If we had the internet back in the 70s-80s I think that Split Enz would have been as prominent around the world as they were in Australasia at the time...a phenomenal group of musicians and the penmanship of Neil Finn really is second to none!...I will make this same comment on every Split Enz song I come across so don't @ me! lol
Yeah, I heard this song via MTV back in the early '80s and became a fan and then a fan of Crowded House, whom I got to see in Daytona Beach during Spring Break in a bit of a storm.Brilliant!
This song is a textbook lesson in restraint on the drums. Eight cymbal crashes in total!! Eight. Not twenty. Eight. The offbeat accents on the hi-hat are brilliant, too. The groove is incredible. I always cite this perfect song as a "less is more" example. Malcolm Green is, and will always be, one of my favorite drummers in one of my favorite bands ever!
@@gmansiThere’s another song that I have loved called Iris, I guess they never made a music video of it. I really enjoy listening to this because it takes me back to my early 20’s which I miss dearly lol
In the 80s in NZ we had a lotbof great home grown music rhat was great....add the aussie bands and it was more than enough great sounds for a teenager in Welly.
One pharmaceutically-enhanced night in 1981 (after an evening’s gainful employment in a lounge), I discovered these guys, and the Police, within a few minutes of each other on Casey Kasem’s “America’s Top 10:” All of a sudden, I loved Rock ’n’ Roll again. (I hadn’t been this blown away by the sound of a band’s instruments since “H. P. Lovecraft II,” fifteen years earlier.) A cut from one of my personal “Ten Greatest Rock Band” LP’s.
@@CJArnold-hq3ey Not sure I got that, but you are correct, "America's Top 10" was a syndicated weekly video counterpart to Kasem's syndicated weekly radio show, "America's Top 40." I hope this helps to increase your understanding of the period.
I was a kid in the 80's.....listening to Split Enz...my brother bought the True Colours album and cassette, so we would sit in the backyard in the middle of b*mf*ck Canada (left coast - Pacific) and listen to the album / cassette all summer long..... in a shitty pup tent....Thanks Neil, Tim, Noel, Nigel, Malcolm and others I can't remember..... and thank you so much evolving into Crowded House......but that's another chapter..... we got Waiata too plus, I visited Te Awamutu...city of roses..
I was 10. I just knew I wanted to listen. Superior musicians producing quality sounds. The birth of F.M radio and the Brothers Finn and their mates in this kick ass band making freaky new sound with fucking beautiful harmony It captures a listener, compelled almost😂👌to listen.drawn into it.
An easy number 1 if re-released. Why hasn't anyone done this considering the dearth of good music for the last 20 years. No wonder the kids are listening to old music now. I feel so sorry for them.
This past weekend, I was at the "Back to the 80's Cafe" in Las Vegas, Nevada. They played this video, but I couldn't find who it was. It was one of the videos played in the first two hours of MTV. Great stuff by a fantastic band! (and good food at a fun place!)
Interesting I never heard of this considering it's strong song structure. Thinking this is a free flowing jam session makeover waiting to happen. At 1.125x speed it's obvious it could've been catchy especially with the embracing creative production treatment similar to like Michael Jackson got during the same time period. I don't know though; easier to say than do and glad to stumble across this!
Stop! I confess, sometimes, I don't know where I'm going, part of me stays with you, I'm slowing down, what can I do, it's hard to stay one step ahead of you...
I always thought Split Enz had a Beatles influence to their music. It was like The Beatles if they were a new wave act in the latter 1970s/early 1980s....
I LOVE this song, but i just used it in a mini thesis to a friend about fu@$k boys, lol. I was explaining how beautiful boys can grab your soul, because the Finn boys had that quality, back in the day.🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Day 6998. 2 x 3499. Raw honey and a few grapes and a bit of apple and all of my urine til 1.00pm then dried figs and black grapes and apple and iceberg lettuce and more urine. No change.
Can someone from the band please fix that audio on this video? The audio quality is terrible compared to the album/cd version of the song... Great song though. I came to listen and was so disappointed by the sound quality i had to go listen elsewhere...
Sounds to me to be running a fraction too fast, it's made the pitch shift up a semi-tone from the original key, and it also makes Neil's vocals sound fractionally chipmunk like. For an official video the band deserve much better than this, whoever posted it for them I think they cocked it up. Listen to any live version of Neil Finn's, or Crowded House (or fans channels who've posted the same promo, and done a better job) the song should sound in the key of G, not Ab.
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Split Enz were always "one step ahead" with their music.
More than one
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Great comment.
UB DUB DUB!!!!!
@@BrianScottHarris ?
Split Enz you are still one of my very fave ever bands! Pleeeease reform and tour Australia in 2024!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰
I saw them on their farewell tour in 2005 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, they were awesome.
One of New Zealand's greatest exports. Musical creative genius.
Once upon a time, MTV used to play gems like this. This song takes me back. Great song…definitely ahead of its time.
I used to tune in and watch all day in hopes of seeing Split Enz clips, circa 81-83.
So lucky to have been young and inexperienced during the 80's. The sound track was synthesized and phenomenal.
