The Chills perform "Pink Frost"

[blonde7000]

A remarkable song - love it

[number1genoa]

I think that is esther williams on the drums, can somone confirm ?

[MrDimikor]

I wish I could watching only the drummer... divine as the song.

[1970brenz]

lovely tender quality to it...

[GlassHopperYouth]

One of the most beautiful songs ever written, in my opinion. Haunting, dreamy, chilling...fantastic.

[MagicAlex]

wow, for a live performance, this is astonishing.

[Nubecuube]

press thumbs up if this beats justin bieber

[DarkAngel8698]

@Nubecuube everything beats bieber.

[purplepelican69]

First heard this fantastic song about 20 years ago whilst driving down the M62 and drove straight to my local record shop and threatened the owner with violence unless he sold me the album. This is right up there with Dolores by Blind Mr Jones and Song to the Siren by Cocteau Twins. How did we get from this to the unmitigated dross served up to todays unlucky kids?

[blonde7000]

@purplepelican69 i was laughing when i read the first part of the comment - Yes this is decent music

[Teetee33]

Play this one during a train journey in a window seat; gives a new perspective on the trees and junked cars as they whizz on by. Trancelike. Beautiful.

[Upstreamprovider]

Great!! These were such a cool band, glad I came across them in the 80s

[franknwalters]

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[nelson66able]

Loved this track first time i heard it,stunningly beauttiful

[owaindk]

i tingle every time it kicks in properly..fuck

[Oilisdeathtomany]

Ahh.., lovely. Another track for the soundtrack of my misspent youth. This one being particularly poignant. 

[inprekorr]

awesomely beautiful melody and lyrics...something in the water in the antipodes in the 80s....incredible music.

[bocaburgler]

i like how it starts out like a song that would be annoyingly poppy and empty, yet it takes a turn for the darkest. wow, just wow.

[Teetee33]

@bocaburgler I completely agree. That's what I thought too, on first listen. But then, wooooooo!

[PlanetoftheAtheists]

i heard this song over 20 years ago, and it haunted me for years, but i never knew who made it or what it was called, until i heard it on a college station late one night and called the dj

[lululalalolia]

@PlanetoftheAtheists

it haunted me all this week too.  hauntingly beautiful.

[truffcat]

Great version of one of my all time favourite songs - thanks for uploading!

[TATER1971]

Just awesome.

[skye6206]

Sweet jesus, this song makes me crazy!  Can you think of any song with a better prologue. Still don't know if it was an accident , a murder, or something else. Satin Doll is its twin in the Chills discography. Totally hopelessly fucking awesome band.

Jim in Billings, MT

[Teetee33]

@skye6206 You got it, Jim, When I first heard it, I didn't know what to make of it. Van Gogh on record, immediate love. Perfect.

[sailorstellar]

wow, this sort of amazingness makes me want to cry ♥

[oooohla123]

ummm ok what the hell... i heart hiroshima sings this song??? did they steal it or what?

[ColdMelissa]

@oooohla123 there's a think called covers.  Maybe you've heard of them. This song is indeed by The Chills.

[oooohla123]

@ColdMelissa I meant did i heart hiroshima steal this... cos i haven't heard this version before and its much older and I didn't know that this would be famous enough for a cover... i wasn't alive when the chills were around so yeah i dont know.

[Tuataroa]

@oooohla123

ha! yep they covered it

[TheStuntbaby]

so good. changed the whole way i looked at music back then,,, and still shapes me today.

[jerandra1]

The 80's were the best times for NZ bands and Radio with Pictures i absolutely loved, Karen Hay gave me a stuffy.

[shari687]

I LOVE this song but at the same time it makes me feel like crying.

[franknwalters]

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[spw317]

I can't get enough of this song. Pure pop genius.

[mrsjanina68]

Thanks for posting, i hear this song 20years long

So verdammt geil gemacht!!!!!!!!

[buduiza]

Tried to find this song for years.Thank god for youtube.This is so beautiful.

[Petorian2012]

get some verlaines in ya toooooo.

[lambie22]

This is fucking uh-MAZING

[TheSodiumhaze]

Ive died and gone to heaven! Im lost for words! I thought I was the only one who loved this track!!!!!!

[klippspringer]

i was a very big fan of them 20-25 years ago but now they leave me kind of cold.

very strange. there is nothing left. i like most of the flying nuns also today, but not them. they made a mayor deal in the early 90s or so and this was the time, i lost them.

[Teetee33]

Bad ass Maori fighting skills, Marton Csokas and the Chills. New Zealand has much right to be proud...

[TheJohnnyGonzo]

Kiwi Curtis :) brilliant song.

[CassieBridgetNewton]

i love this song since i watched a moie called girl in the park.

