@rollajay5301 yeah I'm not sure if it's a coincidence🤔🤪😜or not but since giving up alcohol 29 years ago i haven't been in a fight or gotten myself in the 💩
"Run to Paradise" is Brilliantly Produced, Engineered and Mixed. The 80's in Australia was the place to be. The Choirboys debut album in 1983 was rough n raw. Saw them at Selina's Coogee Bay from the balcony. Great night.
Hey guys, hope you are well. I remastered another one of the Choirboys hits, in fact their first one "Never Gonna Die" from Countdown, so if you want to do another Choirboys song this video of mine is not copyright blocked th-cam.com/video/Z3bUU56Xwbg/w-d-xo.html . For some reason the record company has lots of restrictions on Run To Paradise's video as you no doubt found. Hopefully one day these record companies wake up to themselves and stop pointless blocking, it's much better now than it was a few years ago so things are heading in the right direction. Cheers, Austech
One of my all time favourite Australian Bands….. from their second album which hit number 1 with both album and single…..some great Choirboys songs…. Talk Big, Carrie ( big boys now)…. Fireworks, Struggletown, Boys will be boys….. and I’ve known these guys for years.
From Wikipedia; Songwriter Mark Gable said: “It’s not specifically about heroin, … 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.” That said, I will add this... great art often allows for us to reach our own subjective understanding of it, so if you had a different interpretation of this song, that's ok too.
Another great Aussie Classic, thanks guys. Those were the days. Reminds me of a great song we used to listen to, that used to be on the radio all the time in the 70's by JJ Cale called "Cocaine". Radio stations and reactors would not dare play this song to the public these days.
Running to paradise was a euphemism in this song for a particular type of high. The lyrics point to a bunch of people who had it all or at least a bright future and they gave it up to run to paradise. Now they don’t need anyone, they just run to paradise.
Could have been any beach side suburb in Sydney Wollongong or Newcastle.I remember a lot of lost mates who chased their paradise. My paradise luckily was the surf.@@johnwhear9600
I first saw them as support to Deep Purple on their 1984 Perfect Strangers tour. I already had their single from a year before "Never gonna Die" so already liked them. The singer had broken his leg at the concert so was sitting on a stool at the front of the stage, saw them a few times a year or so later. Very good live band, the film clip you didn't watch is a banger and worth watching later on. Apparently the Run to Paradise is a drug reference to people they knew around the northern beaches, dont know about that.
I saw you in a flannel, with a mullet hair cut, a durry in your mouth and a can of VB when I read that while sitting on a Commodore bonnet. Probably just a flashback to myself back then.
It starts out seeming like just a three chord simple tune, but builds in energy and ideas layered in as it goes. A pretty good rock song. As others have said, you’ll find them mentioned along with bands like The Angels, Cold Chisel Noiseworks, Rose Tattoo, Divinyls, etc. The Mellencamp song this most reminds me of is Thundering Hearts.
I always thought this song alluded to being a junkie. I should know - being a user myself in the first half of the 80's. Clean for 40 years, boring old man now with property and adult kids of my own.. But yeah, I knew my Johnnys and Jennys during the days of running to paradise. if that's not what this song's about, then of course I won't argue. But that's my association with it. I felt uneasy listening to the song back in '87 when I was three years clean, working and studying...
@@iankearns774 Apparently it's about being on the dole. From what I remember, it was no paradise being on the dole. Maybe a bit different if you live on the North Shore of Sydney.
Great art often allows us to arrive at our own subjective understanding of it, so don't let anyone tell you you're wrong since there is no right and wrong.
An iconic number in Australia.. They were signed to Albert Productions along with AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, John Paul Young, The Angels... AC/DC encouraged Alberts to sign The Angels, and I think The Angels encouraged Alberts to sign Choirboys.. something like that.
Was a first year apprentice and saw them with Noiseworks at Shellharbour Workers Club hiding behind my cousin at the entrance and sneaking in unseen underage and for free. Excellent show.
I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't have picked up on the subtle drug euphemism in this song. I had a hunch that this wasn't the same kind of paradise that David Lee Roth was singing about in that same year.
Mark Gable song writer, lead singer and guitar : " … 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.” A lot of Aussies can relate to that. Don't agree with you on the intro, it's just a great pub rock song. - Bryan Adams eat your heart out.
