Yeah, I remember rewatching this clip and realising how old it is. The drummer has no tattoos. When was the last time you ever saw a tattooless drummer?
IKR? I am seriously obsessed with watching people from other countries react to the last 50 years of Australian music and the overall feeling, after being delighted at how much they ALL love our stuff from the 70s to the present day, is sadness that A) people from all over the world never got to hear our amazing music, and B) that so many of our amazing artists never "made it" beyond our shores where the BIG money is to be made.
It was on the radio in Germany when I was there in 1999. Did I sing at the top of my lungs? Yes, yes I did. Did the rest of my school group? Yes, yes they did too. Did we find any other Aussies? Sadly, no. But, to be fair, we were in a small village in Bavaria; I think we'd have had more luck in Berlin. Side note: the music that the local Bavarian TV station uses for their weather segments/ads? Crowded Houses "Weather with You". And we got woken up in a east Berlin hostel with another classic Aussie song, can't think of which one right now, on the radio.
@@seonaelizabethcoster8465 A lot of German backpackers taking a lot of time to travel to a lot of places around Australia every year. Live It Up by Mental As Anything was very big in Germany. That might've been the other song you heard.
As an Aussie 80’s teen, this song still fires me up every time and makes me feel like I’m 17 again. Luckily it lasts long enough to make me feel good but stops before I go do something stupid my 17yr old self would do
Australian music 70s and 80s was just sublime. A golden era. Small enough industry to need people to work hard, be versatile, tour, play the pubs etc, but big enough to have energy too.
We Aussies were blessed with so many great bands back in the day. Something you guys have come to appreciate over the last year or so. Keep it up guys. The music that formed a Nation.
The Aussies have some classics. Baby Animals, 1927, Men at Work, Australian Crawl, AC/DC, Midnight Oil to name but a few. The 80’s were pumping when it comes to classic pub and pop rock.
“It’s not specifically about heroin,” Gable says. “It’s more about misspent youth, the waste I saw in the ’70s on the northern beaches of Sydney. It’s more about being on the dole, surfing instead of working, smoking dope and drinking, people getting trashed in pubs on the weekend.” Played all the time in NZ too. Not a really a "happy" song but played with such energy.
Well put. The line "you don't need a friend when you can score, you run to paradise" says it all. Mark was a friend of some of my friends so I met him a few times.
Outstanding. It's an all time classic. Definitely need to check out the other song that was coming up next, Boys Will Be Boys. Solid effort again guys.
Hi Andy - did you know Terry Halliday too? Weird how all the boys I knew are being reviewed by these guys - did you know Rob Ryan from electric sunshine?
Classic Aussie Rock, can't beat it. Want some more Aussie Gold try more Cold Chisel, Angels, Hoodoo Gurus, Rose Tattoo, there are more classic aussie bands than you can poke seven sticks at. Cheers
I'm ashamed to admit it but this was me 35 years ago and my supposed mates of convenience in Wollongong's northern surfer days. It wasn't long before my paradise was not in the surf but came from behind closed doors to be found behind a closed world. I was heading for a new paradise delivered from a sharp steel in my arm like so many before me. Thank fluck I still had thoughts of my true paradise I knew from when I first stood up on a surfboard as a cheeky little surf grommet. One day I just got in my trashed Kingswood and instead of driving to see the paradise man I drove up Macquarie Pass and didn't stop until I got to Adelaide where I soon fell into an apprenticeship and the unnatural paradise was left 1200k's away. I was back surfing almost every arvo after work, surfing York Peninsula weekends before discovering the true paradise I almost never knew. That was the freedom to have a guaranteed job with my trade in whatever off the map surf destination I wanted for however long I wanted before moving on to the next paradise. I'm in my fifties, back in the northern Gong living with the surf behind my back fence where I grew up as a surf grommet terrorising the neighbourhood on my mini bike if I wasn't down the point ducking behind the boat sheds for a fag before jumping off the rocks straight into the impact zone to prove my worthiness of being a point grom, and and the only one still alive of all my mates I went to school and surfed with.
Grew up in a Housing Commission area north of Melbourne and I have lost count of how many people I knew who lost their way and found that same sharp steel you mentioned and who are no longer with us. Went to many of the same parties as them but just knew that life wasn't for me so fortunately I am still here. Now in my late 50's and really miss the 80's and the great music that we could see every night of the week for less than $5 entry fee. The kids today have no idea what they missed out on.
The lead singer, Mark Gable lives on the Central Coast of NSW, where i live and he still tours, both solo and with Choirboys. He's also big into photography and sells some of his work. He and his wife recently rewrote this song as a parody during COVID and called it "Stuck in Paradise". Its well worth a look.