[Zanarus2242]

best song EVER

[Kiwictor]

the lower synth is a Casio CT...?

or what?

does it know sy?

thx

[Kiwictor]

cool, i like the Chills!

[blairomatic]

Sunday night, 9.30 PM, TV One.

[mobyboy]

thank you so much !!

I love this song since age of 18

[ar4216]

The official video for this is pretty freaky.

[CupcakeExplosion]

know where i can find it?  would love to see it cause i just love this song.

[ar4216]

Unfortunately not. I saw it on tv way back when and haven't seen it since. It was bizarre- with a guy strung up like a scarecrow.

[spikester99105]

the chills is the best

[mce161]

Can really hear Big Country in "The Chills" - must be the Scottish blood in Dunedin

[shaunytea]

quality song!

[dazumaz]

well done to the keyboard guy for donning a Billy Bragg tee shirt for the occasion

[SavagesInMyTown]

the keyboards make the song.

[DocWhat10]

the bass player kicks serious ass...

[ShallowBushGraves]

Thank You. Just superb.

[beautyfashionaddict]

love this song!!!

[uglydermis]

sound a joy division s guitar hooks mixed with a creepy atmosphere

grate band !

[sharkpecker]

this sucks donkey balls

[Shirokinukatsukami]

How insightful.

[puppeteers420]

just like you sharkpecker, just like you

[tranecalls]

(continued) I think we put it on a short-lived Myspace site (that was set up and then abandoned due to lost passwords and email!) for anyone interested, I'm not trying to blow my own horn or say it's anywhere near as haunting; just agreeing with Seftonise and sharing how powerful Pink Frost is.

[tranecalls]

A while back when I was going through a bad time, I had a dream I was in a below-ground record store and they were playing a tape of unreleased early Chills songs. One song stayed in my head when I woke up,and I immediately sang it into a cassette recorder. It became a song I called "Chills" and definitely was influenced by this particular song. My band (We Saw the Wolf) released it on a cd about ten years ago (continued...)

[tranecalls]

One of my favorite songs of all time, great to hear this live version! I got to see the Chills only a couple of times here in the States. The first time I had never heard them before and was going on the recommendation of my bass player. They totally won me over without even knowing their music, that to me is quite a feat, and I've loved them ever since.

[jben005]

This song always makes me feel sad, and reminds me of New Zealand back in the early 80s - grungey and great. The quintessential Dunedin song.

[seftonise]

If you"re a musician, you must dream of writing

a song like this.

[tranecalls]

I totally agree! In fact, see my longer post following this...

[cropfrop]

where's the film clip?

[apertures]

Cheers Olilsdeathtomany. Another chap has also told me it's Martin Phillips, who strangely enough looks like my cousin James who is in the band The Chills. The other chap on this site thought the same thing. :-)

[Teetee33]

I found the cassette with this amazing song on it in a trash bin in a record store here in the States. Think I paid a buck for it. No harm, no foul, right?  But wow...who the heck would throw the Chills out if they knew better? Love at first listen...

[apertures]

Could someone please tell me what the lead vocalist's name is in this video? Cheers.

[Oilisdeathtomany]

Martin Phillips

[dr666is]

nice song... shame they destroyed there website tho

long lived the bats

[streethassled]

They played this at the loada crap centre in 1984 opening for Lou Reed!

[jordancloudbuster]

Purity.

[Whitlow17]

Neil Finn performed this song at WOMADELAIDE this year - a great song and a great cover thanks Neil

[moonlily1]

the opening notes of this song are my favorite that I've ever heard. I wish my alarm clock sounded like that.

[toutlemond]

@moonlily1 if your alarm clock sounded like this, you would quickly ;earn to hate it.

[gazzy2000]

very cool song!!

[consman22]

This goes nuts!! Long live dunedin music at its purist.

[sleater84]

wow these guys from dunedin? how stupid am I.

[kickfostermac]

Damn,the old days were so much better.

[MankindCartoons]

WATCHMEN shirt

[Motarmstrong]

I always found martin very humble.

[MinimalistCouch]

one of a kind song

[jakejudd]

You've got to be kidding

[MinimalistCouch]

i am kidding dude!

[jakejudd]

Yeah, well it was me that gave you the thumbs down.

[MankindCartoons]

I think this song is quite special. Name me some similar ones. And you can't say Joy Division.

[sofarat]

Seen em, loved em and will always have fond memories of life in NZ at that time. Geee, i remember radio with pictures and beofre that "grunt Machine"

[simple9964]

I got to see The Chills several times when I lived in NZ a few years back I also met the drummer from this version of the band (Caroline something) when she played with her band Let's Planet. Apparently Martin wasn't the easiest guy to get on with. Love the music!

