Don't Dream Its Over is the most famos their hit ever. Also very beautiful as for me: Fall At Your Feet, Distant Sun, Better Be Home Soon, Into Temptation, Nails in My Feet and more others. By the way I heard great cover of FALL AT YOUR FEET by James Blant.
Like Rodney said, Neil Finn and the drummer Paul Hester were part of Split Enz (with the singers Brother Tim Finn) hits include I Got You, One Step Ahead, Dirty Creatures, Message to my Girl, Six Months in a Leaky Boat, I Hope I never, I walk away.
" Don't dream it's over" is there biggest hits plus other great songs are World where you live, Better Be Home Soon, Fall at your feet, something so strong, Mean to Me, Now we're getting somewhere, Distant Sun, Nails in my feet, Private Universe, Everything is good for you, Into Temptation, Locked out, Not the girl you think you are, It's only natural, recurring dreams, Dont stop now, When you come (official videos of these songs) are other great songs to react to, in my humble opinion.
Some of the musicians in crowed house were a part of an earlier band called (Split Enz) they had a huge hit I think around 1980. The song was titled (I got you) definitely check it out.
Thanks so much for the insight! I had no idea some of the Crowded House members were part of Split Enz. I'll definitely check out 'I Got You' sounds like a classic! Really appreciate you sharing that info, it helps me dive deeper into their music history.
Bit of a 90s classic, that one. Legend had it that taking the weather with you was about skin cancer, particularly prevalent in Australia. Apparently this is untrue of the song. It's about creating your own stormy weather around you, if that's how you feel, therefore you take it with you. Don't Dream It's Over and Fall At Your Feet are their other greatest songs. You might want to listen also to Split Enz and I Got You, from 1980. They were the forerunner band to Crowded House, for the Finn brothers, Tim and Neil. It's usually Neil who sings.
THIS Crowded House album [Woodface] [released in: 1991 ...so, like, an "almost '80s" album 😜😛 (although, numerous songs were written for it as early as: 1989, so....🤷🤷)] has long been my personal favorite of theirs. I think it's, easily, their most enjoyable overall work. Crowded House was founded by: Neil Finn, in the 1980s, after he left: Split Enz (or, really: the band dissolved). Woodface is the first Crowded House album where Neil's older brother, Tim joins him in working with/in Crowded House (and the first time the 2 worked together SINCE the dissolution of Split Enz!). "Back story": Split Enz are (almost inarguably ) the most famous band from New Zealand, of all time. They were founded, in the 1970s, as a Progressive Rock/Art Rock\Art-Folk outfit, by: Tim Finn and Phil Judd (and several other friends they were jamming with at The University Of Auckland.), with the initial name of: Split Ends (spelled the usual, standard way). In 1975 the band altered the spelling of the name to: Split Enz -- with the "nz" referring to the initialization for their home nation: New Zealand ["N.Z." obviously.]). In 1977, founding vocalist and songwriter, Phil Judd departed the band [primarily due to tensions that arose between him and Tim Finn (who were the primary song-writers in the band.). Phil had been the primary vocalist (as well as guitarist) for Split Enz, until that time. Tim called-in his younger brother: Neil Finn (another excellent song-writer, in his own right and a very good guitarist and vocalist!) to fill the void. In 1978, Tim asked Phil to return to the band and tour with them. He ended-up doing this and the interplay between Phil Judd and Neil Finn as dual guitarists/a "guitar team," was superb! Judd brought a few new songs (which he had been working on) to the band and they leaned a couple of them and played them in the '78 tour sets. ...but following the end of the tour, Judd departed again (This time: not to return --- until reunion tours, decades later!; but that is an additional set of stories!) Around this time, the band took on a less "arty" sound and style and took on a more: rock-pop bent, a sound oriented more conducively to then-current radio, later becoming tied-in with the brief, so-called "new wave" movement (of the late 1980s and first year-or-two of the 1980s). The band did not, really, "break" internationally, until, the success of their 1980 release: True Colours and its HUGE single: "I Got You" (written by: Neil Finn) {WELL-worth your time !!!!