One of the best pop songs ever❤ Split Enz always and forever
It even sounds better live !
Split Enz will be much bigger in 100 years than they are now. Bet on it.
Too bad I won’t be around to collect.
If we had the internet back in the 70s-80s I think that Split Enz would have been as prominent around the world as they were in Australasia at the time...a phenomenal group of musicians and the penmanship of Neil Finn really is second to none!...I will make this same comment on every Split Enz song I come across so don't @ me! lol
@jfly7862 "I will make this same comment on every Split Enz song I come across so don't @ me! lol" OK ! 🤣
@@gmansi well he's not wrong
@@arthurdent1097 Clearly
Yeah, I heard this song via MTV back in the early '80s and became a fan and then a fan of Crowded House, whom I got to see in Daytona Beach during Spring Break in a bit of a storm.Brilliant!
This song is a textbook lesson in restraint on the drums.
Eight cymbal crashes in total!! Eight. Not twenty. Eight.
The offbeat accents on the hi-hat are brilliant, too.
The groove is incredible.
I always cite this perfect song as a "less is more" example.
Malcolm Green is, and will always be, one of my favorite drummers in one of my favorite bands ever!
I love Split Enz and this song in particular. It has a slight haunting sound to it, in a good way of course !
Wow memories, great song, takes me back in time - summer, I was 14 when this song came out and high school. Split Enz were ahead of their time.
Split Enz were such Surrealistic Band ahead of their time and space. 😊👍 so sorely missed.
Incredible pop song! This should be getting tons of airplay on local 80's stations.
I Got You, Six Months in a Leaky Boat and a lot more!
@@gmansiThere’s another song that I have loved called Iris, I guess they never made a music video of it. I really enjoy listening to this because it takes me back to my early 20’s which I miss dearly lol
@@raybrown3145 Thanks a lot! New song for me!
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A lot of The Beatles on this one right?
I haven't hear this song for 40 years . I still love it ❤
Your in Select company 👌👍
Love the slinky feel of this track
In the 80s in NZ we had a lotbof great home grown music rhat was great....add the aussie bands and it was more than enough great sounds for a teenager in Welly.
I remember seeing them live in 1981 and watching Eddie Rayner moon walk long before Michael Jackson got credit for it.
This is my favorite enz song since I was a kid, next to "nobody takes me seriously anyway"
It's the bass that makes this song tick
The bass makes every song tick
Brilliant! Greetings from San Francisco.
This is my favorite from Split Enz. It has such a dark and sinister tone to it, but still a beautiful melodic pop song.
Great song.👌🏾
Keyboard dude with some wicked forward moonwalk8ng.
I've always love the cool foot slide at 1:55. So smoooooth!!
Desperately needs to be remixed and re-released. Often hits late 2000s retro vibe in this track.
One pharmaceutically-enhanced night in 1981 (after an evening’s gainful employment in a lounge), I discovered these guys, and the Police, within a few minutes of each other on Casey Kasem’s “America’s Top 10:”
All of a sudden, I loved Rock ’n’ Roll again.
(I hadn’t been this blown away by the sound of a band’s instruments since “H. P. Lovecraft II,” fifteen years earlier.)
A cut from one of my personal “Ten Greatest Rock Band” LP’s.
American Top 40 - ahhh the Radio LOL , old farts club Inc . 👌
@@CJArnold-hq3ey
Not sure I got that, but you are correct, "America's Top 10" was a syndicated weekly video counterpart to Kasem's syndicated weekly radio show, "America's Top 40."
I hope this helps to increase your understanding of the period.
@@tuxguys i live in South Oz in the late 70s every Saturday Morning we got 4 hrs of Kasem - American Top 40 is that clear eneough son 👌🇦🇺
@@CJArnold-hq3ey Sort of.
I was a kid in the 80's.....listening to Split Enz...my brother bought the True Colours album and cassette, so we would sit in the backyard in the middle of b*mf*ck Canada (left coast - Pacific) and listen to the album / cassette all summer long..... in a shitty pup tent....Thanks Neil, Tim, Noel, Nigel, Malcolm and others I can't remember..... and thank you so much evolving into Crowded House......but that's another chapter..... we got Waiata too plus, I visited Te Awamutu...city of roses..
The song is great and I think that this video is one of the best ever made.
The video? Really?
@@gmansi yes. Simple but VERY effective. I love it.
@@markzappasodi Nice! For me a really good video (almost a mini movie) is Richard Marx - Hazard:
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I was just thinking “Man, sometimes it’s painful watching a band try to be cool for a video.”
I was 10.
I just knew I wanted to listen.
Superior musicians producing quality sounds.
The birth of F.M radio and the Brothers Finn and their mates in this kick ass band making freaky new sound with fucking beautiful harmony
It captures a listener, compelled almost😂👌to listen.drawn into it.
One of the first picture disc 12 in records I bought in the early 80’s .. great song and group !
2024 steps ahead of a now flawed industry for sure.
1980 or 81? This group had a string of hits around that time. I quite liked them as a 15 yrld.
