very sad to confirm the news about Chris Bailey dying on the weekend. Chris and I met when we were about 14 during detention at Oxley High School and became close friends which later developed into what I always thought was an extremely strong artistic partnership, I couldn't have hoped for a better singer. My deepest condolences to his wife Elisabet, his sisters Margaret, Carol and Maureen and the rest of his family and loved ones. I'll post something longer down the track but for now..
Thank you Ed 🙏🏽💔😰 and deep condolences to you! losing your dear friend, artistic brother and band family member. Please take extra good care of your beautiful wonderful self. Gentle healing to you EK 🤍 music is the healer 💟 big love, Rah Bird 🙏🏽
My condolences, Ed. All of you fellows were a force to be reckoned with. You inspire me and my band mates to this day. Thank you. Rest In Peace, Chris.
Dear Ed, Many thanks for your tour a few years back now, your duet with CB, I was lucky to see you at The Vanguard in Sydney. Was a great show, with Chris necking white wine right out of the bottle, goddamn, while Chris was a great showman, he was lucky to have you as the foundation, I guess that is how great relationships work.And then one of us is left behind. My kindest regards, Max.
My partner and I were hanging out in Paddington in the late 70s. We knew Chris and would say hi, have a coffee sometimes. We were and still are music lovers but back then we knew his band were good, now I am 66 years old and know how GREAT they were. I was on luck puppy to have been around to enjoy it
Executed perfectly. A group for the intensity of the times. Catalytic and imposing musically. Very near perfection, no wonder The Saints are unforgettable.
This brings back memories of the Paddington Town Hall gig with X. Good times. Which will always be fondly remembered. A flame for the zeitgeist of the time that will never go out.
I’m a massive fan of 60’s. 70’s. 80’s rock bands. Tatts, Radio Birdman, etc etc. This band was WAY ahead of everyone. Sax in a punk song/band in the 70’s… Genius….. That bass line…. It’s soooo goood 🇦🇺🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
So many excellent bands from Australia a blessed continent! Did promoted Cosmic Psychos mid 80s and spent a hard night at the 'Red Light District' of Amsterdam tattooed 'nice day go to the pub' on my calf. RB l,Celibate Rifles, to only name a few but one of the best live albums is the hope and anchor one yeah 🍻💊🍻
I love that songs like this one to which I react - “wow! this is hell on fire!” - keep it up. For decades! I have passed recognising and loving good music on to my daughter. Listen, and you will know.
Here's a true story. On my fourth aortic heart valve replacement, before going under, I requested this track as my 'Count backwards from Ten" music as the anesthetist did her thing. When I woke up, I had the nurse pop in to visit me at my bedside. She was stoked at the music I chose and wanted to know more so I told her what I knew about The Saints. Watching the nurse rounding the ward doorway doing a pretty damn good imitation of Ed's buzzsaw guitar made me laugh so much I burst stitches.
The Brisbane - based Saints' role in the movement that rescued rock and roll from a protracted aesthetic slump cannot be overestimated. And those Sam And Dave-inspired horns on this 1978 monster classic got a nod back in the day from Blitz Magazine - The Rock And Roll Magazine For Thinking People as one of the Best Singles of the Decade. Sadly, we lost front man Chris Bailey in April 2022.
The most danceable punk diatribe ever written. I adored the clip and every performance of this I ever saw. It was so full of explosions, implosions, ripped out throats from strutting around town young Turk days. And cigarettes. Lots of cigarettes! Sexy, swaggering Irishman & Co. This will be played at my funeral! Xx
This and “This Perfect Day” are my favorite Saints tracks. The horns on this are amazing… like Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. Stones updated to the Punk era. That aluminum Veleno guitar is amazing. Only seen Ed Kuepper and Keith Levene play them.
Love the very metallic sound of Ed's guitar on this. Is it double tracked? Whatever, it sounds how it looks! I think he was pictured with that guitar on his album "Everybody's Got To." I was lucky to see him perform at the Borderline in London back in 1995 I think it was, doing "Honey Steel's Gold." Fabulous night out.
