Thanks for playing this and glad you enjoyed it. All their songs are quite short and bouncy. This was ayeways played at punk nights. I managed to constantly miss them back then but saw them a few times in the last couple of years. I worked on a live broadcast with the singer's new band a couple of years ago.
Countdown played the video for ''Where's The Boy For Me'' .. I don't think it turned us on! Sorry! But I remember hearing ''Top Of The Pops'' on 3RRR (any self-respecting melbourne kid in the 70's would listen to 3RRR for the Alternative stuff)
Check out Destination Venus by the Rezillos aswell, Fay Fife tge female lead singer used to make her own outfits and earrings, and her hunched over stomping around the stage , that was Fay to a T
The Rezillos very much a retro Sci-fi Fi Band , from Scotland, who broke up in 1978 but reformed and became the. Revillos check out Snatzo Mobile , by the Revillos
Spot on with the Rezillos / B52's comparison. It must be remembered that this was decades before the internet and these two bands would have known nothing about each other. Spooky !
I saw the Rezillos on their 2015 reunion tour in Washington DC. I got there early and met Fey Fife before the concert! (LUV that Scottish accent!) She was very friendly and happy to sign my "Can't Stand" LP...
Hi guys, thanks for the recognition of this band, can you say 'blast from the past'? I have to admit I was a fan of theirs from the 80's. I think they did embrace their cartoonish ID proudly, especially in regards to their wardrobes. As far as lead singer Fay Fifes outfit choices, I don't think they were ever big enough to have any wardrobe consultants. I always felt that FF's body movements were as a result of her being so much taller than the other male singer, Eugene. Anyways, thanks for bringing this band to the attention of the YT generation. You should do a band called Altered Images, from the same era.
Yeah unfortunately I think they were kind of saddled with that one. Kind of the same way Devo are primarily known for 'Whip it'... For AI, I would suggest 'Dead pop stars', see those eyes, don't talk to me about love, pinky blue, insects. The singer Claire Grogan also had a brief career as an actress and was featured in the movie Gregory's Girl.
Well Hanier Family, you may not fully realise it yet, but, your lives have been irreparably changed! There's a fair bit of ground to cover, I'd recommend, "Top Of The Pops"...they were also known as The Revillos for a bit, it's all pretty much this kind of thing, Jo Callis was a member for a while, he was in The Human League iirc......the singer is Fay Fife, she's from Fife, so in the local dialect, which I speak myself, Fay Fife means 'from Fife'...see what she did there?....Fife is the bit on the east coast of Scotland between Edinburgh and Dundee that looks like a dogs head on the map! She does a sort of Country thing now, has a youtube channel, though nothing has been posted there for a while. Some good stuff though! I briefly,"met" Eugune once, I was acting as doorman for a gig featuring three Fife bands, in an Edinburgh venue, Eugene came in as a punter, one of the members of a band that was on, happened to be standing with me at the time, so Eugene got in for nothing!
Top of the Pops was their best known song and got them on Top of The Pops. "Where's the boy for me?" is a goodie recorded under the revised name Revillos.
I saw these years ago supporting" The Stranglers " Faye Fife on vocals. Think they got there name from a quirky spiral coloured disc that was inside a certain cereal box that you fittered on your bike spokes and would supposedly make every one go dizzy when someone was cycling .Like Faye very quirky 🤪
The Daddy's of Pop Punk. Only made one studio album but it is an absolute banger and massively influential in the way the Stooges were 10 years earlier. Every track on the album could have been released as a single and I would recommend 'Cold Wars', 'Good Sculptures' and the cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight'. They released a live album after they split and John Callis went onto join The Human League for the 'Dare' album onwards
The Rezillos were cartoonish and fun and a welcome contrast to a some of the earnestness prevalent in a lot of new wave bands. There was always an undercurrent of fun within British music that was a little too good to just be dismissed as novelty.
Awwww I’m SO glad I’ve went back through your channel , these guys are from my part of the world and they had and still have a brilliant career . This song rocks like fk and I just wish I’d heard it the day you done it . Destination Venus is my fav track by them 👍🏴
As in 'Thunderbirds Are Go!', with the marionette figures? 😀 My two teenage Sons loved watching it on DVD when they were a few years younger, and I thought it was quite entertaining and well done, too 😊
Great reaction Hanier family! Since we are visiting the late '70's and early '80's let me suggest the perfect song & band to compliment this Rezillos reaction - Shonen Knife -"Giant Jelly Attack" off of the "Let's Knife album!
