You’ll notice Jimmy turning around and looking behind him a few times at the end of the video. In an interview he said that when the sugar cane was lit up every living thing in there was trying to get out. Moths, birds, lizards, snakes. Cant blame him i guess. This song came out long before the movie which had the same name as the song in Australia
In the older days cane was fired if the workers were getting too many close encounters with snakes & rats. The fire would clear the wildlife, making it safer to hand-cut the cane. With mechanical harvesters used now it's rare to see a cane fire.
There is a parody version of this song which goes: "Well, he loves the little woman - but please don't tell his wife - or she'll come running after him - with a Wiltshire Staysharp knife!"
The reason the song has an American feel is because it was written by an American.. Jonathan Cain of Journey… the song came about because of a random conversation between the two regarding a “typical Jimmy Barnes fan” the conversation inspired Jonathan to write this song, and gifted it to Jimmy… it wasn’t written for the movie, it was selected to be added to the soundtrack
His best solo song in my opinion. Its hard not to like. I just got back from Nth Qld yesterday, all the canefields were already burnt, and some had already been replanted but not many.
Also, although this is seen as almost a national anthem by many here in Australia, it was written by an American. You can hear it in the references to being mad at Uncle Sam about Vietnam and believing in god and Elvis.
What a treat to see this on today's feature. I watched your reaction twice.. very pleasing to see it. I only work in an office with decent aircon, so it's not too painful for me these days. But in the 80's I was out on the road burning under the sun, which made the song. The song still resonates with me. It was written by Jonathan Cain of Journey.
Jimmy Barnes & Marcia Hines - 'Fire And Rain' (Live - My First Gig)......Stunning Jimmy Barnes & Peter Garrett - 'Locomotive Breath' (Live on My First Gig).....Fun
@@dallasrobertson641 It's great to get confirmation from somebody that met him. I watched the funeral of Greedy Smith on RUclips a few years back and spotted Jimmy Barnes and his wife amongst those paying their respects. He was the only face, asides from the surviving Mentals, that I recognised.
Oh, there was a parody of this. The bridge went something like "Well, he loved a little woman, but please dont tell his wife, or she will take after him with a Wiltshire Stay Sharp knife". Oh, and no, Jimmy doesnt hurt his vocal chords screaming, he sing using his secondary vocal chords. I heard an interview with John Bon Jovi. He talked of a time when Barnsey sung with him, and Bon Jovi was blown away at how loud Jommy songs, and he qiestioned whether he had ever-ready batteries in his voice box!
@@notanotherenigma7759 jimmy had an alternate version of this, so it wasn’t a parody, you can hear it on some live versions… Well he loves the little woman, but you best not tell his wife, or she’s gonna cut his b@lls off now, with a six inch carving knife…
All us Aussies have heard this song 14 million times. I still listen to it occasionally, written by Jonathon Cain of the Babys and also as mentioned below Journey. I would like to request a Babys song "Everytime I think of you" off the Head First Album. It has a tonne of good tracks on this album and I played it constantly through 1980, but this was the hit single off the record that most people know.
Classic Australia Blue Collar worker anthem. Up there with the old Victoria Bitter advertisement. Centers around the hard life of all Blue Collar workers. There was a new age VB advertisement and they tried to make White Collar workers look like they had it hard.... It didn't go down very well and wasn't well received by the masses and was eventually changed back.
8:18 That working class thing is where Jimmy has become legend here in Oz. I think I might have noted it on some other video, but there was an organic rise to demigod status. Jimmy has never written the most compelling of lyrics, but in Cold Chisel they had Don Walker who they heavily relied on for most of their material. Don looked like he could’ve been a lecturer at a university, but he could write some of the most amazing songs that captured life as the Everyman (not sure if blue collar worker translates across all countries, but the store man, factory worker, boilermaker, farmer, etc. should convey it). The problem for him is that he didn’t look like he fitted the part. With Jimmy Barnes and Ian Moss as the vocalists he had the perfect vehicle for his songs. So, with Jimmy singing Don’s songs about struggling with life after Vietnam or coming down after a big night out in Sydney’s red light district or being in jail for rioting, or knocking off a betting store to finance a small piece of land, he already had a great amount of respect from the Aussie populace as a lovable, maybe a bit dangerous, lout. With this song, Working Class Man, he locked that position in as being the ultimate version of the Australian underdog. Tough, fair, with a heart of gold, and probably never going to get more than a meagre piece of the pie.
You are doing Steve Prestwich a great disservice to not mention how good a song writer he was in Cold Chisel in all you wrote there. Don Walker wrote more material but Steve also wrote some of the best songs for Cold Chisel. They all wrote some good songs for Chisel but Don and Steve were brilliant.
