@@Tbaggrrr It wasn't back then 🙌 and always in our hearts and minds those that lived these halcyon days.. These days I feel humans have been pushed towards and lost need for real music of the soul 🫂💜🕎🎶🕉
Australia 🇦🇺 have some of the finest and most original music ever ❤, Aussie music is second to none, living in Australia since 1999 absolutely blows my mind the vast amount of Aussie made classics some of them I used to listen as a kid back when I lived in Brazil 🇧🇷 never realised it was from Australia not USA 🇺🇸 or Britain 🇬🇧, Australia 🇦🇺 to me is the most magical country ever , from the moment I arrived in Australia last century I knew deep in my heart ❤️ this place was MY HOME MY TRULY HOME! I absolutely love Australia 🇦🇺, Rob Taylor from Dragon used to teach me guitar 🎸 lessons back in Ben Collins Bondi Rock Shop on Bondi Road back in the early 2OOO’s OMG A SUCH AMAZING MEMORIES, OMG BLESS AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 DOWN UNDER AUSSIE the most beautiful place I ever been the place I call my HOME for 25 years ❤
This is one of the most legendary Australian songs by one of our most talented bands! A timeless favourite! Mondo Rock, Icehouse, Jeff St John, The Loved Ones and Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors) NEVER get old!
@Klemheist WWII ??? The Loved Ones - headed by the legendary British-born Gerry Humphries - were a Baby Boomer favourite who did not make their first appearance until the mid-1960's. One of their most memorable songs were "The Loved One" or the classic, "Sad, Dark Eyes" .... they will go down in history as one of the best, most talented Australian bands of the 1960's. Click on the links below to hear these signs which were THEME SONGS to the lives of so many Baby Boomers who were teenagers in the mid-1960's. Gerry Humphries was an absolutely BRILLIANT, charismatic performer - once seen, NEVER forgotten! th-cam.com/video/ccEtKc5TnGc/w-d-xo.html = Sad Dark Eyes th-cam.com/video/axUYL2I6KF8/w-d-xo.html = The Loved One
All of our Bands from the 60's through to the end of the 80's were the Ducks Fucking Nuts!... With our bands and Pub culture back then life was sweet! We had it all back then! 🇦🇺💥
I will LOVE this song until I die!! Brings back the best memories of the 80's being young and irresponsible and having the best time. God I was so lucky to grow up in Melb then with the best live music scene. Miss those days very much!!
The Outro just sends chills, involving the intertwining of Ross' vocal, the choral section, those power chords on electric guitar , and Eric's amazing guitar solo that was cut short for commercial airplay purposes. The song is dripping and rich in the elixir of oxytocin.
I discovered a lot of great tunes from Aussie bands and artists through a penpal over 20 years ago - and I'm still a fan of them all today. Proper music, not the manufactured churned out crap they have now. I live in Ireland......
It was mine, an older woman too :) on the beach. Box jellyfish and saltwater crocodiles be damned. How am I not dead yet. I think god is torturing me in my later years. I was a cheeky prick, maybe still am.
I am a teen aussie bloke and I can say that aussies do have culture, most of my mates would have 80's music on their playlist, howbeit mainstream 80's music but still. I can honestly say I do not listen to much music past 2000 (apart from a bit of coldplay and blunt)
The Americans and Canadians had many fine bands as well.Black Flag,Iggy Pop,Promises, The Eagles, Neil Young, Jackson Brown, Michael Jackson, MDC, Metallica, Also Holland's Golden Earring as well.
I love this song so much. Tasty synth and bass-ey beats, great vocals, risque but honest lyrics, and I think the music video was shot down at Maroubra Beach in Sydney!
this is why the 80s still rock, all the best music was Australian and dare i say it, set the standard,unfortunately no-one has come close to raising the bar icehouse, inxs, noiseworks, mondo rock, goanna, cold chisel, Ac/Dc, Australian Craw, to name but a few
@@solamente8233 i would take inxs, acdc, cold chisel, and australian crawl over sean bosisto, duran duran, and pet shop boys, bowie would sneak in just not sure who for.
Nostalgic memories of a time when you could catch great bands like MR at most pub venues, when fish & chips were $2 a bag, $1 schooner's, and weekend summer night rooting along the Sydney coast, Cronulla to Palm Beach. WTF happened Australia?!
We became too serious and too full of ourselves. We've forgotten what it means to be humble. You can do a good job without getting a big head or being a pr**k. You do your best and after that you just let it go. We forgot that we are just human like all our mates next to us.