🔥🔥!] ...After Split Enz, with the Finn brothers pairing, essentially, collapsed (circa: 1983-1984🤷), Neil took some time off [Tim had, already, started (and had success with) a solo career, while Split Enz was, still, functioning, by this point!]. Neil, soon, formed a small pop-rock outfit, which became: Crowded House. Crowded House had rather strong initial success; NOT only from Neil (and Paul Hester and Nick Seymour)'s quality song-writing, but from working with young Producer: Mitchell Froom (whom *I* knew only as: the keyboard player from the 'latter-day' versions of Ronnie Montrose's '80s band: Gamma !, at this point!) and HIS [GENIUS!] Sound Engineer (and soon Producing-partner and Producer in his own right): Tchad Blake [🔥🔥🔥🔥‼]. Froom and Blake first "made noise" with Crowded House, but would go on to break new, fresh ground and sonic templates with such '90s greats as: Suzanne Vega [on her breakthrough: 99.9 F° and it's (underappreciated, equally brilliant) follow-up: Nine Objects Of Desire ❤🔥❤🔥], Soul Coughing [Tchad Blake], Sheryl Crowe's (brilliant!): The Globe Sessions [Mainly helmed by: Trina Shoemaker, but!....], Fishbone, etc. !!!!!! ...Anyhow (as already mentioned): Crowded House (with Neil Finn, alone) achieved a fair amount of success (at the tail-end of the '80s). ...At some point during a break in schedules (or maybe not even 🤷), ...the Finn Brothers started writing songs together for a "Finn Brothers" future project. ...This never got finished at the time [Later on -- I think circa '95 ? -- 🤷🤷 -- The 2 DID do a project under the name: The Finn Brothers (and added to that, particular, catalogue, at later dates, as well)....] and, by 1990, Neil had asked brother Tim to "come over" and help him finish up some stuff on a new Crowded House album. ...Things got so that: Tim Finn actually joined his younger brother's band ("the reverse of" what happened with Tim and Split Enz and Neil) and: the result was the brilliant, 'summery,' textured and luminous: Woodface album!! 🤘🤘 ...As I mentioned at the outset (here): Woodface became (and remains) my favorite Crowded House album, ever! There is some extra kind of "magic" to the Finn Brothers: writing and, especially, singing, together!! This album is chock-full of juicy-good, melodic, memorable tracks!! My favorites (and recommended listens for you, OF COURSE!! ---- UTTERLY ABSOLUTELY!) are: "It's Only Natural"; "Whispers And Moans"; "Chocolate Cake" (which was the first thing released to radio, from this album.); "Fall At Your Feet" (and, the brilliant: "Weather With You" -- which you've, obviously, already heard!!😉😜👍❤❤🔥 )[*B.T.W., my favorite part, personally, has long-been: that distant, muted, 'truncated,' descending piano melody-"riff" which happens mainly in the right ear "overhead" position (but it moves, slightly, as well). THAT and the couplet: "There's a small boat made of china going nowhere on the mantelpiece. O, do I lie like a lounge-room lizard? or do I sing like a bird released?...."] ...maybe: "There Goes God" (too) PLEASE: Enjoy! (and do so with EVERY other song and album I MENTION in this 🤷🤷 "minor treatise" ( 😛😝😂👍) !). 💗🧡🧡💜💙💜❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Oh, just f.y.i.: there, actually, *WEREN'T* any "music videos" in the 1970s. Nope. Bands did not make them, there was nowhere to present such things (and most musicians (wisely) wanted to: improve at playing and writing ---possibly: studio engineering and sound control and manipulation ["studio as instrument" --- which was something ( a concept and a practice !) that REALLY took hold and expanded, greatly, IN/DURING the 1970s!] and not worry about "visuals" (unless they had a personal interest in visual art or something).). Now, someone WILL come by here and say: "No, man! You're wrong!" ...There WERE some kinds of "video presentations" made, by some artists, at some points in the 1970s.T ...Things shot on a soundstage, somewhere were rare and, for the most part, were only shot for and used for "intra-industry" promotion and events. ...there were a few artists who made such things (or let such things be made, with them in it), but: comparatively few. This can be demonstrated by: when MTV went on the air, they, often, repeated material, multiple times over a 24 hour period! They did NOT have enough things to SHOW! ----In the 1960s, only (basically) The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had the kind of money (or interest in!): making short films of themselves. The only, real, non-concert "visual medium," then, was: Television and weekly (or monthly ) television programs; MOST