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Who Did It Better? - The Easybeats vs Jimmy Barnes & INXS - Good Times
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In this video we're comparing The Easybeats and Jimmy Barnes, with INXS, and their renditions of Good Times. We discovered this song in our teens, when Jimmy and INXS did it, and it ended up on the movie, 'The Lost Boys', which was a huge movie for teens in the 80's. We loved it instantly, and we were pleased to hear that it was a cover of an Easybeats song. We are quite eager to hear the original of this fantastic song. Please let us know who you think did it better. Enjoy!
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Greatest party song ever. The original's good but Jimmy Barnes & INXS bring the fire!
INXS and Jimmy all the way! MKH matching Jimmy's energy and aggression. Phenom!
INXS and Jimmy 2 rock Gods with Michael and Jimmy performing together to take it to another level
Absolute draw , im not brave enough to pick one , brilliant both of em ,top marks 🏴 happy healthy peace ✌️
Being a 77 year old Aussie I was around for both when they first come out they are from two different place in time 1968 and 1986 love both. Peace out.
Different time and place, but same spirit.. I was 18 when the INXS/Barnsey one came out, so it hit at the right time.
Another great Vanda and Young song. They certainly knew how to right them.
I liked The Easybeats version back in the 60's, but I used to crank up the INXS/Jimmy Barnes collab. It's a great version!
Pub rock peak! Easybeats' '''Friday On My Mind'' and ''Good Times'' started the ball rolling for Aussie rock in the 60's and just as it was peaking in the mid 80's, ''Good Times'' came around again as a Jimmy Barnes and INXS cover and as the cherry on the top.
After that, the peak of Aussie pub rock began to die down....
Both are just as good as each other. Different eras with the different sound of studio quality.
I was a big Easybeats fangirl back in the 60's. The only time I defied the law was when I told a cop I hated him for stopping me from getting to Stevie Wright. I was only 11, but I was sure that if Stevie Wright saw me, he'd promise to marry me because we were ''meant to be''. He was on my wall smiling at me and that bloody cop ruined my life
Twenty years later, I'm still out partying and having a good time with ''Good Times'', only this time with INXS and Jimmy Barnes. I was not disappointed with what they had done with this song.
lol@your cop story. Love it!
LOL- I totally get it! nothing as obsessive as a teeney bopper in heat !! I also loved Stevie Wright, but for me Steve Marriott of Small Faces will always be my #1!
@@cindyfalstrom7231 The only thing that stops me from cringing is that i was 11. It was outside an Easybeats gig and I was among crazy teenagers. The cop muttered ''you and everybody else love'' after I told him that I hated him. I cried myself to sleep that night. lol
@@EveJenkins58 Little girls are a hoot! We take ourselves so seriously, while the adults just roll their eyes. It was so much fun though. Wish I could go back to the innocence of those days.
@@cindyfalstrom7231 I read the comments on this channel made by those much younger than me. Especially the women that used to be the girls on Countdown. I relate to a lot of their stories as they are similar to my own time in the 60's. But it was a hoot.. We have a very different type of energy at that age.
Love em both!
INXS and Jimmy all the way, that energy is insane! This is a match made in heaven, two brilliant singers and no egos in the way, they seem to have so much fun. The live version is awesome too, btw ❤
The Easybeats undoubtedly!
Awesome comparison. Second one for me.
Such a difficult choice but if course have to go with the energy of the INXS and Jimmy version. They took a great song and concept and took it to the next level!
Thanks for the shout out ❤
I do love both. Thank goodness for the Easybeats. They were before my time, however I really appreciate their sound, Stevie’s voice and charisma RIP, and their bold rock sound. They were writing their own music when a lot of other bands were doing covers. George Young and Harry Vanda have given so much to the Aussie music industry and for that matter the world.
But anyone who knows me, knows that the first band I loved was INXS. I mean Michael has the looks, sound and swagger, and the rest of the band, well they are real musicians too. And then I discovered Jimmy and he blew my mind. He became my favourite artist, and thereby Chisel became my favourite band. I honestly listen to them every single day.
It is so close, but In sway in favour of Jimmy and INXS.
