The melody of this, just the guitar parts somehow seem sweet and sad to me. It pulls at me and i feel like a part of me is missing or fading away on a peaceful summer afternoon. Anyway, I'm starting to discover more and more good bands like this from the past. I love this!
@hdmccart- i'm not against your point, but i must inform you, Steve was born in England, as was Marty(Liverpool). Second best Aus band, the best being 60's band The Easybeats, with NONE of them even 'Australian' :-)
@samuraialado , Your comment says more about you than about the band; look at yourself … really look at yourself … and I don't mean your face, hairdo or clothes!
Once upon a time, The Church were meant to support Duran Duran on their Rio tour in the UK, but they dropped out, and we had to see Le Mat instead. I was so GUTTED! Steve Kilbey is so amazing.
We can quibble over nationality, but the Aussie influence is clearly there in the music, just as it was back in the late 1960's when surfing was forever altered by guys like Nat Young. The theme here is that the Aussies (as did the Brits during the early punk/ garage/ new wave movement) helped get anemic, disco-infected rock out of the 70's doldrums with their distinct Aussie influence ( thanks to AC/DC and Vanda and Young) and the Aussie influence that made bands like The Church who they are.
Thank heavens for the Aussies. They are the only western country who still who know who they are and know what they got. While the U.S. wallows in it's self hatred and self destructions the Aussies will live on and continue to be true to their country. God bless you mates!
@nzoz, Liddledriver seems to be referring to Aussies in general. I see no reference to this band in his/her comment, nor anything in this video which could lead him/her to the opinion s/he's expressing. I only wish s/he were right: but Aussie youth speak mostly US slang, watch US films, eat US junk food, see the world through US eyes thanks to all the cultural values in the US shows on telly/films. It was just starting when I was growing up in the 70s and the deterioration since then is tragic.
@veloboy I wasn't implying that Americans were bad. Liddledriver opened the bold statement, in which i responded to accordingly. I might have spent five years of my life making a series of channels based on nearly every single year of Australian (and New Zealander) music; but even I can point out a flaw in the comment.... Half the Church are English-born - why Liddledriver is trumpeting Australianism is beyond me.
And why do you need assurance from me that you're not that bad?
@Liddledriver We're under TERRIBLE pressure now though! Whilst many of us still do exactly who we are and what we have...many of us have ben led to doubt who they are and to believe they do not deserve what we've got! Self-hatred and destruction is being forced upon Australia...but many of us do resent and oppose that!
I finally get to see "The Church" this coming Monday in Greenville, SC USA. All acoustic set in a small venue. Well worth the 25 year wait since I first became a fan.
Christ, 1981 was so long ago. It's getting harder to remember what it was all like back then. That's how people dressed and wore their hair in bands all over the place. And they made music that sounded like this. But still, hard to recall! Great post, BTW.
@beepollen1 - never figured you were anything less than a chick, the photo is a giveaway . . . there you go again with the pre judging stuff again Bee . . . sober as a, well, a judge !!! Just passionate my dear girl !!! Enjoy.
@beepollen1 . . . thanks a lot, I dont have a clue about computers though . . . just a stupid old punk with a passion for real people, yourself included, real music of any kind and a haterd of racists, sexists, homophobes and haters . . . have great life beepollen !!
ALRIGHT !! EVERYBODY, PAY ATTENTION - GOOD MUSIC, LIKE GOOD PEOPLE - COMES FROM WHERE YOU FIND IT - IT IS NOT DEFINED BY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION, NATIONALITY, COLOUR, SEX OR SEXUAL PREFERENCE - IF SOMETHING IS 'GOOD' . . . THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS !! ALRIGHT, BACK TO WORK. Sorry about upper casing it, blatant grab for attention.
I live in the USA and was introduced to The Church back around the mid 1980's. Looking back from now I have to admit this was some really great music!! Sorry to sound pessimistic but the garbage we have to listen to today is just that...garbage!!
@beepollen1 Yes, he seems to be a really nice guy! Having friends like him is what is important, and one must treasure, I think. People who are genuine and good-hearted by nature. May life afford your special friendship a long journey! Also,I wanted to let you know that I agree with your comment about protecting our animals (all around the world). If we do not take care of our nature, WHO WILL ? Cheers!
Please, no silly comments, bullying and taunting each please. I had to delete comments made by a couple of posters on here. I do not want to do that again.
@nzoz1981 "I'll sleep on the couch" -- you Aussies are incredibly hospitable! I have to visit your country one day -- this is definitely on my "bucket" list.
I was checking out videos of Top of The Pops. What the amount of trash that reached climed the charts in the UK during the 70's and 80's we wouldn't touch with a stick...
@nzoz1981 very true, i was doing the same thing,killing moon by the bunnymen and the first picture of you by the lotus eaters, actually stand out,like the church, as timeless pieces of excellence,still relevant now, as they were then,surrounded by shite music ...that beach sounds good though, ive actually toured oz as part of the bunnymens FLOWERS tour in 2001..to be honest mate ,i didnt want to get on the plane home
I didn't mind some of the early 80's British pop stuff, like Adam & The Ants (fun)... but there wree other things, like The Look's 'I Am The Beat', Get Wet 'So Lonely' and just an array of other disposable garbage - it amazed me that that stuff sold in the UK, whilst Icehouse's early singles were virtually ignored. I also saw a band called The Dead End Kids, doing a version of 'Have I The Right'. I just couldn't believe these guys got on TOTP's....
and then you fuck off out of there cause the Church are a bunch of poofs and then you end up slumped in St. James Park with some dog licking Chrissie's piss off your cheeks and then you grab a copy of Juke to see how you can spend your money next weekend.... Cold Chisel are playing in Black Town this Friday night... grouse... might see the Angels on saturday night too...