An easy number 1 if re-released. Why hasn't anyone done this considering the dearth of good music for the last 20 years. No wonder the kids are listening to old music now. I feel so sorry for them.
I know a 20 year old that's super in to Frank Sinatra. Kinda weird but kinda cool at the same time.
This song is a classic thanks for this kym
Christmas Cheer from Boston🎄
Id love to hear some of these amazing Enz tracks covered, theyre too good.
This past weekend, I was at the "Back to the 80's Cafe" in Las Vegas, Nevada. They played this video, but I couldn't find who it was.
It was one of the videos played in the first two hours of MTV.
Great stuff by a fantastic band! (and good food at a fun place!)
Early MTV ruled!
Whatever the Finn Brothers are doing, I'm there.
I'm in England, still have my laser etched 7" of this I bought just after release.
THROUGH TIME SEASONS SPLITZ N HAIR CUTZ 1 1 4 4 TRUE LOVE
At 2:07 the keyboard player--Eddie Rayner--is doing the Moonwalk. Is that one step ahead? Or behind?
Good to see Noel on lead tambourine.
Good music then! Still good music today!
Credit to Tim for recognising Neils talents and letting little Brother share the limelight.
I like this music!
That dude in the back is doing the moonwalk….forwards
That is Eddie Rayner the keyboardist. He use to do that in their live shows befor Michael Jackson ever did it.
@@TimDyck WOW- just noticed that -rewound several times! wasnt this like '80?
can we get a cleaned up version of this please? Massive hiss in the background
Neil Finn such a talent
The bassline is hypnotic.
Is this really the best recording held in the archives? I'm sure there was a better one on here years ago
Split Enz..Turn it up...One Step Ahead of You ❤️
How cool great song from the firs moment i saw it on mtv was hooked
This was played on college radio earlier today and it was a real flashback to early MTV. Little radi play today is disappointing.
This song came up in my itunes dj so I figure I'd just watch the video.
Not a song i liked but they were pretty groundbreaking with their film clip. Very original.
Fab!…💜💜💜
I am sure that Tim rues the day that he let that talented kid join the band.
Why is the sound higher? One of my favorites of theirs.
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This one here has brilliant audio quality!
Great great band
Interesting I never heard of this considering it's strong song structure. Thinking this is a free flowing jam session makeover waiting to happen. At 1.125x speed it's obvious it could've been catchy especially with the embracing creative production treatment similar to like Michael Jackson got during the same time period. I don't know though; easier to say than do and glad to stumble across this!
Please give this gem 4K upgrade when you can.
Split Enz artistry
Stuart Carling thought it was one step ahead of the rest.
Stop! I confess, sometimes, I don't know where I'm going, part of me stays with you, I'm slowing down, what can I do, it's hard to stay one step ahead of you...
Hell Yeah
One step ahead of Jacko . That forward's moonwalk was 1 year ahead
actually more like 3 years ahead.
The Moon Walk was first developed by the choreographer and movie director Bob Fosse, decades before Michael Jackson made it famous.
The greatest song Paul McCartney never wrote
Yep
I always thought Split Enz had a Beatles influence to their music. It was like The Beatles if they were a new wave act in the latter 1970s/early 1980s....
I long for yesterday...
Curious as to when this video came out, was it 1980?
1981
Profound.
Great Song
31 yrs and its still the same
Awsomeness
Keyboardist Eddie Rayner with the "moonwalk" three years before Michael Jackson! : )
Karen was always one step ahead of John..until now ❤️
Much to his brother's chagrin, Neil made the band.
For John ❤️😎
I LOVE this song, but i just used it in a mini thesis to a friend about fu@$k boys, lol. I was explaining how beautiful boys can grab your soul, because the Finn boys had that quality, back in the day.🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Day 6998. 2 x 3499. Raw honey and a few grapes and a bit of apple and all of my urine til 1.00pm then dried figs and black grapes and apple and iceberg lettuce and more urine. No change.
For Officer Okeefe! ❤️
❤
Can someone from the band please fix that audio on this video? The audio quality is terrible compared to the album/cd version of the song... Great song though. I came to listen and was so disappointed by the sound quality i had to go listen elsewhere...
🇦🇺❤️
2:15 either he has one sexy shadow or a girl is behind that wall
Sped up....
2:15 either he has one sexy shadow or a woman was behind that screen
Since P wasn’t around then I’ll put it down to coke.
It’s to bad Nicocado advacado is 2 steps ahead
Fix the audio!! This sounds horrible.
Super crap qualit recording. Steer clear.
Great song but Neil sounds kinda silly singing like a little elf boy
Sounds to me to be running a fraction too fast, it's made the pitch shift up a semi-tone from the original key, and it also makes Neil's vocals sound fractionally chipmunk like. For an official video the band deserve much better than this, whoever posted it for them I think they cocked it up. Listen to any live version of Neil Finn's, or Crowded House (or fans channels who've posted the same promo, and done a better job) the song should sound in the key of G, not Ab.
Shame the audio is crap
my god the quality is bad wtf?