Had only heard 75/76 punk rock Saints until RUclips in 07. Had know idea later era Saints were this good. Heard Lazy Cowgirls version before this ditty..
@@andrewfuller62My income level dictated that a bands later era was anything after the 1st record. #2 The Saints first record was an overpriced import until the reissues,yrs later.That was my version of buying a box set. If you're old enough,you remember this era
The movie was not, 'Existenz'. It starred Willem Dafoe. That story was about people who had a broadband socket in the back of their neck and they could plug their brain directly into virtual reality. It was based the Farrah Fawcett-Majors Joke. In that joke they use a kitchen tap to extract the bile that will give the Faculty of Medicine a new lease on Life. It's like the belief in bile from a Bear in ancient Chinese folklore. Instead of a bear they use humans vis a vis Soylent Green. (Warren[shooting][Peter] Beatty). I'm up to the Gilbert and Sullivan version of '9 million bicycles in Beijing' song;)
Light years ahead of what was occurring over the pond. Perhaps a little dodgy history from my perspective (years of having fun and overindulgence perhaps). The Saints as with other bands of the time are one huge reason I am probably still here today. When you feel isolated, from the values and ethos of your friends and society in general, it often creates a sense of being alienated by what I saw as an utterly irredeemable system of repression. With the built-in expectation that us outsiders (Camus) and obviously many others I did not know, were expected to become drones of a system that could not give a fuck about them, having thrown us overboard years ago. A giant fraud, a political and cultural lie. False Democracy then, and today has now eroded any sense of individual sovereignty, in its place lies of such magnitude and scope, that it's often hard to trust anyone knows this, let alone what the end game is about. Too much political fuckery? Maybe, it's only my overthinking ways. Punk was about self-expression and the desire for less government control over our lives, not the totalitarian overreach unfolding all over the world right now. Punk for me was and is about freedom, liberty, and yes, having the very best times of your life, in this it succeeded beyond my expectations. Sure, as with all things, change is inevitable, I'm not one to live in the past expecting things to stay the same, no one wants to be the old geezer going on about the good old days, boring the fuck out of anyone in hearing distance. Then, no one with half a brain wants to see oppression, censorship, or the current Orwellian control systems being installed to become the norm either. With Punk-the Devil is in the details.
(Yeah All right Sing it up, west coast Too much!) I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!" "Got some great new brand of smokes, cool your head and clear your throat "Keeps you young, yeah, so in touch." Cheap advertising, you're lying Never gonna get me what I want I said, smooth talking, brain washing Ain't never gonna get me what I need "Our new soap that's peachy keen saves your soul and keeps you clean "It's recommended, used by the Queen "Gonna improve your IQ, help in everything you do "It's economic, don't cost too much." Said advertising, you're lying Never gonna give me what I want I said, smooth talking, brain washing Ain't never gonna get me what I need (I said take it Come on Soul man Let's shoot the professor! Alright!) I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!" "It's a great new brand of smokes "Cool your head and clears your throat "Keeps you young and so in touch." Said advertising, you're lying You're never gonna give me what I want I said smooth talking, brain washing You're never gonna get me what I need (What do I care? Yeah! Hey man Where's the professor? We need him now! Gonna tell you 'bout them Yeah we take it all the way 'round the world For that west coast feel Yeah man Yeah everything, let it out It's not what you love Look out on the radio All right Yeah Yeah...)
very sad to confirm the news about Chris Bailey dying on the weekend. Chris and I met when we were about 14 during detention at Oxley High School and became close friends which later developed into what I always thought was an extremely strong artistic partnership, I couldn't have hoped for a better singer. My deepest condolences to his wife Elisabet, his sisters Margaret, Carol and Maureen and the rest of his family and loved ones. I'll post something longer down the track but for now..
Thank you Ed 🙏🏽💔😰 and deep condolences to you! losing your dear friend, artistic brother and band family member. Please take extra good care of your beautiful wonderful self. Gentle healing to you EK 🤍 music is the healer 💟 big love, Rah Bird 🙏🏽
My condolences, Ed. All of you fellows were a force to be reckoned with. You inspire me and my band mates to this day.
