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  • make the sexpistols look like complete shit,go aussie

    

  • the chorus is very beatle-like. really good!

  • FUCK YEAH!

  • Not bad, but they're no Ramones.

  • @ManilaSyndicate; you can say that again: and thank goodness that they don't. who gives a shit about those fakes.rock rock ,rock n roll high school. give us a break what a lot of shit,who cares what school you went too. but not that one....

  • The Saints really sum up punk better than the pistols, clash etc. Punk, from the beginning was all about DIY. The Saints made their own label, made their own look, made their own amps and even made their own club 2 perfom in for goddness sake.

  • @frankiestrummer

    Punk from the beginning WASN'T all about DIY. That was part of it, and became a bigger element in the early 80s underground, but right from it's earliest stages some of the most pivotal punk acts were major label, as you point out.

  • @demo23nz Cool Story Bro tell it again

  • before the pistols and remones.... go the brissy boys

  • shere quality

  • was there at the 865 club

  • I saw Stranded first on "Flashes" - and it's downhill ever since.

  • Alert: Real Music :-D` !!!

  • very underrated band. im probably the only one, but did anyone else hear about them from listening to the swami show?

  • I cannot believe I am 34 years old and just now heard this band. better late than never. Instant full blown Saints fan.

  • The Ramones recorded first.

  • Dont 4get, The Saints invented the Ramones sound, but got NO credit! What ? Aussies? Invent a punk genera made famous by some1 else? IMPOSSIBLE!

  • Why do people think punk is dead? These guys could survive very well today and all the new punk bands that do, despite popular belief, exist. Fuck we need gigs ha

  • marvellous, I always had a dream: see The Saints playing in Vatican City.

  • Was listening to this during the floods!

  • Love it used as the Spirited Theme!

  • @TessaVance89

    spirited is the best aussie show ever!! I just watched the 1st episode of season 2, NO SPOILERS PLZ! lol

    I <3 henry

  • Brisbane was not the only place that produced good punk music check out all the Australian punk,emphasis on the `AUSTRALIAN` PUNK COMPILATION CD `S around.Don`t get me wrong THE SAINT`S WERE INSPIRATIONAL.. But by no means

    The only ones BUCKING the establishment ..Billy orphan Perth punk 76

  • wow thank you. i remember from back than, thank you

  • great band great song, but how Brisbane has changed. A friend now lives in this terrace house at Petrie Terrace, it is renovated and worth around 2 miliion, but still full of memories from the old Brisbane

  • classic punk

  • great story raindogred....

    Chris wrote this song after missing the only bus to his home in Inala (the end of the world in 75)...hence "standed"

  • @BernieRamone351

    Ive been telling every that for years and nobody believes me lol

  • Ever done something wrong and found yourself walking before too long walls formed by samo faces with attitudes like they're aces quadrophonic more than Sting could be in that film circa '83 herding you around again until you're a leftover man, stranded on your own? Ever felt owned??

  • @jkdguy1 your a genuis,did you think of that all by yourself ???

  • @jkdguy1 you are one shit for brains clown...

  • @raindogred also the go betweens. amazing stuff :)

  • i'm currently standed ...

  • <3<3<3

  • Ground-breaking stuff. The Saints filled a void when they hit the scene back in the 70s. The 1st thing I bought when I got my first job was a 4 channel sterio and the way this song jumped from speaker to speaker was amazing- especially with the help of some mind altering substances. I still remember my dad kicking the door in of my sleep-out at 4 in the morning. Priceless stuff.

  • Great song! Thanks Ed. I'm already playing 'Untitled' for 26 years. Nowadays with 'Het Jankobus Drum & Bas Ensemble'. Before with 'Kobus gaat naar Appelscha'. Hope to see you in the Netherlands.