And then you stumble back home to do a few cones and watch Sounds with Donnie Sutherland....
@nzoz1981 ,,,,,u southern hemisphere dickhead...you have got problems pal, the church are a brilliant band.....you probably live alone and will do forever till you you get a mirror u tit......lonely guy.
@EVERTONIC cunt, why don't you actually read through what i have been saying... i was merely describing the time that the Church emerged in. Typical fucking English, always having to have a swipe at somebody's location.
and then you stumble out of that Divinyls gig with Chrissie's piss on your cheeks and you collapse on the side of the road and vomit in a dark alley, before hearing a new Sydney band called The Church playing and of course, being drunk and stupid, you think their opening song 'The Unguarded Moment' sounds poofy and you move your way into the pub, cause you want to give these poofs a good bashing, but Steve Kilbey and the boys are too fucking tall and you can't really see your own hands....
I know how great it was to watch Number 96 and jerk off to Abby Gayle, whilst you stuff your face with Twisties and thinking about how great it was to fuck that sharpie chick at that AC/DC gig and then tune in to Double J to hear fucked-up music that you couldn't get to hear before and then that poofy Split Enz comes on, to make you laugh about how you booed them off the stage...
Then years later, you see the Divinyls on stage in Kings Cross and Chrissie Amplette is urinating on your face
I know it was great when you could drink your VB's at a pub and get sweaty to a young AC/DC playing on stage, while you tongue your sexy-sharpie girlfriend and laugh about how you booed that poofy Kiwi band Split Enz off the stage - whilst your sharpie girlfriend's little sister is kissing the crotch of Daryl Braithwaite on her Sherbet poster, before running off to watch COUNTDOWN!
I know it was great to walk down a street in Calton and be fed the live sounds of Skyhooks, Little Riverband.
Early Eighties Australia will never return. What you see on my ealry 80's nzoz channels is a one off... you wont get it again. Australia will never be the way it was 30 years ago. If you were too young or born too late for this, you'll never experience it... it's gone. Australia is not the Australia thirty years ago. I'm sorry... the new kids have decided. Your EMO daughter will be prime minister and all Australians will be bilingual and will be writing in American-English...
I've often felt that I'm a really an Aussie or a Kiwi who happened to be born in the United States because I have such a strong connection to the 80s music of those two nations. Being born in 1964, I was in high school and college when the music of all these great bands became available here and I was hooked from the first time I heard it.
Didn't mean for this to be a post about all the bands down that way, but these two smaller nations produced a disproportionate amount of great music.
@ggh7664 I like your comment, not because it has potentially fed the ego's of those who reside in those two nations, but because it adds to my speculation that I am not mad and that NZ/OZ did have something special during this period. It wasn't just me being biased.
You're neither crazy nor biased - the music in those days was the best. I am proud to be stuck in the 80s.
I really appreciate that you've taken the time to post all of this great music. It brings back great memories and my kids do agree that my wife and I are truly of the generation who had the best music.
@ggh7664 I think I might have just turned 4 years old when this song had been released... when I began to become more musically aware and interested, it was this era that drew my attention... I doubt the early 2000s would have the same effect on, if I was 20 years younger....
@ggh7664 As an Australian born in 1964, it's good to know a contemporary from the US enjoys so much of our stuff from that period. I can return the compliment - IRS-era REM, the Replacements, Minutemen, Husker Du and other numerous punk, "college" and (God help us!) paisley underground (early Green on Red! Dream Syndicatre!) kept me going while the mainstream drowned us in new romantics and plastic disco with industrial snare drums and slap bass. see myspace.com/filltheband, Cheers FILL
@ggh7664 I often wonder about that. why did it happen, what caused it. I think it was because australia was so behind the rest of the world for so long, we had no traditions and all we saw were american movies, tv, music and wanted to compete on the world stage. Sorta over achieved thru the 80's tho lol.
I've been compiling Australian from 1966 all the way to the 1990s, on my nzoz channels. I conclude that 60's Australia was behind the US and the UK. Festival invested in club singers, girl singers, mum's & dad's music, etc. Inventive rock bands took off in Australia, but their publicity was limited next to Johnny Farnham, Normie Rowe, etc.
In the meantime, Australia was being infiltrated with British migrants, with British talent and British mentality... continued.
The British migrants that added the vast vitality to Australian music (Billy Thorpe, AC/DC, Skyhooks, Masters Apprentices, etc) and then Daddy Cool (who incidently, all Aussie-born) rose to show Australia and gave Aussies another perspective of just how phenomenal an Aussie band can be (see nzoz1971). Then Mushroom records emerged in 1973, to give Aussie artists a lot more artist leatherage....
Countdown emerged in 1975 - the year colour television hit Australia and suddenly, Aussies are seeing what their favourite bands look like in colour (as opposed to seeing them in colour pictures in magazines and posters)... the emergence and self-importance came in very fast - the days of GTK and the 'mysterious' black 'n' white bands (see nzoz1970 to 1974) were over... everything was in colour and our local stars were now impressive.
I guess the power of Mushroom records and Countdown gave Australian music a chance to shine and impress its own homeland audience, which in return made Aussies feel proud of their local content. I guess this sudden self-worth and esteem was something new to Australians at the time and they took to it like Euphorians to food supply.
