I'm an English boy. (A 'Pom' to you Aussies.) I spent seven of the Christmases between 2003-2013 in your country. And that was when I was lucky enough to discover music I'd never heard before. Hunters & Collectors, 1927.....two that I recollect immediately. And then came along Noiseworks with a song called Touch. But then, a few days later, came the same band with a song called Take Me Back. And here I am, in March 2024 - just over 10 years since I was last in Aus - and I'm listening once again. I think that speaks volumes....
i was an aussie girl travelling in the 90s thorugh Europe with a walkman full of these great songs, 1927. hoodoo gurus, noiseworks, and other great aussie pub rock bands, still a great comfort for me to listen to them today too. The memories....
@@CMA_design_RC Cheers mate. Don't worry, I intend to return one day. (If, for no other reason, than to scoff on a a box of Cheezels. And then head to Bakers Delight for a fabulous Cheddarmite Scroll.😆) I can't deny those are the two things I miss about Aus! Haha!
All those kawai home organs that were in every home ,, then in pawnshop sales made younger generation think they were musicians by programming a drum beat and a pre set chorus and digitally enhancing vocals.
88 baby; definitely wish I was born to grow up in the 80s.♡ -must have been a good past life, but I dream/remember pastlives from 1940/50s I loved way more. All you need to do is play the music and time travel back or integrate it in the now moment.✨️ (I spent a whole 2 days of bliss listening to only 80s music and walking down the street as if this timeline no longer existed. It's all illusion created from the mind/collective consciousness after all) 😘
The 70s and 80s were the best times to be alive. Everything was so much easier. I remember in the late 70s and the 80s just being able to go to the pub and see these bands. I remember seeing Rose Tattoo at Sylvania Hotel and Midnight oil and saw Noiseworks and Aussie Crawl at Cronulla Club. It was fun times back then. Drink, sing and dance and having fun with everyone there. These days its scary walking into some pubs incase you look the wrong way at someone lol. I hear so many young people including my own children wishing they were around in those times. Anyone that was around in those years know they were the best times of their lives. With love from Aussie :)
Don't forget the great times at 'The Casbah' the Caringbah Inn rocked every weekend, and the Cronulla Worker's Club, God bless it, had some great nights there watching bands also.
Born and bred in England and live here now. I was based in Cronulla 1982/1983 working on the new state mail center in Alexandria, had some great times in The Casbah and Cronulla Hotel plus Cronulla Workers Club with the all you could eat Chinese Buffet to soak up the grog. Plus the surfing and rugby league. I am half Cornish so could surf, drink a plenty and I played rugby league having been born in Warrington, the locals used to ask if I was sure I wasn't Australian 😁
Hi - founder of noise week and MAJOR SONG WRITER - i wrote this - by special request for the DRIVE SAFE campaign - recorded with the ORIGINA Noise works ONE week before they were killed in a road incident the video or it became - a high rating drive safe don't drive drunk campaign for 12 months, then - Noise WORKS - TAKE TWO HIT AUSTRALIA - fresh from New Zealand - and one Jon Stevens was acquired to be used as total bait to make me - reshoot the video - and ask him if he ever had the urge to study music or be a rock-star. every New Zealander in Australia - who knew who founded Noise woks as trying to find me to steal what i wrote for Noise works soon after to put Jon Stevens version to the test in a studio. while my team put them to the test their photogenic qualities shooting things to re-edit a few videos FOUR Made the final; cut given to them to say YOU WIN the auditions - voted MOST WANTED by New Zealand fans of Noiseworks to take their place. - no one apparently no one wants MY SONGS I'm too intellectual for words, don't you know, and writing songs - to say GOOD BYE to dead friends, or ANTI-SUICIDE SONGS, is too morbid for the music industry, - as my music - you hear it all the time - i am the FOUNDER OF PINK FLOYD, QUEEN, LED ZEPLIN, DURAN DURAN, PETSHOP BOYS, Sting and the Police, and Prince the BAND, AHA, I don't do business with the music industry any more for a reason I GOT SICK OF MEN TAKING ALL THE CREDIT FOR MY WORK....I just got my revenge by unleashing my NEW DISCOVERIES on the world, like Alison Moyet, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Eurytmics, and convincing tina turner to kick someone in the nut bush and defect to Australia to say - i am the REAL Tina Turner - and I wanna be a MOVIE STAR in the movie the FAKE TINA TURNER offered me a role in.... i knew how to lure LIVE ACTS worth seeing to Australia to PLAY LIVE - did I EVER KNOW. I learned from the best....there's a reason so many acts only ever had one album they LIED - and their career died because they COULD NEVER MATCH MY SONG-WRITING and COMPOSER TEAM and i unleashed the BEST - Billy Joel, the Beatles, in different ways, and Elton John - Hall and Oates, Billy Idol, QUEEN,, and Roxette, when I said - the SONG WRITER should SING THEIR OWN SONGS. in my own DEVIOUS WAY - impersonators for the REAL SONG WRITERS in CONCEPTUAL AS HELL MUSIC VIDEOS. the last straw was - THEM SAYING ROSS WILSON wrote big hits AFTER HE DIED - no that's More of MY STOLEN SONGS.... but half the Aussie music industry's biggest acts of the 80's said the only Song writing team we wanna rip off is Molly Meldrum's secret music factory team.