Seen these guys on and off heaps and they play with more oomph than this. Pub Rock in Australia was at its commercial height when this came out. To appease record companies and commercial stations like Triple M, Choirboys had to strip back a lot of the grit and rawness. Aussie Pub rock was loud, sweaty and nasty in the 70's and early 80's, but by the time this came out, a lot of Aussie pub rock was playing catch up with Bryan Adams types. It's still very Australian and has the Aussie charm, but more meticulous than what you'd get from the pub. Cheers !!
Reached # 80 on the US Billboard Charts, and also charted on a couple of other Billboard chart entries (Mainstream Rock or Album Tracks). Shame about Warner Bros. Australia denying the video's accessibility to reaction channels.
This band give me a lot of memories. First saw them in 1981, then 82 and 83.. I was at the launch of their first album, believe it or not. This song is ingrained in Australian culture. Sometimes I feel seeing a video defeats the purpose of listening to a song, and other times I feel its necessary if you want to get to know the whole band and ''point'' of the song. Choirboys were from the same suburbs that INXS hailed from, and I believe were even mates with the band before fame and success. It feels too Australian for me to understand it being compared to Bryan Adams and John Cougar Melonhead. Beer, pubs, mullets, punch ups... It's almost like being told ''C'mon Aussie C'mon'' sounds like crowd songs at a baseball game... I just think Nah!
Correct mate, mullets, beers, sticky pub floors and that one mate who drank too much and was just about to start a blue in the pub. Thats my memory Never much of a dancer myself but for a lot of years Khe Sanh and this were the only songs that would get me up on the floor when I had a few too many frothies. I was early 20's when this came out, they were good days and great memories.
I saw a lot of Choirboys gigs in the 80's, 90's and even 2000's. As Robbo said, it's such a big part of Australian culture that it almost feels like our unique traits and characteristics are denied when compared to Bryan Adams. It's like being told our wallabies are like your racoons, if you get my drift...
or that Aussie Rules is like Gridiron. It looks like football if you glimpse at it, but it's a different ballroom when you see Aussie Rules players getting bloodied and mudded.. or in Choirboys case, sweating it out in a pub on a hot summers night, playing like their lives depend on it.
Always liked this one. Shame you decided not to do the video. More to this lyrically (that I won't comment on in case it gets the channel in trouble with YT). I'd call it toward the 'easy listening' style of rock.
I don’t remember this band or song . Not bad ,a basic AOR song of its time. I’m wondering if there are any fans of The Celibate Rifles among the Aussies here. I’ve been exploring them a bit recently and liking what I’ve heard so far.
I first saw Celibate Rifles in 1982, and then in 1983. I worked for Phantom Records in Sydney, so I was very close to bands like Hoodoo Gurus, The Scientists and Celibate Rifles, and another great band called Eastern Dark. So yeah, I am an Aussie that knows this band very well.
@ cool , I just recently added Killing Time and Jesus on TV to a playlist. I just found it curious with all the Aussies subscribed to this channel , I’ve never seen them suggested in the comments. I’ve been a long time Guru’s fan and just saw them in May 2023, didn’t make it to their September show.
@@Kevvinm The Gurus have always delivered the goods. I have seen them so many times. They'll come around again. I don't know why the fellow Aussies haven't asked for Celibate Riles yet. I suppose they'll get around to them. Hopefully...
Yeah nah.. This is just gritty Oz Rock that falls into what I described as Australia having its own thing. Bryan Adams and John Cougar would have a slightly different accent if they had been Aussie muso's, and they would have gone through the long and unforgiving Aussie pub scenes. Even then I noticed that Mi-Sex did synth-rock a little after Ultravox released their first few albums, and Wa Wa Nee or Machinations get all funky after Prince takes off.. Yeah, they do respond to new trends.. and if there is a bloke that would be rightfully comparable to John Cougar, that would be Paul Norton.. ''Stuck To You'' and ''I Got You''.. and Nick Barker was also very John Cougar... And this song is about being a junky
I remember this song played when I was working with others and had to all listen to the same radio station and this was played so much I virtually hated it after a week or two of hearing it. I absolutely hated this song and November Rain by Gun n Roses but everyone else seemed to love both these songs in that era. Not a very unique rock band imho.