Mark Gable I can proudly say took my portfolio pics for my big 50 last year and we got to talking about bands and shit and the funny thing was I didn't realize it was him at first and I was wondering why my friend kept laughing at me disrupting our shoot coz I was such a dumbass lol. He was a really cool guy tho and a very talented photographer!! 😁
Yep 100% Aussie classic hit right there. Songs like this make me proud to be an Aussie 👍🏾 you guys are greatly appreciated, I love what you say about our music. Travis and Susie both great people.. Dan from Australia.
I was just a kid when this came out but I still clearly remember me & my Mum singing in the car at full volume whenever it came on the radio. Great memories!
I think you guys enjoyed the song so much you forgot to analyse the lyrics. Yes it’s super catchy and a great pub rock song but there’s also a serious message about drug addiction which was never acknowledged in the reaction. Always fun to see Americans reacting to great Aussie music though 👍
Awesome! Another band I worked with. I once set up the crowd barrier at a Jimmy Barnes gig at a Rugby field. A large crowd at that gig. The field had only one road in so the cops put a breath test station on it after the concert. This made leaving take hours in a crawl where they tested every car. The next week was the Choirboys gig which went ahead but almost nobody came because of the complete chaos the week before. I felt so sorry for the Band. I know my boss got paid before the gigs but many of the other bands and workers may have missed out.
I love ur hair Suzi (soz if i spelt ur name wrong) i absolutely love the colours, no matter what colours u have in it. Also the song is about heroin. Aussie pub rock to us Aussie's is the best genre of music probs coz it's our own unique genre no other country has. We had some fantastic pub rock bands like ACCA DACCA (AC/DC, we call them Acca Dacca in Straya, we nickname absolutely everything lol) & INXS to name at least 2 international super groups from Straya that started off in the pub rock scene. The world (mainly the US) was never interested in our bands, whether they didn't think us Aussie's could perform musically or just didn't understand our genre but our bands are loved & adored by us Aussie's & being successful in ur own country, esp a country like ours means more then to break thru internationally 💞💞💞
Have seen them dozens of times over four decades, last few times with Moving Pictures. Nobody ever reacts to Moving Pictures and their first single Busting Loose is the most Aussie 80s track ever
Still play the album every week and when I used to work night shift in Sydney listening to 2MMM John Doe would play the album at 3am every year on my birthday
These guys originated near where I grew up in the late70s 80s. Saw them a few times at pubs along Sydney northern beaches. This particular song is about the lead singer Mark seeing a girl he fancied while working as a window dresser!! at Warringah Mall (all northern beach-ites will be familiar). She worked in Woolworths or Safeways supermarket whatever. Eventually he came up with the courage to speak to her and ask her out. She just told him to piss off. We saw them a couple of years ago at Cremorne (yes they are still around) where he told that story.
FINALLY!! Someone reacts to this classic! Run to Paradise is my all-time favorite "belting it out at top volume while driving" song.😂 Other drivers probably have a good laugh at me, and most people here in the US don't even know the song, but you can't beat this for yelling your lungs out on the highway.😁💕 PS: React to a massive '80s hit from NZ called "Rain" by Dragon. It was huge in Australasia & South America, and it's another of these awesome "sing-along" pub/stadium songs. Entire rooms full of people will start singing when it comes on.😁🌸
Hi so funny. Yes, Dragon were from NZ. Except they were adopted by Australia and we began to see them as an Australian group. OOPs. I love April sun in Cuba..and a million other songs....
I remember seeing them as support for Deep Purple in about 1984/85 and the singer had a broken leg or something and had to sing from a chair. They had a hit at the time called Never Gonna Die which I had the single for. They were great but Purple turned the speakers up to11 when they came on and was twice as loud and I was deaf for a week after. This was my song circa 87, had the black and blue singlet and wore it everywhere. Great song choice.
I saw this at "The Glasshouse". Security spent most of the night trying to get people to sit down. Yeah nah, not going to happen. And yes, ears ringing for a week.
You’re right about a beachy feel. These boys were from the Northern Beaches in Sydney. We used to see them for free at the local pub. As light as it feels, this song’s subject matter is much darker, as it’s about losing friends to heroin addiction. Baby, you were always gonna be the one You only ever did it just for fun But you run to paradise Jenny, I'll meet you at the grocery store You don't need a friend when you can score You run to paradise Johnny, we were always best of friends Stick together and defend But you run to paradise And Mamma, now don't you worry bout me anymore And I see you crying at the door When I run to paradise That's right, they had it all worked out You were young and blonde and you could never do wrong That's right, they were so surprised Opened their eyes up (Opened their eyes up) Opened their eyes up You don't want anyone You don't want anyone Don't tell me, this is paradise (Open your eyes up) You don't want anyone You don't want anyone Don't tell me, this is paradise Good times, why'd I let 'em slip away Why'd I let them slip away 'Cause I lived in paradise Run to paradise Run to paradise Run to paradise Jesus says it's gonna be alright He's gonna pat my back So I can walk in the light (that's right) You don't mind if I abuse myself So I can hold my head up (Hold my head up) Hold my head up You don't want anyone You don't want anyone Don't tell me, this is paradise (Open your eyes up) You don't need anyone You don't need anyone You'll tell me, this is paradise You don't want anyone You don't want anyone Don't tell me, this is paradise You don't need anyone You don't want anyone You'll tell me, this is paradise
Still remember seeing these guys live in Brisbane when they played support for Bon Jovi on their Slippery When Wet tour. Another great song from them was Boys Will Be Boys.