Hey buddie your talking about the 80’s .lol and didn’t we have fun ? And we where so free and got away with pretty much everything Hahahahahaha.sucks to be a kid these days 😂
That time has long gone and never return. The insidiousness need or unavoidable fact for the human race to always stagnate and go backwards whenever things are at their best in ANY walk of life is just too ingrained and unavoidable.
Australian music in the 1980's was fantastic. You could see live bands like this without travelling far or spending loads of money. Think I saw Noiseworks at the Pier in Frankston.
80's the best decade of AOR, Westcoast, Hi-tech, Melodickhardrock, Hairmetal, Pop & NewWave, Funky, Soul, Jazzfunk best Movies and great Soundtracksera!
I saw The Angels at the Dorset Gardens Hotel in Croydon. Brilliant living in the 80’s in Melbourne. So lucky, every weekend. Wish I could go back and do it all again. Great time to be young with no responsibilities.
We had some of the best pub bands .I’m so glad we didn’t have the internet.we would of missed out on so much . Back when we. Got away with so much lol. And we where all free. I wish we could go back. 👍😂
Noiseworks like a many Aussie bands weren't considered the big hits in the 80s and 90s world wide. Australia will always thank them because they were not our miss.
Thats the era when musicians really existed and played live. People and not AI were songwriters, and singers actually sung without autotune. Yeah loved the 80s
Oh-woh-woh-oh... Oh-oh-oh... You never expect it to be in your wildest dreams So take a step backwards for a little while You'll find it there It's somethin' that I can't explain So I remain trapped inside Still holdin' strong Still holding o-on to you To you Take me back to you It's been a long time Although every night I think of you It's such a lonely life I watched you wave goodbye as you drove away I didn't know that it would be your last time with me You said - life ain't worth living if nobody cared You said that all the time Oh I take a step back and see your starin' eyes I see you on the day you die Take me back to you It's been a long time Although every night I think of you It's such a lonely life (yeah) And take me back to you Take me back to you Oh-woh-woh-oh-oh Take me back to you It's been a long time Although every night I think of you It's such a lonely life Oh-oh-oh-oh Take me back to you Take me back to you
You know.. that one person you meet just once in your lifetime? The one you laughed with, cried with and who just felt like 'home? ' And then... you lose them? And you know it's forever but something never lets you forget how they felt, how you felt...and the 'magic' you've yearned for ever since, yet cannot find with any other? That's what this song is to me. It's a raw, longing for a time and a place... and that special someone who will never come again. Beautiful, sad and haunting. What a song! 💔
I'm 51 now, and was 17yrs old in 87' this track takes me back to the good days! It's a bit sad at the same time, as he Jon Stevens talks about how he sees his friend on the day he dies". In the video clip you can see his mate driving off in the car. Anyways, Jon's vocals are awesome and the electric guitars & drums.🎸🎸🔊
I was 15, and this song takes me straight back! Man we were so lucky to have been there, its unexplainable to those who didn't experience the ambience of the 80s
As a child I was obsessed with this song , I was born in 89 and about 4 years old and I remember was always on the radio as a hit still. I never knew the back story of the song, but I always imagined I would be playing this song if any of my family members (also including my best friends) or my partner died. Thanks for the information 😀
I was informed that it was written about his mother, who deceased in a car accident..🥺 I haven't checked this as fact.. I don't want to know if that is true, as the sentiment and power in Steven's lyric and voice say enough. It just pulls at the heartstrings. What incredible talent we have here in Australia. I was not even 10 when this was released but it still moves me to this very day. I feel that same emotion roller-coaster from the opening guitars to the first drum beats and the pulsing rhythm kicks in... then, that voice.. Oh lord, there is a God. A rock God. This is total courtesy of Jon Stevens and Noiseworks. Aussie Aussie Aussie... "Jon, Jon, Jon"...🥰
I’m a HEALTHCARE WORKER, still! I’m now 63.. keep an open mind, because there still, today, some great groups, bands and individual artists!! Trust me, just search. Yes, it was a great era for music in the 80’s, but don’t the great artists today, deserve recognition too? ! Just listen.. Love, Wendy from Australia xox❤
Hey ya..😊 I was thinking the same thing as well..what did happen to this world? When I am listening to this Noiseworks song Take Me Back I am thinking back to 1987 when the world seemed a nicer and better place..Great music..Great movies.. Hasbro made the coolest toys in the world..the fashion trend was way-out and made it fun to walk down the street..then 32 years later the world was hit by covid 19 and now we're all screwed..so sad and tragic ..
@@EllaKournikova1234 Honestly, I feel like it's been a long slide down since the GFC, it's just that the pandemic followed by the war in Ukraine and Gaza have accelerated the decline. For me the mid to late 90's were the high point, but maybe that just a late teens/early 20s thing. For another great song just seeing a video for the Cure's Burn (from the first Crow movie soundtrack) at the bottom of my screen. Never give up, never surrender.
I'm a old guy any person who lived in Melbourne Australia who.listend 3,mmm hot breakfast would play noise works and I would sing heart out luckily they still play there music they are great cheers to all
Always takes me back to memories of my brother Stuart Antony van Hoorn, who took his own life on December 1, 1990. One of his favourite bands. I just wish he would have called me.