Too much ....political correctness 🤢I've followed this brilliant man omg 😍1984 was my last year of FREEDOM ....MY SON IS 32 next week....yet I took him to many a free concert at Cronulla etc
My dad was a speed demon too. We had our Mini doing 80mph. His later Jag did well past that, as well as the Charger and Cobra and Brock Special (Holden). He let me drive the Jag when he visited the first time. I'd just driven through a roundabout, and thought that seemed extra quick, but the steering was beautiful. It was then dad casually mentioned that the car's speedometer was mph not kph. Zipping through a town roundabout at highway speed... I survived it, all good. I loved his Brock Special and he let me borrow it for a trip away once. Some speedos stop at 180 klicks. I have no idea how fast that car was. It was almost like flying. I can still remember the feeling. Back to what you were saying, when dad bought his Ford Cobra he had the current best sound system fitted. Our Sunday drives in the bush back roads (lol, yes we were bushies) was filled with music that seemed to surround us. The start of surround sound and multiple speakers. There was something special about it back then, when music seemed to wrap around you. The home stereo/record player had nothing on the car's sound. I think I've used up all the word I'm allowed to use in one day, bye.
I was born in 2002 and I can't stand mainstream music. nobody my age appreciates real music from the 50s-90s, back when the musicians actually had talent, instead of all the electronic shit they use now days
I was born in 1971 so when this song came out and was played on the radio I was bit too young to understand it. However later on I can appreciate not just the lyrics but the beat and melody.
I remember in my youth (I'm 42 now) my family heading down to Thirroil Woolongong my dad was a surfer, & this song was playing I was in the back seat making up images to this song, just like his Pink Floyd (The Wall) or Crosby Stills Cash & Young, my Father's music has defined what I love
+Nic B I'm 20 and my father did the same for me, shaped my view on real music. WSFM was played on my radio every night from when I was a baby up until I was in high school. This music will always have a special place in my heart
+Nic B That's so weird! I'm 42 and this song takes me straight back to my childhood going down to Thirroul all through the Summer and listening to it in the car! Maybe we were there the same days, listening to the same radio station! Hahaha.
Omg Thirroil!!! I use to go there with the Crittles all the time!!! I think they might live there now.. But that's EXACTLY where this song takes ME!! Wow.. Internet is a small place :))
So me and my dad were listening to this on the way home from his workplace as it came on the radio. "This is a great song!" I said and Dad said, "do you know what it's about? Listen to the words." I gave him a funny look and he said with my little brother in the back of the car daydreaming, "it's about a man getting his first shag." I fucking laughed my head off XD
Massive song. Great piece of Aussie rock. I always loved that snicky little keyboard work at 1:28 (And she said, I've been waiting for a long time - chnk chnk chnk...) gets me every time. And then the rumbling undertow of the bass...and then...and then... so many good ingredients here. Brilliant.
This song ment so much to me back then .... so many years ago and so much has happened to me since. Within a few seconds of the opening sequence transported back in time.. That's what a true classic can do
this song is bitter sweet for me, ill explain, im 40 now, when i was a teenager i never dated i never held hands with a girl, never did any of that, and this song reminds me every time i hear it on the young love i always missed out on, because girls always thought i was a nerd and a loser and shy etc... its such an injustice and such a shame, i wish i dated when i was a teenager, there were so many pretty girls in my high school like Shanna seamark, bronwyn hope, Claire Miles, Julia Beresford, amanda hobden, but they never even looked at me ONCE , they always just talked to to COOL guys, unfortunately i wasent one of them, so its a great song but it breaks my fragile heart every time i hear it because it reminds me of what i never experienced in my youth.
@@sourcesauce you will find me on reddit forever alone sub reddit along with thousands of other men who have been rejected by woman all these years, simply because girls were never interested in them romantically, its such a tragedy there are so many hundreds of thousands of us out there, suffering in silence every day, all because we cant even get a date.
Still safe 2 walk the bra anyday anytime. There r still enough old school locals about & the blow ins with new money r trying 2 embrace our way of life. All welcome.
Carrie Aussie masterpiece at its finest! Well phrased and ‘A true coming of age song!’ This song is a telltale generational phenomenon that has not been realised by the industry or the listeners; thankfully a few of us do! State of the Heart is another one of their masterpieces! Thank you Ross
Wow. I love reading people's comments/stories surrounding these classic Aussie tracks: where they were & how much the music means to them. Puts a smile on my face :) Thanks for sharing, people!
