You realise Australia's culture is northern European? There's not even a national dress in Australia- well used to be Stubbies thongs and singlet but yeah
"the crawl" shaped Australian radio, and heaps of us who heard it. Some huge music, riffs, vocals, etc etc, perspective and a wonderfully Australia context,
They stole it from Flanders and Swann's 1950s song 'Design for Living.' I suspect Brad Robinson's father James (who co-wrote several songs as well as being a judge) told them about it and they used it.
Its a song that could have been written 40 years ago or it could have been written yesterday...it just doesn't get old & it rocks hard with the best of them! 🤘🤘
This is excellent with a great sense of humor .Thank you my favorite band ever. I understand what their singing about when you listen long enough you end up being reconditioned to the sound or the music that you listen to know matter who it is.If you have been listening to whoever long enough.👽👽
Filmed at then-derelict Bellevue Cottage located at 55 Leichhardt St, Glebe. Now restored and operating as a French restaurant. EDIT: Only just noticed how they've got luxurious plates, cutlery, glasses and candelabras, but they're having meat pies and beer!
I said beautiful people They've got a robert palmer t-shirt in their travel bag Beautiful people They've got a price upon their head I said beautiful people Have got some friends Who just flew in from la yeah Beautiful people They haven't really much to say I said people, they just want to take you People, they just want to make you People, they just want to break you down They just want to take you down I said beautiful people They ride two hundred dollar pushbikes in the park Beautiful people They won't admit it But they make love in the dark Beautiful people Snap frozen potted palms In the corner of the living room Beautiful people The art-decor sonic boom I said people, they just want to take you People, they just want to make you People, they just want to break you down They just want to take you down Beautiful people You know they're going out tonight To get their bombay rocks off Beautiful people They've got a kerouac condition, got a cocaine cough Beautiful people Studio 54 is the only place to dance Beautiful people You know the garden's full of furniture, the house is full of plants I said people, they just want to take you People, they just want to make you People, they just want to break you down They just want to take you down
First concert I ever saw was Aussie Crawl. I was 14 underage at Caloundra Civic Centre with my friend, her older sister and my older cousin. Years later I met James Reyne at my children’s primary school at Chancellor Park Primary School Sippy Downs. I was just dropping my kids at school and he was playing his acoustic guitar and singing. I spoke too him briefly. He actually stopped and spoke with me and was very polite. I think all the mums there were pretty juiced up I’m just gonna say. It was pretty cool at the time. Was he living there? Did his kids go to my kids school? I don’t know to this day. I don’t see any other reason for him being there. Anyway I told him I was an Aussie Crawl fan and they were my first ever concert I went to. PS I got in a lot of trouble with my family from my teen incident because I was 14 and got up to mischief. My uncle was a bishop at the time and a church member dobbed me in. Anyway I had to confess to my father and I’m alive to tell the tale!
James performed with both wrists broken and in plaster as seen in the video. He then wrote a song about being hit by a car called Indisposed. Wanna tell you 'bout my Frenda He got hit by a Fender But he'll soon be on the menda He's of the male genda Glad to see that he's on his way He's not for Burial today Because he's in... he's indisposed Because he's in yeah yeah... he's indisposed Found him outside the dry cleaners Oh the drivers misdemeanors I've never seen a face so greena He looks a like the cats dinner Glad to see that he's on his way He's not for Burial today Because he's in... he's indisposed Because he's in yeah yeah... he's indisposed He got hit by a car Now he's lying on the tar Had an experience bizarre Not unlike that makes you laugh ra! ra! hey! Glad to see that he's on his way He's not for Burial today Because he's in... he's indisposed Because he's in... he's indisposed Because he's in yeah yeah... he's indisposed
A few years ago James played at a theatre that my friend managed. She literally bought him an indoor plant for his dressing room. I tried to warn her...
It's weird the comments are full of people lauding how great Australian society was in the 70's/80's even though this song is about how shallow Australian society was at that time. Short memories indeed.
I agree. I lived in Australia from 79 to 82. A great natural environment, but there was something off about young baby boomer Aussies and to a lesser extent their more subtle parents. However, the lines about Studio 54 and friends from LA might be a criticism of how shallow another society is.
I miss those days in Australia, nothing feels like Australia anymore but this band brings it back for me
Yeah everything's gone to crap just look at the demographics.
