Australian Crawl | Boys Light Up ( 1981 ) Reaction
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There wasn't a pub or backyard Barby that you wouldn't have this playing. Brings back so many memories. 👍
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Its an Aussie institution
Happened
Still to this day, this is gonna be on all over this country on the 26th
Facts ❤
If you like Aussie Crawl, you’ll love their most beautiful ballad: Reckless!
Australian Crawl was part of the soundtrack of growing up in Australia in the late 70s and 80s.
The lead singer with the appalling diction is Mr James Reyne, who also had a decent career as a solo artist and an actor. (He played the bad guy guy on the iconic TV mini-series ‘Return to Eden’.)
Seriously, check out ‘Reckless’… such a beautiful ballad. Very much a song of Sydney.
Yeah nah mate
, Reckless is brilliant it's on my playlist
Guy McDonough also sang lead for the band, it’s a shame that he passed so young
Not to be confused with “breakfast” by Mr Floppy
@@darrenmac6146 oh no not you again .. RIP GUY!
As the Manly ferry...makes it way into Circular Quay...
“Shout out for him having a normal haircut in 1981” 😂😂😂
The golden era of Aussie pop / rock ( late 70s -mid 80s ) is a treasure trove of quality bands. AC DC / ROSE TATTOO / MIDNIGHT OIL / INXS / COLD CHISEL / THE ANGELS / DIVINYLS / MEN AT WORK / MONDO ROCK / ICEHOUSE / HOODOO GURUS / THE SWINGERS / AUSTRALIAN CRAWL / EUROGLIDERS / MENTAL AS ANYTHING / DRAGON / SPLIT ENZ / LITTLE HEROES / LITTLE RIVER BAND / AIR SUPPLY / RICHARD CLAPTON / THE MODELS / REAL LIFE / MI SEX Etc. a couple of them are New Zealand bands but were just as much a part of the Aussie music scene.
Great list mate, just gotta add The Drones, Hunters& Collectors, Baby Animals, Skyhooks, Ted Mulrey Gang, Regugitator, Renee Geyer, John Paul Young, Mondo Rock and a few others......
@@Notric haha yes, i just got tired of typing
+ Sky Hooks / Kate Ceberano / Do-Re-Mi / Pseudo Echo / Daryl Braithwaite (Sherbet) / Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons / Paul Kelly / Nick Cave
Don't forget late 80s early 90s like The Screaming Jets and The Living End.
I would also throw in Sunny Boys, a very underrated band.
Very iconic Aussie band of the 80s. One the best misheard\misunderstood lyrics ever...
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read the official lyrics and still be misunderstanding...
@@kruleworld they are a bit cryptic in places "dorseted" refers to the Dorset Gardens Hotel
Totally true! 😂
James was famous for his lack of diction. One of the local radio stations played part of a Aussie Crawl track and asked if anyone could decipher the words. James actually heard the broadcast and phoned in and admitted he had to get out the lyric sheets to see what he was singing!
Yea few comedy sketches done about him and his singing :)
Back in the 90's in Sydney the Andrew Denton breakfast radio show paired up artists with songs for the 'musical challenge'. James sung the Kate Bush hit Wuthering Heights, and his diction was excellent, I was finally able to understand the lyrics from Kate's song! If you can find a copy of the song it's well worth listening to.
Actually they released a couple of CDs of some of the songs for charity. If you can find the first CD it has some amazing renditions on it including Jimmy Barnes singing ABBA's Dancing Queen and Tina Arena singing Cheap Wine :) Do yourself a favour and check it out!
He also made up some words for this song i think.
@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname Yes. the James Reyne school of elocution and the Peter Garret dance school :)
Australian rock music had its own sound. You could always tell the difference between Aussie and American guitarists.
Privilege to have grown up listening to one of our iconic bands 🥰
Oooh - forgot Aussie Crawl’s absolute belter! If you can understand more than 50% of the lyrics from Beautiful People, you’re better than most of Australia!
For years I wondered why you've been hangin with the mutt-eset people then I googled it..
Yesssss!! Boo ti pul peep ol 😅
hahah!! never a truer word spoken...
“The garden’s full of furniture, the house is full of plants”
Got these lyrics wrong for years 😂 Great songs
"Reckless" and" Oh Errol", two of their best. They were an exciting band to see live in the days when Bands played at every Pub.
Aussie pub bands were the best back in the day.. chisel, acdc, the angels, Aussie crawl, inxs, Rose tatoo .. too many to mention .
