(COMMENT CONTINUED). As i was saying about the poles, the rail on the right was replaced with a Platform Tram Stop for Trams (which the route 96 currently runs here).
I think the platform you see in this picture was destroyed and now there are Retail shops and stuff inside this historical building. Everything written here and in my previous comment are correct i think, but bah what do i know im 19 and wasn't alive to see the trains run on this line haha.... Info from Wikipedia.
the people who answered "St Kilda Station", are correct. The picture you see from 0:00 - 0:18 is the old platform and rail from the old St Kilda Railway Station (which was run by trains back then till July 1987). Alot has changed now, if you try taking a picture from the same spot today, you will have a wall of glass windows blocking your view, the poles on the right are still there, but are hardly visible because of extra concrete and steel. (CONTINUED BELOW READ ON MY NEXT COMMENT).
TTAS bass line is not complicated, for those who wanna try, here's the tab... Will post the video if you which or need it ! Cheers, Eric.
Verse : (A str) 3->5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 (E str) 3->5 5 5 5 0 1 3 5->6 6 6 6 0 1 3 (A str) 3->5 5 5 5 (E str) 0 1 3 (End of 1st line) repeat...
The break or bridge is simply executed on two notes : (A str) 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 a number of times then 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 then switch back to the main verse ! That's it, the rest is technique of course ! :-)
Remember this song back in the days when I was a teenager ... back in the days I've learned so much on bass with The Clash, The Fall, H&C, Virgin Prunes and all those punk bands that are still with me after all these days... There's a future... But there's no more punk attitude in this world and I sincerely regret it ! Best song of that time. Go ahead punk, make my day !
Still have the original promo vinyl in the US from decades ago. Miss Hunters and Collectors and Midnight Oil l!!!!! Where has all the great music gone!
Mmm looks like Lara railway station that time I walked 10 km from Avalon airport. The heavy base is a highlight. It's like Talking Heads somehow - very wild.
remember being at a dance club in chicago in 83 and hearing this come on..I almost lost it! This lowenstein video is a major piece of oz history...thanks!
This was my first non-pop album I purchased as a young teenager (and I still have it on cassette). It introduced me to a new world of music and filmmaking. Have followed Lowenstein's career since and never been disappointed.
This video is sort of Aussie rural noir and suits the horror show feel...scared the hell out of me when as I kid I saw it on NZ music show Radio With Pictures...then I woke up to it on the radio in a farmhouse in Raglan in the middle of the pitch black New Zealand night...creepy but surreal and hypnotic somehow!!
Hey, guys need help to find a H & C track, from 1982/ 83...was an instrumental, great dance song back then (similar to Run, Run, Run). It started of slowly, then got faster & faster. I am 99% sure it is a H & C song, have looked and listened to H & C songs from then, without luck. Any ideas?
I WHISH I HAD AN ELASTIC BAND ON ME NOSE IN THE SHOWER. SHIT HOT SONG,BEST BAND ,THIS IS WHEN AUSSIES ROCKED , THE CHURCH, TH SAINTS, INXS ,MODELS, midnight oil,and dont forget REAL LIFE
Not a bad effort from a country that at the time was considered on the world's stage, to be pretty backward. This is classic oz talent. I remember it well, it was a stand out song, but this video is really outstanding as well. A highly creative and bold vid for that time, in this country.
One of my FAV tracks of all time PERIOD! The bass and vocals are amazing. I LOVE and always have the earyness of it all. Wish Hunters & Collectors stayed in this vain of New Wave Art FUnk for longer. It gives me shivers, WOW *****
I have been playing the Hunters music for nearly 30 years and I still love it. They are a real class act. Some of their songs are very profound. Great words to listen to and much better then soppy love songs. Although the few love type songs they do do have a sense of earthiness about them. Great aussie talent!
Pisses over all the corporate "musical" crap that exists today...I had the privilege of seeing them live back in 1985 supporting the Stranglers..the first ever rock concert I attended at the age of 15.This track still scares the shit out of me until this day....they had a very unique sound back then ( debut album,the "World of Stone" and "Payload" Ep's)
Wow - i was there too! The Stranglers Aural something or other tour. At the Palais in StKilda, what a great concert. I think the Fix were playing across the road.
Personally i thought the Stranglers were not a patch on the support act. First of many times i saw H&C, i couldn't believe how many musos kept popping up on stage, they were a huge band then, with a fantastic horn section.
I had heard some stuff from Hunters and Collectors before this came out but the video put me off them. I though, here we go again, a bit of commercial success and now they've gone all arty farty with unfathomable videos that make sense to no one.
They came back to earth after this one and a good night was guaranteed when they turned up at your local. Hunnas!