commonly (but not always) "variety shows," which would feature: multiple guests, mainly actors or comedians or individual performers (such as 🤷🤷magicians, or such things), with actors and comedians doing skits or vocalists singing with a house band. The show and its directors controlled: who got on, what they could perform (or lip-synch to! [which was very common!]), how long the segment could be,etc., etc. the bands or individual musical artists had absolutely NO control! So, of course: for a band like The Beatles (who HATED all of that and could, also, (by the mid-to-late '60s) afford their own gear: film cameras, lights, costuming, etc.!) and: directors and camera operators, et al. (OR they were free to experiment with and play around with --- and learn all of that stuff, themselves; if they felt like it, too! --- ) ...They could make their own stuff and show it or sell showings of it, to fans ...or distribute THOSE items for broadcast (instead of being forced to do variety shows/music shows -- with little and zero control!). -- ). ...so: basically: very few had such opportunities and even fewer CARED! The "video era" came "on-line" when MTV was created and came on the air [There had been some localized precursors, in different areas of the country and the world (🤷🤷), but: with very little material and little success --- I don't know the detailed history. Someone else does and could probably sketch it out much more wisely and specifically than I can. ...SO, I am, just, going to speak about the "overall picture" and the parameters I *DO* know, well!]. MTV came on the air in August of 1980. I am going to assert that: while there were plenty of households which already had cable TV access, at this point, there were vast swaths of the country which, still, didn't (and even in those which did, not every area, immediately, broadcast the service). The vast majority of Americans were, still, watching "antenna TV"/over-the-air broadcast (and MTV was never on that. Still isn't (although it is entirely something different now, anyway!). Network TV "ruled." ...So: while many who saw the channel, early were interested in it (or began to develop an interest in it), it didn't "take off like a rocket." The station did not, REALLY, 'take off' until: at some point in 1983, which was: the year that a fair amount of major labels began including money in something called "a video budget," for artists they wanted to promote (having seen the response over the past howevermany months to a year-and-a-half ...and, also, noticing: unknown bands, who were getting little-to-no radio play in localities in the U.S., but: having successful albums and/or singles, in stores!). Once THIS began to happen/began to be NOTICED happening, within a few months, and into the upcoming years, a video for a song became "a necessary thing," for most artists (although numerous artists still refused to do them, because they did not like than---and understandably SO!). Bands on MTV needed to look great ...not sound good (that was the basic idea). An example: MetallicA released their first album [Kill 'em All] in 1983. The band did not make a single video (only live footage of them playing shows was ever available) until: 1989 (although the video was, I believe, shot in Dec. of 1988). The band did not care about MTV or "videos." [Subsequently: they expanded their following and their subsequent album (released in 1991) was their biggest-selling, ever [to that point, anyway] and they reached, not just "Metal Royalty" status (where they already were & had been for quite some time), but: "ultra rock star" status and worldwide familiarity (with an expansion of their listening public happening).] ...By the late '80s, many already established (and, in quite a few cases:"fading"/"losing ground") artists, began to accept the beneficial, promotional nature of: videos. ...but older artists (some of whom had long-since broken-up, but their labels were releasing: "Hits" compilations and such), who maintained respect and admiration from times in the 1960s or 1970s, but did NOT have any "video footage" (and didn't want to shoot themselves "now," ...as "older people," to use as promotion. ...Plenty of these bands (their labels, at least --- the folks who owned the rights to their back catalogue, etc. ) started getting (or just letting) labels to use: old home movies, live footage, "found" footage (usually on film) and cobbling such things together --- or, simply, having a video made of kind-of "random" footage of those times, with their music