My b/f and I had a drunken night to remember on Maroubra beach. I was 17y and he 23 in 1983..We remained friends until he passed away last year. Needless to say I come here for the memories of living down Maroubra beach back when life was simple. ♥
@@robbiecarroll5491 I always come back to this song when I feel melancholy of those yrs (1984-18yrs😊) I used to hear ppl say enjoy these yrs cause one day you'll look back and wish U where still here. Of course we don't understand at the time but I have music as my mental/emotional time machine!❣️🥰
I was 12 and I remember falling in love to this song and for the years that followed. It sure takes me back and it sure is a song about young love. Those feelings come right back. Love this song and loved Mondo Rock and that beautiful voice that is Ross Wilson's.
I am 51. Those songs .when i was a young man. I still love so much today. Life was so good .back .then Yes we used to fight .but like days ov old .a fight was honorable. You went down. Its over. The good days back then..every one. Had good times . I love my country
We were so lucky in Australia. We got all the stuff from the USA and the UK and Europe, but we also got all this great local stuff that they mostly missed out on. I encourage any US youtuber to look at Australian music of the 70's and 80's and see what you missed out on.
David McCarthy, Totally agree. Aussies produced so much great music and much of it isn’t known beyond our shores. That’s great for us but I do feel for the artists that they didn’t get the recognition they so richly deserved.
When this song came out I was 20,Australia and New Zealand had the best rock n roll music ever.... but, they were overshadowed by music from the US,UK,& Canada and I really think the music from Australia and New Zealand had both a better sound and production,thanks😎!
Only heard this classic for the second time again since my childhood randomly on Spotify (how awesome are algorithms sometimes!?!) I have been obsessed with it ever since! What a time to be alive! Much simpler times back then
is it just me, or does every generation have their decade? my mum used to go on about how much better it was back in the sixties: the best drugs, the best music, carefree sex (she never outright said that last part, but i realised how she danced around it as i got older). Now here I am, reading these comments and agreeing that the eighties was amazing, and the feeling i get from this song and others like it cannot be put into words. Is it just nostalgia? Am i just remembering the good parts? Because i look at today's charts and can barely name a song worth listening to. And most of the ones i do like don't hold any significance for me. Songs like this one just make me want to meet a girl on the beach, hang out all day listening to eighties music, drinking, making love and having carefree fun. Which is how i think i see the eighties. Maybe its all a delusion, but i sometimes sit listening to music like this and i feel like im missing something i had back then.
Ryder Knightly, I’m hearing you! I’ve finally turned into my Father. I just can’t cop too much of the current “stuff” that passes as music these days. Born in the 60’s and love all the stuff from then up to about 2010. That’s 50 years, which is a pretty good spread of musical genres. Image being born in 1900 and having to endure the next 50 years! Mind you the last concert I went to was Joe Bonamassa. Only discovered him about 5 years ago. So, there is still good stuff out there.
We remember when we were young with no responsibilities as the best time in our lives . For your mum the 60s for me the late 70s to about mid 80s . Was 16 turning 17 in 1980 . For someone 10 plus years younger than me the 90s and for my kids the 2000s in high school 2003 to 2010 although they are 28 and 30 but now feel the responsibility’s of adulthood as their friends are getting married and having kids . Yes times were good when young but also nostalgia. Working full time and other problems may be behind us now if we are retired or semi retired
Also now we are in our mid to late 50s we are getting a mid life crisis where as in our 30s and 40s we were buzy with kids and teenagers and in our late 20s early 30s getting married . Now the time is running out and social media and utube is our escape back in time
We have to stop trying to live in the past which I guess we live in the virtual past on social media watching 80s video clips but then we step back into 2021 where we are in our 50s and are mum dad nan pop for those that started early . Patti Newton had Grandkids late 78 and can hold her grandchild for ages while being interviewed. Quite amazing . So don’t have to start having grandkids till mid 60s and really it’s up to your kids . So we go into the virtual world and then come back out of it back to middle age 2021 which vaxxers anticaxers dinners and bills Amen
1984 A little too early for me. I never invited a girl to the waves to fool around but kissed her at a dusky sunset drive in at age of 7 on the playground swings at intermission.. watching the VHS recording tv lines at the end just made me love it more guys..
If you grew up in the 80s then you know this song really captures the 80s feeling and memories
100 %
The 80s was a clease from the 60s and 70s.
I grew up in the 1880s does that count? Lol
@@Tbaggrrr yeah why not, I didn't say specifically which century so you got me there 😄
@@Stm-ij8wi haha 😆 #immortal
@@Stm-ij8wi #chickensacrifices
As an Australian growing up with these bands was priceless , so many great memories and some of the best music to ever exist 🙏❤️❤️🇦🇺👍
Agreed we were so lucky
@@kimthetruthofit6965 I used to get an erection listening to this song. So sad that It doesn't happen now.
