Australian Crawl - Hoochie Gucci Fiorucci Mama (1980)

[EinMagillaGorilla]

Perhaps listen to the words?

[Stealthkeys77]

Every day I see u wearing things that u never worn before ....

Zulu tutus, frangipani dresses while I wear stubby shorts and thonggggs ...

[kanga1967]

I remember seeing them at MYER MUSIC BOWL (1982?) THANK GOD IT'S OVER concert..it was about 30 degrees all day,loads of school kids,drinking like there was no tomorrow,the human pyramids,jumping from Princes bridge into the yarra. I think that was the last FREE concert of it's type in Melbourne.

we had our first ever bottle of bacardi,but wine casks,lilydale cider were everywhere,not forgetting UDL.

[missmonaro]

isnt it about their mother hootchi and the back street bantams there are two songs ................

[vgreencan]

Some things are not for sale. Some things money cannot buy. This song tells that story. Everytime I hear this song I think of how lucky I am that I have my lovely partner and I can say what I really feel. Long love love, honesty and being true to yourself.

[SuzeCan]

wow! .... was too young to appreciate .... how HOT he was, .... and the voice - beautiful ;) x

[1serasera]

Born in Toorak Rd with a Decaf Skinny Late

[BBIIDDOOLL]

2 words....... How good??

[989glen]

30yrs man thats quick

[stevebaker06]

Aus Crawl and great memories.....Cylinders Beach, Point lookout Camping grounds New Years Eve 1981 WooHoo, It was my first...Geez What was her Name...??

[sommerbutchasm]

I agree Memories. Thanks for posting

[dagiffy]

My Aussie roommate turned me on to these guys in '88 in Idaho at college. Immediately liked them. Rock on forever Aus Crawl, we won't ever forget you!

[Gr8barriereefer]

You dont see many surf dudes wearing a flanny, sitting behind a piano playing so beautifully...Wouldve topped it off if he had a lit Winny red hangin' out his mouth and a can of KB on the piano!

[daverboronia]

4th best Aus Crawl song

[michellebiddle]

i have been looking for this song for more than 20 years and i also lived on Nth stradbroke island point lookout remembering this song was a favorite of mine thanks

[wayno373]

as the youngest of 3 older brothers i didnt have a choice in what records got played they loved aussie crawl and i hated them!!!!needless to say when heard them playn on a summer satdi mornin bout 10ami heard "midlife crisis" and ive loved them ever since...wow a10yo boy, summer satdi's in busby and australian crawl. 28yrs ago...seems like yesterday.thanks 4 the post and the memories mate

[thunderlips350]

I bet James did alright with the girls back in the 80's.

[NiceHeadMr]

Aus crawl's lyrics never made any sense, but fuck they made some good songs.

[bittickler]

ONYA!!!, Classsic undervalued Aussie Crawl tune.......ahhh the memories!

[bottleofblack]

Have any of you worked at Brighton or spoken to anyone living in South Yarra? If you have not then you don't know what this song is about. If you have then this is a very sad song about very shallow people.

WALTER

[Sirocco97]

best aussie band ever period

[fionajamesau]

thanks 4 posting this is hard 2 find,,any chance someone has the lyrics typed up somewhere??

[kumaramanoli]

Local moms are alone do you need to meet them naneedj.info

[gavlaing]

good song.......GREAT MULLETT!!

[killerCharade]

nzoz. You are a legend. Thanks for all your effort.

[MrSteveBeee]

classic crawl will always love it

[phileustace]

Watching James Reyne sit on that stool with the piano player in the background makes me feel like I'm at a bar at the end of the night with "no place to go". The 80s were generally a very happy decade but I still think people can look at songs like this and "down hearted" and realize that it wasnt all as rosey as it seemed. There were hard times back in the 80s with the loss of many jobs in manufacturing. The "jaded" nature of this song and downhearted are testament to those hard times.

