At least Aussie bands and Aussie music is real, live, creative and not computer-engineered. Stop playing that fake, computerized American bull-cr@p on our radios and bring back REAL Aussie music that makes sense to all true Aussies everywhere!!!
And again, Barrier Reef decimated two-thirds of my brain. It's a long road back from early childhood brain trauma, but with your help Australia, we the North American victims of Skippy, Barrier Reef, and a host of other broadcasts that somehow made it onto our television screens in the late 1960's and early 70's, we can and shall recover. Apology accepted, as we have no argument with the australian people, you have peculiar ways, it's true, but we harbor no ill will towards you, good people.
How can one watch AC/DC videos, like Whole Lotta Rosie, seeing those young men head-banging like that, and not be convinced that Skippy and Barrier Reef aren't somehow the root cause of it all? There will come a day when the perpetrators of those television shows will face justice. Until that day, I pledge to make every long-haired Australian boy who loves Rock and Roll a symbol of ruthless, corporate greed. Go ahead you lot, bang on, but know that your hair is not your own creature.
Still sends the same shivers down my spine as it did when I was a child. I could recognize this tune after the first few bars. No matter how old and senile I got.
fucking love this song and this band. i had this at my wedding last year and everyone, including the foreign members of the wedding got up to dance. always a welcome tune.
I've been living in Korea for about a year, and most of my friends are other foreigners from the US, Canada, and the UK. They (particularly the Americans) love Cold Chisel and wonder how it's possible they've never heard of them before.
@hayesism The American didn't want to know them in the day, so consequently "you got nothing I want" but I bet they wished they'd got on board now. Anyway for us Aussies it has been a fantastic journey and hopefully it aint over yet. Been to a few Chisel concerts and right up until the most recent these guys are still as good today as they were 30 years ago at the last stand.
@hayesism Cool, I was in Korea for a while-it is interesting how you get to think of yourself as being a 'Foreigner' it is a real lesson. Remember walking the streets and not seeing any other 'westerners', and if you do you feel like running up to them :-)
Cold Chisel are a timeless band. One of the last real talents. Maybe not as many kids 'listen' to them these days, but when you play a chisel song, they stand up and listen. And they might not admit it, but they wonder what they missed out on.
@murdermybride im 17 and i realise this most of the stuff on the radio these days is shit, cold chisel and inxs are great aussie bands which make me proud to be australian
@murdermybride man i will admit it i grew up with this music from mum and dad but i still wish music like this was made now it songs like this that take u back to things u want to remember but somtimes u forget its just great
@junkead Because alot of their songs were about Australia and didn't appeal to the international market.It's amazing Jimmy wasn't bigger outside though as his songs were about things everyone can relate to
@Breniznit ya very general themes, surprising they didnt do better o/s. This is one of their best, a song about Armidale, new south wales, where the songwriter spent a year finishing off his degree before heading on into cold chisel ;)
@H0RN3YY I live in Australia .. umm and I must say Aussies are mostly into 80's and pop music. Not much of creativity. But I do respect their hearts supporting local music.
Start thinking something you really really want cause this is astounding the person that sent me this to me said their wish came true 10 mins after they read the mail so I thought what the heck you have just been visited by Dr Suess's cat in the hat he will grant you one wish when the countdown is over
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Its only Australia which can produce music like this. If only there was music like this on today's charts. I listen to them over and over and my jaw still drops. Cold Chisel were long before my time but they are and always will be my all time favourite.
Being from a small country town in SA, these great Cold Chisel always play in one of two hotels here. There is no such music like what they have produced, this is the real king of aussie rock. Thumbs up to bring back this type of music!
When i was doing recruit training at kapooka,then again at 3RAR in Sydnet we flogged the shit out of this song on the juke box...brings back fond memories....darren
Oh and I don't care that much about their new album, as long as it's not all songs about love, being a slut, dancing in some random club, or a breakup; because that's not them!
@nzoz1984 Guys can I clear something up about Chisel? Are they going to release their new album first or go on tour first? If they went on tour first, they could try out songs from the new album LIVE and if the audience reacts well, release them on iTunes or whereever.
As I've said before, my complaint is not with the people of Australia. I hold you in high regard, although there was that incident back in 1985, in Waikiki. An Aussie kid took off on a small wave and ran right into me as I was paddling out. He snapped the tail off his rental board, and crushed my foot, swelled up horribly, I had to get x-rayed, hurt like the Dickens, too. His father stood over me whilst I writhed in pain on the beach and said" "my son says you broke his surfboard." Eh?
@SolidPRAWN Yes, do laugh at my pain. Go ahead, laugh. At least you acknowledge that it exists. For so long we, the forgotten American child victims of Barrier Reef, Skippy, and other creations of Australian broadcasting, have languished in perfect isolation and hidden abandonment, utterly forgotten. Who would be our voice now, to tell our story? Paul Hogan? Oh bother. Isn't he outback somewhere, throwing shrimps on the barbie, eating Vegemite sandwiches and lip-synching in a drag revue?