1000% We were blessed 🙌 ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Very underrated music that's for sure
@@Tbaggrrr It wasn't back then 🙌 and always in our hearts and minds those that lived these halcyon days.. These days I feel humans have been pushed towards and lost need for real music of the soul 🫂💜🕎🎶🕉
Australia 🇦🇺 have some of the finest and most original music ever ❤, Aussie music is second to none, living in Australia since 1999 absolutely blows my mind the vast amount of Aussie made classics some of them I used to listen as a kid back when I lived in Brazil 🇧🇷 never realised it was from Australia not USA 🇺🇸 or Britain 🇬🇧, Australia 🇦🇺 to me is the most magical country ever , from the moment I arrived in Australia last century I knew deep in my heart ❤️ this place was MY HOME MY TRULY HOME! I absolutely love Australia 🇦🇺, Rob Taylor from Dragon used to teach me guitar 🎸 lessons back in Ben Collins Bondi Rock Shop on Bondi Road back in the early 2OOO’s OMG A SUCH AMAZING MEMORIES, OMG BLESS AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 DOWN UNDER AUSSIE the most beautiful place I ever been the place I call my HOME for 25 years ❤
Welcome home mate!!
This is one of the most legendary Australian songs by one of our most talented bands! A timeless favourite! Mondo Rock, Icehouse, Jeff St John, The Loved Ones and Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors) NEVER get old!
@Klemheist WWII ??? The Loved Ones - headed by the legendary British-born Gerry Humphries - were a Baby Boomer favourite who did not make their first appearance until the mid-1960's. One of their most memorable songs were "The Loved One" or the classic, "Sad, Dark Eyes" .... they will go down in history as one of the best, most talented Australian bands of the 1960's. Click on the links below to hear these signs which were THEME SONGS to the lives of so many Baby Boomers who were teenagers in the mid-1960's. Gerry Humphries was an absolutely BRILLIANT, charismatic performer - once seen, NEVER forgotten!
th-cam.com/video/ccEtKc5TnGc/w-d-xo.html = Sad Dark Eyes
th-cam.com/video/axUYL2I6KF8/w-d-xo.html = The Loved One
Mccusker's guitar work is just superb in just about all their hits.
All of our Bands from the 60's through to the end of the 80's were the Ducks Fucking Nuts!... With our bands and Pub culture back then life was sweet! We had it all back then! 🇦🇺💥
Barely a week goes by when I do not play this classic somewhere. Loved it as a 22 year old Pom in Oz in 84, and still love it today.
Same here.
I was born in '84 and I love this song
Born 89 love the song 🙂
I will LOVE this song until I die!! Brings back the best memories of the 80's being young and irresponsible and having the best time. God I was so lucky to grow up in Melb then with the best live music scene. Miss those days very much!!
Better than noughties Australia ! Take me back!
We were sooooo lucky and we just never knew how much....God love the 80s and us who lived it woot woot !
So true indeed......
I don't know why I love this song so much. I've had it on repeat so many times! It's so catchy.
TheM275 the meaning of what it felt like as an innocent teenager resonates to most.
TheM275 I know the feeling, great song
Yeah it's just one of those songs aye
Your song was played at many, many party nights, and it was a great time for music.
Mondo Rock ❤
She said, "Come with me, boy....
The Outro just sends chills, involving the intertwining of Ross' vocal, the choral section, those power chords on electric guitar , and Eric's amazing guitar solo that was cut short for commercial airplay purposes. The song is dripping and rich in the elixir of oxytocin.
Couldn't have said it better
Hooof man beautifully said mark 🙏🏻
of course of course
Australia HAD some of the best bands, Ever..
tony stewart damn right
some of them were Kiwi !
tony stewart g
I discovered a lot of great tunes from Aussie bands and artists through a penpal over 20 years ago - and I'm still a fan of them all today. Proper music, not the manufactured churned out crap they have now. I live in Ireland......
I think you will find - they are still playing!!
Arguably the greatest Australian coming of age song ever......
It was mine, an older woman too :) on the beach. Box jellyfish and saltwater crocodiles be damned. How am I not dead yet. I think god is torturing me in my later years. I was a cheeky prick, maybe still am.
I LOVE REAL MUSIC ❤❤❤❤
I love 80s music, especially songs out of the UK and Australia.
I fucking love you.
Amen to that!