My 5 brothers and sister listen and sang to this album on cassette player non stop from Melbourne to Adelaide and back to Melbourne. Take me back was our favourite song. My brothers had the same hair like John Stevens and even dressed the same and were very popular with the females . Now one brother has just passed and one is in the wheelchair with Multiple sclerosis. I wish I had a Time Machine and Take Me back to the 80s .
The emotion in Jon Stevens singing is so powerful, I feel it in my heart every time. The way these instruments compliment his voice is supreme! What an amazing band!
@@SPQRTempus That would be after Sammy Hagar left VH in the mid 90's, Jon was considered but Van Halen went with Garry Cherone of Extreme ;) While successful in NZ Jon wasn't on the world map so to speak in 85 after Roth left, not until 87 when Noiseworks broke big locally. But yes, makes ya think right? ;)
Born in 58 i loved the music so much. Got married at 16 then Had a nervous breakdown at 16 from childhood abuse memories. I don't remember much of my life back then but when i hear the music i loved in those days i can't believe how meaningful and so beautiful it was compared to so much smutt and trash of today.
Auto-Tune and Pro Tools homogenised all the life out of music... a generation of kids who have never been anywhere or done anything are the ones getting record deals now and they are based on their looks not their talent... the general pussification and ruination of western civilisation... many things have happened to music... none of them good.
This will always be one of my favourite songs of all time. That particular guitar sound is awesome. And Jon Stevens voice at the end , that " breath" or something makes the song complete. It's perfect!
Traveling on a bus in Europe from Vienna to Serbia 🇷🇸, it's 22:33pm and fully proud of living my first young childhood days in Newcastle late 70s 80s 90s 2000. Screaming Jets just reminds me of how life was absolutely beautiful and how proud I am to have thoughts of the real life.
Amen, back then we had these guys, Hoodoo Gurus, Darryl Braithwaite, Screaming Jets, Paul Kelly, Icehouse, Hunters & Collectors, John Farnham, Choirboys, ACDC, back in the day we had LEGIT aussie music to rock out to!
The last time I saw my ex was when she waved at me....as she drove away. That line brings back those memories. I could have been a better boyfriend. I could have tried harder. This song always makes me wonder. A true sliding doors time in my life.
My aunt gave us this tape when we were in Melbourne over on holiday from Ireland. I was 11. We also bought the single later back home. It's one of those automatic songs that I'll wip out at karaoke that few people have heard. Absolute belter.
Without a doubt this is one of the greatest Aussie rock songs ever. I probably don't go a day without listening to the accoustic version. I'll be getting dropping in a hole to this song playing. Rock on!!!
I love these old Aussie songs I’m 22 proud to be Aussie I listen to cold chisel, rads, oz crawl I remember I watched noiseworks tribute show at the doylo on the central coast it was a great night people of all cultures had a beer and had the time of their lives 🇦🇺🇦🇺
I like Aussie's bands very much. As far as I'm concerned Aussies are proud, tough and strong people. I can't even imagine living in the place where every even the smallest living thing wants to kill or eat you. LOL
Saw them live tonight at Enmore theatre for their Take me back once off night. They saved this till last and they still rings this song out just as good as it was 36 years ago. Wow!
Vaporwave in a lot of ways was kinda a movement back towards stuff like this even if it was superficially against rock music. It inadvertently lead into an AOR Revival Scene and some of the ideas from it also Spilled into European Style Black Metal. Yes and no though. Not exactly the same for sure.
@@paulhorvath9784 no, they won't, I'm 13 right now and love the 80s music, it's amazing compared to nowdays music, I promise this won't die as long as I live and hopefully longer 💛
@@dirkdiggler6230 What's now then you idiot. You probably weren't even there and I might add that all the crapshots OF the 80s are ALL the ones that were always beloved and STILL are now, so there!
I can still remember the first time I saw these guys on the south cost and omg what a great sound and great night it was, indeed. [ thank you] Long live Noiseworks.
If there was ever 2 songs to play to the world for a new Australian tourism campaign post Covid, Take me back and Touch would be it, no if or buts. Australian Oz rock greats. Put a deal together Nosieworks and Australian tourism commission.
Classic Jon Stevens and noise works … ❤️… 🎵🎵🎵🎵… they rocked it back and they sound even better today .. can’t wait to go back to the local and listen to live music again..
So many memories…. 17 when this came out! Wow what a ride! So grateful to have had such amazing friends at this time god I lived my life to the fullest!!! Tell my kids all the time (they are 19.19 and 21) soak up these moments you will never get them back. Jon Stevens you are still the sexiest man alive lol!
I had no idea about this band until recently--a real shame they were never promoted here in the States. I think their first two albums could've easily gained some traction here.
Me either. One of my favorite things now, is to find 80s music that I never got the chance to hear when it was released. I'm transported back to my days of cruising in my old car with the radio blasting. Almost. Almost can feel the wind through the open windows, see the streetlights strobing across my windshield and the smell of my girlfriend's perfume drifting over from the passenger seat.
The 80s were awesome and so many great bands. Noiseworks, paul kelly, dragon, hunters snd collectors. Nothing today that compares. Those were the days.
I seen noiseworks on the coast of New South Wales when they first started , in a pub front row . Was hooked on them since that day , great band , amazing lead singer . This music will never die
I feel a new deep dive coming on. I'm getting a new appreciation of Australian and New Zealand talent. Hopefully we get to another John , John Rowles, a mix of Elvis and Tom Jones in one.