@ Nah. Steve wrote some great songs, sure. So did Mossy. Bow River rivals Steve’s stuff. The focus of my comment wasn’t on how great all the songwriting skills of the band members were, but on how Jimmy grew into a working class hero. It’s undeniable that Don’s stuff contributed the lion’s share of that image by a country mile. Over their original career of five studio albums Steve contributed five songs, only three of them being top class (When The War Is Over, Flame Trees and Forever Now). In the same era Mossy contributed four songs, only one of them being top class (Bow River). Don, meanwhile, wrote about thirty of the songs as primary songwriter, of which at least eight or nine are top class (Khe Sanh, Breakfast At Sweethearts, Cheap Wine, Choir Girl, Star Hotel, Four Walls, Saturday Night, Flame Trees (which he co-wrote), and Janelle), and even his second tier stuff is fantastic (Taipan, Wild Colonial Boy, Ghost Town, Stsnding On The Outside, etc). That just shows that it’s as justifiable to leave out Steve in my original comment as it would be to leave out George when talking about the songwriting in The Beatles. Truth of it in songwriting terms, if Steve hadn’t been in Cold Chisel, you’d never hear Flame Trees nor Forever Now. Don’s writing kept the band relevant to the audience and the critics, and Steve was given a platform to contribute through it. Same goes for George in The Beatles. It’s not that I don’t love Steve and George’s songs that really hit the mark, but the truth is that even a blind squirrel can find a nut occasionally. Like I said, the thrust of my comment was to point out how Don’s words laid the foundation for Jimmy to become the icon he is. Others contributed, not least Jimmy in his vocal delivery, his love of soul and blues, and his general demeanour. His persona is exactly why Don wouldn’t have been as successful singing his own songs (proved by his career post Chisels - ok, but largely obscure in terms of general popularity (which can be also proven by asking the average Chisels fan to name three of Don’s songs in his other bands)).
@@sean---the-other-one Hey Sean, Thanks for elaborating your thoughts. I may not agree with some of your ideas here, but I appreciate you have showed how you come to your viewpoint.
@ No sweat. I’m glad you took it in the spirit it was intended as I was sort of rushing my words and thought I might be coming across as doing some sort of slap down which was not my intent. I definitely love some of Steve’s songs, they’re up with the finest stuff that Aussie artists have contributed to our collective culture.
After Mr Haniers pious reaction to Kevin Bloody Wilson "Hey Santa Claus", I was not going to return to reacting to your channel. I can not resist a Jimmy reaction video, so thank you for chilling out and again enjoying Australian culture. Jimmy is our Bruce Springsteen only a hell of a lot more talented than Springsteen.
Took me a loooong time to be able to listen to this, but years of radio play have acclimatised to his singing. I use to just write him off as a screamer, but i dont mind it so much now.
I loved Chisel and some Barnsey solo. But I miss seeing The Angels on here. I just listened to a podcast interview with John Brewster and he was talking about a classic Angels song called ''Shadow Boxer''. Apparently, it was about a bloke punching a stop sign out in Kings Cross, Sydney. I'd love to see ''Shadow Boxer'' by The Angels. It's the season for it! 👼🤟
From the news reports we get here of the bad snowstorms happening in England and Northern America it looks so cold and severe. So awful the weather. I hope the Plastic you put on the windows is enough to keep you guys warm. Anyway, if you listen to "Australian Heat" by "Dave Warner in the Suburbs" it could make you warmer and you can have a little chuckle as well.
Jimmy is, and will always be my number 1. ❤❤❤❤ I need my fix, listening to him everyday. He has written 4 autobiographies, the first of which is Working Class Boy (a play on this hit of his), then Working Class Man. The third instalment is Killing Time (a Cold Chisel song) and the latest book, Highways and Byways. I wonder if you’ve read them……He did not have the easiest of childhoods. He grew up in a home surrounded by alcoholism and violence and the children often did not get food. Jimmy used to escape the violence and sneak back in a window when the house was quiet. His mother nearly had the children removed after the parents split up, and then a kind man, Reg Barnes (whom Jimmy took his last name) married his mother. He was good to the kids. All the kids changed their last name from Swan, to Barnes except Jimmy’s brother Swanee (who has also had hit songs both solo and with a group called The Party Boys that had revolving members, even including Shirley from Skyhooks). When he was around 17 he joined Chisel and became a group of Brothers. They moved out to the sticks and Jimmy spoke about never wanting to be left there alone, and if the others went out in the car he wanted to go to. Jimmy’s solo career and that with Chisel has left an imprint on my heart and my soul. Sure he can belt them out when he wants, and sing without grit when he wants, sing the blues or soul, or country (Back Bess with Kasey Chambers) or any song at the Andy Memorial Concert in 1980. Andy had been the band The Stars and like Don Walker, Michael Hutchence, or Dan Kelly, who are fabulous song writers, Andy made a lot of fantastic music. Andy passed away at 24 or 25 from Melanoma, and the lineup of Aussie Stars who performed at his funeral showed how valuable he was to our music industry. Jimmy Barnes was there, along with Broderick Smoth RIP, Renee Geyer, Don Walker, Richard Clapton, Mick Pearling (lead singer of the Stars), Ian Moss, Billy Rogers, Mal Eastick, Don Walker, Glyn Mason, Glyn Dowling and others. I was just listening to the whole concert again this morning for the umpteenth time. The whole concert is on Casey Coopers You Tube Page. Laneway music You Tube page has individual songs. Check out Mighty Rock at 1 hour 16.43 seconds on the whole concert, Wasted Words at 59.14 with Mick Pearling, Renee Geyer and Jimmy, Red Neck Boogie at 1.08.03 to name a few. Oh, and Knocking on Heavens door cover is sublime any day of the week. PS Comedian Adam Hill does a skit using this song to sing our National Australian anthem which is hilarious, and seriously good.