Is song is nothing out of the ordinary. Starting in the 60s, 70s and 80s australia was the world mecca for pub rock. Countless countless numbers of world class bands came from this scene, even acdc
I’ve watched so many of your reactions recently and even though I’m a year or two behind, your reactions are awesome. You cover such a broad range of artists I’m trying to find one you’ve missed. My challenge is to give you a list, but I’m not sure there’d be much on it. Well done you guys for promoting the music 🎶 of my youth, many I’ve seen live.
This song is such an Aussie anthem .. I remember singing mindlessly along to it when i was young never really connecting .. as i got older and life happened and addiction happened .. this song would chill me to the bone.It's a song about a super serious topic .. hidden in a balsy/happy aussie tune. So happy you two reacted to it , what a gem with such iconic lines "And Mamma, now don't you worry about me anymore When I see you crying at the door When I run to paradise"
Yeah I heard this a lot as a kid. I was 11 when it came out. I know every word. But I cannot remember this music video at all! It was the kind of song you heard over the PA at the local pool in the middle of summer. I have lots of memories associated with music and summertime fun
It was the classic rock sing along anthem! Parties, pubs...wherever it was played the whole place would light up! Its actually about heroin addiction though...that denial point where they say they don't have a problem
This song defiantly goes off at a wedding, or any party in Oz.. every Aussie knows this song… banger of an anthem.. this song along with Jimmy Barnes working class man, John Farnham your the voice and Daryl Braithwaite the horses… check these songs out if you haven’t already
It was the first song (Vinyl/record) that I ever used when I was 4 in the 80's. I had the Choirboys on vinyl, Deff Leopard Hysteria on Cassette tape and Michael Jackson Bad album on CD. I feel privileged of being alive at a time where all 3 existed.
Hi guys. I was lucky enough to grow up in Australia in the 70s and 80s. In my area in Queensland these fab bands that you are playing where all playing at the local surf (life saving) club. Freaking wonderful. It is so great to hear them all again and I love watching his much you love them too.
Yup and SOP is to crank the volume at the start.... at Baby, then up again at Jenny, and full crank at UGH! only way to enjoy it fully! Classic Pub rock, such a lost magic! Although closest we have who tour currently is Airbourne!!!!
I am loving watching you guys just embrassing a song I spent many nights at the pub dancing to. They were electric live at the "swinging Pig" back in the 80's
When ever this comes on the radio, yeah I still listen to the radio, I can't help but turn the volume up to somewhere around vibrate the moon off it's hinges
Choir Boys are a excellent band seeing them back in the 80s and 90s was most brilliant time for music and band playing together unlike These day’s with Covid-19 😷.I feel for the younger generation not able go out too the club’s partying hard all night those we’re the good old day’s in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🦘
Hey guys 👍 I went to see these guys in Melbourne shortly after the release of this song. The lead singer threw cans of beer into the audience. 🍻🤣 I think more bands should do that.
One of the great 'don't take drugs' songs to come out of Australia in the 80s. Just watch any doco on what was happening in the country and you will understand the message behind the song!
I was born in 77 so I was far too young for the Aussie music pub scene of the 80s and early 90s. So any of my fellow Aussie's who went to regular pubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane during that era and got to see Cold Chisel, Noiseworks, Choir Boys etc at places like Coogee Bay Hotel or Selina's damn you were spoilt. Those were in my opinion the best times for live Australian music
lots of memories for me with this song. Cruising in my Monaro with my mates back in the 80's in Brisbane.....never forget songs like this and never forget the memories they invoke
Australia in 70s and 80s, small enough to have independent approach, big enough to support the industry. Epic era. Sky hooks, The Angels, Rose Tatto, Acdc, choirboy, Hunters and Collectors, Cold Chisel, the Saints, Richard Clapton etc etc
You have dug deep for the real gems, haven't you both! Whoever is giving you these recommendations is doing right by you both. This was massive on the pub scene when I was younger (20 years, give or take) OK, so I reckon if this hit you that hard that quickly, you want to check out a few of the following for starters Mondo Rock - Come Said the Boy Split Enz 🇳🇿 Poor Boy (the Enzso version is incredible, but no filmclip sorry) Darryl Braithwaite - Horses (just about every Aussie will chime in on this one)
You are 100% right, our high school leavers dinner ( your senior year formal??) We got up on the tables and rocked to this teenage anthem!!🤣, poor teachers didn't quite know what to do, love the 80' s Aussie bands, reminiscing😍😍
An aussie anthem sewn into the dna... A Western Australian nightclub I worked at hosted them in the 90s or early 00s - they lifted the roof off the place, & played this twice! Everyone knew the lyrics. Me and the other glassies, did bugger-all work during the sets... ✌😄
I love watching you guys react to Australian bands, they always seem to tweak interesting reactions and surprise people from overseas. I guess it's because we have a different flavour that most of the world hasn't heard. You oughta try out the radiators, one of the most classic Aussie pub bands ever. Try coming home to start with, then summer holiday and Nancy can't dance, all just some of the favourites.