I'm glad you're getting to experience it for yourself
Wow this song reminds me of summer in the 80’s in the back seat of Mums Kingswood with all 5 kids packed in the car and this song blaring while we eat sunnyboys! Thanks for another great reaction, this song really doesn’t portray how beautiful James’ voice is, I love his song Reckless
I miss sunny boys ❤❤❤
Wow I’d forgotten all about sunny boys! Best part was drinking the melted bit outta the triangle at the end 🤣🤣
@@jessicahudswell14 such an awkward shape to eat but so much joy!
@@christophernicola9293 I know, such a shame!
@@hollygranger3734 yes they were so cheap and lasted for ages.
Probably took themselves off the market, because they were such good value, especially on a long Australian summer car trip. Kept us quiet in the back…….
this song is full of double entendre's like mothers kittle helper, strategically positioned before the midday show the back is arched those lips are parched repeated blow by blow, hopes are up for trousers down with the hostess on the business flight, boys light up australian crawl means a swimming stroke
Love watching this guy but don’t think he picked up the metaphors, is it an Aus thing? I don’t know?
James is still awesome to go see live, he can play a 2 hour set and every song has been a radio hit song. Between his solo and Aussie crawl albums, his song list is huge.
Saw him live a couple of weeks ago. He played that 2 hour set which included all his hit songs (from both Australian Crawl and his solo career). Even at 64 he is still a phenomenal singer.
@@parmaunited I love me some Hammer Head. ❤
Gotta pay attention to the lyrics with that one!
The Boys Light Up
Song by Australian Crawl
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Let me tell you about my mountain home
Where all the ladies names are Joan
Where husband works back late at night
Hopes are up for trousers down
With hostess on a business flight
Taxi in a Mercedes drive
I hope that driver's coming out alive
The garden it is dorsetted
That lady she's so corseted
She's got 15 ways to lead that boy astray
He thinks he's one and only
But that lovely she's so lonely
She pumps him full of breakfast and she sends him on his way
What a sing song dance
What a performance
What a cheap tent show
Oh no no no no no
Then the boys light up
Then the boys light up
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Then the boys light up, light up, light up
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Silently she opens the drawer
Mother's little helper is coming out for more
Strategically positioned before the midday show
Her back is arched, those lips are parched
Repeated blow by blow
Later at the party all the MP's rave
About the hummers she's been giving
And the money that they save
To her it is skin lotion
For him promotion to
That flat in surfers paradise with the ocean view
What a sing song dance
What a performance
What a cheap ten show
Oh no no no no no
Then the boys light up
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Thanks! I had never seen the lyrics before and when they are laid out like this.... ohhhh boy.
@ThatSingerReactions Hopefully the lyrics help you here! Alot of double entendre too
"Let me tell you about my mountain home" is Mount Eliza, Victoria
Midnight oil are another great Aussie band in this era, they sang about a lot of indigenous issues , so many great songs .... beds are burning is one and my fav blue sky mine :-)
Very true! My first ever concert was age 14 front row at the Tennis Center in Melbourne 1990 Midnight Oil. What great memories.
He might be freaked out by peter garrets dancing.
Since you're on an Aussie music trek, try some Goanna- Solid Rock, INXS - Never Tear Us Apart, Noiseworks - Touch or R.I.P. Millie, Diesel - Come to Me or Cry In Shame, Crowded House - Don't Dream it's Over or Into Temptation or Better Be Home Soon, Powderfinger - These Days or Sunsets, or really any of their songs. Skunkhour - Up to Our Necks in it, The Divinyls - Jealous. LOL, that should do you for a bit.
I didn't think anyone remembered Skunkhour! I saw them opening for Cypress Hill and Ice Cube in Perth '93.
He has done cry in shame by diesel I think already
@@melissadinning6614 Oh nice, I searched and found he's done 3 Diesel songs. Including the 2 I mentioned.
I’m 52, and these guys got me through my teens, love Aussie Crawl, and cried like a baby when Guy Donough died and when Brad Robinson did as well.
Epic Australian band. Lead singer James Reyne also has many great songs and solo albums after the band broke up. Unusual and unique voice and always sensational live in concert.