I would love to hear you guys react to "Electric Slim and the Factory Hen" by T.Rex. I love your reactions. Very few songs I don't like. Jimmy Barns voice is so powerful in a gravelly way.
lol@the latest trend on this channel. Is this the month of the Haniers reacting to the Triple M playlist of 1983 to 1989? Kate Ceberano, Eurogliders, Australian Crawl and this over-the-top fist in the air screamer for the working class man with a heart of gold! HA, HA, HA In spite of loving Chisel, it'd be nice to get into some 1990's Hoodoo Gurus with 'Miss Free love '69'... I loved the song in the early 90's and still enjoy it today... Sooooo 😚 Let's see Dave Faulkner and the boys rock it out!
Sorry I don't tend to read descriptions before as it's the band I like I watch so I know what to expect . Sometimes read after to see what you think about band or why you reacted😊
Just for visual reference, up in Queensland (think size of Texas but weather of Florida to get a vague idea of the geography, climate, and culture) there’s a lot of sugar cane plantations. As part of the harvest cycle they burn the crop. Don’t ask me why, I just know they do it. So you’ve got a hot, humid farmland (they use concrete roads as asphalt melts in a lot of the areas) and the workers have to deal with blazing fires like this.
8:04 Yeah, legend has it that he’d be numbing his throat before gigs with nose candy and a bottle of liquor. I have no idea if it’s true, but listening to his performances you’d be forgiven for believing the rumours.
I also requested this song. Why wasn't my name read out? Anyway, thank you for this and let me just say that the viewership on this video should be going up as fast as a freight train.
The reason I have a problem with this is that it was just a naked attempt to break into the American market, the Bruce Springsteen/John Mellencamp market, and it felt somewhat disingenuous. I guess your info about the film explains that. As far as I remember, Jimmy had signed with Geffen records in the USA and they teamed him up with Jonathon Cain from Journey to smooth off his rough edges. This resulted in an album, this being the title song, with some new songs and some remixes from Jimmy's debut Australian album, Bodyswerve, which I bought as an import mini-album in the UK. There was another album, Fright Train Heart, which was very good, but didn't shift the required numbers stateside, and I think the American experiment ended there.
The song came about through a casual chat between Jimmy and Jonathan Cain of Journey, discussing a typical Jimmy fan… a few weeks later, Jonathan sent Jimmy this song, based upon his interpretation of a typical Jimmy Barnes fan… the song was not written for the movie, it was selected to be added…
Working class man wasn't the title song of the album - the title song & 1st single was - I's Die to be with you tonight. For the American market the album wasn't titled "For The Working Class Man (as it had been in Australia) it was Jimmy Barnes - it had an altered track listing & different cover artwork.
As an Aussie I couldn't care less how disappointed you are... You don't even know that Jimmy's brother-in-law, Diesel, was born in Massachusetts and that Jimmy's collaborations included Sam Moore, Brian Setzer and heaps of others... you think Jimmy Barnes' walks through life untraveled and incapable of mixing with Americans? lol Monk.. Not wrong about that
An attempt at trolling. Much like others that drop a one liner and never come back to reply. A real mad Jimmy fan would know he happily worked with Americans through out his career.
I am about to make myself very, very unpopular. Chisel were unique; there’s nothing unique about this. Chisel’s charm lay in the songwriting of Don Walker but Walker refused to work with Barnes after the band broke up. Kind of makes that line “Life’s too short for burning bridges” ring kind of hollow. So Barnes turned to Jonathan Cain from Journey. Cain now performs at Trump rallies. The reason this sounds like an American song is that it is an American song. A reject from Journey. I expect that my apartment block will be surrounded by rioters with flaming torches overnight.
@@delorangeade I am not apolitical nor am I partisan. I have worked as a union rep and as a lawyer for three decades, and I have close friends in America which includes relatives. I have had a career where I had to analyse hard facts and maintain objectivity; the corollary being I don't need Fox nor Sky to tell me that the current administration holds four years of atrocities. Not everybody that supports Trump is stupid nor misinformed, but a lot of stupid people supported the current administration. Cheers, Hayley
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 I think the Biden administration is indefensible for several reasons, but I'm not convinced that cheering for cheap slogans and nationalistic flag waving in the hope of more gruel tomorrow is really the answer to anyone's prayers. That much holds true, whatever country you happen to live in. The rest of the world has to live with whatever America decides, and when that happens to be democratically electing a petulant, vindictive and corrupt demagogue to one of the most powerful offices in the world, I don't think anyone should sleep easily.
