Celibate Rifles -- Bill Bonney Regrets

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  • @drifftrucka772
    @drifftrucka772 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Been trying to find the lyrics to this song, all over the internet. I couldn't, so I wrote them myself.
    (to the best of my hearing, these are the words)
    You're welcome, internet.
    BILL BONNEY REGRETS
    Meanwhile at the process plant, there's a process goin' on
    Negation and sterility, patient disability
    Reconstituting you and me, a reflection of himself
    While at the house of learning, inside those hallowed halls
    Students in the old schoolyard, their mum's were workin' very hard
    Just like in the prison yard, and uniforms are free
    And in the factory of lunacy, the wheels are grinding on
    And things are looking pretty grim, they sing a cacophonic hymn
    And medicate the soul within, to neutralize the passion
    The headline is screaming, corruption in the force
    Well they took that money and killed a man, selling junk inside the can
    Cops and crim's walk hand-in-hand, and it's called free enterprise
    Then we come home at 5 'o' clock, and turn the TV on
    And the news is what we want to hear, electric magic diarrhoea
    Touch a thousand nameless fears, in the comfort of your home
    Underneath the big top, it is, election time again
    Laugh and damn us all to hell, find an issue make it sell
    They're not good, they're just not well, and it's called democracy

    • @janpeterschafermeyer6219
      @janpeterschafermeyer6219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I learned the song by heart back in the day from the inner sleeve of "Turgid Miasma". So here are a few corrections:
      Students in the old school yard, get marks for working very hard
      They laugh and damn us all to hell, find an issue they can sell
      They're not good, they just hide well, and it's called democracy

  • @donnaanderson94
    @donnaanderson94 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Video was shot in the front room of a house in Waverton Sydney. One take live. It was their place and not much money around. I was in the back room enjoying every second. Never forget . Rob

  • @elhornet7854
    @elhornet7854 17 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    this is probably the best thing I've ever seen on the whole internet

  • @russbeagle1872
    @russbeagle1872 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    They’re not good they just hide well. Great line sums up lots of poliiticisns

  • @alanstrom2221
    @alanstrom2221 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'll never forget going to Sandy's Records in Dee Why in 1982 to buy the latest indie records that I'd heard on Radio JJJ FM.
    I said hello to Nigel and Jenny, then went to the 7" vinyl section and flicked through the records when I came across a copy of "But Jacques, the Fish?"
    I grabbed it with the excitement of youth.
    Nigel gave me his usual 'background' story about the artist I was purchasing.
    At the time I didn't know I was buying an important piece of history.
    One of my treasured vinyl Singles is "Sometimes"
    "Sometimes when I get home I just wanna go out again"
    One of my favourite gigs was at Bryant's Manly Vale in 1983 where I saw
    The Scientists and The Celibate Rifles.
    I always got a laugh when Couvret wore his Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles footy jumper on stage.
    Another great memory is seeing The Rifles at The Strawberry Hills Hotel, SurryHills back in the hazy 80's when Damo told the crowd they were going to attempt a new song.
    Damo then proceeded to read the lyrics from a sheet of paper.
    Damo asked the people in the crowd "how do you like it up the back?"
    "There's a lot of people in Sydney that like it up the back!!"
    We loved Damo for many reasons and his dry humour and high level of applied intelligence were just two of them.
    Oh and he wasn't a bad frontman for a great Rock Band either.
    Remembered forever, the great Damien Lovelock.

  • @Brutarius
    @Brutarius 18 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Unbelievable...I, too, saw the Celibate Rifles at the Brewery in 1986/87 (not sure of exact date). Not only did I enjoy a rocking show (for $4, American), but got to talk their ears off after the show. One of the all-time greats!

  • @jackhanlon14
    @jackhanlon14 13 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    the guy with the long hair on the guitar - he is my uncle!

    • @manonymous4737
      @manonymous4737 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      jack hanlon-anderson you could say his name .... Dave Morris!

  • @2cabs2toucan
    @2cabs2toucan 18 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Excellent, one of Australia's finest. - The living room makes a great set for this - gotta love the strategically placed copy of "Raw Power" on the turntable. Thanks for posting.

  • @zofor
    @zofor 17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The days of real guts and blood Australian bands.A scene that no longer exists, so many top bands with a strong underground following.
    What ever happened???Our aussie bands from that period of time would still shit on alot of the crap we hear today.The Celibate Rifles,
    We love and miss you.Long live pub rock.

  • @allantucker4972
    @allantucker4972 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At their best. Sad I won't see the sweat again

  • @podilato
    @podilato 12 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Not just the song but the Beatbox intro brings back a lot of memories of growing up in 80's Australia. I used to like the interviews between songs and I'm sure if you watched them now, it would provide an interesting insight into society back then. I remember that everyone was a something, whether a headbanger, lemon, trendy, punk, wog (like me), wesite or some other label.