I have been looking for this track for years ...i remember it from a house party in belfast....kept telling my mate, Surgy about it.......hard to explain the tune when you cant stand on your own three feet....never forgot it though......how could ya...still sounds magic.......peace.. love..light....etc
I remember the first time I saw this was in '83 at my friend Vince's house. We were high school freshmen and this may have been the second or third time I ever smoked weed. I did not start hearing their albums until about two years later. It still looks fairly trippy even by today's standards.
I've got this on an old VHS tape, and i swear it has something written at the bottom of the screen, like "St Kilda, 1981" or something like that, can't see it in this video.
This is the first time i've seen the video in full! taped it off countdown in aussy, came back to england & it just blew my brother away, another convert! way ahead of it's time, music & video wise, AWSUM!!
These guys were very serious about their music but a great live band. Would pound out a night of power and rythmn with true character and class. Fantastic live band!!!
THE NfIRST tRIBAL INDUSTRIAL SONG EVER, THESE GUYS WERE INOVATORS AND MUSOS, PITY THEY WENT SOFT COCK LATER ON AND DIED IN THE WOOL AMONGST CHER, BEYONCE AND FLOK OF SEAGUKLLS,, A SHAME
yeah yeah this video...it seemed so cutting edge when I first saw it on Rock Arena, can't remember what year...this was an influence on me I realise now I see it again
Great song and video. The bass line has rumbled around my head for 25 years and I summon it once in a while to drown out any annoying jingle or pop tune stuck in there.
This song/video was burned into my memory and has remained one of the most brilliant of all time... I saw Mark interviewed by Kate Cerebrano years ago and he thought that his brother (crowded house) was better than him. I say... no way!
A great band...this was a great album. Australia had excellent talent in the eighties..angels,church, mid' oil, icehouse and the list just goes on...Personally i thought that the Serious Young Insects were just fantastic..still love them.
This is a fantastic video.I remember dancing to it at the "688" club in Atlanta in 1983 during the peak of the New Wave era.We would pack the floor and this would be shown on a giant screen above us on the wall.Thanks for an incredible memory of the gretest time in my life.
Australia's greatest band of the last 20 or so years.Inventive in every way, both musically and visually in their video clips.Mark Seymour hardest working singer I've ever seen.Truly remarkable band.
Aussie music has always had class acts that are/were equal to (or better than) any 'international' bands... case in point 'The Hunters and Collectors'... and this was their 'debut', and hey, they only got better...
I read in Mark Seymour's book, the band were stunned into silence when they first saw this clip. And that the soaring brass section at the end wasn't originally in it and only happened after the (then unknown) three members of the horn section showed up at a rehearsal and played along with them. Great song!
saw them at a union night in melbourne when they still played this style of music.I loved that album, their most interesting, creative and original of all. It was hard to watch them morph into a blue singleted producer of yob anthems and then sop ballads(throw your arms around me being an exception, there is just some special quality to that song)like river runs dry.etc Still enjoy the video to this day- thanks for posting it.p.s.and I won jack's girlfriend's heart at a gig..He hated me!
Definately, A Certain Ratio faux funk going on, Primarybenelux. I only discovered this album this year, and man, it was like a should have always been listening to it. Fieman's Curse the next LP is great too. To bad the Hunters later commercial appeal has left a bogan legacy for most in Australia. I read the new Marc Seymore Bio in Borders on my lunch breaks, it really shines some light on such a mysterious and totally Australian band.
I think H&C were ahead of their time back in the 80s. Their music rocked! It's great to know they still have a huge following and I regularly hear their music played on radio 94.9 in the Shoalhaven. Incidentally, Mark Seymour from H&C was playing in clubs with James Reyne from Australia Crawl. I checked them out at the Revesby Workers Club, and wow, they were fantastic....Even played some of Talking Heads music. If you ever get the chance to see them, you'll have the best night! ::)))
this song AND video continues to haunt me from the very first time i saw/heard it when i was 12 yrs old. I am now 38. It's so primal and yet otherworldly. the horns remind me of Tusk by Fleetwood Mac (another haunting song).
Aaargh, when yours truly saw this video on the tube at a friends back in the year of our lord 1982, our jaws dropped to the floor simultaneously going "WTF?!?!"
This is it! This like personified me in the 80s when I lived in NZ and this music has never been bettered its in a class of its own-skin of Our Teeth was another great song. Man I just couldnt get enough of them!
Try to get your hands on their first single World of Stone and Their Payload "EP" with Yellow Towtruck, it wont be easy if you dont live in Australia. Their early stuff was great, then they went all commercial with their holy grail and throw your arms around me rubbish, sad. Does anyone really think that earlt hunters and collectors sound like Duran Duran?