The video is of the time - a bit sexist now but worth a look. Our cover band - and every other - plays this, ss soon as people hear the opening A-E-D chord sequence they start cheering
Decent song , good geetar work , the drummer clearly got his way with insisting his drums were right up front in the mix 😅.. really don’t like the vocals , bit weak n reedy I thought , but overall a bit of a toe tapper ✊ 👍🏴
Please don't take offense, but I would respect Bryan Adams if this was his song. It's pub rock at its purist and tells of a dark tale which isn't uncommon in Australia.
@@iankearns774 Sadly, my dad talks of the same tragedies. Same crap went on over here in Brisbane in the 80's. I was a little too young to know that life.. But I did inherit the music.
C'mon mate. We are all big boys here, (girls too) You are entitled to your opinion, just no need to slag off our culture or lack thereof. Watch the clip and listen to it loud. Its a good tune.
@@SPKdesign1 I think you said enough right there mate, you were the one who had a crack the other day about people who would go to see the band Chain. I called you on it and that was fair enough. You were way out of line then, now you are still having a crack here. As I said dont slag off our music culture, you dont like the song thats fine, thats your perogative. Just dont presume to paint a group of people you know nothing about as bad people. Was a shit comment by you. Its as simple as that.
@@iankearns774 Oi Ian, you're not alone mate.. I feel the same way. Nothing the Haniers react to is new to me. John Foxx's Ultravox, The Jam, Magazine, X Ray Spex, to The Blue Nile and Teenage Fanclub etc, etc.. I had their albums and I saw Magazine and T.Fanclub live. Enjoyed all of it in my time, but I also love my Aussie rock because I lived and breathed it and had been to almost every venue/pub from Bondi Lifesavers and Selinas in Sydney to Melbourne's Bombay Rock and Crystal Ballroom.. Nothing better than a hot summer's night out in Manly to see a loud, sweaty and dedicated Oz rock band like Chain, Lobby Loyde (Coloured Balls), Cold Chisel, Hoodoo Gurus, New Christs, Radio Birdman.. you know the list.. And the records still hold up. You can still feel the amp and smell the beer coming out of those grooves... If you don't understand it, seek to understand it.. don't just say it has no cultural relevance when you haven't even been to the place it hails from... And talk to the people... Don't talk down to them or snicker at their requests. That gives me an impression of a passive-aggressive personality with some resentment issues. I count myself lucky because I did travel the world, and got to understand different people and scenes, which is why I find these comments to be parochial...
I remember this all over the radio back in the STONED ages
@@heathcornbeef still in it lol
@rollajay5301 enjoying it i hope. i do 😜🤪✌️👍 i still enjoy the devil's weed don't drink alcohol ever
@heathcornbeef too late lol, yeah nah I'm over the drink
@rollajay5301 yeah I'm not sure if it's a coincidence🤔🤪😜or not but since giving up alcohol 29 years ago i haven't been in a fight or gotten myself in the 💩
@rollajay5301 where are you north island south island?
I've grown to like this song over the years. It's like the old larrikin that you learn to love the older you get...
"Run to Paradise" is Brilliantly Produced, Engineered and Mixed.
The 80's in Australia was the place to be.
The Choirboys debut album in 1983 was rough n raw.
Saw them at Selina's Coogee Bay from the balcony.
Great night.
Nice, I don’t think I’ve ever seen both of you nodding your heads together.😊
Hey guys, hope you are well. I remastered another one of the Choirboys hits, in fact their first one "Never Gonna Die" from Countdown, so if you want to do another Choirboys song this video of mine is not copyright blocked th-cam.com/video/Z3bUU56Xwbg/w-d-xo.html . For some reason the record company has lots of restrictions on Run To Paradise's video as you no doubt found. Hopefully one day these record companies wake up to themselves and stop pointless blocking, it's much better now than it was a few years ago so things are heading in the right direction. Cheers, Austech
One of my all time favourite Australian Bands….. from their second album which hit number 1 with both album and single…..some great Choirboys songs…. Talk Big, Carrie ( big boys now)…. Fireworks, Struggletown, Boys will be boys….. and I’ve known these guys for years.