I much prefer the many great Cold Chisel songs that Jimmy sang .. But he had a handful of good early solo songs such as this, where he still had enough of his vocal abilities to make them work .. However, the longer his solo career went on, it felt like he was no longer singing at all any more, but just shouting and screaming .. Hardcore fans still seemed to love him, but he lost me.
Seems you have no idea about the technical side of singing if you think Jimmy just screams & yells - huge difference between screaming & belting. Look it up & you may regain an appreciation for Jimmy's incredible ability
@@stanroach2842 There have been plenty of performances, solo and with Chisel, where he sounded grating. Gregorian chanting is also technical, and can be just as grating. I'm sure Wayne knows what he's talking about.
@stanroach2842 I know what my ears tell me .. NOT what someone tells me is technically happening .. And to my ears ( and many others agree ), it sounds like screaming and yelling .. NOT singing .. But thanks for your input.
Jimmy Cougar Bon Springsteen - it’s actually quite a good song but I cannot stand this guys tortured voice , it’s unbearable to my uncultured ears 🤷♂️ 👍🏴
Yeah. Some of his solo studio stuff was ok vocally, around his Freight Train Heart album, but he really had a sweet spot vocally around the third and fourth Cold Chisel album. His voice was seasoned and soulful around then and hadn’t ’blown out’. He’s still been wowing people live in the last decade or so but I feel it’s a bit of The Emperor’s New Clothes. He’s so iconic that few people are willing to accede that his voice has been thin and soulless for most of his public career, especially his solo career. One song I liked in his solo career aside from the FTH album was a version of The Band’s song The Weight which he did in collaboration with a Melbourne band called The Badloves. They’re a soulful blues-rock outfit and it was a pretty good contrast between the lead vocals.
@ always good to get a better view from folk in the know like yerself Sean - you’ve just described Rod Stewart’s career , in The Faces and his early solo stuff his voice was peerless , a proper virtuoso thing of beauty - but last 30 odd years has been nothing short of embarrassing for the mans voice and he’s trading off memories n goodwill these days 🤷♂️ 👍🏴
@ Yeah, Rod’s seen better days vocally. I remember even 30 odd years ago he’d get the audience to sing his higher pitched melodies because he’d wrecked his voice. That being said, I loved his version of People Get Ready with Jeff Beck.
@ yeah that’s the dead giveaway of ageing rockers who can’t do it anymore , holding the mic 🎤 out to the audience for notes now out of reach or even just because they no longer have the puff to do it 😆 I seen Simple Minds in concert on tv recently and that’s EXACTLY what Jim Kerr was doing 🙄.. I don’t go to gigs to hear what the front 3 rows sound like singing my fav songs 🤦♂️ 👍🏴
@ Agreed. If you can’t do it anymore then just leave the legend intact. I’ve never seen Chisels live except their amazing concert/documentary Last Stand (well worth a watch). They broke up during their fifth album and did that tour as a last hurrah. They got back together and toured numerous times decades later but I avoided seeing them because there was no way they could top that stuff and chances were that Jimmy’s vocal degradation would’ve disappointed me. It was the same with Midnight Oil. One of the most powerful pub rock bands there’s ever been, I saw them multiple times, but the last time was about 20 years ago and they were past their use-by date. I still remember them the way they were, but there was no way I was going to watch them on their recent tour. There’s no way they could measure up to their younger selves.
The reason the song has an American feel is because it was written by an American.. Jonathan Cain of Journey… the song came about because of a random conversation between the two regarding a “typical Jimmy Barnes fan” the conversation inspired Jonathan to write this song, and gifted it to Jimmy… it wasn’t written for the movie, it was selected to be added to the soundtrack
You’ll notice Jimmy turning around and looking behind him a few times at the end of the video. In an interview he said that when the sugar cane was lit up every living thing in there was trying to get out. Moths, birds, lizards, snakes. Cant blame him i guess. This song came out long before the movie which had the same name as the song in Australia
In the older days cane was fired if the workers were getting too many close encounters with snakes & rats. The fire would clear the wildlife, making it safer to hand-cut the cane. With mechanical harvesters used now it's rare to see a cane fire.
Aussie here guys…. Just stumbled in your channel. Your taste in Australian music is phenomenal. You are selecting all the greats
There is a parody version of this song which goes: "Well, he loves the little woman - but please don't tell his wife - or she'll come running after him - with a Wiltshire Staysharp knife!"
Doesn’t he change it to 6 inch carving knife life?
He says but best not tell his wife otherwise she will cut his balls off now with a 6 inch carving knife
I’m a registered nurse from Australia..
I’m can tell you working 12hrs on morning shift there is nothing worse than trying to sleep in the heat
Walk On, from the great Freight Train Heart album.. so good, even live..
The reason the song has an American feel is because it was written by an American.. Jonathan Cain of Journey… the song came about because of a random conversation between the two regarding a “typical Jimmy Barnes fan” the conversation inspired Jonathan to write this song, and gifted it to Jimmy… it wasn’t written for the movie, it was selected to be added to the soundtrack
Yep, spot on 👍
His best solo song in my opinion. Its hard not to like. I just got back from Nth Qld yesterday, all the canefields were already burnt, and some had already been replanted but not many.
lol.. if you grew up in Australia, this was ingrained into your head
Also, although this is seen as almost a national anthem by many here in Australia, it was written by an American.