Sure they're different -- but IMVIO H/C is more similar to Duran Duran than, say, PIL or Joy Divison. Thus Talking to a stranger sounds more like Duran's RIO than it does to a song such as JD's 'they walked in line,' even if similarities exist.
Come to think of it, the band I would say H/C most closely resembles is Bauhaus.
bauhaus yes, PIL yes(same tone),Rio DD no way..thats a happy sound..h/c this sound..is very tribal, serious, intense..I guess we all have different ears
A Certain Ratio (circa To Each...) and early Shriekback are also good comparison points, too. (Although it looks like I noted that quite a few months ago in these comments! Oh well.)
Actually World of Stone's tacked onto the end of the "Hunters and Collectors" album CD and Payload's on the "Jaws of Life" CD. Which shouldn't be too hard to find cheap. Throw Your Arms Around Me was written pretty early in the piece, too and first pops up on their 1984 live album.
Early H&C were very much a post-punk band, closer to bands like Gang of Four, Joy Division and PiL, (after all they got their name from Can) - there was absolutely nothing Duran Duran about them.
I'm not so sure - they both had quite a bass driven sound, especially in the early DD stuff although H and C were generally a little more sophisticated.
GaleasAg1. Are you mad ? Duran Duran ? Come on! H&C were a fantastic tribal energy rock band. No superficial poofy boys. I saw them about 10 times in the early 80's. Fantastic. Lost their way after 'Human Frailty'. But that's still about 5 of the best albums you'll ever hear. Not one track sounds like Duran Duran.
Think I first heard these guys on Maiden Australia compilation from IRS? Had this on lp, but this is a different version. One I first heard was darker, similar to Theatre Of Hate. Anyone, is my memory intact?, did do a lot of drugs then.
Actually, Hunter & Collectors are one of the more iconic bands in Australia and are VERY well known. Their music represents a more earthy & gritty feel, that refuses to be categorized into the dull, mainstream scene.
wow havent seen this video for 24 years saw it for the first time in the early 80's about 1983/84 i think,in an alternitive new wave club called the red parrot in PERTH Western Australia, loved it instantly and everyone danced to it.
@vars666... ? I am not sure to understand your comment... What is about the rig ? Which rig ? Cheers.
MrToonfish 1 week ago
(COMMENT CONTINUED). As i was saying about the poles, the rail on the right was replaced with a Platform Tram Stop for Trams (which the route 96 currently runs here).
I think the platform you see in this picture was destroyed and now there are Retail shops and stuff inside this historical building. Everything written here and in my previous comment are correct i think, but bah what do i know im 19 and wasn't alive to see the trains run on this line haha.... Info from Wikipedia.
DannyWogstarMitsis 2 weeks ago
the people who answered "St Kilda Station", are correct. The picture you see from 0:00 - 0:18 is the old platform and rail from the old St Kilda Railway Station (which was run by trains back then till July 1987). Alot has changed now, if you try taking a picture from the same spot today, you will have a wall of glass windows blocking your view, the poles on the right are still there, but are hardly visible because of extra concrete and steel. (CONTINUED BELOW READ ON MY NEXT COMMENT).
DannyWogstarMitsis 2 weeks ago
TTAS bass line is not complicated, for those who wanna try, here's the tab... Will post the video if you which or need it ! Cheers, Eric.
Verse : (A str) 3->5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 (E str) 3->5 5 5 5 0 1 3 5->6 6 6 6 0 1 3 (A str) 3->5 5 5 5 (E str) 0 1 3 (End of 1st line) repeat...
The break or bridge is simply executed on two notes : (A str) 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 - 5 5 5 a number of times then 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 then switch back to the main verse ! That's it, the rest is technique of course ! :-)
MrToonfish 2 months ago
@MrToonfish
Cheers Toonfish. Now to get the timing down...
Thanks again
superdeuce2222 2 months ago
@MrToonfish its about the rig bro
vars666 1 week ago
Remember this song back in the days when I was a teenager ... back in the days I've learned so much on bass with The Clash, The Fall, H&C, Virgin Prunes and all those punk bands that are still with me after all these days... There's a future... But there's no more punk attitude in this world and I sincerely regret it ! Best song of that time. Go ahead punk, make my day !
MrToonfish 2 months ago
I'm going to have nightmares now... that was awesome
kristina80ification 3 months ago
Still have the original promo vinyl in the US from decades ago. Miss Hunters and Collectors and Midnight Oil l!!!!! Where has all the great music gone!
igoozok 5 months ago
I reckon it's StKilda station
frankblues 6 months ago
best low budget film clip ever
tasimana 6 months ago
when i first saw this in 1982, i was rivetted to it and it still gives me chills
divernater 6 months ago 3
Does anyone have the bass tabs for this killer track?