Thank you. Rest In Peace, Chris.
Nice words Mr Kuepper. Sadly I say RIP Mr Bailey.
detention, that's gold bro ,I reckon you wrote this song when ya should been rehabilitating your wicked ways. Time well mispent, Thanks
Dear Ed, Many thanks for your tour a few years back now, your duet with CB, I was lucky to see you at The Vanguard in Sydney. Was a great show, with Chris necking white wine right out of the bottle, goddamn, while Chris was a great showman, he was lucky to have you as the foundation, I guess that is how great relationships work.And then one of us is left behind. My kindest regards, Max.
Such a kick-ass song, love it. Still sounds fresh after nearly 50 years!
yooooo great gracias
My partner and I were hanging out in Paddington in the late 70s. We knew Chris and would say hi, have a coffee sometimes. We were and still are music lovers but back then we knew his band were good, now I am 66 years old and know how GREAT they were. I was on luck puppy to have been around to enjoy it
Executed perfectly. A group for the intensity of the times. Catalytic and imposing musically. Very near perfection, no wonder The Saints are unforgettable.
Near perfect post.
This brings back memories of the Paddington Town Hall gig with X. Good times. Which will always be fondly remembered. A flame for the zeitgeist of the time that will never go out.
I was 7 when I first heard this in 78. It changed my life.
Chris has a criminally underrated vocal style.
Possibly the best song ever?😋💥🍻
it's a contender for sure
Sad to hear about the passing of Algy Ward a few days ago, a really unique carachter and Bass Sound, much respect...
RIP Chris Bailey! Knowing a great product from good ole Brisbane town!
I’m a massive fan of 60’s. 70’s. 80’s rock bands.
Tatts, Radio Birdman, etc etc.
This band was WAY ahead of everyone.
Sax in a punk song/band in the 70’s… Genius…..
That bass line….
It’s soooo goood
🇦🇺🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
So many excellent bands from Australia a blessed continent! Did promoted Cosmic Psychos mid 80s and spent a hard night at the 'Red Light District' of Amsterdam tattooed 'nice day go to the pub' on my calf.
RB l,Celibate Rifles, to only name a few but one of the best live albums is the hope and anchor one yeah 🍻💊🍻
I love that songs like this one to which I react - “wow! this is hell on fire!” - keep it up. For decades!
I have passed recognising and loving good music on to my daughter.
Listen, and you will know.
I've always said 1978 was the best year of music and this certainly helps my case. Wonderful.
Great band, one of the best Aussie products . Remember them on Countdown when i was a teenager. RIP Chris a great servant to Aussie music!!!
Rip Chris Bailey. Thanks to one of the grandfathers of Punk. Live forever ✌️ the Saints and band that shaped Aussie Rock 🤘🏴🇦🇺
Here's a true story.
On my fourth aortic heart valve replacement, before going under, I requested this track as my 'Count backwards from Ten" music as the anesthetist did her thing.
When I woke up, I had the nurse pop in to visit me at my bedside. She was stoked at the music I chose and wanted to know more so I told her what I knew about The Saints.
Watching the nurse rounding the ward doorway doing a pretty damn good imitation of Ed's buzzsaw guitar made me laugh so much I burst stitches.
Right up there with the best all time rock songs
Hard to believe this song didn’t take off in the charts 🤔
Welcome to Australian radio in the 70’s - early 80’s! I played it often on my FM show in the far NNSW. It won lots of votes.
It did pretty well,Melbourne went nuts on this tune.
40 years later....still on regular rotation. Covered by many, but none like the original.
An absolute classic. Back then this was the song that won me over to the Saints.
I stumbled across this album in the States in 1979. This song struck me deeply then, and still does now. Brilliant. RIP Chris.
C'est excellent.
superb song and video too
R.I P Chris Bailey You Where Awesome 😔🙏🔥
Thanks, Ed!
The Saints, The Birthday Party and Laughing Clowns taught me the value of brass in my countries music, which has never been bettered IMO.
Not Radio Birdman?