The lyrics to this song have been stuck in my head for ages and I had no idea where they came from and this popped up on my music list today. Such a great song!
I literally had a girlfriend drive away and never come back. But we hadn't fought or anything. Everything seemed fine. Maybe she had another guy. But this song nails how I felt. A long time ago !
There must have been a hell of a lot of politics in music back in the day, as a lot of Aussie bands could have made the big time worldwide, but they were not marketed properly. I am glad that I got to hear a lot of them. If we had RUclips 40 years ago, I wonder if things could have been different for them?
I love you forever Peppy. I will never forget you. No dog will ever replace you. You were the best dog- misunderstood as a cheeky stubborn and high energy cattle dog, but it wasn’t your fault- we didn’t have the skills or lifestyle to be what you needed. Almost 40 years have passed and my heart breaks when I remember your face as you were given away, with us screaming and crying in the car driving away and you chasing after us crying. I understand ‘his’ reasons and we couldn’t afford to keep you let alone feed ourselves, but I will never forgive or forget the WAY it was done. You are my forever dog. I cannot wait to see you again little Peppy girl. You are amazing and missed. All the dogs since, got the best of me- you got a disfunctional kid with an unstable home and unstable family. I wish we had met when I was an adult. I’d have cut off my hand before I’d give you away by my own choice. I love you so so much. Please look after Hippo and the other doggos I’ve loved that have passed, until we are reunited. 😔🐕💔🕊
Noiseworks was the first band I saw live - at Kernot Hall l in Morwell. I still have my ticket stub. I idolized these blokes. Stuart Fraser was a freaking legend.
I'm an English boy. (A 'Pom' to you Aussies.) I spent seven of the Christmases between 2003-2013 in your country. And that was when I was lucky enough to discover music I'd never heard before. Hunters & Collectors, 1927.....two that I recollect immediately. And then came along Noiseworks with a song called Touch.
But then, a few days later, came the same band with a song called Take Me Back. And here I am, in March 2024 - just over 10 years since I was last in Aus - and I'm listening once again. I think that speaks volumes....
i was an aussie girl travelling in the 90s thorugh Europe with a walkman full of these great songs, 1927. hoodoo gurus, noiseworks, and other great aussie pub rock bands, still a great comfort for me to listen to them today too. The memories....
You sir, may come back and visit anytime 🫡
@@CMA_design_RC Cheers mate. Don't worry, I intend to return one day. (If, for no other reason, than to scoff on a a box of Cheezels. And then head to Bakers Delight for a fabulous Cheddarmite Scroll.😆) I can't deny those are the two things I miss about Aus! Haha!
Some popular Aussie singers of the 80s were actually born in the UK: John Farnham, Jimny Barnes, the late Jon English
Best place on Earth !
What tha hell has happened to this world? Where's all the talent gone? It's stuck back in the 80s. Man I wish I was too.
Thanks grandpa
All those kawai home organs that were in every home ,, then in pawnshop sales made younger generation think they were musicians by programming a drum beat and a pre set chorus and digitally enhancing vocals.
@@MJW238 twatwaffle. Go analogue and play an instrument.
88 baby; definitely wish I was born to grow up in the 80s.♡
-must have been a good past life, but I dream/remember pastlives from 1940/50s I loved way more.
All you need to do is play the music and time travel back or integrate it in the now moment.✨️
(I spent a whole 2 days of bliss listening to only 80s music and walking down the street as if this timeline no longer existed. It's all illusion created from the mind/collective consciousness after all) 😘
80's were the best ❤
Might be LITERALLY the greatest mullet in the history of the world.
next to Farnham and Beven
South Australians are still trying to beat it lol.
Iva Davies from Icehouse had killer mullet too.
The 70s and 80s were the best times to be alive. Everything was so much easier. I remember in the late 70s and the 80s just being able to go to the pub and see these bands. I remember seeing Rose Tattoo at Sylvania Hotel and Midnight oil and saw Noiseworks and Aussie Crawl at Cronulla Club. It was fun times back then. Drink, sing and dance and having fun with everyone there. These days its scary walking into some pubs incase you look the wrong way at someone lol. I hear so many young people including my own children wishing they were around in those times. Anyone that was around in those years know they were the best times of their lives. With love from Aussie :)
Don't forget the great times at 'The Casbah' the Caringbah Inn rocked every weekend, and the Cronulla Worker's Club, God bless it, had some great nights there watching bands also.
A mate met his wife in a pub. Not the expected place I'd think. Yet she's a wonderful lady, a nurse.