[sebbbo77]

"Hucci Gucci Fiorucci mamma we got REALLY no place to goooooo"

So its backbeach in the summer ..... chalet in the snooowwwww woahh"

[pranavananda]

cheers from Brazil... The songs of them are just perfect for a surf trip...

[Breatherable]

James Reyne, Master of the Mullet and the english language...great track.

[plutosunshine]

im still scared to go in the cieling

[plutosunshine]

maybe hes going into polictics

[plutosunshine]

said he hates this song now...i gess when your nest is feathered enought

[Eeza07]

@plutosunshine

Do you know why?

[antmark1960]

sebbo77 totally agree with you the world as we knew it is gone!

Welcome to the 21st century, i pity our grandchildren.

[sebbbo77]

I shed a tear when I hear this song. It reminds me of all the sacrifices that others have made to bring the freedoms we have today. The problem is that the young generation Y wouldnt have a fucking clue about the BLOOD that was sacrificed so they can get on their ipods and text others for group sex and stupid 80s parties. Its absolutely shocking and I've fucking had a gutful of their "ipod" mentality. Goodbye Generation Y and WELCOME the Anzacs !!

[globalnova]

i grew up on cylinder beach too! wish i could go back to those days..

[globalnova]

shit we had a house in endeavour street and i grew up surfing cylinder and deadman's. now i'm in singapore - no surf. arrrgghhh

[phileustace]

A great song to sing along to while savouring fine italian cuisine and indugling in itlaian wines and ouzo while gazing over the majestic blue and turquoise colours of the Medditeranean ocean below a villa perched high on a cliff in Positano. Rock on !!

[mckayrj]

i smoked many a cone to this cassette in my car at greenhills in cronulla. sweet fkn memories.

[vgreencan]

Um  maybe it cuts close to the bone?

[sheebaridgeback]

James Reyne will not play this Aussie Crawl song, even if requested. It's unfotunate that he hates it so much.

[63hezemans]

nah... thought it was something from moving pictures or similar

[CharlieVanders22020]

Absolute legend James.

[MrWombat21]

@nzoz1980 you are a gun. I grew up as a teenager with Crawl - sitting on Cylinder Beach in Nth Stradroke Island and listening to Sons of Beaches, Sirroco, the eponymous album ... and geting into the shit for purposely wrecking a mate's Eagles casette because I hated hated hated like poison "Hotel California" and "Desperado" ... err ... sorry ... back to the world of dreams.

[nzoz1980]

@MrWombat21 ha ha, thanx for calling me a gun. I think that suits me!

[Eeza07]

@nzoz1980

Do you know why James Reyne does not like this song??

[globalnova]

@MrWombat21 i grew up on straddie too. well sort of. a brisso who spent all schoolhols and just about every weekend in our house in endeavour street...

[zeprisco]

@MrWombat21 Very Good! I share the same taste in music! Sorry about the flaws in the writing, my english sucks.

I looked for 24 years, believe the song `` James Reyne - Hammer Head `` for not knowing the name of the song and I thought this week. I wept as I remembered from my days of surfing in Cassino Beach in Brazil. Good and wonderful times that do not come back.

[zeprisco]

@MrWombat21 Very Good! I share the same taste in music! Sorry about the flaws in the writing, my english sucks.

I looked for 24 years, believe the song `` James Reyne - Hammer Head `` for not knowing the name of the song and I thought this week. I wept as I remembered from my days of surfing in Cassino Beach in Brazil. Good and wonderful times that do not come back.

[byron1958]

James said only recently that this was the song he HATED most,from his "Crawl" days.Don't know why. Everyone i know,absolutely loves it.

[wiggo4]

yet again anothergreat ballad. its a shame that the crawl diddn't keep going cause i suire dug their tunes

[vgreencan]

Fantastic to hear this very beautiful song again. Would love the sheet music inf anyone has it. Unreal piano accompanying James's vocals!

