilliantly. Love it.

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  • Kings Cross is even more disgusting now, this video makes it look fun in the 80s!

  • God Sydney was fun in the eighties. The boring fuckheads still hadn't totally taken over via unrealistic real estate prices. Most people still lived for the weekend. :)

  • Fuck yeah - the Cross in the eighties. A fun fun wild tourist attraction greedy developer free time. The cross doesn't deserve a capital letter to start its name these days......

  • Old mate at 1:06 - chin up buddy.

  • i was born 20 years too late! missed out on all the REAL MUSIC where the artists acturally play instruments and not computers! where the songs have meaning and arn't just about drugs guns gangstas ass and tits and just crap! THIS IS REAL MUSIC.

  • my most fave chisel song - LOVE IT

  • What a great comment -- couldnt agree more... takes u straight to the cross

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  • TOP FILM

    CHEAP WINE = TROUBLE.

    (At $2.50 a litre , It's the sydneysiders drop of choice.)

  • i want to live in 1908's Newcastle

  • @DavoCitizen you obviously don't appreciate good beer. I pity your taste- buds......

  • @phileustace - if you had any class, you would have been drinking Coopers Pale Ale!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @hecnj001 sorry, but coopers pale ale is vomit out of a bottle, off tap is the shit, bottle sucks :(

  • @hecnj001 Dont diss the nectar mate!, its better than that VB shit!.

  • This is when my dad was rocking the streets of Sydney!

  • I like the old footage of Sydney. 0:04 looks like it's taken from White Bay, overlooking the old power station and the White Bay Hotel.

  • shows just how great a singer Ian Moss was, far better than Jimmy

    

  • @tasteraus no fuckin' way

  • @2000bda well yeah - there is a difference between singing and screaming. Working Class Man was the only song Jimmy sang well

  • @tasteraus Love both singers in fact the whole band.My opinion is Mossy is great but no where near the power of jimmy's voice.

    Listen to "when the war is over". Mossy sounds excellent but when jimmy comes in it takes a new level...and live the crowd feel it too. As i said don't get me wrong i love both.

  • @SuperMrmickey I agree about the power in Jimmy's voice. I just think Moss has a voice that is more 'pure' and probably more blues then rock.

  • Love this song & love Sydney. Wouldn't live anywhere else............

  • I nominate nzoz for an ARIA award for services to OZNZ rock'n'roll: a modern Donnie Sutherland.

  • love this song,some songs never age.

  • 4 people dont understand good music !

  • No better one am music than Cold Chisel. It just has that vibe.

  • Newtown, Liechardt, North Sydney, Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, The Rocks, Circular quay, Wynyard, Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Kings X, & Woolomooloo its all about you!!!!

    SPONTANEOUS or MUNTED weekends out in Sydney, you do not get, in any other state.. Luv Sydney!!!

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  • The greatest Aussie Band...ever!

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  • love this song ian moss has a great voice....brings back the great memories of the 80's...wish i could go back..lol

  • I miss sydney........

  • lol i was like 2 when this came out. but i grew up with what my parents listened to not that bullshit top 40 pop rubbish you hear these days

  • Great musical histoy of the Cross and area :)

  • Underbelly my ass!!

  • I always thought, even 20 ywears ago, that everything about this album was ahead of its time. It didnt fit in then, maybe it never will, and thank fuck for that.

  • Ian Moss !! His voice ... I love it !

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  • Where the Hell are Tabs for this song >=(

  • @b3n3k0 it's all keyboard dude, except for the licks toward the end.

  • Reminds me of my apprenticeship at the Gazebo Hotel.... 1987-1990!!! Fun days... or not?

  • Great band, too sadly associated with fuckheads. Some of the more 'conservative' members of their fanbase would be horrified by the Mardi Gras getting a run in this video.

  • fucking brilliant, thanks man (best quality)

  • wasn't a huge chisels fan but this song is awesome! A classic!

  • I was a randy lad back then

  • epic moss solo incoming!!

  • We have culture? Been to Panthers lately? Getting pissed and smashing complete strangers heads in is hardly a culture to be proud of.

  • wish i lived in the 80's for this exact reason

  • Been there done that..

  • Anyone notice a young John Ibriham floating around? lol

  • I am not aussie and I have never been in OZ but I just heard this song in an australian room and I had to get it!!!

    Honesty this song sound soo sad to me!! I only knew about Cold Chisel its Choir Girl!!! but really this song is so gorgeous.

    I can't stop to think what or where was me in these years when this song was a successfull there!!!

    Draggy

  • That sums up my youth in Sydney at this time :-)

  • Where have the 80's gone. what an era for aussie music. and great bands, parties and whatever

  • AUSSIES FUCKING ROCK!!!!