Born and bred in England and live here now. I was based in Cronulla 1982/1983 working on the new state mail center in Alexandria, had some great times in The Casbah and Cronulla Hotel plus Cronulla Workers Club with the all you could eat Chinese Buffet to soak up the grog. Plus the surfing and rugby league. I am half Cornish so could surf, drink a plenty and I played rugby league having been born in Warrington, the locals used to ask if I was sure I wasn't Australian 😁
Now this is music , can't beat the 80s for music
Yeah you can...50s, 60s, 70s, 90s...but this is a great song
Please please send me back to the 80s and the 90s fucken now
Take me back to when we actually had talented artists that wrote this kind of music
Hi - founder of noise week and MAJOR SONG WRITER - i wrote this - by special request for the DRIVE SAFE campaign - recorded with the ORIGINA Noise works ONE week before they were killed in a road incident the video or it became - a high rating drive safe don't drive drunk campaign for 12 months, then - Noise WORKS - TAKE TWO HIT AUSTRALIA - fresh from New Zealand - and one Jon Stevens was acquired to be used as total bait to make me - reshoot the video - and ask him if he ever had the urge to study music or be a rock-star. every New Zealander in Australia - who knew who founded Noise woks as trying to find me to steal what i wrote for Noise works soon after to put Jon Stevens version to the test in a studio. while my team put them to the test their photogenic qualities shooting things to re-edit a few videos FOUR Made the final; cut given to them to say YOU WIN the auditions - voted MOST WANTED by New Zealand fans of Noiseworks to take their place. - no one apparently no one wants MY SONGS I'm too intellectual for words, don't you know, and writing songs - to say GOOD BYE to dead friends, or ANTI-SUICIDE SONGS, is too morbid for the music industry, - as my music - you hear it all the time - i am the FOUNDER OF PINK FLOYD, QUEEN, LED ZEPLIN, DURAN DURAN, PETSHOP BOYS, Sting and the Police, and Prince the BAND, AHA, I don't do business with the music industry any more for a reason I GOT SICK OF MEN TAKING ALL THE CREDIT FOR MY WORK....I just got my revenge by unleashing my NEW DISCOVERIES on the world, like Alison Moyet, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Eurytmics, and convincing tina turner to kick someone in the nut bush and defect to Australia to say - i am the REAL Tina Turner - and I wanna be a MOVIE STAR in the movie the FAKE TINA TURNER offered me a role in.... i knew how to lure LIVE ACTS worth seeing to Australia to PLAY LIVE - did I EVER KNOW. I learned from the best....there's a reason so many acts only ever had one album they LIED - and their career died because they COULD NEVER MATCH MY SONG-WRITING and COMPOSER TEAM and i unleashed the BEST - Billy Joel, the Beatles, in different ways, and Elton John - Hall and Oates, Billy Idol, QUEEN,, and Roxette, when I said - the SONG WRITER should SING THEIR OWN SONGS. in my own DEVIOUS WAY - impersonators for the REAL SONG WRITERS in CONCEPTUAL AS HELL MUSIC VIDEOS. the last straw was - THEM SAYING ROSS WILSON wrote big hits AFTER HE DIED - no that's More of MY STOLEN SONGS.... but half the Aussie music industry's biggest acts of the 80's said the only Song writing team we wanna rip off is Molly Meldrum's secret music factory team.
Hey buddie your talking about the 80’s .lol and didn’t we have fun ? And we where so free and got away with pretty much everything Hahahahahaha.sucks to be a kid these days 😂
That time has long gone and never return. The insidiousness need or unavoidable fact for the human race to always stagnate and go backwards whenever things are at their best in ANY walk of life is just too ingrained and unavoidable.
Your fkn full of it man
@@redskye8908 wtf did i just read ?
80’s Aussie rock seriously shits on every other song 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Australian music in the 1980's was fantastic. You could see live bands like this without travelling far or spending loads of money. Think I saw Noiseworks at the Pier in Frankston.
80's the best decade of AOR, Westcoast, Hi-tech, Melodickhardrock, Hairmetal, Pop & NewWave, Funky, Soul, Jazzfunk best Movies and great Soundtracksera!
Especially with a kiwi frontman 😀. So good to see people enjoying classic Aussie rock
Saw Real life at the Pier, early eighties. Great band venue then before twenty worst century came along.
I saw The Angels at the Dorset Gardens Hotel in Croydon. Brilliant living in the 80’s in Melbourne. So lucky, every weekend. Wish I could go back and do it all again. Great time to be young with no responsibilities.
We had some of the best pub bands .I’m so glad we didn’t have the internet.we would of missed out on so much . Back when we. Got away with so much lol. And we where all free. I wish we could go back. 👍😂
Noiseworks like a many Aussie bands weren't considered the big hits in the 80s and 90s world wide. Australia will always thank them because they were not our miss.
Thats the era when musicians really existed and played live. People and not AI were songwriters, and singers actually sung without autotune. Yeah loved the 80s
Noice works should be in the Australian rock and roll hall of fame
I thought they were
Hang on, aren't they?
Noiseworks nailed the intro on this track. It's such a great song. RIP Stuart Fraser, you're a legend.
Come back , we need you , for our souls and ears :)
Damn, we had some good music back then!!!
Oh-woh-woh-oh...
Oh-oh-oh...
You never expect it to be in your wildest dreams
So take a step backwards for a little while
You'll find it there
It's somethin' that I can't explain
So I remain trapped inside
Still holdin' strong
Still holding o-on to you
To you
Take me back to you
It's been a long time
Although every night
I think of you
It's such a lonely life
I watched you wave goodbye as you drove away
I didn't know that it would be your last time with me
You said - life ain't worth living if nobody cared
You said that all the time
Oh I take a step back and see your starin' eyes
I see you on the day you die
Take me back to you
It's been a long time
Although every night
I think of you
It's such a lonely life (yeah)
And take me back to you
Take me back to you
Oh-woh-woh-oh-oh
Take me back to you
It's been a long time
Although every night
I think of you
It's such a lonely life
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Take me back to you
Take me back to you
R.I.P Stuart Fraser we miss you heaps and heaps mate
He was a awesome guitarist
You know.. that one person you meet just once in your lifetime? The one you laughed with, cried with and who just felt like 'home? '
And then... you lose them? And you know it's forever but something never lets you forget how they felt, how you felt...and the 'magic' you've yearned for ever since, yet cannot find with any other?