  • @TheDogofWinter
    @TheDogofWinter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Thanks for posting this. A f'n amazing anthropological document of the most criminally underrated musicians in the world.

  • @dejavoodoo44
    @dejavoodoo44 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    'Meanwhile at the process plant, there's a process going on.'
    is possibly my favourite opening line of a song.

    • @chloedog47
      @chloedog47 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Electric Magic Dihoreer

  • @celshader
    @celshader 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1st time I ever saw the Rifles was this clip on Beatbox.
    I was an Instant fan.

  • @nedkellysghost1086
    @nedkellysghost1086 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The best song ever. ..

  • @FA-ju5rk
    @FA-ju5rk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I still remember on one of the Rifles tours in QLD when I and Damo went to get the money from the Promoter and went into this building and Damo looks at me and says with his fingers in her pocket, This look like a gun? and at that moment kicks the door open and ask the boss for the payment for tonights show the guy says no, so Damo lets him have it with the old finger in the pocket trick and screams out give us our money a few times and waves his fingers around the room, the guy gives up the cash and Damo says to run for your life to the van. we got to the van and made a great getaway and the band and crew can eat tonight. RIP Damo.

  • @simontheboy2931
    @simontheboy2931 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These guys were/are just the ducks guts, saw them live last year - still rocking, haven't lost anything

  • @sallyoliver147
    @sallyoliver147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm privileged, to have seen the Rifles as often as I have.

  • @dentopia
    @dentopia 17 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Turgid Miasma is in my top 5 Australian rock albums

  • @maxpower5435
    @maxpower5435 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bands today speed up their recordings to get to this level of intensity

  • @punkhead6774
    @punkhead6774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of the best, RIP Damien

  • @billlaotian
    @billlaotian 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dear god. This what Celebate Rifles sound like? How could I have overlooked these guys? Holy shit! Thank you for this post!

  • @TheKzag
    @TheKzag 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    effin brilliant guitar playing!

  • @zisisb.3169
    @zisisb.3169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thankyou Mr. Lovelock 🙏🙏🙏

  • @konzoracing
    @konzoracing 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GO THE RIFLES !!! Awesome BAND!

  • @Rikitocker
    @Rikitocker 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my fave Celeb Rifles tunes ... classic Sydney Northern Beaches punk rock!

  • @dougsmith7083
    @dougsmith7083 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved the Rifles since first hearing them via a friend from Australia around late 1983 or early 84. I am from Vancouver so I was super fortunate to get into them earlier on....however, THIS song is my absolute favourite of their excellent catalogue

  • @renoschristakis2569
    @renoschristakis2569 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    pure Ausie sick 'n amazing bassline

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming7119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The eighties.

  • @torpeligneB
    @torpeligneB 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    C'est une super nouvelle, le genre de choses qui foutent du baume au coeur. Sorry for the french, i'm just saying that it's agood new: youth energy doesn't always dies with time. I love this track !!

  • @aspie182
    @aspie182 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great song. I first saw the video when I was about 12 or 13, back when you could turn the TV on at midnight and expect to hear some good, varied, and unusual music. I have never been into vocals that much as a rule, but the way in which this vocalist got his point across then shut up and let the rest of the band convey the mood between verses meant I remember this song long after I have forgotten many, many others I saw at the time.

  • @sharondwan5538
    @sharondwan5538 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the Rifles! Saw them heaps of times in the 80s & 90s and they are best live and loud. I also love this clip in particular as there's a Coloured Stone poster on the wall and my brother was playing with Coloured Stone at the time. Thought that was awesome back then!

  • @chokito91
    @chokito91 18 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of the legendary aussie r'n'r clips

  • @vhonda800fr
    @vhonda800fr 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great australian band-combination of lyrics/music/vocals; a big thumbs up!

  • @phaseashuss39
    @phaseashuss39 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    best line in a rock song ever! "And the news is what we want to hear Electric magic diarrhoea"

  • @kingofkongisland
    @kingofkongisland 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovelock hated the film clip making process, funny how they made one of the best clips ever.

  • @crankingoldbastards3867
    @crankingoldbastards3867 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    one of my all time favorites, love to play along with this one. great riff, great lyrics

  • @ronanrogers4127
    @ronanrogers4127 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice work Damo…

  • @barrywolfe9752
    @barrywolfe9752 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So young here. Great guys.

  • @Dana_808
    @Dana_808 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such a great band.

  • @npg68
    @npg68 17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is such a great song

  • @ngoolark
    @ngoolark 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great to watch the mighty (& kinda younger) Rifles firing- absolute guns all of em

  • @9digitNo
    @9digitNo 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best ending of any music vid ever.