@Patsanator I agree, did meet a nice bunch whilst staying at Fort Mason hostel in S.F. Tagged along to Alcatraz with them, told them my story, and how I had hated Aussies, but they changed my POV. A surfer from SOCAL, I feel a kinship w/ yous. However, that father who stood over me on the beach, and coldly demanded I give him money for what was his own son's stupid fault, as if I had any money on me, that SOB went over and told a Hawaiian police officer that I'd broken his son's rental.
Only a country like Australia could produce a band as good as Cold Chisel, in the exact same fashion a country like Canada could produce an artist as good as Bryan Adams.
@pfeds are you seriously comparing Bryan Adams to Cold Chisel????????? Your brain needs the long wash on hot water with the long rinse my friend......
@rueboyHSV I'll tell you a story, "mate." The sad story of millions of American children sitting in front of television sets in the 1970's, "mate." What are they watching, "mate"? They're watching Skippy, and Barrier Reef, and their frontal lobes are being decimated, "mate." How's that for a story, "mate"? Write a song about that, "mate." Mind me kangaroo, "mate." Put an extra shrimp on the barbie, "mate." Skippy turned my brain to crap, "mate." G'day, "mate." Fuck's sake, "mate."
@hummlyhummly every one is being brainwashed mate, nothing we can do about it, its in the music, food, movies, tv everything, what are we gonna do, nothing thats what, so might as well go with the flow
@rueboyHSV Yours is not a lone voice crying, crying I say, in the wilderness rueboy, God bless you. Oh, I went with the flow alright. Brainwashed? Try brain-damaged. Barrier Reef just went "with the flow" all over my young mind, and I've never been the same since. Well, I'll tell you one sweet thing my down-under friend: I'm not about to cross a Quantas Airline picket line, and I'm sure as hell not going to "go with the flow"! Dammit man, I will not rest till justice is served, and well!
@SolidPRAWN Add two more voices, and now hear the chorus surge! Yes my dears, welcome. Welcome SolidPRAWN and AintSheABeute! You both add your voices to an already growing chorus of outrage at the injustice of Australian television broadcasting, and the damage suffered by so many children in North America in the 1960's and 70's. Thank you. What say the rest of you Australians? Won't you demonstrate this kind of courage, and speak out against the horror of Skippy, and Barrier Reef?
American diver killed in, where else, Australia. Sure, a sensational story like that gets plenty of coverage. But what about all the American children growing up in the 1960's and 70's, who were exposed to toxic levels of Skippy, and Barrier Reef, what about them? I was one such child. My brain has extensive neurological damage, a direct result of watching just one episode of Skippy. The side effects are devastating, and there is no known cure. Damn your great white shark, my brain's crap.
Skippy. Barrier Reef. Don't you know children in America were brain-damaged from exposure to these television broadcasts, and others? They came from Australia. Does that surprise you? I'm here to tell you all that it's time the perpetrators of this crime be brought to justice! Skippy damaged my mind, it ruined my childhood. Barrier Reef made my life the misery it is today, and I demand justice! Bring these criminals to court, make them pay, say sorry, for what they've done, at long last.
i think its mad im a mad fan ive been for years anychance of gettin some memorabillia of yous as im a huge fan yous are awsome im glad yous got back together
@mexicanpete69 Sure, he's Scotland-born. However, he moved to Australia at the age of 4, to young really to have prior Scottish influence beside his parents. Gotta love Jim
@TheMitchtuber well if u like coming home from the pub stinking like shit and having the early on-set of passive smoking related lung cancer good for you.
The first step to resurrecting this kind of music is kicking the pokies and Nightlife video jukeboxes out of local pubs and getting live ORIGINAL bands back in. I'm sorry but beergarden cover bashers just don't cut it. It's called Pub Rock for a reason. The revolution starts with the punters!
@Eyeman25 im with you mate.. trouble is dicks like gary anderson ( he doesnt deserve to be called angry anymore) is getting royalties from pokies now ..i miss seeing up and coming bands in pubs
I sit in my lounge room listening to this on the computer and thinking why arent I at the pub listening on the juke box . THEN I REMEMBERED ALL THE OLD PUBS ARE GONE .
I fucking love being an Aussie. At the risk of sounding like an old fart, they just dont make songs like this anymore. You can stick your vacuous pop crap and hip hop up your arse mate. Chisels / Oils / INXS /Icehouse / ACDC / Rose Tattoo / V Spy V Spy / Men at Work / James Reyne / Dragon / The Angels / Hoodoo Gurus/Nick Cave /Paul Kelly /Hunters and Collectors, even Johnny Fucking Farnham for Christ's sake, plus 20-odd other legendary bands...what an awesome time and place was Oz in the 80s eh?