@@HellasGD88 the government has done it all on purpose
You realise Australia's culture is northern European? There's not even a national dress in Australia- well used to be Stubbies thongs and singlet but yeah
@@fingerprint5511 you're a bloody idiot mate, who the fk cares, I miss Australia in those days you egg
@@fingerprint5511And not all this Aboriginal rights stuff either.... ✅️
Thanks to the internet I have now learned for the first time in 40yrs what James Reyne was actually singing.
once you break the code. its easy
Yes he has unusual voice but it's great ah
i liked not knowing
😂
Well done , l've still got no fucking idea but this rocks
Im canadian, born in 97, I really dont know what I’m doing here tbh. I just love The Crawl, and I guess my 80’s Rock too, wherever its from
"the crawl" shaped Australian radio, and heaps of us who heard it. Some huge music, riffs, vocals, etc etc, perspective and a wonderfully Australia context,
Oh man, it hurts how good this song is. Oz Crawl were so frickin good man
Love this song
Remember when Aus had a culturural identity? I do. I miss the music and comedy from this era , D-Generation im looking at you!
SocietyGoingDownhill something about gnocchi? ... no idea ... needs a speech therapissed
Don't look at me man I wish me and the boys had a better cultural identity. Blame americanisation on that one
That's capitalism for you. Nothing left, just hollowmen staggering around in the "post-industrial" hellscape.
I wonder if *culturural* was a typo
@@sexobscura might not have been. I liked it.
Good times back in those days. Wish I had a time machine
Me too
My heart longs for the old AUS and rock and roll.When will the revolution come?
I remember seeing them on Countdown for the first time - James with 2 broken arms!
JR was hit by a car in early 1979. The song "Indisposed" was all about it!
Thought that's where Indisposed came from!!
I'm only 17 and to be quiet honest I wish I was born in the 80 I feel life had less stress better music groover style and funner times
I love the line ..you know the garden's full of furniture and house full of plants and you know that's funny
Not as good as "the ladies are all corsetted, the gardens are all dorsetted" from TBLU
Only in Melbourne!
@@davec7759 was Cox xx d)o ts sov
@@aaroncumberland7202 How about "$200 push bikes in the park". More like $5000 push bikes nowadays..
They stole it from Flanders and Swann's 1950s song 'Design for Living.' I suspect Brad Robinson's father James (who co-wrote several songs as well as being a judge) told them about it and they used it.
One of the most classic song lines of all time. . . Brilliant. . .
Ah Sydney Australia in the 80s........ The best place in the world!
yep
Nah 90s mate
ah, no
Nah... Melbourne
you betcha...and we can't have it back again...just savour the memories
I love everything about this song forever ❤😍💯🎸
Its a song that could have been written 40 years ago or it could have been written yesterday...it just doesn't get old & it rocks hard with the best of them! 🤘🤘
awesome band , so many teenage mems from the 80's
Best part is he's bang on with the lyrics. 😂
Brilliant!!!! 80's!!
This is excellent with a great sense of humor .Thank you my favorite band ever. I understand what their singing about when you listen long enough you end up being reconditioned to the sound or the music that you listen to know matter who it is.If you have been listening to whoever long enough.👽👽
Australian Rock and Roll is the best.
Happy Birthday James - great to have seeing you perform at The Blue Mountains Theatre in 2018. All the best.
Brilliant!!!! 80's!!
Best part is he's bang on with the lyrics. 😂
Beautiful people. They got a Rubber Politician in their travel bag.
I thought he said, "Robert Palmer T-shirt in their travel bag...!"
Correct
@@mandybaird8892 politicians may as well be rubber ! They don't act too human ! 😀🐷🇦🇺
@@265hemi7 Valiant comment :)
I heard a Robert Palmer in their travel bag
Filmed at then-derelict Bellevue Cottage located at 55 Leichhardt St, Glebe. Now restored and operating as a French restaurant.
EDIT: Only just noticed how they've got luxurious plates, cutlery, glasses and candelabras, but they're having meat pies and beer!
Thanks for that...I was looking at Pyrmont...
Everytime I watch the ending of James in that pit while they kick absetos dust all around his head makes me cringe
One of the best songs from 1979 👍👍👍
That’s Gold-Miss that Australia 🇦🇺!
Within the next week I'll be listening to the Crawl on tape in my Getto Blaster I won on eBay!! can't wait!
If you ain't old enough to remember the hydrofoils, you ain't old enough to remember Oz Crawl.