James Reyne (lead singer here) and Daryl Braithwaite (whom you did a reaction to as well) combined to form a group called 'Company of Strangers', and their song 'Motor City' absolutely slaps. I heard it on the radio briefly in the shops a few years ago and it drove me crazy for months trying to figure our what it was. Searching for any lyric you think James is singing is basically impossible so eventually I just put on the oldies radio station on the drive to and from work, and about three weeks later, on it came, and by the end of the year it was #1 most played on spotify. Anyway
I mentioned about Company Of Strangers when Nick did a react to DB. Loved Company Of Strangers 💕
Aussie Crawl ? My god, I am surprised you reacted to them. Probably my favourite band circa 1980. Them, Mental as Anything and the Sports. I reckon their best album was Sirocco from 1981. They were very popular around the late 70's and early 80's.
Yeah sirocco was my fav too
You would be hard pressed to find an aussie who hasn't seen Mentals live.
@Dee Pee I haven't seen a single reaction to The Radiators and have requested them a few times. I think they may have a block because of content being too rauchy for americans 🤣🤣🤣 probably need only fans reactions.🤣🤣🤣can you imagine if gimme head was on only fans how many people would be agro at the actually content🤣🤣🤣
I’ve been diving deep into your reactions the last couple of days and I need to say thank you and your followers for showing such delight in the bands that I grew up with.
I’m a Melbourne woman and saw James Reyne and Australian Crawl a few times as a teen. I could go to free and cheap gigs at pubs all over town. It’s not unusual to this day to be able to see 3 or more bands over a weekend. I have dozens of tiny, small and medium venues a short drive from my home in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, about an hour from the city.
Thank you for reminding me how lucky I am.
James Reyne the lead singer is still killing it. His voice is still fantastic. He is live streaming a gig this weekend in Melbourne, Australia at The Corner Hotel in Richmond.
Saw and met him just before Christmas at the Crown, voice sounds like it did all those years ago, nice bloke too
As a fellow Melburnian, at 32 years old, im devestated i just saw this video and your comment right now, 11 months too late :(!!
Australian Crawl, another iconic Aussie band. James Reyne is an amazing entertainer, but maaaan no one could ever understand what he was singing 😂 he was the subject of many comedy sketches 😂
Shut Down is another great song of theirs.
One of my favourite songs, thanks for reacting to it 😊
haha even now i need subtitles
😂😂 Straight away I'm thinking D Generation with the subtitles..."Rising damp" "You're the best audience we've ever had" "Goodnight woah"
Aah...memories! One of my favourite groups ...back when the pub scene was alive.
You would love Dynamic Hepnotics singing Soul Kind Of Feeling!
Yes, yes, yes!!! I love this song and there is a video to go with it. It's such a great song to dance to. After searching for it for some time I finally found it on a mix of artists CD.
YESSSSSSS
G'day from Australia. Thank you so much for broadening your musical horizons and reacting to these. The term "Australian Crawl" refers to the Aussie slang for the freestyle swim.
Freestyle swim races means you can use any swimming style (e.g Breast stroke etc) you like, Just that the Australian crawl is the fastest, That's why everyone uses the Australian crawl in freestyle races
You always surprise me Nic, didn't think you would like this iconic Aussie song but you totally did, love it
I know right! I thought the same - ‘not sure if Nick will be into Aussie Crawl’. But what a pleasant surprise!
We have so much musical talent in this country we should be incredibly proud of it!
Errol...same band...song about Errol Flynn the famous Australian actor in 60S
30s and 40s he was well and truly dead by the 60s. Born in Hobart Tasmania 1909 died 1959 at age 50. First ever aussie Hollywood Star
I love that YOU love all our music heroes. Sad that you never heard them before now. Im 57 and i grew up with them.
Thanks.. I asked you a while back if you had listened to them and you said no. I already recommended a few others but here are my recommendations,
1 Errol
2 oh No,not you again
3 Reckless
Was that you who requested that?
@@ThatSingerReactions only on here as a comment
Yep agreed .'Oh no not you again' is a fantastic track to hit up soon as you get time👍✌️♥️🇦🇺
So many others,but that's a great second one!
James Reyne(the lead singer) is still touring relentlessly & his voice is still fantastic...tho many find the way he sings,hard to decipher the lyrics😁
Footnote: James actually doesn't sing lead on 'oh no not you again'. Guy McDonough does. Rip
I'd throw Downhearted in there too. that guitar breakdown in it is so iconic.
Reckless is my favourite
Ohhh, those were the days. i was 19 in 1981, happy days. i went to see Australian Crawl on their last tour in the late 1980s the last wave i think the tour was called. You should react to the singer's solo stuff, I recommend "Fall of Rome" it's a blast.