  • This was in my head all day.. :)

    

  • One thing I remember having had a really depressing effect on me was the first Ramones album. When I heard it [in 1976], I mean it was a great record ... but I hated it because I knew we’d been doing this sort of stuff for years. There was even a chord progression on that album that we used ... and I thought, "Fuck. We’re going to be labeled as influenced by the Ramones", when nothing could have been further from the truth. - Ed Kuepper // (Saints formed in 1973 in a different name until 1974)

  • Two years after the Ramones in New York. Great song but!

  • And?

  • Chris Bailey was ahead of his time..what a song!

  • The day I heard this in '76, was the day I threw my Pink Floyd albums away.

  • @ozseppo fair play they were the best thing to ever come out of Brisbane

  • @ozseppo ;huh, pink who,never heard of them

  • @ozseppo If u regret, u can now buy dark side of the moon on vinyl, a mojo reissue. Then u can start all over again, re-experience the 80s, buy the Yngwie albums, get a superstrat with scalloped fingerboard and floyd rose, talk about Vai as the evolution of rock music and that Hendrix was good for his time, but a bit sloppy. Better late than never.

  • @Hollandia777 ??

    

  • The alexisonfire version is much better

  • @ThePaintballgun but he covered it, stole it from the saints, it's a good interpretation if you like that kind of thing????

  • scheisse geil

  • Reminds you of the Stooges.

  • This is awesome! Thanks for posting this!

  • Yeah..Pre 70's British Invasion..Nefarious Aussie Garage Punk..BFD Records Kookaburra Austraylia!!

  • Sound Opinions! 

  • Great song, love it.

  • i was there that nite at the 865 club petrui terrace brisbane, The cops shut it down not long after this vid was done .Driven out with other good bands of this era by JOH MAY HE ROT IN HELL.

  • this makes me wish i was australian

  • This band tell others,you don't no need fancy jackets or hair to show your punk.,it's all inside you.

  • Karen this is for you baby RIP that partner of yours never deseved you.All that smack harm minimisation bullshit didnt save you.

  • There is a real lack of Australian punk on Youtube.

  • @SuperJojokelly To be honest there isn't much Australian punk around to put on youtube...I love old school Australian punk but once you get past Radio Birdman and the Saints, your truly struggling to find bands who managed to get music out...Frenzal Rhomb, Screaming Tribesmen, Toys Went Berserk and other have had little to no coverage (Frenzal Rhomb have done well and show that Australians can rebel)...more Australian punk would be welcome from this Scot/Isish old schooler...Slánte

  • The Coloured Balls started it but the Saints made it - Punk in Australia

  • The Saints were amazing for their time. I did get to see a show a few years ago which was the original lineup of The Saints playing the entire I'm Stranded Lp from start to finish with the awesome Melbourne band X playing their entire Staying At Home Lp from start to finish.

    If you like this then make sure you check out The Fucken Leftovers from Brisbane Australia

    Search on their song "Cigarettes and Alcohol"

  • Many bands of today can learn a lot of how music use to be written, performed & should be acted out. OLD MUSIC RULES!!

  • I never heard of them till very recently & i like The Undertones, The Ramones, The Clash & The Boomtown Rats all amazing gr8 punk bands during that explosion of excitement of the seventies of great music. This band (THE SAINTS) is added to my love of punk bands in my music collection.

  • Forget the Pistols this is proper punk music.

  • I'm proud to be from Brisbane.

  • agree what a place for music back then

  • @Ponco42

    This song is about how shit brisbane is

  • @harleydanger123 I know dude...it was a joke, are you thick?

  • @Ponco42 Stuck between oxley and inala, mmm, not a good place to be!

  • Excellent punk classic

  • Bought this after reading a review of it in Sounds.Great stuff.

  • Good stuff man. And I'm an old bastard. The old Aussie. Memories. AAAAAAAAAAAAh!

  • good band

  • They dont make em like that anymore!!!!!!!!!!

  • Particularly relevant to Brisbane, where The Saints come from, right now - the floods are leaving everyone stranded!

  • @dazzamuzza

    Absolutely ! strangely enough I can tell you the studio this was recorded in still had  watermarks on the walls from the 74 floods.