laid over it. These became these "retro," made in the '80s and '90s, with footage from the '60s and '70s, "not-really-video" videos. ....but, of course, no-one who doesn't know these things/about these times, would, generally, ever think of such things or understand (without being told ----and sometimes not even then!). ...so: scant "videos" (as one might think of them, now) exist. MOST video did NOT (for MOST intents and purposes) "exist" before 1981 ...and the format didn't, really, start, actively, being used or accepted until 1983 (or so). Old live footage and stock footage and home movies, with "overlaid" music are not what I would call "videos" ...but, things like that are the only things which, also, have "visual components." 🤷🤷 (and they became an "acceptable option" (as stated) towards the tail-end of the '80s and into the 1990s (and, then, beyond). Old variety shows, "dance shows" [American Bandstand, Soul Train and the like] and the weekly, late night broadcast "concert" shows [In the U.S., there were only 2 that I can recall, at all: Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (shot on the East Coast) and Midnight Special [shot on the West Coast].] are, likely, the only things you will see from a period prior to: 1981-1982. Live concert footage is different ...but even that is ...pretty rare/less of it is available than one might think (although, again: those with access to funds or gear (or both) will have a lot more of it available, of themselves. ---or: one might expect them to, anyway 🤷). So, re: "videos," definitely compartmentalize your brain, to: "pre-'81" and "post-'81" (with an extra adjunct 'shelf' at: "post-'83"). This should help you understand/remember. (🤷🤷🤷)
The Finn Brothers. I am so glad they brought their magic from New Zealand to Aus. They have added so much to world music.
This was from the 90's, 1992 to be exact. Neil Finn (singer/songwriter) is a bit of a Genius.
Don't Dream Its Over is the most famos their hit ever.
Also very beautiful as for me: Fall At Your Feet, Distant Sun, Better Be Home Soon, Into Temptation, Nails in My Feet and more others.
By the way I heard great cover of FALL AT YOUR FEET by James Blant.
Like Rodney said, Neil Finn and the drummer Paul Hester were part of Split Enz (with the singers Brother Tim Finn) hits include I Got You, One Step Ahead, Dirty Creatures, Message to my Girl, Six Months in a Leaky Boat, I Hope I never, I walk away.
" Don't dream it's over" is there biggest hits plus other great songs are World where you live, Better Be Home Soon, Fall at your feet, something so strong, Mean to Me, Now we're getting somewhere, Distant Sun, Nails in my feet, Private Universe, Everything is good for you, Into Temptation, Locked out, Not the girl you think you are, It's only natural, recurring dreams, Dont stop now, When you come (official videos of these songs) are other great songs to react to, in my humble opinion.
Some of the musicians in crowed house were a part of an earlier band called (Split Enz) they had a huge hit I think around 1980. The song was titled (I got you) definitely check it out.
Thanks so much for the insight! I had no idea some of the Crowded House members were part of Split Enz. I'll definitely check out 'I Got You' sounds like a classic! Really appreciate you sharing that info, it helps me dive deeper into their music history.
First time I've heard this song! I like it! Check out their most famous song Don't Dream It's Over. I'm sure you'll like it
Nice to hear one of their deeper cuts. Don’t Dream It’s Over was their smash hit, as mentioned by another commenter.
The lead singer has now replaced Freddie Murcury after his death in the band Queen
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@@markflint2629er… no he didn’t.
Great song from the 90s timeless ❤
Yh great song great reaction would like to hear your music. ✌️👍
You can't go wrong with Crowded House and Neil Finn. A new album was released this year, with Neil's children part of the band now.
Bit of a 90s classic, that one. Legend had it that taking the weather with you was about skin cancer, particularly prevalent in Australia. Apparently this is untrue of the song. It's about creating your own stormy weather around you, if that's how you feel, therefore you take it with you.
Don't Dream It's Over and Fall At Your Feet are their other greatest songs.
You might want to listen also to Split Enz and I Got You, from 1980. They were the forerunner band to Crowded House, for the Finn brothers, Tim and Neil. It's usually Neil who sings.