@truespyfan Formed in 1985 by 2 Australians and 1 Kiwi in MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA.
Produced 2 World Wide sensational albums. 6 years later another Finn joins the band and their success diminishes as the band takes on a more SPLIT ENZ sound. As a successful trio they were most definitely AUSTRALIAN.
@bigtone12 How is it we were so flooded with pure talented bands in the 80's (which majority never got their fair wack at fame they deserved), yet you look at music these days, its shit. and thats being harsh to shit.
Theres not an aussie band worth pissing on now that i can think of off top of my head. Saw Wolfcrap supporting AC/DC and without a word of a lie, the crowd was walkin out of the arena - i wondered wat was going on as I'd just arrived. :( Thought the joint was on fire...
@bigtone12 I love being an Aussie too but unfortunatly this country is pretty fucked at the moment. Need to restore it back to what it was like in the Early 80's.
@inquisitiverobbo You need to consider poetic license. Flame trees blinding the weary driver refers to the autumn colours along Elm Avenue. And, like I said, the lyric writer spent a year in Armidale not long before he wrote this song. :)
Despite sources suggesting this song is about Grafton, I am totally convinced it is instead about Armidale. The lyricist spent a year in Armidale finishing his science studies not long before writing the song and if you have ever been to UNE in Armidale, Elm Avenue (the main drag to uni) is completely encompassed in 'flame trees' for a couple of months each year. I'm tipping the author had a girl in Armidale and didn't want the lyrics pinned down to her, so instead "it's about Grafton".
@GT4GTR agree. ....I just came home from his concert (their) still buzzing and still feeling nostalgic and missing this classic aussie music....legendary
@GT4GTR agree. ....I just came home from his concert (their) still buzzing and still feeling nostalgic and missing this classic aussie music....legendary
@GT4GTR I', from a small country town myself in S.A. God i miss this sort of music in pubs live..I luv Oz roclk angels, hunters and collectors, divynals, screaming jets , hoodoo gurus, oils and the list goes on. cant wait to see the angels this month with dave gleeson singing.
this song was the first one that came up when i put cold chisel in the gap... it reminds me my friend sean from nz. he loves this band. i actually got here after a conversation over brakfast... he told me about this great band... i love the song. and love my friend!!!
I am 44 , I didnt really like this song back in the 1980,s but now I think it is a all time classic . great sound , great lyrics and it says so much about regional Australia, possible more relevent today than when it was written and recorded. Well done boys
Jimmy Barnes had a very soulful and unique voice....a rocker’s voice with class.
He is sublime here, interpreting the lyrics beautifully over a the superbly temperamental and smooth rhythm.
Thing is, as good as he was (and Chisel) they never really achieved the overseas fame that awaited them.
Legend has it Jimmy Page was so impressed with Jimmy’s talent back in the mid-80s that he organised a meeting via Atlantic Records. Of course, it never worked out.
im a 15 year old bloke growing up in the lady gaga, justin bieber generation, and i wish i could jump in a time machine and be in the cold chisel era, even if only long enough to get into a concert when they were at their prime! cold chisel's music will never fail to be popular! <3
Think this song gets better with age....
tonks7000 1 hour ago
i like your songs the song that is my favourite is this one :-)
uewiyofihudozqz89sqd 20 hours ago
At least Aussie bands and Aussie music is real, live, creative and not computer-engineered. Stop playing that fake, computerized American bull-cr@p on our radios and bring back REAL Aussie music that makes sense to all true Aussies everywhere!!!
69myopinion 6 days ago 2
Gotta love it, and all the misbelievers can get f@cked. If the Chisel didn't rule the late 80's, who did???
flyingshark321 2 weeks ago
@flyingshark321 The Radiators were a good support act.
AikenBruce 1 day ago
And again, Barrier Reef decimated two-thirds of my brain. It's a long road back from early childhood brain trauma, but with your help Australia, we the North American victims of Skippy, Barrier Reef, and a host of other broadcasts that somehow made it onto our television screens in the late 1960's and early 70's, we can and shall recover. Apology accepted, as we have no argument with the australian people, you have peculiar ways, it's true, but we harbor no ill will towards you, good people.
hummlyhummly 2 weeks ago
Kiwi Dream Girl @ 4:02.....
JK! She's mine!
bretto444 3 weeks ago
How can one watch AC/DC videos, like Whole Lotta Rosie, seeing those young men head-banging like that, and not be convinced that Skippy and Barrier Reef aren't somehow the root cause of it all? There will come a day when the perpetrators of those television shows will face justice. Until that day, I pledge to make every long-haired Australian boy who loves Rock and Roll a symbol of ruthless, corporate greed. Go ahead you lot, bang on, but know that your hair is not your own creature.
hummlyhummly 3 weeks ago
Love this you,ll be suprised how many chisel fans there are in uk first heard them when I visited me mate in WA and loved them ever since
toontedd 3 weeks ago
"...number 3 is never say her name"
I'm not crying, I just spilled beer on my eyes...