That's what this song is to me. It's a raw, longing for a time and a place... and that special someone who will never come again.
Beautiful, sad and haunting.
What a song! 💔
Yeap I only was with this woman for 2 months and feel.exactly like what u explained
Wow. Your comments hit hard.
Same. Well said Amanda.
Thanks for sharing. This was lovely for me to read. I understand completely.
❤so true Amanda such as life...we can never go back😢
I'm 51 now, and was 17yrs old in 87' this track takes me back to the good days! It's a bit sad at the same time, as he Jon Stevens talks about how he sees his friend on the day he dies". In the video clip you can see his mate driving off in the car. Anyways, Jon's vocals are awesome and the electric guitars & drums.🎸🎸🔊
I was 15, and this song takes me straight back! Man we were so lucky to have been there, its unexplainable to those who didn't experience the ambience of the 80s
As a child I was obsessed with this song , I was born in 89 and about 4 years old and I remember was always on the radio as a hit still.
I never knew the back story of the song, but I always imagined I would be playing this song if any of my family members (also including my best friends) or my partner died.
Thanks for the information 😀
I was informed that it was written about his mother, who deceased in a car accident..🥺 I haven't checked this as fact.. I don't want to know if that is true, as the sentiment and power in Steven's lyric and voice say enough.
It just pulls at the heartstrings. What incredible talent we have here in Australia. I was not even 10 when this was released but it still moves me to this very day. I feel that same emotion roller-coaster from the opening guitars to the first drum beats and the pulsing rhythm kicks in... then, that voice..
Oh lord, there is a God. A rock God.
This is total courtesy of Jon Stevens and Noiseworks.
Aussie Aussie Aussie...
"Jon, Jon, Jon"...🥰
It was about his Girlfriend 😢
@belladowell8895 the song "millie" was written for his mum that passed from cancer bella
Before Kings of Leon, there was Noiseworks! 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Those words mean so much more now.
Not wrong 👍🏼
When music mattered. 80's-90's I can happily say it was the best 20years of my life. Thanks to all the talented musicians we had 🤘🔥
Who's Listening In 2024 ❤
Hell yeah, Noiseworks. Simple. 😮
Yep
Me
Every time I hear this song, it reminds me of my Dad. He always tells me that he remembers driving somewhere when this song first came out in 1987
Saw it live a couple of months ago! 🎉🎉man's still got it!
I’m a HEALTHCARE WORKER, still! I’m now 63.. keep an open mind, because there still, today, some great groups, bands and individual artists!! Trust me, just search.
Yes, it was a great era for music in the 80’s, but don’t the great artists today, deserve recognition too? ! Just listen..
Love, Wendy from Australia xox❤
I miss music that had this kind of passion. Such a rarity these days.
Hey ya..😊 I was thinking the same thing as well..what did happen to this world? When I am listening to this Noiseworks song Take Me Back I am thinking back to 1987 when the world seemed a nicer and better place..Great music..Great movies.. Hasbro made the coolest toys in the world..the fashion trend was way-out and made it fun to walk down the street..then 32 years later the world was hit by covid 19 and now we're all screwed..so sad and tragic ..
@@EllaKournikova1234 Honestly, I feel like it's been a long slide down since the GFC, it's just that the pandemic followed by the war in Ukraine and Gaza have accelerated the decline. For me the mid to late 90's were the high point, but maybe that just a late teens/early 20s thing. For another great song just seeing a video for the Cure's Burn (from the first Crow movie soundtrack) at the bottom of my screen. Never give up, never surrender.
JS is and always was one of the great Kiwi talents.
This song still rocks after all these years.
😢 my Beautiful Mum
Died when this came out 😢
This MY MUM'S SONG
LOVE 😘😢 YOU ❤️ MUM
I'm a old guy any person who lived in Melbourne Australia who.listend 3,mmm hot breakfast would play noise works and I would sing heart out luckily they still play there music they are great cheers to all
Heyqueen lobsterhope I hope you're all well
Always takes me back to memories of my brother Stuart Antony van Hoorn, who took his own life on December 1, 1990. One of his favourite bands. I just wish he would have called me.
I'm sorry 4 your loss
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Much love to you all ❤
Im sorry for your loss
I have had enough of 2021 and want to go back to the 80's
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Take me back…with you.
2021? 2024 now and we have got a deep shit......
I'm coming too
My 5 brothers and sister listen and sang to this album on cassette player non stop from Melbourne to Adelaide and back to Melbourne. Take me back was our favourite song. My brothers had the same hair like John Stevens and even dressed the same and were very popular with the females . Now one brother has just passed and one is in the wheelchair with Multiple sclerosis. I wish I had a Time Machine and Take Me back to the 80s .
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The emotion in Jon Stevens singing is so powerful, I feel it in my heart every time. The way these instruments compliment his voice is supreme! What an amazing band!