[danielnelles]

i like the singers' shirt

[rockcztery]

The keys make this an excellent version

[oiloftrop]

Martin Phillpps is the man! Hard times for him be strong Martin!

[deermilk]

Beautiful.

[BrokeAccount]

Damn it, I wanted to show this song to someone but they've taken the videos down (way to shoot yourselves in the foot, Warner) and now all that's left is this kind of off live version. That synth is pretty bad. And the bass in the intro sounds wrong, or is that just me?

[JenJenEL]

Tremendous...a live version.... !!!!!!!!!!!

[PLSCHWRT]

Wow, ordinairy people in ordinairy clothes with ordinairy haircuts!

[glavapack]

brilliant song, check out joel rl phelps' cover of this from the joel/downer trio tradition ep. very, very good.

[TallFastLoud]

Is that the guy who used to be in Silkworm? I read an interview with them and they said they listened to the Clean a lot- weird but cool

[glavapack]

yep! that's him. extremely underrated!

[54spiritedwill54]

excellent!

[mudwiigle123]

why did they let the gibbons on synthesiser butcher it pookie?

[bbbrobo]

Solid song, still holds up even today.

[spudwas]

The lyrics always reminded me of "Syd and Nancy."

[blairomatic]

"The lyrics always reminded me of 'Syd and Nancy'."

I wouldn't waste this track on those two. They're far too undeserving.

[seurat2]

This is a great song. Period. Great songs trannscend their era or any era and continue to live. There are plenty of immensely gifted and original musicians out there forming bands and I'm always happy to discover them. That doesn't lessen my reverence for the Chills and this song one tiny bit.

[djlerr]

i love this song i play this all the time'

[littlenem]

Exelente performance de esta brillante cancion..

[ottov65]

brilliant !!!!!

[andymanberge]

thats a rare fender.. coronado?

[NewPaltzIndie]

one of the few songs...if not THE ONLY SONG that can bring me to tears, it's that beautiful

[kilowatt7]

In einer besseren Welt wäre dies monatelang die Nummer 1 gewesen. Habe eine Aufnahme von einem Gig in Bonn, die zu meinen liebsten Live-Aufnahmen überhaupt zählt, mit derart verwunschenen Versionen von Chills-Songs, dass ich lieber diese Live-Aufnahme als die Original-Aufnahmen höre ...

[slitheringinterstate]

With mainstream musicians today all trying to outdo each other in bold irritating explosive sounds, it's ashame the fine art of etherealism on the level in this song, is just lost on so many young artists today...the 80's produced a handful of bands that could manufacture the most ghostly, wispy sounds in music history...and this is one of them...fucking transportive.

[KlausDieSchrecken]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

It seems the atmosphere of songs are now completely ignored and its all based on style and taking that style to the next level.

[TheJohnnyGonzo]

you must listen in the right places for new music that is good. never close off avenues... "the horrors" you might quite like if you like this or "bats for lashes"... dont listen to new mainstream. wretched stuff.

[BloSig]

gorillaz and gnarls barkley

[RhinoGen]

Thanks Gramps.

[rudiebassic]

..This isn't 'mainstream' for a start so no comparison there... Also there are heaps of 'young artists' doing amazing music... Sigur Ros, mogwai, eiafuawn, anything off the Mille plateaux label... I could be here all day.

You need to search for new music.. You have exposed yourself as some body who relies on mainstream media to be told what music is out there without finding it for your self.

The 80's wasn't ALL good either.

[kiwijohn01]

Fair comment , but you have to put it into context too- everything being played now has come from, or was influenced by past efforts. Name one band doing something NEVER heard before? Exactly - no-one. The sounds from the bands you listed have all been done before - nothing original in there at all. But at least you're trying!

And don't rag on any era of music dude very uncool.

[compienz]

what stunning classic footage and what great quality - thanks so much.

[lunapark666]

i have the old veniel lp...i love this since over 15 years

[myweekbeatsyouryear]

martin phillips must have had some nasty demons festering away inside of him when he wrote this song. also the drummer is way hot

[Joe0681]

I think the Drummer is Caroline Ester

[swirlysound]

Love the Chills- so glad I type them in search today and discovered all these vids- never had the chance to see them live....

[secondskin08]

man i just found out who these guys are....fuckin radical shit...and the vocalist is sexy ...lol

[markduff]

Great band and great song!...... saw them live in one of the final versions of the Chills , american drummer , female keyboard player at Warners in Christchurch it was greattttttt!

[Catzo66]

Thank you for the vid. I loved The Chills, I love this song and the memories are flowing back.

[podycheck]

what a great song.

[jmh2277]

Never expected to see this...Amazing!

[dreamsareweird]

excellent! Thanks for posting this!

[charliedontsurf1979]

This is one of the most haunting songs of all times. Damn, i love it so much!