You can hear it in the references to being mad at Uncle Sam about Vietnam and believing in god and Elvis.
Decent Jimmy Barnes song (and video too). Great informative reaction as well. Thanks C & C.😊
What a treat to see this on today's feature. I watched your reaction twice.. very pleasing to see it. I only work in an office with decent aircon, so it's not too painful for me these days. But in the 80's I was out on the road burning under the sun, which made the song. The song still resonates with me. It was written by Jonathan Cain of Journey.
Jimmy Barnes & Marcia Hines - 'Fire And Rain' (Live - My First Gig)......Stunning
Jimmy Barnes & Peter Garrett - 'Locomotive Breath' (Live on My First Gig).....Fun
Very nice 🏴✌️
Barnsey's an alright guy. Always liked him as hardworking, good-honest bloke.
I’m cabin crew and have had him onboard my flights, and I can tell you he’s as nice a guy as they come. His wife too. A beautiful, kind man.
@@dallasrobertson641 It's great to get confirmation from somebody that met him. I watched the funeral of Greedy Smith on RUclips a few years back and spotted Jimmy Barnes and his wife amongst those paying their respects. He was the only face, asides from the surviving Mentals, that I recognised.
Oh, there was a parody of this. The bridge went something like "Well, he loved a little woman, but please dont tell his wife, or she will take after him with a Wiltshire Stay Sharp knife".
Oh, and no, Jimmy doesnt hurt his vocal chords screaming, he sing using his secondary vocal chords. I heard an interview with John Bon Jovi. He talked of a time when Barnsey sung with him, and Bon Jovi was blown away at how loud Jommy songs, and he qiestioned whether he had ever-ready batteries in his voice box!
@@notanotherenigma7759 jimmy had an alternate version of this, so it wasn’t a parody, you can hear it on some live versions…
Well he loves the little woman, but you best not tell his wife, or she’s gonna cut his b@lls off now, with a six inch carving knife…
All us Aussies have heard this song 14 million times. I still listen to it occasionally, written by Jonathon Cain of the Babys and also as mentioned below Journey.
I would like to request a Babys song "Everytime I think of you" off the Head First Album. It has a tonne of good tracks on this album and I played it constantly through 1980, but this was the hit single off the record that most people know.
Classic Australia Blue Collar worker anthem.
Up there with the old Victoria Bitter advertisement. Centers around the hard life of all Blue Collar workers.
There was a new age VB advertisement and they tried to make White Collar workers look like they had it hard.... It didn't go down very well and wasn't well received by the masses and was eventually changed back.
8:18
That working class thing is where Jimmy has become legend here in Oz.
I think I might have noted it on some other video, but there was an organic rise to demigod status.
Jimmy has never written the most compelling of lyrics, but in Cold Chisel they had Don Walker who they heavily relied on for most of their material.
Don looked like he could’ve been a lecturer at a university, but he could write some of the most amazing songs that captured life as the Everyman (not sure if blue collar worker translates across all countries, but the store man, factory worker, boilermaker, farmer, etc. should convey it). The problem for him is that he didn’t look like he fitted the part.
With Jimmy Barnes and Ian Moss as the vocalists he had the perfect vehicle for his songs.
So, with Jimmy singing Don’s songs about struggling with life after Vietnam or coming down after a big night out in Sydney’s red light district or being in jail for rioting, or knocking off a betting store to finance a small piece of land, he already had a great amount of respect from the Aussie populace as a lovable, maybe a bit dangerous, lout.
With this song, Working Class Man, he locked that position in as being the ultimate version of the Australian underdog. Tough, fair, with a heart of gold, and probably never going to get more than a meagre piece of the pie.
You are doing Steve Prestwich a great disservice to not mention how good a song writer he was in Cold Chisel in all you wrote there. Don Walker wrote more material but Steve also wrote some of the best songs for Cold Chisel. They all wrote some good songs for Chisel but Don and Steve were brilliant.
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Nah. Steve wrote some great songs, sure.
So did Mossy. Bow River rivals Steve’s stuff.
The focus of my comment wasn’t on how great all the songwriting skills of the band members were, but on how Jimmy grew into a working class hero. It’s undeniable that Don’s stuff contributed the lion’s share of that image by a country mile.
Over their original career of five studio albums Steve contributed five songs, only three of them being top class (When The War Is Over, Flame Trees and Forever Now).
In the same era Mossy contributed four songs, only one of them being top class (Bow River).
Don, meanwhile, wrote about thirty of the songs as primary songwriter, of which at least eight or nine are top class (Khe Sanh, Breakfast At Sweethearts, Cheap Wine, Choir Girl, Star Hotel, Four Walls, Saturday Night, Flame Trees (which he co-wrote), and Janelle), and even his second tier stuff is fantastic (Taipan, Wild Colonial Boy, Ghost Town, Stsnding On The Outside, etc).