Mark Gable is such an awesome guy, I had the privy of him taking my pics for my birthday portfolio last year and the funny thing was I didn't recognize him straight away. Was wondering why my friend kept laughing at me and he was throwing her knowing looks lol. Very talented photographer tho and singer!!! 😁
This song is rumoured to be about drug addiction. That's why the mother is crying when he runs to paradise. The song lyrics are he can abuse himself so he can hold his head up. Drugs were the crutch to get through life. Not really a wedding song, but it does have a catchy beat.
It’s part of the movie soundtrack of every Aussie who grew up in the 80’s.
exactly Rob where did the time go
100% mate
Yeah, I remember rewatching this clip and realising how old it is. The drummer has no tattoos. When was the last time you ever saw a tattooless drummer?
This and Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again.
Even for us kiwis grew up with this !!
i'm 59 years old and it makes me sad to think that the world never listened to aussie legends growing up . i feel so blessed .
IKR? I am seriously obsessed with watching people from other countries react to the last 50 years of Australian music and the overall feeling, after being delighted at how much they ALL love our stuff from the 70s to the present day, is sadness that A) people from all over the world never got to hear our amazing music, and B) that so many of our amazing artists never "made it" beyond our shores where the BIG money is to be made.
Damn straight 👍
Same.
100 percent an Australian classic!
@@lenny0347 preach it
For sure an Australian classic
One of those songs that if you were overseas and you start singing it you will be able to find any other Australians in the vicinity! Classic!!!
Absolutely have done that many a time lol
This and Khe Sanh!
It was on the radio in Germany when I was there in 1999. Did I sing at the top of my lungs? Yes, yes I did. Did the rest of my school group? Yes, yes they did too. Did we find any other Aussies? Sadly, no. But, to be fair, we were in a small village in Bavaria; I think we'd have had more luck in Berlin.
Side note: the music that the local Bavarian TV station uses for their weather segments/ads? Crowded Houses "Weather with You".
And we got woken up in a east Berlin hostel with another classic Aussie song, can't think of which one right now, on the radio.
@@seonaelizabethcoster8465
A lot of German backpackers taking a lot of time to travel to a lot of places around Australia every year.
Live It Up by Mental As Anything was very big in Germany. That might've been the other song you heard.
As an Aussie 80’s teen, this song still fires me up every time and makes me feel like I’m 17 again.
Luckily it lasts long enough to make me feel good but stops before I go do something stupid my 17yr old self would do
🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏
Australian music 70s and 80s was just sublime. A golden era.
Small enough industry to need people to work hard, be versatile, tour, play the pubs etc, but big enough to have energy too.
We Aussies were blessed with so many great bands back in the day. Something you guys have come to appreciate over the last year or so. Keep it up guys.
The music that formed a Nation.
One of the loudest bands I’ve ever heard live. When they get to “Baby” it just punches straight through you!
The Aussies have some classics. Baby Animals, 1927, Men at Work, Australian Crawl, AC/DC, Midnight Oil to name but a few. The 80’s were pumping when it comes to classic pub and pop rock.
Cant forget angels, rose tattoo, dragon , icehouse so many great aussie band around that time
@@aussieinthephilippines3860 mental as anything
Hunters and Collectors.
Oh indeed there were so many!
INXS
Keep this on your playlist. I wanted Jenny to be my paradise. Never happened.
“It’s not specifically about heroin,” Gable says. “It’s more about misspent youth, the waste I saw in the ’70s on the northern beaches of Sydney. It’s more about being on the dole, surfing instead of working, smoking dope and drinking, people getting trashed in pubs on the weekend.” Played all the time in NZ too. Not a really a "happy" song but played with such energy.
Well put. The line "you don't need a friend when you can score, you run to paradise" says it all. Mark was a friend of some of my friends so I met him a few times.
Thanks mate. Thats a very interesting insight.
Outstanding. It's an all time classic. Definitely need to check out the other song that was coming up next, Boys Will Be Boys.
Solid effort again guys.
I love this song.
I did a brief stint with the Choirboys as a roadie in the early 1990's as well.
Hi Andy - did you know Terry Halliday too?
Weird how all the boys I knew are being reviewed by these guys - did you know Rob Ryan from electric sunshine?