(I still love you Catherine)
bretto444 3 weeks ago 3
@bretto444 Go and get her bro.
RenoAU 1 week ago
Still sends the same shivers down my spine as it did when I was a child. I could recognize this tune after the first few bars. No matter how old and senile I got.
lucienspinsrightrnd 1 month ago
Thanks.
AnarchicTroll 1 month ago
@AnarchicTroll AUSIE PRIDE RIGHT HERE LOVE THIS SONG
choppermoomoo3 1 month ago 4
fucking love this song and this band. i had this at my wedding last year and everyone, including the foreign members of the wedding got up to dance. always a welcome tune.
bunchoftits 1 month ago
This is me and my dads song<3
maddkid4 1 month ago
Nothing stopped us on the field in our day!! Loved it then, love it now..THanks CC
DRpokeme 1 month ago
one of the greatest songs ever.
charlie7246 1 month ago 2
I've been living in Korea for about a year, and most of my friends are other foreigners from the US, Canada, and the UK. They (particularly the Americans) love Cold Chisel and wonder how it's possible they've never heard of them before.
hayesism 1 month ago
@hayesism The American didn't want to know them in the day, so consequently "you got nothing I want" but I bet they wished they'd got on board now. Anyway for us Aussies it has been a fantastic journey and hopefully it aint over yet. Been to a few Chisel concerts and right up until the most recent these guys are still as good today as they were 30 years ago at the last stand.
TheSmanganaro 1 month ago
@hayesism Cool, I was in Korea for a while-it is interesting how you get to think of yourself as being a 'Foreigner' it is a real lesson. Remember walking the streets and not seeing any other 'westerners', and if you do you feel like running up to them :-)
GalaxyHorse 1 month ago
One of the greatest songs of all time:))
kez51able 1 month ago 2
Cold Chisel are a timeless band. One of the last real talents. Maybe not as many kids 'listen' to them these days, but when you play a chisel song, they stand up and listen. And they might not admit it, but they wonder what they missed out on.
murdermybride 2 months ago 9
@murdermybride im 17 and i realise this most of the stuff on the radio these days is shit, cold chisel and inxs are great aussie bands which make me proud to be australian
SunElectra2010 3 days ago
@murdermybride man i will admit it i grew up with this music from mum and dad but i still wish music like this was made now it songs like this that take u back to things u want to remember but somtimes u forget its just great
norcoryde1231 2 hours ago
such a good song.
check out our channel were aussie (:
SarahandChelsea1 2 months ago
Everyone has their own " lost forgotten feeling of her" Great lyric, great song
sgaseca 2 months ago
I wonder why COLD CHISEL is only popular in Australia...
junkead 2 months ago
@junkead Because alot of their songs were about Australia and didn't appeal to the international market.It's amazing Jimmy wasn't bigger outside though as his songs were about things everyone can relate to
Breniznit 2 months ago
@Breniznit ya very general themes, surprising they didnt do better o/s. This is one of their best, a song about Armidale, new south wales, where the songwriter spent a year finishing off his degree before heading on into cold chisel ;)
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@junkead because Australians know good music
H0RN3YY 2 months ago 2
@H0RN3YY We all know good music .. Australians support their music.
junkead 2 months ago 2
@H0RN3YY I live in Australia .. umm and I must say Aussies are mostly into 80's and pop music. Not much of creativity. But I do respect their hearts supporting local music.
junkead 2 months ago
Chisel have just announced they are headlining Bluesfest in Byron next Easter,,
Can't wait to see them again,,,
martzepan 2 months ago
Im from Brazil, but I Like of Australia, a day goes to live there.
x8vc94c2de 2 months ago
BEST AUSSIE ROCK SONG OF ALL TIME!
WPTSUKS 2 months ago
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acdcgregpage03 2 months ago
how the fuck doesnt this song have more views??
mattjacko32 2 months ago
The band's former lead singer Jimmy Barnes planted a flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolius) at the National Arboretum Canberra on 14th March 2011, Brachychiton acerifolius is commonly known as the Illawarra Flame Tree
LittleRedaz92 2 months ago
Im from the USA and my boyfriend for 2 years is from Aussie and he got me listen to them. Now, i listen to them all the time. Cant get enough of it.
rika86gg 2 months ago 3
perfect song <3
SitDownLEGEND 3 months ago
@SitDownLEGEND One of the best.
nagaslrac 3 months ago
im sad :( sounds like i missed out on a great decade
MrEvolutionist 3 months ago
@MrEvolutionist i hear ya
lukeshumack25 2 months ago
OK fair enough, we can slip Air Supply in there , but that will only open the flood gates for Skyhooks, Little River Band and Darrell Braithwaite...
bigtone12 3 months ago
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when I die, this is the song I want to be taken out on! Chisel still rock!