Another aspect that should never be overlooked is the pub music scene in oz at that time - INXS playing at one end of the street, Midnight Oil the other..
The pub scene in Australia was so healthy that Midnight Oil could refuse Countdown and still take on the world. Then there was the post-punk thing in Australia, which opened the door for an array of indi-bands, who would soon become the top leading Aus-acts (Hunters & Collectors, an example)...
I'd say from 1973 to 1983, the changes in Australian music, cinema and culture were happening fast... but... sometime in the late 80's, it just slowed down and a new breed began infiltrating: DJ's
and it wont happen again. A new thing will eventuate... probably mixed race bands playing an array of hip hop, reggae, electronica and dance. They'll emerge, they'll be a lot of them and they might take off... something like The Cat Empire. They wont have a solid Australian identify (like Australian Crawl or Midnight Oil), but they will represent the multicutural situation in Australia..
But that is only a prediction.
What's done is done. It wont happen again... I assure you.
As an American, I can only say that the sound that came from Australia and New Zealand was such a fresh sound that it was impossible to not like it. Of course, I also loved what little I saw from Australian film - Mad Max for instance. There is something about watching violence and fast cars that is appealing, though that may be more about having a Y chromosome than the nationality of the film makers. :)
Une formation mythique, probablement le groupe ayant le plus influencé les dieux du black métal Norvégien comme Darkthrone, Mayhem et Burzum ! Littéralement, ces hommes au talent d'exception sont une dose d'obscurité et de mysticisme sortant tout droit du début des années 80'
Their second best song. Only Myrrh from Heyday is better. Jingle-jangle Rickenbacker and Fender is a priceless combination. The Church is the best band in the world. FANTASTIC :)
BOLLOCKS TO YA'LL ... one of the best bands t come outta Australia, The Easybeats bein the other. There 1st album,Blurred Crusade,was part of my psychedelic phase of the early 80's before becoming a mod
Is he perhaps intentionally out of tune? It fits with the new wave/punk attitude of the early 80's. Take things and give them a twist, just to be irreverent.
wow, brings me back to my youth. But that would be 1988-1990 when they and their back catalogue broke big in the USA. It is hard to put in words what it felt like to get excited over a song/video like this one that felt fresh in 1990 but was actually 9 years old at the time. I loved it but felt like I had missed the boat a bit. FYI, seeing them next week on 7/8 in NYC!
Steve is sexy, warm. His way to sing: it seems to talkin' to a friend. Still: every real rock guitar player dreams to play with a bass player like him.
Maybe it'ts too much. So I say: in my life, i've always being Searchin' for a bass player like Steve..
Get their new LP just out "Untitled #23" - Album of the year so far for 2009 by thye proverbial mile. "Space Saviour" is an absolute stone gone classic...
The Church are long overdue for the recognition they deserve as Australian music icons. Difference is they are still going and producing fabulous music that is still vital.
I really liked your video and your channel. If you need any help getting this video or channel exposed I use a site called tubeviews.(net) It has really helped like 20 of my main videos get to the top in position. God Bless!
Such poetic, yet anxious young men. Richard Ploog's mullet in some of these Church clips is almost as good as Harve's (Divinyls drummer, first line-up). They supported said Divinyls for the 2007 summer tour, & were fresh & vital. Minus Ploog. Patti Smith's ex-drummer was still playing with them, if my memory serves me right. Name??
The Church have been putting out incredible albums for over a quarter century...will someone (critics) please give them their due and put them in the Hall of Fame !!!
I love this! Thank you nzoz1981 for posting the most underrated band from down under. They are brilliant artists who continue to touch people with their music and I continue to follow the copious amounts of music they still make.
The Church are the best, if not the best, of all classic alternative rock. What makes this song great is the beginning.....starts slow at 00:00-00:23, plus add to Nick Ward's awesome drumming from 00:23- 00:33...Nick Ward is so talented...I actually prefer him over Richard Ploog's drumming. Ward's drumming was much more real and authentic....I don't know what to say. It is just very....climatic. I don't if that's the word, but Ward's drumming is so underrated that he deserves major props.
Richard Ploog did the drums on this. Yes, Nick Ward did all of the drums on the original Of Skins and Heart record but that was only the original 9 songs on OSAH. The three songs added to the later issued were from a double single including Too Fast for You, Tear It All Away and Sister were recorded later WITH Richard Ploog.
The Church are a great band. The best alternative band ever. This is where the Cranberries took their sound from: this great Aussie band. The Church were the originals. No contest.
Ploog..Silly Ploog..
DaniloPSpain 1 month ago
Muuuu güeno este grupo australiano. Un adelanto del brit pop de los ´90. Quizas, al menos su voz se parece al de Jarvis, vocalista de Pulp.
rockanrrolo 1 month ago in playlist The Church
The melody of this, just the guitar parts somehow seem sweet and sad to me. It pulls at me and i feel like a part of me is missing or fading away on a peaceful summer afternoon. Anyway, I'm starting to discover more and more good bands like this from the past. I love this!
WuHa105 2 months ago
@redlipstickgurl lol, you're nuts Brenda.. really, are you!
nzoz1981 2 months ago
my entire youth was spent in a haze listening to this band.
endolymphatic 2 months ago in playlist More videos from nzoz1981
Who's the drummer? Richard Ploog or Nick Ward?