  • @S1MRAT bloody oath they do.

  • classic when your on the piss. Ozzie culture, bring it on

  • I remember sitting at my desk 'doing my homework' in year 10 or 11. I'd listen to this track over and over, homework didn't have a chance. I had a new pair of headphones and the guy at 0:57 who yells out "well if you don't like it what are you standing there for 20 minutes for?" only came through one channel and without fail, I'd turn my head to see who was shouting it out....

    These guys are awesome, can't think of a single Aussie band that has come close in the last 30 years

  • was singing this onsite today, by the time i left nearly every other bloke was singing this! Good song!!

  • Amen brother. I'm an ex-Sydney boy living in NZ for 10 years and this place has nothing on home, actually NZ's pretty crap and has a poor attitude but that's another story. Reminisce about the Chisel days, no worries in the world, chicks in tight jeans, aaahhhh take me back for another shot at those days.

  • Man I miss living in Sydney...

  • @Mattg4127 I'd like to get the fuck out of Sydney, personally...

    Of course, that's a personal point of view.

  • @nzoz1984 Well if you don't like it why you been standing there for 20minutes? lol

  • @furb393 lol  smart ass!!!

  • @nzoz1984 You never been to Port Hedland then I suppose?? lol, onya aussie.

  • @furb393 somewhere out there is the dude who shouts that, who probably tells everyone about it every time the song is played, LOL!

  • @nzoz1984 agrees Sydney is a hole

  • @nzoz1984 Sydney is awesome...& this is coming from a melbourne boy.

  • @nzoz1984 ditto. was good but shit now. gold coast is where its at

  • @nzoz1984 Im hearing ya....shit of a city now....im moving to Newcastle as it still has a lot of "aussie swagger" about it.

  • @nzoz1984 And we'd be thrilled to have you leave ;)

  • @nzoz1984 its become a human feedlot , cows are led into the shed eachday via the freeway , fed a lil bit of green and farkin milked for everything down to the last drop.....and the sheep go on about the "quality of life" thats on offer here , poor punters will go thru life and never know whats its like to see it at all.

  • @Mattg4127 Dude the place is made the country Australia is the place to be!!

  • @Mattg4127 your not the only one,left 17 years ago for Europe and aint been back since......

  • Awsum! love Ian and Jimmy's voices together.just brilliant!! :)

  • I wish i was in Sydney again.

  • 00:56 - 'Well, if ya don't like it what are ya standing there for twenty minutes ...'

    Drunken loudmouthery with a dash of inchorency, it makes a chap proud to be Australian.

  • LMAO sat night on the needle. fuckin junkies

  • The radio DJ at the start of the clip sounds like Chris Dzelde who now does breakfast at MMM in Adelaide.

  • GREAT song!! Good old time. Wish we had this kind of music these days hehe.

  • I love that final shot of sydney ..

  • One of the most annoying tunes ever.

  • JUST FUKIN MAGIC

  • Great comment Phil!! Wish I was there!! Yeah this song is awesome while getting drunk. Fucking awesome. Its one of those types of songs you can sing when the party's over and its just you and the remaining beers left over from the slab. Its a top song which is all about a bloke whos on his own and needs "company" to "light up" and then his "heart will shine". While its a great song, it also has a sad undertone and it tells the story of a forgotten person whos "desires are cold." Rock on mate !!
  • @sebbbo77 K essay!

  • I was in the Kings Cross area staying at a hotel in Elizabeth Bay. It was a pretty crummy hotel but it had the BEST VIEW over the city and habour. At 4.00 in the morning I went on the balcony, and pissed like a parrot I sang this song to the highest decibel I could while skulling VB stubbies. People on the street below were telling me to "shut the fuck up" and I saw peoples lights go on and off in nearby appartments. It was classic !! ha ha ... this song is great for a piss up and bbq.

  • @phileustace you sound like a legand !

  • @phileustace And for that, you are a fucking legend! Fuck Sydney people; they need to hear their culture again... and that's from a Sydney sider.

  • @nzoz1984 haha yeahh but i guess i can understand it at 4 in the morning mate

  • @nzoz1984 Sydney is such a hole, it keeps getting worse and the people have no idea of what a horrible place they have turned it into. Everyone is to self involved to even notice how pathetic they have become. Really ugly. I would love to get the fuck out too.

  • @twotribes03 well kings cross has been ruined thats for sure. 

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  • @phileustace you bloody legend

  • @phileustace At 4am I would be telling you to shut the fuck up to.

  • yes that is true but when i first opened up my youtube account i had to say i was older so that

    1. i could make the account

    and

    2. that i could view everything

    so i just chose a random date and stuck with it.