My next comparison suggestion would be “Long as I see the light” CCR and Cold Chisel (I only know of an audio one for Chisel). Both are mighty fine. Enjoy ❤
I have too many good times and good memories with the INXS and Jimmy Barnes take. Their version psyched me up for the weekend. In my book, they win..
I knew the Easybeats version from an old Greatest hits record of theirs I'd had for years but it was 1987 and I was 22 yo so saturday nights before hitting the pubs and clubs, this track by Jimmy and Inxs, Funky Town - Pseudo Echo, Run to Paradise - Choirboys and anything by the Angels got the party started and for that reason alone it is Jimmy and Inxs for me.
Fun fact: Steve Marriot of Small Faces does backing vocals on The Easybeats' version. I had a lot of good times in the 80's and this song felt like the anthem of my life. INXS show the world just how pub rock they really were.
I have too much respect for both acts to choose one over the other.
Steve Marriot flexing his vocal muscle in the backing (Easybeats of course) 👏😁
Easybeats for me. The first is more true to the lyrics, because Stevie sings it like he is making an offer - playing it cool in the verse and getting lively in the chorus.
INXS/Jimmy Barnes perform it like the party is already happening.
It really did take Jimmy Barnes and INXS for most of us Aussie Gen-Xers to pay attention to this song. The jubilance of this song can be heard in other Aussie pop-rock of this time period including Party Boys 'He's Gonna Step On You', Models 'Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight', and Dragon's dodgy cover of Kool & The Gang's ''Celebration''. Aussie bands were doing well overseas, Crocodile Dundee was a box office hit, Australia won the America's cup, Bob Hawke was our everyman's prime minister, the Australian Bicentenary was just around the corner and the Australian Made concerts being a big success.. Things that could put a nation in a good mood. I'll choose the INXS/Barnsey version for its timing.
Cheers,
Hayley
They're both so good!
The Easybeats one of the earlier Australian bands who often get confused by Americans as part of 'The British Invasion' mainly due to the timing, I've always liked their stuff. I prefer the original version, although it's a great cover by Jimmy Barnes and INXS.
The Jimmy Barnes + INXS version takes me back to turning 18 and all the gigs, clubs, pubs and parties I went to.. And both INXS and Barnsey were great at the Australian Made concert. Just a great time! 🎉
Agree! They were really good that day.
lol.. This song came out when I shedded off my precious Spandau Ballet/Japan style and went all pub, circa 1986. I got to see them perform it at the Australian Made concert too. I had been a fan of INXS since 1981, and they showed me that it was okay to let my hair down with this one! On ya 4 doing this one !!! 👍
INXS and Jimmy Barnes' version for me.
I was like you Chris. I too couldn't stop playing the Jimmy Barnes/INXS version at the time. I played it before I went out on a Saturday night and I played it on the following Sunday before going out for a surf. Good times, indeed! 👍
The audio for the Easybeats is fine. I tried to make a video out of the Easybeats' track, but RUclips kept blocking it..
The Beat-Club clip cuts out the pre-chorus and it's hardly fair on the song! Very pleased to see this. The Jimmy Barnes/INXS version is how it felt to be in Australia in the 80's.
The InXS / Barnsy version was released as a single to promote the mighty ‘Australian Made’ rock tour they were headlining that summer. It went all around Australia. It was top notch & very exciting at the time.
The other acts on the tour were:
Mental As Anything
I’m Talking
The Triffids
The Saints
Divinyls
The Models
Like Steve Foulston, I got to see these songs be hits in real time, but my memories of the Barnsey/INXS rendition is a lot more detailed. Batty (Kaitlyn Batt) and I used to do a lot of pub crawling in the 80's with a big group of mates, and ''Good Times'' (Barnsey/INXS version) was in the air. It was playing in every pub and was on the radio everywhere, and damn, those times were good! I like INXS because they seemed to release covers right at the moment the originators were reforming. The Loves Ones, who had their classic ''The Loved One'' covered by INXS twice (the latter being on the KICK album), were reforming; and The Easybeats also reformed around the time the INXS/Barnsey version of ''Good Times'' came out. Michael singing with Barnsey here, and then doing work with Ollie Olsen a couple of years later shows that Michael could see the goodness in all kinds of people.
