I have just thought of a song that you may not have heard. A real blinder of a song, and a really happy vibe. Blue Mink. GOOD MORNING FREEDOM ( P-POW,POW )
This song was about singer James Reyne's car accident, which caused him to do his first performance on Countdown in plaster cast. For a more matured Australian Crawl song (they have some matured numbers!) go for ... Australian Crawl - Downhearted *nzoz1980* Australian Crawl - Shut Down (Audio + Video merge 2023) Australian Crawl - Reckless *nzoz1983* Australian Crawl - Daughters Of The Northern Coast *Australian Crawl channel* People that view this channel may think the band are all about shits and giggles. Not so...
Feeling old ... Bought their first album on cassette ... Sigh, 44 years ago. Try, 'Things Don't Seem' by Aussie Crawl, or even some of James Reyne's solo hits from the 80s and early 90s, seriously good pop/rock.
Heard the song before but never seen the video clip. Fun stuff.. One of the few Aussie bands I actually learn about via youtube than I did as a kid. Appreciate them more now as a result.
lol@Cynthia, I used to laugh when he sang ''he's of the male gender''. I know it's part of the rhyme, but ''He'' and ''he''ll'' already told us the sex of his ''frenda''. lol Love this song.. More Aussie Crawl please. 'DownHearted', 'Shut Down', and 'Reckless' are top Oz Crawl tunes! 😚
The lead singer had two broken wrists after a car knocked him over on Swanston Street in Melbourne. He had to do his first Countdown appearance with both arms in plaster. He proved to have a good sense of humour about the whole thing, and wrote a rock 'n' roll rhyme out of it. Gotta love the Aussie spirit!
It was pretty weird seeing the singer of a new band waving his plastered arms about on Countdown. It certainly added to the band's profile in Australia. This song brings back memories of simplier times like coming back to friends' places in the early hours of the morning and having long chats over pot and beer whilst listening to the ''Boys Light Up'' album. We had this album spinning on the turntable through out the 80's. James Reyne, being the good sport that he is, took getting knocked over by a car in his stride, and made himself a cute song out of the incident. Cheers, Hayley
Hi Hayley, Have you noticed all the old Countdown episodes being uploaded to youtube? Someone calling themselves TassieTV's been putting them up. All the fun and mayhem in Countdown land for the rest of the world to see.
@@Robbo766 Hi Rob, I watched a few of TassieTV's videos on Countdown, but the viewing experience is much better through a TV cast than on my PC. Laneway Music has been putting up hour long segments of Nightmoves recently, and I was reminded how boring the show could be... But it might have been more your thing than mine.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 lol@more your thing. Thanx Hayley.. My thing is boring, huh? I enjoyed Countdown. I really did! But I like bands jamming and playing live, and GTK and Funky Road and Nightmoves was more into musicianship than Countdown. Countdown was about kiddies clapping, bands miming, pie in face, Molly waffling.. Highly entertaining stuff! I was watching these old Countdown shows, and having a real laugh. Nightmoves could be a little dry, but it's a music appreciator's show.. sort of like what the Hanier channel is trying to be 😁... I will check out these Nightmoves uploads and see if I can remember any of the old episodes..
@@Robbo766 I've taken a look at some of the uploads on TassieTV's channel, but the picture is a bit dim. Countdown was a colourful show, and he seems to have turned the brightness down. A bit odd...
I think I have just as much fun watching newbies reacting to my old teen idols, as I did when I first heard them. Such great memories and I love pretty much everything Australian crawl did, great fun band to see live too. 💗
Yes Chris & Cynthia, you’ve only really discovered a small portion of Australian Music….. because our history stretches back as far as the UK & US but obviously not as well known until recently…. Yes we put our own spin on things….. Aussie Crawl we’re known for their unusual rhymes and word play….. plenty more to come Enjoy what we have to offer.
I gave up sunny California, where everybody was listening to The Knack and The Eagles, and moved down to cloudly Melbourne, Australia where everybody was listening to music like this. It was like British culture had been turned upside down and shaking all about. I can freely say this because my wife and kids are Aussies and I have been living here for 45 years. It's still a nice city. The old Melbourne with the art scene and edginess are now props for tourists to gawk at. The shady druggy arty types that I had to deal with in the early 80's are now dead and immortalised in murals, on their way to becoming town statues. My kids are little sophisticates running their own coffee shops and my wife and I are asking what happened?. That's all fine, but Melbourne is nothing like the hot mess that it was in the 70's and 80's. Hardly surprised that James Reyne got himself knocked over on Swanston Street, and hardly surprising that he'd make a hit ditty out of the experience.