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clacy01 3 months ago
ilovee cold chisel.. :L
MaddisonWalker123 3 months ago
Its only Australia which can produce music like this. If only there was music like this on today's charts. I listen to them over and over and my jaw still drops. Cold Chisel were long before my time but they are and always will be my all time favourite.
Being from a small country town in SA, these great Cold Chisel always play in one of two hotels here. There is no such music like what they have produced, this is the real king of aussie rock. Thumbs up to bring back this type of music!
Thiele69 3 months ago 81
@Thiele69 I hope you're going to see them next week!
Can't wait to hear this at the Ent, Cent.
nagaslrac 3 months ago
@nagaslrac I missed this comment, and just wish I did get to see them :'( I wanted to so bad. Hopefully they can come once more in the near future.
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Thiele69 3 months ago
When i was doing recruit training at kapooka,then again at 3RAR in Sydnet we flogged the shit out of this song on the juke box...brings back fond memories....darren
groover672011 3 months ago
Great vid
lmorgan1974 3 months ago
Oh and I don't care that much about their new album, as long as it's not all songs about love, being a slut, dancing in some random club, or a breakup; because that's not them!
possessivetoast 3 months ago
@nzoz1984 Guys can I clear something up about Chisel? Are they going to release their new album first or go on tour first? If they went on tour first, they could try out songs from the new album LIVE and if the audience reacts well, release them on iTunes or whereever.
possessivetoast 3 months ago
As I've said before, my complaint is not with the people of Australia. I hold you in high regard, although there was that incident back in 1985, in Waikiki. An Aussie kid took off on a small wave and ran right into me as I was paddling out. He snapped the tail off his rental board, and crushed my foot, swelled up horribly, I had to get x-rayed, hurt like the Dickens, too. His father stood over me whilst I writhed in pain on the beach and said" "my son says you broke his surfboard." Eh?
hummlyhummly 3 months ago
@hummlyhummly LOL xD
SolidPRAWN 3 months ago
@SolidPRAWN Yes, do laugh at my pain. Go ahead, laugh. At least you acknowledge that it exists. For so long we, the forgotten American child victims of Barrier Reef, Skippy, and other creations of Australian broadcasting, have languished in perfect isolation and hidden abandonment, utterly forgotten. Who would be our voice now, to tell our story? Paul Hogan? Oh bother. Isn't he outback somewhere, throwing shrimps on the barbie, eating Vegemite sandwiches and lip-synching in a drag revue?
hummlyhummly 3 months ago
@hummlyhummly probs just got a bad one
most aussies are pretty nice and caring of others :)
Patsanator 3 months ago
@Patsanator I agree, did meet a nice bunch whilst staying at Fort Mason hostel in S.F. Tagged along to Alcatraz with them, told them my story, and how I had hated Aussies, but they changed my POV. A surfer from SOCAL, I feel a kinship w/ yous. However, that father who stood over me on the beach, and coldly demanded I give him money for what was his own son's stupid fault, as if I had any money on me, that SOB went over and told a Hawaiian police officer that I'd broken his son's rental.
hummlyhummly 3 months ago
Only a country like Australia could produce a band as good as Cold Chisel, in the exact same fashion a country like Canada could produce an artist as good as Bryan Adams.
Like that one.
pfeds 3 months ago 16
@pfeds are you seriously comparing Bryan Adams to Cold Chisel????????? Your brain needs the long wash on hot water with the long rinse my friend......
PeterHBne1 1 month ago
The best song from the best band in the WORLD. Cold Chisel, Cant wait to see them again in Sydney !!
nnorab 3 months ago
Imma kiwi but I like cold chisel, its the stories man, the stories
rueboyHSV 4 months ago
@rueboyHSV I'll tell you a story, "mate." The sad story of millions of American children sitting in front of television sets in the 1970's, "mate." What are they watching, "mate"? They're watching Skippy, and Barrier Reef, and their frontal lobes are being decimated, "mate." How's that for a story, "mate"? Write a song about that, "mate." Mind me kangaroo, "mate." Put an extra shrimp on the barbie, "mate." Skippy turned my brain to crap, "mate." G'day, "mate." Fuck's sake, "mate."
hummlyhummly 4 months ago
@hummlyhummly every one is being brainwashed mate, nothing we can do about it, its in the music, food, movies, tv everything, what are we gonna do, nothing thats what, so might as well go with the flow
rueboyHSV 3 months ago
@rueboyHSV Yours is not a lone voice crying, crying I say, in the wilderness rueboy, God bless you. Oh, I went with the flow alright. Brainwashed? Try brain-damaged. Barrier Reef just went "with the flow" all over my young mind, and I've never been the same since. Well, I'll tell you one sweet thing my down-under friend: I'm not about to cross a Quantas Airline picket line, and I'm sure as hell not going to "go with the flow"! Dammit man, I will not rest till justice is served, and well!
hummlyhummly 3 months ago
@hummlyhummly the matrix has you hummly, it has us all, resistance is futile
rueboyHSV 3 months ago
@rueboyHSV HAHAHAHAHA LOL!