That just shows that it’s as justifiable to leave out Steve in my original comment as it would be to leave out George when talking about the songwriting in The Beatles.
Truth of it in songwriting terms, if Steve hadn’t been in Cold Chisel, you’d never hear Flame Trees nor Forever Now. Don’s writing kept the band relevant to the audience and the critics, and Steve was given a platform to contribute through it.
Same goes for George in The Beatles.
It’s not that I don’t love Steve and George’s songs that really hit the mark, but the truth is that even a blind squirrel can find a nut occasionally.
Like I said, the thrust of my comment was to point out how Don’s words laid the foundation for Jimmy to become the icon he is. Others contributed, not least Jimmy in his vocal delivery, his love of soul and blues, and his general demeanour. His persona is exactly why Don wouldn’t have been as successful singing his own songs (proved by his career post Chisels - ok, but largely obscure in terms of general popularity (which can be also proven by asking the average Chisels fan to name three of Don’s songs in his other bands)).
@@sean---the-other-one Hey Sean, Thanks for elaborating your thoughts. I may not agree with some of your ideas here, but I appreciate you have showed how you come to your viewpoint.
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No sweat.
I’m glad you took it in the spirit it was intended as I was sort of rushing my words and thought I might be coming across as doing some sort of slap down which was not my intent.
I definitely love some of Steve’s songs, they’re up with the finest stuff that Aussie artists have contributed to our collective culture.
I think, from memory, it was co=written by Jonathon Cain of the Babys and Journey, hence the American posture.
After Mr Haniers pious reaction to Kevin Bloody Wilson "Hey Santa Claus", I was not going to return to reacting to your channel. I can not resist a Jimmy reaction video, so thank you for chilling out and again enjoying Australian culture. Jimmy is our Bruce Springsteen only a hell of a lot more talented than Springsteen.
Did he crack it?
Took me a loooong time to be able to listen to this, but years of radio play have acclimatised to his singing. I use to just write him off as a screamer, but i dont mind it so much now.
I loved Chisel and some Barnsey solo. But I miss seeing The Angels on here. I just listened to a podcast interview with John Brewster and he was talking about a classic Angels song called ''Shadow Boxer''. Apparently, it was about a bloke punching a stop sign out in Kings Cross, Sydney. I'd love to see ''Shadow Boxer'' by The Angels. It's the season for it! 👼🤟
''Shadowboxer'' is a ripper! Wish I thought of it! Be great to see the Haniers do that classic tune!
Great suggestion..👍
@@wino5086 Thanx mate.. You should suggest it too. It'll get the Haniers attention.
@@brettfrench6121 Hey, why not make the suggestion too! Let the Haniers know you want it too! 👍
@@demolitiongirl-ie2rx Okay .. Haniers, play ''Shadow Boxer'' by The Angels!
From the news reports we get here of the bad snowstorms happening in England and Northern America it looks so cold and severe. So awful the weather.
I hope the Plastic you put on the windows is enough to keep you guys warm.
Anyway, if you listen to "Australian Heat" by "Dave Warner in the Suburbs" it could make you warmer and you can have a little chuckle as well.
Another great jimmy barnes song is die to be with you tonight
Love your channel Aussie jack
Jimmy is, and will always be my number 1. ❤❤❤❤ I need my fix, listening to him everyday. He has written 4 autobiographies, the first of which is Working Class Boy (a play on this hit of his), then Working Class Man. The third instalment is Killing Time (a Cold Chisel song) and the latest book, Highways and Byways. I wonder if you’ve read them……He did not have the easiest of childhoods. He grew up in a home surrounded by alcoholism and violence and the children often did not get food. Jimmy used to escape the violence and sneak back in a window when the house was quiet. His mother nearly had the children removed after the parents split up, and then a kind man, Reg Barnes (whom Jimmy took his last name) married his mother. He was good to the kids. All the kids changed their last name from Swan, to Barnes except Jimmy’s brother Swanee (who has also had hit songs both solo and with a group called The Party Boys that had revolving members, even including Shirley from Skyhooks). When he was around 17 he joined Chisel and became a group of Brothers. They moved out to the sticks and Jimmy spoke about never wanting to be left there alone, and if the others went out in the car he wanted to go to.
Jimmy’s solo career and that with Chisel has left an imprint on my heart and my soul. Sure he can belt them out when he wants, and sing without grit when he wants, sing the blues or soul, or country (Back Bess with Kasey Chambers) or any song at the Andy Memorial Concert in 1980. Andy had been the band The Stars and like Don Walker, Michael Hutchence, or Dan Kelly, who are fabulous song writers, Andy made a lot of fantastic music. Andy passed away at 24 or 25 from Melanoma, and the lineup of Aussie Stars who performed at his funeral showed how valuable he was to our music industry. Jimmy Barnes was there, along with Broderick Smoth RIP, Renee Geyer, Don Walker, Richard Clapton, Mick Pearling (lead singer of the Stars), Ian Moss, Billy Rogers, Mal Eastick, Don Walker, Glyn Mason, Glyn Dowling and others. I was just listening to the whole concert again this morning for the umpteenth time. The whole concert is on Casey Coopers You Tube Page. Laneway music You Tube page has individual songs. Check out Mighty Rock at 1 hour 16.43 seconds on the whole concert, Wasted Words at 59.14 with Mick Pearling, Renee Geyer and Jimmy, Red Neck Boogie at 1.08.03 to name a few. Oh, and Knocking on Heavens door cover is sublime any day of the week.