Would be appreciated by a lot of cats out there, me included
superdeuce2222 6 months ago
Mmm looks like Lara railway station that time I walked 10 km from Avalon airport. The heavy base is a highlight. It's like Talking Heads somehow - very wild.
Tom5578 7 months ago
I think Trent Reznor may have gotten some ideas from this video when he made the vid for his song "Closer".
marehtseira 7 months ago
@marehtseira
I'm thinking that some of animal collective's ODDSAC's visual style my have inspired by this as well...
kristina80ification 3 months ago
@AntipodeanAl lol
marehtseira 7 months ago
I am starting to realise where TOOL may have got some inspiration. Go Hunters.
moolyland 8 months ago
After all these years, the music and the film is as powerful as the first time. True art.
beebeeguy69 8 months ago 2
remember being at a dance club in chicago in 83 and hearing this come on..I almost lost it! This lowenstein video is a major piece of oz history...thanks!
stephensydney 8 months ago 3
Greatest bassline ever.
paddlepop77 8 months ago 2
This was my first non-pop album I purchased as a young teenager (and I still have it on cassette). It introduced me to a new world of music and filmmaking. Have followed Lowenstein's career since and never been disappointed.
artxploiter 9 months ago 2
great times seeing these guys and the Paitners and Dockers at all the Uni balls - what ever happend to 'slam dancing'?
tunsatube 9 months ago
This video is sort of Aussie rural noir and suits the horror show feel...scared the hell out of me when as I kid I saw it on NZ music show Radio With Pictures...then I woke up to it on the radio in a farmhouse in Raglan in the middle of the pitch black New Zealand night...creepy but surreal and hypnotic somehow!!
CurtisMateer 9 months ago 3
Aint nothing coming on those tracks. They're too rusty...
independentsheep 10 months ago
Hey, guys need help to find a H & C track, from 1982/ 83...was an instrumental, great dance song back then (similar to Run, Run, Run). It started of slowly, then got faster & faster. I am 99% sure it is a H & C song, have looked and listened to H & C songs from then, without luck. Any ideas?
herbie0408 10 months ago
souvent pour s'amuser les hommes d'equipage... the only Baudelaire quote in English language rock music?
Squid603 10 months ago
souvent pour s'amuser less hommes d'equipage... possibly the only quote from Baudelaire in rock music (well, English language anyway)
Squid603 10 months ago
Brillance...
brann2756 11 months ago
Perano and "The Wang"! If you are a fan, read Mark Seymour's book, "Thirteen Tonne Theory"!
MrMattnick 1 year ago
I WHISH I HAD AN ELASTIC BAND ON ME NOSE IN THE SHOWER. SHIT HOT SONG,BEST BAND ,THIS IS WHEN AUSSIES ROCKED , THE CHURCH, TH SAINTS, INXS ,MODELS, midnight oil,and dont forget REAL LIFE
spassy13 1 year ago 3
I WHISH I HAD AN ELASTIC BAND ON ME NOSE IN THE SHOWER. SHIT HOT SONG,BEST BAND
spassy13 1 year ago
I still enjoy this band on 11 and the video is something spectacular. They should all reform and get back to what they do best .
markgardnerchannel 1 year ago
Holy shart! Thanks for posting this classic!
Goombah777 1 year ago 2
hell of a bassline
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jimmybahri 1 year ago
WOW... Richard Lowenstein ( Dogs in Space ) directed!!.......... awesome stuff!!
proffesorcaresser 1 year ago
Not a bad effort from a country that at the time was considered on the world's stage, to be pretty backward. This is classic oz talent. I remember it well, it was a stand out song, but this video is really outstanding as well. A highly creative and bold vid for that time, in this country.
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42ledbelly 1 year ago
@gosplash and now we've given the world NatBass, Shannon Noll and Guy Sebastian. How far we've come ...
42ledbelly 1 year ago 7
Memories of a great Australian band
downunderMAW 1 year ago
one of the cooler videos from the 80s
theseether 1 year ago
Completley BRILLIANT!
One of my FAV tracks of all time PERIOD! The bass and vocals are amazing. I LOVE and always have the earyness of it all. Wish Hunters & Collectors stayed in this vain of New Wave Art FUnk for longer. It gives me shivers, WOW *****
TheNouveauxdecadence 1 year ago 2
Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'équipage
Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,
Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,
Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers. Charles Baudelaire.
thiemon 1 year ago
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timeless classic
redruff97 1 year ago
timeless classic
redruff97 1 year ago
I reckon its the best Aussie song ever.
downunderstan 1 year ago
"Souvent pour s'amuser les hommes d'equipage
And it's like talking to a stranger"
hehe, love it, so, i'm french^^
euxeb 1 year ago
I have been playing the Hunters music for nearly 30 years and I still love it. They are a real class act. Some of their songs are very profound. Great words to listen to and much better then soppy love songs. Although the few love type songs they do do have a sense of earthiness about them. Great aussie talent!