SolidPRAWN 3 months ago
@hummlyhummly you sound like a fucking cult leader. stop lving your life talkin shit and do somethin.
SolidPRAWN 3 months ago
@SolidPRAWN Add two more voices, and now hear the chorus surge! Yes my dears, welcome. Welcome SolidPRAWN and AintSheABeute! You both add your voices to an already growing chorus of outrage at the injustice of Australian television broadcasting, and the damage suffered by so many children in North America in the 1960's and 70's. Thank you. What say the rest of you Australians? Won't you demonstrate this kind of courage, and speak out against the horror of Skippy, and Barrier Reef?
hummlyhummly 3 months ago
American diver killed in, where else, Australia. Sure, a sensational story like that gets plenty of coverage. But what about all the American children growing up in the 1960's and 70's, who were exposed to toxic levels of Skippy, and Barrier Reef, what about them? I was one such child. My brain has extensive neurological damage, a direct result of watching just one episode of Skippy. The side effects are devastating, and there is no known cure. Damn your great white shark, my brain's crap.
hummlyhummly 4 months ago
Skippy. Barrier Reef. Don't you know children in America were brain-damaged from exposure to these television broadcasts, and others? They came from Australia. Does that surprise you? I'm here to tell you all that it's time the perpetrators of this crime be brought to justice! Skippy damaged my mind, it ruined my childhood. Barrier Reef made my life the misery it is today, and I demand justice! Bring these criminals to court, make them pay, say sorry, for what they've done, at long last.
hummlyhummly 4 months ago
@hummlyhummly Can't tell if trolling, or just stupid.
AintSheABeute 3 months ago
i think its mad im a mad fan ive been for years anychance of gettin some memorabillia of yous as im a huge fan yous are awsome im glad yous got back together
rah2134 4 months ago
I like the Sarah Blasko version better.
pttrfan 4 months ago
word to the unwise jimmy barnes is scottish!
mexicanpete69 4 months ago
@mexicanpete69
True. And he's still an Australian.
Fantastic song.
Saw him years ago. The man does NOT need a mike.No electric .Just acoustic. Loud harmonious.
As for the Tin Lids.Well Ahh.
Looks like a bit of rain tomorrow
khongbiet1000 4 months ago
@mexicanpete69 Sure, he's Scotland-born. However, he moved to Australia at the age of 4, to young really to have prior Scottish influence beside his parents. Gotta love Jim
jimmyjamjar10101 4 months ago
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hey where was that film clip made?
wj07 4 months ago
I expect they all have regrets....disbanded way too early...BUT I was there @ the Last Stand...
mastertusk 4 months ago
This is my funeral song, I love it that much.
calleacrazy0 4 months ago
Im going to their concert in December! CANT FUCKING WAIT
chengy85 4 months ago 2
That one song that you hear in the car when your a kid and spend half of your life trting to find it. This is mine. :D
woorabindaninja1 4 months ago
23 wogs....thats my guess
dantheman891000 4 months ago in playlist dan
@dantheman891000 you're a fucking idiot mate
muscleoffigus 4 months ago
Esta canción es muy grande, fantástica, maravillosa, potente.
anozaratrelos 4 months ago
fuck im glad they banned smoking from pubs
barbs19788 5 months ago 2
@barbs19788 fuckhead
TheMitchtuber 4 months ago
@TheMitchtuber well if u like coming home from the pub stinking like shit and having the early on-set of passive smoking related lung cancer good for you.
barbs19788 4 months ago
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TheMitchtuber 4 months ago
Im proud to be an Aussie. But even prouder to be a South Aussie.
putty593 5 months ago in playlist More videos from nzoz1984
The first step to resurrecting this kind of music is kicking the pokies and Nightlife video jukeboxes out of local pubs and getting live ORIGINAL bands back in. I'm sorry but beergarden cover bashers just don't cut it. It's called Pub Rock for a reason. The revolution starts with the punters!