  • @rastabelli
    @rastabelli 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great great great band!!
    myself saw the CR at the concert they held at the famous roman beach of Capocotta, where the picture for their roman beach party album was taken from..september 1987!! I took a piss with damien and we chatted a bit....
    ciaoooooooooo

  • @brokenboy07
    @brokenboy07 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stoked!, just saw these guys are playing in Sydney next month with Hard Ons, Hellmenn and a heap of others. Flying up for sure!

  • @shotfirer1972
    @shotfirer1972 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First beatbox vid I've found on ytube
    Sweet!
    Lovelock could write a song fer sure
    Great vid

  • @thebachproject
    @thebachproject 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    RIP DL. Love this band

  • @TechnicallyNotGuilty
    @TechnicallyNotGuilty 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    chased the cellies around when i was younger for a while .... good times

  • @seelow12
    @seelow12 18 ปีที่แล้ว

    one of the great "unsung" musical heroes!

  • @WORF36
    @WORF36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Master class

  • @almeidamarcelo5563
    @almeidamarcelo5563 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing tune

  • @Sprint74
    @Sprint74  18 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think this is around 85, original drummer phil jacquet with mykie courvet on bass

  • @richardcooper4336
    @richardcooper4336 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Up there with the Saints and Radio Birdman.

  • @elhornet7854
    @elhornet7854 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    rifles jammin out in their lougeroom back in the day ... does it get any better? all hail youtube!

  • @naj70
    @naj70 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    take me back baby, take me way back - sounds of sydney suburbs - 1985
    can anyone post "some kinda feeling"

  • @Dave_Oxbow
    @Dave_Oxbow 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    thats when i could afford an apartment in Bondi

  • @bafk3t
    @bafk3t 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what a fine gang!

  • @banditblue95
    @banditblue95 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    my mum went out with lovelock he wrote a song about her on the album ...

  • @trabazoss
    @trabazoss 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    joder aupa el ausi rock!!!!

  • @MrRcogan
    @MrRcogan 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    favorite song as a grommet...bring back beatbox

  • @mortizia23
    @mortizia23 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    el mejor grupo del mundo

  • @nickelleray
    @nickelleray 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ahaaa... awesome!

  • @GaryShowbiz
    @GaryShowbiz 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    ROCK!

  • @doughboypow
    @doughboypow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    RIP Mr Lovelock \../

  • @longboardssurf
    @longboardssurf 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i was playing with the blonde guitar here in Spain..he was playing in the Tubular etc...
    I know that his style was comply new.....
    better than the fuckers nirvana (puaghh)..
    i wish that the name of this band never will be deleted of our munds..

  • @naj70
    @naj70 17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    bbbb beat BOX

  • @freelanceopportunist559
    @freelanceopportunist559 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This comments section made me literally piss myself laughing

  • @HORSJEU
    @HORSJEU 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    LE GROUPE LE PLUS PUISSANT D AUSTRALIE

  • @starduck8014
    @starduck8014 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beatbox was a great show

  • @jaygannon1095
    @jaygannon1095 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    RIP Damo

  • @TheTrailerbuilder
    @TheTrailerbuilder 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bet he never thought back then that one day he'd be in a Rolling Stones cover band

  • @brianlowdown
    @brianlowdown 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    is any one from the saints in this band

  • @snakelake
    @snakelake 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kent Steadman was a pretty nifty lil guitarist

  • @mortizia23
    @mortizia23 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    los pelos como eskarpias oye......uffffffff

  • @met66
    @met66 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not true. "Most bands were about style and fashion". Most crap commercial bands were about that but there was an amazing alternative world that we reveled in with bands like Connells, Husker Du, Midnight Oil, REM, Feelies.....I could go on and on.

  • @smithandwessonblues7
    @smithandwessonblues7 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    epic

  • @mortizia23
    @mortizia23 18 ปีที่แล้ว

    eto é lo mejó der mundo mundiá

  • @nzoz1983
    @nzoz1983 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol

  • @cartonet
    @cartonet 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    eto é lo mejó der mundo mundiá- zi zeñó !!!!
    Aupa Celibates !!
    Celibate Rifles please comeback to Spain
    JET go home !!!!

  • @HabaMusic
    @HabaMusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shame he kinda sings in an American accent in this one. Killer band

  • @herny69
    @herny69 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    your mums got a fine taste in men!

  • @markulyssestraeger
    @markulyssestraeger 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    seven people are wrong!

  • @trabazoss
    @trabazoss 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    motocrosssssss

  • @bluesandoranges
    @bluesandoranges 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fuck. Yeah.

  • @James-y6j6d
    @James-y6j6d ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes kunt

  • @nomdeplume6594
    @nomdeplume6594 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im sure nirvana copied the celibates...RIP DAMO!

  • @dischargesummary8794
    @dischargesummary8794 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Northern beaches tosspots