TheKrissy66 1 year ago
shit compared to the actual record youtube makes it sound like absolute dog cum.....amazing song though, just dont get your only listen here
zaktan44 1 year ago
Greatest bass line ever.
paddlepop77 1 year ago
love love love love....bass line is amazing...
AtomicBlonde666 1 year ago 2
one of the greatest unkown songs ever....unknow in the usa anyway
halkvideos 1 year ago 2
Those were the days! Give me Alligator Engine over Holy Grail any day!
jackluci 1 year ago
When I came to Australia, I hated this band..... then I found their old stuff
PaulShepherd01 1 year ago 2
@PaulShepherd01
Totally agree. They were brilliant up until Human Frailty, after which they became hand-wringingly earnest.
Spankenator62 1 year ago 2
The Hunters and Collectors best single !
rdrd0g 1 year ago
Pisses over all the corporate "musical" crap that exists today...I had the privilege of seeing them live back in 1985 supporting the Stranglers..the first ever rock concert I attended at the age of 15.This track still scares the shit out of me until this day....they had a very unique sound back then ( debut album,the "World of Stone" and "Payload" Ep's)
abagail4me 1 year ago
@abagail4me
Wow - i was there too! The Stranglers Aural something or other tour. At the Palais in StKilda, what a great concert. I think the Fix were playing across the road.
Personally i thought the Stranglers were not a patch on the support act. First of many times i saw H&C, i couldn't believe how many musos kept popping up on stage, they were a huge band then, with a fantastic horn section.
Mrcurlywhirly 1 year ago
yeah me too, as in right faaaarking now,m he hehhe
biggdogg9911 1 year ago
I just heard this song for the first time like last year, had no idea there was a video for it...very cool! Thanks so much for the post.
jsbx5 1 year ago
Is this filmed in the Frankston railway station circa 1980s? Brilliant filmclip in any time!!!
caitlinniamh 1 year ago
I had heard some stuff from Hunters and Collectors before this came out but the video put me off them. I though, here we go again, a bit of commercial success and now they've gone all arty farty with unfathomable videos that make sense to no one.
They came back to earth after this one and a good night was guaranteed when they turned up at your local. Hunnas!
SauronsEye 1 year ago
terri likes this song
rbeggmackay 1 year ago
I was about 14 and getting heavily into the music obsession when this came out... awesome! Hunners!!!! I still love it
fknucklewit 1 year ago
You take into context considering when this video was made. Remarkable,really.
townesforever 1 year ago
another tune from back in the days when Australia was the country for innovative music
AK40fication 1 year ago 2
this song is more important than you think
vars666 1 year ago
love it! I had a mixtape bacl in the 80's called talking to a stranger 'cause this song...
karinammm1 1 year ago
Still want to stand in the shower with a rubber band over my face...great overlaying of primitive video technology...
009BRIBRI 1 year ago
love it, I saw these guys so many times back inthe day and believe me they were almost better live then of LP/CD
biggdogg9911 1 year ago
Sweet as..
Mark Seymour was the "Velvet Underground" of OZ land.
I saw the Hunters play way back in the 70's..Say Goodbye was my fave.
Cheers all,
The UTE!
theute01 1 year ago
I have been looking for this track for years ...i remember it from a house party in belfast....kept telling my mate, Surgy about it.......hard to explain the tune when you cant stand on your own three feet....never forgot it though......how could ya...still sounds magic.......peace.. love..light....etc
ThePaulwilsonart 1 year ago
Mysterious Surrealism!!
I LOVE IT!!!
LoneWolfHowl1 1 year ago
highi 'jane....its we "tarzan"
hh~ear~eye am rock you love the 'urry 'can
"a lot's going on down underwear" *T*
remindbender 2 years ago
distorted whale sounds in the beginning
halkvideos 2 years ago
A great, timeless song and yeah, still "fairly trippy".
Has a Mad Max feel about it, creative times in film and music in Aus.
Australian music from mid 70's to mid 80's was really something.
TheEvoNut 2 years ago 2
this was directed by the same guy that did Razor back
vars666 2 years ago
I remember the first time I saw this was in '83 at my friend Vince's house. We were high school freshmen and this may have been the second or third time I ever smoked weed. I did not start hearing their albums until about two years later. It still looks fairly trippy even by today's standards.
DeathMetalDouglas68 2 years ago
lol, blast from the past!
I've got this on an old VHS tape, and i swear it has something written at the bottom of the screen, like "St Kilda, 1981" or something like that, can't see it in this video.