2112gil 3 months ago
@2112gil Ploog
nzoz1981 3 months ago
I love this jangle pop groove!
heliot58 4 months ago
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GolliwoggMusic 4 months ago
o que estes caras ouvian? Lembra Smiths, mas antes dos Smiths...
lansanova 5 months ago
@lansanova Bowie, Byrds, T-Rex, Easybeats, progressivo, folk rock, psicodelia...
leonardotube 3 months ago
@redlipstickgurl- i'd really love to agree with you, and i would, had i not heard of The Easybeats ;-)
merseymained 6 months ago
@merseymained send me a message to confirm who you really are
nzoz1981 6 months ago
@redlipstickgurl- It's difficult not to.
merseymained 6 months ago
its a massive world t o agree but i think i do
mocca692000 6 months ago
@beepollen1- i know what you mean, their accents would've changed.
merseymained 7 months ago
Fantastic song. Brilliant band.
merseymain 7 months ago
@hdmccart- i'm not against your point, but i must inform you, Steve was born in England, as was Marty(Liverpool). Second best Aus band, the best being 60's band The Easybeats, with NONE of them even 'Australian' :-)
merseymained 7 months ago
The only church i'll ever dig,
these guys are just .. way too good for this world
specially these days, they've been together for so long
& recent shows just show they've still got every single bit of life left in their heads
they're just a marvelous bunch of musicians
simionTheOne 7 months ago
GAY
samuraialado 9 months ago
@samuraialado , Your comment says more about you than about the band; look at yourself … really look at yourself … and I don't mean your face, hairdo or clothes!
Gairlochan 8 months ago
i love this song
noelreverberation 9 months ago
Once upon a time, The Church were meant to support Duran Duran on their Rio tour in the UK, but they dropped out, and we had to see Le Mat instead. I was so GUTTED! Steve Kilbey is so amazing.
biddendensue 9 months ago
We can quibble over nationality, but the Aussie influence is clearly there in the music, just as it was back in the late 1960's when surfing was forever altered by guys like Nat Young. The theme here is that the Aussies (as did the Brits during the early punk/ garage/ new wave movement) helped get anemic, disco-infected rock out of the 70's doldrums with their distinct Aussie influence ( thanks to AC/DC and Vanda and Young) and the Aussie influence that made bands like The Church who they are.
Liddledriver 9 months ago
Thank heavens for the Aussies. They are the only western country who still who know who they are and know what they got. While the U.S. wallows in it's self hatred and self destructions the Aussies will live on and continue to be true to their country. God bless you mates!
Liddledriver 9 months ago 3
@Liddledriver
Nice sentiment, but you're commenting on a video that dates back to 1981, made by a band that is half-english-born...
nzoz1981 9 months ago 6
@nzoz1981 and from a country that technically speaking is not a "western" country.
raponte1955 9 months ago
@nzoz1981 HATER
margaramilla 9 months ago
@nzoz, Liddledriver seems to be referring to Aussies in general. I see no reference to this band in his/her comment, nor anything in this video which could lead him/her to the opinion s/he's expressing. I only wish s/he were right: but Aussie youth speak mostly US slang, watch US films, eat US junk food, see the world through US eyes thanks to all the cultural values in the US shows on telly/films. It was just starting when I was growing up in the 70s and the deterioration since then is tragic.
Gairlochan 8 months ago
@nzoz1981 Steve Kilby - Writer / Singer = AUS...faff off...
hdmccart 8 months ago
@nzoz1981 Ha! (that was perfect......)
karlt10 6 months ago
@nzoz1981 And it's a band loved by so many Americans. So we can't all be that bad, right?
veloboy 6 months ago
@veloboy I wasn't implying that Americans were bad. Liddledriver opened the bold statement, in which i responded to accordingly. I might have spent five years of my life making a series of channels based on nearly every single year of Australian (and New Zealander) music; but even I can point out a flaw in the comment.... Half the Church are English-born - why Liddledriver is trumpeting Australianism is beyond me.
And why do you need assurance from me that you're not that bad?
nzoz1981 6 months ago
@Liddledriver lol, good old 2000's my friend, we are slipping our grips........... Mini aUS
SrtBuzz 8 months ago
@Liddledriver We're under TERRIBLE pressure now though! Whilst many of us still do exactly who we are and what we have...many of us have ben led to doubt who they are and to believe they do not deserve what we've got! Self-hatred and destruction is being forced upon Australia...but many of us do resent and oppose that!
SKOTP69 8 months ago
I GET TO SEE THEM AT THE OPERA HOUSE IN SYDNEY ,YEAH CANT WEAIT
spassy13 11 months ago
I finally get to see "The Church" this coming Monday in Greenville, SC USA. All acoustic set in a small venue. Well worth the 25 year wait since I first became a fan.
1padget 11 months ago
Live in boston, MA USA. Love these lads.
Fro62 11 months ago
Christ, 1981 was so long ago. It's getting harder to remember what it was all like back then. That's how people dressed and wore their hair in bands all over the place. And they made music that sounded like this. But still, hard to recall! Great post, BTW.
Teetee33 11 months ago
aaaawwww... still such a tear jerker during those teen years.
GillianSydney 11 months ago
@beepollen1 . . . I've done likewise Miss Bee, cheers !