I love that you love this song. This is one of my favourites, growing up in Australia this was played on the radio almost daily, although I never picked up on the meaning behind the lyrics until I was a bit older. Beautiful People is also a groove (even if you can't understand half the lyrics.)
Aaah 1981. That was the year I saw Aussie Crawl in my home town and was sitting in their ‘Lucky Seat’ in the theatre. So they gave me a surfboard. 🏄🏻♀️
I sold that and bought a new wardrobe of shiny disco clothes to hit the dance floor in.
Thanks so much, Aussie Crawl. I still love you guys. 💚
Aww! Love that you loved it. It’s a iconic song here in Australia from a great Aussie Band. They were a huge part of my teenage years saw them with they came to town love all our Aussie band from the 70s and 80s pub rock ruled back then with live rock 🥰🇦🇺
Saw the Crawl at the Ocean Grove Hotel in the early 80's legendary band, great times, when we were YOUNG. and reckless....that brings me to another classic from them, recommended, highly
Let me guess..49 to 54 ?
Aussie Aussie Aussie all tha way man
Thanks for the reaction and glad u enjoyed it. Aussie Crawl were a great band and saw them in Melbourne in a small club in early 80s. Huge night. Two unique songs of theirs are Reckless and Saturday Night. Now i have to go listen to them.
Oops. Sorry Saturday Night was cold chisel.
Who else has memories of driving to the beach and cranking up this song on the radio with the wind blowing through your hair running your 4 x 80 air conditioner (4 windows x 80 kilometres per hour)? 😀 And let’s not forget another classic - The Choirboys “Run to Paradise” ruclips.net/video/3hxYDqhy2Vc/видео.html
Ah sometimes you forget how legendary Aussie pub rock is, love hearing it through new ears
So many legendary Aussie bands.... sooooo lucky to have grown up with all of them.
Classic Aussie rock, killer..... if you want a true linguistic cultural experience look for The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (live in Melbourne 1988), you won't be disappointed.
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Totally has to be the live version. Who hast had the fun of being in a pub singing the audience section of the chorus.
James Reyne is still performing as a solo performer. Other Australian Crawl hits included Errol, a tribute to an old Hollywood star called Errol Flynn, Beautiful People, and Reckless, which has a lot of specific Sydney references.
His name was Errol Flynn and he was an Aussie from Tasmania.
Just an FYI, in case it hasn't been mentioned yet.. the 'australian crawl' was what we called 'freestyle' (as in swimming) stroke.
America must have been the same in those times. Live performances were the thing. Concerts ,festivals, pubs. Live bands everywhere.
I remember working in Karatha and everyone for 100s of miles around travelling to port hedland to see the Angels live for the weekend. There were so many outdoor concerts that were like australian mini versions of Woodstock. It was a great time to indulge in live music.
One of my mates regaled me with stories of The Angels in Hedland, it sounded pretty epic in those days.
James Reyne is always like that. Don't know that he's drunk. That's just how he rolls. If you want to see some really weird moves check out Midnight Oil. Their lead singer, Peter Garrett, has a style all his own!🤣🤣
Google Wangaratta Bay by Spiff Rouch. You’ll be surprised where Peter Garrett actually got those moves from.
Ill tell you what TSR I've found those guys a couple years ago and Why now not you again is the best one I've heard . They're a really good band or was. I run straight to my neighbors as soon as I saw you were reacting to them !!! And as far as I know you're the first one I have seen react to these guys . Australia has got take running everywhere 😂 Some of the best talent I've seen or heard !
I first heard them in 1979 with Beautiful People. I have never liked Boys Light Up. Too wanky.
I’m 39. As a kid this was legitimately my FAVOURITE band. I don’t know why, I just love how James is someone who one minute is legible then other moments (Indisposed, Beautiful People) completely gibberish - to the point that their videos had to have subtitles hahaha 😝
A very underated band. Great talent on guitars too.
I had to comment on this.That line,"that flat in surfers paradise with the ocean views".Ive seen Aussie crawl about 5 times live in Surfers Paradise in the late 80s.Bombay rock baby.great memories.
There was a music show on TV called Countdown that would showcase up and coming artists.
Aussie Crawl's debut appearance on the show singing "Beautiful People" was made all the more memorable by James Reyne performing with both arms in plaster after having been hit by a car.
As for his "normal" hair, it was 1981...James mulleted up real good as the decade progressed! 😂
Sadly a lot of Aussie Bands/Singers don't do well in America in fact Cold Chisel wrote a song called... You Got Nothing I want... regarding their experience there.