Dialmformonkeys 2 years ago
When my sister got her first VCR this one was one of the first videos we ever recorded and I've been a fan since then!
bgrrrlie 2 years ago 2
This is the first time i've seen the video in full! taped it off countdown in aussy, came back to england & it just blew my brother away, another convert! way ahead of it's time, music & video wise, AWSUM!!
countryties4ever 2 years ago
very good stuff guy's we dance it many time on the beach
fabienagitato 2 years ago 2
I remember when i was a kid and saw this clip, i put a rubber band over my head and sung this song in the shower, just like this dude.
CON19723 2 years ago
your a legend
Blissbomb2 2 years ago
one of my fav dark videos....."120minute"
thats when MTV was a music channel
444Bam 2 years ago
Fantastic song from a great band. Saw them live many times and always came away impressed. Professional and committed
shortofalength 2 years ago 2
This was a song that has stuck with me since my 'Westy' years in Sydney early 80's.
ScragNath 2 years ago
These guys were very serious about their music but a great live band. Would pound out a night of power and rythmn with true character and class. Fantastic live band!!!
shortofalength 2 years ago
i love the earlier hunters stuff also , this was my fav song of theres tho
it was so out of this world sounding
noone and nothing sounds close to this
truely awesome as i have never seen clip before so thanx xoxoxo
carleyrocks1 2 years ago
if you lisern to some early english post punk neo industrial bands . you can see HandCs influence crossed the channel . absoulutly brilliant band
spassy13 2 years ago 2
Wow I can't believe this is from 1982 - over 25 years ago! Way to feel old :)
Thanks for posting this in its complete form. I always wondered why the name McGregor flashed on the screen, now the riddle's solved.
HuntersMoon73 2 years ago
Reminds me of The Clash. Don't ask why.
iwantwatermellon 2 years ago
Why?
alannigelmarshall 2 years ago
Don't ask why.
haha
iwantwatermellon 2 years ago
That train station was the old St Kilda train station - right across the street from which was the The George Hotel - aka the Seaview Ballroom.
Great times. Great Song.
rufus102 2 years ago 2
Just oozing with aggression! badass song! ^_+
xXCyberLegendXx 2 years ago
How wonderful they were...
RonaldsonTippet 2 years ago
THE NfIRST tRIBAL INDUSTRIAL SONG EVER, THESE GUYS WERE INOVATORS AND MUSOS, PITY THEY WENT SOFT COCK LATER ON AND DIED IN THE WOOL AMONGST CHER, BEYONCE AND FLOK OF SEAGUKLLS,, A SHAME
i LOVED THE EARLY STUFF IT WAS NEVER HEARD BEFORE
highwaytohe11 2 years ago
That made absolutely no sense.
SpencerIves 2 years ago
This is one of the greatest tracks from one of the best oz bands of all time. 25yrs later i still crank up the volume and dance to this ...
unguardedmoment 2 years ago 28
@unguardedmoment
amen brother
and im glad to see someone has finally got up "lumps of lead"
I want the whole album again
along with Freur's album with DOOT DOOT on it I listened to these too albums all the way through all the time
every track was good
liverawkstar 1 year ago
Can you believe that MVA once played this.
zyurecka 2 years ago
This band has great Bass guitar
Go John Archer and Mark Seymour
Bassandkeyboardstuff 2 years ago
this is the music i remember growing up to... though im not old.. mum just used to play it and i grew up in pubs so it means alot to me :)
LANIkoo 2 years ago 2
yeah yeah this video...it seemed so cutting edge when I first saw it on Rock Arena, can't remember what year...this was an influence on me I realise now I see it again
EndgameRecordLabel 2 years ago
Ses ailes de géant lempêchent de marcher.
fantayja 3 years ago
Great song and video. The bass line has rumbled around my head for 25 years and I summon it once in a while to drown out any annoying jingle or pop tune stuck in there.
hepcat8165 3 years ago 2
souvent pour s amuser les hommes d equipage.....
perscaven 3 years ago
The soul on fire.
brookskowski 3 years ago
first heard this in 86 in cork. i love this so much. johno.
jmpmeuc 3 years ago
This song/video was burned into my memory and has remained one of the most brilliant of all time... I saw Mark interviewed by Kate Cerebrano years ago and he thought that his brother (crowded house) was better than him. I say... no way!
lejandko 3 years ago
both brothers are GREAT
Bassandkeyboardstuff 2 years ago
one of the most under rated bands ever..this is a top 10 song of mine
halkvideos 3 years ago
A great band...this was a great album. Australia had excellent talent in the eighties..angels,church, mid' oil, icehouse and the list just goes on...Personally i thought that the Serious Young Insects were just fantastic..still love them.
aussieingreece 3 years ago
This is a fantastic video.I remember dancing to it at the "688" club in Atlanta in 1983 during the peak of the New Wave era.We would pack the floor and this would be shown on a giant screen above us on the wall.Thanks for an incredible memory of the gretest time in my life.
littletimone 3 years ago 2
688! Holy blast from the past! And that club underneath Jellybeans where Drivin' n' Cryin' used to play :)
catnmouse 3 years ago
Would have to be the best clip ever!.......Surely.