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oldredun 1 year ago
@beepollen1 . . . you're right darlin . . . . . I wish I had that capacity, more power to you, go girl!!
oldredun 1 year ago
@beepollen1 . . . trolls/haters wind me up too . . . sounds like we both give as good as we get, so does nzoz !!!
oldredun 1 year ago
@beepollen1 - never figured you were anything less than a chick, the photo is a giveaway . . . there you go again with the pre judging stuff again Bee . . . sober as a, well, a judge !!! Just passionate my dear girl !!! Enjoy.
oldredun 1 year ago
@beepollen1 . . . thanks a lot, I dont have a clue about computers though . . . just a stupid old punk with a passion for real people, yourself included, real music of any kind and a haterd of racists, sexists, homophobes and haters . . . have great life beepollen !!
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oldredun 1 year ago
ALRIGHT !! EVERYBODY, PAY ATTENTION - GOOD MUSIC, LIKE GOOD PEOPLE - COMES FROM WHERE YOU FIND IT - IT IS NOT DEFINED BY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION, NATIONALITY, COLOUR, SEX OR SEXUAL PREFERENCE - IF SOMETHING IS 'GOOD' . . . THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS !! ALRIGHT, BACK TO WORK. Sorry about upper casing it, blatant grab for attention.
oldredun 1 year ago
@beepollen1 lol
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@beepollen1 Too true my friend!
ryanspeed 1 year ago
I live in the USA and was introduced to The Church back around the mid 1980's. Looking back from now I have to admit this was some really great music!! Sorry to sound pessimistic but the garbage we have to listen to today is just that...garbage!!
ryanspeed 1 year ago
one of my favs
skinnyirishman 1 year ago
@beepollen1 That is horrible because those animals once extinct will never be seen again. Human beings are so greedy!!! Cheers!
80srule4ever 1 year ago
@beepollen1 Yes, he seems to be a really nice guy! Having friends like him is what is important, and one must treasure, I think. People who are genuine and good-hearted by nature. May life afford your special friendship a long journey! Also,I wanted to let you know that I agree with your comment about protecting our animals (all around the world). If we do not take care of our nature, WHO WILL ? Cheers!
80srule4ever 1 year ago
@beepollen1 sorry if i offended,just a light hearted observation..my apologies
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
another flawless song
simionTheOne 1 year ago
I can understand where John Squire from the stone roses got his sound..listen to 'bye bye badman'
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
@EVERTONIC
peterspeakers 1 year ago
@beepollen1 this intro is incredible...btw you two,just get a room and get it over with,jesus lol
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
@beepollen1 Brilliant!!!! Was always on my feet, hardly had time to rest...!!!! Email me!
nzoz1981 1 year ago
Please, no silly comments, bullying and taunting each please. I had to delete comments made by a couple of posters on here. I do not want to do that again.
Thank you.
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@beepollen1 wureva shitface LMAO
neyikenhai 1 year ago
@nzoz1981 "I'll sleep on the couch" -- you Aussies are incredibly hospitable! I have to visit your country one day -- this is definitely on my "bucket" list.
80srule4ever 1 year ago
@80srule4ever ... always!!!!
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@nzoz1981 Right on! Cheers mate!
80srule4ever 1 year ago
Isn't this more important?
Shards013 1 year ago
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classic song brings back memories of the sun, dusk and the sea
neyikenhai 1 year ago
@beepollen1 I don't have a backyard, cause I live in a one-bedroom apartment... I'll sleep on the couch!
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@beepollen1 yes there are... bondi beach has topless women... the good, the bad and the ugly... and a few hotties too!
nzoz1981 1 year ago
absolutely mind blowing band..if the church were scouse and the las were from perth.enough said
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
@EVERTONIC and very well said...
I was checking out videos of Top of The Pops. What the amount of trash that reached climed the charts in the UK during the 70's and 80's we wouldn't touch with a stick...
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@nzoz1981 very true, i was doing the same thing,killing moon by the bunnymen and the first picture of you by the lotus eaters, actually stand out,like the church, as timeless pieces of excellence,still relevant now, as they were then,surrounded by shite music ...that beach sounds good though, ive actually toured oz as part of the bunnymens FLOWERS tour in 2001..to be honest mate ,i didnt want to get on the plane home
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
@EVERTONIC
I didn't mind some of the early 80's British pop stuff, like Adam & The Ants (fun)... but there wree other things, like The Look's 'I Am The Beat', Get Wet 'So Lonely' and just an array of other disposable garbage - it amazed me that that stuff sold in the UK, whilst Icehouse's early singles were virtually ignored. I also saw a band called The Dead End Kids, doing a version of 'Have I The Right'. I just couldn't believe these guys got on TOTP's....
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@beepollen1 ive tried... after your kind advice, peace
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
Original Emo generation
mistersmith6000 1 year ago
@beepollen1 brilliant! can't wait to go back in november!
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@beepollen1 almost... the sun is starting to make its presence, but not nearly enough... I just got back from Melbourne.
nzoz1981 1 year ago
I AGREE, THEY SHOULD BE IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME!!!!
1974mikeymix 1 year ago
Smashing Aussies!
Longnez 1 year ago
One of my favourite songs by The Church, so dreamy and hipnotic.
And one of the many underrated bands back in the 80's.
stefano1488 1 year ago
@beepollen1 I normal Weekend night out in Sydney, during the early 80's...
nzoz1981 1 year ago
and then you fuck off out of there cause the Church are a bunch of poofs and then you end up slumped in St. James Park with some dog licking Chrissie's piss off your cheeks and then you grab a copy of Juke to see how you can spend your money next weekend.... Cold Chisel are playing in Black Town this Friday night... grouse... might see the Angels on saturday night too...