Classic Aussie Rock, can't beat it. Want some more Aussie Gold try more Cold Chisel, Angels, Hoodoo Gurus, Rose Tattoo, there are more classic aussie bands than you can poke seven sticks at. Cheers
I'm ashamed to admit it but this was me 35 years ago and my supposed mates of convenience in Wollongong's northern surfer days. It wasn't long before my paradise was not in the surf but came from behind closed doors to be found behind a closed world.
I was heading for a new paradise delivered from a sharp steel in my arm like so many before me.
Thank fluck I still had thoughts of my true paradise I knew from when I first stood up on a surfboard as a cheeky little surf grommet. One day I just got in my trashed Kingswood and instead of driving to see the paradise man I drove up Macquarie Pass and didn't stop until I got to Adelaide where I soon fell into an apprenticeship and the unnatural paradise was left 1200k's away.
I was back surfing almost every arvo after work, surfing York Peninsula weekends before discovering the true paradise I almost never knew. That was the freedom to have a guaranteed job with my trade in whatever off the map surf destination I wanted for however long I wanted before moving on to the next paradise. I'm in my fifties, back in the northern Gong living with the surf behind my back fence where I grew up as a surf grommet terrorising the neighbourhood on my mini bike if I wasn't down the point ducking behind the boat sheds for a fag before jumping off the rocks straight into the impact zone to prove my worthiness of being a point grom, and and the only one still alive of all my mates I went to school and surfed with.
Grew up in a Housing Commission area north of Melbourne and I have lost count of how many people I knew who lost their way and found that same sharp steel you mentioned and who are no longer with us. Went to many of the same parties as them but just knew that life wasn't for me so fortunately I am still here. Now in my late 50's and really miss the 80's and the great music that we could see every night of the week for less than $5 entry fee. The kids today have no idea what they missed out on.
@@iankearns774 We are the survivors. So many lost mates so young.
@@reddog5378 Very true mate.
@@iankearns774 It's a common story. I look back at the fun times but then also count the costs.
Glad to have survived those days
My partner passed away from cancer 3 years ago and this was one of her favourite songs and one of her favourite bands.
You have a piece of her memory locked away in this song, that comes out every time it comes on. Hope you're doing ok now mate.
The lead singer, Mark Gable lives on the Central Coast of NSW, where i live and he still tours, both solo and with Choirboys. He's also big into photography and sells some of his work. He and his wife recently rewrote this song as a parody during COVID and called it "Stuck in Paradise". Its well worth a look.
Mark Gable I can proudly say took my portfolio pics for my big 50 last year and we got to talking about bands and shit and the funny thing was I didn't realize it was him at first and I was wondering why my friend kept laughing at me disrupting our shoot coz I was such a dumbass lol. He was a really cool guy tho and a very talented photographer!! 😁
Yep 100% Aussie classic hit right there. Songs like this make me proud to be an Aussie 👍🏾 you guys are greatly appreciated, I love what you say about our music. Travis and Susie both great people.. Dan from Australia.
I was just a kid when this came out but I still clearly remember me & my Mum singing in the car at full volume whenever it came on the radio. Great memories!
I think you guys enjoyed the song so much you forgot to analyse the lyrics. Yes it’s super catchy and a great pub rock song but there’s also a serious message about drug addiction which was never acknowledged in the reaction. Always fun to see Americans reacting to great Aussie music though 👍
Awesome! Another band I worked with. I once set up the crowd barrier at a Jimmy Barnes gig at a Rugby field. A large crowd at that gig. The field had only one road in so the cops put a breath test station on it after the concert. This made leaving take hours in a crawl where they tested every car. The next week was the Choirboys gig which went ahead but almost nobody came because of the complete chaos the week before. I felt so sorry for the Band. I know my boss got paid before the gigs but many of the other bands and workers may have missed out.
I love ur hair Suzi (soz if i spelt ur name wrong) i absolutely love the colours, no matter what colours u have in it.
Also the song is about heroin.
Aussie pub rock to us Aussie's is the best genre of music probs coz it's our own unique genre no other country has. We had some fantastic pub rock bands like ACCA DACCA (AC/DC, we call them Acca Dacca in Straya, we nickname absolutely everything lol) & INXS to name at least 2 international super groups from Straya that started off in the pub rock scene. The world (mainly the US) was never interested in our bands, whether they didn't think us Aussie's could perform musically or just didn't understand our genre but our bands are loved & adored by us Aussie's & being successful in ur own country, esp a country like ours means more then to break thru internationally 💞💞💞
Have seen them dozens of times over four decades, last few times with Moving Pictures. Nobody ever reacts to Moving Pictures and their first single Busting Loose is the most Aussie 80s track ever
Every guy is a clumsy poet and every girl is a beauty queen. Best and most true lyrics ever written.
Still play the album every week and when I used to work night shift in Sydney listening to 2MMM John Doe would play the album at 3am every year on my birthday
Great Aussie Band!