This song was massive in the 80's
Big in the pubs and at parties. Fun to drunkenly sing along to. Pretty deep lyrically for such a bop.
From Wikipedia;
Songwriter Mark Gable said: “It’s not specifically about heroin, … 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.”
That said, I will add this... great art often allows for us to reach our own subjective understanding of it, so if you had a different interpretation of this song, that's ok too.
Too many ran to their paradise in a needle on a one way trip and never returned back then. And still today.
Another great Aussie Classic, thanks guys.
Those were the days. Reminds me of a great song we used to listen to, that used to be on the radio all the time in the 70's by JJ Cale called "Cocaine".
Radio stations and reactors would not dare play this song to the public these days.
Running to paradise was a euphemism in this song for a particular type of high.
The lyrics point to a bunch of people who had it all or at least a bright future and they gave it up to run to paradise.
Now they don’t need anyone, they just run to paradise.
Well put. My understanding is it was about Sydney's northern beaches.
Could have been any beach side suburb in Sydney Wollongong or Newcastle.I remember a lot of lost mates who chased their paradise. My paradise luckily was the surf.@@johnwhear9600
Great stuff !! They didn't exist for critical acclaim..
They own the pubs in Australia and earned the punters' respect.
I first saw them as support to Deep Purple on their 1984 Perfect Strangers tour. I already had their single from a year before "Never gonna Die" so already liked them.
The singer had broken his leg at the concert so was sitting on a stool at the front of the stage, saw them a few times a year or so later. Very good live band, the film clip you didn't watch is a banger and worth watching later on.
Apparently the Run to Paradise is a drug reference to people they knew around the northern beaches, dont know about that.
Thanks for reacting to this old banger! some else called for the Baby Animals song Rush You.. Please do that one?
The song is about he and his friends ‘scoring’ when younger
As we used to say in Melbourne, this song's grouse!
I saw you in a flannel, with a mullet hair cut, a durry in your mouth and a can of VB when I read that while sitting on a Commodore bonnet. Probably just a flashback to myself back then.
@@iankearns774 I won't lie.. It probably was me! 😆
It starts out seeming like just a three chord simple tune, but builds in energy and ideas layered in as it goes. A pretty good rock song. As others have said, you’ll find them mentioned along with bands like The Angels, Cold Chisel Noiseworks, Rose Tattoo, Divinyls, etc.
The Mellencamp song this most reminds me of is Thundering Hearts.
I always thought this song alluded to being a junkie. I should know - being a user myself in the first half of the 80's. Clean for 40 years, boring old man now with property and adult kids of my own.. But yeah, I knew my Johnnys and Jennys during the days of running to paradise. if that's not what this song's about, then of course I won't argue. But that's my association with it. I felt uneasy listening to the song back in '87 when I was three years clean, working and studying...
@@DogInSpace I always thought the same. Makes sense.
Thats what I heard as well.
@@keviningram6121 That's how it sounded to me
@@iankearns774 Apparently it's about being on the dole. From what I remember, it was no paradise being on the dole. Maybe a bit different if you live on the North Shore of Sydney.
Great art often allows us to arrive at our own subjective understanding of it, so don't let anyone tell you you're wrong since there is no right and wrong.
An iconic number in Australia.. They were signed to Albert Productions along with AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, John Paul Young, The Angels... AC/DC encouraged Alberts to sign The Angels, and I think The Angels encouraged Alberts to sign Choirboys.. something like that.
This was released December 1987. I had finished High School, had my licence and car. It reminds me of freedom, driving, music loud, and being free.
Was a first year apprentice and saw them with Noiseworks at Shellharbour Workers Club hiding behind my cousin at the entrance and sneaking in unseen underage and for free. Excellent show.
I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't have picked up on the subtle drug euphemism in this song. I had a hunch that this wasn't the same kind of paradise that David Lee Roth was singing about in that same year.
Another popular Choirboys tune is Boys Will be Boys...
Mark Gable song writer, lead singer and guitar : " … 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.” A lot of Aussies can relate to that.
Don't agree with you on the intro, it's just a great pub rock song. - Bryan Adams eat your heart out.