My mum has served him twice in the last week at her job lmao
yes he is i feel it in my heart too :-)
And to think he was considered for Van Halen after David Lee Roth quit.
Comentário incrível!!🤘
@@SPQRTempus That would be after Sammy Hagar left VH in the mid 90's, Jon was considered but Van Halen went with Garry Cherone of Extreme ;) While successful in NZ Jon wasn't on the world map so to speak in 85 after Roth left, not until 87 when Noiseworks broke big locally. But yes, makes ya think right? ;)
Born in 58 i loved the music so much. Got married at 16 then Had a nervous breakdown at 16 from childhood abuse memories.
I don't remember much of my life back then but when i hear the music i loved in those days i can't believe how meaningful and so beautiful it was compared to so much smutt and trash of today.
What the f..k happened to music? Nothing compares to anything we did 30-40 years ago. R.I.P. great times.
Auto-Tune and Pro Tools homogenised all the life out of music... a generation of kids who have never been anywhere or done anything are the ones getting record deals now and they are based on their looks not their talent... the general pussification and ruination of western civilisation... many things have happened to music... none of them good.
How did I live through the 80s and never hear of this band?! That is real man's voice.omg
For shame! Glad it found you! :)
This will always be one of my favourite songs of all time.
That particular guitar sound is awesome.
And Jon Stevens voice at the end , that " breath" or something makes the song complete.
It's perfect!
Yes
Traveling on a bus in Europe from Vienna to Serbia 🇷🇸, it's 22:33pm and fully proud of living my first young childhood days in Newcastle late 70s 80s 90s 2000. Screaming Jets just reminds me of how life was absolutely beautiful and how proud I am to have thoughts of the real life.
Writing from Newcastle! Spy Vs Spy and DV8 and so many more during that time. Great times
Rip Stuart fraser, he rips the solo here, rest in peace man
Who's he
@@kiriwilson4706 he is the lead guitarist playing the sunburst stratocaster
When did he die my best mate died to had the same last name
In the 70s the pom's dominated music in the 80's the Aussies cut sick on the world so many talented musicians
Did such a great performance at Warne's farewell x
Omygosh, those were the dayzzzz🎉 Take me back 1 trillion percent
any of these past hits put it over any of today's contemporary crap...hands down!!!
Yes!!!
That's why I don't listen to the radio these days... just so must crap...
Amen, back then we had these guys, Hoodoo Gurus, Darryl Braithwaite, Screaming Jets, Paul Kelly, Icehouse, Hunters & Collectors, John Farnham, Choirboys, ACDC, back in the day we had LEGIT aussie music to rock out to!
Was a different industry then.
Spicy
Nothing like the 80s music.
Another Aussie iconic song, so much great music back in those days, so many wonderful memories.
The last time I saw my ex was when she waved at me....as she drove away. That line brings back those memories. I could have been a better boyfriend. I could have tried harder. This song always makes me wonder. A true sliding doors time in my life.
RIP Stuart Fraser and RIP Shane Warne.
Never gets old.
An absolute ripper of a song one of the 80s best songs!
My aunt gave us this tape when we were in Melbourne over on holiday from Ireland. I was 11. We also bought the single later back home. It's one of those automatic songs that I'll wip out at karaoke that few people have heard. Absolute belter.
Without a doubt this is one of the greatest Aussie rock songs ever. I probably don't go a day without listening to the accoustic version. I'll be getting dropping in a hole to this song playing. Rock on!!!
Born in 82 but remember this music like it was yesterday! My mum was in her 20's and showed me the way in music!! Plus, she kinda loved Jon Lol!!
The 80s/90s was the Best! Waterskiing on the Murray. Bring it back in these times🌻
Take me back to my free life,no worrys,no broken Hart,miss ya Gary W.so happy and freedom was everything.xo
Every night in my bedroom as a sad 16 yo.. I was at horden pavilion 4 times live.. still listening x s
What a beautiful man 💙
I love these old Aussie songs I’m 22 proud to be Aussie I listen to cold chisel, rads, oz crawl I remember I watched noiseworks tribute show at the doylo on the central coast it was a great night people of all cultures had a beer and had the time of their lives 🇦🇺🇦🇺
I like Aussie's bands very much. As far as I'm concerned Aussies are proud, tough and strong people. I can't even imagine living in the place where every even the smallest living thing wants to kill or eat you. LOL
love his voice so under rated🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Saw them live tonight at Enmore theatre for their Take me back once off night. They saved this till last and they still rings this song out just as good as it was 36 years ago. Wow!
Great band and great voice ...good looking Rooster with his mullet too.
The best music 80s 👍 🎤 🎸👏
My teens, great memories. Even better music.....
Magic.... Loved it then, Love it now.
I miss these times back in 80's! What the hell happened?
They don't make music like this anymore...
Got that right
Sadly not!!!!
Vaporwave in a lot of ways was kinda a movement back towards stuff like this even if it was superficially against rock music. It inadvertently lead into an AOR Revival Scene and some of the ideas from it also Spilled into European Style Black Metal. Yes and no though. Not exactly the same for sure.
Damn straight
Such a great song. I hope the 80s never die
The 80's were superficial crap
They'll die with us ,Sadly .What a loser the other guy.
@@dirkdiggler6230 So why are you watching, dude?? Stuff you..