Try these for size: Supernaut - I Like It Both Ways nzoz1976 La Femme - I Wanna Be Your Man (music video) laneway music Boys Next Door - These Boots Are Made For Walking nzoz1978 Skyhooks - You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good In Bed Time and Stuff 7 Supernuat - Lick My Lolly (audio only) Skyhooks - Smut (Stereo) Time and Stuff 7 These songs were some of my personal favourites during the early Countdown years. Cheers, Hayley
@@mightyV444 ha, ha - one of their ''banned'' songs that made them cooler. I am a little funny with this method of making requests. I don't know if I'm being rude by putting a channel's name with song/artist title. GIllian told me it's the best way if I want them to view specific videos and other people do it this way. Back in the Countdown days I learned how to be pushy and ''naggy'' to programmers of both 3XY and Countdown when it came to things I wanted. I just hope these are not coming across as abrupt and impolite.
@@mightyV444 They're all horrible songs 😆 You have to be of a certain age to like them! 😁😅 They were good live. I had to see them in 83 coz Hayley dragged me. There were all old people (20 year olds) at the concert that had been fans when they were 10. I'm going to check on your other responses.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 - Yeh nah, I agree that it's best to also add the channel's name to a song request. You could've at least said "please", though! 😄😉 I had once suggested a song *without* naming the specific channel, and then C&C went for a bland-sounding live version and didn't like it. I've also meanwhile gotten the impression that constantly repeating a request is having the opposite effect on them (I've seen others do it. Not me).
@@liveitup67 - I've meanwhile listened to *all* of those "horrible songs"! 😄 My Big Sister had a 22-year-old boyfriend when I was 15 and she nearly 18, and he seemed "old" to me, too! 😅 I'm now way past being twice that old and *still* don't actually feel old! Well, at least as long as I don't have to climb up a tall flight of stairs! 😄
I remember the first time I found Australian people talking about Countdown, it was exceptionally weird. In the UK, Countdown is a word based, TV quiz show, which comedian, Frankie Boyle once described as a show watched by, " old people waiting for death".....you can imagine my confusion.
@@Sandy-dd4le lol. I can imagine the confusion. I noticed there was a UK Countdown, and a Dutch Countdown - the latter being somewhat inspired by the Aussie Countdown. Our Countdown might have caused old people to want an early death. It wasn't liked by older people, or anybody over 25. My sister and I were regular studio attendees.
@@Sandy-dd4le - Here in Ewe Zealand, 'Countdown' is one of the main grocery store chains, and that's also what I think of whenever I read that word around here 😄
@LiveItUp - Yeah, kind of... I don't think *any* German TV music show had really been like Countdown, already in regards to such a young and also enthusiastic audience! 😄 There was also only 1 episode per month, and the programme had only run for a whole 4, maybe 5 years, too. But there also was the short-lived 'Music Box' show, from about 1980 onwards, in which you'd often see people in the predominantly young audience spot themselves on the monitor screens, too: ruclips.net/video/liFKVTdrzqw/видео.html (That's the only good-quality video I could find; I had the 45 of that song - I still don't understand 90% of the lyrics today 😅)
@@mightyV444 Hey that's fascinating! A real Germanic feel! I discovered a German band called The Stripes that featured Nena! I loved ''99 Luftballoons''... I'm very surprised that there was only 1 episode per month. Countdown was once a week, and you had to really squeeze in those days. There'd be different slots for different ages. Hayley and I would sometimes be mixed in with children (7 to 11 year olds), and other times we would be pushed with the older teen crowd. INXS had to endure a children crowd with ''Simple Simon'', whilst The Knack got the mid-teen crowd, and something like Chris Rea would get a mid to late teens/early twenties crowd. It was kinda weird how they did things like that. Some bands were happy with children because kids would vague out and stare at studio lights. Mid-teens were unpredictable. They'd either talk through your set, give you a bored look, or try to touch below the belt. Countdown would eventually create space between audience and performer.
Thanks for playing this and glad you enjoyed it. All their songs are quite short and bouncy.
This was ayeways played at punk nights. I managed to constantly miss them back then but saw them a few times in the last couple of years. I worked on a live broadcast with the singer's new band a couple of years ago.
Countdown played the video for ''Where's The Boy For Me'' .. I don't think it turned us on! Sorry!
But I remember hearing ''Top Of The Pops'' on 3RRR (any self-respecting melbourne kid in the 70's would listen to 3RRR for the Alternative stuff)
Check out Destination Venus by the Rezillos aswell, Fay Fife tge female lead singer used to make her own outfits and earrings, and her hunched over stomping around the stage , that was Fay to a T
I remember this from the 80’s movie “Party Party”
We never saw it.