Seen these guys on and off heaps and they play with more oomph than this. Pub Rock in Australia was at its commercial height when this came out. To appease record companies and commercial stations like Triple M, Choirboys had to strip back a lot of the grit and rawness. Aussie Pub rock was loud, sweaty and nasty in the 70's and early 80's, but by the time this came out, a lot of Aussie pub rock was playing catch up with Bryan Adams types. It's still very Australian and has the Aussie charm, but more meticulous than what you'd get from the pub. Cheers !!
Reached # 80 on the US Billboard Charts, and also charted on a couple of other Billboard chart entries (Mainstream Rock or Album Tracks). Shame about Warner Bros. Australia denying the video's accessibility to reaction channels.
This band give me a lot of memories. First saw them in 1981, then 82 and 83.. I was at the launch of their first album, believe it or not. This song is ingrained in Australian culture. Sometimes I feel seeing a video defeats the purpose of listening to a song, and other times I feel its necessary if you want to get to know the whole band and ''point'' of the song. Choirboys were from the same suburbs that INXS hailed from, and I believe were even mates with the band before fame and success.
It feels too Australian for me to understand it being compared to Bryan Adams and John Cougar Melonhead. Beer, pubs, mullets, punch ups... It's almost like being told ''C'mon Aussie C'mon'' sounds like crowd songs at a baseball game... I just think Nah!
Correct mate, mullets, beers, sticky pub floors and that one mate who drank too much and was just about to start a blue in the pub.
Thats my memory
Never much of a dancer myself but for a lot of years Khe Sanh and this were the only songs that would get me up on the floor when I had a few too many frothies. I was early 20's when this came out, they were good days and great memories.
I saw a lot of Choirboys gigs in the 80's, 90's and even 2000's. As Robbo said, it's such a big part of Australian culture that it almost feels like our unique traits and characteristics are denied when compared to Bryan Adams. It's like being told our wallabies are like your racoons, if you get my drift...
or that Aussie Rules is like Gridiron. It looks like football if you glimpse at it, but it's a different ballroom when you see Aussie Rules players getting bloodied and mudded.. or in Choirboys case, sweating it out in a pub on a hot summers night, playing like their lives depend on it.
It's about a junkie - "you don't need a friend when you can score".
To bad you never did the video - it's especially good!
I think the best of describing this is " flacid "
Careful, they will Have you for that.
@SPKdesign1 Ha, you're right, I saw that someone didn't believe that you could have your own opinion
No guarantee this will be popular with some, but you might like Baby Animals 'rush you'
That is a great track. Ain't Gonna Get is a better one by Baby Animals.
@@notanotherenigma7759 Agreed this is better than anything Baby Animals put out and I like the Baby Animals.
Rush you is better than this shit.
@@notanotherenigma7759 agree! first saw 'em in 1989 when they were very new..
Always liked this one. Shame you decided not to do the video. More to this lyrically (that I won't comment on in case it gets the channel in trouble with YT). I'd call it toward the 'easy listening' style of rock.
Pretty sure this was all about smack addiction... "I abuse myself so I can hold my head up"
I don’t remember this band or song . Not bad ,a basic AOR song of its time.
I’m wondering if there are any fans of The Celibate Rifles among the Aussies here. I’ve been exploring them a bit recently and liking what I’ve heard so far.
I first saw Celibate Rifles in 1982, and then in 1983. I worked for Phantom Records in Sydney, so I was very close to bands like Hoodoo Gurus, The Scientists and Celibate Rifles, and another great band called Eastern Dark. So yeah, I am an Aussie that knows this band very well.
@ cool , I just recently added Killing Time and Jesus on TV to a playlist. I just found it curious with all the Aussies subscribed to this channel , I’ve never seen them suggested in the comments.
I’ve been a long time Guru’s fan and just saw them in May 2023, didn’t make it to their September show.
@@Kevvinm The Gurus have always delivered the goods. I have seen them so many times. They'll come around again.
I don't know why the fellow Aussies haven't asked for Celibate Riles yet. I suppose they'll get around to them. Hopefully...
