I heard this tune regularly played on a community radio station based at Bathurst, NSW around 1986 when I was doing field work near Oberon. Such a gorgeous song!
@@GaryPeters-nv8pj Oh I’m sorry that I have the audacity to go to a place in public, exist as a woman and expect to be treated like a human being who deserves respect.
They say that music elicits memories and emotions long forgotten. This song takes me back to my Halcyon days in Chch in the early '80's, great bands, great friends, both crazy and sane, and of course, the wonderful women that made it all worthwhile...Arohanui.
A guilty pleasure I kept secret about liking at the time of its release for some reason. Beautiful melody and I like cats too. What's not to like about this.
I first heard this great tune at the Toitu Otago Settler's Museum in Dunedin, NZ, the hometown of this group. A fine, catchy tune. There's a lot of good talent in New Zealand, too bad great stuff like this never made it Canada or The States like Split Enz or Crowded House did.
Lol, I had this song on a flying nun comp, back in the early 90s, in KS, USA. It was out there, I just got lucky to fall in love w The Clean, & sought out all the FN stuff I could find.
I have this cassette, sadly both it and my hearing have deteriorated. I wish women all the best in these days when ii's an uphill battle with no signs of victory since the 60's.
Fion, we never had a chance to meet but we are connected with this song. You introduced me with this amazing song and named our friendship, our weird bond on this song... like we had back then. Just remember, I'll never forget us cz we r our Cactus Cats. Always Love you Fion, you're my Cactus cat. Thank you so much for all the moments we shared. Be happy and sassy. Hisss 🐈
Cats are strongly psychic..some cacti can increase psychic abilities in humans.. anymore questions? oh, yes they were a band comprised solely of women, how strange... And I still love them...
I have the cassette still... and it makes me happy to this day. Classic Dunedin sound, classic Kiwi music.
A very young Robert Scott on the beach 🤩 love the video
The best!
@@FlyingNunRecords Yeah, I love The Bats!!!
I heard this tune regularly played on a community radio station based at Bathurst, NSW around 1986 when I was doing field work near Oberon. Such a gorgeous song!
still as good as it was 30 years ago
I would say that this is the Internet's single best cat video!
every time I hear '...she's my best friend' I want to cry it's so cute
I recently began using talking about my cats as a defense against unwanted advances at bars. I guess that would be my cactus cat.
Wouldn't have worked for me :) I could talk about cats for years !
Wouldnt work with me either, I ❤ cats 😻
Are you still alone?
Just maybe you could also have tried not being in bars in the first place.
@@GaryPeters-nv8pj Oh I’m sorry that I have the audacity to go to a place in public, exist as a woman and expect to be treated like a human being who deserves respect.
This is the 1st time I've heard this group/song.. And this was 1986! 👍
Hadn't heard of this group until yesterday. Beautiful song.
I so love the Dunedin Sound and Flying Nun records. It's all so fantastic. New Zealand rules.
Dunedin Bands set up a some of the most enjoyable music 🎶 and Videos 📹 that reflects a timeless passage for people to enjoy.
I feel like some American indie bands of the early 90's like Unrest, Juliana Hatfield, Velocity Girl, etc. were influenced by these bands.
Dunedin was a Founding Base of some many garage bands, Students letting rip in the Oldest University in Aotearoa.
I lived in Dunedin from 87 to …? sometime- rediscovering this music such a time travel!
what a nice song!
Fuck Yes! love this.....Everything, gats, the bass, vocals wohhhhhooooooo the song
They say that music elicits memories and emotions long forgotten. This song takes me back to my Halcyon days in Chch in the early '80's, great bands, great friends, both crazy and sane, and of course, the wonderful women that made it all worthwhile...Arohanui.
My fondest memories of chch in the 80's. Driving from Colombo st to Lincoln College in our Morris Oxford firing up LBGP on the tape deck.
haha, Bob Scott playing with a beachball
When I looked uo the definition of a "real banger" this song is the very definition.
The first cat I owned after leaving home and flinging myself into the world at 16 was called captain cactus. Then this song came out.....perfect.
We need more songs about cats!
Empire Tavern, Dunedin..saw these amazing women perform..awesomeness
Revisited this song today. Was listening to this cool Kiwi band in the 80's loved it then love it now makes me feel so young again!
Purrrrrfect
Love seeing Signal hill in the video!
was born in NZ one year after this. Somehow never heard it. It sounds like it could have been made by a modern indy band, pretty cool.
Real and raw. Great Stuff!!! Hard to find in modern-day music. New music often sound like "plastic". Very unreal.