RonaldsonTippet 3 years ago
Australia's greatest band of the last 20 or so years.Inventive in every way, both musically and visually in their video clips.Mark Seymour hardest working singer I've ever seen.Truly remarkable band.
y0utubemetube 3 years ago
Aussie music has always had class acts that are/were equal to (or better than) any 'international' bands... case in point 'The Hunters and Collectors'... and this was their 'debut', and hey, they only got better...
eirrac54 3 years ago
I'M ON FIRE!....god bless em.
RonaldsonTippet 3 years ago
i saw mark do this live and i have to say, it was a whole lot better than that.. still a great song though
dreamteamsupreme 3 years ago
Great song.
macromeat 3 years ago
Geesuz. It's good.
gosplash 3 years ago
Has there ever been a wilder debut from a band? I remember seeing/hearing this for the
first time and having to pick my jaw up off the ground. That bass is beyond belief......
LOVE THE HUNTERS *_*
party63oldnow08 3 years ago 2
One of the first concept videos (music) I ever saw back in the very early 1980s. Loved it and so nice to find it again here.
FakeRea1 3 years ago
I read in Mark Seymour's book, the band were stunned into silence when they first saw this clip. And that the soaring brass section at the end wasn't originally in it and only happened after the (then unknown) three members of the horn section showed up at a rehearsal and played along with them. Great song!
bucketofwater 3 years ago 8
saw them at a union night in melbourne when they still played this style of music.I loved that album, their most interesting, creative and original of all. It was hard to watch them morph into a blue singleted producer of yob anthems and then sop ballads(throw your arms around me being an exception, there is just some special quality to that song)like river runs dry.etc Still enjoy the video to this day- thanks for posting it.p.s.and I won jack's girlfriend's heart at a gig..He hated me!
chuglet 3 years ago
Wow... they certainly sounded different on their first album.
kensane 3 years ago
This album is one of my all-time favourites. Incredible.
Tchutney 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this, H&C are icons of my teen years... made me very happy for a lot of reasons growing up
numsii 3 years ago
I never saw this video again since 1982. Thanx for posting.
Slog01 3 years ago
Definately, A Certain Ratio faux funk going on, Primarybenelux. I only discovered this album this year, and man, it was like a should have always been listening to it. Fieman's Curse the next LP is great too. To bad the Hunters later commercial appeal has left a bogan legacy for most in Australia. I read the new Marc Seymore Bio in Borders on my lunch breaks, it really shines some light on such a mysterious and totally Australian band.
DACvideos 3 years ago
I think H&C were ahead of their time back in the 80s. Their music rocked! It's great to know they still have a huge following and I regularly hear their music played on radio 94.9 in the Shoalhaven. Incidentally, Mark Seymour from H&C was playing in clubs with James Reyne from Australia Crawl. I checked them out at the Revesby Workers Club, and wow, they were fantastic....Even played some of Talking Heads music. If you ever get the chance to see them, you'll have the best night! ::)))
ellenanne40 3 years ago
anyone know where i can buy a H & C t-shirt.
Diamond3864 3 years ago
Yes.
paddlepop77 3 years ago
great where?
I live in Sweden, but would be happy to order it from oz.
Diamond3864 3 years ago
That's How Ya Rock Newbs
mattkristy 3 years ago
that's correct it is how to rock.
glensn 3 years ago
Can't believe that was 82, reminds me more of
Nine in Nails. Classic Aus track
pclarky 3 years ago
this song AND video continues to haunt me from the very first time i saw/heard it when i was 12 yrs old. I am now 38. It's so primal and yet otherworldly. the horns remind me of Tusk by Fleetwood Mac (another haunting song).
ryanh206 3 years ago
Damn, me too! Haunted by it, never forgot it, one of the first songs I looked up on UTUBE. Wow, the trancey vid continues to capture my attention.
kunoichi215 3 years ago
Aaargh, when yours truly saw this video on the tube at a friends back in the year of our lord 1982, our jaws dropped to the floor simultaneously going "WTF?!?!"