Yeah nah.. This is just gritty Oz Rock that falls into what I described as Australia having its own thing. Bryan Adams and John Cougar would have a slightly different accent if they had been Aussie muso's, and they would have gone through the long and unforgiving Aussie pub scenes. Even then I noticed that Mi-Sex did synth-rock a little after Ultravox released their first few albums, and Wa Wa Nee or Machinations get all funky after Prince takes off.. Yeah, they do respond to new trends.. and if there is a bloke that would be rightfully comparable to John Cougar, that would be Paul Norton.. ''Stuck To You'' and ''I Got You''.. and Nick Barker was also very John Cougar... And this song is about being a junky
Kinda mistook this thinking it was the UK Quireboys who are a tad heavier than this 😂
Don't know that band.
Guys, check out Hey You by the Quireboys 🤘
I shall maintain a dignified silence.
C'mon, let us know how you really feel 😆
You have no Elvis in you.
@@iankearns774 But plenty of Mojo Nixon? lol
Hasn't reached 100 views yet. I assume that's only because it's not yet 6pm.
I remember this song played when I was working with others and had to all listen to the same radio station and this was played so much I virtually hated it after a week or two of hearing it. I absolutely hated this song and November Rain by Gun n Roses but everyone else seemed to love both these songs in that era. Not a very unique rock band imho.
The video is of the time - a bit sexist now but worth a look. Our cover band - and every other - plays this, ss soon as people hear the opening A-E-D chord sequence they start cheering
I believe that it's about drug use, not legal ones.
Run to Paradise is about scoring drugs to get s high.
Decent song , good geetar work , the drummer clearly got his way with insisting his drums were right up front in the mix 😅.. really don’t like the vocals , bit weak n reedy I thought , but overall a bit of a toe tapper ✊
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Great track, still gets radio play on TripleM. One I turn up.
Yeah, the vocals are my least favourite part of this one.
@@sean---the-other-one agreed Sean 👌
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Please don't take offense, but I would respect Bryan Adams if this was his song. It's pub rock at its purist and tells of a dark tale which isn't uncommon in Australia.
Drug culture was bad in the 80's, I drank booze but never touched that crap. Have lost a lot of good mates to the big "H", may they all RIP.
@@iankearns774 Sadly, my dad talks of the same tragedies. Same crap went on over here in Brisbane in the 80's. I was a little too young to know that life.. But I did inherit the music.
I'm saying nothing.
C'mon mate. We are all big boys here, (girls too) You are entitled to your opinion, just no need to slag off our culture or lack thereof. Watch the clip and listen to it loud. Its a good tune.
@@iankearns774 Right on!
@@iankearns774 You think I Comment before Hearing it? Is that what you do?
@@SPKdesign1 I think you said enough right there mate, you were the one who had a crack the other day about people who would go to see the band Chain. I called you on it and that was fair enough.
You were way out of line then, now you are still having a crack here. As I said dont slag off our music culture, you dont like the song thats fine, thats your perogative.
Just dont presume to paint a group of people you know nothing about as bad people. Was a shit comment by you. Its as simple as that.
@@iankearns774 Oi Ian, you're not alone mate.. I feel the same way. Nothing the Haniers react to is new to me. John Foxx's Ultravox, The Jam, Magazine, X Ray Spex, to The Blue Nile and Teenage Fanclub etc, etc.. I had their albums and I saw Magazine and T.Fanclub live. Enjoyed all of it in my time, but I also love my Aussie rock because I lived and breathed it and had been to almost every venue/pub from Bondi Lifesavers and Selinas in Sydney to Melbourne's Bombay Rock and Crystal Ballroom.. Nothing better than a hot summer's night out in Manly to see a loud, sweaty and dedicated Oz rock band like Chain, Lobby Loyde (Coloured Balls), Cold Chisel, Hoodoo Gurus, New Christs, Radio Birdman.. you know the list.. And the records still hold up. You can still feel the amp and smell the beer coming out of those grooves... If you don't understand it, seek to understand it.. don't just say it has no cultural relevance when you haven't even been to the place it hails from... And talk to the people... Don't talk down to them or snicker at their requests.
That gives me an impression of a passive-aggressive personality with some resentment issues.
I count myself lucky because I did travel the world, and got to understand different people and scenes, which is why I find these comments to be parochial...
I thought it was about drugs as well, but I think it's about living on the dole unemployment benefits , care free life not working 🤙
Flaccid ode to junkies or whatever... This song goes off at pubs..
Its about substance abuse
well that was a waste of my time
It's about heroin