  • @bramley1001 .SORRY MATE THIS WAS RECORDED IN AN A ABANDONED HOUSE IN INALA, WE USED TO SMOKE CONES IN IT

  • @spassy13

    wow that's a good 'un. It was recorded at Window Studio , 10 Buchanan Street , West End.... mate.

    I'm sure Buchanan street went under this time too.

  • @spassy13 ,sorry then,i was lied to for all them years,bastards,wait to i see them rotherhams.lol

  • @dazzamuzza you're missing the point there.

  • @eltobasco What do you mean?

  • GOLD..simply GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

  • 10 times better than the sex pistols, ramones etc.

  • 1 year before punk uk

  • @dambers1 Yeah that's right!! That's such a shame that they werent famous as the Pistolls or the Clash... Cause they're Australien

  • @dambers1 UK punk started in 1976 my friend...my all time fav band had their first single (since been given the title of the first true punk single ever) in October, 1976...the album I'm Standed was released in February, 1977 (the same month the Clash sold out by signing to CBS)...The Saints released this track independantly in September, 1976...so you are wrong in suggesting The Saints did it before the UK...we all did it at the same time...Punk is dead, but it was fucking fun...Sláinte

  • The single was released in 76. do you think that doesn't count or something?

  • @vedicardi What part of "The Saints released this track independantly in September, 1976" did you not understand young man...unlike you, I actually lived through the rise and fall of Punk and have great respect for those Australian bands who came into my life...the truth is that Australia did not produce many bands, and even fewer who actually acheived anything...you stick to Rock Band...if it wasn't for the internet, you wouldn't even know about Australian Punk in the 70's, fact.

  • @hanz2602 okay wow lol

    for one I have no idea why you're attacking me

    secondly I misread your comment to say the saints did it after the UK did

    so calm down and stop being such an elitist. how is me learning about bands through the internet a bad thing? calm down.

  • @vedicardi Why was I attacking you? That would be because you misread what I wrote, and then wrote up what you thought was a smart comment...as for the bands/internet thing, no it's a very good thing..now explain the "stop being so elitist" comment...what you should have wrote was, "sorry mate, I misread your comment"...I was listening to Radio Birdman and The Staints long before I became an "elitist"..to much Rock Band has messed your eyes up...sorry, still laughing at "elitist"..explain please

  • @hanz2602 you're being a total dick. being born before me doesn't justify your actions.

  • @vedicardi No my friend, you are the dick. You made a mistake but couldn't apologise in the correct manner. Anything that follows is of your own making. As for me being alive at the time, it means I don't need to look up the history books, or in your case, the internet, to know what was happening and when it happened. Get your ass back on the Rock Band and maybe one day you too can become a punk. You didn't explain your "elitist" comment, or is it a case that you can't explain it?

    Sláinte

  • @hanz2602 I'm not going to apologize for asking a question that upset you for no reason.

    you can't become a punk, that would defeat the purpose of punk and goes against its core concept.

    you think you're better than someone because you don't have to research something? ridiculous, elitism.

  • @vedicardi Still unable to tell me why I am an "elitist"...know the word but can't form a sentence to argur your point...I am better than you and for this reason...you didn't ask me a question...you my friend made STATEMENT...and here is where you and I differ...if I was wrong I worried have apologised...you are unable to do so because you really have no idea what you are talking about..your first STATEMENT was said as if The Saints actually mean something to you..they mean nothing to you, fact

  • they started punk

  • Wow, awesome song!!!!..... Hearin it for the first time.....

  • These guys kick-ass

  • best song to fuck to.

  • Stooges!

  • clip was filmed late 1976 or early 1977-Petrie Mansions, Brisbane. Place got a re-furb after years of neglect-not long after this clip was made. I helped my Dad who was a painter. remember seeing the (i'm) Stranded The Saints written on a wall above a fire place, holes in the floor. Ivor Hay lived there-a sort of small nightclub. Other bands worth listening to which have come out of Brisbane in that era were The (Fucken) Leftovers, The 31st, The Survivors, Razar, The Riptides, Fun Things

  • @raindogred Well that's pretty much the coolest band anecdote I've ever heard. Onya!