PS Comedian Adam Hill does a skit using this song to sing our National Australian anthem which is hilarious, and seriously good.
I would love to hear you guys react to "Electric Slim and the Factory Hen" by T.Rex. I love your reactions. Very few songs I don't like. Jimmy Barns voice is so powerful in a gravelly way.
lol@the latest trend on this channel. Is this the month of the Haniers reacting to the Triple M playlist of 1983 to 1989? Kate Ceberano, Eurogliders, Australian Crawl and this over-the-top fist in the air screamer for the working class man with a heart of gold! HA, HA, HA
In spite of loving Chisel, it'd be nice to get into some 1990's Hoodoo Gurus with 'Miss Free love '69'... I loved the song in the early 90's and still enjoy it today... Sooooo 😚
Let's see Dave Faulkner and the boys rock it out!
As Chris said a track done in the style, Bruce Springsteen, John Cougar, et al.
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Sorry I don't tend to read descriptions before as it's the band I like I watch so I know what to expect . Sometimes read after to see what you think about band or why you reacted😊
Just for visual reference, up in Queensland (think size of Texas but weather of Florida to get a vague idea of the geography, climate, and culture) there’s a lot of sugar cane plantations. As part of the harvest cycle they burn the crop. Don’t ask me why, I just know they do it.
So you’ve got a hot, humid farmland (they use concrete roads as asphalt melts in a lot of the areas) and the workers have to deal with blazing fires like this.
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Yeah, legend has it that he’d be numbing his throat before gigs with nose candy and a bottle of liquor.
I have no idea if it’s true, but listening to his performances you’d be forgiven for believing the rumours.
I also requested this song. Why wasn't my name read out? Anyway, thank you for this and let me just say that the viewership on this video should be going up as fast as a freight train.
Damnit! We were both wondering why we were sure there was someone else who wanted it. Sorry we missed you. The list fails us more and more these days.
@@hanierfamily Ah, not to worry! Just happy to see the song on here. I might request an old Cold Chisel song in a couple of weeks time.
The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm an Adult now?
I think they are a US band
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@@LauraGreen-c5j just teasing 😉
We know that one very well.
The reason I have a problem with this is that it was just a naked attempt to break into the American market, the Bruce Springsteen/John Mellencamp market, and it felt somewhat disingenuous. I guess your info about the film explains that. As far as I remember, Jimmy had signed with Geffen records in the USA and they teamed him up with Jonathon Cain from Journey to smooth off his rough edges. This resulted in an album, this being the title song, with some new songs and some remixes from Jimmy's debut Australian album, Bodyswerve, which I bought as an import mini-album in the UK. There was another album, Fright Train Heart, which was very good, but didn't shift the required numbers stateside, and I think the American experiment ended there.
The song came about through a casual chat between Jimmy and Jonathan Cain of Journey, discussing a typical Jimmy fan… a few weeks later, Jonathan sent Jimmy this song, based upon his interpretation of a typical Jimmy Barnes fan… the song was not written for the movie, it was selected to be added…
Working class man wasn't the title song of the album - the title song & 1st single was - I's Die to be with you tonight.
For the American market the album wasn't titled "For The Working Class Man (as it had been in Australia) it was Jimmy Barnes - it had an altered track listing & different cover artwork.
Monk mentioned ‘filthy seppo’s’.. can any of the Aussie contingent translate that slang for me please ? 🙏
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Seppo = septic tank = yank (american)
@ ‘filthy yanks ‘? .. 🤷♂️ jeez what’s wrong with that guy ?
Anyway , thanks very much for that , appreciated 🙏
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As an Aussie and a mad Jimmy fan I'm disappointed this has anything to do with filthy Seppos
As an Aussie I couldn't care less how disappointed you are... You don't even know that Jimmy's brother-in-law, Diesel, was born in Massachusetts and that Jimmy's collaborations included Sam Moore, Brian Setzer and heaps of others... you think Jimmy Barnes' walks through life untraveled and incapable of mixing with Americans? lol
Monk.. Not wrong about that
An attempt at trolling. Much like others that drop a one liner and never come back to reply. A real mad Jimmy fan would know he happily worked with Americans through out his career.
I am about to make myself very, very unpopular. Chisel were unique; there’s nothing unique about this.
Chisel’s charm lay in the songwriting of Don Walker but Walker refused to work with Barnes after the band broke up. Kind of makes that line “Life’s too short for burning bridges” ring kind of hollow.
So Barnes turned to Jonathan Cain from Journey. Cain now performs at Trump rallies. The reason this sounds like an American song is that it is an American song. A reject from Journey.