You should listen to the Divynils. Chrissy Amphlett was the lead singer of this Aussie rock band. Sadly she passed away in 2013. The song “I touch myself “ was quite controversial for the time. She was famous for wearing school uniforms with stockings and suspenders.
Aussie crawl was the first tape I ever bought in 1983 and I still love them
First band I ever saw live. Under age in a pub in 1981. This is part of my DNA. 😎👍
Thanks for covering Australia ❤
Errol..... like Errol Flynn.
The first Aussie to take over Hollywood back in the Golden Era.
Also a legendary pants man. 😆
When I came to Australia from Scotland I didn't know this guy was speaking English. Took a lot of beers and a CD left behind from a party for me to realise. HE IS SPEAKING ENGLISH.
I was at University with James Reyne. We both studied Law. I went on to qualify as a lawyer and he became a rock God. But at least I can always say I knew him way back when
What a treat to watch someone grooving and enjoying all this wonderful old music...we sure took music and live bands for granted in the 70s and 80s! How lucky were we?! Thanks Nic!
Whithout a word of a lie i can tell you, I still listen to that song daily! Love your show dude..
One of my all time favourite bands bro!
Australian Crawl were a huge band locally, but I don't think they made it in the US (or even tried, for that matter). They'd only been together for a couple of years in 1981, but they wrote some amazing songs. The mid-70s to mid-80s was an incredibly creative time in Aussie music. Band toured relentlessly and became very polished performers, whether or not they made it big overseas. James Reyne, the singer in Aussie Crawl, still performs solo today.
Great Aussie band, grew up loving them, thanks for the reaction, love your work👍
Now this brings back memories. Loved dancing to this and getting our groove on. Great reaction😁
It’s actually pretty cool how countries had different pop music going on, really different flavours..
I so love Aussie Crawl. Saw them so many times, live...back in the day. You should listen to 'Errol'. It's about Errol Flynn, the actor who was one of the first successful Aussie actors to make it in the States....often playing the part of a pirate : ) He was believed to be a bit of a 'ladies man'. Lots of scandals. Back to the music....Aussie Crawl is a unique Australian sound. They never made it to the States but the lead singer, James Reyne, went on to a solo career and had a few more good hits on the Aussie charts. The band actually had a pretty tragic journey, with the death of a member,
Guy McDonough, in 1984 and I think it had a devastating effect on them all as they broke up 2 years later. Brilliant band though. Brilliant sound. Nothing like them. I love how Reyne does that syncopated vocal and messes with the syllables and intonations of words. 'Sirocco' was their best album imo...love ' Things Don't Seem'...love all of them really. Glad you enjoyed them : ) Thanks for sharing.....and the memories. : )
Let's not forget one of the best things about Aussie Crawl was the razor-sharp lyrics
I saw Crawl in Coffs Harbour, when they played this song, it seemed like an instant blue haze of smoke appeared over the crowd!
Great Australian band should checkout, Daughters of the Northern Coast, Errol, Beautiful People so many oh The Party Boys featuring James Reyne the singer. They said it was about smoking a durrie but really 4.20. Great time to be going to pubs in Sydney I've still got the record and actually listened to it last week.
I grew up in Australian Crawl times. Best time for music, midnight oil, crowded house, Paul Kelly, cold chisel, inxs,
AC/DC….. I could go on and on
This band was named after a swimming stroke which is now called freestyle They were mostly school friends from Mornington Peninsula Victoria
1981 I met the lead singer James after a concert and we got down and dirty 😂😂😂😂
What a memory lmao
One of the best of Australia 🇦🇺 they used to play at our Pub💗💗💗🇦🇺👏👏👏💗
Hi Nick. I think we, in Australia 🇦🇺 were just happy doing our own thing. We have great music, great artists, great authors and so on. We have been having fun together on our island paradise .
Oh man!! You just had to go and remind me how old I am didn't you Nick?? I'm loving your Aussie Music Adventure! I could recommend so may Aussie artists from Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly, INXS to SIA!! Also Guy Sebastian has a new song out to called Believer. Look forward to the next adventure. Stay Aamzing!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Didn't think you would watch Aussie Crawl after i recommended them in one of your Farnzy clips. Good stuff mate
G'day from Australia!❤️🌺 Awesome reaction, much appreciated brother! 👌
James Reyne on vocals n Brad Robinson on lead guitar , Simon Bnks on guitar, Guy McDonough on guitar, , Paul Williams on bass, John Watson on drums , David Reyne , James’s brother also played drums for a time
Love that you love such an Aussie band. Full of local references to places and things.