I met him a few times during INXS's early years.. Nice bloke. RIP
I met Michael Hutchence as well. Nice enough bloke, but he told me I was too young and to remove my hand from his leg. Oh well, I tried.. lol
@@rhonda_hart4982 just how old were you Rhonda? lol🤣
@@VolumeEleven Jeez, probably 15 or 16. I cringe when I look back. Luckily, he was a gentleman and he turned me down softly.
@@rhonda_hart4982 It's like an opposite world ! Teen girl touches up the rockstar. Sorry, I shouldn't be so crude.
I watched their reaction to MAX Q ''sometimes''. It's easy to forget MAX Q Michael is the same guy doing ''Good Times'' with Jimmy Barnes. Impressively versatile guys.
I don't think that anyone ever did a better version of an Easybeats song.
'Nother suggestion for a future Wednesday comparison: "Looking at you" by the MC5 (1970) and the Damned (79)!
Note: The MC5 recorded "looking at you" twice- a 1968 45 and on the second album. You'll probably want the 1970 version.
(RIP Brother Wayne Krammer and Machine Gun Thompson...)
Paul McCartney is said to have first heard this Easybeats track on his car radio and then pulled over, rang up the station and asked them to play it again
The Barnes/INXS version is on the soundtrack of "The Lost Boys"
Easybeats and Billy Thorpe created Pub Rock in Australia! They drew the map by writting the songs that Aussie bands would cover for years to come. As a kid in the 60's/70's, pubs in Australia were like dead end drinking holes with old diggers wanting to be away from their wives a kids... No disrespect to them! Always respect the diggers and veterans. In the late 60's, the pubs brought in rock bands and young people began spending their hard earned money just to see them and drink the beer...
But damn, by the 80's the pubs were sexy! The bar women and pub girls were young and sexy, and the bands were hot... An ignorant young guy like me thought that all life was about was sexy women, good rock 'n' roll and sweaty bands... The INXS & Barnsey version was the peak of Australian pub culture and the old Easybeats song came back to claim its throne as the anthem of that culture. Both are as important as eachother.
Both are fantastic. For me, Steve Marriott just tips the scales over for the Easybeats.
Thanks for this. Great song. I never knew Inxs/JB was a cover version. Like ‘em both!
Both so, so good. I tend to give extra points to the band that wrote and/or originally recorded a song.
But Jimmy + INXS ! I still remember the first time I heard it, working overtime on a Saturday and I pumped the radio volume right up as soon as it started. The 80’s in Sydney right there!
Two songs of this Aussie ''pub rock'' calibre that you order get check out is The Party Boys ''He's Gonna Step On You Again'' and Choirboys ''Run To Paradise''. The Party Boys were made up of Mondo Rock, Divinyls, The Angels and that Alan guy from Status Quo. Might like to find who originally did ''He's Gonna Step'' though.
John Kongos did the original Gonna Step On you.
A great song from the original to The Party Boys with Swanee abd then the version with Swanee's little brother ( Jimmy ) a host of Aussie music royalty and INXS again ( i think ).
Great tribute to Little Richard. Easybeats (Harry) gave their guitar to Malcom Young to play in his band called ACDC
I saw Jimmy join ‘Bon Jovi’ to sing this at the Sydney Entertainment Centre back in ‘87. Jimmy was a bit pissed (drunk), haha, but together they ripped out a great version.
We (Gillian, Hayley, Drew, Autoberry and a few other ex-Countdown kids on here) saw INXS and Barnsey do this song at the Australian Made festival. We got very drunk. ❤INXS/Jimmy Barnes for this one!
Lucky you! I was also at one of the Aus.Made fests, but I ended up being the designated driver. Everybody's gotta be a sucker sometime.
@@ComfortablyDumb_Opinions lol.. Bad deal but somebody has to sign up to it. 😆
And I was just amazed by how well Jimmy and INXS pulled it off live. Great day!!! Everybody else were good, but those two acts owned the whole show.