  • @raindogred

    you know yer history.respect!

  • 10 Green Day Fans need a ride to the mall.

  • wot a fuckin great song.

  • Word.

  • I'm stranded on my own agan;)

  • FUCKING AWESOME!

  • @crashbreakerr YEAH! +++

  • Respect to this band for not homogenizing themselves with the look and sound of late 70s UK punk, however, this is probably what made them less well known here; they reached legendary status anyways! And perhaps they got the last word because their 'look' remained contemporary and perhaps, their sound too. This track will always remain pure class!

  • Inspiration for the Hives

  • Totally under-acknowledged... These guys were pioneers along the Ramones and Sex Pistols

  • I taped this song from the Alan 'Fluff' Freeman show back in '77 and loved it but never bought the album... until last week... it's fucking fantastic! Better late than never I suppose. I checked it out after reading an interview with Mark E. Smith who was praising The Saints to an Aussie journalist (The Fall are touring down under soon). Smith said that The Fall's version of This Perfect Day wasn't as good as the original. I just love the album, it's perfect.

  • I taped this song from the Alan 'Fluff' Freeman show back in '77 and loved it but never bought the album... until last week... it's fucking fantastic! Better late than never I suppose. I checked it out after reading an interview with Mark E. Smith who was praising The Saints to an Aussie journalist (The Fall are touring down under soon). Smith said that The Fall's version of This Perfect Day wasn't as good as the original. I just love the album, it's perfect.

  • Man, all this stuff about where punk originated. There was stuff that sounded like punk back in the 60s. Some of it even became popular here in the US. Listen to a band like the Standells "Riot On Sunset Strip". But who cares where it originated. Who perfected it? That's what's important. & I think the most perfect "punk" if you want to call it that was this song & the album it came from. Listen to "No Time" or "Nights In Venice". You can't get better than that. BTW, I'm from New York.

  • Man, I love this song & the whole album. I bought it way back in 1977 when I was 16 yrs old & I still listen to it all the time. The best punk album ever and it don't seem anyone knows them. They start out with this & it never lets up through the whole record.

    And everyone told me when I got old I'd be listening to Perry Como.

  • @RRaquello "Perry Como"!?! Hahahahahahahahahaha! Ah, good on you, mate. Thats hilarious.

  • @RRaquello Oh yeah, I forgot - if you're liking the late '70's Aussie punk, you should check out Radio Birdman "Aloha Steve & Danno". It's good fun.

  • the singer looks like he's from this day, probably labeled as a messy-guy back then lol

  • Top band.

  • chris was a friend of a friend, no really.

  • another 'fucking brilliant' commment .. what else is there to say ?

  • this is fuckin brilliant!!!!....still

  • @markSTINKS i totally agree with you man punk was an attitude as well as a sound nothing to do with the way you dressed

  • filmed Petrie Terrace Brisbane.. Film Images the prod co. Russell Mulcahy director.. Colin Wardrop DoP.

  • stranded,once the great band,the saints were,but when they for the first time gathered again and played at old marquee club at wardour st,it was the very only gig I left for beeing boring,strange,but true,tiki from belgrade

  • Fuckin' incredible......

  • Stranded in anAussie garage circa 1976-77...

  • I never thought that The Saints were influenced by The Ramones. I remember buying your 1st single at Bleecker Bob's in NYC. After that, I was hooked & couldn't get enough!!!!!

  • Woooow!!! Great!

  • Starting at 2:12, the BEST six seconds of rock and roll EVER.

  • Ivor Hay used to be my mums old boyfriend

  • The main singer is totally Jack White's father.

  • INCREDIBLE!!!!!

  • These guys put Brisbane on the map long before powderfinger and savage garden.

    Inala/Oxley area.

  • if this isnt more than 400% awesome, nothing is worth living for :D i'm fourteen, and my dad told me about this song. i missed a great stage in punk history!!