I remember going on them back in 83 and then seeing Return Of The Jedi when I was 9 years old. Good times. 😃
awesome band , so many teenage mems from the 80's
Brilliant!!!! 80's!!
Best part is he's bang on with the lyrics. 😂
You know your a Aussie when you can taste those pies and beer just by looking
I used to think at the end it said "beach -ball" instead of "people" 😂i love the accent
Ok. So those lyrics I always sang were "You. To vi vol something something something in the saddle bag..." love it.
The gardens’ full of furniture…the house is full of plants …Bute.. teefull PEE-PAL😂 love this classic
Kerouac Condition! Ha! I was many years old before I picked this reference up.
Great band, amazing times.
What for a beautiful MAN! L'HOMME DE CHIC! MAJESTUEUX!
Love this song.. I'm glad it doesn't have subtitles
Saw them at the Mansfield Tavern back in the day and there support act was the Cockroaches ( The Wiggles) ,great night and the best music.
I said beautiful people
They've got a robert palmer t-shirt in their travel bag
Beautiful people
They've got a price upon their head
I said beautiful people
Have got some friends
Who just flew in from la yeah
Beautiful people
They haven't really much to say
I said people, they just want to take you
People, they just want to make you
People, they just want to break you down
They just want to take you down
I said beautiful people
They ride two hundred dollar pushbikes in the park
Beautiful people
They won't admit it
But they make love in the dark
Beautiful people
Snap frozen potted palms
In the corner of the living room
Beautiful people
The art-decor sonic boom
I said people, they just want to take you
People, they just want to make you
People, they just want to break you down
They just want to take you down
Beautiful people
You know they're going out tonight
To get their bombay rocks off
Beautiful people
They've got a kerouac condition, got a cocaine cough
Beautiful people
Studio 54 is the only place to dance
Beautiful people
You know the garden's full of furniture, the house is full of plants
I said people, they just want to take you
People, they just want to make you
People, they just want to break you down
They just want to take you down
Thanks
Robert Palmer t shirt??? I damn... I be been singing "rubber politicians and in their travel bag" ROFL
Oh thank god for the lyrics...
@@juliebutler8256 I think a lot did or did .👍😀
Sitting room, not living room.
Do people really struggle so hard to understand him?
awesome band , so many teenage mems from the 80's
Best part is he's bang on with the lyrics. 😂
The good ole dayz...
Great Aussie goodtime band!
Another gem for the Misheard Lyrics, I always thought he was singing "you, you will be bombed".
One great song!
Only one comment on this good stuff sweetheart this guys are legends !!!
A lot more now ! .
Brilliant!!!! 80's!!
When I was younger, I thought he was singing “you…tickle me bald”
Favourite Misheard Lyric:
"Ute full of people"
Simon Binks....Utterly crucial to the Crawls sound. Without him, there were 2 rhythm players.. ..❤
I'm not sure you all heard when James sang "beautiful people", but I keep hearing 'big balls' 😅😅🤭
First concert I ever saw was Aussie Crawl.
I was 14 underage at Caloundra Civic Centre with my friend, her older sister and my older cousin.
Years later I met James Reyne at my children’s primary school at Chancellor Park Primary School Sippy Downs. I was just dropping my kids at school and he was playing his acoustic guitar and singing. I spoke too him briefly. He actually stopped and spoke with me and was very polite.
I think all the mums there were pretty juiced up I’m just gonna say.
It was pretty cool at the time.
Was he living there?
Did his kids go to my kids school?
I don’t know to this day.
I don’t see any other reason for him being there.
Anyway I told him I was an Aussie Crawl fan and they were my first ever concert I went to. PS I got in a lot of trouble with my family from my teen incident because I was 14 and got up to mischief. My uncle was a bishop at the time and a church member dobbed me in.
Anyway I had to confess to my father and I’m alive to tell the tale!
PS. “Things don’t seem” wax the best speed skating song that year xo
This song should just be called bew te boo bee bow 😂
Sounds like it doesn't it?
the gardens full of furniture,the house is full of plants.
You got the translation sheet, didn't ya? :D
2:20
Studio 54 is the only place to dance!
Australian rock music should become a religion
Awwweeesome Aussie action!
James performed with both wrists broken and in plaster as seen in the video. He then wrote a song about being hit by a car called Indisposed.