Dude Australia and UK have made great music over the years. I'm a proud Aussie :D
im aussie and i agree
I am a teen aussie bloke and I can say that aussies do have culture, most of my mates would have 80's music on their playlist, howbeit mainstream 80's music but still. I can honestly say I do not listen to much music past 2000 (apart from a bit of coldplay and blunt)
Australia and the UK made the best 80s music.....all my memories of being young has an eighties song to go with it.....forever young...
The Americans and Canadians had many fine bands as well.Black Flag,Iggy Pop,Promises, The Eagles, Neil Young, Jackson Brown, Michael Jackson, MDC, Metallica, Also Holland's Golden Earring as well.
Germany as well , modern Talk and Scorpions are German made 80’s iconic bands as well ❤ Modern talk is so legendary
I love this song so much. Tasty synth and bass-ey beats, great vocals, risque but honest lyrics, and I think the music video was shot down at Maroubra Beach in Sydney!
Yes, this is absolutely Maroubra beach.
Legit it's a masterpiece like the way they put everything together was perfect
@@GLOBAL-INTIFADA hiya
Porno guitar parts too!
I sat on those steps in the 80's. Great times when things were easier.
Were you a regular at the Seals Club ? Did you know Steve Cacchia . He passed away in 2016 . Yes times were certainly different then
@@juliakate5684 No never been
Easier how?
Is that Maroubra?
One of my favorite 80s songs. Brings back memories. Man i miss the 80s
this is why the 80s still rock, all the best music was Australian and dare i say it, set the standard,unfortunately no-one has come close to raising the bar
icehouse, inxs, noiseworks, mondo rock, goanna, cold chisel, Ac/Dc, Australian Craw,
to name but a few
Sean Bosisto Duran Duran, Bowie,Pet Shop Boys, yeah all Australian lol
Yep also to the list Air Supply, The Little River Band.. good times
@@paulgabolinscy2502 what a rude way of trying to top the guy :/
@@solamente8233 i would take inxs, acdc, cold chisel, and australian crawl over sean bosisto, duran duran, and pet shop boys, bowie would sneak in just not sure who for.
@@dannad1759 agreed :)
Nostalgic memories of a time when you could catch great bands like MR at most pub venues, when fish & chips were $2 a bag, $1 schooner's, and weekend summer night rooting along the Sydney coast, Cronulla to Palm Beach. WTF happened Australia?!
i remember 70 cent schooners, $4 to see inxs with divinyls supporting, manly vale hotel, etc, so many venues, so many bands, a great ra
We became too serious and too full of ourselves. We've forgotten what it means to be humble. You can do a good job without getting a big head or being a pr**k. You do your best and after that you just let it go. We forgot that we are just human like all our mates next to us.
we went global!
i still fuck on the beach in sydney
Too much ....political correctness 🤢I've followed this brilliant man omg 😍1984 was my last year of FREEDOM ....MY SON IS 32 next week....yet I took him to many a free concert at Cronulla etc
this song and icehouse remind me of my dad so much thats what youd hear in his car. going 80 in a 60 zone playing this.
My dad was a speed demon too. We had our Mini doing 80mph. His later Jag did well past that, as well as the Charger and Cobra and Brock Special (Holden). He let me drive the Jag when he visited the first time. I'd just driven through a roundabout, and thought that seemed extra quick, but the steering was beautiful. It was then dad casually mentioned that the car's speedometer was mph not kph. Zipping through a town roundabout at highway speed... I survived it, all good.
I loved his Brock Special and he let me borrow it for a trip away once. Some speedos stop at 180 klicks. I have no idea how fast that car was. It was almost like flying. I can still remember the feeling.
Back to what you were saying, when dad bought his Ford Cobra he had the current best sound system fitted.
Our Sunday drives in the bush back roads (lol, yes we were bushies) was filled with music that seemed to surround us. The start of surround sound and multiple speakers. There was something special about it back then, when music seemed to wrap around you. The home stereo/record player had nothing on the car's sound.
I think I've used up all the word I'm allowed to use in one day, bye.
oooo yeahhhh..... an old favourite. 25yrs old and this is one of my favs since i can remember!! 70s and 80s were the BEST era!!
The bass in this is my favourite. It really stands out.
as an '80s summer boy , spending nights and days by the beach ,sun and sand , i cant imagine any better song represent the '80s music and era!
This passed me by in my UK 80's, but this could be the greatest Aussie rock song EVER!
Thanks Mondo Rock for the memories. Utter classic.
For all those people that think kids these days don't appreciate this music, I was born in 97' and I love this song and the meaning behind it.