And then you stumble back home to do a few cones and watch Sounds with Donnie Sutherland....
Australia, early 80's...
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@nzoz1981 ,,,,,u southern hemisphere dickhead...you have got problems pal, the church are a brilliant band.....you probably live alone and will do forever till you you get a mirror u tit......lonely guy.
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
@EVERTONIC cunt, why don't you actually read through what i have been saying... i was merely describing the time that the Church emerged in. Typical fucking English, always having to have a swipe at somebody's location.
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@nzoz1981 heavy words lightly thrown by myself, my apologies mate...peace
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
and then you stumble out of that Divinyls gig with Chrissie's piss on your cheeks and you collapse on the side of the road and vomit in a dark alley, before hearing a new Sydney band called The Church playing and of course, being drunk and stupid, you think their opening song 'The Unguarded Moment' sounds poofy and you move your way into the pub, cause you want to give these poofs a good bashing, but Steve Kilbey and the boys are too fucking tall and you can't really see your own hands....
nzoz1981 1 year ago
I know how great it was to watch Number 96 and jerk off to Abby Gayle, whilst you stuff your face with Twisties and thinking about how great it was to fuck that sharpie chick at that AC/DC gig and then tune in to Double J to hear fucked-up music that you couldn't get to hear before and then that poofy Split Enz comes on, to make you laugh about how you booed them off the stage...
Then years later, you see the Divinyls on stage in Kings Cross and Chrissie Amplette is urinating on your face
nzoz1981 1 year ago
I know it was great when you could drink your VB's at a pub and get sweaty to a young AC/DC playing on stage, while you tongue your sexy-sharpie girlfriend and laugh about how you booed that poofy Kiwi band Split Enz off the stage - whilst your sharpie girlfriend's little sister is kissing the crotch of Daryl Braithwaite on her Sherbet poster, before running off to watch COUNTDOWN!
I know it was great to walk down a street in Calton and be fed the live sounds of Skyhooks, Little Riverband.
nzoz1981 1 year ago
Early Eighties Australia will never return. What you see on my ealry 80's nzoz channels is a one off... you wont get it again. Australia will never be the way it was 30 years ago. If you were too young or born too late for this, you'll never experience it... it's gone. Australia is not the Australia thirty years ago. I'm sorry... the new kids have decided. Your EMO daughter will be prime minister and all Australians will be bilingual and will be writing in American-English...
Sorry!
nzoz1981 1 year ago
I've often felt that I'm a really an Aussie or a Kiwi who happened to be born in the United States because I have such a strong connection to the 80s music of those two nations. Being born in 1964, I was in high school and college when the music of all these great bands became available here and I was hooked from the first time I heard it.
Didn't mean for this to be a post about all the bands down that way, but these two smaller nations produced a disproportionate amount of great music.
ggh7664 1 year ago
@ggh7664 I like your comment, not because it has potentially fed the ego's of those who reside in those two nations, but because it adds to my speculation that I am not mad and that NZ/OZ did have something special during this period. It wasn't just me being biased.
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@nzoz1981
You're neither crazy nor biased - the music in those days was the best. I am proud to be stuck in the 80s.
I really appreciate that you've taken the time to post all of this great music. It brings back great memories and my kids do agree that my wife and I are truly of the generation who had the best music.
ggh7664 1 year ago
@ggh7664 I think I might have just turned 4 years old when this song had been released... when I began to become more musically aware and interested, it was this era that drew my attention... I doubt the early 2000s would have the same effect on, if I was 20 years younger....
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@ggh7664 As an Australian born in 1964, it's good to know a contemporary from the US enjoys so much of our stuff from that period. I can return the compliment - IRS-era REM, the Replacements, Minutemen, Husker Du and other numerous punk, "college" and (God help us!) paisley underground (early Green on Red! Dream Syndicatre!) kept me going while the mainstream drowned us in new romantics and plastic disco with industrial snare drums and slap bass. see myspace.com/filltheband, Cheers FILL
filltheband 1 year ago
@filltheband
There was so much great music that came from the 80s that those in our age group benefited. All hail '64, eh?
I'll take a look at your myspace page. I'm sure I'll like it.
ggh7664 1 year ago
@ggh7664 I often wonder about that. why did it happen, what caused it. I think it was because australia was so behind the rest of the world for so long, we had no traditions and all we saw were american movies, tv, music and wanted to compete on the world stage. Sorta over achieved thru the 80's tho lol.
Blissbomb2 1 year ago
@Blissbomb2
I've been compiling Australian from 1966 all the way to the 1990s, on my nzoz channels. I conclude that 60's Australia was behind the US and the UK. Festival invested in club singers, girl singers, mum's & dad's music, etc. Inventive rock bands took off in Australia, but their publicity was limited next to Johnny Farnham, Normie Rowe, etc.
In the meantime, Australia was being infiltrated with British migrants, with British talent and British mentality... continued.
nzoz1981 1 year ago
The British migrants that added the vast vitality to Australian music (Billy Thorpe, AC/DC, Skyhooks, Masters Apprentices, etc) and then Daddy Cool (who incidently, all Aussie-born) rose to show Australia and gave Aussies another perspective of just how phenomenal an Aussie band can be (see nzoz1971). Then Mushroom records emerged in 1973, to give Aussie artists a lot more artist leatherage....
nzoz1981 1 year ago
Countdown emerged in 1975 - the year colour television hit Australia and suddenly, Aussies are seeing what their favourite bands look like in colour (as opposed to seeing them in colour pictures in magazines and posters)... the emergence and self-importance came in very fast - the days of GTK and the 'mysterious' black 'n' white bands (see nzoz1970 to 1974) were over... everything was in colour and our local stars were now impressive.
nzoz1981 1 year ago
I guess the power of Mushroom records and Countdown gave Australian music a chance to shine and impress its own homeland audience, which in return made Aussies feel proud of their local content. I guess this sudden self-worth and esteem was something new to Australians at the time and they took to it like Euphorians to food supply.