THIS Crowded House album [Woodface] [released in: 1991 ...so, like, an "almost '80s" album 😜😛 (although, numerous songs were written for it as early as: 1989, so....🤷🤷)]
has long been my personal favorite of theirs.
I think it's, easily, their most enjoyable overall work.
Crowded House was founded by: Neil Finn, in the 1980s, after he left:
Split Enz (or, really: the band dissolved).
Woodface is the first Crowded House album where Neil's older brother, Tim joins him in working with/in Crowded House (and the first time the 2 worked together SINCE the dissolution of Split Enz!).
"Back story":
Split Enz are (almost inarguably ) the most famous band from New Zealand, of all time.
They were founded, in the 1970s, as a Progressive Rock/Art Rock\Art-Folk outfit, by: Tim Finn and Phil Judd (and several other friends they were jamming with at The University Of Auckland.), with the initial name of: Split Ends (spelled the usual, standard way). In 1975 the band altered the spelling of the name to: Split Enz -- with the "nz" referring to the initialization for their home nation: New Zealand ["N.Z." obviously.]).
In 1977, founding vocalist and songwriter, Phil Judd departed the band [primarily due to tensions that arose between him and Tim Finn (who were the primary song-writers in the band.). Phil had been the primary vocalist (as well as guitarist) for Split Enz, until that time.
Tim called-in his younger brother: Neil Finn (another excellent song-writer, in his own right and a very good guitarist and vocalist!) to fill the void.
In 1978, Tim asked Phil to return to the band and tour with them. He ended-up doing this and the interplay between Phil Judd and Neil Finn as dual guitarists/a "guitar team," was superb!
Judd brought a few new songs (which he had been working on) to the band and they leaned a couple of them and played them in the '78 tour sets.
...but following the end of the tour, Judd departed again (This time: not to return --- until reunion tours, decades later!; but that is an additional set of stories!)
Around this time, the band took on a less "arty" sound and style and took on a more: rock-pop bent, a sound oriented more conducively to then-current radio, later becoming tied-in with the brief, so-called "new wave" movement (of the late 1980s and first year-or-two of the 1980s).
The band did not, really, "break" internationally, until, the success of their 1980 release: True Colours
and its HUGE single:
"I Got You" (written by: Neil Finn)
{WELL-worth your time !!!!🔥🔥!]
...After Split Enz, with the Finn brothers pairing, essentially, collapsed (circa: 1983-1984🤷), Neil took some time off
[Tim had, already, started (and had success with) a solo career, while Split Enz was, still, functioning, by this point!].
Neil, soon, formed a small pop-rock outfit, which became: Crowded House.
Crowded House had rather strong initial success; NOT only from Neil (and Paul Hester and Nick Seymour)'s quality song-writing, but from working with young Producer: Mitchell Froom (whom *I* knew only as: the keyboard player from the 'latter-day' versions of Ronnie Montrose's '80s band: Gamma !, at this point!) and HIS [GENIUS!] Sound Engineer (and soon Producing-partner and Producer in his own right): Tchad Blake [🔥🔥🔥🔥‼].
Froom and Blake first "made noise" with Crowded House, but would go on to break new, fresh ground and sonic templates with such '90s greats as: Suzanne Vega [on her breakthrough: 99.9 F° and it's (underappreciated, equally brilliant) follow-up: Nine Objects Of Desire ❤🔥❤🔥], Soul Coughing [Tchad Blake], Sheryl Crowe's (brilliant!): The Globe Sessions [Mainly helmed by: Trina Shoemaker, but!....], Fishbone, etc. !!!!!!
...Anyhow (as already mentioned): Crowded House (with Neil Finn, alone) achieved a fair amount of success (at the tail-end of the '80s).