+DJ BMAR nice! I was born in '82 and I love this song too even though I was just a bub at the time
Born in 2000 and absolutely love this music, the music today and the kids that listen to the music of today have no idea
+DJ BMAR i was born in 2000 i truly appriciate
I was born in 2002 and I can't stand mainstream music. nobody my age appreciates real music from the 50s-90s, back when the musicians actually had talent, instead of all the electronic shit they use now days
Jade H Just because music is made via laptops and programs these days doesn't mean it's bad.
Born in the 60's, lived the 70's, grew up in the 80's with such classics like this, I was 21 when this was out so many memories from this.
I was born in 1971 so when this song came out and was played on the radio I was bit too young to understand it.
However later on I can appreciate not just the lyrics but the beat and melody.
I remember in my youth (I'm 42 now) my family heading down to Thirroil Woolongong my dad was a surfer, & this song was playing I was in the back seat making up images to this song, just like his Pink Floyd (The Wall) or Crosby Stills Cash & Young, my Father's music has defined what I love
+Nic B I'm 20 and my father did the same for me, shaped my view on real music. WSFM was played on my radio every night from when I was a baby up until I was in high school. This music will always have a special place in my heart
+Nic B That's so weird! I'm 42 and this song takes me straight back to my childhood going down to Thirroul all through the Summer and listening to it in the car! Maybe we were there the same days, listening to the same radio station! Hahaha.
Haha that is so awesome..maybe we were :D
Omg Thirroil!!! I use to go there with the Crittles all the time!!! I think they might live there now.. But that's EXACTLY where this song takes ME!! Wow.. Internet is a small place :))
It's a Thirroul reunion! Lol :-)
Brings back all the memories from the 80s listening to great Aussie rock!
still stuck in the 80's with bands like this
stuck in 80's cause its the best era for music,(great songs,bands etc,) before and since
Frank Bird I do come out with the same comment all the time.I describe 80's as my era. So lucky to be a teen at that time and still stuck in it.
Nothing wrong being stuck in the 80's!!!!! It was the best time in all aspects!!...wanna go back with me in my time machine?
This is probably one of the best out of the 80's. Smooth as silk guitar.
One of my all time favorite songs of the era, Ross Wilson is a genius.
So me and my dad were listening to this on the way home from his workplace as it came on the radio.
"This is a great song!" I said
and Dad said, "do you know what it's about? Listen to the words."
I gave him a funny look and he said with my little brother in the back of the car daydreaming, "it's about a man getting his first shag."
I fucking laughed my head off XD
Mondo Rock- true australian LEGENDS, truly awesome song!
Mondo Rock touring in June..33 1/3 Anniversary Tour.
Excelent Song make me return to the last years and feelme free and imagine walk in the streets of the Old Australian continent, Regards from México.
Where did the years go. The 80s seem like yesterday. These guys are in their 70s now. Great music has longevity.
Massive song. Great piece of Aussie rock. I always loved that snicky little keyboard work at 1:28 (And she said, I've been waiting for a long time - chnk chnk chnk...) gets me every time. And then the rumbling undertow of the bass...and then...and then... so many good ingredients here. Brilliant.
1984, high school in Sydney, Australia. This song brings it all back. Mondo Rock aced it on this one. I love the menacing tones of the synths in this.
For sure. Mondo Rock with inxs
Reminds me of being 23 and carefree. Was a great time in my life.
awesome , refined 80's rock , catchy , sharp and indulgent
The best decade in Australia's history! When people still said "G'day"
I STILL SAY G'DAY
James i say gday to everyone i see. I'd be un Australian if i didnt.
holdenguy75 got in one sentence mate!
I recently saw these guys live. They still kick ass too.
This song ment so much to me back then .... so many years ago and so much has happened to me since.
Within a few seconds of the opening sequence transported back in time..
That's what a true classic can do
this song is bitter sweet for me, ill explain, im 40 now, when i was a teenager i never dated i never held hands with a girl, never did any of that, and this song reminds me every time i hear it on the young love i always missed out on, because girls always thought i was a nerd and a loser and shy etc... its such an injustice and such a shame, i wish i dated when i was a teenager, there were so many pretty girls in my high school like Shanna seamark, bronwyn hope, Claire Miles, Julia Beresford, amanda hobden, but they never even looked at me ONCE , they always just talked to to COOL guys, unfortunately i wasent one of them, so its a great song but it breaks my fragile heart every time i hear it because it reminds me of what i never experienced in my youth.
god bless man.
@@sourcesauce you will find me on reddit forever alone sub reddit along with thousands of other men who have been rejected by woman all these years, simply because girls were never interested in them romantically, its such a tragedy there are so many hundreds of thousands of us out there, suffering in silence every day, all because we cant even get a date.
