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  • Ah, another one of my "crush" songs.

  • i wonder if these guys got into a fight with midnight oil, who would win?

  • i love, love crowded house. i was a free and easy loving 20 something year old the first time i heard crowded house circa 1987...they are STILL amazing. i was really into the music scene and they were HOT in virginia beach during that time...

  • White shirt and suspenders!....ehem....I remember swooning hard at that point. This album is in my top 5 greatest of all time.

  • Neil was so hot in this video. Love the song but had never seen the video.

  • 11 people are not experts in bed.

  • This sounds like My favorite mistake by Sheryl Crow. I didn't know she liked Crowded House.

  • @Etatdesiege1979 Sheryl Crow opened for Crowded House in the early nineties.

  • WOW, after 30 some years, i realize what this song is about. Life will teach you, whether you want to learn or not.

  • Speaking on behalf of my 14-year-old self who decided she could never marry anyone unless it was Neil Finn (and trust me, there has been more than a few decades since then), I WOULD HIT THAT SO HARD I WOULD END UP IN CHINA. (Or, preferably Auckland at the very least.)

  • In a perfect world we would see bands like this again emerge on the scene and slay the absolute crap that the 12-24 year old music purchasers sadly get crammed down their throats by what remains of the music industry and record labels! Geniuses like Neil Finn and other classic songwriters are a vanished breed and it makes me sad. Nobody is in it for the long haul any more.

  • @DeeCeeCT i feel the same way about music today. the crap the gets on the air is nothing but just that... crap. and yet CH got basically no airplay in the U.S. UGH!! pisses me off!!

  • I love this song. I love this band.

  • i'd love to know who the girl in the red dress is, the one who hands Neil his guitar... boy howdy, would i have liked to have been that girl! LOL wonder where she is now, and what she still thinks of CH and her part in the video.

  • Still one of my favorite songs

  • Love that smirk & nod at 0:30! :)

  • @bickis76 i know, right?! "expert in bed..." and he's like "yeah, right!" love that smirk, thanks for the reminder! :-)

  • The drummer looks like the pimp from "The Girl Next Door"

  • One of my favorite Crowded House songs, "I don't know where you go; do you climb into space, to the world where you live?"... someone we encounter everyday!

  • Beautiful Kiwis

  • dreamy depressing..nice. 

  • Rest In Peace Paul Hester.

  • Yup Tab, gotta love CH, no choice in the matter. From the first time I heard them they've been near the top of my list.

  • I think the reason most bands sound the same nowdays is because every band has the same people writing their songs for them. 20 or 30 years ago every band sounded so different because all their songs were written by the members themselves. Seriously, at the very least, give Bieber a better songwriter than the guy he has now and he won't be as bad.

  • This is Aussie music at its best.

  • @joe9320 Too bad they're Kiwis..;)

  • 10 people don't live in the world where we live, the one with Crowded House's great music :D

  • @Santanico75, I miss those days too. It's looks like the Age of Mediocrity has taken over the music world.

  • What a beautiful song.

  • Awesome band. I wore this record out back in the day....and the music still sounds good to me now. Ah, Neil Finn, you handsome and talented devil.

  • I remember this song,,,classic!! great video too, lil subtle things, like the shaky "house" that's seems "crowded, Paul Hester having to stand up and play his drums, the 40s retro dance scence make it remarkable

  • Finally saw them tonight after waiting SO many years to catch a show. It was a great time and I am now convinced that I must pick up some of their newer stuff.

  • Saw them last night under the moon and stars at the Edgefield in Portland OR. Superb show. As good as it gets. Transcendant, best band ever. They are so good live, it is incredible. Superlative.

  • Neil Finn has more hooks in his little finger than Paul McCartney does in his entire body. Amazing songwriter, musician, singer.

  • The video I saw ONCE on MTV and got hooked. Never saw it again until I bought their video compilation.

  • help I have autistically drilled songs in my head..and can't find new music..old is comfy though.

  • i saw them play last night

  • Never saw this before. Thanks Tabstarkin

  • If you like these guys you should check out the Wilryans on I-tunes

  • I'm not exaggerating when I say that these guys changed my life with their music...It was like someone opened a window and let in the sunshine and fresh air musically. Simply timeless! Thank you Crowded House! :-)

  • they changed my life too, and recently. i remember them back in H.S. in the mid-80s, but they didn't get much airplay here in the states, so i didn't know to much of their music til several years ago, to this day, i start my day out with "Weather With You"; it always makes me happy!