I first saw them do ''Beautiful People'' in the Countdown studio in 1979. They had beach chairs and balls around them, and James Reyne was throwing his plastered arms about like a maniac!! 😛 I thought the plaster cast was part of the gimmick, much like the way he pronounced ''Beautiful People'' like ''bea-typical-pee-poll''. It did take my new older friends, Gillian and Hayley, to tell me that he actually got knocked over by a car and that ''Indiposed'' was about the encounter. I know it sounds silly, but I remember lying in bed at night at age 9 or 10, and being haunted by ''Indisposed'' being about a real incident, Thankfully, nobody explained the lyrics to the song ''Boys Light Up''. I was blissfully ignorant to the meaning of ''hummers'', ''skin lotion'', and ''mama's little help'' for a few years. Downhearted, Things Don't Seem, Shut Down, and Reckless need to be done.
I should have enjoyed this music in my teens but I was out of touch with trends, a huge Beatles fan in the 1980s! Everyone in my class had cut their side-burns as was the fashion, except me. I got into quite an argument with my cousin over this band -v- George Harrison (I had his eponymous album in hand at the time) and I made the argument - that was in fact quite common - that James Reyne needed subtitles to understand him. My cousin pointed out that the lyrics were printed on the album. Fair point.
After reading the book _Sons Of Beaches_ by drummer Bill McDonough, I am beginning to hear the difference between Aussie Crawl songs written by Flatheads and those written by Reyne, Robinson, Robinson's dad (the Federal court judge), Binks.. This feels very James Reyne/Brad Robbinson. ''Downhearted'' feels like a very different group of people, and sounds almost like a different band. 🐕
Hi, check out the song link I added - released back in 1981 by Australian Crawl, the song is very similar in structure and melody to the GUNS N ROSES songs, Sweet Child Of Mine - which was recorded and released some 6 years later. Both bands shared the same record label in the early 80's... ruclips.net/video/YA2P-0D2yds/видео.htmlsi=74SyqnGO8Hvn_S3x
Fark, did I have fun with this band and album back in the day.. can still taste the salt after a long surf out in the north shore of Sydney. Such solid musicianship and a singer that just can't be understood. I don't know how Sean Kelly of Models got away with it, because I also struggled with his inflections and pronunciations.
@@Robbo766 G'day Robbo, I was doing most of my surfing Narrabeen. I was not ever a competitor. Just a casual novice. What comps did you enter? Any known names you competed against?
@@Parta4gfg I entered a lot of comps in the 70's and 80's, and did get to compete with the Oxley boys (Pete and Jeremy, later as band Sunnyboys), and other amateur and semi-pro comps, mostly involving NSW clubs. I was sponsored by Rip Curl in the mid 70's, but an injury prevented me from taking my ''career'' any further. By the early 80's, I was just bumming about and enjoying the sport without the pressure. Even as a youngin, I wasn't too thrilled about being a professional competitor like mates of mine. The surfing world in Sydney is smaller than most people think. I knew Pete Garrett (Midnight Oil) in the early 70's, and my brother was a mate of Martin Plaza of Mental As Anything, when he was a surfer for a while. I still surf to this day.
@@Robbo766 You competed with the Oxleys? No shit!! I know of their legendary status as surfer boys from Wollongong, I believe. Sounds like you did a lot more than I did in my surfing days. I didn't have a big company sponsor me, but I did win a lot of Rip Curl and Billabong stuff in my days. I do love good surfing brands and speaking of Mental As Anything, I have a thing for Mambo products. I don't surf these days, but I do swim regularly...
One of my favs by them. !!!
Australian Crawl was one of Australia's best 80's bands !!! SOO Cool...
Another one i’d suggest by this band is Unpublished Critics. From the 1981 album Sirocco. 1981.
I have just thought of a song that you may not have heard. A real blinder of a song, and a really happy vibe. Blue Mink. GOOD MORNING FREEDOM ( P-POW,POW )
Nice surprise. Just sitting here on my verandah in Geelong Australia playing tunes and this pops up. Unreal guys.
This song was about singer James Reyne's car accident, which caused him to do his first performance on Countdown in plaster cast. For a more matured Australian Crawl song (they have some matured numbers!) go for ...
Australian Crawl - Downhearted *nzoz1980*
Australian Crawl - Shut Down (Audio + Video merge 2023)
Australian Crawl - Reckless *nzoz1983*
Australian Crawl - Daughters Of The Northern Coast *Australian Crawl channel*
People that view this channel may think the band are all about shits and giggles. Not so...
G'day, even us Aussies had trouble understanding James. If only they had subtitles back then 😊
Cool to see more Aussie Crawl on your channel. Things Don't Seem and Reckless are two my favourites .. vastly different tunes.
I know it's silly but I loved this song as a young teenager!!
Great fun band..not much more to say.. good to see you checking them out again...
This was pretty good, I liked it, sort of New Wave vibe.