@@paulhorvath9784 no, they won't, I'm 13 right now and love the 80s music, it's amazing compared to nowdays music, I promise this won't die as long as I live and hopefully longer 💛
@@dirkdiggler6230 What's now then you idiot. You probably weren't even there and I might add that all the crapshots OF the 80s are ALL the ones that were always beloved and STILL are now, so there!
Music is the closest thing to a time machine that man will ever create...and cripes does this song ever Take Me Back.
What a voice he was back in those days best band in 80s I'm an first nation Australia I love this band
I can still remember the first time I saw these guys on the south cost and omg what a great sound and great night it was, indeed. [ thank you] Long live Noiseworks.
That voice wow
If there was ever 2 songs to play to the world for a new Australian tourism campaign post Covid, Take me back and Touch would be it, no if or buts. Australian Oz rock greats. Put a deal together Nosieworks and Australian tourism commission.
And jimmy barnes working class man
What a tune 👌🏼 love the 80's as I was born in 89
So good to hear these fav. songs of the 80's... where i was too young to understand what love meant, but the music manage to imbed in my soul!
Classic Jon Stevens and noise works … ❤️… 🎵🎵🎵🎵… they rocked it back and they sound even better today .. can’t wait to go back to the local and listen to live music again..
So many memories…. 17 when this came out! Wow what a ride! So grateful to have had such amazing friends at this time god I lived my life to the fullest!!! Tell my kids all the time (they are 19.19 and 21) soak up these moments you will never get them back. Jon Stevens you are still the sexiest man alive lol!
I so relate
I had no idea about this band until recently--a real shame they were never promoted here in the States. I think their first two albums could've easily gained some traction here.
Me either. One of my favorite things now, is to find 80s music that I never got the chance to hear when it was released. I'm transported back to my days of cruising in my old car with the radio blasting. Almost. Almost can feel the wind through the open windows, see the streetlights strobing across my windshield and the smell of my girlfriend's perfume drifting over from the passenger seat.
Try looking up our bands…….it’s worth it!
Listen to 'rain' from Dragon my American friend.
Can't beat the music or the mullets!
My favourite Noiseworks somg love Jon Stevens I remember them growimg up xx
Noiseworks 😍 😍 😍 ❤️❤️❤️❤️💘💘💘💘From France 🇫🇷
The 80s were awesome and so many great bands. Noiseworks, paul kelly, dragon, hunters snd collectors. Nothing today that compares. Those were the days.
I seen noiseworks on the coast of New South Wales when they first started , in a pub front row . Was hooked on them since that day , great band , amazing lead singer . This music will never die
I feel a new deep dive coming on.
I'm getting a new appreciation of Australian and New Zealand talent.
Hopefully we get to another John , John Rowles, a mix of Elvis and Tom Jones in one.
The soundscape at the intro….and continued throughout…..is absolutely brilliant ❤
Every time I hear this i turn up loud and sing the hell out of this song
Can’t wait till you come to Australia 🇦🇺 💗🥳
The lyrics to this song have been stuck in my head for ages and I had no idea where they came from and this popped up on my music list today. Such a great song!
I literally had a girlfriend drive away and never come back.
But we hadn't fought or anything. Everything seemed fine.
Maybe she had another guy.
But this song nails how I felt.
A long time ago !
upperhutt reppin 🙌 banger of a song
I loved Noiseworks, jon Stevens has a magnificent voice, so powerful and strong. A great song.
Takes me back!!! What memories...
Aussie rock at its best........take me back sure does
This is one of my favourites. Such a classic song. Man our music music was great back then, what happened?
Take me back to the 80s & 90s 👍🏼
BEAUUUTIFUL!!!!
There must have been a hell of a lot of politics in music back in the day, as a lot of Aussie bands could have made the big time worldwide, but they were not marketed properly. I am glad that I got to hear a lot of them. If we had RUclips 40 years ago, I wonder if things could have been different for them?
I love you forever Peppy.
I will never forget you.
No dog will ever replace you.
You were the best dog- misunderstood as a cheeky stubborn and high energy cattle dog, but it wasn’t your fault- we didn’t have the skills or lifestyle to be what you needed.
Almost 40 years have passed and my heart breaks when I remember your face as you were given away, with us screaming and crying in the car driving away and you chasing after us crying.
I understand ‘his’ reasons and we couldn’t afford to keep you let alone feed ourselves, but I will never forgive or forget the WAY it was done.
You are my forever dog.
I cannot wait to see you again little Peppy girl.
You are amazing and missed.
All the dogs since, got the best of me- you got a disfunctional kid with an unstable home and unstable family.
I wish we had met when I was an adult.
I’d have cut off my hand before I’d give you away by my own choice.
I love you so so much.
Please look after Hippo and the other doggos I’ve loved that have passed, until we are reunited.
😔🐕💔🕊
Jon Stevens is a Kiwi born singer from Upper Hutt Nz what a great song
You can't bloody compare anything to this..song have the power to make you feel bloody awesome on the worst day of your life literally.
Australian iconic song, why is there no music like this today, take me back 👌🏻
I only found out about this awesome song and this band last month! It appeared under suggested and now I'm hooked! 😍
Noiseworks was the first band I saw live - at Kernot Hall l in Morwell. I still have my ticket stub. I idolized these blokes. Stuart Fraser was a freaking legend.
Love love ❤ one of the best Aussie songs ever..a classic that will never ever die.