Wow! This band were Aussie stars, but relatively unknown here in the states. Deep cuts on MTV and I ran out to get the album. GREAT STUFF!
I had their song 'Oh No not you again ' stuck in my head the last few days
So many cultural references in 70's and 80's Aussie songs.
'Strategically positioned before the midday show" was a reference to "The Midday show", which yes started at midday and was a long running chat show, strategically timed for nap time (so I was told by a friend's dad who worked in TV at the time). Stay at home mum's were the audience.
James has such an unusual way of phrasing when he sings, but I love it. Best live band I have ever seen. True, I have seen The Stones in 1973, The Kinks, CCR, etc etc and they were the tightest band
Unusual phrasing? LOL he's very unique
Australian Crawl with the gorgeous James Reyne up front every song is brilliant. James Reyne solo with Fall of Rome and One More River. As a band Reckless and Oh No Not You Again.
I have seen Australian Crawl 8 times live and James Reyne solo 5. They are supreme
We couldn’t understand most of what they were saying, but we loved them anyway😉
Australian Crawl were an iconic Aussie Band
WE here in oz land who are getting towards 60 years old still jump up and sing along and dance Boys Light Up
This is a classic Aussie Song!!! glad you like it bro. I saw Aussie Crawl in the early ninetys. They were amazing!
Classic Australian band Australian crawl , takes me back ❤️
Oh we loved them so much. Growing up with this music. Aussie music was superb then...
Huge smile, love this song too.., thanks.
Absolutely loving your classic Oz rock reactions. An incredible genre with world class songs. Keep them coming, makes my day!!
Check out Reckless by Aussie Crawl. Absolutely Legend-ary!
If you want a great Aussie 70s band check out the Skyhooks, legends
Smut for the win! Or Mercedes Ladies!
One reason why Aussie music was unheard by mainstream America was because our own radio stations would not give our own bands or singers air play over big sposor loved sure hit US and UK bands, unless the performers were in great demand by the public here. So the performers had to prove themselves by constantly touring here and playing at pubs and clubs and the ones that drew the following of the biggest crowds got the most public requests for air play. Only the most talented, most creative, most diverse and most energetic and enduring succeeded. AC/DC, one of the most successful at breaking out into the world early wrote a song about the situation called
' It's A Long Way To The Top.' which is a Rock anthem sung around the world still today.
A lot of bands became popular touring Europe and South America and Brazil because this was where there was less competition and the Aussie music was different to the norm there. Australian Crawl , Midnight Oil, Men At Work, all very popular in those places. The Hoodoo Guru's very popular on the American college circuit. But big US music monopolies did not want their artists competing with Aussies as well as having to compete with already well known Brit performers and so gave them the runaround and sent them home with no joy when they tried their luck there. Cold Chisel's, Jimmy Barne's gave an angry serve to one of these 'promoters' with the absolute rip snorter of a song by the title of
' You've Got Nuthin I Want ' which is all about their experience with this in the US.
When Ian 'Molly' Meldrum's show COUNTDOWN came along it showcased Aussie bands and brought over famous and newly starting, international performers who were always surprised at the hidden, some at the time called it 'wierd',
talent here. This show brought even more demand for radio air play here for Aussie performers and the sponsors of the radio stations were then willing also.
James Reyne the lead singer of Austrialian Crawl was very anti drugs and had great hits with Hammerhead, Reckless and Fall of Rome. You might need a lyric sheet though as his sung words are famously hard to decipher. I think he wrote Boys Light Up when he was 16. It's about the older, ignored and bored trophy wives of Sydney's rich, posh beach suburbs where he grew up. His father was a magistrate I think.
The way James Renye is singing is deliberate his manager wanted him to sing in a nervous style.
This song is dig at the socialites in Toorak and South Yarra, Melbourne.
We had some FABULOUS music in Australia!
Australian Crawl is also another name for the front crawl in swimming, and the band were a Surf band from the Northern Beaches of Sydney. And I agree, your next reaction should be "Reckless". The first pub band I saw when I arrived in Sydney in 1981.
They were actually from the Mornington Peninsula is Victoria…
SOO cool to see you reacting to people we've grown up with and pretty well take for granted That would be the one and only James Reyne.... check out his song or their song Reckless...
Keep playing that great Aussie music mate !!! 👍 Absolutely loving your reactions to our stuff.