  • im 18 and i love cold chisel, deffinetly my favourite band. and this is one of their best songs. the 80's live on

  • @benalbino cant argue with that...

  • ur profile says ur 11 years older than you say

  • back when Sydney was a great night out...esp The Cross. Seems a bit dull these days. And the Mardi Gras back then seemed more exciting and had something to protest about... bit to p.c these days

  • Yeah Andy P222 that was me!!! Still into Chisel after all these years. And still alive man !!! Thanks But I think Barnsey is the Legend. and I did have a moustache,

  • mossy is pretty damn hot.

  • never gets played on the television that one, classic

  • Cheap Wine....more like fine wine

  • forget barnes mossie ya handsome devil front man material for sure ;-)

  • The 80's were exciting. Even tho was just 5 in 1984. I get a glimpse of them now and then when I ride the Bus through Russel St in Melbourne.

  • ya gotta love the "mens products" in the bathroom. AJAX and a home brand type Shave cream.. hahah love it.. no metrosexuals to be seen...

  • Yup! Us Aussie guys still use Ajax as under arm deodorant. LOL. Makes me feel old, but this takes us back to a time when paid product placement was obviously not yet a part of the mainstream music video industry, at least not here in Australia. Mind you. That Coke bottle in the opening pan of khe sanh watch?v=Tv24elfqC-I might be taken as a product placement, but it still seems fairly innocent to me. ;)

  • @xs99875 what the fuxk is AJAX

  • @mallamoozoo haha it's a bathroom cleaning product. You'd use it to scrub the bath :)

  • @mallamoozoo haha It's a bathroom cleaning product. You'd use it to scrub the bath.

  • @mallamoozoo haha It's a bathroom cleaning product. You'd use it to scrub the bath.

  • @mallamoozoo sorry for multiple posts! (I am an idiot. Can't work out how to delete them!)

  • I am driving accross USA...LA to NYC...cant help but feel OZ 1971-1986 is lost on them. How lucky we are - let us keep it our little secret. Come on in this clip (be honest) who does not recognise the Datsun Bluebird Econo-Gauge) (I have the Malcom Fraser ads)....so much that OZ is so much better....

  • im only 13 and some songs nower days r shit songs like this still appeal 25 years later

  • such an awesome tune! Will never grow old!

  • i saw iron maiden , judas priest , kiss and chisel last week ...chisel just blew them all away was awesome..

  • Barnes and the lads were F%$%# Awsome..Best live band....I have seen many and Cold Chisel ROCKED !!..Man how good was Mossy live!! V*8 COLD CHISEL CONCERT BEST EVER

  • Seeing Ian Moss on the balcony at night looking over the mid 80's Syndey Skyline. I can almost smell the tobacco even though its years later. Those were the days when chicks held lighters at concerts rather than thousands of mobile phones. Those were the days when people really got pissed on grog and a good night was judged by who could get "off their rocka" first. This song is a song for the gambler, the cobber who would live day to day on "2 days money" looking for a sheila to "light" him up!

  • here here agree so strongly not the bad drugs of today just the melow ones lol

  • wish chisel all the best at the v8 concert 2moro nite in sydney!!! I'll b there cheering em on!!!

  • i was there last night! they were so good!

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  • saw them in concert at the horden pavillion a long long time ago,,,,am going to the v8 tourning cars in dec and am gunna see em again..maybe our last time to see all the boys together

  • From yet another brilliant Australian group !

  • I wish it was the mid-80s again

  • @jretro71 yeah totally agree with your comment mate!...although i was still in high school they were good years when you look back.!! this song brings back memories

  • Oh the memories of a twenty something living in country Victoria...simple life, great friends.....good times! If I could beam myself back to those days and live them all over again, I'd do it in a heartbeat!

  • ...an awesome song to wind down from a great Saturday night...

    ...a brilliant Aussie band...

    :-)

  • Time on which I'm bound

    Rather than the sluts I leave behind.

  • This song is so underrated. It really is a masterpiece. It combines all the "rough edge" of Kings Cross, mixed in with some partying, grog culture, mood and gloom and raw emotion. The way the chorus rises "got the keys to the city" is one of the most powerful rising choruses of the Aussie rock scene.

  • saturday night :)!

  • hearing this brings back all the childhood memories

  • cool

  • Ian Moss what a legend .. reminds me of jam sessions in alice springs, mossy and paul kelly .. those WERE the days :)

  • love the musik.

  • Years ago at the beefsteak and bourbon....rolled in and had a few. Last time it looked like a Freedom store. Australian 'joints' getting knocked over...

  • too many of our landmarks have been redeveloped to suit tha govt tourist industry.....i'm sure tha backpacka's 'n' general tourist's would've loved the original Cross with ALL it's glory!