@@ComfortablyDumb_Opinions lol.. At least you got everybody home nice and safe.. That's something you can be proud of. 😇
@@MorningDewLoop. I don't think I was surprised that INXS and Barnsey pulled it off. They were pub rock veterans by the time they did Australian Made.
Hi its 3.28am in Ireland I know it's daytime in the US I love your channel I hope you all enjoy the good music just like me
As we're responding to you, it's 10:38pm. We're a few hours difference in Ontario, Canada.
@@hanierfamily brilliant I think that's the capital of Canada beautiful country. Still enjoying the music please do a bit of the cranberries I know you did slf or possibly do thin lizzy kindest regards. It doesn't make it alright ❤️🇮🇪
The are both amazing, but I jave a crush on Michael 😊
There is a video on u tube of the easybeats singing this song. Outdoes Jimmy and micheal Hutchence because it was the original. Easybeats forever.
I never really loved this song as much as other people but I still think it is a good song. It was just overplayed on radio that it probably spoilt it. I do not have a favourite but I think the other singers for Easybeats were a big step down from their lead singer. I like that both versions do justice to the piano role in old time rock and roll. Never heard the Easybeats version until now but If I was around in the 60's I think I would been happy with the music they produced in their time.
I'd love to see you guys do Jimmy Barnes ''working class man'', clip on his official channel
Gonna agree with my Melbourne sister LeaveMeAlone. INXS and Jimmy Barnes are treating the song like it's just some jam.. A good jam, but a jam none the less. The Easybeats are serving the song.
Both great tracks. Easybeats were giving it a red hot go in spite of the production limitations of their era.
I think the cover version was superior, but major kudos to The Easybeats for creating such a stellar party track. Any band worth their salt would sound great playing that song, and that’s a great songwriting achievement.
On the subject of ‘who did it better?’, I think I already suggested Rush’s EP Feedback which they put out in 2004 as celebration of 30 years since their debut album and was composed entirely of cover songs from the 60s of bands that influenced them as teenagers. It’s got songs put out by bands such as The Who, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, The Yardbirds, Eddie Cochrane, Love, and The Jeff Beck Group. It’s worth a comparison or two, for sure.
First paragraph I agree with wholeheartedly.
@@ComfortablyDumb_Opinions
Not the second?
@@sean---the-other-one you got me there. Umm.. I heartedly agree with the second.
@@ComfortablyDumb_Opinions
I’ll allow it
@@sean---the-other-one The awkward conversation just before the party starts?
The Easybeats for me. I think it's instrumentally better and I prefer the sixties sound over the eighties.
The Easybeats version is one of a couple of latter day Easybeats songs that really hit the mark…. But unfortunately when this and another great song St.Louis came out it was too late, the band after one final Australian tour Broke up…… one final Easybeats comparison….. St. Louis…. v Little River Band’s version….John Farnham vocals…… Barnes / INXS version just…. Because I love both.
That wasn't fair to compare the Easybeats to INXS and Barnes the amps and PA's were much louder in the eighties than the sixties the recording equipment much different as well plus two lead singers to one both are great I grew up listening to the EasyBeats song then in the eighties it was covered
Boy, this is really a tough one to choose from. You are correct in saying it is unfair that you couln't show the video of Easybeats (Beat Club is notorious for copyright issues), as people should see Stevie Wright in action. He is so charismatic & energetic, plus the band really does a fantastic job - then, Steve Marriott from Small Faces providing the outstanding vocals on the chorus put this song over the top for me. I do ADORE Jimmy Barnes, so I loved the 2nd song also. If anyone is interested, there is another video version on YT featuring Jimmy Barnes with Keith Urban also singing w/ great rock&roll guitar, plus Jimmy's son Jackie KILLs it on the drums. I think this choice will break down with your older viewers (like me) who knew the original vrs the youngsters (like you) who grew up with the INXS version. Tie IMO.
May I please make another "Who did it better" request for a great classic, covered by many people, but I recommend three versions (with a couple runners up) ifyou choose to pick another:
STAY WITH ME BABY The original by Lorraine Ellison in 1966. The great soul singer.
Covered by : Steve Marriott (solo) 1989 A mature Marriott in his 40's two years before his death. A deeper, smokier voice than most assoicate with Steve, with so much soul and emotion, it breaks my heart.