A guilty pleasure I kept secret about liking at the time of its release for some reason. Beautiful melody and I like cats too. What's not to like about this.
It's a gorgeous song
Love This Song So Much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow this is great song !!
Still have the EP on rotation all these years later.
Kathy Bull and Lesley Paris and the others rule my musical world
Walked into Waterfront Records in Sydney and heard this. One of the best days ever!
Had this recorded on my VHS off radio with pictures
This is great!
Love this
Part of my soundtrack : )
Still love this. Great song and video for kids actually. They should sing this song at Primary schools, especially in Dunedin.
great song -a favourite from this era of Dunedin music.
you go girls. great song
Gorgeous stuff
Blissful.
Played a couple of gigs with this lot when I was in Bros Gorgonzola. They were hard case. Great song.
Only Pure Magic
Pure joy.
This song was on my discover weekly playlist...I'm transcending
Yay, St Kilda beach
Love this song.. such a happy sound..
what a band, they're remind me of alot of c86 indie pop bands in the UK of that time.
very nice ...so beautiful voices!
I cannot believe I have never heard of them before now! Thank you John Connolly on ABC to XTC on 2XM.
Too pefect for words 💜
It's impossible to not like this song.
Well, sorry to say but I dislike this song AND your comment.
love it.
timeless indie pop, fazerdaze should cover this!
4 real!
heavenly
I first heard this great tune at the Toitu Otago Settler's Museum in Dunedin, NZ, the hometown of this group. A fine, catchy tune. There's a lot of good talent in New Zealand, too bad great stuff like this never made it Canada or The States like Split Enz or Crowded House did.
Same place I heard it first myself, late February, 2017. Played it lots of times since.
Same here. First heard this at the Toitu as well, back in 2015. I miss Dunedin every single second of my life.
@@JamesAnderson-wft 🔙
Lol, I had this song on a flying nun comp, back in the early 90s, in KS, USA. It was out there, I just got lucky to fall in love w The Clean, & sought out all the FN stuff I could find.
@@JamesAnderson-wft And now for the punch line, I was in Dunedin Feb. 25 to 28, 2017 so we may have unknowingly crossed paths. Small world!
I have this cassette, sadly both it and my hearing have deteriorated. I wish women all the best in these days when ii's an uphill battle with no signs of victory since the 60's.
Anton used to play this on hid Dead TV love to all the gang
love
I love this so g
Bring back 80’s pop and 90’s grunge... missing both music of these decades
Moved to Tucson this year. Still lookin for the cactus cat...
love it - bits of the Marine Girls and Jesus & the Mary Chain ☺ Xxx
80's are gone.
gourgious!!
Presente dos deuses!
love love love xxx
The only thing better than cats is... songs about cats....
top tune + dog at 2.36 is a dead ringer for mine
classic
Fion, we never had a chance to meet but we are connected with this song. You introduced me with this amazing song and named our friendship, our weird bond on this song... like we had back then. Just remember, I'll never forget us cz we r our Cactus Cats. Always Love you Fion, you're my Cactus cat. Thank you so much for all the moments we shared. Be happy and sassy. Hisss 🐈
80's Bad hair, but a great song. I never suffered from such bad hair myself back then.
I kinda like the fact that they clearly had the fashion sense of a deranged kindergarten teacher.
a band of school teachers was my first thought.
Lost 80s treasure found.....
❤
Looks like Robert Scott appearing in the video
I think that the american band Unrest toke the guitar riff from this song for "So So Sick"
Most definitely!! They're practically a Flying Nun & Factory cover band (in the best way)
anyway all of them was great bands
Think this is what John squire was listening to when he was writing sally cinnamon then
Cool
1990
can i please use this for my youtube music video show?????
Bliss
reminds me of anway-era magnetic fields, sort of
This song is such an ear worm
last words of aleister crowley "i am perplexed" me too
does anyone have the tabs?
Cactus coat too
no one's been here for 3 years.still ok.
Is there an instrumental version?
And off back to 99.4fm we go....
Wasn't the drummer romantically involved with the drummer for The Verlaines?
+hey gwynne. Why not try using bars as a defence against unwanted cats,.
Fuck this is cute
Dig it
Loose Tooth sound a lot like LBGP.
so sad :(
Cats are strongly psychic..some cacti can increase psychic abilities in humans.. anymore questions?
oh, yes they were a band comprised solely of women, how strange...
And I still love them...
LBGP(EP2) says "gender has got nothing to do with it." refreshing wisdom from 1986 at 3.56
Who's here because of TV1 breakfast show?
The kiwi breeders….
Very girly, but decent.
Love between human and cat is an abomination before god.