...At some point during a break in schedules (or maybe not even 🤷), ...the Finn Brothers started writing songs together for a "Finn Brothers" future project. ...This never got finished at the time
[Later on -- I think circa '95 ? -- 🤷🤷 -- The 2 DID do a project under the name: The Finn Brothers (and added to that, particular, catalogue, at later dates, as well)....]
and, by 1990, Neil had asked brother Tim to "come over" and help him finish up some stuff on a new Crowded House album. ...Things got so that: Tim Finn actually joined his younger brother's band ("the reverse of" what happened with Tim and Split Enz and Neil) and: the result was the brilliant, 'summery,' textured and luminous: Woodface album!! 🤘🤘
...As I mentioned at the outset (here): Woodface became (and remains) my favorite Crowded House album, ever!
There is some extra kind of "magic" to the Finn Brothers: writing and, especially, singing, together!!
This album is chock-full of juicy-good, melodic, memorable tracks!!
My favorites (and recommended listens for you, OF COURSE!! ---- UTTERLY ABSOLUTELY!) are:
"It's Only Natural";
"Whispers And Moans";
"Chocolate Cake" (which was the first thing released to radio, from this album.);
"Fall At Your Feet"
(and, the brilliant: "Weather With You" -- which you've, obviously, already heard!!😉😜👍❤❤🔥 )[*B.T.W., my favorite part, personally, has long-been: that distant, muted, 'truncated,' descending piano melody-"riff" which happens mainly in the right ear "overhead" position (but it moves, slightly, as well).
THAT and the couplet: "There's a small boat made of china
going nowhere on the mantelpiece.
O, do I lie like a lounge-room lizard?
or do I sing like a bird released?...."]
...maybe: "There Goes God" (too)
PLEASE: Enjoy!
(and do so with EVERY other song and album I MENTION in this 🤷🤷 "minor treatise" ( 😛😝😂👍) !). 💗🧡🧡💜💙💜❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Oh, just f.y.i.: there, actually, *WEREN'T* any "music videos" in the 1970s. Nope.
Bands did not make them, there was nowhere to present such things (and most musicians (wisely) wanted to: improve at playing and writing ---possibly: studio engineering and sound control and manipulation ["studio as instrument" --- which was something ( a concept and a practice !) that REALLY took hold and expanded, greatly, IN/DURING the 1970s!]
and not worry about "visuals" (unless they had a personal interest in visual art or something).).
Now, someone WILL come by here and say: "No, man! You're wrong!"
...There WERE some kinds of "video presentations" made, by some artists, at some points in the 1970s.T ...Things shot on a soundstage, somewhere were rare and, for the most part, were only shot for and used for "intra-industry" promotion and events.
...there were a few artists who made such things (or let such things be made, with them in it), but: comparatively few.
This can be demonstrated by: when MTV went on the air, they, often, repeated material, multiple times over a 24 hour period! They did NOT have enough things to SHOW!
----In the 1960s, only (basically) The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had the kind of money (or interest in!): making short films of themselves.
The only, real, non-concert "visual medium," then, was: Television and weekly (or monthly ) television programs; MOST commonly (but not always) "variety shows," which would feature:
multiple guests, mainly actors or comedians or individual performers (such as 🤷🤷magicians, or such things), with actors and comedians doing skits or vocalists singing with a house band.
The show and its directors controlled: who got on, what they could perform (or lip-synch to! [which was very common!]), how long the segment could be,etc., etc. the bands or individual musical artists had absolutely NO control!
So, of course: for a band like The Beatles (who HATED all of that and could, also, (by the mid-to-late '60s) afford their own gear: film cameras, lights, costuming, etc.!) and: directors and camera operators, et al. (OR they were free to experiment with and play around with --- and learn all of that stuff, themselves; if they felt like it, too! --- ) ...They could make their own stuff and show it or sell showings of it, to fans ...or distribute THOSE items for broadcast (instead of being forced to do variety shows/music shows -- with little and zero control!). -- ).
...so: basically: very few had such opportunities and even fewer CARED!
The "video era" came "on-line" when MTV was created and came on the air [There had been some localized precursors, in different areas of the country and the world (🤷🤷), but: with very little material and little success --- I don't know the detailed history. Someone else does and could probably sketch it out much more wisely and specifically than I can. ...SO, I am, just, going to speak about the "overall picture" and the parameters I *DO* know, well!].