@@peterdubois65 My Sweet Cherie is a standout track that most people never heard.
Love Busting Loose!!
Love watching the reaction of these Seppo's...we were so lucky growing up in Oz seeing bands like this at a pub/club even on a weeknight
These guys originated near where I grew up in the late70s 80s. Saw them a few times at pubs along Sydney northern beaches. This particular song is about the lead singer Mark seeing a girl he fancied while working as a window dresser!! at Warringah Mall (all northern beach-ites will be familiar). She worked in Woolworths or Safeways supermarket whatever. Eventually he came up with the courage to speak to her and ask her out. She just told him to piss off.
We saw them a couple of years ago at Cremorne (yes they are still around) where he told that story.
Run to Paradise- means getting high.. “you don’t need a friend when you can score, you just run to paradise”.. bittersweet song about addiction.
No one thought of it that way back then, too busy partying to read the lyrics.
@@iankearns774 I remember partying to the Radiators “gimme head” before I even knew what it meant 🤣 😂
FINALLY!! Someone reacts to this classic! Run to Paradise is my all-time favorite "belting it out at top volume while driving" song.😂 Other drivers probably have a good laugh at me, and most people here in the US don't even know the song, but you can't beat this for yelling your lungs out on the highway.😁💕 PS: React to a massive '80s hit from NZ called "Rain" by Dragon. It was huge in Australasia & South America, and it's another of these awesome "sing-along" pub/stadium songs. Entire rooms full of people will start singing when it comes on.😁🌸
Hi so funny. Yes, Dragon were from NZ. Except they were adopted by Australia and we began to see them as an Australian group. OOPs. I love April sun in Cuba..and a million other songs....
You guys are the realist reaction channel on TH-cam because you're in a band you know what you're talking about 💙
If you're into Aussie Rock, you need to listen to Rose Tattoo.
Seriously underrated band, from a time when music was still music
Hammering along a country road at night in an old XB Coupe with the rain pissing down and Run to Paradise on the tape deck. Memories are good.
i'm just so proud you guys appreciate Aussie bands
Lyrics
Baby, you were always gonna be the one
You only ever did it just for fun
But you run to paradise
Jenny, I'll meet you at the grocery store
You don't need a friend when you can score
You run to paradise
Johnny, we were always best of friends
Stick together and defend
But you run to paradise
And Mamma, now don't you worry bout me anymore
And I see you crying at the door
When I run to paradise
That's right, they had it all worked out
You were young and blonde and you could never do wrong
That's right, they were so surprised
Opened their eyes up
(Opened their eyes up)
Opened their eyes up
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
(Open your eyes up)
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
Good times, why'd I let 'em slip away
Why'd I let them slip away
'Cause I lived in paradise
Run to paradise
Run to paradise
Run to paradise
Jesus says it's gonna be alright
He's gonna pat my back
So I can walk in the light (that's right)
You don't mind if I abuse myself
So I can hold my head up
(Hold my head up)
Hold my head up
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
(Open your eyes up)
You don't need anyone
You don't need anyone
You'll tell me, this is paradise
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
You don't need anyone
You don't want anyone
You'll tell me, this is paradise
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Mark Gable / Brad Carr
Run To Paradise lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Pty. Ltd., Mushroom Music Pty. Ltd., Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
I remember seeing them as support for Deep Purple in about 1984/85 and the singer had a broken leg or something and had to sing from a chair. They had a hit at the time called Never Gonna Die which I had the single for. They were great but Purple turned the speakers up to11 when they came on and was twice as loud and I was deaf for a week after. This was my song circa 87, had the black and blue singlet and wore it everywhere. Great song choice.
I saw this at "The Glasshouse". Security spent most of the night trying to get people to sit down. Yeah nah, not going to happen. And yes, ears ringing for a week.
You’re right about a beachy feel. These boys were from the Northern Beaches in Sydney. We used to see them for free at the local pub. As light as it feels, this song’s subject matter is much darker, as it’s about losing friends to heroin addiction.
Baby, you were always gonna be the one
You only ever did it just for fun
But you run to paradise
Jenny, I'll meet you at the grocery store
You don't need a friend when you can score
You run to paradise
Johnny, we were always best of friends
Stick together and defend
But you run to paradise
And Mamma, now don't you worry bout me anymore
And I see you crying at the door
When I run to paradise
That's right, they had it all worked out
You were young and blonde and you could never do wrong
That's right, they were so surprised
Opened their eyes up
(Opened their eyes up)
Opened their eyes up
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
(Open your eyes up)
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
Good times, why'd I let 'em slip away
Why'd I let them slip away
'Cause I lived in paradise
Run to paradise
Run to paradise
Run to paradise
Jesus says it's gonna be alright
He's gonna pat my back
So I can walk in the light (that's right)
You don't mind if I abuse myself
So I can hold my head up
(Hold my head up)
Hold my head up
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
(Open your eyes up)
You don't need anyone
You don't need anyone
You'll tell me, this is paradise
You don't want anyone
You don't want anyone
Don't tell me, this is paradise
You don't need anyone
You don't want anyone
You'll tell me, this is paradise
Still remember seeing these guys live in Brisbane when they played support for Bon Jovi on their Slippery When Wet tour. Another great song from them was Boys Will Be Boys.