The Rezillos very much a retro Sci-fi Fi Band , from Scotland, who broke up in 1978 but reformed and became the. Revillos check out Snatzo Mobile , by the Revillos
B52s ish is a good observation. They had the same influences and came out about the same time on opposite continents.
Spot on with the Rezillos / B52's comparison. It must be remembered that this was decades before the internet and these two bands would have known nothing about each other. Spooky !
Still touring. Great Scottish band.
I saw the Rezillos on their 2015 reunion tour in Washington DC. I got there early and met Fey Fife before the concert! (LUV that Scottish accent!) She was very friendly and happy to sign my "Can't Stand" LP...
Hi guys, thanks for the recognition of this band, can you say 'blast from the past'? I have to admit I was a fan of theirs from the 80's. I think they did embrace their cartoonish ID proudly, especially in regards to their wardrobes. As far as lead singer Fay Fifes outfit choices, I don't think they were ever big enough to have any wardrobe consultants. I always felt that FF's body movements were as a result of her being so much taller than the other male singer, Eugene. Anyways, thanks for bringing this band to the attention of the YT generation. You should do a band called Altered Images, from the same era.
We'd love to. The only song we know from them is Happy Birthday (Thanks, John Hughes). Any suggestions would be welcome.
Yeah unfortunately I think they were kind of saddled with that one. Kind of the same way Devo are primarily known for 'Whip it'... For AI, I would suggest 'Dead pop stars', see those eyes, don't talk to me about love, pinky blue, insects. The singer Claire Grogan also had a brief career as an actress and was featured in the movie Gregory's Girl.
Well Hanier Family, you may not fully realise it yet, but, your lives have been irreparably changed!
There's a fair bit of ground to cover, I'd recommend, "Top Of The Pops"...they were also known as The Revillos for a bit, it's all pretty much this kind of thing, Jo Callis was a member for a while, he was in The Human League iirc......the singer is Fay Fife, she's from Fife, so in the local dialect, which I speak myself, Fay Fife means 'from Fife'...see what she did there?....Fife is the bit on the east coast of Scotland between Edinburgh and Dundee that looks like a dogs head on the map! She does a sort of Country thing now, has a youtube channel, though nothing has been posted there for a while. Some good stuff though!
I briefly,"met" Eugune once, I was acting as doorman for a gig featuring three Fife bands, in an Edinburgh venue, Eugene came in as a punter, one of the members of a band that was on, happened to be standing with me at the time, so Eugene got in for nothing!
We would love to hear more from these guys. Pretty good stuff.
Top of the Pops was their best known song and got them on Top of The Pops.
"Where's the boy for me?" is a goodie recorded under the revised name Revillos.
Brilliant band amazing debut album.
I saw these years ago supporting" The Stranglers " Faye Fife on vocals. Think they got there name from a quirky spiral coloured disc that was inside a certain cereal box that you fittered on your bike spokes and would supposedly make every one go dizzy when someone was cycling .Like Faye very quirky 🤪
Almost forgot about the The Rezillos!.....loved their song " Can't stand my baby".......
Been an age since I've heard this.
Another great reaction..
The Daddy's of Pop Punk. Only made one studio album but it is an absolute banger and massively influential in the way the Stooges were 10 years earlier. Every track on the album could have been released as a single and I would recommend 'Cold Wars', 'Good Sculptures' and the cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight'. They released a live album after they split and John Callis went onto join The Human League for the 'Dare' album onwards
The Revillos had a couple of good tracks as well.FAy is still putting stuff oot under the name "Countess Of Fife".
I was at a rezillos gig in dundee in 2019 it wes amazing they played all their classic songs including destination venus my all time favourite
A great mix of just dumb fun catchy perfect pop punk .... the whole album is great
The Rezillos were cartoonish and fun and a welcome contrast to a some of the earnestness prevalent in a lot of new wave bands. There was always an undercurrent of fun within British music that was a little too good to just be dismissed as novelty.
Awwww I’m SO glad I’ve went back through your channel , these guys are from my part of the world and they had and still have a brilliant career . This song rocks like fk and I just wish I’d heard it the day you done it . Destination Venus is my fav track by them 👍🏴
great band from back in the day!
I think they based their look on Thunderbirds, the Gerry Anderson TV show from the 60s.
As in 'Thunderbirds Are Go!', with the marionette figures? 😀 My two teenage Sons loved watching it on DVD when they were a few years younger, and I thought it was quite entertaining and well done, too 😊
@@mightyV444 It was big over here.
@@SPKdesign1 - Most likely also here in NZ. I can't remember it even being mentioned in Germany during my first 30 years, though!?