  • how could those people just sit there? I'd be rocking the f*ck out if I was at a Saints show.

  • the neanderthalers are the earliest punks and they died out!

  • @honeyflymusic Neanderthalers huh? Never heard them, gots research to do :)

  • I recall a great tune of this guys: "there's someone out to get me, and it started to rain (...) and I fall in rain, once again". can somebody please tell me the song's name? Tnx

  • One of the greatest debut records in history.

  • Lol, i used to have this album. I may have just given away my age.

    Great stuff.

  • this is killer vid! ive never seen it.

  • Link Wray

  • @tyikiki101

    You're seriously talking out of an arse that cant write cheques for its brain. For a start the Smiths were mid 80's. Way after the Saints. MC5 I can give some credit for, But the B52's? Get out of your nappies kid. And the Damned were English. And in case you'd overlooked it, The Saint's were Australian.

  • This is punk rock. Fuck all to do with mohicans or studded jackets. Just no-nonsense couldn't give a fuck rock n roll. The Saints were way ahead of their time. Brilliant band.

  • @markSTINKS yeah,they were.I say fuck that,too,but those were different times and way of clothing could mean something..before it all became a uniform and when it was brave to walk like that in the streets.now,everything's a trend.fuck that

    attitude is what I appreciate

  • @markSTINKS I love that about a lot of Australian punk bands. They're pretty much just rock 'n' roll with just a little extra snarl and bad-assness that made 'em "punk". none of the fashion bullshit or the pretense that a lot of punk groups had going on in the U.S. and Europe. Just kick-ass music.

  • @markSTINKS

    Agreed ... They were true punks who refused to allow themselves to be marketed the same way as many of the other sell out punks of the period.

    They let their music do the talking.

  • HURRAH HURRAH HURRAH! somebody says it! Stuff The Exploited and their ilk,the compulsory studded leather jacket,the regulation mohawk haircuts that turned punk into a fucking mind narrowing experience in the 80's ; dress all the same, play all (the same, growl all the same. I felt so miserable then,

  • @markSTINKS I felt I had been conned, pressganged in a movement that had nothing to do with what i felt... so I did what i wanted. No more shaving the sides of my head, no leather jackets nor army boots or DMs nor army trousers... I used to be beaten up by skins and rockers but then I got beaten up by EVERYBODY. I was obviously annoying the local Punk Aristocracy...

    Mission accomplished-ouch25years later-

  • @markSTINKS THANK YOU!! Punk dealt with going against the establishment. It was a mode of thinking - not a mode of dressing. Punk eventually became an establishment with rockers in leather studded uniforms and mohawks. The scene lost it's individuality and became a joke. The Saints were purist in the most fundamental sense of the word! Thank god for this band!!

  • @markSTINKS WORD.

  • @markSTINKS

    Yes, this is great punk rock and definitely ahead of its time. But do you really need to emphasize your digging by putting down somebody else's style?

  • @markSTINKS Amen. Punk was best before the mohicans and all that conformist bullshit.  70's punk is the best.

  • @markSTINKS yes! this is punk rawk!! mohawks or not.

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  • @boywithaname punk belongs to the attitude and music, dont think youre so special being brittish

  • @junkposse ,No dont get me wrong WE Brits love Music from all whoever where ever ,But would music fans took any notice of Punk if the Pistols or The Clash ,Damned never been born ,Where did all these Bands Come to be recognise England that's where Rule Britannia

  • @boywithaname damned is an american band dumbass

  • @tyikiki101 yer like you know your music NOT!!!!!!!!!

  • @tyikiki101 boywitha name is calling who a dumbass the dammned are english wuldnt know his head was up his arse.

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  • Punk Belongs to the Brits , We made it Real .

  • @boywithaname to bad the guys are aussies. not britts.

  • @boywithaname and btw punk belongs to the fans, not a fucking country, get over yourself.

  • @boywithaname Punk belongs to everyone who gets it. If you want to be a nationalist arsehole, stick to Oi.

  • @jjdecani Couldn't agree more!