  • This is the video that made me love them. When the little house flew away, I fell for Neil.

  • lol i fell for Neil back in '79 when he was with Split Enz, so i guess i'm old! haha this video is awesome!

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  • Neil Finn is the whole package: poetic and gorgeous...damn, I wish I was a little older!

  • lol i'm only 10 years younger, and i wish i was a bit older! haha his music and lyrics are very poetic and amazing. no one writes or sings like him

  • cute red socks he's wearing, btw! lol

  • i love love this song!! don't recall the video back when it came out, but it is some serious Finn eye candy! lol love the weirdness of the video!!

  • Ok, I may be alone at this, but when Neil goes "expert in bed" and grins like that, he just looks soooooo sexy to me.

    Sad, considering I was three when this song came out. lol

  • you are definitely not alone. Neil is incredibly sexy still, but that li'l grin when he sings "expert in bed" is adorable! not sure what year this came out, but i was 11 y.o. when i first saw him in Split Enz in 1979, and fell hard in love with his music and his sweet face! LOL

  • this songs' so beautiful, it brings back so many memories, i want to cry when i hear it.

  • these handpainted costumes were stolen in NYC! I heard the rumor and asked them DIRECTLY on a phone interview on live radio in about 85!! They confirmed it, and were amazed that I'd even heard about it. CH rules.

  • I played the hell out of this album. Thanks for the memories.

  • That song remember me to an english class where I had to make a sentence and I used the lyrics of this song ^^

    Neil <3

  • @Fannyportillo I take it you didnt do very well in your English class then?

  • The teacher asked me and I don´t knew what to say so I think in this song xD. I had to think so fast! :P

  • God I love this song. Possibly their very best work.

  • One of my favorite CH songs...awesome film clip too. :)

  • bring back the suits!!

  • want cheering up? just isten to these guys.... the best in the WORLD. x

  • best song all ways makes me feel good

  • Simply one of the best pop bands ever.

  • Real song writing

    Real musicians

  • You are so so right! in all ways...so sad deeply sad about the drummer...I really was upset when I found out....great band great songwriters....

  • I miss the days when good song writing & musicianship were essential to being a successful artist.

  • @Santanico75 no kidding! There are alot of great under the radar bands around though...thank god!

  • @Santanico75 I agree 100%

  • @Santanico75 Yea but now (Here's my saying) All you need these days to become a star in is a crappy voice and an autotune machine and your away! But there some good rock bands still here today.

  • @Santanico75 "But I can't-"

    " '-Sing?' I remember when that mattered?"

  • Beautiful tune. You know you're a great songwriter when you can write a catchy pop tune where practically none of the lyrics rhyme (listen again). Neil Finn is pure genius.

  • @attractanything you're right. none of the lyrics rhyme--never noticed that before

  • @attractanything i gree.  Very much dislike performers who graduated from the Cat In The Hat school of songwriting...

    This is a song. I've never heard this before.

  • @attractanything I never noticed that before, but you're right! It was a great song!

  • this one of their most romantic songs, love it

  • god i love this song. such great voices.

  • this song rocks..wish there was more quality music around, instead of the rubbish you hear these days..kiwi music waat!

  • Timeless. The sing of a good band: Songs that don't sound outdated after 25 years, and could still fit in with modern songs of today.

  • Wow... I can remember blasting down the highway in 1986 going to the beach with my ex-wife (God rest her soul) who was my girlfriend back then, listening to this! Great memories of a simpler time...

  • quintissential (sp) 80's youth vibe

  • WANT THOSE JACKETS, KTHX.

  • awesome! 100% awesome!

  • Never more true.

  • So many great CH songs to pick from, but I vote this one their best.

  • And maybe one of the best videos, too!

  • WAAH it looks like my dead granny's house - but it makes me happy somehow

  • yeah join the club.

  • Another song I can dedicate to a girl I wanted but slipped out of my fingers and she moved to another city.....or to another world......

    :(

  • im so sorry for you!!! what was her name?

  • What or who were you responding to? What was it regarding? (sorry, I don't make it on youtube like I use to)...

  • you said "another song i can dedicate to a girl who slipped out of my fingers and moved to another city... or another world."

  • oh...lol...okay.

    Her name is Britney...

    "For Britney, Whenever I May Find Her...."