MexRann 3 years ago
Ahead of its time, and way ahead of ours.
vet4theinsane 4 years ago 2
was 1 of my top 3 favs in the 8os..this song..also World Destruction
halkvideos 4 years ago
This is it! This like personified me in the 80s when I lived in NZ and this music has never been bettered its in a class of its own-skin of Our Teeth was another great song. Man I just couldnt get enough of them!
jamesmarston1 4 years ago
awesome again stains
wikeepaedia 4 years ago
I was right into this song in 1982 :)
fordxg 4 years ago
Try to get your hands on their first single World of Stone and Their Payload "EP" with Yellow Towtruck, it wont be easy if you dont live in Australia. Their early stuff was great, then they went all commercial with their holy grail and throw your arms around me rubbish, sad. Does anyone really think that earlt hunters and collectors sound like Duran Duran?
kendokunti 4 years ago
Yup. And Duran Duran, for that matter, wrote some great songs (as much as I hate to admit it).
Hommes d'equipage -- ya okay..
Still, love it I do.
:)
airacsum 4 years ago
nope..duran duran although great..is a differnet cat. here..H & C stands apart
halkvideos 4 years ago
Sure they're different -- but IMVIO H/C is more similar to Duran Duran than, say, PIL or Joy Divison. Thus Talking to a stranger sounds more like Duran's RIO than it does to a song such as JD's 'they walked in line,' even if similarities exist.
Come to think of it, the band I would say H/C most closely resembles is Bauhaus.
Good on ya mates,
AC :)
airacsum 4 years ago
bauhaus yes, PIL yes(same tone),Rio DD no way..thats a happy sound..h/c this sound..is very tribal, serious, intense..I guess we all have different ears
halkvideos 4 years ago
Sure RIO is happy -- but it starts off kinda moody. PIL -- are you kidding me? I can't think of anyone sound like that 'cept for maybe the Remnants.
Come to think of it, HNC share a style with Killing Joke.
Check out KJ's 'love like blood.'
Or don't -- but PBUY in any case.
AC out,
AC :)
airacsum 4 years ago
Sorry I meant The Residents, not the Remnants (though I'm pretty sure they're a band as well).
Gettin' late...
airacsum 4 years ago
A Certain Ratio (circa To Each...) and early Shriekback are also good comparison points, too. (Although it looks like I noted that quite a few months ago in these comments! Oh well.)
primarybenelux 4 years ago 2
Actually World of Stone's tacked onto the end of the "Hunters and Collectors" album CD and Payload's on the "Jaws of Life" CD. Which shouldn't be too hard to find cheap. Throw Your Arms Around Me was written pretty early in the piece, too and first pops up on their 1984 live album.
Early H&C were very much a post-punk band, closer to bands like Gang of Four, Joy Division and PiL, (after all they got their name from Can) - there was absolutely nothing Duran Duran about them.
gths2006 4 years ago
agree..gths2006..your on target
halkvideos 4 years ago
I'm not so sure - they both had quite a bass driven sound, especially in the early DD stuff although H and C were generally a little more sophisticated.
jon2johnny 4 years ago
GaleasAg1. Are you mad ? Duran Duran ? Come on! H&C were a fantastic tribal energy rock band. No superficial poofy boys. I saw them about 10 times in the early 80's. Fantastic. Lost their way after 'Human Frailty'. But that's still about 5 of the best albums you'll ever hear. Not one track sounds like Duran Duran.
oceanchange 4 years ago
MAGNIFIQUE
jean00029 4 years ago
Greatest video ever made.
clamtard 4 years ago
Exactly. I remeber seeing this when it was new and I understood even then that no-one would ever top this one.
fishnose1 4 years ago
i like this guy/gal.. ;-)
hazerml 4 years ago
Think I first heard these guys on Maiden Australia compilation from IRS? Had this on lp, but this is a different version. One I first heard was darker, similar to Theatre Of Hate. Anyone, is my memory intact?, did do a lot of drugs then.
1cutchie 4 years ago
I loved that compilation!
MrPogle 4 years ago
Yeah , you right I never heard this group. While Duran Duran is well known band while HC group people hardly know them!!!!!
GaleasAg1 4 years ago
Actually, Hunter & Collectors are one of the more iconic bands in Australia and are VERY well known. Their music represents a more earthy & gritty feel, that refuses to be categorized into the dull, mainstream scene.
gupsnot 4 years ago
sound like Duran Duran
GaleasAg1 4 years ago
Are you mental? H&C were in a completely different class to Duran Duran and miles ahead. Talk about pub rock. They killed every show they did.
adeena 4 years ago
wow havent seen this video for 24 years saw it for the first time in the early 80's about 1983/84 i think,in an alternitive new wave club called the red parrot in PERTH Western Australia, loved it instantly and everyone danced to it.
vinnybon 4 years ago
Such a great song. Thanks Haz
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