I was there too. Entertainment Centre for memory. '80s rock at its best. Awesome gig!
Me too, was a great concert and Choirboys were in fine form
It's a song every Aussie who grew up with 80s music knows and loves. Such a fun song 🎵
Is song is nothing out of the ordinary. Starting in the 60s, 70s and 80s australia was the world mecca for pub rock. Countless countless numbers of world class bands came from this scene, even acdc
I’ve watched so many of your reactions recently and even though I’m a year or two behind, your reactions are awesome.
You cover such a broad range of artists I’m trying to find one you’ve missed.
My challenge is to give you a list, but I’m not sure there’d be much on it.
Well done you guys for promoting the music 🎶 of my youth, many I’ve seen live.
This song is such an Aussie anthem .. I remember singing mindlessly along to it when i was young never really connecting .. as i got older and life happened and addiction happened .. this song would chill me to the bone.It's a song about a super serious topic .. hidden in a balsy/happy aussie tune. So happy you two reacted to it , what a gem with such iconic lines
"And Mamma, now don't you worry about me anymore
When I see you crying at the door
When I run to paradise"
Yeah I heard this a lot as a kid. I was 11 when it came out. I know every word. But I cannot remember this music video at all! It was the kind of song you heard over the PA at the local pool in the middle of summer. I have lots of memories associated with music and summertime fun
It was the classic rock sing along anthem! Parties, pubs...wherever it was played the whole place would light up! Its actually about heroin addiction though...that denial point where they say they don't have a problem
This song defiantly goes off at a wedding, or any party in Oz.. every Aussie knows this song… banger of an anthem.. this song along with Jimmy Barnes working class man, John Farnham your the voice and Daryl Braithwaite the horses… check these songs out if you haven’t already
Glad you guys love it....the soundtrack of our (Aussie) youth!!
It was the first song (Vinyl/record) that I ever used when I was 4 in the 80's. I had the Choirboys on vinyl, Deff Leopard Hysteria on Cassette tape and Michael Jackson Bad album on CD. I feel privileged of being alive at a time where all 3 existed.
We grew up with all this stuff , Chisel , Icehouse , Diesel , Aussie Crawl , Crowded House etc etc etc
Loved my 80's so many good Aussie bands and singers filled our Radios and charts. We had so much fun at weddings and BBQ's
Last time I saw Brad Carr (bass) was at our mate Terry Halliday Meaneys funeral in 2015 - just realised how much I miss my old mates.
Hi guys. I was lucky enough to grow up in Australia in the 70s and 80s. In my area in Queensland these fab bands that you are playing where all playing at the local surf (life saving) club. Freaking wonderful. It is so great to hear them all again and I love watching his much you love them too.
One of my favs and still on my playlist today 👍🇦🇺
Cherrs from Brazil! I used to listen Choirboys when I was in high school begin of 90s! Don't forget of Screaming Jets, Kings of the Sun,...
classic Aussie rock its very catchy
Yup and SOP is to crank the volume at the start.... at Baby, then up again at Jenny, and full crank at UGH! only way to enjoy it fully! Classic Pub rock, such a lost magic! Although closest we have who tour currently is Airbourne!!!!
I lived in Sydney, Australia in the 1980’s, there were so many good Aussie bands around then, it was the best time to be alive.
Loved the reaction you guys make my day reacting to great Aussie classics
As couple of months back Choirboys did a gig on the hill at our footy at the end of the game. NRL Dragons in Sydney. Still have it. It was awesome
Try Boys will be Boys, by theses guys . Fantastic great Aussie band
Fireworks is another great song
Guys, I am loving experiencing all these Aussie classics through your ears for the first time.
I am loving watching you guys just embrassing a song I spent many nights at the pub dancing to. They were electric live at the "swinging Pig" back in the 80's
I remember when it when straight to number 1 in Australia... a great song that deserved more international attention
Wow, child of the 80's. Just heard this song. This is classics 80's rock.
When ever this comes on the radio, yeah I still listen to the radio, I can't help but turn the volume up to somewhere around vibrate the moon off it's hinges
One of my all time favs…great request.
Love you's, this is music I grew up with and partied with, aussie bands ROCK !
Choir Boys are a excellent band seeing them back in the 80s and 90s was most brilliant time for music and band playing together unlike These day’s with Covid-19 😷.I feel for the younger generation not able go out too the club’s partying hard all night those we’re the good old day’s in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🦘
These guys are still touring Australia every now and then too. Saw them at a local pub a couple of years ago
You guys are hitting the reach seam that is Australian 80-90s rock.