My 2nd fav cover :Chris Cornell. Another talented but troubled singer. I LOVE this version also. Much more production in this version than Steve's pared down performance.
Others who covered include - Terry Reid, Bette Midler, Sam Smith, Janis Joplin, bobbie Hatfield, Walker Brother, and more.
Thank you !!!
The Easybeats version is great because it features backing vocals by Steve Marriott of the Small Faces. It's a shame this song wasn't the follow up to Friday On My Mind. The INXS version is good, certainly enhanced by Jimmy Barnes.
I have a crazy suggestion for your covers comparisons, starting with an ABBA classic covered on radio live to air to raise money for charity , the cover by Jimmy Barnes of Dancing Queen.
Also Jimmy did the Sia song " Chandelier " ,filling in for her at late notice for an awards ceremony live on tv.
I love both...
Jimmy Barnes - Working Class Man music video
I vote for the INXS and Jimmy Barnes version. By the way, the group Shocking Blue did a great cover version of this song too - check it out, it really rocks. Thanks! 😊
Jimmy still doing it
Strummer and i are going to see my ol' mates brand new PUNKROCK band tonight at midnight VIGILANT CITIZEN. One of his earlier bands SALAD DAYS played at my 21st in march 91 He's an old STRAIGHT EDGE PUNKROCKER and a choice guy
I'd be curious to know which version of Glory Box you'd prefer
Portisheads electronic coffee shop ambience or John Martyn's stripped down yet jazzed up offering.
Richarc Clapton - Girls On The Avenue Antipodes 😃👍
Richard
Obviously INXS/Barnes has a more contemporary sound, but kudos to the Easybeats for writing and doing it first.
Another thing I want to say is that the INXS/Jimmy Barnes rendition takes me back to the nights when I saw bands like Midnight Oil, Divinyls, Cold Chisel, INXS, Choirboys, Dragon, Hoodoo Gurus, Boom Crash Opera, and Hunters And Collectors playing all those pubs in Sydney. They just seemed to do it harder at the time. Drums were beaten harder, guitars strummed harder, crowds roared louder, singer did what Barnsey and Michael are doing there. Post-80's pub bands like Screaming Jets and Powderfinger just didn't match what was going on in the 70's and 80's. Sorry...
I like the Easybeats, but I'm picking Jimmy Barnes and INXS purely on the basis of nostalgia. I've always been able to relate to the fun Barnsey and INXS are having in the video. We were all like that in the 80's!
I like Jimmy Barnes and INXS , but I'm picking the Easybeats on the basis of nostalgia!
@@GeoffCB It probably has to do with where we were in our lives at the time.
The timing was on INXS/Jimmy Barnes' side, which makes the comparison unfair. Both are equal in my opinion, and both capture the spirit of their respective time periods. No doubt Jimmy Barnes and the INXS boys encapsulated the good times of urban life in Australia in the 80's.
It's a no brain.. Barnsey/INXS.. And that's not taking anything away from The Easybeats, because there's a lot of good there too. But the production and energy of the latter version takes me back to 80's Oz rock live at the pubs. INXS were from the pubs along with Chisel/Barnsey, Midnight Oil, etc.. That's why they could pull this off.
Yeah, this is alright. Good song for what it is, but I was too busy grooving to Wa Wa Nee and Pseudo Echo to bother with this one.
Not sure if anybody's asked for this, but could you guys get around to doing Machinations ''My Heart's On Fire''?
It's been a while since you done these guys.
Easybeats pioneered Aussie rock'roll but its hard to beat Barnes and Hutchence backed by the INXS band!
Easybeats clip ruclips.net/video/8yMswt56fvQ/видео.html
A bit unfair as it was a single and not in collaboration with others in the Easybeats version. They were able to copy the original. I go with the original as it was the first.
Yeah, a party draw.
I'll stick wi the Original on this one.
Is there a version by INXS without Jimmy Barnes? The bugger can't sing. Loved the energy of INXS with Ira Davies singing. The Easy Beats version was great, but I think the production values of 1986 pip 1968.