Wanna tell you 'bout my Frenda
He got hit by a Fender
But he'll soon be on the menda
He's of the male genda
Glad to see that he's on his way
He's not for Burial today
Because he's in... he's indisposed
Because he's in yeah yeah... he's indisposed
Found him outside the dry cleaners
Oh the drivers misdemeanors
I've never seen a face so greena
He looks a like the cats dinner
Glad to see that he's on his way
He's not for Burial today
Because he's in... he's indisposed
Because he's in yeah yeah... he's indisposed
He got hit by a car
Now he's lying on the tar
Had an experience bizarre
Not unlike that makes you laugh ra! ra! hey!
Glad to see that he's on his way
He's not for Burial today
Because he's in... he's indisposed
Because he's in... he's indisposed
Because he's in yeah yeah... he's indisposed
Imagine listening to a sing in your own language and your own accent and it requiring subtitles.
Just worked out the words to this song and what JR is singing about!!:))
When I first heard this song…I thought he was saying beach ball 😂
Had to laugh to see a nod in the video to the australasian love of meat pies!
How times have changed
Now a bike's a steal for $200
when James sings it now ...its' $2000 push-bikes in the park ...that's inflation for you 🎶✌️😊
This is what the young ones would be if they were a song.
❤
A few years ago James played at a theatre that my friend managed.
She literally bought him an indoor plant for his dressing room.
I tried to warn her...
Oi vey, hava nagilia.
Spicy boi!
I noticed that, on a song about hollywood/elite types from LA. Very interesting.
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Best part is he's bang on with the lyrics. 😂
🇧🇷🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
bu, te boo bee bow, His got a rubber politician in his travel bag
Honestly, the more I listen to the song and I know the correct lyrics, I swear he is singing bu, te boo bee bow 😂
Good song. But I had no idea he was singing the words 'beautiful people' until I looked up the lyrics recently.
Risin' damp
Top demais
It's weird the comments are full of people lauding how great Australian society was in the 70's/80's even though this song is about how shallow Australian society was at that time. Short memories indeed.
I agree. I lived in Australia from 79 to 82. A great natural environment, but there was something off about young baby boomer Aussies and to a lesser extent their more subtle parents. However, the lines about Studio 54 and friends from LA might be a criticism of how shallow another society is.
Mr. Inbetween S02E03
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Baita banda!músicas inconfundíveis.
🌺💕
Caringbah Inn 1980
"I'll just grab the Mercedes and meet you outside in five minutes...."
Beautiful people. They got a Rubber Politician in their travel bag.
Robert Palmer t shirt you bloody foreigner.
@@funtimefreddie9637 mondegreen heaven!
@@Paul_VK3HN Wut.
@@Paul_VK3HN That's Lady Mondegreen to you.
$10,000 push bikes James.
The boys from Franga!!
Mount Eliza actually.
Mount Eliza, the bogan end of Franga!
Where the Pinesters migrate to when the dollars come in!
You're right, but half the people I've met over the years who say "Ah'm from Mount Eliza" have migrated south from the Pines,
Ooh keep it nice no need to be rude.
Jealous ???
I wonder if that old house is still there
Great song if only we could understand what James is saying
✌😊👍
Beau tickle me bum ! Meatballs !!!!
"....I said a you to boo be bop gotta rob a politician in the gravel bag"
Who's here from the postcard bandit 😂?
Some words be corrected by whistling,n singing the chorus,
Heinz Big Red Tomato Sauce.. no other as aussie
I am hazarding a guess that they are not Boscastle pies…
Ride $100 push bikes in the park classic haha.
We all have identify..... thanks to DNA.... and tracking systems.... in our brains....
Yep..... it's true
Более менее мелодичная песенка. А парень красивый. Был.
i like the way that asian chick dances
Still can’t understand a word of what David Reyne is sayin... lmao... oops James! Lol
I got a Covid cough.
No comments Bye 🥺
Anyone know the old house in this clip??
Bellevue house,Glebe.now a restaurant.
Is that Jimmy Barnesies now wife boogying out with Brad?
Chinese eyes ???? Perhaps 😂
Wasnt this actually 1979
Stephenie Tsundere San yes it was
would have been nice if they actually bothered to digitally remastered these videos! picture quality is pretty terrible really
They sound like Nine Below Zero to me.
zero out of 9 for you
Nine Below Zero were a cool band
nowadays that abandoned house would be inundated with homeless people
Wut U think U just watched tho
Area 51 is the only place to dance