  • The best ! How amazing they are... love em, love all their work.

  • Their best song

  • OK, so the song flopped in the US after they hit big with "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong", but this has always been my favourite song by Crowded House to this day. 

    It's nice, mellow and soothing to my soul.

  • totally, one of my favorites along with mean to me, something so strong, and better be home soon. Crowded house is the best band EVAR. RIP Paul.

  • Do you cliiiimb into spaaa-aaaa-aaace

    Gets you instantly, this song =)

  • I get such a natural high from the chorus!

  • Absolutely!

  • these guys are awesome. their first album has to be on the must own list; excellent debut.

  • WONDERFUL SONG! BOY DO I MISS the 1980s!!!!

  • Sorry to break the news but there from New Zealand, at least Neil Finn is...

  • Neil Finn is from New Zealand...the rest of the band is from aussie...they started the band in Melbourne, my home town! :)

  • Yup, ur right mate on the rest of the band members... Peace :-D

  • not anymore. The drummer and guitarist are americans. Only Nick Seymour is Australian.

  • Hessie is from Aus...

  • great video for an amazing song! :D

  • good aussie band

  • Ha ha ha....next you will claim the All Blacks as being a Good Aussie team as Brad Thorne is from Brisbane and the guy who washes their kit is from Sydney. Look at the map mate, is that a map of Australia?? Strangely no it is not :)

  • I love this song!!

    the best of them

  • 2:16-2:34-----> BLISS!!!

  • Couldn't agree more. Fan-bloody-tastic!

  • Love it!

  • great vid, awesome song!! What more is there?

  • I just saw this for the first time yesterday on VH-1 classic. My first impression was that Neil's eyes looked kind of puffy, like he might have been sick, or maybe he had a late night before the video shoot. Nonetheless, CH were so very good and they always seemed happy.

  • Same here, never saw this video either. Alot of the vids they where showing on VH-1 this last week where new to me. Thanks for posting this.

  • yes!!! he really is !!!

  • *sigh*

    Neil Finn is so damn attractive! :)

  • he's even better close up, i saw him live in Glasgow years ago and i can tell you he is one good looking guy

  • AWESOME!!! I didn't know they made a vid of this song!

  • This is probably my favourite video by Crowded House!

  • I absolutely love this era of CH. It was the best and I love this video. One of my all time favourites.

  • doesn't matter where they're from they're absolutely brilliant and they're music is timeless.....crowded house 4eva

  • yeah well, anyway great song!!!

  • Couldn't it be just australasian/antipodian band? Or half aussie and half kiwi?

  • I met all of the guys back in 1989 in Houston, Tx. They were so very, very nice. I just love those Aussies. RIP Hessie, may God bless your soul!

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  • Thanks for clearing that up!

  • Maybe a trifle more clearing up is in order. Yes, Neil Finn, the leader of CH, is a Kiwi, but the other two band members featured in this video, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester, are/were both Australian. So, jade0425, you were actually two-thirds right!

  • Thanks for the support, dharma. I actually already knew that, but I didn't want to make an issue out of it.

  • Wow! A Youtube commentator who doesn't want to make an issue out of something! Considering the thin-skinned nature of so many of the people who post comments, I have to say I'm impressed. You're a really cool person, jade. Please stay that way!

  • yeah, true. makes a nice change. hooray for maturity!

  • Wow, I've loved this song for most of my life, but i never thought the video would look like this. Not that I'm disappointed or anything, it's just not what I had imagined all those years.

    Arghh, seeing Paul Hester so young and happy is breaking my heart!!!

  • RIP Hessie. It really is heartbreaking.

  • Neil in a dressing gown looking like a Medici Prince. I am complete.

  • i have been listenin to this song since i was six. now im 21 and i still love it. music really is not made like it used to be

  • I stir all my Kiwi friends by telling them that 'they're the best thing to come out of Australia'...after all we practically own them ; )

    Joke Joke all you Kiwi's : )

  • But we DO own them... 2 Aussies in the band, formed in Australia (originally called "The Mulligans"), you can tell your Kiwi friends to suck eggs (in a nice way)This band is ours!

  • Ooooh, I love these debates! Neil is from NZ, and it looks like he's the motivator, so I guess it's a NZ band! :-) By the way, do you regret the underarm bowl yet?

  • thats the stupidest argument Ive ever heard.