@@publicanimal Nay, I was a bit too young when the Birdman were at their peak.
@@publicanimal Radio Birdman never used brass on their recordings or live shows
I don't know what to say, because ...I'm just glad this song exists. I love it every time I hear it.
Damn, Ed, you sure scored with this one! One of my fave tunes by one of my fave bands, EVER. Thanks so much!!
The Brisbane - based Saints' role in the movement that rescued rock and roll from a protracted aesthetic slump cannot be overestimated. And those Sam And Dave-inspired horns on this 1978 monster classic got a nod back in the day from Blitz Magazine - The Rock And Roll Magazine For Thinking People as one of the Best Singles of the Decade. Sadly, we lost front man Chris Bailey in April 2022.
Farewell Algy Ward! 17/05/23
This is marvelous. Never heard of these guys before.
Algy Ward played on my two favourite albums. This one and Machine Gun Etiquette by the Damned.
Tank is amazing too.
Yes, great song, great band
Totally Cool Catchy Tunage
Algy RIP
Laïc Saints. Thanks.
best Saints song!
Saw a version of The Saints perform this in the mid 80s. Ed played bass. Great gig.
The most danceable punk diatribe ever written. I adored the clip and every performance of this I ever saw. It was so full of explosions, implosions, ripped out throats from strutting around town young Turk days. And cigarettes. Lots of cigarettes! Sexy, swaggering Irishman & Co. This will be played at my funeral! Xx
Yeah,it was played at mine,went down a treat they tell me.
Safe travels Mr Bailey. Thankyou for the music.
Thank you
That bass line!
Wow. Just wow.
Ahhhh. Perfection.
Very nice!!
My fav Saints song. Godspeed you Bails.......
This and “This Perfect Day” are my favorite Saints tracks. The horns on this are amazing… like Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. Stones updated to the Punk era. That aluminum Veleno guitar is amazing. Only seen Ed Kuepper and Keith Levene play them.
Love the very metallic sound of Ed's guitar on this. Is it double tracked? Whatever, it sounds how it looks! I think he was pictured with that guitar on his album "Everybody's Got To." I was lucky to see him perform at the Borderline in London back in 1995 I think it was, doing "Honey Steel's Gold." Fabulous night out.
yes top, ich bin gestrandet..
This song was my generation's (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Total madness, they are absolutely flying.
Fuck, this is good!
imagine having some casual drinks with friends and these guys start up . proper amp fkn rock .
Farewell Mr Bailey....🤘👏 As far as I'm concerned, you're The Godfather of PUNK !!!😎🤘🤪👏🏚🎸🎷📯🎤
Holy shit, this is fantastic.
Criminally underappreciated band
So good song , top of rocks !!!
Finally, a decent copy!
Epic!
there really good
1977?! Well, then... they were ahead of their time.
Had sneer in his voice that Johnny Ploppin could only dream of.
Or Simon Ferocious for that matter
RIP Chris Bailey,lPunk legend from Brisbane❤
Original and completely brilliant
Perfect
Had only heard 75/76 punk rock Saints until RUclips in 07. Had know idea later era Saints were this good. Heard Lazy Cowgirls version before this ditty..
@Ethereal Catholic2 Hardly "later era" - this was off just their second album (and best IMHO) barely a year after their debut album.
@@andrewfuller62My income level dictated that a bands later era was anything after the 1st record. #2 The Saints first record was an overpriced import until the reissues,yrs later.That was my version of buying a box set. If you're old enough,you remember this era
Perhaps "later album" rather than "era" then.
Хороши всё же ранние австралийские панки !!!! И кстати голос у фронтмена отличный!!!
Amazing to think our very own Saints were around pumping out hard core shit well before Sex Pistols. Aussies always been ahead in the game. Rock on 🤘.
The best. ‘ Satisfaction’ for our generation.
Nice~
\m/ \m/ Love it!
Chris 🌹
VALE Chris Bailey.....Gone too Young.
RIP Chris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad news today ❤️
The movie was not, 'Existenz'. It starred Willem Dafoe. That story was about people who had a broadband socket in the back of their neck and they could plug their brain directly into virtual reality.