MTV came on the air in August of 1980.
I am going to assert that: while there were plenty of households which already had cable TV access, at this point, there were vast swaths of the country which, still, didn't (and even in those which did, not every area, immediately, broadcast the service).
The vast majority of Americans were, still, watching "antenna TV"/over-the-air broadcast (and MTV was never on that. Still isn't (although it is entirely something different now, anyway!).
Network TV "ruled."
...So: while many who saw the channel, early were interested in it (or began to develop an interest in it), it didn't "take off like a rocket."
The station did not, REALLY, 'take off' until: at some point in 1983, which was: the year that a fair amount of major labels began including money in something called "a video budget," for artists they wanted to promote (having seen the response over the past howevermany months to a year-and-a-half ...and, also, noticing: unknown bands, who were getting little-to-no radio play in localities in the U.S., but: having successful albums and/or singles, in stores!).
Once THIS began to happen/began to be NOTICED happening, within a few months, and into the upcoming years, a video for a song became "a necessary thing," for most artists (although numerous artists still refused to do them, because they did not like than---and understandably SO!).
Bands on MTV needed to look great ...not sound good (that was the basic idea).
An example: MetallicA released their first album [Kill 'em All] in 1983. The band did not make a single video (only live footage of them playing shows was ever available) until:
1989 (although the video was, I believe, shot in Dec. of 1988).
The band did not care about MTV or "videos."
[Subsequently: they expanded their following and their subsequent album (released in 1991) was their biggest-selling, ever [to that point, anyway] and they reached, not just "Metal Royalty" status (where they already were & had been for quite some time), but: "ultra rock star" status and worldwide familiarity (with an expansion of their listening public happening).]
...By the late '80s, many already established (and, in quite a few cases:"fading"/"losing ground") artists, began to accept the beneficial, promotional nature of: videos.
...but older artists (some of whom had long-since broken-up, but their labels were releasing: "Hits" compilations and such), who maintained respect and admiration from times in the 1960s or 1970s, but did NOT have any "video footage" (and didn't want to shoot themselves "now," ...as "older people," to use as promotion. ...Plenty of these bands (their labels, at least --- the folks who owned the rights to their back catalogue, etc. ) started getting (or just letting) labels to use: old home movies, live footage, "found" footage (usually on film) and cobbling such things together --- or, simply, having a video made of kind-of "random" footage of those times, with their music laid over it.
These became these "retro," made in the '80s and '90s, with footage from the '60s and '70s, "not-really-video" videos.
....but, of course, no-one who doesn't know these things/about these times, would, generally, ever think of such things or understand (without being told ----and sometimes not even then!).
...so: scant "videos" (as one might think of them, now) exist.
MOST video did NOT (for MOST intents and purposes) "exist" before 1981 ...and the format didn't, really, start, actively, being used or accepted until 1983 (or so).
Old live footage and stock footage and home movies, with "overlaid" music are not what I would call "videos"
...but, things like that are the only things which, also, have "visual components." 🤷🤷 (and they became an "acceptable option" (as stated) towards the tail-end of the '80s and into the 1990s (and, then, beyond).
Old variety shows, "dance shows" [American Bandstand, Soul Train and the like] and the weekly, late night broadcast "concert" shows [In the U.S., there were only 2 that I can recall, at all: Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (shot on the East Coast) and Midnight Special [shot on the West Coast].] are, likely, the only things you will see from a period prior to: 1981-1982.
Live concert footage is different ...but even that is ...pretty rare/less of it is available than one might think (although, again: those with access to funds or gear (or both) will have a lot more of it available, of themselves. ---or: one might expect them to, anyway 🤷).
So, re: "videos," definitely compartmentalize your brain, to: "pre-'81" and "post-'81" (with an extra adjunct 'shelf' at: "post-'83").
This should help you understand/remember. (🤷🤷🤷)
Я обожаю эту песню с детства :)
Yeah, don't go taking the English weather anywhere at all..... especially here to Australia, 😉 haha.
ZZ Top would be wunderful