Eyeman25 5 months ago 2
@Eyeman25 im with you mate.. trouble is dicks like gary anderson ( he doesnt deserve to be called angry anymore) is getting royalties from pokies now ..i miss seeing up and coming bands in pubs
64g15csr 4 months ago
I sit in my lounge room listening to this on the computer and thinking why arent I at the pub listening on the juke box . THEN I REMEMBERED ALL THE OLD PUBS ARE GONE .
wuggacrt 5 months ago
i agree with "bigtone"
chippydan 5 months ago
I fucking love being an Aussie. At the risk of sounding like an old fart, they just dont make songs like this anymore. You can stick your vacuous pop crap and hip hop up your arse mate. Chisels / Oils / INXS /Icehouse / ACDC / Rose Tattoo / V Spy V Spy / Men at Work / James Reyne / Dragon / The Angels / Hoodoo Gurus/Nick Cave /Paul Kelly /Hunters and Collectors, even Johnny Fucking Farnham for Christ's sake, plus 20-odd other legendary bands...what an awesome time and place was Oz in the 80s eh?
bigtone12 5 months ago 52
@bigtone12 - great comment
b0ban 4 months ago
@bigtone12 Bring back the fucking 80"s is all I can say
xrvturbo 3 months ago
@bigtone12 Well i'm 17 and I agree totally!
Thiele69 3 months ago
@bigtone12 As an American, let me give you a thumbs up
culwin 3 months ago
@bigtone12 Air Supply too?
MrRickSpence 3 months ago
@bigtone12 totally agree
kaomamalibumist 3 months ago
@bigtone12
Good list but isn't Crowded House an Australian band.
Or are they a kiwi band.
boogs2007 3 months ago
@boogs2007 CHouse are Kiwi's..
Good to see ya inc Spys there Tone... ;)
truespyfan 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@truespyfan Formed in 1985 by 2 Australians and 1 Kiwi in MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA.
Produced 2 World Wide sensational albums. 6 years later another Finn joins the band and their success diminishes as the band takes on a more SPLIT ENZ sound. As a successful trio they were most definitely AUSTRALIAN.
KRW1612 2 months ago
@bigtone12 How is it we were so flooded with pure talented bands in the 80's (which majority never got their fair wack at fame they deserved), yet you look at music these days, its shit. and thats being harsh to shit.
Theres not an aussie band worth pissing on now that i can think of off top of my head. Saw Wolfcrap supporting AC/DC and without a word of a lie, the crowd was walkin out of the arena - i wondered wat was going on as I'd just arrived. :( Thought the joint was on fire...
truespyfan 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
@bigtone12 I love being an Aussie too but unfortunatly this country is pretty fucked at the moment. Need to restore it back to what it was like in the Early 80's.
TheFordMan888 2 months ago 4
@bigtone12 *hm hem, dragons a bit New Zealand aye...
TheRepoman62 2 months ago
"do you remember nothing stopped us on a field in our day?'...
Alvinsweeeeet 5 months ago
WOOP WOOP, they are performing around and i got tickets !!!!
eatmyrainbowfarts 5 months ago
fucking great song. amazing amazing amazing.
bunchoftits 5 months ago
Aint nothing like Barnsey and Aussie fuckin rock
RenoAU 5 months ago
no flame trees in armidale!!
inquisitiverobbo 5 months ago
@inquisitiverobbo You need to consider poetic license. Flame trees blinding the weary driver refers to the autumn colours along Elm Avenue. And, like I said, the lyric writer spent a year in Armidale not long before he wrote this song. :)
phazeal 4 months ago
This song reminds me of all the small country towns I've driven through on a Sunday, this is a song we should be proud of.
scotto2201 5 months ago
cold chisel....fucken fantastic!!
AUSmanci 5 months ago
Awesome blast from the past, still sounds totally fresh! :-))
ReidOriginals 5 months ago
why is this my go to song when im pissed, so nostalgic
ozstriker1984 5 months ago
This is a great all time song. The words are so poetical and meaningful. So iconic. LOve it
hamelyn06 5 months ago
Despite sources suggesting this song is about Grafton, I am totally convinced it is instead about Armidale. The lyricist spent a year in Armidale finishing his science studies not long before writing the song and if you have ever been to UNE in Armidale, Elm Avenue (the main drag to uni) is completely encompassed in 'flame trees' for a couple of months each year. I'm tipping the author had a girl in Armidale and didn't want the lyrics pinned down to her, so instead "it's about Grafton".
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GT4GTR 5 months ago 43
@GT4GTR agree. ....I just came home from his concert (their) still buzzing and still feeling nostalgic and missing this classic aussie music....legendary
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@GT4GTR agree. ....I just came home from his concert (their) still buzzing and still feeling nostalgic and missing this classic aussie music....legendary
jenniwren11 5 months ago
@GT4GTR I', from a small country town myself in S.A. God i miss this sort of music in pubs live..I luv Oz roclk angels, hunters and collectors, divynals, screaming jets , hoodoo gurus, oils and the list goes on. cant wait to see the angels this month with dave gleeson singing.