Feeling old ... Bought their first album on cassette ... Sigh, 44 years ago.
Try, 'Things Don't Seem' by Aussie Crawl, or even some of James Reyne's solo hits from the 80s and early 90s, seriously good pop/rock.
Heard the song before but never seen the video clip. Fun stuff.. One of the few Aussie bands I actually learn about via youtube than I did as a kid.
Appreciate them more now as a result.
One of my favorites. Fun & rocking. He got hit by a fender & ended up looking like the cats dinner. Great line.
lol@Cynthia, I used to laugh when he sang ''he's of the male gender''. I know it's part of the rhyme, but ''He'' and ''he''ll'' already told us the sex of his ''frenda''. lol
Love this song.. More Aussie Crawl please.
'DownHearted', 'Shut Down', and 'Reckless' are top Oz Crawl tunes!
😚
I too would vote for Blue Mink, Good morning freedom. That's a great sounding song that's just so happy.
James Reyne having his tongue firmly in cheek and face permanently smug, even after being knocked down, hospitalized and plastered up.
The lead singer had two broken wrists after a car knocked him over on Swanston Street in Melbourne. He had to do his first Countdown appearance with both arms in plaster. He proved to have a good sense of humour about the whole thing, and wrote a rock 'n' roll rhyme out of it. Gotta love the Aussie spirit!
It was pretty weird seeing the singer of a new band waving his plastered arms about on Countdown. It certainly added to the band's profile in Australia.
This song brings back memories of simplier times like coming back to friends' places in the early hours of the morning and having long chats over pot and beer whilst listening to the ''Boys Light Up'' album.
We had this album spinning on the turntable through out the 80's. James Reyne, being the good sport that he is, took getting knocked over by a car in his stride, and made himself a cute song out of the incident.
Cheers,
Hayley
Hi Hayley,
Have you noticed all the old Countdown episodes being uploaded to youtube? Someone calling themselves TassieTV's been putting them up.
All the fun and mayhem in Countdown land for the rest of the world to see.
@@Robbo766 Hi Rob,
I watched a few of TassieTV's videos on Countdown, but the viewing experience is much better through a TV cast than on my PC. Laneway Music has been putting up hour long segments of Nightmoves recently, and I was reminded how boring the show could be... But it might have been more your thing than mine.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 lol@more your thing. Thanx Hayley.. My thing is boring, huh? I enjoyed Countdown. I really did! But I like bands jamming and playing live, and GTK and Funky Road and Nightmoves was more into musicianship than Countdown.
Countdown was about kiddies clapping, bands miming, pie in face, Molly waffling..
Highly entertaining stuff! I was watching these old Countdown shows, and having a real laugh. Nightmoves could be a little dry, but it's a music appreciator's show.. sort of like what the Hanier channel is trying to be 😁...
I will check out these Nightmoves uploads and see if I can remember any of the old episodes..
@@Robbo766 I've taken a look at some of the uploads on TassieTV's channel, but the picture is a bit dim. Countdown was a colourful show, and he seems to have turned the brightness down. A bit odd...
@@MorningDewLoop. I agree that it's odd. The quality is too shady and hard to enjoy.
I think I have just as much fun watching newbies reacting to my old teen idols, as I did when I first heard them. Such great memories and I love pretty much everything Australian crawl did, great fun band to see live too. 💗
Great tune!!! A little disconcerting to hear when driving in busy traffic. Give ''Downhearted'' a go next time. Ta!
This reminds me of Gary Numan. He was good at crashing planes and surviving 😂😂
Yes Chris & Cynthia, you’ve only really discovered a small portion of Australian Music….. because our history stretches back as far as the UK & US but obviously not as well known until recently…. Yes we put our own spin on things….. Aussie Crawl we’re known for their unusual rhymes and word play….. plenty more to come Enjoy what we have to offer.
you guys do James Reyne and Australian Crawl on this channel? 😲 Wow! I'll sub to that!
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - Shape I'm In - 1979 - Countdown Australia - Remastered
I love ''Shape I'm In''. They should do a reaction to that tune.
@@MorningDewLoop. Fingers crossed they do that Jo Jo Zep song. It has a ''reggae'' feel, which is usually what they're after on their Sundays.
great song!
I gave up sunny California, where everybody was listening to The Knack and The Eagles, and moved down to cloudly Melbourne, Australia where everybody was listening to music like this. It was like British culture had been turned upside down and shaking all about. I can freely say this because my wife and kids are Aussies and I have been living here for 45 years. It's still a nice city. The old Melbourne with the art scene and edginess are now props for tourists to gawk at. The shady druggy arty types that I had to deal with in the early 80's are now dead and immortalised in murals, on their way to becoming town statues.