Another aspect that should never be overlooked is the pub music scene in oz at that time - INXS playing at one end of the street, Midnight Oil the other..
nzoz1981 1 year ago
The pub scene in Australia was so healthy that Midnight Oil could refuse Countdown and still take on the world. Then there was the post-punk thing in Australia, which opened the door for an array of indi-bands, who would soon become the top leading Aus-acts (Hunters & Collectors, an example)...
I'd say from 1973 to 1983, the changes in Australian music, cinema and culture were happening fast... but... sometime in the late 80's, it just slowed down and a new breed began infiltrating: DJ's
nzoz1981 1 year ago
and it wont happen again. A new thing will eventuate... probably mixed race bands playing an array of hip hop, reggae, electronica and dance. They'll emerge, they'll be a lot of them and they might take off... something like The Cat Empire. They wont have a solid Australian identify (like Australian Crawl or Midnight Oil), but they will represent the multicutural situation in Australia..
But that is only a prediction.
What's done is done. It wont happen again... I assure you.
nzoz1981 1 year ago
@Blissbomb2
As an American, I can only say that the sound that came from Australia and New Zealand was such a fresh sound that it was impossible to not like it. Of course, I also loved what little I saw from Australian film - Mad Max for instance. There is something about watching violence and fast cars that is appealing, though that may be more about having a Y chromosome than the nationality of the film makers. :)
ggh7664 1 year ago
Always lovin' that Church
puppylover4ever 1 year ago
Yeah.....better than a fair average quality Band,I would have saved up my pocket money to go to one of their gigs in the1980's.
Jeffrey751 1 year ago
awesome!!!!!!!
stevabus 1 year ago
Une formation mythique, probablement le groupe ayant le plus influencé les dieux du black métal Norvégien comme Darkthrone, Mayhem et Burzum ! Littéralement, ces hommes au talent d'exception sont une dose d'obscurité et de mysticisme sortant tout droit du début des années 80'
Clubdu47 1 year ago
Pero qué bien suena, en México se conocieron 2 albumes, el starfish y el gold afternoon fix, de lo anterior nada, salvo de manera underground
34bogas 1 year ago
very cool song
bcjaliu 1 year ago
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Their second best song. Only Myrrh from Heyday is better. Jingle-jangle Rickenbacker and Fender is a priceless combination. The Church is the best band in the world. FANTASTIC :)
160377 1 year ago
This one of the greatest songs ever written.
BasswipeNC 2 years ago
fucking incredible...and this was 1981
bretzbluemaze 2 years ago
Great Band cos they wrote good tunes.
pochilds 2 years ago
BOLLOCKS TO YA'LL ... one of the best bands t come outta Australia, The Easybeats bein the other. There 1st album,Blurred Crusade,was part of my psychedelic phase of the early 80's before becoming a mod
merseymain 2 years ago 4
@merseymain yea, them and THE GOBETWEENS!!
tgbitw17 1 year ago
he is out of tune..but who cares..they are The Church.
indieroel 2 years ago
The bassist is out of tune?? No offence mate but you are an idiot.
Nigelxman 2 years ago
holy crap is the bassist out of tune.
wellyes 2 years ago
jst a little 'under' the guitar...but it works all tha same...
gipsylad 2 years ago
Really? I don't think so.
alprdobie 2 years ago
He is definitely out of tune. Without question.
wellyes 2 years ago
'He' is Steve Kilbey, one of the great song writers this country has ever seen. The End.
alprdobie 2 years ago
That's your opinion about him as a songwriter. It is not my opinion that he is out of tune. It is a fact. thanks
wellyes 2 years ago
All the best.
alprdobie 2 years ago
Is he perhaps intentionally out of tune? It fits with the new wave/punk attitude of the early 80's. Take things and give them a twist, just to be irreverent.
Just a thot...
enialbsitruc 2 years ago
This song is some kind of a transition to the sound of Blurred Crusade album.
Sometimes I get confused and ask "is this from skins and heart or blurred crusade?!"
What a fantastic band..
caiofons 2 years ago
wow, brings me back to my youth. But that would be 1988-1990 when they and their back catalogue broke big in the USA. It is hard to put in words what it felt like to get excited over a song/video like this one that felt fresh in 1990 but was actually 9 years old at the time. I loved it but felt like I had missed the boat a bit. FYI, seeing them next week on 7/8 in NYC!
robbyled 2 years ago
I am in my youth (14), they are amazing. God, i hate that i missed them being big.
winterskybc 2 years ago 3
Steve is sexy, warm. His way to sing: it seems to talkin' to a friend. Still: every real rock guitar player dreams to play with a bass player like him.
Maybe it'ts too much. So I say: in my life, i've always being Searchin' for a bass player like Steve..
STEVERED24 2 years ago
Get their new LP just out "Untitled #23" - Album of the year so far for 2009 by thye proverbial mile. "Space Saviour" is an absolute stone gone classic...
LilOtakuAngy 2 years ago 2
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I love this.