[63hezemans]

penny dropped as soon as i heard the opening piano...yes a bit of a surprise considering the flack you here james cop's for his pronounciation of lyric's...i should of picked up on it earlier... anyway../ a loose end closed

[63hezemans]

funny it took nearly thirty years to find out who sung this..frigg'n awesome tune that lingured in the background but never did i need to hunt it down, usually play'd ever few years on some obscured radio station...mystery complete

[nzoz1980]

congradulations... any sense of surprise that it was just some Aus. Crawl song?

[MissG274]

Perhaps it's too painful to sing now. Sometimes the arrogance of our youth comes back to bite us on the bum.

Don't know......just saying.

[EpiphoneGear]

These guys ruled the scene. God bless them. How close to brilliance do you need to witness.

[epochery]

Well I was a Frankston Bogun/headbanger in the day having to suffer Mt Eliza skegs. Still one of my best mates came from Mt eliza. Still I love this song.

[ozwasp]

What a great music video!

[gdpunk4life]

GREAT piece of AUSTRALIAN HISTORY,

WELL DONE!!

[Jacobitejim]

What bollox! They all went to school in Mt Eliza, lived there, and have lived a Hoochie Gucci lifestyle themselves both as kids and adults - everyone of them a Mt Eliza son. I know. I went to school with them all. Nice music but don't be fooled by the hype.

[boogiefever1985]

Yeah of course! They are talking from experience.... That's why the song came about, from their experience seeing people like this in their community.

[tunsatube]

@Jacobitejim what years were you at Peninsula? I went there from prep through to year 9. Did he get expelled from there because he swore at a teacher? If so who was the teacher?

[MrCraig29]

Great Frankston Band having a crack at Mt Eliza snobs

[W0rp3D]

Really, i never knew that, but the reference to the rye\portsea back beach makes sense.

[tunsatube]

These guys were actually from Mt Eliza - James went to Peninsula Grammar - he now hates the song and never plays it live.

[DefinitelyMaybe65]

I just saw JR here in Townsville doing his accoustic show, just sensational. The only song I really missed that he didn't play was this so I was interested to see your comment - do you happen to know why he hates it, such a great song.

[tunsatube]

He said in an interview on radio that he wrote this when he was very young and now cannot relate to it at all. I agree though it's a great song.

[DefinitelyMaybe65]

Thanks appreciate the response

[wolffund]

A gr8 Melbourne song

RIP Brad and Guy

[alprdobie]

Great Melbourne song having a crack at the Toorak Cowboys!

[sligo1978]

PURE LOVE ♥♥♥

[respectourearth]

There are some songs you just never get sick of...this is one of mine.

[thedys70]

Amen to that, respectourearth

Dyso

[dingospinner]

love this one your gr8 nzoz

[nzoz1980]

thanx mate ... i try my best!

[Beaver1967]

it's a`classic

[phileustace]

Such an 80's song .... mullet haircuts. I'm sure there would be a lot of yobbos back in the 80's who sang this song while getting stuck into a few beers after a breakup with a girlfriend. Classic tune.

[TARBABY71]

I do now,,, too many breakups ,,, but never enough great Aussie music

[littleorvey]

Greart song and prophetic as we shall discover as the onrushing depression causes untold misery for the 'children in the government schools'

[detcelloc]

Thanks for posting. I grew up with this song and still love it to this day.

[littleorvey]

Always very haunting - certainly close to the best.

[abcpaultigecba]

My favorite Crawl song (just ahead of Errol & The boys light up).

[damo3805]

Always reminded of this track when driving down Toorak Road, and being reminded of James Reyne's class A mullet.

[BBIIDDOOLL]

whoever posted this video... THANKYOU!!!!! Magnificent!

[nzoz1980]

no worries. it's been posted by a couple of other people before me. however, i asked Troy (typicalaussiebloke) to send me a copy and with what he sent me, I merged it with a CD track just so it sounds good.

Cheers,

Ryan