Classic Oz Rock. What a great era to grow up in.🤟
thanks guys - always brining the smiles :) :)
I could watch this bloke in the black jumper smile all day. his grin is priceless..
Yay Travis 👏
Yep once again landed on a Song all Aussies know well. Not disclosing what I got up to in 80s just glad Cameras were rarely around.
Hey guys 👍 I went to see these guys in Melbourne shortly after the release of this song. The lead singer threw cans of beer into the audience. 🍻🤣
I think more bands should do that.
Another Aussie classic! Love it ❤
Every weekend at the night club, got everyone up dancing and singing along 👏❤️
This is my alarm tone and I wake up to it every morning! 100% it's like a double shot of espresso.
saw them opening for a few international acts here in aus, also at a local pub ..great band
One of my fav's growing up
Awesome band Mark Gable the lead singer is a great entertainer and funny guy so cool that there still gigging to this day!
One of the great 'don't take drugs' songs to come out of Australia in the 80s. Just watch any doco on what was happening in the country and you will understand the message behind the song!
I was born in 77 so I was far too young for the Aussie music pub scene of the 80s and early 90s. So any of my fellow Aussie's who went to regular pubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane during that era and got to see Cold Chisel, Noiseworks, Choir Boys etc at places like Coogee Bay Hotel or Selina's damn you were spoilt. Those were in my opinion the best times for live Australian music
A wonderful teal and orange video. The red gloves are a nice touch.
3:31 _"I feel this song in my sole,"_ welcome to Aussie pub rock.
lots of memories for me with this song. Cruising in my Monaro with my mates back in the 80's in Brisbane.....never forget songs like this and never forget the memories they invoke
Australia in 70s and 80s, small enough to have independent approach, big enough to support the industry. Epic era.
Sky hooks, The Angels, Rose Tatto, Acdc, choirboy, Hunters and Collectors, Cold Chisel, the Saints, Richard Clapton etc etc
You have dug deep for the real gems, haven't you both! Whoever is giving you these recommendations is doing right by you both. This was massive on the pub scene when I was younger (20 years, give or take)
OK, so I reckon if this hit you that hard that quickly, you want to check out a few of the following for starters
Mondo Rock - Come Said the Boy
Split Enz 🇳🇿 Poor Boy (the Enzso version is incredible, but no filmclip sorry)
Darryl Braithwaite - Horses (just about every Aussie will chime in on this one)
You are 100% right, our high school leavers dinner ( your senior year formal??) We got up on the tables and rocked to this teenage anthem!!🤣, poor teachers didn't quite know what to do, love the 80' s Aussie bands, reminiscing😍😍
This song still gets flogged on the radio here and it’s still the bomb !
This is one of those songs that you definitely play at full volume. Love it😁
Roof down driving the great Ocean road stereo up to 💯db the smell of salt in the air. Waves crashing against the rocks - oh yeah.
Love it
Wow it's been years since I heard this song, I kind of assumed you guys knew it also.
An aussie anthem sewn into the dna... A Western Australian nightclub I worked at hosted them in the 90s or early 00s - they lifted the roof off the place, & played this twice! Everyone knew the lyrics. Me and the other glassies, did bugger-all work during the sets... ✌😄
Run to Paradise was about people on the northern beaches 'getting drunk, smoking dope, surfing and not working' … Such an awesome Aussie classic
Lead singer Mark Gable from a little gold mining town near Queanbeyan called Captains Flat
This is legit my favourite song of all time! So many great memories of being a kid in the 80s ✌️❤🇦🇺
I love watching you guys react to Australian bands, they always seem to tweak interesting reactions and surprise people from overseas. I guess it's because we have a different flavour that most of the world hasn't heard. You oughta try out the radiators, one of the most classic Aussie pub bands ever. Try coming home to start with, then summer holiday and Nancy can't dance, all just some of the favourites.
Mark Gable is such an awesome guy, I had the privy of him taking my pics for my birthday portfolio last year and the funny thing was I didn't recognize him straight away. Was wondering why my friend kept laughing at me and he was throwing her knowing looks lol. Very talented photographer tho and singer!!! 😁
This song is an anthem here in Australia along side the big hitters like ACDC's Back In Black and Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel
Yaaaaezzzzzz!!!!!! Feck yessss!!!! 🎸 🎸 I am 51 now and THIS was my teen scream !!!!!!!
This song is rumoured to be about drug addiction. That's why the mother is crying when he runs to paradise. The song lyrics are he can abuse himself so he can hold his head up. Drugs were the crutch to get through life. Not really a wedding song, but it does have a catchy beat.
One of the best reactions to an absolute beast of a song !! Love ya work guys all the way from Oz 🇦🇺🤘
Seen these guys live it's was awesome.