The Church are long overdue for the recognition they deserve as Australian music icons. Difference is they are still going and producing fabulous music that is still vital.
Check out their new album u#23 it's magical.
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celticat61 2 years ago
could've been way over the smiths though the vocal not as in tune and vibratic as morrissey yet the church has more darkness than the smiths
papaonta 2 years ago
yeah that's right..I thought they were Austrailian....
goofygoat2009 2 years ago
Great Aussie band! Also love Under the Milky Way...
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JeannieNewtonu 2 years ago
Wow...I didn't know they went this far back. Thanks for posting this. I love the Church.
JBW929 2 years ago
Steve Kilbey is sporting a formidable mullet in this video. Brilliant!
9Kzaar11 3 years ago
The bass in this song really captures my ear.
toirobot71091 3 years ago 3
"bow bah bwow bwow bwooooow <3
NewPaltzIndie 2 years ago
Such poetic, yet anxious young men. Richard Ploog's mullet in some of these Church clips is almost as good as Harve's (Divinyls drummer, first line-up). They supported said Divinyls for the 2007 summer tour, & were fresh & vital. Minus Ploog. Patti Smith's ex-drummer was still playing with them, if my memory serves me right. Name??
originaldivinylsfan 3 years ago
the church shouldve been massive, ploog wasnt even close to de freitas...fact
EVERTONIC 3 years ago
Awesome lyrics...
blacklightposter 3 years ago
Not exactly... pop... really... "
Kartofflesalad 3 years ago
Midnight Oil are a good band too,thanks nzoz1981 for the post
noahmowsen 3 years ago
And these guys are still together now!!! Still creating beautiful soundscapes and magic.
lilyame 3 years ago 4
sounds like marc bolan playing with stone roses before they came out! great!
ChrisyMcCullagh83 3 years ago
Marty Wilson Piper's 12-string Rickenbacker. What a guitar, what a guitarist, what a sound!
Vpmatt 3 years ago 3
Isn't the guy with the Rickenbacker Peter Koppes?
BrianApocalypse 3 years ago
no, that's Marty with one of his many Ricks, and Peter with his white Fender Strat.
orchardhill 3 years ago
Aha, my apologies.
BrianApocalypse 3 years ago
The Church have been putting out incredible albums for over a quarter century...will someone (critics) please give them their due and put them in the Hall of Fame !!!
dvdbtlr 3 years ago 13
Yeah - what a fuckin band. Probably Oz's best - such great music for so many years..
kieran9093 2 years ago
@dvdbtlr: they don't need any hall of fame. They were too good for that.
RHutton2710 1 year ago
I think charlie watts plays like that..
Gav671 3 years ago
We played this song at a American Baptist church in Brookston Indiana.
Artcarnie 3 years ago
I think Richie Ploog was and is their best drummer!
sixtiesmaniac 3 years ago
definitive chime of the church of the 80's..
love the intro.. play it over and over
nickimpression 3 years ago
definitive church 80's chime..love replaying the intro over and over
nickimpression 3 years ago
I love this! Thank you nzoz1981 for posting the most underrated band from down under. They are brilliant artists who continue to touch people with their music and I continue to follow the copious amounts of music they still make.
kukkanainen37 3 years ago 4
no worries.. and thank you for watching.
nzoz1981 3 years ago 2
Excellent Drumming
Gabbort 3 years ago
Fantastic.
j0wled 3 years ago
Send down The Church! to our world!
foxyroxstar 3 years ago
The Bass is perfect, the guitar is perfect, the vocals are perfect. the whole song is perfect! Fantastic album too; must have for ANY music fan!
NewPaltzIndie 4 years ago 3
The Church are the best, if not the best, of all classic alternative rock. What makes this song great is the beginning.....starts slow at 00:00-00:23, plus add to Nick Ward's awesome drumming from 00:23- 00:33...Nick Ward is so talented...I actually prefer him over Richard Ploog's drumming. Ward's drumming was much more real and authentic....I don't know what to say. It is just very....climatic. I don't if that's the word, but Ward's drumming is so underrated that he deserves major props.
83survivor 4 years ago 2
Richard Ploog did the drums on this. Yes, Nick Ward did all of the drums on the original Of Skins and Heart record but that was only the original 9 songs on OSAH. The three songs added to the later issued were from a double single including Too Fast for You, Tear It All Away and Sister were recorded later WITH Richard Ploog.
Jesuskrishna 3 years ago
The church are no doubt the best classic/alternative rock band in the universe!
xerox5000 4 years ago 2
The bass-line is really gorgeous.
slynglen 4 years ago
Wonderful song from such a wonderful Aussie band.
Awesome stuff, nzoz1981!
datoobster75 4 years ago
Thank you
nzoz1981 4 years ago
And thanks for sticking it up to the jerk who told me to sod off.
nzoz1981 4 years ago
YW :) I've stood up to quite a few awkward ones on here.......as long as it's not in the flesh, I've got a weakness there, LOL! (but seriously).
Take care! ;)
datoobster75 4 years ago
The Church are a great band. The best alternative band ever. This is where the Cranberries took their sound from: this great Aussie band. The Church were the originals. No contest.
83survivor 4 years ago
I love this band. Gotta say, Heyday is definately their Sgt. Pepper. It's certainly my favorite album! Thanks for posting this..
By the way, I completely agree with both your statements nzoz1981--well said.
trailgoat 4 years ago
Thank you...
nzoz1981 4 years ago
the best band to come out of australia, seen them many times over the years,great live.
purehead 4 years ago