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GT4GTR 5 months ago
Brilliant, classic song from amazing band. This is my favourite Chisel song, can't wait to see the concert in November.
38Leigh1 6 months ago
Oh man, brings back high school in my friends shed getting drunk with all my mates aswell as his dad, handing out so many tooheys haha.
Redrum326 6 months ago
@Redrum326 sounds so familiar!! what good times!
19rosco46 5 months ago
Oh shit, (gulp) never mind.
Still think of you Susan, wherever you are.
slurpos 6 months ago
@slurpos Got a Suzanne on my mind too, 30 years ago But I still think of her . Chin up dude.
stevelewis3 5 months ago
Top Aussie band, brings back lots of good memories
argyleaddict 6 months ago
I think you just gotta be an Aussie to feel this in your soul...Chisel forever !
PinkGuitarWoman 6 months ago
Best Aussie bad ever
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goknights 6 months ago
this song was the first one that came up when i put cold chisel in the gap... it reminds me my friend sean from nz. he loves this band. i actually got here after a conversation over brakfast... he told me about this great band... i love the song. and love my friend!!!
eugestrella 6 months ago in playlist Cold Chisel
This is the "our song" for my wife and I - nuff said!
Dazzaedward 6 months ago
I am 44 , I didnt really like this song back in the 1980,s but now I think it is a all time classic . great sound , great lyrics and it says so much about regional Australia, possible more relevent today than when it was written and recorded. Well done boys
morrissey1506 6 months ago 4
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its ok, just ok,but it good for Australia since everything is shit downunder, and your beer, what the fucks that about.
Gogdivine 6 months ago
AUSTRALIA FOR THE WIN! tomorrow when the war began has to be the best movie ever
SpEc247 6 months ago
Im going to the Cold Chisel concert in sydney in november! So excited!
JIMMY BARNES <3
CohansMusic07 6 months ago
its just the best to be an aussie!!!!!!
jarrod123450 6 months ago 59
@jarrod123450 fukn damn right it is mate.
Faarque 6 months ago
Oberon NSW ?...was there in 74.. no sign of Barnsie in those days... Damn must have missed my calling... loved him long time... go the Chisel...
AwesomexAndy 6 months ago
filmed in cold cold Oberon. i get cold watching the clip.....
taranascarlett 6 months ago
Thanks ozzy !! for such an awsome FUKIN BAND !!!!!
ripgutmaori 6 months ago
Jimmy Barnes had a very soulful and unique voice....a rocker’s voice with class.
He is sublime here, interpreting the lyrics beautifully over a the superbly temperamental and smooth rhythm.
Thing is, as good as he was (and Chisel) they never really achieved the overseas fame that awaited them.
Legend has it Jimmy Page was so impressed with Jimmy’s talent back in the mid-80s that he organised a meeting via Atlantic Records. Of course, it never worked out.
Meh, Page's loss.
OhhShakeItBaby 6 months ago
Good memories, good music never forget...........
garyvardy 6 months ago
Good memories, good music never forget...........
garyvardy 6 months ago
im a 15 year old bloke growing up in the lady gaga, justin bieber generation, and i wish i could jump in a time machine and be in the cold chisel era, even if only long enough to get into a concert when they were at their prime! cold chisel's music will never fail to be popular! <3
bennett12310 6 months ago
Welcome back boys its been along time between shows.
daisy1746 6 months ago
I thought this was jimmy Barnes, not cold chisel? lol but great song
AdrianaGJRES06 6 months ago
get to see them live in october xDD
ValleyGurl1011 6 months ago
fave song from cold chisel, cant wait for november to c cold chisel live and get to hear this song
frastictok 6 months ago
@bennett12310 Damn straight buddy... This is the shit that rocked Oz Big Time.. Cold Chisel at 2 Rocks.. Hey Mags n Kev...!!
bigeags1 6 months ago
sheer briliance what a legened band .
thestevenfilms97 6 months ago
I LOVE this song, I am a 16 year old girl and cold chisel are one of my favourite bands. <3 <3
hannnnah1995 6 months ago
@hannnnah1995 TOFTB
dotaistehshit 6 months ago
@dotaistehshit TOFTB ? lol
hannnnah1995 6 months ago
@hannnnah1995 lol you should be in highschool and its always said in highschool
dotaistehshit 6 months ago
@dotaistehshit i am in highschool, i'm in year 11 haha, but I have no idea what it means hahaha :\
hannnnah1995 6 months ago
@hannnnah1995 Wow year 11 and u don't what it means just ask around i give the last 3 are "For The Boys"
dotaistehshit 6 months ago
@dotaistehshit oh I know what it is now haha, I just didn''t realise haha.
hannnnah1995 6 months ago
@hannnnah1995 Ill say it for everyone "TITS OUT FOR THE BOYS"
dotaistehshit 6 months ago