I expect that my apartment block will be surrounded by rioters with flaming torches overnight.
Nah we will just throw empty VB stubbies at ya. LOL
You are spot on 💯
The song does sound like an anthem for Trump supporters, which is one of the things I don't like about it.
@@delorangeade I am not apolitical nor am I partisan. I have worked as a union rep and as a lawyer for three decades, and I have close friends in America which includes relatives. I have had a career where I had to analyse hard facts and maintain objectivity; the corollary being I don't need Fox nor Sky to tell me that the current administration holds four years of atrocities.
Not everybody that supports Trump is stupid nor misinformed, but a lot of stupid people supported the current administration.
Cheers,
Hayley
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 I think the Biden administration is indefensible for several reasons, but I'm not convinced that cheering for cheap slogans and nationalistic flag waving in the hope of more gruel tomorrow is really the answer to anyone's prayers. That much holds true, whatever country you happen to live in. The rest of the world has to live with whatever America decides, and when that happens to be democratically electing a petulant, vindictive and corrupt demagogue to one of the most powerful offices in the world, I don't think anyone should sleep easily.
I much prefer the many great Cold Chisel songs that Jimmy sang .. But he had a handful of good early solo songs such as this, where he still had enough of his vocal abilities to make them work .. However, the longer his solo career went on, it felt like he was no longer singing at all any more, but just shouting and screaming .. Hardcore fans still seemed to love him, but he lost me.
couldn't have said it better myself 😃
@@kaitlynbatt_ Ah well, you know what they say about great minds, Kaitlyn ! 😉
Seems you have no idea about the technical side of singing if you think Jimmy just screams & yells - huge difference between screaming & belting.
Look it up & you may regain an appreciation for Jimmy's incredible ability
@@stanroach2842 There have been plenty of performances, solo and with Chisel, where he sounded grating. Gregorian chanting is also technical, and can be just as grating. I'm sure Wayne knows what he's talking about.
@stanroach2842 I know what my ears tell me .. NOT what someone tells me is technically happening .. And to my ears ( and many others agree ), it sounds like screaming and yelling .. NOT singing .. But thanks for your input.
It was also the title of a pretty awful Michael Keaton movie back in 1986 I think ?
WTF am I doing here?!?!? 😅
Jimmy Cougar Bon Springsteen - it’s actually quite a good song but I cannot stand this guys tortured voice , it’s unbearable to my uncultured ears 🤷♂️
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Yeah.
Some of his solo studio stuff was ok vocally, around his Freight Train Heart album, but he really had a sweet spot vocally around the third and fourth Cold Chisel album. His voice was seasoned and soulful around then and hadn’t ’blown out’.
He’s still been wowing people live in the last decade or so but I feel it’s a bit of The Emperor’s New Clothes. He’s so iconic that few people are willing to accede that his voice has been thin and soulless for most of his public career, especially his solo career.
One song I liked in his solo career aside from the FTH album was a version of The Band’s song The Weight which he did in collaboration with a Melbourne band called The Badloves. They’re a soulful blues-rock outfit and it was a pretty good contrast between the lead vocals.
@ always good to get a better view from folk in the know like yerself Sean - you’ve just described Rod Stewart’s career , in The Faces and his early solo stuff his voice was peerless , a proper virtuoso thing of beauty - but last 30 odd years has been nothing short of embarrassing for the mans voice and he’s trading off memories n goodwill these days 🤷♂️
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Yeah, Rod’s seen better days vocally.
I remember even 30 odd years ago he’d get the audience to sing his higher pitched melodies because he’d wrecked his voice.
That being said, I loved his version of People Get Ready with Jeff Beck.
@ yeah that’s the dead giveaway of ageing rockers who can’t do it anymore , holding the mic 🎤 out to the audience for notes now out of reach or even just because they no longer have the puff to do it 😆
I seen Simple Minds in concert on tv recently and that’s EXACTLY what Jim Kerr was doing 🙄.. I don’t go to gigs to hear what the front 3 rows sound like singing my fav songs 🤦♂️
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Agreed.
If you can’t do it anymore then just leave the legend intact.
I’ve never seen Chisels live except their amazing concert/documentary Last Stand (well worth a watch).
They broke up during their fifth album and did that tour as a last hurrah.
They got back together and toured numerous times decades later but I avoided seeing them because there was no way they could top that stuff and chances were that Jimmy’s vocal degradation would’ve disappointed me.
It was the same with Midnight Oil. One of the most powerful pub rock bands there’s ever been, I saw them multiple times, but the last time was about 20 years ago and they were past their use-by date.
I still remember them the way they were, but there was no way I was going to watch them on their recent tour. There’s no way they could measure up to their younger selves.
The reason the song has an American feel is because it was written by an American.. Jonathan Cain of Journey… the song came about because of a random conversation between the two regarding a “typical Jimmy Barnes fan” the conversation inspired Jonathan to write this song, and gifted it to Jimmy… it wasn’t written for the movie, it was selected to be added to the soundtrack