@@petejames1326I'm so sorry my mother aways judge men for what's in the heart.
The soundtrack of my youth.........loved this.......
I love this song ...80's magic
If I was stranded on an island, I would want this song with me. Well done Mondo Rock. Takes me back to high school. Ah memories.
Hey take me back to this era in general!
I saw mondo rock play live on the gold coast back in 1982 and they were excellent live. I have been a fan ever. Great aussie rock !!!
Brings back a flood of memories from high school.
I love this song.
Its in my top 5.
Still sends shivers up my spine this song. Love it.
Can still distinctly remember when Maroubra Beach looked like that.
Wow, this bring back the magic....hey🎉
such a memorable song from when I was 17 and life was so uncomplicated and relaxed
Yep / anyone got a time machine?
I agree the 80s were easy living and fun and everyone did help each and it was safe to walk the streets at night
if you were white
Still safe 2 walk the bra anyday anytime. There r still enough old school locals about & the blow ins with new money r trying 2 embrace our way of life. All welcome.
@@content_generator_ And not a drunk girl getting raped on the beach by a bunch of guys who got her drunk in the surf club for that exact purpose.
Lol the bra boys would disagree with this comment. Filth they are.
So profoundly sexual. A true coming of age story in a beautifully crafted song. A true 80's Aussie masterpiece. 💓💓
Carrie
Aussie masterpiece at its finest!
Well phrased and ‘A true coming of age song!’ This song is a telltale generational phenomenon that has not been realised by the industry or the listeners; thankfully a few of us do!
State of the Heart is another one of their masterpieces! Thank you Ross
Totally 'did it' on the beach with this....awesome memories of life..when we were all young and beautifulxxx
And my like of your comment was the 69th. ;)
A song od my child hood. One I still listen to daily. And I still cant get the hug the boy would have got haha
I was 16 in Tassie , just finished school , this song was me ,what a great time to be a young fella in Aussie
I can play this one on repeat for ages
Wow. I love reading people's comments/stories surrounding these classic Aussie tracks: where they were & how much the music means to them. Puts a smile on my face :)
Thanks for sharing, people!
Reminds me of what it is like to be young and in love before the cynicism and mistrust kicks in-before you gave up on the concept of love itself
My b/f and I had a drunken night to remember on Maroubra beach. I was 17y and he 23 in 1983..We remained friends until he passed away last year. Needless to say I come here for the memories of living down Maroubra beach back when life was simple. ♥
My home and the old pavilion classic Maroubra Tramps Seal Club great memories ✌️❤️
@@robbiecarroll5491 I always come back to this song when I feel melancholy of those yrs (1984-18yrs😊) I used to hear ppl say enjoy these yrs cause one day you'll look back and wish U where still here. Of course we don't understand at the time but I have music as my mental/emotional time machine!❣️🥰
I know what you mean it takes you back in a time machine in your head 👌❤️
This song has changed my life. I would be empty without it.
How good was it in the 80's !!!!!!. Growing up in this decade was simply the very best.
This is just another awesome song from back then.
Another great Aussie band!!
Being born in 1980 and my husband is from 77, this brings back some memories as kids.
Still love it to this day.
I was 12 and I remember falling in love to this song and for the years that followed. It sure takes me back and it sure is a song about young love. Those feelings come right back. Love this song and loved Mondo Rock and that beautiful voice that is Ross Wilson's.
Amazing memories from this video! Haven't seen it since 1984, but remember it like yesterday! Ross looks so young here!
How can people hate the eighties when you have songs like this.
"Come with me boy, just take my hand"
aussie 80s classics are up there with the best of them!
Ageless and relevant for all. Priceless.
Brilliant song! I'm 15 and this was the music I was raised on!
one of those songs that transports you back in time...classic !
love all these old songs back in the 80s and 90s
Great time in Australia 🇦🇺 back then!=Come back 😩
i listened to this on the way to schoolies on the radio this year.
Memories of this playing at the roller skating rink in Footscray when we'd go there with my high school. Ahhh those were the days.
must have heard this song hundreds of times as a kid and I have only just discovered this band exists and im bloody happy I found this.
The old days when life was so much more innocent!
Indeed
@@andie221 So sadly true. So much abuse and violence hidden away.
@@andie221 young talent time, molly meldrum all in on it
Born in 1947 and love this too - 80's had many great songs and play them everyday.
The music was my only escape from horror of being an 80's teenager - no self esteem at that time either
I am 51. Those songs .when i was a young man. I still love so much today. Life was so good .back .then
Yes we used to fight .but like days ov old .a fight was honorable. You went down. Its over. The good days back then..every one. Had good times . I love my country
Probably would have hit no. 1 if radio stations hadn't refused it.....