  • Um, sorry, this is a "debate". That means point, counterpoint -- not point, utter surrender. Neil, like Sam and Russell and Tim, is only one of many fine artists to come from our great land.

  • I'm not debating you, I never even began a conversation with you, I was replying to someone else. I have no wish to converse with you at all.

  • Didn't you enter into a debate by replying to my assertion? What does "all songs by Neil Finn" mean?

  • In the World Where You Live: Lucy Lawless -actress and Janet Frame- poet writer... Jane Campion? -Film maker. Kiwi's "are on top of the world!" & the Finn Bros. are in the heavens. Lucky us to have 'em!

  • Nice song, they don't do songs like this these days :P I'm 24;)

  • Loved this entire ALBUM...this MOST of all.

  • I agree. :)

  • The girl at the end cannot dance.

  • definatley one of crowded house,s finest songs. takes me back to my childhood..

  • I was taking an 80s music quiz on funtrivia dot com and came across this song in a question. I like to look up the song on YouTube and see if I can remember hearing it. This song I don't recall but I have to say it sounds like other Crowded House songs which is good. I think 80s music is by far my favorite type of music. The music now is either unlistenable or it sounds like so many other music groups. It seems like in the 80s each group had their own sound, yet always good to listen to.

  • I love it! They are in the house in a earthQwake

  • I love Neil's eyes on this clip... They are like painted <3

  • Neil Finn, the best thing to ever come out of NZ, is definitely in the world where I live.

  • Haha, I always thought these guys kinda looked like the Stray Cats but in a totally different style. It's obvious in this video. And Neil's voice does sound like Brian Setzer's in some songs. Amazing.

  • I think, it is one of the best CH's songs ever. I love its expression and emotions. It's got some special climate I think...

  • Such a good song! wow.

  • they're comin to... BELFAST ON THE 27TH!!!!

  • Glasgow 30 nov cant wait

  • That much talent ought to be illegal!  Thanks Neil for the great music.

  • Saw them live in Calgary last night, it was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. Crowded House rocks!

  • Seattle, Washington Bumbersoot Festival 2007 WONDERFUL! But, too short! Only a medley f "Better be home soon" COME BACK TO SEATTLE!!!11

  • This is one of my favorite bands from the 80's. I especially this video.

  • yeah i looove 80s music too but some of todays music is awesome too like eskimo joe etc......but i just dont get how everyone these days likes all that crap rnb hiphop rap crap! its insane!!!

  • Yeah me too on the rap music. I like old school rap myself. Like Run DMC, Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Peppa some of those artists. But 80's music and 90's music is the stuff i love to listen to.

  • best band ever. has anyone else noticed the line in mean to me and the video clip? paul pretended to shoot himself. why? he is so missed, i really wanted to see them here in bris vegas but i can't so i'm so upset. this is a very good song, i wonder what neil was feeling when he wrote this song...

  • what part is that? how far on the timer thingo...

    How old do you reckon they all were here....they look pretty young and Neil looks waay different eh?!

  • its the part half way through and paul just pulls the gun out from no where! its so sad! they were all pretty hot lol...

  • Ohhhhh I get yaaaa....u mean in the song Mean To Me lol I thought u meant the line mean to me int hsi song...i was tryin to think when that was lol.....

    Haha yeah true not now though lol

  • lol. thats wat i was talking bout! lol. if only i could go back to the 80s. then people would get my taste in music....

  • omg i want that girl's dress! im gonna steal that crazy girl's dress for my ball...the white one with the black shoes...but make it longer...awesome or what?!

  • If "Swifty" reads this message thread, please get in touch.

    A bit of a reminder:

    I almost had a wreck when I was driving down the street after I saw you. After I parked you had your friend come up to me and tell me that you wanted to meet me. My sister sat down next to you and I told my sister that she had my seat. We were friends after that. Last time I talked to you was when I lived in Glenview and Rich Lockland was on tour.

    LadyDemocrat

  • hey to my old aussie friend brad williams from perth, i'm looking for you, it's patti johnston. respond if you see this, please, i miss you.

  • i love that song, such a classic and a great video too!

  • I loved the artwork on the cover of each album

  • Nick Seymour. Perfection.

  • old hippie here.......neil finn and his boy's always did the job.........crowded house or split enz.........this music is for the ages.......it set the tone for those days......simply awsome.

  • y u all arguin about canadian n american stuff im english n i think its sad

  • crowded house on tour!!!