@@mightyV444 Most of the Gerry Anderson shows where great, especially the live action ones.
@@mightyV444 What part of Germany are you in?
Great reaction Hanier family! Since we are visiting the late '70's and early '80's let me suggest the perfect song & band to compliment this Rezillos reaction - Shonen Knife -"Giant Jelly Attack" off of the "Let's Knife album!
Try these for size:
Supernaut - I Like It Both Ways nzoz1976
La Femme - I Wanna Be Your Man (music video) laneway music
Boys Next Door - These Boots Are Made For Walking nzoz1978
Skyhooks - You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good In Bed Time and Stuff 7
Supernuat - Lick My Lolly (audio only)
Skyhooks - Smut (Stereo) Time and Stuff 7
These songs were some of my personal favourites during the early Countdown years.
Cheers,
Hayley
I concur! And my own favourite from that list would be 'Smut' by Skyhooks 😊
@@mightyV444 ha, ha - one of their ''banned'' songs that made them cooler.
I am a little funny with this method of making requests. I don't know if I'm being rude by putting a channel's name with song/artist title.
GIllian told me it's the best way if I want them to view specific videos and other people do it this way.
Back in the Countdown days I learned how to be pushy and ''naggy'' to programmers of both 3XY and Countdown when it came to things I wanted.
I just hope these are not coming across as abrupt and impolite.
@@mightyV444 They're all horrible songs 😆 You have to be of a certain age to like them! 😁😅 They were good live. I had to see them in 83 coz Hayley dragged me. There were all old people (20 year olds) at the concert that had been fans when they were 10. I'm going to check on your other responses.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 - Yeh nah, I agree that it's best to also add the channel's name to a song request. You could've at least said "please", though! 😄😉 I had once suggested a song *without* naming the specific channel, and then C&C went for a bland-sounding live version and didn't like it. I've also meanwhile gotten the impression that constantly repeating a request is having the opposite effect on them (I've seen others do it. Not me).
@@liveitup67 - I've meanwhile listened to *all* of those "horrible songs"! 😄 My Big Sister had a 22-year-old boyfriend when I was 15 and she nearly 18, and he seemed "old" to me, too! 😅 I'm now way past being twice that old and *still* don't actually feel old! Well, at least as long as I don't have to climb up a tall flight of stairs! 😄
Nothing to do with the B52s - no cross over at all
Always destined to Venus!
From Rockpop (to Germany what Countdown was to Australia).
I remember the first time I found Australian people talking about Countdown, it was exceptionally weird. In the UK, Countdown is a word based, TV quiz show, which comedian, Frankie Boyle once described as a show watched by, " old people waiting for death".....you can imagine my confusion.
@@Sandy-dd4le lol. I can imagine the confusion.
I noticed there was a UK Countdown, and a Dutch Countdown - the latter being somewhat inspired by the Aussie Countdown.
Our Countdown might have caused old people to want an early death. It wasn't liked by older people, or anybody over 25.
My sister and I were regular studio attendees.
@@Sandy-dd4le - Here in Ewe Zealand, 'Countdown' is one of the main grocery store chains, and that's also what I think of whenever I read that word around here 😄
@LiveItUp - Yeah, kind of... I don't think *any* German TV music show had really been like Countdown, already in regards to such a young and also enthusiastic audience! 😄 There was also only 1 episode per month, and the programme had only run for a whole 4, maybe 5 years, too. But there also was the short-lived 'Music Box' show, from about 1980 onwards, in which you'd often see people in the predominantly young audience spot themselves on the monitor screens, too: ruclips.net/video/liFKVTdrzqw/видео.html (That's the only good-quality video I could find; I had the 45 of that song - I still don't understand 90% of the lyrics today 😅)
@@mightyV444 Hey that's fascinating! A real Germanic feel! I discovered a German band called The Stripes that featured Nena! I loved ''99 Luftballoons''... I'm very surprised that there was only 1 episode per month. Countdown was once a week, and you had to really squeeze in those days. There'd be different slots for different ages. Hayley and I would sometimes be mixed in with children (7 to 11 year olds), and other times we would be pushed with the older teen crowd. INXS had to endure a children crowd with ''Simple Simon'', whilst The Knack got the mid-teen crowd, and something like Chris Rea would get a mid to late teens/early twenties crowd. It was kinda weird how they did things like that. Some bands were happy with children because kids would vague out and stare at studio lights. Mid-teens were unpredictable. They'd either talk through your set, give you a bored look, or try to touch below the belt. Countdown would eventually create space between audience and performer.
Brilliant cult Scottish band. Still gigging btw.