SO glad so many are re-discovering the amazing music of the 80's! Especially bands that missed the mainstream way back when. I love these guys!
Great song, it never gets old.
Bloody great Aussie song. Why this song wasn't a hit in America is baffling!
We were so lucky in Australia. We got all the stuff from the USA and the UK and Europe, but we also got all this great local stuff that they mostly missed out on. I encourage any US youtuber to look at Australian music of the 70's and 80's and see what you missed out on.
David McCarthy, Totally agree. Aussies produced so much great music and much of it isn’t known beyond our shores. That’s great for us but I do feel for the artists that they didn’t get the recognition they so richly deserved.
When this song came out I was 20,Australia and New Zealand had the best rock n roll music ever.... but, they were overshadowed by music from the US,UK,& Canada and I really think the music from Australia and New Zealand had both a better sound and production,thanks😎!
fark brings back memories..clock hotel in surrey hills...miss those days :(
Great Oz song. Such a coming of age song. Great memories. Always love it, never switch channels when it comes on the radio.
Saw these guys at the Old Lion in the early 80's. From what i can remember..they were great!
Only heard this classic for the second time again since my childhood randomly on Spotify (how awesome are algorithms sometimes!?!) I have been obsessed with it ever since! What a time to be alive! Much simpler times back then
is it just me, or does every generation have their decade? my mum used to go on about how much better it was back in the sixties: the best drugs, the best music, carefree sex (she never outright said that last part, but i realised how she danced around it as i got older). Now here I am, reading these comments and agreeing that the eighties was amazing, and the feeling i get from this song and others like it cannot be put into words. Is it just nostalgia? Am i just remembering the good parts? Because i look at today's charts and can barely name a song worth listening to. And most of the ones i do like don't hold any significance for me. Songs like this one just make me want to meet a girl on the beach, hang out all day listening to eighties music, drinking, making love and having carefree fun. Which is how i think i see the eighties.
Maybe its all a delusion, but i sometimes sit listening to music like this and i feel like im missing something i had back then.
Ryder Knightly, I’m hearing you! I’ve finally turned into my Father. I just can’t cop too much of the current “stuff” that passes as music these days. Born in the 60’s and love all the stuff from then up to about 2010. That’s 50 years, which is a pretty good spread of musical genres. Image being born in 1900 and having to endure the next 50 years! Mind you the last concert I went to was Joe Bonamassa. Only discovered him about 5 years ago. So, there is still good stuff out there.
We remember when we were young with no responsibilities as the best time in our lives . For your mum the 60s for me the late 70s to about mid 80s . Was 16 turning 17 in 1980 . For someone 10 plus years younger than me the 90s and for my kids the 2000s in high school 2003 to 2010 although they are 28 and 30 but now feel the responsibility’s of adulthood as their friends are getting married and having kids . Yes times were good when young but also nostalgia. Working full time and other problems may be behind us now if we are retired or semi retired
Also now we are in our mid to late 50s we are getting a mid life crisis where as in our 30s and 40s we were buzy with kids and teenagers and in our late 20s early 30s getting married . Now the time is running out and social media and utube is our escape back in time
We have to stop trying to live in the past which I guess we live in the virtual past on social media watching 80s video clips but then we step back into 2021 where we are in our 50s and are mum dad nan pop for those that started early . Patti Newton had Grandkids late 78 and can hold her grandchild for ages while being interviewed. Quite amazing . So don’t have to start having grandkids till mid 60s and really it’s up to your kids . So we go into the virtual world and then come back out of it back to middle age 2021 which vaxxers anticaxers dinners and bills Amen
no. i'm in my 20s never having experienced that era and you're completely right
I wish Australia had this kind of exceptional talent today.
This is music takes us back to times and places and they were all good times shits on today's music
Jesus this brings back memories of a much better time , long lost in the sands of time. :(
1984 ❤ i want to go back
Me too
Totally awesome 80s music I'm 51 love it my partner a musician he great bit older loved beat
One pf the best song I've ever heard.
this is a great great song and still unmatched
I don't know why I love this song so much. I've had it on repeat so many times! It's so catchy.
This is the real australia!
A better Australia!
1984 A little too early for me.
I never invited a girl to the waves to fool around but kissed her at a dusky sunset drive in at age of 7 on the playground swings at intermission..
watching the VHS recording tv lines at the end just made me love it more guys..
Life started to become complicated at age 14 (1984). Remember this song going number one in Melbourne AUS.
My top 5 of all my time on earth.