My kids are little sophisticates running their own coffee shops and my wife and I are asking what happened?. That's all fine, but Melbourne is nothing like the hot mess that it was in the 70's and 80's. Hardly surprised that James Reyne got himself knocked over on Swanston Street, and hardly surprising that he'd make a hit ditty out of the experience.
Hey folks, Great reaction. You might like to do Aussie Crawl 'Things Don't Seem', and screw your face up trying to decipher the lyrics. 😆😆
I first saw them do ''Beautiful People'' in the Countdown studio in 1979. They had beach chairs and balls around them, and James Reyne was throwing his plastered arms about like a maniac!! 😛
I thought the plaster cast was part of the gimmick, much like the way he pronounced ''Beautiful People'' like ''bea-typical-pee-poll''. It did take my new older friends, Gillian and Hayley, to tell me that he actually got knocked over by a car and that ''Indiposed'' was about the encounter.
I know it sounds silly, but I remember lying in bed at night at age 9 or 10, and being haunted by ''Indisposed'' being about a real incident, Thankfully, nobody explained the lyrics to the song ''Boys Light Up''. I was blissfully ignorant to the meaning of ''hummers'', ''skin lotion'', and ''mama's little help'' for a few years.
Downhearted, Things Don't Seem, Shut Down, and Reckless need to be done.
Well, here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. In this, James Reyne sounds like Mark E Smith of The Fall (friend-uh).
I should have enjoyed this music in my teens but I was out of touch with trends, a huge Beatles fan in the 1980s!
Everyone in my class had cut their side-burns as was the fashion, except me.
I got into quite an argument with my cousin over this band -v- George Harrison (I had his eponymous album in hand at the time) and I made the argument - that was in fact quite common - that James Reyne needed subtitles to understand him.
My cousin pointed out that the lyrics were printed on the album. Fair point.
After reading the book _Sons Of Beaches_ by drummer Bill McDonough, I am beginning to hear the difference between Aussie Crawl songs written by Flatheads and those written by Reyne, Robinson, Robinson's dad (the Federal court judge), Binks..
This feels very James Reyne/Brad Robbinson. ''Downhearted'' feels like a very different group of people, and sounds almost like a different band.
🐕
Some cool Simon Binks guitar work on "Things Don't Seem".
This song was co-written by a Federal Arbitration Court Judge, Mr Justice Robinson
Hi, check out the song link I added - released back in 1981 by Australian Crawl, the song is very similar in structure and melody to the GUNS N ROSES songs, Sweet Child Of Mine - which was recorded and released some 6 years later. Both bands shared the same record label in the early 80's... ruclips.net/video/YA2P-0D2yds/видео.htmlsi=74SyqnGO8Hvn_S3x
Fark, did I have fun with this band and album back in the day.. can still taste the salt after a long surf out in the north shore of Sydney. Such solid musicianship and a singer that just can't be understood. I don't know how Sean Kelly of Models got away with it, because I also struggled with his inflections and pronunciations.
Parta... Where abouts did you surf in NSW North Shore? I was a regular Bondi Beach surfer and competitor.
@@Robbo766 G'day Robbo, I was doing most of my surfing Narrabeen. I was not ever a competitor. Just a casual novice.
What comps did you enter? Any known names you competed against?
competed with*
@@Parta4gfg I entered a lot of comps in the 70's and 80's, and did get to compete with the Oxley boys (Pete and Jeremy, later as band Sunnyboys), and other amateur and semi-pro comps, mostly involving NSW clubs. I was sponsored by Rip Curl in the mid 70's, but an injury prevented me from taking my ''career'' any further. By the early 80's, I was just bumming about and enjoying the sport without the pressure. Even as a youngin, I wasn't too thrilled about being a professional competitor like mates of mine.
The surfing world in Sydney is smaller than most people think. I knew Pete Garrett (Midnight Oil) in the early 70's, and my brother was a mate of Martin Plaza of Mental As Anything, when he was a surfer for a while. I still surf to this day.
@@Robbo766 You competed with the Oxleys? No shit!! I know of their legendary status as surfer boys from Wollongong, I believe. Sounds like you did a lot more than I did in my surfing days. I didn't have a big company sponsor me, but I did win a lot of Rip Curl and Billabong stuff in my days.
I do love good surfing brands and speaking of Mental As Anything, I have a thing for Mambo products. I don't surf these days, but I do swim regularly...
When you get hit, make yourself a hit
''downhearted'' or ''reckless'' for something a little different .. recommended.
Heh heh.
It’s a frivolous song. Don’t take it as indicative of their remaining catalogue.
One of the running jokes about Australian Crawl is you can’t understand what the singer is saying 😂 (…something about rising damp?)
It was okay but only just
They had just enough talent to keep themselves out of being a novelty act -- Downhearted is the best song on that first album.