It was based the Farrah Fawcett-Majors Joke. In that joke they use a kitchen tap to extract the bile that will give the Faculty of Medicine a new lease on Life. It's like the belief in bile from a Bear in ancient Chinese folklore. Instead of a bear they use humans vis a vis Soylent Green. (Warren[shooting][Peter] Beatty).
I'm up to the Gilbert and Sullivan version of '9 million bicycles in Beijing' song;)
'Where is the professor? We need him now!'
neva gonna, yeah
Ahead of their time. What a great band.
RIP Chris
Thanks from Russia!!!!
This song was so far beyond anything anyone else was doing in Feb 1978 its ridiculous.
can you change the settings so I can add it to a playlist?
Ed Do you still have the Veleno? What is / was it like? Brilliant song.
R.i.p I knew the saints un 2021 and now Chris is dead 😭
That brass section is punk as fuck.
🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is the Punk version of SMOKE ON THE WATER. With horns
💎🌹
The 70's 'Satisfaction', but the Otis Redding version. Never more relevant.
This music was brought to you by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and the former Sir Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service Terrence Lewis.
W🥰🤘
A band that covered Ike and Tina can't be wrong. A "cross-cutting" comment.
Vale Chris
Light years ahead of what was occurring over the pond. Perhaps a little dodgy history from my perspective (years of having fun and overindulgence perhaps). The Saints as with other bands of the time are one huge reason I am probably still here today. When you feel isolated, from the values and ethos of your friends and society in general, it often creates a sense of being alienated by what I saw as an utterly irredeemable system of repression. With the built-in expectation that us outsiders (Camus) and obviously many others I did not know, were expected to become drones of a system that could not give a fuck about them, having thrown us overboard years ago. A giant fraud, a political and cultural lie. False Democracy then, and today has now eroded any sense of individual sovereignty, in its place lies of such magnitude and scope, that it's often hard to trust anyone knows this, let alone what the end game is about. Too much political fuckery? Maybe, it's only my overthinking ways. Punk was about self-expression and the desire for less government control over our lives, not the totalitarian overreach unfolding all over the world right now. Punk for me was and is about freedom, liberty, and yes, having the very best times of your life, in this it succeeded beyond my expectations. Sure, as with all things, change is inevitable, I'm not one to live in the past expecting things to stay the same, no one wants to be the old geezer going on about the good old days, boring the fuck out of anyone in hearing distance. Then, no one with half a brain wants to see oppression, censorship, or the current Orwellian control systems being installed to become the norm either. With Punk-the Devil is in the details.
Amen brother...👍
Vale Chris. 😞
Vale Chris Bailey.
Vale Chris Bailey 11 Apr 22
(Yeah
All right
Sing it up, west coast
Too much!)
I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air
Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!"
"Got some great new brand of smokes, cool your head and clear your throat
"Keeps you young, yeah, so in touch."
Cheap advertising, you're lying
Never gonna get me what I want
I said, smooth talking, brain washing
Ain't never gonna get me what I need
"Our new soap that's peachy keen saves your soul and keeps you clean
"It's recommended, used by the Queen
"Gonna improve your IQ, help in everything you do
"It's economic, don't cost too much."
Said advertising, you're lying
Never gonna give me what I want
I said, smooth talking, brain washing
Ain't never gonna get me what I need
(I said take it
Come on
Soul man
Let's shoot the professor!
Alright!)
I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air
Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!"
"It's a great new brand of smokes
"Cool your head and clears your throat
"Keeps you young and so in touch."
Said advertising, you're lying
You're never gonna give me what I want
I said smooth talking, brain washing
You're never gonna get me what I need
(What do I care?
Yeah! Hey man
Where's the professor?
We need him now!
Gonna tell you 'bout them
Yeah we take it all the way 'round the world
For that west coast feel
Yeah man
Yeah everything, let it out
It's not what you love
Look out on the radio
All right
Yeah
Yeah...)
Wow! Turbonegro really were influenced by this band
This is a fuckin ripper .🍻🖕🙏🇦🇺